IF HE LOOKS familiar, that’s because he is. He’s called Savannah home since 1980, when he began serving as Assistant City Manager. He left in 1989 to take the City […]
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Finding the perfect City Manager – for Savannah
IT’S A tired cliche that the choice of a City Manager is a consequential choice. In cities like Savannah, with its Council-Manager form of government, the City Manager is THE most important […]
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Who’s on first? How Savannah’s government (supposedly) works
Think of the City Manager like a CEO appointed by a Board of Directors
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Year in Review: Top Ten from Savannah news & politics
LET’S GET this out of the way: This is a roundup of the top 10 local news and politics stories from 2016. So Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton aren’t listed […]
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County votes to split up police merger; City Manager issues statement
Earlier today the Chatham County Commission voted to exercise its option to terminate the decade-old merger of city and county police forces. Negotiations had been stalled for several months over […]
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Cutter named city manager
Savannah City Council today voted unanimously to appoint Stephanie Cutter as the seventh City Manager in Savannah’s history. “Ms. Cutter is a visionary. She has brought togetherness back among the […]
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Newsbriefs
The special guest at last week’s Downtown Business Association luncheon was City Manager Rochelle Small–Toney. She explained what business owners could expect from the newly created Downtown Services Department, which […]
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Newsbriefs
City Manager contract Members of the City Council gathered last Friday afternoon to discuss terms for hiring Rochelle Small–Toney as City Manager. Fresh off their appearance in the St. Patrick’s […]
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Interview: Rochelle Small-Toney
Rochelle Small–Toney remained quiet during the last several weeks, even though her name was mentioned in almost every conversation about city politics. While the path to getting the permanent position […]
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The search is over
The prolonged and divisive search for a permanent City Manager has come to end, although true resolution remains distant. At last week’s City Council meeting, Rochelle Small–Toney was approved by […]
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Losing votes, losing credibility
The search for a permanent city manager was nearly concluded during the last City Council meeting. But the process stumbled back into the quagmire of confusion and uncertainty from whence […]
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Searching for a city manager
Savannah is a city with a history of messy politics, but over the past 10 days, there’s been more than the usual share of suspicion, misinformation and fear concerning the […]