Nothing says “Bring in the New Year!” like a good dose of oath-giving and contract renewals.

On Monday evening, Decatur’s City Commission will be dealing with both, performing many of the annual housekeeping items that define the structure of our city’s inner circle for the coming year.

Among items on Monday’s agenda (pdf), oaths of office will be given to incoming city commissioner Patti Garrett and reelected commissioner Fred Boykin and the commission will elect its mayor and mayor pro-tem from amongst its own ranks.  And if all goes according to plan, the city will reappoint Bryan Downs of Wilson, Morton and Downs LLC as the city attorney and reappoint all existing municipal court judges.

The first commission meeting of the year also means renewal of the city manager’s contract.

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