The ABC11 I-Team sat down with Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht for the first time since Town Manager Sean Stegall resigned after open records requests found financial mismanagement, including thousands spent on a councilmember’s tuition, and a land deal for more than $1 million spent without council approval.
“It takes years to build trust, and it takes a second to destroy it,” Weinbrecht told ABC11.
The mayor said he understands Cary needs to rebuild trust. It’s trust that he said was broken by Stegall, who served as town manager for nine years, and who the mayor thought was doing a good job until financial records came to light as part of open records requests last month.
“I was made aware of things in early November, things he did and things he said, which was devastating, because one, I thought he was my friend. And two, not only was he withholding information, he was making decisions that he shouldn’t have made. He was working with a subset of council members when he should have been working with the whole council,” Weinbrecht said…