The Chillicothe City Council approved the employment of a new administrative assistant and promoted a longtime employee in the street department to the rank of assistant superintendent in executive session Monday night following the regular meeting.
Heather Gates was recommended by Clerk Roze Frampton to the members of the city council for the position of administrative assistant to the city clerk, mayor and city administrator. Ms. Gates was among the three finalists of over 40 applications for the position and was unanimously approved by four members of the city council (Councilman-at-Large David Moore) was not present for Monday night’s session).
Ms. Gates has been working at Hedrick Family Care at HMC in a part-time position and prior to that was employed by the Constitution-Tribune as bookkeeper and HR person and she had also spent 11 years at Investors Community Bank. She replaces Tammy Midgyett who recently resigned the same city position to accept a job the PATCH program at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.
Jeff Gillespie, a 16-year veteran of the Chillicothe Street Department, has been promoted to assistant street superintendent following the recommendation by Street Commissioner Barry Arthur and a unanimous 4-0 vote by members of the city council.
Gillespie has been serving as a foreman for the street department for the past eight years. Gillespie fills the vacancy of Assistant Sreet Commissioner that had been vacant for nearly a year following the retirement of Leroy Snidow. Gillespie will begin his new duties, effective April 1, 2017.
