{"id":403020,"date":"2026-09-17T23:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:56:22","slug":"tallahassees-new-city-manager-hiring-process-and-contract-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee&#8217;s new city manager hiring process and contract controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Manager of Tallahassee is an unelected position that is appointed by the city commission. With the retirement of current manager, Reece Goad, a search was launched by an independent civil hiring firm to find his replacement. The decision to hire a new City Manager prior to the November elections this fall caused a lot of debate on the city commission, and with campaigns currently being run \u2013 a lot of controversial statements. The new manager was hired via a 3-2 vote and was given a contract with a 6-figure salary, stirring up a new series of debates. Gina Jordan sits down with Tristan Wood to discuss the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Manager of Tallahassee is an unelected position that is appointed by the city commission. With the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-403020","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\/403020","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=403020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}