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Council votes to hire Billy Sumner as economic developer after executive session
Summary
After two executive sessions on personnel matters, the council voted unanimously to concur with the interim city manager's recommendation to hire Billy Sumner as the city's economic developer; a listed grant-writer item was not considered.
The council voted unanimously to hire Billy Sumner as the city's economic developer following executive sessions on personnel matters. The motion "to concur with the interim city manager's recommendation to hire Billy Sumner for economic developer" was introduced after the council returned from closed session and was moved and seconded.
The presiding officer told members that the meeting had two scheduled executive sessions and that a separately listed item for a grant writer would not be considered. The council cited Title 25 Section 307(b)(1) as the statutory basis for the closed discussions, which the presiding officer said covered employment matters including hiring and promotion.
At the public roll call on the motion, the clerk called each member and Councilor Boatwright, Woodley, Stone, Roden, Beatty, Gilmore and the Mayor each responded "Yes." The presiding officer declared the motion carried and announced the meeting adjourned.
The transcript records that the council discussed the listed items in executive session and that "none of those proposals were taken" during the closed session; the hiring decision recorded in open session reflects the council's formal action to implement the interim city manager's recommendation.
No additional details about Billy Sumner's background, salary, contract terms or start date were provided in the transcript, and a separately listed agenda item for a grant writer was explicitly not taken up during the meeting.
