The city of Cayce will bring on an outside attorney to investigate a member of its own after a vote was taken at a special-called city council meeting Monday night.
After sitting behind closed doors in executive session for more than three hours, city council members voted to engage attorney Ryan Hicks for the purposes of conducting an investigation into communications between a city elected official and a city employee.
The 4-0 vote was taken without the city’s longtime Mayor Elise Partin, who shared in a statement ahead of the meeting that she would “not participate in a process that does not follow city procedures.” In that statement, Partin said the special called meeting was in regards to a personnel complaint against her. At the Monday night meeting, members of the council declined to name which elected official they were investigating…