Congratulations, Kevin, for guiding Mountain View to be one of the best cities in which to reside. You have done a great job. Best wishes to you and your family upon your well-earned retirement.

Thank you, Kevin, for your smart, quiet leadership of our city for all these years. You're leaving behind a renovated, exciting city that retains a community feel. You will be missed. Best wishes on a fulfilling retirement.

All that talent/dedication...and a great sense of humor too--a tough combination to find! :)

Get out now while you can with a generous public pension before it's too late. California will go bankrupt when all these great public employees start to retire with exorbitant pensions. Taxpayers will be footing the bill for generations and the basics like public education will continue to suffer. Congratulations indeed.

Having met Mr. Duggan and seen him in action in working with others at City Hall, he's shown himself to be an outstanding City Manager, principally by being a good man. If/When you get the chance to meet him, you'll see what I mean.

Thank you, and best wishes.

Well he had better be all that given that he was one of the highest paid city managers in the area! At $250,000 a year I suppose most would expect him to do an average job. No worries, we'll be stuck paying for his retirement for years to come. The city is already over $4,000,000 a year. in pension liabilities and headed toward $5,000,000. Gotta love it. Anyone in the private sector making that money would have been forced to save for retirement, not grease the wheels so that the taxpayer would have to foot the bill

I will miss him very much. It wont be as much fun to go to council meetings anymore.

Congratulations, enjoy yoour retirement. We will miss you.

"one of the finest city managers in the state", maybe THE finest, INDEED!

As a City of Mountain View employee I can tell you Kevin is a great leader and a great person. It has been an honor to work with him and he will be missed by everyone within the organization.

I don't begrudge anyone from making a high salary, as long as their performance on the job supports it. During the time of Mr. Duggan's leadership, Mountain View has developed and sustained itself to be a top managed small city, relative to its peers across the country. It's also managed to balance attracting world class companies while retaining a sense of the small town and its values that Mountain View started with, again relative to its peers across the country. Mr. Duggan has been City Manager for much of this transition.

I agree that the pension and health care costs for City employees will remain a large and growing issue that should be addressed as soon as possible, but it should be remembered that virtually every city, state, and federal entity is going through this same scenario, exacerbated by the housing crisis and recession.

It should also be noted that real solutions to this problem won't come from cutting the City Manager's salary alone, but that broader solutions will need to be implemented to bring down employee costs and/or increase City revenue.

Well said Hardin!

Once in a great while a leader comes along who, through their dedication, professionalism, personal values and longevity, changes the culture of an organization and those it serves. Kevin Duggan is one of those leaders. While he will be missed following his retirement, his legacy and the culture he established will continue within the four walls of City Hall and extend out into the community he served for 20 years and calls "home".

I also wish Kevin well in his retirement. He is indeed a hard act to follow. I wish the city council well in finding a replacement.

Please, Please consider going after Palo Alto's City Mgr. position. The current one is in over his head.

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