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The 'fixer-upper': County Manager, former Mayor Tony Petelos ready to retire after 35 years of public service


The ‘fixer-upper’: County Manager, former Mayor Tony Petelos ready to retire after 35 years of public service
Photo by Erin Nelson.
Jefferson County Manager Tony Petelos at the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Birmingham. Petelos is retiring after 35 years of public service in the Birmingham-Hoover area.
When Tony Petelos left the Hoover mayor’s job to become Jefferson County’s first county manager in 2011, a lot of people told him he was crazy.
Hoover was considered a “happening” city where things were running smoothly, and Jefferson County’s government was in disarray, facing bankruptcy and still lacking public trust after 22 county officials had gone to prison for corruption in the preceding years. ....

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Tony Petelos announces plans to retire as Jefferson County Manager/CEO


By Barnett Wright
Jefferson County Manager and CEO, Tony Petelos, on Tuesday announced his retirement.
Petelos was appointed as the first person to hold the position on Oct. 1, 2011. He made the announcement at the end of the Commission’s Committee of the Whole meeting inside the downtown Courthouse.  
“The county is in better, better shape today than it’s been in many, many years,” said Petelos, 67, after his announcement, with his wife Teresa by his side. 
A national search will be conducted to fill the position. Petelos has spent more than 34 years in public service including the state legislature, the Alabama Department of Human Resources, and two terms as Mayor of Hoover.  ....

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Federal Judge Ends 38-Year-Old Consent Decree in Jefferson County (Ala.)


The Birmingham Times 
After nearly four decades under federal supervision for discriminatory hiring practices, Jefferson County today was released from one of the longest serving consent decrees in the country. 
In a nine-page order, U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith terminated a 38-year-old consent decree writing that the county has “demonstrated its ability and commitment to function in compliance with federal law, absent judicial supervision.”
The consent decree, which stemmed from a 1975-era lawsuit that claimed Jefferson County was discriminatory in hiring practices of Blacks and women, was entered on Dec. 29, 1982 and has involved tens of millions in legal fees, five years with a court appointed receivership and two years with a monitor. ....

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