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September 27, 2012

Princeville board hires Boyd — again

Staff Writer Calvin Adkins

TARBORO — PRINCEVILLE — For the second time in 16 days, the Princeville board of commissioners voted 3-2 to rehire Maggie Boyd as interim town manager Wednesday.

Mayor Priscilla Everette-Oates said Boyd will work 15 hours per week as the interim town manager/town clerk retroactive to the day she was initially rehired. The resolution was passed with the stipulation that an ad will be placed in the newspaper to hire a permanent town manager in 30 days.  

Commissioners Calvin Sherrod and Isabelle Purvis-Andrews voted to hire Boyd while commissioners Ann Howell and Gwen Knight voted against it. Everette-Oates broke the tie in favor of the rehire.

According to a letter from the LGC dated Sept. 26, "... the board can combine the town manager duties with any of the funded positions within its purview." The letter also stated that, "no changes can be made to the line items in the budget except by LGC."

Boyd's hiring has been questioned — even when she was initially hired to replace Victor Marrow last February. Howell and Knight, who voted against the hiring all three times, have argued that Boyd is not qualified for the position. Howell made her argument public Wednesday before the board.

"You feel that because the lady has a teaching degree, that makes her eligible?," Howell asked the mayor. "I have a professional housing assistant degree, but I couldn't come down here and tell anybody that I will be the ideal manager. So, I'm saying that I don't feel that Mrs. Boyd is what we need in the interim town manager position."

Purvis-Andrews disagreed. She applauded Boyd for her efforts in July for improving the water and sewer collection.

Everette-Oates also praised Boyd and she listed some of the interim town manager's qualifications.

"She not only have a teaching degree, she has a management degree and she has managed many things in her lifetime," Everrette-Oates said. "Even though LGC has taken the books, Mrs. Boyd has put a lot of things in place. She has reduced a lot of bills even before LGC took the books.

"She has good management skills as well as good educational skills. She knows how to work with people and plus, she is a citizen of the town of Princeville. ... She has lived in this town all of her life. I don't know anybody better at this point and time to have than Mrs. Maggie Boyd."

Everette-Oates also brought up the point that Boyd was a former commissioner, serving under the mayors' first administration from 2001 to 2005.

Boyd's second rehire came on the heels of a letter from the North Carolina Local Government Commission stating that when the board rehired Boyd on Sept. 10, the action was illegal because the meeting did not meet the criteria of a special meeting and had not been duly advertised.

LGC stated that Boyd’s rehiring was illegal and she would not get paid. If Boyd is paid retroactive from the date that she was rehired, Oct. 11 will equal to 30 days on the job.

Boyd's position was terminated by LGC after the state  took over the town's finances on July 30, 2012. Five other office staff positions were also cut in an effort to save the town money— leaving the town with only a collection clerk — and added an office staff position to work 19 hours per week.

During Boyd's rehire, she was filling the part-time position but was apparently doing duties that did not consist of part-time clerk. In a letter to Everette-Oates, LGC stated the position the board placed Boyd in was provided as a "needed back-up to the collections clerk and to provide adequate staff to perform office task such as answering the phone."

Commissioner Calvin Sherrod said that LGC added aa third position that will allow the town to hire Boyd for $15 per hour as the interim town manager/clerk.

Boyd will maintain the position for 30 days but it was not clear whether her offical start date will be Sept. 10 when she was first rehired or Wednesday.

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