The city of Mountain Brook is hiring Hoover’s chief financial officer, Jennifer Cornett, as Mountain Brook’s new assistant city manager and finance director.

Cornett, who has been Hoover’s CFO for a year and eight months, said she will be taking the place of Steve Boone, who has been Mountain Brook’s assistant city manager and finance director for 29 years and is moving up to become the city manager in December.

Her last day with the city of Hoover will be Oct. 1, she said.

Cornett, who is a resident of Mountain Brook, came on board with Hoover in the last few days of 2023. She inherited a Finance Department with a multitude of problems, including unbalanced transactions, unreconciled accounts, delayed financial reports, IRS penalties and missing financial records, according to a review

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