{"id":13307,"date":"2016-03-05T04:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2016-03-05T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T04:12:39","slug":"childers-finally-says-hes-sorry-for-911-misstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13307","title":{"rendered":"Childers finally says he&#8217;s sorry for 911 misstep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13214\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo interim City Manager Terry Childers has re-thought what he said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>He said initially in public that he regrets the manner in which a 911 call turned out.<\/p>\n<p>Now he says he&#8217;s &#8220;sorry.&#8221; He&#8217;s issued an apology. In public. Out loud. To the city he administers.<\/p>\n<p>There. Now, can we put this matter to rest?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panhandlepbs.org\/blogs\/news-and-public-affairs\/2016\/03\/04\/childers-let-me-be-very-clear-i-am-sorry\/\">This story needs to quiet down.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo has been through too much turmoil in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>A new City Council majority promised &#8220;change.&#8221; It brought it. City Manager Jarrett Atkinson quit, as did other senior city staff.<\/p>\n<p>The council brought in Childers, the former Oklahoma City manager, to steady the city&#8217;s administrative ship.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the 911 call to the Amarillo Emergency Communication Center. He got agitated over the way the dispatcher responded to his report of a missing briefcase.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been plenty of criticism being tossed around the city at the interim manager. I&#8217;ve heard rumblings that some of it has been quite ugly, although I have not seen or read any of it with my own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>OK. He&#8217;s now said he&#8217;s sorry, which I guess lies near the heart of what concerned some residents.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this matter can be put to rest, that the interim manager can continue his work running the city and that the council can proceed with its search for a permanent chief administrator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo interim City Manager Terry Childers has re-thought what he said earlier this week. He said initially in public that he regrets the manner in which a 911 call turned out. Now he says he&#8217;s &#8220;sorry.&#8221; He&#8217;s issued an apology. In public. Out loud. To the city he administers. There. Now, can we put this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Childers finally says he&#8217;s sorry for 911 misstep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,6006,290,5621],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-95","tag-amarillo-call-center","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-terry-childers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13308,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions\/13308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}