• 50°
Hartselle Enquirer

City interviews 3 candidates for public works director

The Hartselle Personnel Board has interviewed three candidates for the vacant public works director position.

The board, along with Mayor Don Hall and city council members, conducted interviews with Tommy Halbrooks and Mark Mizell Thursday night and Daxton Maze on Tuesday night.

Mayor Don Hall said he was pleased with the group of candidates.

“I think we have a three strong candidates for this position,” Hall said. “I think the personnel board will have a very difficult decision to make.”

While the interviews were completed before the council meeting Tuesday night, Hall didn’t expect to make a recommendation until the first council meeting in December.

Halbrooks most recently ran against Randy Vest for the Morgan County Commission in 2014. He is graduate of Brewer High School and a magna cum laude graduate of Athens State University with a degree in business. He has worked in a number of management positions during his work career.

Mizell is currently the training coordinator at Ascend Performance Materials. He has previously served on the Hartselle City Council and currently serves as the president of Hartselle Dixie Youth Baseball. He chose not to run in 2012 after his family bought a house outside the city limits.

Maze is a civil engineer at the U.S. Army Garrison. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and has served on the Hartselle Utilities Board.

Of the three candidates, Maze is the only one who currently lives inside the city limits. Mizell and Halbrooks both live outside the city limits but are less than 10 minutes away from downtown Hartselle.

If Halbrooks or Mizell were selected, the job description for the public works director states that the he or she must move inside the city limits within a year of being hired.

Hall said he wasn’t sure if the city council could relax that restriction for candidates who live outside the city.

“We’d have to ask (city attorney) Larry Madison for clarification on that,” Hall said.

At a Glance

PowerGrid Services in Hartselle evacuated for bomb threat

Morgan County

20 under 40: Trey Chowning

Falkville

20 under 40: TJ Holmes

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Spencer Bell

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Shelby Keenum

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Rachel Howard

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Mary Virgina Halbrooks

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Maggie McKelvey

Decatur

20 under 40: Maegan Jones

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Lindsey Tapscott

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

‘He lets us have sex’: More details emerge on Hartselle man accused of child exploitation 

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

Hartselle church creates Easter-themed escape rooms 

Danville

Family tradition: State livestock show legacy spans generations

Editor's picks

Baseball for Beau: More than $8k raised for scholarship named after Hartselle child  

Falkville

20 under 40: Lela Weeks

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Kalleigh Thomas

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

20 under 40: Jaime Hatcher

Hartselle

Veteran Hartselle firefighter charged with possessing child porn

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

Cerrowire expansion named finalist in Business Alabama Awards  

At a Glance

Work begins on repairing two bridges over I-65 in Morgan County in coming weeks

At a Glance

Tickets for Morgan County Sports Hall of Fame banquet available

Falkville

Morgan County volunteers celebrated at annual fire department banquet 

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

Man jailed for stealing car from jail after earlier release 

FRONT PAGE FEATURED

Police: Hartselle man encouraged children to have sex inside his apartment

x