By GAGE WILSON
Glasgow News 1
At the Monday Cave City Council meeting, council members Beverley Ford and Brandon Wright suggested the procedure for removing another council member should begin.
Council member Ashlyn Hudson, who was elected to her post in November 2022, was absent from the meeting, and Ford said no one had had contact with her.
“The problem is she won’t answer her text, she won’t answer her calls from me or the mayor or anybody else, and the council only has a certain amount of time to appoint someone else,” Ford said during the meeting. She also said Hudson no longer lived within the city’s limits.
Hudson could not be reached for comment.
“I had sent her a text around three weeks ago with information I gave out to all council members,” Cave City Mayor Dwayne Hatcher said Tuesday. “She responded saying she would be in ‘that week’ and that was the last time I’ve heard from her, and I don’t have any further comment at this time.”
For a sitting council member to be removed, there is a lengthy process that the other members of the council will need to execute.
City Attorney Bobby Richardson explained the process at the meeting. “… The council asks Hudson to step down voluntarily. If the council goes forward with removing her, a motion would have to be made to allow me to contact the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office to get a court declaration to remove Hudson from the council due to the qualification to sit on the council,” he said.
The council has set a tentative special meeting set for June 27 to review the budget.
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