SEQUIM — The town’s a teenager, or perhaps a tweener.
Whichever Sequim is, the awkwardness and growing pains have caught up with it, a couple of City Council members agree.
During a meeting of the city manager recruitment committee on Thursday, Councilwoman Susan Lorenzen said Sequim’s next boss must understand that the municipality has the needs of an adolescent who’s no longer small, but isn’t full-grown either.
“It’s like being in the teenage years,” she said.
“There are a lot of awkward things going on. We’re like the proverbial chicken coming out of the shell.
“We need someone who’s astute to those needs.”
Lorenzen, along with Mayor Laura Dubois and their fellow council newcomers Erik Erichsen and Ken Hays voted to fire then-city manager Bill Elliott on May 5.
In the same breath, they thrust Police Chief Robert Spinks into the position of interim city manager. Since then, council members and other officials have hailed him as a hero who pulled the city together.
