The Demorest City Council is expected to vote next week on whether to reappoint Juanita Crumley as City Clerk after tabling her reappointment earlier this year.
Crumley served as Demorest City Manager for nearly 40 years. During that time she also served as treasurer and clerk. The council voted to remove her from her positions as manager and treasurer last month on the heels of an investigative report into management practices that may have contributed to the disappearance of more than $600,000 from Demorest’s Water Department fund.
Clarkesville accountant Joely Mixon was named the city’s interim treasurer on Dec. 29. A search is underway for a new city manager.
The Demorest City Council held a called meeting this past Tuesday to discuss personnel and the investigation into the missing money. The council was in executive session for nearly two hours. Members of the public waited outside in the cold during the closed door session.
Next Tuesday’s meeting will be held in the auditorium inside Stewart Hall on the Piedmont College campus in Demorest. It begins at 6:30pm.
Demorest Mayor Rick Austin says the meeting location was changed “in order to best serve and accommodate our constituents, both for seating and to protect them from the cold while we are in executive session.”
