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Baldwin County Board of Commissioners: the war-monument inscription follow-up, the chairman’s veterans statement with Operation Greenlight, and Mighty Hero Home’s 22 acres beside the Veterans Home

The Baldwin County Board of Commissioners - five district commissioners with the Chair elected by the Board: Kendrick Butts (District 2, Chairman), Scott Little (District 5, Vice Chairman), Emily C. Davis (District 1), Sammy Hall (District 3) and Andrew Strickland (District 4), meeting the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Government Building, 1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 230, Milledgeville (478-445-4791) - read its 2025-2026 record whole (97 meeting pages, 244 files): the October 21, 2025 follow-up on Col. Seagraves' request to inscribe the names of the African-American war veterans on the courthouse war monuments, the December 2, 2025 statement Chairman Strickland read thanking veterans with Carlos Tobar's Operation Greenlight, and the June 16, 2026 Mighty Hero Home closing of 22 acres beside the Georgia War Veterans Home; American Legion Posts 6 and 523 meet in Milledgeville.

Also called: Board of Commissioners, Kendrick Butts, Scott Little, Emily C. Davis, Sammy Hall, Andrew Strickland, Carlos Tobar, Mighty Hero Home, Drew Walston, Operation Greenlight, Col. Seagraves, war monuments, Georgia War Veterans Home, 22 acres, American Legion Post 6, American Legion Post 523, 1601 N. Columbia Street, Municode, Milledgeville, Milledgeville, Hardwick, Midway.

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The board. "The Baldwin County Commissioners are elected every four years (i.e. one commissioner for each of the County's five districts with the Chair elected by the Board). The current term expires December 31, 2028." The members: Emily C. Davis, District 1; Kendrick Butts, District 2 (Chairman); Sammy Hall, District 3; Andrew Strickland, District 4; Scott Little, District 5 (Vice Chairman). "The Commissioners meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6 pm at the Baldwin County Government Building" - 1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 230, Milledgeville; (478) 445-4791. The record. The board's 2025 and 2026 meetings - 97 meeting pages on the county's Municode meetings portal, carrying 244 agenda, packet and minutes PDFs, each downloaded and read whole - carry three veteran items. The October 21, 2025 minutes: "Commissioner Little asked for an update on Col. Seagraves' request to inscribe the names of the African-American war veterans on the war monuments outside the courthouse. Mr. Tobar indicated that he would follow up." The December 2, 2025 minutes record Chairman Strickland - the minutes name him Chairman - reading a statement "thanking Veterans for their service", his grandfather's World War II and father's Korean War service, and asking "that the veterans stand a be recognized", with "Carlos Tobar stat[ing] the County was participating in Operation Greenlight where green lights would be shone at the government buildings to honor our veterans." The June 16, 2026 minutes record Drew Walston "representing Mighty Hero Home, announcing that the [he] had closed on 22 acres next to the Georgia War Veterans Home to build the first Mighty Hero Homes for homeless veterans and would be the firs[t] of 450 of these being built across our Nation", with the townhall invitation at the Old Capitol Building. The agendas also carry the routine lines - the November 4 and October 21, 2025 packets' Veterans Day closure reminders and the employee handbook's Veteran's Day holiday and Military Caregiver Leave. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed. The county's own organizations. American Legion Post 6 and Post 523 both meet in Milledgeville, per the Department of Georgia's post list. No veterans organization appears in the board's 2025-2026 files by name beyond the Mighty Hero Home presentation.

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No eligibility - a board recordThe record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.

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