A slim majority of Costa Mesa City Council members abruptly fired City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, who steered the city through the pandemic and its economic fallout.
During a closed session vote on Tuesday, council members voted 4-2-1 to terminate Farrell Harrison’s employment with the city. Councilwomen Andrea Marr and Arlis Reynolds were the dissenting votes. Mayor John Stephens abstained.
Marr, who attended the meeting over Zoom, said she was embarrassed this her council colleagues would “treat the woman who so capably led our city for so long.”…