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Commission denies engineer hire
Published November 25, 2009
A motion to hire Greg Richard as the new Jackson County engineer was denied by the Jackson County Commission Monday night in a 3-1 vote.
Commissioner Jack Smith made the motion to hire Richard with a $100,000 annual salary, a three-year contract and a start date of Dec. 7.
Smith had motioned to add an agenda item to hire an engineer at the beginning of the meeting. After a second from Commissioner Jack Allen, the commission voted 3-1 to add the item to the agenda. Commission Chair Sadie Bias said the hiring item would be added as a discussion item.
When the item came before the commission, Smith made a motion to hire an engineer, and Allen seconded the motion. When asked who he would like to hire, Smith said Greg Richard and recommended that he have a three-year contract with the same benefits former county engineer Brian Rosenbaum was afforded.
During discussion on the motion, Bias noted that Richard had previously been county engineer. Richard, who resides in Scottsboro, currently owns Engineering and Surveying, Inc. and previously served as Jackson County engineer from 1999 until 2006.
The commission voted 3-1 to approve the item, with Smith, Allen and Commissioner Gaylen Stone voting to approve the measure and Commissioner Horace Clemmons dissenting. Bias said the motion did not carry.
When asked by commissioners why the item was not approved because of the majority vote, county attorney John Porter said that, for approval, a discussion item requires a unanimous vote, according to the commission’s rules of procedure.
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