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MOHAVE COUNTY — The recruitment and selection of the next Mohave County Manager has been shrouded in confidentiality and quiet. And it’s been crickets from Human Resources and county officials since the Board, without public discussion, selected former Erie County, Pennsylvania Executive Brenton Davis Monday.
Supervisor Sonny Borrelli was asked Friday morning if Davis accepted the county employment offer by Thursday’s deadline.
“I don’t know. We’re going to have an executive session Monday (Jan. 12) to find out what’s going on,” Borrelli said. “We have to meet to see if we want to accept his offer or if we say ‘thanks but no thanks, we’re going with somebody else.”
Additional information regarding Davis comes from supervisor Ron Gould.
“He made a counter-offer and we’ll probably reject it, Gould said. “It’s about money apparently, so I’m assuming he has something else going. Those people always have several lines in the water.”
Gould said he never thought his meeting motion to pick Davis would pass in the first place.
“I thought there were only two votes for Davis,” Gould said. “I expected that to be defeated and then we would move the other guy.”
Gould believes the Board next Monday will move on to another candidate in the finalist pool.
“I’m thinking from sensing the room that the #2 guy will get moved and we’ll make an offer to him,” Gould said, declining to identify that applicant. “Not yet. I don’t want to get out in front of the board.”
