A second top official at the Stanislaus Council of Governments has left the agency, one month after Executive Director Rosa De León Park was fired following findings in a civil grand jury report.
Cindy Malekos, StanCOG’s director of administrative services, has retired. The civil grand jury report outlined more than $100,000 in questionable expenses under Park’s leadership, including travel and vacation payouts.
Jurors also found two conflicting versions of the agency’s employee handbook: one allowing up to nine weeks of vacation at 12 years of service, the other capping it at five weeks. The report said management could cash out unused vacation twice a year, in Park’s case, worth nearly $28,000 every six months…