McNabb appointed to fill Mayes’ District 1 seat
Chad McNabb is sworn in as an Anderson County commissioner for District 1. He will fill the remainder of former Commissioner Tyler Mayes’ term. With him are his wife, Terri McNabb; son, Keaton McNabb; and daughter, Adalynn McNabb. (photo:Ben Pounds )
The district includes the Claxton and Bull Run areas.
Mayes, in a letter to the commission, said that a new consulting job with the University of Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service, as well as a commitment to his children, led him to move to a home outside of his district. That automatically removed him from the commission.
He was at the Monday Oct. 20 meeting, however, to wish McNabb well. He had endorsed McNabb to fill his position.
“All four of them were great guys,” Mayes told The Courier News of the candidates the commission considered to fill his seat.
“Chad was by far the best option,” he said.
Mayes praised McNabb for already following the commission and its work even before his appointment.
“He knows the issues,” Mayes said. “He’s ready to hit the ground running.”
McNabb also spoke to his existing knowledge.
“It is a really strange hobby, but I have followed local government and politics my entire life,” he said. “Maybe I should have taken up fishing, but that’s what I like doing.”
He said he had already been watching every County Commission and Operations Committee meeting.
McNabb won with the eight votes of commissioners Denise Palmer, Tim Isbel, Joshua Anderson, Shelly Vandagriff, Shain Vowell, Bob Smallridge, Sabra Beauchamp and Michael Foster.
Harold Edwards, Jeffrey George Parrott and Neil Phillips also offered to take Mayes’s old seat.
Edwards received three votes, from commissioners Anthony Allen, Steven Verran and Jerry White.
Parrott received three votes, from commissioners Robert McKamey, Bob Smallridge and Ebony Capshaw.
Phillips received no votes.
Commissioner Phil Yager was absent from the meeting.
“I just look forward to hearing from all of the citizens of District 1,” McNabb told The Courier News.
He listed the soon-to-be-relocated animal shelter, the closure and possible new location for Claxton Park, and the coming widening of Edgemoor Road as key issues.
McNabb stated in his resume to the County Commission that he has worked for 15 years as director of PSI Probation for Anderson County.
The job, he said, involves managing the county’s misdemeanor probation program, as well as being in charge of human resources, payroll, budgeting and contract negotiations.
He stressed to the commission that he had worked with Republicans, Democrats and independents alike in this job.
He received endorsement also from Sheriff Russell Barker.
He said both of his children went to Claxton Elementary School, at which his wife, Terri McNabb, also worked.