In a special called meeting Monday, April 17 of the Jonesboro City Council, City Manager Ricky Clark announced his resignation and on the same evening, the Forest Park City Council named him as the sole finalist for the same position there.
“It has been an honor of my life to serve here,” Clark said during the called meeting. “This resignation was not one that was easy for here but one of that things that I can say is that Jonesboro has helped catapult my career and for that I will be forever be grateful. We’ve done some amazing work here and the work continues…thank you for this opportunity.”
During the Forest Park meeting, the Council approved the termination of City Manager Marc-Antonie Cooper and the appointment of James Shelby as interim city manager. The Council then approved Clark as the sole finalist for the position.
“I support Ricky Clark,” Forest Park City Council member Latresa Akins-Wells said. “I know the vision that we have for the city of Forest Park and I don’t think we could choose a better city manager.”
Clark is a Griffin native and before coming to Jonesboro was an assistant to the county manager in Spalding County.
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