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Augusta Commission taps Takiyah A. Douse as interim administrator

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The Augusta Commission met in executive session on Feb. 22 and later voted in public unanimously to appoint Takiyah A. Douse, the longtime director of Central Services, as interim county administrator.

Commissioners agreed to set Douse’s salary at $190,000 with a $600 automobile allowance, which...

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9 COMMENTS

  1. She seems to have done a good job since she started. Give a homegrown talent a chance. I would say with her years of experience with this government, she would be the much better choice than Odie’s choices.

  2. Corruption and incompetence rule the day;
    OH boy. This is the lady I caught in an outright lie when I dealt with her back during the film office days. This was when the film rules that we were promised would not happen, were put in without any local input.
    Ms. Douse said SHE wrote the guidelines and they were complied from other cities, I asked her to provide those notes, she could not. I did a FOIA to get the documents, and low-and-behold, they did not exist because Douse lied to me.
    Jennifer Bowen at the CVB wrote the film rules (which she was woefully unqualified to do) and gave them to Douse. I already knew that when I asked the question.
    So it is the same as turning in someone else’s work as your own, and then when caught, lying about it. I expect it form prep-school boys on Algebra homework, not from highly paid bureaucrats who has been paid a large salary to actually DO the work, not lie about it like a child caught.
    So this Douse lady lied to me in writing, LITERALLY (pun intended)
    I don’t know her personally, I bet she’s a great lady, but I must say I was a bit surprised when I saw this, then I thought about who was picking her.
    I’ll just say that she was exceptionally typical bureaucrat in RC and will fit right in with the current crop of “leaders” we have down there.
    If this is an indicator of where the position is headed, then the commission is moving away form competent management and towards more Hardie Davis style governance.

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