By Andy Bell-Baltaci | Daily Journal
For The Republic
EDINBURGH — The Edinburgh Town Council hired a new town manager Monday night, more than three months after it fired its previous one.
Dan Cartwright, who until now was chairman of the Johnson County Plan Commission, will take over the job. As town manager, he will lead the town of about 4,600, work in conjunction with the town council and administer and enforce ordinances, orders and town resolutions, among other duties, according to town documents.
Cartwright replaces J.T. Doane as town manager. Doane was fired in October after the town council learned he was paying a town employee from his personal bank account. A Johnson County Sheriff’s Office investigation concluded Doane’s action of paying an employee of the town’s electric department under the table since March may have been unethical, but was not illegal.
Doane had apparently done so to close the wage gap between the non-journeyman and journeyman’s salary, as the employee was working toward journeyman certification.
After Doane’s termination, town council members, Jeff Simpson and Ryan Piercefield, acted as interim co-town managers, before Simpson stepped down in January and Piercefield assumed sole responsibility.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.
