Foley’s Dayton Receives Advanced Certification

Foley City Councilman Richard Dayton has received the designation of Advanced Certified Municipal Official by the Alabama League of Municipalities, the city announced. Dayton received the honor after completing 40 credit hours of training conducted or endorsed by the league to achieve the designation and then an additional 40 hours for the advanced certification. He is a member of the 25th graduating class of advanced certified municipal officials. He received formal classroom training in subjects such as council meeting procedures, parliamentary procedure, the Open Meetings Act, public records, ordinance drafting, conflicts of interest, the state ethics law, duties of the mayor and council, tort liability, the competitive bid law, zoning and planning, annexation, municipal regulatory powers, municipal revenues and expenditures, personnel actions and leadership development. Dayton is serving his first term as a Foley City Council member. He was elected as the District 3 representative in August 2020.