Marc Elrich, the county executive, said Charles Bailey’s confirmation by the county council seemed unlikely.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich withdrew his support Tuesday for Charles Bailey to be the county’s next fire chief.
Bailey, a 30-plus-year veteran of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, would have been the county’s first Black fire chief., but Bailey had yet to be confirmed by the 11-member Montgomery County Council. “Following consultation with members of the County Council, a pathway forward … was not deemed feasible,” an Elrich spokesman said in a statement.The county executive “appreciates Division Chief Bailey’s decades of service to the residents of Montgomery County and continued commitment” to the Fire and Rescue Service, according to Elrich spokesman Scott Peterson.Bailey heads the service’s operations division. He declined to immediately comment on Elrich’s announcement.
The county executive is evaluating alternative candidates, said Peterson, and will name a new nominee at some point.. They said in a statement earlier that they would be “working with the County Council during its confirmation process to make sure they have all of the information to make an informed decision.”
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