Kenneth Coachman

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Kenneth Coachman is a former Mayor of Fairfield

Coachman was one of four challengers who ran against incumbent Michael Johnson for Mayor in the 2008 election. Coachman advanced to a runoff with Johnnie Wyatt, editor of the Westside Courier and manager of the Fairfield Civic Center, and won a decisive victory.

In 2011 a dispute between Coachman, who served as chair of the Fairfield Civic Center Authority, and the Fairfield City Council led to the facility shutting down. Wyatt resigned on September 21 and issued pink slips to 16 part-time employees.

In August 2012 he narrowly edged out challenger Fredrick Scott to retain his seat.

In November 2012 Coachman began presiding over meetings of the Fairfield City Council, citing state law for cities with less than 12,000 residents, noting that the city had fallen below that threshold in the 2010 census. Council President Darrell Gardner filed a legal challenge, arguing that Coachman had called the 2012 election without accounting for a change in government. Judge Eugene Verin ruled against the Mayor and ordered that Gardner should preside over Council meetings and Coachman would not vote in the council.

On March 11, 2016 the Fairfield City Council voted 4-0 in a special called meeting to disband the city's police department and seek law enforcement services from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Then Chief Leon Davis objected that the meeting was given with little notice and had concluded before its advertised start. Coachman overruled the Council's vote on the grounds that the department was his responsibility. Nevertheless, many of the department's investigative functions were turned over to the county.

Coachman decided not to run in the 2016 election. Edward May defeated six other candidates to succeed him.

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