City Council member Dianne Bellamy-Small, majority of one on the council’s search committee:
Bellamy-Small kept saying, “You can have a minority opinion,” and “So no other opinion is necessary,” and “So my call to Fayetteville is wasted.” She repeated these messages over and over despite the fact that the rest of the committee had heard what she had to say, but disagreed with her on a fundamental premise. The other three did not want a firm that had worked for the city, Bellamy-Small did. The best part of the meeting was when Bellamy-Small sat at the table and talked on her cell phone.
….Bellamy-Small behaved just like she does at City Council meetings. She talked a lot, repeating the same things over and over again, and when anyone didn’t agree with her she accused them of not being interested in minorities.
All this, only to hire interim City Manager Bob Morgan.
