Called 925-931-5002 at 8:45am today and got this:
"Thank you for calling the city manager's office. You have reached us at non-business hours. Please call back between 8am and 5pm....."
Gerry Beaudin is leaving, but still this is laughable.
First-hand in-person experience: Mediocre job performance at best. Cannot even have team replace the dead shrubs in neighboring landscape caused by O'Grady Paving when they put heavy large paving vehicles, machines and construction materials unloaded from trucks right on top of neighboring owner's multiple 30"-tall grown shrubs after 3 years, even though they promised to do so for 3 years. Multiple 30"-tall shrubs were crushed to the ground to almost zero height, resulting in sudden or slow death.
The serious damage caused by the construction company was left undocumented, unreported and not put on record and the company was let go. Simply like Hit-and-Run. Construction inspectors like did not exist.
Neighboring owner reported the damage immediately to the city under the suggestion from a hispanic construction team leader with broken English from O’Grady (The area had been closed and used as construction storage site for over a month. Damage was serious and obvious). Two city inspectors came and promised to replace the dead shrubs in the coming spring when annual city-scale plantation occurred. Never happened.
For the past 3 years, Gerry Beaudin and his team was using the same tactic “issue acknowledged; will address as soon as possible” “Will not respond from now on” to delay or evade responsibility. Now he is leaving the city, it appears he will leave the issue to his successor.
In 2022, he was sued by a former city employee for covering up unethical activities and firing the whistleblower. Even though he won, the city spent a lot of attorney fees defending him and his doing is morally questionable and controversial. And he was abusing his power and city resources as city manager to fund his personal self-inflicted lawsuit.
During his 4 years' tenure as city manager of Pleasanton, witnessed many projects were not planned well in advance. Newly paved roads were dug up again and again for other types of maintenance. Don't think the city had that lot of money to waste.
He will not be missed.