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Committee postpones manager‑hire rules; debate centers on thresholds, interim authority and manager powers
Summary
The Charter Review Committee debated how Augusta City should hire and remove its city manager, including whether the mayor should present candidates and what voting thresholds should apply; the committee postponed final votes to allow consultants and counsel to draft clearer language.
The Charter Review Committee debated several related motions on how Augusta City would hire, remove and temporarily replace the city manager, but took no final votes on the substantive rules.
A motion that the mayor "shall present up to 3 candidates for manager to be hired with [the] approval of 6 or more commission votes" was introduced for discussion. Members voiced differing views on the appropriate threshold for hire and removal: counsel and the Carl Vinson Institute said the most common practice is a simple majority and that hire and removal thresholds are often the same, but they warned that a supermajority can make it difficult to remove a nonperforming manager and can have financial consequences if…
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