MOUNT DORA, Fla. — Tuesday night, Mount Dora city leaders are set to meet for their first regular council meeting since the mayor called for the city manager to step down.

The mayor cited everything from staff turnover to concerns about decision making to support her call for city manager Patrick Comiskey to step down.

“Patrick, I would like to offer you the opportunity to resign your position, because I don’t think you’re at retirement age and I want to offer you up that opportunity,” Mount Dora Mayor Crissy Stile said during a meeting on May 16.

In the video from that meeting, Stile brought up several issues she says led to her decision to ask Comiskey to step down.

“I am talking about disrespect for our employees, I am talking about uninformed decisions, poor decisions, I’m talking about not being engaged with what is happening within this city. And all around unprofessional nature of our city manager,” she said at the time.

In a special meeting on May 23, Council Member John Cataldo reached out to the league of cities for guidance on the issue.

The organization gave him three consulting firms to conduct a potential review with the aide of the city’s human resources department.

Comiskey’s records reveal his most recent review was mostly positive with only two complaints, neither were fireable offenses. However, the mayor blames Comiskey for the city’s high turnover rate.

To date, 58 people have left the city since Comiskey took the position, but it’s unclear why.

Included in that number are former police chief Brett Meade and the former interim fire chief.

In his resignation, Meade cited differences in leadership and in a later lawsuit filed against the city, he cited a disagreement with the city manager.

Even with Stile’s speech, her fellow council members were not ready to fire Comiskey.

“Tonight I’m not prepared to terminate Patrick, which is what I’m assuming what a prospective motion would be,” Council Member Cal Rolfson told Spectrum News.

Stile says she’s unable to comment outside of what she mentioned in the meeting.

We tried to contact Comiskey by email, over the phone, and in person at city hall, but did not get a response.

However, during the May 16 meeting, Comiskey addressed the allegations.

“I serve at the will and pleasure of the mayor and council. I thought I had the strong support of the council. Of course, after last October I knew I didn’t have the support of the mayor. As I told her, I pledged to work with her and I want to work with everybody,” Comiskey said.

Once the city picks a consulting firm, city leaders will discuss the review and develop a timeline for the potential review.

Tonight’s city council meeting starts at 6:00 p.m.

The city manager’s review is not on the agenda.