Ron Goulart, Fort Oglethorpe city manager
David Eubanks
Jeff Long is sworn in to the Catoosa County Board of Commissioners District 1 seat during the swearing in of elected officials ceremony, held in the Catoosa County Superior Court in Ringgold, Ga.F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives.
Fort Oglethorpe may prove him wrong.
The three city employees who left on March 22 in what’s been described as a “coup” got their jobs back Monday night — thanks to a new City Council that met for the first time.
As a standing-room-only crowd waited, council members went into closed session and then emerged and voted unanimously to reinstate City Manager Ron Goulart, who was forced to resign some 10 months earlier.
“I do appreciate it,” said Goulart, who got a brief standing ovation. “Thank you very much for having confidence in me.”