The former communications manager for Chula Vista described city hall as a toxic workplace, and said the official expected to be formally hired as the next city manager on Tuesday was a primary architect of the dysfunction.
Tiffany Allen, picked by the City Council in a June 17 closed session, was responsible in part for a workplace that “was not centered on merit or performance or even interest of the public,” Michele Clock Schrotenboer said in a March 18 interview with an attorney conducting a workplace investigation into her complaints about city hall culture.
Schrotenboer, who worked as the city’s communications manager for nearly 18 months, said in the interview that city hall “is an environment where gossip, blame, and negative talk about other people is really at the core of how things are run.”…