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Another Columbia city official is leaving.
The city is dissolving JJ Musgrove’s deputy city manager position, effective at 5 p.m. Friday. Columbia still has one other deputy city manager.
Musgrove, who started in that job in April 2017, will get three months of severance pay. He oversaw the departments of Information Technology, Law, Parks and Recreation, Human Resources, and Public Health and Human Services. They will all now report directly to interim city manager John Glascock.
“Hard decisions need to be made as the City is committed to running as efficiently as possible in all departments. I’m setting the example by starting with the City Manager’s Office,” Glascock said in a press release Friday. “However, we’re still dedicated to providing a high level of service to our community.”
The move comes one day after Columbia police chief Ken Burton’s resignation became official. The search is on for a new city manager too, after Mike Matthes resigned from his post in November.
(This story was last updated at 9:40 a.m. Friday.)
