The first county manager under Barrow County’s new form of government likely will be Jock Connell, the former county administrator for Gwinnett County and current consultant for Hall County.
Connell was the top choice of a selection committee comprised of Barrow County’s six district commissioners and incoming Barrow County Board of Commissioners chairperson, Pat Graham, and the committee has directed Human Resources director Charlie Felts to enter into negotiations of the compensation package.
Nov. 27 was the deadline for the release of the names of the top candidates for the position. But the only remaining finalist withdrew his name Monday, and his identity is not being released.
Connell has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Georgia and after initial stints at insurance companies, joined Gwinnett County’s government in 1986. He worked there for 23 years, the final five as county administrator. He resigned in 2009 and after working briefly for a private company was hired as the interim county administrator for Hall County.
Pending the outcome of the salary negotiations, the BOC is scheduled to vote to approve the appointment on Dec. 11. The new county-manager form of government begins Jan. 1.
Top choice for Barrow manager: Jock Connell
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Good News
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11/27/12 at 05:50 PM
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Congrats to the selection committee and the commissioners and Pat Graham. It will be a really good achievement is this fellow decides to come on board. It is really important that our first manager have a great deal of experience. Kind of like taking an infant and raising it to a fine young gentlemen/lady. Hopefully, changing the diapers of Barrow will not be too stinky and cause him to not accept the position. Well done if we can pull this off.
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J.B. Moore
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11/28/12 at 07:22 AM
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Its only going to go a couple of ways. I hope our commissioners will work well together and we have great success. I hope this doesn't go south or we will be paying a large contract buy out when one wants to flex muscle and not play well with others. I wish and hope for this to be a success and help our great county thrive.
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really
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11/28/12 at 08:11 AM
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seems both Gwinnett and hall countes have been in the news lately for issues regarding folks that spend spend spned and there seems to be many that also fattened thier pockets hmmmmmmmmmm
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Lets be positive
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11/28/12 at 04:31 PM
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This gentleman worked for Gwinnett for 20 years during their success days and has been retired from there since 2009. Lets hope he can bring us half the success that Gwinnett and Hall counties have had in the past 20 years or so.
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MollyRose
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12/06/12 at 08:16 AM
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oh-no. ask Gwinnett Co citizens and employees how they feel about this person and what they know.