Several candidates vying for county manager position

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Members of the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners are in the process of conducting telephone interviews of possibly as many as six of 21 individuals who applied for the county manager position. The three top candidates on the short list, as recommended by the Florida Association of County Managers (FACM), which guided the commission through the selection process and vetted the 21 people who applied for the job, are Douglas G. Baber, Richard J. Re