The Cohutta town council holds emergency meeting, with mayor voluntarily leaving and vice-mayor assuming role
The town council in a small mountain community in the US state of Georgia held an emergency meeting on Friday evening to vote to reinstate the police department after the mayor fired the chief and all the officers.
The notice for the meeting, posted outside the Cohutta town hall, had said the council would also consider a request for the mayor’s “immediate resignation”. However, the rest of the meeting agenda, including any action against the mayor, was tabled, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. A second emergency ordinance approved by the town council prohibits the mayor from disbanding the police department for the next 30 days.
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