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The Leon County Commissioners will vote on adopting a brand new coverage for recruiting the County Administrator and County Attorney at their June 16 assembly.

The County Commissioners are accountable for deciding on a County Administrator and a County Attorney underneath the Leon County Residence Rule Constitution and the Leon County Code of Legal guidelines, however the recruitment course of for the positions shouldn’t be specified.

Workers reviews that the Board has made solely three hires for both place within the final 30 years. The Board appointed Herbert W.A. Thiele as County Attorney in 1990, Vincent S. Lengthy as County Administrator in 2011, and Chasity O’Steen as County Attorney in 2019.

On the July 9, 2019 County Fee assembly, the Commissioners directed employees to put together a coverage revision for future recruiting. Workers reviews that the proposed coverage would require future recruitments to be open to each inner and exterior candidates.

In accordance to the assembly agenda, employees couldn’t establish one other native authorities with a coverage requiring a public search for both place.

Workers reviews {that a} coverage requiring a proper exterior search would take away an area authorities’s flexibility to recruit in a fashion that most closely fits its wants.

“It isn’t all the time clear whether or not an present worker or an exterior candidate could also be the most effective match, and a prescriptive coverage requiring a proper exterior search would take away an area elected physique’s discretion to decide whether or not an inner candidate meets the standards to succeed within the place,” employees reviews.

If the County doesn’t undertake the coverage, it may nonetheless have the pliability to appoint an inner candidate or conduct a proper exterior search if it chooses, employees reviews.

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