Granville manager, not McNeill, looks to be Forsyth's choice
We'll have this brief in the paper tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend, everybody.
Forsyth County commissioners are ready to name a new county manager, and it isn't interim Guilford County manager David McNeill.
Forsyth commissioners are "focusing their search" to Granville County Manager J. Dudley Watts, according to a news release issued Friday. Longtime chief executive Graham Pervier announced earlier this year that he was retiring Oct. 1.
Watts has the commissioners' backing and should be appointed July 24, commissioner David Plyler said Friday.
McNeill was named Guilford's interim manager after Guilford commissioners fired Willie Best June 29. Some of Best's supporters on the board claimed he was ousted to keep McNeill, then Best’s deputy, from leaving to take the Forsyth job, among other reasons.
McNeill interviewed for the Forsyth post but has declined to comment on it publicly.
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