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Council approves hire of drone‑program special employee after vote to terminate contractor
Summary
After staff said drone‑program services had evolved into work that should be performed by an employee, the council approved terminating the contractor arrangement and hiring Chad Tillman as a special employee for one year at about $103,000; one councilor abstained.
The Huntsville City Council voted March 12 to terminate a contract with a private firm supporting the city’s unmanned aerial systems program and to bring the individual who performed that work on as a one‑year special employee.
City Administrator John Hamilton told council the contracted service had evolved into work that met the characteristics of city employment under federal and state law: "this service has evolved to the point where this is really, this…
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