{"id":388469,"date":"2026-09-02T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:42:08","slug":"tallahassee-commissioners-have-chosen-a-new-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388469\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee commissioners have chosen a new city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallahassee City Commission is going with an internal hire to be the next city manager.<\/p>\n<p>The commission voted 3-2 today to offer the job to Karen Jumonville, one of Tallahassee&#8217;s assistant city managers, after presentations from three finalists for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners Jack Porter and Jeremy Matlow opposed the vote, saying the process was rushed and could create instability if a new commission elected during the November elections wants a different candidate. The other commissioners say Jumonville\u2019s more than 25 years with the City gives her the knowledge to do the job well as outgoing City Manager Reese Goad retires.<\/p>\n<p>They will have final ratification of Jumonville\u2019s hiring, including contract details, during the city commission meeting on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee City Commission is going with an internal hire to be the next city manager. The commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-388469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}