By Eric Jay Toll | Phoenix Business Journal
In a whirlwind of a week, Glendale lost its long-time planning director, Jon Froke. The 15-year veteran of the department resigned Feb. 9 and spent a couple of weeks resting and recharging.
“I didn’t have to set the alarm clock for the first time since 1984,” he said. “I was coming off a long grind. We were understaffed, doing the proverbial ‘a lot more with less,’ and that has a cost.”
Froke said that if the department had been fully staffed, the January procedural error at the Planning Commission would never have happened.
