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Changes at Chatham Area Transit continued this week as the vice chair of the board, Clinton Edminster, was voted out during the board's monthly meeting. Edminster had served as vice chair for about nine months. He remains on the board as a member. Chatham County Commissioner Helen Stone, who was nominated by Michael O'Halloran, was selected to replace Edminster by a 6-3 vote.  Edminster has been an outspoken critic of the CAT board's handling of former CEO and executive director Bacarra Mauldin's termination earlier this year. He was one of three board members to vote against the firing ...

“And it is also going to allow the CAT organization to go forward in an orderly manner.” Mauldin was fired by the board on Jan. 26 in a 6-3 vote. Savannah Alderman Detric Leggett, Gertrude Robinson and Clinton Edminster voted against the termination. The six who voted to fire Mauldin were Board Chairman Deidrick Cody, former Board Chair Michael O'Halloran, former Chatham Commissioner Tabitha Odell and Chatham Commissioners Kenneth Adams, Bobby Lockett and Helen Stone. The whistleblower violation allegations stem from Mauldin's findings related to a legal services request for proposals (RF...

Ahead of a scheduled Friday Superior Court hearing, an attorney for Chatham Area Transit has filed a motion seeking to disqualify the attorney and law firm representing former CAT CEO and executive director Bacarra Mauldin. The motion also asks the court to consider tossing Mauldin’s request to be reinstated through a motion for preliminary injunction.  Filed Wednesday night by attorney John Bennett with Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP, the motion alleges that representatives from Buckley Beal LLP, which Mauldin has retained for counsel, have been communicating with CAT board of directors Vice ...

Chatham Area Transit has enlisted the help of an Atlanta-based public relations and strategy firm to manage the fallout from last month's abrupt termination of former CEO Bacarra Mauldin.  Detailed during Tuesday’s CAT authority board meeting, the agency has contracted with Ohio River South for $9,000 a month to provide crisis management services. The company will also provide other media services such as drafting press releases, responding to inbound requests for information and researching requests for information and public records. The contract, which was posted online by the board's V...

Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching "Savannah's Town Square." Chatham Commission Chairman Chester Ellis is in midst of his first leadership test, and he's proving woefully under-prepared. Last Friday's commission meeting, just the second of his tenure as chairman, devolved into a kangaroo court, with Ellis quasi-bullying his fellow commissioners over an unorthodox appointment of a forme...