Ahoskie’s elected city officers have made a suggestion to the previous Roanoke Rapids finance director for the vacant supervisor’s place, the Roanoke-Chowan Information Herald reported.
Leigh Etheridge has been supplied the job, conditional on a background examine, drug screening, and credit score examine. These situations had been nonetheless pending as of Tuesday.
Etheridge was interviewed by all 5 members of the Ahoskie City Council in the course of the closed session portion of a particular known as assembly held January 3.
After re-entering open session, Councilman Charles Reynolds made a movement to rent Etheridge at a beginning wage of $90,000 yearly with a possible 5 p.c elevate after a six-month probationary interval plus a job efficiency analysis by the council. Councilwoman Linda Blackburn supplied a second to the movement, which handed 4-1. Councilman David Hunt forged the lone dissenting vote.
Following a seven-year profession because the finance director for the town of Roanoke Rapids, Etheridge left for the same place with the town of Poquoson, Virginia.
Previous to her employment with Roanoke Rapids, Etheridge was the assistant finance director for Northampton County native authorities. She started her profession because the enterprise director for the Halifax County Division of Social Companies.
If employed by Ahoskie, Etheridge would fill the city supervisor’s place that has been vacant for almost 9 months. Kerry McDuffie, Ahoskie’s earlier supervisor, was fired, with out trigger, on April 22.