DOTHAN: 5:20 PM Under the Dothan City Manager/Dothan Mayor/Dothan Associate Commissioner laws all hires of department heads are required to come to the Mayor and Commission from the City Manager.
With the retirement of long time serving Dothan Fire Chief, Larry Williams, it is the duty of Dothan City Manager Randy Morris to make a recomendation to the Dothan Mayor and Associate Commissioners. The law of which the City of Dothan operates does not allow the Mayor and Associate Commissioner to select the finalist or recomend to the City Manager a particular person for the job.
However, the Mayor and Associate Commissioner can vote up or vote down the person recomended by the City Manager. They are not bound to hire who the City Manager recomends.
Dothan City Manager Randy Morris, assisted by Birmingham and Peachtree City Fire Chief’s intreviewed the three Dothan Fire Deputy Chief’s. Following the interviews it is the intentions of Dothan City Manager Randy Morris to recomend Dothan Fire Deputy Chief David Hasty to the Dothan Commission as the next Dothan Fire Chief. That recomendation is expected to be made on the November 4, 2025 agenda of the Dothan City Commission.
If the Dothan Mayor and Associate Commissioners accept the recomendation of the City Manager, David Hasty will assume the role of Dothan Fire Chief on January 1, 2026.
