Former Augusta administrator advocates for giving hiring and firing to manager

Former Augusta administrator advocates for giving hiring and firing to manager

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Augusta’s longest serving administrator is telling the Charter Review Committee that commission votes should be used to hire department directors. “You appoint people that have expertise in specific issues but to find an engineer who can get six votes of find whatever sort of defeats the purpose of looking for skills and abilities,” said former City Administrator Fred Russell.Russell is advocating for strong manager form of…