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Pacific Grove is set to hire its first woman city manager, longtime resident Lesley Milton.

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Source: Monterey County Weekly

The City of Pacific Grove is about to hire its next city manager, and it is someone who already lives in town and has local city management experience. Lesley Milton, former assistant city manager of Seaside, is slated to be confirmed by the P.G. City Council on Wednesday, Nov. 18.She will be the first woman city manager in the city's 137-year history.Milton will take over from someone she knows very well, her husband, Chip Rerig, the former city administrator for Carmel who's been serving as interim city manager for P.G. since Aug. 24. He was hired as interim after Matt Mogensen stepped down on Aug. 21 as city manager to take the same role in Marina."It means a lot to me to serve as city manager in the community I call home," Milton says.

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