After less than a year, the city of Canton is again hunting for a new city manager, as the city council terminated Glen Cummins’ contract effective immediately Thursday night.
The council action was without cause, meaning that Cummins will get six months of severance pay agreed to when the former council member took the manager’s post in July of 2014, following a period as interim manager. He was paid $120,000 annually.
Mayor Gene Hobgood said council members decided to “go in a different direction,” particularly with such pending projects as the northwest Canton fire station and deciding how to utilize newly-acquired historical buildings hanging fire.
Hobgood said that instead of a nationwide search, he wants a city search committee to take the list of applicants from 2014, see who might still be available and winnow them down. In the meantime, Chief Financial Officer Nathan Ingram will serve as acting city manager.
The decision came after months of back-and-forth between Cummins and several council members, including a spat over how the northwest fire station should be constructed.
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