Forsyth looking for new city administrator

Former administrator Thomas White stepped down at the end of July. 

Janice Hall is filling the role temporarily, and says the city is working with a regional commission to possibly change its charter. 

The goal would be to change the government’s operation and the position of a city administrator to a city manager. 

Hall adds there isn’t a timetable as to when all of this happen.
   
White was appointed in 2011.
   
He also served 30 years in the Army National Guard.

Some council members want to have a city manager instead of a city administrator.

Mayor John Howard says White’s position didn’t fit in with the plan.

“The combination of what we had working for us already was not a good mix,” said Howard.

“And that’s what really brought on the decision for us to go in a different direction,” added Howard. “But I can’t say how he would have came out were we to have restructured the government and he still be here.”

Howard also said he hopes the city can move forward.