Weather Briefing for Wednesday, October 09, 2024 Macon County Commissioners Select Warren Cabe as Interim County Manager

It was another late night covering a local government meeting, so this forecast will be a bit shorter than usual.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

Expect mostly clear skies and generally below-normal temperatures through Friday. Hurricane Milton moves across central Florida Wednesday night and Thursday bringing some cloud cover and breezy wind to our area, but no rain is expected.

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October 2024 County Commissioner Meeting (RAW VIDEO)



The above video is a raw video and incomplete due to difficulty in getting the streaming camera to start streaming; it will be replaced with an edited version from another camera in the coming days.

The Board of County Commissioners said their farewells to County Manager Derek Roland and recognized him for his years of service to the county.

Commissioners Recognize the Service of Derek Roland



The Macon County Board of Commissioners selected Emergency Management Director Warren Cabe as the interim County Manager while they interview applicants who are seeking to be the new county manager. Cabe will start at a little over $154,000 a year and previously served the Town of Franklin as Fire Chief and as Town Manager. 

One person was asked to leave the meeting by Chairman Gary Shield after an outburst, then banned from attending further meetings by Chairman Gary Shields as she continued with her outburst and cursed at Commissioner John Shearl on her way out of the boardroom.

• Mountain Finding Pledges $35,000 to local food pantry to help fight food insecurity [LINK]

GENERAL FORECAST 

 (since this is a quick forecast meant to cover the whole county, bear in mind that higher elevations may experience cooler temperatures than this and the lower elevations may experience higher temperatures than those in the forecast)

.TODAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph.

.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph.

.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.

.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.

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Macon County Board of Commissioners - July 2021 Clay-Macon Hazard Mitigation Plan (2021 Update)

Here is a segment from the July 2021 regular meeting of the Macon County Board of Commissioners. More articles will be published as they are completed. The full meeting can be seen at this link.

This segment is a request for approval of the Clay-Macon Hazard Mitigation Plan made by Warren Cabe, the Macon County Emergency Management Director. Such a plan is required by the federal government in order to be eleigible for fedral disaster funding. Commissioners voted 5-0 in favor.

It lasted 3 minutes and 42 seconds. Additional information can be found on the FEMA webpage at Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants.

Update to the Clay-Macon Hazard Mitigation Plan

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Macon County Emergency Mangement Rescinds Emergency Regulations Effective May 8, 2020

Warren Cabe, the Emergency Management Director is rescinding the emergency regulations put in place due to the COVID-19 Pandemic effective at 5:00pm on May 8th, 2020. Copies of the press release and revocation are embedded below in the interest in transparency.

Press Release

Press Release-Macon-April 2... by Bobby Coggins on Scribd

Revocation of Emergency Regulations

Revocation of Emergency Reg... by Bobby Coggins on Scribd

Published at 11:28am on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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Franklin Board of Aldermen Names Summer Woodard Interim Town Manager

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen held a special called meeting to select an Interim Town Manager to replace the resigning Warren Cabe, who is returning to the Emergency Services Department to replace the outgoing Director David Key, who replaced Warren Cabe when he resigned last year to take the Town Manager's position with the Town of Franklin after the retirement of Sam Greenwood..

The meeting lasted three and half minutes and the video is below, followed by a press release from he Town of Franklin that gives some background on the new Interim Town Manager.




PRESS RELEASE

TOWN OF FRANKLIN
PO BOX 1479 FRANKLIN, NC 28744
(828) 524-2516


Summer Woodard, Assistant tot he Town Manager for the Town of Franklin, was named Interim Town Manager by the Franklin Board of Aldermen at a special called meeting Monday, April 28. Woodard was appointed to the position following the resignation of Warren Cabe, who will be rejoining Macon County Government's Emergency Services May2.

Woodard, a native of Franklin, is a 2004 graduate of Franklin High School. She graduated Western Carolina University in 2008 with a BA in History and Political Science. At WCU, Woodard was a member of the WCU Honors College. Following her undergraduate program at WCU, she attended WCU graduate school in 2008 earning a Masters Degree in Public Administration in 2010. As part of her MA program she had to complete a 300 hour internship program which she accomplished at the Town of Franklin.

Following graduation from WCU, Woodard became a part-time employee of the town working in customer service. In December 2010 she was offered the full-time position of Assistant to the Town Manager.

She completed the Municipal Administration Course of the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012.

In 2013 Woodard assumed the dual roles as Assistant to the Town Manager and Human Resources Officer.

She is active in other government functions serving on the Franklin Tourism development Authority, Macon County's Tourism Development Commission, Macon County Transit Board, Macon County Care Network Board, Town of Franklin Planning Board and the Board of Adjustment.

She will begin her new duties on May 2.

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