The Carthage City Council appointed Todd Moore, an attorney from Brentwood, Tennessee, to replace outgoing city attorney David Bass.
The Carthage City Council selected a new city attorney during a special-called meeting on the evening of Thursday, March 21, 2019.
The need to appoint a new city attorney arose after current city attorney David Bass announced his resignation during the March meeting of the council. Bass has served as the Carthage City Attorney for over 20 years.
Bass will continue acting as city attorney until April 1, 2019.
During the special-called meeting, three candidates—all from outside of Smith County—interviewed for the city attorney position.
Mr. Jim Judkins, Mr. Todd Moore, and Mr. Tom Walsh all addressed the council and then fielded questions from council members and the mayor.
After the interviews were conducted, the council voted 4:1 to appoint Todd Moore as the new city attorney.
Todd Moore has spent over 25 years counseling individuals, businesses and local governments and trying cases involving land use, zoning, eminent domain, corporate formation and dissolution, contracts, risk management, asset protection, wills, trusts, and estate planning matters.
Todd has several clients that he has advised for many years including the municipalities of Thompson’s Station, Chapel Hill, and Brentwood, Tennessee, each of which he has represented for over a decade. Todd has also worked with dozens of local businesses and hundreds of individuals and families since founding his private practice in Williamson County in 2000.
Todd grew up in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and is a graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis (B.A. History, 1989), and the University of Tennessee College of Law (J.D., 1992). He lives in Brentwood with his wife Christie and their two children, Jim and Mollie.
Mr. Moore requested that Mr. Bass stay on until the end of the month so that the two attorneys could work together to help Mr. Moore familiarize himself with the working of the city and the issues it is dealing with.
Mr. Moore will take over for Mr. Bass on April 1, 2019.
During the meeting, the council also voted 4:1 to allow Mr. Les Fisher to purchase a new utility truck for the city Public Works department.
The council also voted to opt-in to Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) for retired employees after determining that no liability or cost would fall to the city and the council could opt-out at a later date if they so desired.
You can watch the full special-called meeting of the Carthage City Council below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7q7nqYqgE
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