Sups Meeting

There is a change at the head of the table, Harry Sanders resigns as president of the lowndes county board of supervisors this morning.

Lowndes county's board of supervisors meetings don't normally draw much attention.

That was not the case this morning..

There is a change at the head of the table..

Harry sanders resigns as president of the lowndes county board of supervisors this morning, but he that's as far as he will go..

Our cash matlock joins us live with more on the story.

Cash?

Scott, some fellow supervisors say harry sanders stepping down as board president is ... not enough.

They say conducting county business will be almost impossible with sanders still in the room.

"therefore i submit my resignation as board president immediately, and i intend to represent the people of district one."

Sanders opened tuesday's board meeting with this short message before swapping seats with former vice president of the board and district 3 supervisor, john holliman.

Soon after, the floor opened for discussion.

"i too believe harry should resign from his position on the board.

His comments in the paper were hurtful to a lot of people."

District 2 supervisor trip hairston doubling back on a statement he gave to wcbi just last week in favor of sanders remaining on the board... fellow supervisor leroy brooks calling it a pleasant surprise.

"the one thing that made me feel good is that trip hairston voted with us to call for his resignation."

Hairston, brooks, and supervisor jeff smith all voted for sanders to remove himself from the board completely.

They say stepping down as president will not be enough.

"please sir, i'm asking you in the name of jesus to resign from this board."

"do the right thing now.

You know what the right thing is.

The right thing is for you to remove yourself from this situation so this county can heal and go forward."

Supervisor jeff smith says it will be difficult to handle county business until this issue is resolved.

"i expected us to come up here, request harry to resign from the board... we didn't get that committment today, but we got a committment from the people that we're not going to go away."

Supervisors voted 3 -2 on the resolution asking sanders to resign from the board.

Nearly 150 local business owners have signed a letter authored by the link, the chamber of commerce and the trust urging sanders to resign from the board, citing economic damage to the future of lowndes county if he remains.