By Vanesa Brashier, editor@bluebonnetnews.com
At Tuesday night’s Liberty City Council meeting, Chris Jarmon, Liberty’s new assistant city manager, was introduced.
Jarmon, a native of Beaumont, previously worked for four years as the executive assistant to the city manager in Beaumont. His duties there included special projects that were assigned through the city manager and working with committees to develop and push forward programs.
“I was a jack of all trades,” Jarmon said.
His responsibilities in Liberty will be helping City Manager Tom Warner with economic and community development – inspections, code enforcement and anything that promotes the city.
“I will still be involved in economic development because by city charter the city manager is in charge of that,” said Warner, adding that Jarmon will certainly lighten his workload.
Until Jarmon’s hire, Liberty was the only remaining major city in Liberty County to have only one city manager. In recent years, Dayton and Cleveland have added assistant city manager positions.
Jarmon said he is excited to be part of the team at the City of Liberty and looks forward to helping the city grow and thrive.
He earned his undergraduate degree in political science from Lamar University before going on to earn a masters degree in public administration from Texas A & M University.
Jarmon and his wife, Autumn, have a 1-year-old son. Initially he plans to commute from Beaumont to Liberty each day, but says the family is open to moving to Liberty in the future.