Hamilton County officials took no action Thursday to investigate e-mails sent by a public works superintendent who has admitted running a private business on work time.
County Attorney Rheubin Taylor said at a County Commission workshop that he would brief the county committee chairmen on the county’s personnel policy.
But he said the county’s Ethics Committee couldn’t be convened to look into the actions of Alan Knowles unless a formal complaint is filed.
County Mayor Claude Ramsey said he still has not looked at e-mails Knowles sent regarding the operation of his private Christian concert promotions business, Dove Ministries Inc., on county time and using a county e-mail account and computer.
Some of those e-mails were to or from Alan Knowles’ brother, Finley Knowles, a DMI board member and chief administrator of the Hamilton County Clerk’s Office, and Michael Clark, records and archive clerk in the clerk’s office and who did some work for DMI.