The city attorney’s office on Tuesday had not decided what action it would take on the ruling.
Nearly a year of interim leadership for Glendale Water & Power will come to a close in February after the City Council on Tuesday voted to confirm the appointment of a new director for the city-owned utility.
Glenn Steiger will officially take over as director of the utility on Feb. 20, replacing interim Director Dan Waters, who was brought in April 30 to fill the void left by former Director Ignacio Troncoso when he retired in March 2006.
Council members and city officials said his background in renewable energy and extensive experience with water issues played prominently in their decision to choose Steiger during a nationwide search that yielded a pool of 20 candidates.
As workers continue to clean up Grand View Memorial Park, stakeholders in the beleaguered cemetery are searching for a financial solution to cover the costs of reopening the facility to public visits.
The cemetery has been closed since June, when city fire officials deemed the site a fire safety hazard, but maintenance crews have been trimming trees, clearing overgrown weeds and installing an aboveground irrigation system the past two weeks.
The work rejuvenated optimism among commentators at an online group devoted to families with loved ones buried at Grand View that the park will reopen. To Moshe Goldsman, the cemetery’s operator and partial owner, the work looks like light at the end of a tunnel that has been mostly dark since state investigators in 2005 found the remains of about 4,000 bodies that were never buried or were improperly interred.
