{"id":395255,"date":"2026-09-09T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:18:12","slug":"karen-jumonville-approved-as-tallahassee-city-manager-in-split-commission-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395255\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Jumonville approved as Tallahassee city manager in split commission vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Karen Jumonville is officially the City of Tallahassee&#8217;s next<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/downtown-tallahassee\/tallahassee-city-manager-finalists-share-their-visions-with-residents-at-community-meet-and-greet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> city manager<\/a> after commissioners confirmed her in a split vote Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Her employment agreement, negotiated with Mayor John Dailey, includes a five-year contract, a $317,000 salary and a $1,000 car allowance. The contract also requires a supermajority \u2014 or two-thirds of the commission \u2014 to vote in favor of termination if the commission seeks to remove her.<\/p>\n<p>The contract ratification drew criticism from some residents, who said the decision was premature, did not allow for much public input, and that the salary is too high.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey addressed concerns about the salary and the selection process during and before the meeting, saying Jumonville&#8217;s salary is competitive and the same as what outgoing City Manager Reese Goad would have received.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of my job as the mayor outgoing of the city of Tallahassee is to make sure that I lead this city as an institution in the best possible shape,&#8221; Dailey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an incredible budget that&#8217;s being proposed, and I&#8217;m going to leave it financially sound,&#8221; Dailey said.<\/p>\n<p>Jumonville will begin her duties on October 1st.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a> and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Karen Jumonville is officially the City of Tallahassee&#8217;s next city manager after commissioners confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,157634,157633,155301,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-395255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-approved","tag-city-managr","tag-karen-jumonville","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395255","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=395255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}