OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – On Monday, the Board of Oklahoma County Commissioners appointed former FEMA and ODOC director, Joe Allbaugh, to a vacant spot on the county’s jail belief. The belief additionally met and elected a brand new chair following the resignation of former belief chair Tricia Everest.
“There was one member of the jail belief that requested me why the frenzy, why are you shifting into this so shortly,” Commissioner Carrie Blumert, District 1, stated.
Blumert is speaking concerning the BOCC vote on Monday morning to fill a vacant spot on the county’s jail belief.
They finally voted 2-1 to nominate Joe Allbaugh to the place.
Allbaugh served as director of the Oklahoma Division of Corrections from 2016 till he resigned in 2019.
Allbaugh additionally beforehand labored as chief of employees for then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush and later served as director of the Federal Emergency Administration Company after Bush was elected president.
Allbaugh replaces former belief member Tricia Everest, who resigned to turn out to be Gov. Kevin Stitt’s secretary of public security.
“My no vote was not in opposition to Mr. Allbaugh personally. I’ve by no means spoken to him, however I did really feel like we must always have spent some extra time candidates, a number of names, their background,” Blumert stated.
“He’s essentially the most certified individual that we might probably get. He’s extra certified than any of us on the belief,” Commissioner Kevin Calvey, District 3, stated.
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The belief additionally met on Monday within the afternoon. Allbaugh was current for his first assembly.
“I’m anxious to place my shoulder to the wheel. A variety of issues. They did not occur in a single day. They don’t seem to be going to go away in a single day,” Allbaugh stated.
The belief additionally voted to elect their former vice chair, Jim Sofa, as chair of the belief and elected Trustee Ben Brown as vice chair.
“My imaginative and prescient is to proceed to make enhancements to the Oklahoma county jail and to make it a extra humane, skilled operation,” Sofa stated after being elected.
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