Friday, November 16, 2001
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Friday, November 16, 2001 |
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Post-election Senoia sees wave of resignations By JOHN
THOMPSON Senoia's new City Council was greeted with mass resignations Monday night from the city's staff. Mayor Joan Trammell announced at the close of the meeting that planning commissioner Jack Merrick, librarian Sandra Frank and City Administrator Leonard Thompson had submitted their resignations. In his resignation letter, Merrick said he had enjoyed his four-year relationship with the city, but felt "that it would not be a compatible working relationship with the mayor and council" that will be sworn in Jan. 7. City councilmen Robert Belisle and Bill Wood were sworn in Monday night to replace councilmen who had resigned. Mayor Dianne Cleveland and Councilman Pat Tunnell will be sworn into office in January. Perhaps the city's biggest loss was the resignation of Thompson. Thompson had worked closely with Trammell in getting the city's sewer system up and running and his resignation is effective Dec. 15. In fact, Trammell said that she and Thompson would be working on completing such projects as the reopening of the wooden bridge on Bridge Street and light poles and sidewalks leading to the bridge on Rockaway Road. But when it comes to sewer, Trammell asked the council to make a decision by the next meeting, Nov. 26. "There was a lot of talk during the campaign about not completing the sewer system. We need to know what you want to do," she said. She also instructed the council to start work on the budget. Trammell has done the budget for the last four years, but said it's now up to the council to do it.
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