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Budget workshop planned to discuss projected revenue
By Jay King and Jed Blackwell
Hometown News
Photo By Jed Blackwell
Sandy Squires shows her support for Fire Chief Lee Jeffcoat with a homemade sign at Tuesday afternoon’s Holly Springs Fire Commission meeting.
The Holly Springs Fire and Rescue Commission stopped short of trying to terminate Chief Lee Jeffcoat a second time at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday.
An overflow crowd of more than 150 turned out for the meeting, the time of which had been changed from the normal 7 p.m. to 4 p.m. and the location moved from the more spacious Holly Springs-Motlow Elementary School cafeteria back to the fire station.
Emotions have been running high throughout the community ever since the secret commission meeting June 16 at which the commission voted to cut the chief’s salary and schedule in half. When the chief refused, the commission voted to terminate him.
Since that time, Circuit Judge Roger Couch ruled that meeting to be illegal and barred the commission from implementing any decision made, effectively reinstating Jeffcoat.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Middle Tyger Times.
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