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East Ridge City Attorney Terminated

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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By Jerry Askin   The East Ridge City Hall was packed Thursday night - many criticizing city manager Tim Gobble for hiring 19-year old Chris Claybough to work as his assistant and the city's grant coordinator -- at a full-time salary of 5,000."He's actually filling two positions at a lower cost than what we'd have to do to hire," says city manager Tim Gobble.It's a position he says is actually budgeted between 5,000 - 8,000. Gobble says he's been in need of an assistant like any other city manager.   He says his church friend, Chris Claybough, is more than qualified, despite his age."He is young, but he's also very qualified in the sense that he's got technology abilities that a lot of us older folks don't have -- and dealing with facebook issues and website issues and those type of things," says Gobble."Straight out of high school I was not even close to finding me a job that would pay me 5,000 a year. So, unless this guy has some amazing qualifications, I don't think that was a good move," says East Ridge resident Scott Moschkau.Meanwhile, another topic of conversation at Thursday night's city council meeting .... the firing of city attorney, John Anderson."Certain members of the council thought that we were paying him too much money," says East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert.City mayor Brent Lambert says last year, a city council member attempted to terminate Anderson, but it never passed.The city attorney had this to say after we spoke to him by phone."I'm a full-time practicing lawyer with 32 years of experience. I took representation on in the city of East Ridge like I would any other client and I will continue to represent other clients I have. I didn't work solely for East Ridge," says Anderson.The city council will hold a special call meeting Saturday 12/15/2012 at 5:30pm to raise a motion to hire an interim city attorney for 90 days.

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