Hiram council appoints interim city manager, removes former banking signatory

Mayor Frank Moran presided as the Hiram City Council voted to appoint Michael Hostetler as interim city manager and to update the city’s banking signatories. Council members also approved resolutions removing Joseph Palmer as an authorized representative on Georgia Fund 1 accounts.

The action came during the council’s regular May meeting, when a motion to appoint Hostetler was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. Councilmembers then moved to adopt resolutions removing Joseph Palmer from all banking materials and removing him as an authorized representative on the Georgia Fund 1 general fund and the Georgia Fund 1 water fund account.

“I, Frank Moran, mayor of the city of Hiram, Georgia, do hereby recognize…” Mayor Moran read earlier proclamations and then presided over the routine motions and votes that formalized the personnel and signatory changes. A council member moved to appoint Michael Hostetler as interim city manager and the motion passed.

Council also moved and approved motions to authorize Hostetler to sign banking paperwork for the city’s Georgia Fund 1 accounts; the motion language and the exact resolution numbers were offered on the floor as part of routine consent business. The transcript shows multiple spellings of the interim manager’s last name in motion text; the appointment motion itself identified Michael Hostetler as the interim city manager.

The council made the banking changes without extended debate. Several motions were seconded and carried by voice vote; no recorded roll-call tallies appear in the transcript.

What’s next: Hostetler has been sworn in as interim city manager; the council did not set a length for the interim appointment during the discussion on the record.