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Lapeer commission adopts revised city manager evaluation after heated debate over process and fairness
Summary
The Lapeer City Commission adopted a revised, metric-based performance-evaluation form for City Manager Mike Womack’s May 2025–May 2026 review after a contentious public meeting in which commissioners and residents debated process, weighting of criteria, and whether the mayor acted within his authority. The motion passed 3–2.
LAPEER — After more than two hours of public comment and an extended commission debate, the Lapeer City Commission voted to adopt a revised performance-evaluation form for City Manager Mike Womack covering May 2025 through May 2026.
The measure, introduced by Commissioner Ramona Petrie, uses a 5-point scoring framework with weighted key performance indicators tied to the charter duties of the city manager. The motion to adopt the revised instrument passed on a roll call vote: Commissioners Glisman, McCarthy and Petrie voted yes; Commissioners Brady and Atwood voted no.
Why it matters: Commissioners and the public framed the dispute as a procedural and fairness question about whether changing evaluation criteria shortly before the review improperly altered the standards the manager would be judged against. Supporters said the metric approach creates clearer, trackable expectations;…
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