Lyon replaces Williams, who'll continue to be paid by, well, you 'n' me

     Adam Elmahrek of the Voice of OC reports today about John Williams’ replacement (yesterday) as OC Public Guardian:

Supervisors Name New Public Guardian

     The Orange County Board of Supervisors Tuesday appointed Lucille Lyon, who most recently served as a higher-up in Los Angeles County government, to the vacant public guardian position.
     Lyon replaces John Williams, who held both public guardian and public administrator positions. Earlier this year, Williams was stripped of his public guardian position and resigned as public administrator after long-running allegations that he mismanaged the offices.
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     Most recently, Lyon was a division chief for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and also served as interim deputy director for the department.
     However, in a strange twist, Lyon was passed over as the permanent hire for that position for someone who had worked under Williams, [Supervisor John] Moorlach said. This caused Moorlach to vote no on her appointment.
     "I don't want to have one John Williams problem and replace it with another John Williams problem," Moorlach said.
     Williams was ensnared in controversy beginning in 2009 when two scathing grand jury reports criticized his management of the county agency, which oversees complex estates of those without heirs as well as those of the indigent.
     Later on an appellate court found that Williams mismanaged the estate of deceased Charles "Mask" Lewis. Williams had inappropriately usurped control of the estate, the court found.

CACITYGUY, with whom I am familiar, leaves this comment:

     I really found Moorlach's comments interesting and disturbing. Just because this person did not get the top job for LA County when it was open disqualifies her for the PG job in Orange County? Also, Supervisor Bates makes her come to the podium and state for the "record" that she is not interested in running for the PA job when and if Williams retires in January. What was that all about? Hopefully, Ms. Lyons will clean up the rest of the mess that the BOS and CEO has not done and fire the Chief Deputy, the Personnel Director and the highest paid employee in the department - head of accounting, who is not even an accountant.

     Yesterday, just prior to the BOS vote, OC Weekly’s Matt Coker opined that

     ...John Williams is poised to officially lose for good his Public Guardian role today….
     So, how do OC taxpayers still end up losing? Because Lucille Lyon will get paid to be the Public Guardian while numbnuts Williams continues to draw his full $153,206.40 yearly salary.
     The Orange County Register's Kimberly Edds recently presented the troubling scenario. The Board is to be applauded for its due diligence in getting rid of GOP hackload Williams as the person in charge of estates that go unclaimed….
     But walking turd Williams had been ceremoniously appointed to the post after being elected Public Administrator, where he's no doubt screwed up handling the affairs of living people who cannot care for themselves and have no heirs to do it for them.
     The Board was able to strip brain-dead Williams of most of his Public Administrator duties and appoint an executive to watch him like he's a drunk toddler. But the elected Board can't fire the elected Administrator. So, in comes Lyon, whose first day on the job is Friday….
     Steaming-pile Williams claims he won't seek reelection to his elected seat once it runs out in a couple years, but that does not appease county waste watchdog Shirley Grindle, who is fighting to stop taxpayer funding of what appears to be sanctioned and continuing government incompetence.