The City Manager Search: A Step-by-Step guide to Community Dysfunction

Note: check back as I will be adding steps as this moves forward. Updated: 1/20/21

1) Daily Progress gets a scoop with Chief Brackney’s emails

Daily Progress - In a Dec. 4 email, Police Chief RaShall Brackney said her interview with one of the consultants was an “unsettling and unprofessional interaction” and she pledged moving forward to “not interact with this consultant.”

2) It’s 10PM, Charlottesville City Councilor Lloyd Snook has had enough, so he gets on Facebook and…

“This article [above DP article] is going to leave an incorrect impression -- that the City reacted to Chief Brackney's accusations by terminating the contract with Ralph Andersen. That is not at all the truth. I don't know about other Councilors, but Nolan Stout sent me an e-mail to my City e-mail address at 3:56 (according to his computer) which I received at 4:11 PM (according to my computer), asking that I call him back before his 6 PM deadline. I didn't see the message until after 8 PM, and it was to…