BREAKING: Funkhouser suspends City Manager Cauthen
By LYNN HORSLEY The Kansas City Star
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser sent a letter to his council colleagues today saying that effective immediately, he is suspending City Manager Wayne Cauthen.
The letter took some council members by surprise, and they said they did not know if this type of action had ever been taken before.
“I believe we need new leadership for the City,” Funkhouser wrote in a letter to his council colleagues. “As of today, I am exercising the authority given to me as the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, to suspend the City Manager, effective immediately. In the interim, the city manager has been asked to vacate the premises immediately.”
