According to the agenda, which was posted Wednesday evening, a proposed executive session was planned to take action on the "employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, or resignation of Charles Day."
Proposed executive sessions were also planned to "discuss and take action on the temporary employment" of a town administrator and a code enforcement officer, according to the meeting agenda.
Day, who has been the town's longtime code enforcement officer, was given the added duties of interim town administrator in May after the town council fired the former administrator, James Webb.
Webb, who was formerly the town clerk and treasurer, was acting as the town's assistant administrator when the council promoted him in June 2006. Before Webb, the town had been without an official town administrator since the previous veteran administrator, David Redden, was fired in late February 2006, weeks after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) converged on Roland and Moffett for an investigation. Redden was later convicted in federal court for laundering nearly $300,000 in town money.
Since Redden's and Webb's firings, the town has endured another investigation - this time by the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office into allegations of inappropriate sexual contact between Roland city employees and a former prisoner.
The case has been submitted to the Sequoyah County District Attorney's Office for review. The district attorney's office will determine if any or what charges will be filed.
On Aug. 14, Sheriff Johnny Philpot's office arrived at several Roland town offices to serve a search warrant as part of the investigation. During the search of the offices, Philpot told Your TIMES that his office was trying to achieve one of two objectives - find out if there was wrongdoing or find out if there wasn't.
Those accused are city employees, whose identities have not been revealed. One employee was reportedly on voluntary administrative leave after the his office was searched by the sheriff's office.
The investigation by Philpot's office started earlier this month after an inmate at the Sequoyah County Jail in Sallisaw, who was at one time housed at the Roland jail, claimed that Roland employees and another female inmate had inappropriate sexual contact. Roland Police Chief Tommy Sessums requested that Philpot's office investigate.
Kyle Waters, assistant district attorney, said Thursday that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation indicated it would be another two weeks before their testing on seized items was complete. No charges have been filed in the case.
A complete news report about the special Friday night town council meeting will be in the next edition of Your TIMES.
