From the Chron:
The 14-year-term of powerful City Manager Steve LeBlanc, who became a face of Galveston's recovery after Hurricane Ike, ended Wednesday during an acrimonious City Council meeting in which police ejected several rowdy Le-Blanc supporters.
A divided council voted 5-2 to fire a defiant LeBlanc after several said the city manager had damaged his relations with the council too severely because of his public criticisms of council members and his political efforts to save his job leading up to the special meeting. The council appointed Assistant City Managers Carolyn Cox and Brian Maxwell as co-acting city managers.
