The Upper Cumberland Business Journal is reporting that the selection committee which is searching for the next Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency executive director has narrowed the candidates down to 11. One of those candidates is Cannon County’s own executive Mike Gannon. Interviews will begin Wednesday and after all interviews are completed the search committee hopes to recommend its pick or picks to the UCHRA policy counsel which by statue appoints senior staff positions. The appointment would then be ratified by the full board.
Mike Gannon is joined in the candidate category by Putnam County Executive Kim Blaylock and since both Blaylock and Gannon are UCHRA board members per their roles as county executives they can not be employees of the agency. if one is selected as UCHRA executive director they’d have to resign their current elected board member post. But the question is whether or not that resignation would come before or after the vote is taken by the policy counsel. If a resignation is needed before, there’s no guarantee the vote would fall in their favor. The matter will be discussed by a Tennessee General Attorney ruling on the matter. The counsel hopes that ruling will come before the counsel starts the interviews.
