For embattled Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, Mayor Ron Dellums' other shoe finally dropped late Friday.

The mayor placed the 56-year-old Edgerly on paid administrative leave and showed her the door according to Kelly Rayburn's story in the Oakland Tribune.

The decision resolved, at least temporarily, what was a growing crisis of confidence in Dellums' administration, the City Council and the overall city government.

On Tuesday, that crisis -- prompted by a June 7 incident where Edgerly allegedly interfered with an Oakland Police gang sweep that involved her nephew -- appeared to be averted when Edgerly and Dellums made a joint appearance announcing that she would retire from service as Oakland's highest-ranking non-elected official on July 31.

Edgerly has denied interfering with the sweep that targeted the city's notoriously violent Acorn gang.

But since then, according to Rayburn's report, Edgerly and Dellums have apparently battled over whether she would continue, as city administrator, to wield authority over the city's police department. Dellums wanted to shift authority of the department to another city executive to avoid a possible conflict of interest. When the dispute couldn't be resolved, Dellums acted.

"I did not want to have to exercise this option knowing that given the present environment people would interpret this as a judgment of guilt," Dellums wrote in a publicly released letter to Edgerly. "I have assiduously stood in a posture of non-judgment, but delay in this matter will only further inflame the situation."

In the meantime, Dellums announced that Dan Lindheim, city community and economic development agency director, has been tapped to be acting city administrator.

Edgerly, who earns approximately $260,000 a year, was appointed city administrator in 2004 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown, now California's current attorney general.

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