ZAVALLA, TX (KTRE) -
The Zavalla City Council reinstated
Joey Courtney as the town's police chief Monday.
The move comes on the heels of Mayor Jim Davis' decision
to demote Courtney in June and is the latest in a series of shakeups at Zavalla's
top cop position.
"Courtney and his attorney showed up at Monday's
city council meeting planning to file an employee grievance during executive
session," Bruce Milstead, the Huntington city manager and Zavalla's former
municipal judge, said. "It never got that far because the city council reinstated him
during open session."
Milstead said he attended Monday's city council
meeting to show his support for Courtney, whom he described as a friend.
City officials would not say whether Jim Hodges, the
interim police chief, resigned or was fired from his position. When asked why
the city council reinstated Courtney, Hodges again declined to comment.
In June, Davis demoted Courtney, stating that it was
because of necessary improvements that needed to be made in the Zavalla Police
Department. A week later, Davis named
Jim Hodges the town's interim police chief. City officials fired Hodges from
that position in July 2011 and named Courtney, who had served with the Zavalla
Police Department for eight years as a lieutenant, as his replacement that
August.
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