Good evening everyone!
There were no nominations for State Coordinator this year. I am willing to serve another
term and hope to continue to work on updating the adoptable counties and make some other
changes that I believe will make GAGenWeb stronger in the future.
Fortunately, Vivian Saffold has agreed to act as Assistant State Coordinator for another
term also. I’d like to take this time to thank Vivian for her assistance, Roger Nalls for
his expedience in keeping our state website updated and Jimmy Epperson for working with me
behind the scenes to update adoptable county sites.
Per our project guidelines, we need to appoint/elect Regional Assistants in the next month
or so. We have a couple of vacancies and I hope we can make this position more active in
communicating with the CC’s in the regions. It’s a big state with many counties and it’s
hard for the SC and ASC to stay in touch with everyone individually in addition to our
other responsibilities.
Regional Assistants will be elected by the CCs within each region to provide guidance and
support to the CCs in that region. This election will occur no later than two (2) months
after the SC election. The term of office shall be for two (2) years, beginning October 1.
Regional Assistants, together with any technical assistants appointed by the SC, shall be
known collectively as the GAGenWeb Support Team. Members of the Support Team will have no
governing power, but shall have responsibilities as outlined in the P&P.
Please consider serving as a Regional Assistant in your region or another. I’ll make an
announcement regarding Regional Assistants in August after the national elections are
over.
Thank you for everything you do for GAGenWeb and our researchers!
Linda Blum-Barton