City Names Interim Administrators; Human Services Chief Beverly Moultrie Not Retained

The new Kelly administration has named interim administrators.

The appointments are effective July 1.

For some of the positions, officials said earlier there would be a national search.

The list includes:

Interim Administrator of Public Works, Bill Payne
Interim Deputy Administrator of Public Works, Donald Stone
Interim Deputy Administrator of Transportation in Public Works, Blythe Bailey
Interim Deputy Administrator of Parks & Outdoors, Jason McKinney
Interim Chief Information Technology Officer, Brent Messer
Interim Deputy Chief Information Technology Officer, Koren Sapp
Interim Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer, Shea Jefferson
Interim Deputy Administrator of City Planning, Eric Asboe
Interim Administrator of Community Development, Tony Sammons
Interim Director of RPA, Karen Rennich (effective 7/15)

Beverly Moultrie, who had headed city Human Resources, was not retained. There was an unfavorable audit of her operation, saying she had bypassed procedures to give raises to certain employees. It said she was not cooperative with the audit investigation.