CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — After less than a year on the job, City Finance Director Rodney Hairston will be leaving at the end of this week to take a new post closer to home in Akron.
Hairston came on board in January, becoming the third finance director — with as many interim appointees — to serve under recalled mayor Kahlil Seren.
Much of Hairston’s work became damage control such as gathering financials from 2023 that still needed to be forwarded to the Ohio Auditor’s Office, a lapse that has affected the city’s credit rating.
Interim Mayor Tony Cuda announced Hairston’s departure at Monday’s meeting, thanking him for leaving the department in much better shape than it was when he took it over.
“He definitely made a great impact, along with some great hires,” Cuda said with one of those being Assistant Finance Director Rachun Caldwell.
She will be getting a promotion…
