COVINGTON, Ga. — A county commissioner is explaining his recent decision to vote to offer the government's longtime attorney a six-month contract to head a new in-house legal department.
District 2 Commissioner Demond Mason said the contractual agreements for the county attorney, county manager and county clerk are all up for discussion and consideration at the beginning of each calendar year.
"A six-month contractual agreement will be approximately 30 days longer than the normal discussion (and) consideration for the county attorney’s contract review, as of August 2021," Mason said.
"All in-house county attorney contractual agreements will resume to a 12-month discussion (and) consideration period, as of the first quarter of 2022," he said.
Mason was responding to a question about complaints from some community members recently about the length of the contract offer to Martin despite her being the main attorney serving Newton County government for the law firm Jarrard & Davis for six years.
The Board on Aug. 24 voted 3-2 to offer a six-month contract to Martin to lead the new in-house department overseeing legal work for most of the county government .
Board members voted after hearing from five candidates for the $185,000 per year position and narrowing the candidates down to two finalists, including Martin and Serena Nowell.
Nowell, a real estate agent, served in the city attorney's office for the city of Atlanta from 1999 to 2009, rising to deputy city attorney....
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