The eight-day hearing ended Thursday.
Former planinng director Jeff Chance says politics were involved in his dismissal; county officials say that's not so.
Chance was fired this summer because, the county says, he violated numerous polices and misused his county email account.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says the civil service board has 30 days to make a decision.
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