Guyton council committee members will interview candidates for the council post left vacant by alderman Ulysses Eaton. Eaton has moved from the area.
Resumes have been submitted by four people: Joseph James Lee, Marshall Reiser, Michael Gerwig, and Nicholas Smalley.
Lee is retired from International Paper and is a member of Guyton Leisure Services. He served as president of the Local 1496 at International Paper and is the financial advisor at Royal Holiness Temple Church.
Reiser is a CPA with offices in Guyton and is a member of several boards including, Treulten House board, Guyton Planning and Zoning Board and at New Ebenezer Retreat and Conference Center.
Gerwig has lived in Guyton since 2014 and is a member of the city’s tourism committee. His resume lists 40 years of supervisory experience in grounds keeping. He also served as president of the AFL-CIO Local 3366 in Maryland for two years.
Smalley is a Guyton Fire Department Captain and works for Gulfstream. He has been a member of the Guyton Elementary PTO and a youth sports coach for the Effingham County Recreation Department.
The council agreed during the March 22 regular meeting to interview the candidates before the next council meeting.
In other business the council agreed to formally adopt parliamentary procedures from the Georgia Municipal Association.
Mayor Jeff Lariscy said a check showed the city had never officially adopted a procedure. Lariscy said the GMA procedure is simpler than Robert’s Rules of Order.
The council will revisit the issue in six months.
Lariscy suggested the council consider a change in percentage divisions in a new Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) referendum.
The current SPLOST has a high percentage of proceeds for recreation at 19 percent and only 2 percent for public safety.
“(Seeing) the 2 percent floored me,” Lariscy said.
The mayor proposed a division of 30 percent for roads, 30 percent for water and sewer, 30 percent for public safety capital outlay, 5 percent for recreation capital projects and 5 percent for technology capital outlay.
Projects of receipts of the current SPLOST
The city will be meeting with the county for SPLOST discussions on April 4, Lariscy said.
County Commissioners held a workshop on the topic March 7 and approved a calendar to prepare the question for voters on the Nov. 8 ballot.
The current, five-year SPLOST ends June 30, 2017.
The council also recognized Isiah Royal of Guyton, a South Effingham School student, for winning three consecutive state championships in wrestling.