Huckelberry’s Pima County history in brief
● The Pima County Board of Supervisors vote to hire Chuck Huckelberry as the County Administrator after halting plans for a national search. Before taking the top spot, Huckelberry was an engineer and deputy administrator for the County.
At the time of his hire the Arizona Daily star reported, “For Supervisors Raul Grijalva and Dan Eckstrom, Democrats who worked with Huckelberry in their previous term, Huckelberry has been a welcome change if only because he has restored the access to his office and staff that Vyas had cut off. “He’s been treating our office and Dan’s office with a degree of equality and respect that’s a real change,” Grijalva said.
According to the Star, the previous manager, Manoj Vyas, was criticized “for answering only the Republican majority — Boyd, Ed Moore and Paul Marsh – that put him in office 14 months ago.”
Vyas stayed with the County, and took a $50,000-a-year pay cut. He was paid $55,000 to works on special projects.
Huckelberry received a $121,000 contract, which forced full payoff of his salary if supervisors fired him before the end of 1996.
They didn’t dare…..
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