The bankrupt city of San Bernardino has hired a new city manager who, according to court filings, has twice declared personal bankruptcy and was recently ousted from the board of a small community's water company after being sued by shareholders, Reuters reported on Friday. The city council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to hire Allen J. Parker as its city manager on an annual salary of almost $222,000. He replaces an interim city manager who resigned last month because, according to friends, she was exasperated by the city's internal divisions. Pat Morris, the mayor of the city in California, praised Parker's "wealth of city management experience" and expressed "great confidence" in his ability to oversee the city's affairs. The mayor and council members knew about both of Parker's personal bankruptcies—the first in 1991 and the second in 2011—and the litigation surrounding his water board tenure before they interviewed him, according to the mayor's chief of staff.
