Long Beach Acting City Manager Steps Down. Again.

LONG BEACH, NY — Long Beach's third interim city manager announced he is stepping down, according to reports.

John Mirando, the current acting city manager and the city's commissioner of public works, told the City Council that he would be stepping down from the manager position on March 9, Newsday wrote. He will still be in charge of public works.

The City of Long Beach has not had a permanent city manager since Jack Schnirman left in January 2018 to become the Nassau County Comptroller. At first, Police Commissioner Michael Tangney served as the Acting City Manager, as well as police commissioner. He held the position for 13 months before stepping down.

Tangney was replaced by Robert Agostisi, who was perviously the city's corporation counsel. Agostisi served as Acting City Manager from February to October 2019, when he stepped down amid some controversy surrounding the city's response to the payout scandal and allegations that he tried to cut City Council members out of the audit. He left to become the chief legal officer for the LGBT Network, an LGBT advocacy group based in Hauppauge.

Mirando was appointed Acting City Manager late last September, and started the position on Oct. 1. There's no word yet on who would replace him. He is leaving just before the city has to start preparing its new budget, which needs to be submitted to the City Council in April.