{"id":794276,"date":"2019-06-09T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=794276"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:49:10","slug":"south-carolina-county-names-new-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=794276","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Administrator Headed to South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/06\/LEonardo-e1560114953684-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-794289\" \/>COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Richland County, South Carolina has a new administrator in place &#8212; and he&#8217;s headed there from Tyler, according to the newspaper The State. Richland County in a news release Friday announced the hiring of Leonardo Brown. He is scheduled to start July 15. Brown has served as Smith County administrator for over five years. The Shreveport, Louisiana native is also Smith County&#8217;s director of human resources and was an area manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from LSU-Shreveport. The South Carolina position has been vacant since April 2018, when the council voted to fire former administrator Gerald Seals.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Brown was one of four finalists for the job announced by Richland County last month, three of whom are currently county administrators somewhere else. Brown has experience managing a road program. In 2017, Smith County voters approved a $39.5 million bond package, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph, part of Smith County&#8217;s $100 million long-range road plan. Richland County is South Carolina&#8217;s second-largest county, with more than 400,000 residents, and has a general operating budget of $164 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Richland County, South Carolina has a new administrator in place &#8212; and he&#8217;s headed there from Tyler, according to the newspaper The State. Richland County in a news release Friday announced the hiring of Leonardo Brown. He is scheduled to start July 15. Brown has served as Smith County administrator for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=794276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Administrator Headed to South Carolina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":794289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 18:03:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794450,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794276\/revisions\/794450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}