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Reporter
October 8, 2008
didn’t choose these two
finalists. It was done for
- Councilman Mike Dodd
Dodd wants to delay
administrator vote
Forsyth’s city council was
expected to hire a new city
administrator Tuesday,
Oct. 7. But at
least one
council mem
ber says he’d
rather just
start the
whole process
over.
“I would
rather post- THOMPSON
pone this,”
said council
member Mike Dodd. Dodd
said he doesn’t think coun
cil has had enough involve
ment in selecting the final
ists. “We didn’t choose
these two finalists. It was
done for us.”
The city named two final
ists last month and held a
called meeting Sept. 23,
ostensibly to make a final
decision. But instead, coun
cil decided to wait until
background and credit
checks were done on the
finalists before offering one
of them the job.
The finalists are Russell
Thompson, a 28-year-old
planner and special proj
ects manager for the city of
Milledgeville, and 49-year-
old Camilla Johnson
Moore, who retired last
year as the
director of the
Fulton
County office
of housing,
community
and economic
development.
Moore lives in
Union Point
but is a native
of Forsyth,
and Thompson lives in
Gray.
But Dodd said he’d rather
keep looking. He said
Mayor Tye Howard turned
the process over to the
Regional Development
Center (RDC) in Macon
without consulting council.
And it was the RDC, not
the council, that narrowed
18 resumes down to two
finalists, said Dodd.
Dodd said he would work
with whomever is hired,
but said he’s disappointed
in the process.
He said he would have
preferred that council
members on the city’s
administrative committee,
chaired by Rosemary
Walker, narrow the
resumes down and conduct
the interviews, rather than
the RDC.
Dodd said only now, at
the end of the process,
have council members been
given all the resumes that
were submitted.
But Howard, who was
elected mayor promising to
hire a city administrator,
defended the process. He
said every application for
city administrator came
through the city, but that
the RDC has the experi
ence and the staff to nar
row the field. Further, he
said the administrative
committee did have access
to every resume and appli
cation.
The city’s charter calls for
an administrator position,
but Forsyth has been with
out one for more than
three years, since Deron
King and the city parted
ways.
Interim city administra
tor Janice Hall did not
apply for the position, said
city officials.
MOORE
eliliette man charged in DUI
A Juliette man was arrested Monday,
Sept. 29 at 2:02 p.m. after urinating in
public, hitting a concrete divider at the on
ramp of 1-75 and driving under the influ
ence of drugs and alcohol.
Here’s what happened, according to the
Forsyth Police Department report: Maj.
Matt Perry, along with other Forsyth
Police officers, was dispatched to Juliette
Road in reference to a possible drunk
driver. The call came from an off duty
Forsyth firefighter, who said the car was
all over the road and the driver was
drinking beer as he headed towards town.
The firefighter gave a description of the
car and Maj. Perry spotted it at the
Marathon gas station on Tift College
Drive. The driver, William Gore, had a
hard time keeping his balance as he exit
ed the car. He also left his door open and
the car running as he walked to the bath
room, located outside the store. Gore stood
with the bathroom door open while he uri
nated in plain view of the public.
Gore then got back in his car and head
ed north on Tift College Drive in the
direction of the interstate. He had a hard
time maintaining his lane while going
across the bridge and tried to make a u-
turn at the on ramp of 1-75 north, hitting
the concrete divider on the ramp. At that
point, Maj. Perry stopped Gore and told
him to get out of the car.
According to the report, there was a
strong smell of alcoholic beverage coming
from his breath and he said he had con
sumed a beer three hours ago. During
field sobriety tests, Gore was very talka
tive and Maj. Perry had to restart the
testing because Gore kept moving his
head back and forth to follow the stimu
lus, even though he had been told not to.
He also had difficulty completing other
tests and had a pulse rate of 220 beats
per minute. When asked if he took any
prescription medications or used illegal
drugs, Gore denied both but then said he
used methamphetamines three years ago
and marijuana three weeks earlier. Gore
also said he had gotten a back injury the
weekend before and was prescribed
Hydrocodone for pain. He had been given
15 pills over the weekend but had taken
them all. Gore was arrested for driving
under the influence of alcohol and drugs
and agreed to give a blood sample.
During a search of his car, three empty
pill bottles were found. Two of the bottles,
which were for Zoloft and Hydrocodone,
were prescribed to someone else and the
third bottle, which had Gore’s name on it,
was a prescription for Hydrocodone. The
car was turned over to Corner Lot towing
and Gore was taken to the Monroe
County Hospital for a blood draw. While
at the hospital, Gore continued to be very
talkative and told those around him that
they didn’t know what they were doing.
He was very antsy in the waiting room,
saying he really had to use the bathroom.
This time Maj. Perry asked him for a
blood and urine sample and he agreed. In
the lab, Gore began to question the
motives of those around him and said he
didn’t want to give a sample. He said
everyone knew his blood was going to
show up with Hydrocodone and marijuana
from three weeks ago. After a while, he
consented to give both samples.
He was then transported to the Monroe
County Jail, where he was charged with
driving under the influence of drugs and
alcohol and failure to maintain lane.
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