Council expected to declare seat vacant at next meeting, begin search for successor for term ending 2025
Longtime Greensboro City Council member Scott Naylor has resigned from the city’s governing body, leaving a vacancy for the council’s District 3 seat.
There was no quorum for the council’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday night, March 14, as, in addition to Naylor’s departure, Mayor J.B. Washington and Councilmember Bobbie Curtis had both announced they would be absent that evening. The next scheduled meeting of the council will be Tuesday night, March 28.
City Clerk Lorrie Cook said Naylor informed his colleagues on the council after the close of their last meeting, Feb. 28, that he would be resigning the position he has held for many years. Naylor had composed a letter of resignation, which was an item on the council’s Tuesday night agenda. Since that meeting ended up not being held, the council will have to wait until its next meeting to accept Naylor’s resignation and declare his District 3 seat vacant.
The Code of Alabama stipulates that, when a vacancy occurs for a city council position in a municipality the size of Greensboro, the city council and mayor may vote to appoint a replacement to fill the vacancy “at the next regular meeting or any subsequent meeting of the council.” The replacement will fill the remainder of the unexpired term, which in this case lasts until 2025.
District 3 includes much of downtown Greensboro, from Main Street south to State Street. The city’s districts were re-drawn and adopted by the council in late 2022.
Naylor’s departure leaves Curtis as the council’s most senior member.
