City Manager Responds after Cemetery Workers Quit

KILGORE — Kilgore City Manager Scott Sellers responds after the city’s entire cemetery department resigns. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Sellers said the resignations caught him and public works director Seth Sorensen off guard. Sellers attributed the employees’ dissatisfaction to an unfortunate reaction to changes he said he was hired to make. Sellers has been on the job ten months, and he brought Sorenson in four months ago. Earlier, the workers said their department was merged with several others in the city. The workers say that means less time for them to maintain and care for the city’s three cemeteries, where they take pride in working. Cemetery supervisor David Bond says the philosophy of the new city leaders led to the resignations, though Bond says he holds “no ill will” towards either Sellers or Sorenson.