Councilors discuss candidates for city manager position

AUBURN - The candidates officials are talking about filling the city manager's shoes may be an arm's reach away.

City councilor David Dempsey suggested Corporation Counsel Thomas Leone to take the reins after City Manager John Salomone leaves for his new position as town manager for Newington, Conn.

Dempsey called an emergency meeting for 7 p.m. today at city hall so councilors could discuss the "employment history of a particular person or persons" behind closed doors.