[1. Introductory Remarks]
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IT IS SIX O'CLOCK, AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR SPECIAL CALL MEETING, UM, IF YOU WOULD BY YOUR HEAD FOR OUR INVOCATION.
DO YOU HAVE MY FATHER? THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
LORD, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US ALL SAFE TRAVELS HERE.
AS WE, UH, AS WE COME TOGETHER HERE TONIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR COUNTY.
WE JUST ASK THAT YOU TOUCH US AND YOU, UH, YOU HELP US MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.
AND, AND YOU, YOU BLESS THE DECISION THAT WE MAKE.
UM, KEEP US SAFE AS WE, WE LEAVE HERE TONIGHT ON OUR WAY HOME, LORD.
AND WE JUST ASK THAT EVERYTHING WE DO BE PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT.
FOLLOWED BY A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, A PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WITNESS STAND.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[4. Approval of the Agenda]
NEXT UP, WE HAVE THE APPROVAL OF TONIGHT'S AGENDA.SECOND, COUNCILMAN RICHARDSON.
[5. Executive Session]
UP, WE HAVE A EXECUTIVE SESSION, ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION.DO I HAVE A MOTION WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION? I MOVE SECOND.
I GOT A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN FRIERSON.
SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN RICHARDSON.
[6. Open Session]
ALL RIGHT.WE COME BACK IN TO OPEN SESSION FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I GOT A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN FRIERSON, A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN RODIN.
WE HAVE SOME, UH, PRETTY DECENT DISCUSSION IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UM, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY MOTIONS THEY'D LIKE TO MAKE OUT OF THAT? I'M, I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE HIRE MR. ACKERMAN, WHO ALL OF US HAVE INTERVIEWED.
I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN COKER.
I HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN RODIN.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? WHAT POSITION, MA'AM? THIS IS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION.
IS THERE ANY REAL REASON? THERE'S ONLY A DISCUSSION FOR US.
THIS, THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT AN OPEN DISCUSSION.
I JUST THOUGHT, OH NO, THIS, THIS DISCUSSION IS BETWEEN US.
IIII BELIEVE THAT WE, WE'VE ESTABLISHED A PRACTICE HERE IN THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY FOR CRITICAL POSITIONS.
THAT, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND WE SEEM TO BE FOLLOWING THAT TREND THAT IF, UH, WE HAVE, WE DEVELOPED WHAT, WHAT I CALL A SUCCESSION PLAN SO THAT WE DON'T GET CAUGHT WITH NOBODY AT THE TOP OF THE, THOSE CRITICAL POSITIONS.
AND I, I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD, UM, CON CONSIDER, UH, THOSE FOLKS THAT WE PUT IN PLACE, UM, TO POSSIBLY BE A REPLACEMENT FOR, FOR THE TOP POSITIONS.
SO I I I, I JUST THINK AT THIS POINT WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE PRACTICE THAT WE, WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN IN, IN OUR SUCCESSION PLAN AND IN, IN MOVING FOLKS UP IN THE COUNTY OPPOSED TO GOING OUTSIDE, UH, AND, AND, AND UTILIZE THOSE PEOPLE.
PLEASE REFRAIN FROM C CLAPTON AND CELEBRATING.
I RECKON I MADE THE MOTION BECAUSE THE WAY I LOOK AT IT IS I, I PICKED THE MOST, MOST EXPERIENCED, MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE.
AND SOMETIMES SOMEBODY NEW THAT DON'T KNOW HAS NO CONNECTIONS IN THIS COUNTY, WON'T FAVOR ANYBODY AND I WILL DO THE RIGHT THING.
UH, MR. CHAIRMAN, I, UM, IT'S, PLEASE BE QUIET.
IT'S CERTAINLY, UM, A TOUGH DECISION HERE FOR US TO MAKE.
AND I FEEL LIKE, UH, BASED OFF OF WHAT I'VE SEEN, UH, UH, I WORKED WITH, UH, MS. ANDERSON FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS.
AND I, I, FOR WHAT I SEEN HER IMPROVEMENT FROM THE TIME SHE BEEN HERE, I THINK SHE WOULD, WOULD BE OUR BEST CHOICE FOR A CON ADMINISTRATOR.
