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Tontitown Mayor Announces Resignation at City Meeting, Explains Why

By: Tyler Thomason

Updated: January 4, 2013

"Well at the council meeting, things kind of went awry, they got unhappy it was an unhappy meeting," says Tontitown alderman Sunny Hinshaw.

Tommy Granata, stepping down from the Tontitown mayor post for the second time in 18 months.

"You could watch him get more and more upset, I don't believe he had the intention to resign before the meeting," Hinshaw says.

It's what happened before the regularly scheduled city council meeting that upset Granata.

"First thing they did was call a special meeting and I didn't know anything about it," Granata says.

"It's nothing that happened overnight, it's over months and you just get sick and tired of it."

He says his latest resignation announcement comes as a result of being left out and being unable to work with certain city employees, as well as members of his council.

"There's two directions and it's not any direction from the mayor, it's directions coming from somewhere else that's coming into play. Especially when I'm oblivious to things that go on when I should be the person that should know," Granata adds.

"I feel like I've let the people down, but I can't tear myself up because I've tried, I'm back in the same place I was a year and a half ago."

Alderman Hinshaw supports the Tontitown native.

"Mr. Granata is a hard-working, fair-minded, open, upstanding individual , and I am sorry he's gone, he's the only man I want in that seat."

Granata adds, "I hate to go, I really do, I live here, I'm going to live and die here, I want the best for the community."

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