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JULY 13, 2023 Vol. 3, No. 15
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Novi promotes Cardenas to be permanent city manager BY CHARITY MEIER
Novi’s new city manager, Victor Cardenas, left, talks with Novi residents Fil and Pam Superfisky during a welcome reception for Cardenas at the Novi Civic Center July 10 prior to the City Council meeting that evening.
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After a six-month, nationwide search and a lengthy executive session, the Novi City Council voted unanimously June 5 to offer the city manager position to Victor Cardenas, who had been serving as the interim city manager. “In those years where we have to pick a new city manager, that becomes the most important and the most arduous task for the City Council, because the city manager is the one who runs the city on a day-to-day basis,” Mayor Bob Gatt said at the June 5 meeting. “The city manager is in charge of budget, the city manager is in charge of personnel, the city manager is in charge of making the city go.” According to Gatt, the city’s search firm, Slavin, presented the council with a packet containing the resumes of 12 candidates during the first week of June. Gatt said Cardenas stood out from the rest as the person best qualified to run the city of Novi. “I think it would be unfair to ask people to come in a public session and interview if, in my
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See MANAGER on page 12A
Police arrest man for allegedly threatening judge and attorney
Worrall
After a 48-hour multistate search, police apprehended a New Hudson man July 7 who allegedly threatened on social media to kill his court-appointed attorney and a Novi district court judge.
The ordeal began when Jordan Worrall, 31, allegedly skipped his court date for a fleeing and eluding charge that was scheduled for the morning of July 5 in front of Judge Travis Reeds, of the 52-1 District Court in Novi. The Oakland County Sheriff ’s Office said Worrall then began posting messages on
social media threatening to kill Reeds and Worrall’s court-appointed attorney from Gracey Law Firm in Bloomfield Hills. The mother of Worrall’s child reportedly contacted sheriff ’s deputies to inform them of the threats. Deputies then informed Reeds, who then issued a
warrant with a $1 million cash or surety bond for Worrall’s arrest. Over the next 48 hours, law enforcement officers worked to apprehend Worrall, who the Sheriff ’s Office said led them on several chases. On the afternoon of July 5, Worrall was seen See ARREST on page 14A
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