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SO SHE'S BORN AND RAISED HERE.WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF BORN HERE, BUT SHE BEEN CLA AND COUNTY HERE IS HER HOME.
SHE, SHE KNOW THE LANDSCAPE HERE.
UH, AND WHEN WE HIRED HER, DAVID EVERSON HIRED HER.
HE HIRED HER WITH THE IN MIND THAT EVENTUALLY SHE WILL BECOME OUR ADMINISTRATOR.
AND THE QUESTION WE ASKED HIM WHEN HE HIRED WAS, IS SHE CAPABLE ON BEING A ADMINISTRATOR HERE? HE SAID VERY WELL, MUCH AND A GOOD THAT SHE, SHE CERTAINLY CAN HANDLE THE JOB, UH, WITH LONDON.
HE WORKED WITH A FOR A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF.
AND HE SAID THAT SHE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF BEING IN A, A GOOD ADMINISTRATIVE FORCE.
AND FOR WHAT I'VE SEEN, I HAVE SEEN NOTHING TO, UH, CONTRADICT WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT HER ABILITY TO BE A GOOD ADMINISTRATOR.
SO I'M JUST DISAPPOINTED THAT WE NOT, UH, OFFERING HER THE JOB TONIGHT.
AND I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THIS, THIS, I'M LIKE, BILLY, THIS WAS, UH, ONE OF THE TOUGHEST, THIS IS THE TOUGHEST DECISION I'VE HAD TO MAKE AS A, AS A, A COUNCILMAN BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WASN'T IN THE, I'M SORRY.
I SAID THIS WAS THE, I AGREE WITH BILLY.
THIS WAS THE TOUGHEST DECISION I'VE HAD TO MAKE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE.
AND I KNOW I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE THIS YEAR.
BUT, UM, IT, IT WAS MORE, I HAD TO LOOK AT QUALIFICATIONS.
I HAD TO LOOK AT EXPERIENCE AND YOU KNOW, I JUST, IT'S LIKE I TOLD THEM BACK THERE, I, I DON'T OWE ANYBODY IN THIS COUNTY ANY FAVORS.
UM, I'VE DON'T OWE 'EM ANYTHING AND I CAN ONLY MAKE ANY DECISION THAT I MAKE HERE THAT I FEEL IS BEST FOR THE COUNTY OVERALL.
UM, AND THAT'S JUST KIND OF WHY I MADE THAT DECISION.
WHAT WAS YOUR DECISION? I SECOND THE MOTION FOR MR. ACKERMAN.
CAN YOU RESTATE THE NAME OF THE PERSON THAT YOU MADE? ACKERMAN.
WE'LL, WE'LL GET YOU RIGHT OUT THERE.
SO ALL OUGHT TO SPELL IT RIGHT NOW.
WAIT, THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC SESSION.
PEOPLE, WE WE'RE NOT TALKING IN HERE.
WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING A MEETING UP HERE.
Y'ALL ARE WELCOME TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN.
BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TALKING, I'M GONNA HAVE YOU ESCORTED OUT THE BUILDING.
NO, YOU'RE NOT WRONG, MR. MR. FRY, IT'S ACKERMAN.
NO ONE, NO ONE KNOWS THIS GENTLEMAN.
WHOEVER HE IS, WE DON'T DUNNO.
THIS GENTLEMAN THAT YOU'RE BRING COUNTY IN ORDER TO LEAVE THE COUNTY.
THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC SESSION.
IT IS OUR JOB TO INTERVIEW HIM.
IT'S NOT YOUR JOB TO INTERVIEW HIM.
IT IS OUR JOB TO INTERVIEW HIM.
IF YOU WON'T DO THAT, SIGN UP AND RUN FOR OFFICE.
IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION? LOOK ON THE MOTION TO HIRE MR. ACKERMAN AS COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR.
ALL OPPOSED? A A IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A TIE AND I WILL VOTE.
AYE, IN FAVOR TO HIRE MR. ACKERMAN AS COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR.
WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE HAVE NO FURTHER BUSINESS TONIGHT THEN I'LL TAKE A MOTION.
I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN RODIN.
A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN FOR EON.
THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED AND I.