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Century Hires Town Clerk Away From Flomaton
September 19, 2024
The Town of Century has hired a new town clerk. And she’s crossing the state line from Flomaton.
The town council voted 5-0 to approve a recommendation from Mayor Luis Gomez, Jr. to hire Carrie Moore as Century town clerk. The position has been vacant since Leslie Howington took a leave of absence in mid-April before resigning in May for medical reasons.
Gomez said Moore will start in three weeks.
Moore has served as town clerk in Flomaton, a town of 1,458 residents, for the last three years. Century is a similar size town with a population of 1,736 residents, but Gomez acknowledged that Moore would have a slight learning curve since Florida statutes for municipalities can be different than Alabama. She previously worked with the City of Evergreen beginning in 2017 until her hiring in Flomaton in 2021.
“We have been weighing our options for a few months now,” Gomez said before the affirmative vote. “We had several applications in which I thoroughly vetted them along with my team, and we had one standout. Her name is Carrie Moore.”
“We’ve done a background check to a certain extent,” he added.
The council was told negotiations on Moore’s salary have not finalized, but her compensation was “well within” a salary range set back in May of $71,000 to $91,000, more than Howington was paid.
Council member Shelisa McCall questioned Moore’s employment history. McCall asked, “So when you spoke to her, did you ask about 13 months here, three months here, four months there? There’s an eight-month lapse, seven months here, and now with Flomaton for three years. So why is she leaving?”
“We did have the opportunity to ask her about her interests,” replied Cheryl Harrison-Lee, who works with Howard Brown and his Local Government Consulting Group of West Palm Beach that provides interim town manager consulting services. “She’s looking to expand her skill set, and she thought that moving over to Century would give he ran opportunity to expand her skill set.”
According to Moore’s resume, she worked as assistant CFO for Elgin, Texas, from May to August 2014; STS in Madison, Alabama, from April to August 2015, city clerk for Evergreen, Alabama, from September 2015 to April 201; and town clerk from April 2021 to present.
McCall also questioned if Moore living some 30-45 minutes away from Century would be an issue. According to her resume, she lives in Repton, Alabama.
Pictured: Carrie Moore, Century’s new town clerk. Submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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16 Responses to “Century Hires Town Clerk Away From Flomaton”
hope this works out for you. Century is …………….., well you will find outshone enough.
Best Wishes, Ms Moore. We sincerely hope that your presence will help the Town of Century.
Run..go….save your self while there is still time. Never get on a sinking ship
Like reading excerpts from a bad marriage case… This fall might be the hardest yet ma’am. Good luck regardless.
Good luck to the new clerk, at least she is guaranteed a premium parking spot at the city hall building, they have like 10 spots reserved while us citizens are required to find parking as far from the door as possible LOL.
@IMHO … for the record, I didn’t vote for Mr. Brown
I hate to see Carrie leave the Town of Flomaton. But I wish Carrie the very best in her new endeavors.
So Ms McCall is concerned about her living 45 minutes away when Howard Brown and his associates are in South Florida??
Good question by Council person Mccall …… when a potential employee moves from job to job in short periods it is questionable.
““We’ve done a background check to a certain extent,” he added.”
What the he77 is that supposed to mean? There are standards for hiring public employees and “to a certain extent” is not one of them.
She jumped right out of the frying pan into the fire.
She doesn’t know what she’s getting into but I pray she knocks some sense into those people’s heads. God bless her.
Congratulations Ms. Moore. Welcome to Century. I hope your stay here will be pleasant and productive. You experience should speak loudly.
Being able to put Century on your next application will not show an improved skill set.
Sounds like unfair practices to me if the new hire is starting with higher pay than the experienced employee that has worked there for years.
Bad move, Ms Moore.