Mayor Buscher has named some of her department heads, with more to come.

“We have (to name a) permanent corporation counsel,” Buscher told reporters after her first committee of the whole meeting Tuesday. “The offer is there, and the person has given notice to their job, but they’ve been asked to keep it private right now. We have an Oak Ridge Cemetery director to name,” she added, someone who – unlike the ousted LaShonda Fitch – has a degree in mortuary science. “Val Yazell is just an interim on economic development, so we’ll have a permanent one there as well.

“The library director is still the library director. I have been told a number of grants require the library director to be a librarian, and Summer (Beck-Griffith) currently is not, so I have to look into that and figure that out.”

One of the new administration’s holdovers is Ken Scarlette, the police chief whose department Buscher’s campaign commercials characterized as mismanaged. Buscher said Tuesday that wasn’t Scarlette’s fault, though, as most of the problems can be attributed to former mayor Jim Langfelder and former police chief Kenny Winslow.