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Monday, January 7, 2013

Jim Baskett the New Decatur Mayor

The other city commissioners picked him to succeed Bill Floyd, who resigned. Kecia Cunningham is the mayor pro tem.

The new mayor of Decatur is Jim Baskett, who has served on the Decatur City Commission since 1995 and been the mayor pro tem the last 10 years.  The meeting started at 7:30 p.m. and the process only took about two minutes. Kecia Cunningham nominated him and Patti Garrett seconded. They and Fred Boykin voted in favor. Cunningham was picked mayor pro tem by a 3-0 vote. Baskett nominated her and Boykin seconded the nomination. Seniority prevailed, with Baskett and Cunningham now being the commissioners with the most and the second-most years on the board. Baskett will take the place of Bill Floyd, who served as mayor 14 years. Floyd announced last month that he'd resign, effective Monday, to take a job with a consulting firm. In Decatur, …

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Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd Resigning Jan. 7 To Take Consulting Job

ozie b. leaster

12:53 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013

Senior job so that they to live better those that can work. leastero@yahoo.com . and jobs   more ›

Monday, October 1, 2012

Decatur City Commission To Vote on New Judges, Financing

The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall.

The Decatur City Commission has a light agenda for Monday night in City Hall. The agenda posted on the City of Decatur website says the board will vote on: The commission will first meet for a dinner session at 5:30 p.m. and a work session on the zoning task force at 6:30 p.m. The regular meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are in city hall and are open to the public. To see the full agenda, go to the City of Decatur website. Residents can watch the meeting on live streaming video on their home computers by going to the city website. Commission meetings will still be broadcast live on Comcast channel 25, and  rebroadcast at 2 p.m. the Saturday after the meeting.

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Decatur Schools Administrative Offices May Move Into Beacon Hill and Decatur To Vote on Courthouse Lawn Repairs

Oakhurst Curator

9:47 am on Monday, October 1, 2012

A $35,000 question for Decatur's City Commission: Will they ever get around to apologizing to the city's African American residents for omitting them and their heritage resources, including the former Beacon & Trinity schools (on tonight's agenda), from the 2009 "comprehensive" historic resources survey? Decatur's a city with a rich African American history, yet blacks are not mentioned a single …   more ›

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