McComb City Administrator Jim Storer ousted
McComb’s city board voted in executive session to terminate City Administrator Jim Storer Tuesday, according to Selectman Melvin Joe Johnson, acting as Mayor Pro-tem after the closed session. Storer said afterward he had resigned.
Johnson said the decision came by a 3-2 vote, with Selectmen Wade Lamb, Bobby Maddox and E.C. Nobles in favor of Storer’s firing and Selectmen Johnson and Robert Earl Smith dissenting.
Selectmen in favor of Storer’s removal said after the meeting they felt Storer had failed to keep them in the loop regarding city business.
Mayor Zach Patterson, who returned to the city board room a few moments after Johnson’s announcement and adjournment to attempt to close the meeting himself, called the vote “sad,” predicting: “What happened here tonight will go down as truly the darkest day in the history of the city of McComb.”
Enterprise Journal
9/24/8
Magnolia Tribune
