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Crow calls for investigation into forced resignation of department head

Thursday, April 21. 2011

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously at Monday’s meeting to have Interim County Manager Leonard Myers investigate the alleged forced resignation of a county department head in March.

Commissioner Tom Crow made the motion after reading a prepared letter about questionable actions by former county manager Darrell Hampton.

Crow stated, “It appears that because of my efforts to gather information one of our department heads was forced to resign. The instruction (from Hampton) to have resignation tendered by March of 2011 was given during fall of 2010 after this department head had answered questions from me.”

Crow said the department head had an outstanding work record.

For the full story, see the April 20 issue of The Jackson Herald.

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#1 Enough ! on 04/21/11 at 06:22 AM [Reply]

This smells to heaven like nothing more then good ole boy politics with Tom Crow leading the way !
That Dept head was going to retire and has had serious health issues way before this Tom ? Every time we hire a county manager people like Tom Crow butt in and try to run the show.
Hey Tom what about that Fire training center that passed SPLOST AT $800,000 and ended up being 2 Million ??? Throwing stones at glass houses Mr. Crow and at an employee who resigned and is gone.

Time to vote out Tom Crow and D. Smith...no more good old boy politics needed !

#2 someone who knows on 04/22/11 at 09:09 AM [Reply]

I DO NOT think the commissioners should even consider giving this "department head" his job back unless they do so for the seventeen (17) employees who had their jobs taken away from them back in September 2010! We all know there were other ways to "cut back" expenses.

#3 T. Metters on 04/22/11 at 04:35 PM [Reply]

If a Commissioner is conducting a self-induced investigation without the authority of the entire commission, contacting staff without notification of their supervisor , and trying to direct staff without authority the commissioner would be in direct conflict with his own job description as outlined in the County Charter/Ordinances. Mr. Crow won, retained unauthorized control and still he wants to beat a dead horse all because an old friend was fired. Change is hard for some to adjust to but with the type of growth that we have experienced it is imperative that we cease to stick out heads in the sand and stop fighting so hard to not deal with the reality of the fact that we need set petty politics aside. I for one hope that we can learn from this continued embarassment at the hands of some of elected officials and that we can make some changes before we negatively impact the wonderful economic accomplishments that our community has obtained. Investors are watching and most are only laughing.

#4 eyes of big brother on 04/22/11 at 06:38 PM [Reply]

First of all the department head had been looking at retirement for some 5 years now and was asked to stay but did not. He is now working about 2/3 the hours with less headache and making as much as he did before.
And it is time to move on to some one newer and younger that may be able to carry on for 20 years + like the old one did. Not that any one should be forced out but if he did decide to come back it would be for how long?
This is a good time to bring in some one new with fewer projects than a few years ago it give him time to adjust and get use to the job before being overwhelmed
The acting department head is the former assistant and seems to be doing a good job

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