Thursday, January 27, 2022

In search of white smoke

 

Goochland's Board of Supervisors will meet on Monday, January 31, at 12:30 for "a special meeting to go into a closed meeting, as permitted pursuant to Virginia Code § 2.2-3711(A)(1) for interviewing, considering, and discussing prospective candidates for the position of County Administrator. The meeting is being held in Board Meeting Room 250 at the Goochland County Administration Building, 1800 Sandy Hook Rd., Goochland, VA. The Board will reconvene in open session to certify the closed meeting pursuant to Virginia Code § 2.2-3712."

The position of county administrator has been vacant since July 2021 when the Board accepted the resignation of Kenny Young, who was appointed in September 2020.The previous county administrator, John Budesky, left Goochland in June, 2020 to take the top job in Hanover County.

In August 2021, the supervisors appointed the Hon. Manuel Alvarez, Jr. to serve as interim county administrator until a permanent county administrator was hired. An executive recruiting firm was retained by the county last year to help in the search.

Discussion of personnel matters is one of the few reasons that the supervisors may meet in closed session.

The selection of a new pope is announced to the world by white smoke from a chimney on the Sistine Chapel. Let's hope that Goochland may soon have metaphorical white smoke of its own.

 

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