Longtime Reading city solicitor is named temporary city managing director

by Steve Reinbrecht

Reading Mayor Wally Scott has named Charles Younger, the city's top lawyer, to temporarily be the city's top administrator, I hear.


Younger is to be the interim managing director, effective immediately.

Thomas Coleman is new acting solicitor.

Josephina Encarnacion was named administrative services director.

Former Mayor Joe Eppihimer hired Younger in January 2000, right after starting his first term. 

City Council fired Younger in May 2000. The next day, Eppihimer hired Younger back as a legal adviser. Keith Mooney was appointed solicitor in May 2003 after a lawsuit over the whole mess. Mooney resigned in February 2004. Council named Younger as permanent solicitor in January 2005.