A committee meeting of the Crowley City Council ended with a physical confrontation Wednesday night between two council members after an argument broke out concerning the city’s finances.
Crowley Council Members Almost Physically Fight
The final item on the agenda for a committee of the Crowley City Council Wednesday caused the meeting to devolve into an argument between two aldermen.
Footage from YouTube showed Alderman Brad Core approaching Alderman Jeff Cavell as the two were heatedly debating. Core waved his finger in the face of Cavell, at which point Cavell slapped Core s hand away. It didn t dissolve into a physical fight as members of the Crowley Police Department ended up separating the two men.
So, what started all of this? It all stems from whether or not the accounting firm of Kolder, Slaven & Company was going to get the job of auditing. There was a question about whether or not something like this should be done under a Request for Proposal, but committee members said no . Then Alderman Cavell, chair of the committee, made a claim that having to have a Certified Public Accountant on staff was basically extortion to which Core objected. Cavell
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