The county isn’t working.
Via WISTV:
A Richland County Council meeting turned heated Tuesday night as council members voted 6 to 5 to terminate the contract of a council administrator and appoint an acting administrator.
Councilman Norman Jackson moved to terminate administrator Gerald Seals’ contract immediately and install Brandon Madden as the acting administrator.
The move came late Tuesday night and tossed what appeared to be a productive council meeting into chaos. It also moved Councilwoman Dahli Myers to speak out against the loss of dignity during the debate.
“I’m not speaking for or against any administrator in that chair,” Myers said. “I am speaking for the dignity of this council. I am shocked. Shocked that we would treat any employee from the custodian to the most senior this way. It embarrasses me. As a professional, I have never seen anything in my life this outrageous, and I’m speaking for me. Even assuming we had the worst administrator on the planet, this is not the way you handle a professional. We are not working in the Trump Administration.”