Three members of the Cypress City Council voted to give the City Manager carte blanche with $100 million Capital Improvements Projects six weeks after a former director of Public Works accused him of “unlawful acts of misconduct.”
Questions still swirl in Cypress around a $183,000 settlement quietly paid amid charges by long-time department head Doug DancsHe publicly made serious charges against City Manager Peter Grant As yet, the charges remain unexplained to residents, neither have they been substantiated or refuted.
Nevertheless, Grant will have complete authority of the decision-making in hiring contractors with little or no timely oversight of the City Council for the projects following a split vote 3-2 by the Council…