{"id":9980,"date":"2015-07-01T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2015-07-01T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:28:18","slug":"here-comes-that-change-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9980","title":{"rendered":"Here comes that ‘change’ at City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mark Nair took his oath of office as the Amarillo City Council’s newest member and then asked for the resignations of City Manager Jarrett Atkinson, Assistant City Manager Vicki Covey and the five Amarillo Economic Development Corporation board members.<\/p>\n

Isn’t there a “getting acquainted period” involved here?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/29447986\/city-leaders-asked-to-resign<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

So, here’s the change voters seemingly said they wanted when they elected Nair and two other new guys to the City Council. Randy Burkett joined the newest guy in calling for the resignations.<\/p>\n

Haven’t heard yet if the third newbie, Elisha Demerson, feels the same way. I’ll assume for\u00a0the moment he does.<\/p>\n

The $113 million question is this: What would changes at the top of the Amarillo administrative municipal chain of command mean for its downtown redevelopment efforts?<\/p>\n

I hope that rumble I’m hearing isn’t the sound of a train wreck about to occur.<\/p>\n

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Mark Nair took his oath of office as the Amarillo City Council’s newest member and then asked for the resignations of City Manager Jarrett Atkinson, Assistant City Manager Vicki Covey and the five Amarillo Economic Development Corporation board members. Isn’t there a “getting acquainted period” involved here? http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/29447986\/city-leaders-asked-to-resign Nope. So, here’s the change voters seemingly … Continue reading Here comes that ‘change’ at City Hall<\/span> →<\/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":[155,288,290,1436,1444,1556,2418,2915,3836,5107],"class_list":["post-9980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-aedc","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-downtown-redevelopment","tag-elisha-demerson","tag-jarrett-atkinson","tag-mark-nair","tag-randy-burkett","tag-vicki-covey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980","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=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}