Yeah, we know that already
County executives now called county mayors. I guess now we know why:
County executives are required under a new state law to use the title ”county mayor,” according to the state attorney general, but there is no penalty if they do not.
The opinion by state Attorney General Paul Summers does not appear to settle the uproar over the legislature’s decision to change the name.
”Since 1978 we’ve been county executives, and it’s taken until now to get the word out about what our responsibility and roles are, and now suddenly we’re changing in midstream,” said Billy Ray Patton, the Rhea County executive who does not want to be called mayor.
Glad they have time to work out such pressing problems as these.
