I hadn t a clue about what a city clerk was supposed to do. With the help of others and plenty of my own mistakes, I gradually found out. That s how we did things in those days. We learned as we went. It took another year to get those.
Women can t swear in the city council.
It was a Neanderthal attitude even for that era, since Saundra Juhola and Judy Sumich were serving city clerks in Indio and Palm Springs at the time. In early 77, I got the job. Raised in upstate New York, Ms. Gilligan didn t set out to build a government career, let alone one in Palm Desert. But she had ambition, colossal energy and even a dream of sorts. That s the post that brought me west.