A look at key Chandler facts and figures

The Chandler City Council has promoted Rich Dlugas to the city manager position with a $185,000 contract.

Chandler’s acting city manager said that he “feels good about where we are” as the city continues preparing a fiscal 2011-12 budget that is projected at $676 million.

Rich Dlugas, Chandler’s interim city manager, is the City Council’s choice for a permanent hire.

A look at key Chandler facts and figures

A look at key Chandler facts and figures

Chandler City Manager Mark Pentz retired Friday after holding the post 6½ years.

Major city government building projects like the new City Hall in downtown Chandler have left the space-deprived nonprofit Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods, which mentors at-risk youth, without room to grow.

There are two competing visions for what kind of man is former Chandler Benefits Administrator Glyn Soehner. One is of a whistle-blower struggling against incompetent and dismissive city managers who are frittering away hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars through their inaction. The other, according to a city-funded investigation into Soehner's allegations, is of a volatile, paranoid and defiant man who fellow employees felt might be "capable of harming himself or others."

The recent death of a Phoenix police officer after a charity boxing event with a Chandler firefighter has prompted Chandler officials to brainstorm on ideas for preventing future tragedies.