Decatur County Board of Commissioners (Chairman Pete Stephens): the 2025-2026 minutes read whole - 116 files, 114 scanned images OCR’d - with the board’s Veterans Day meeting cancellation and a retired Army Gulf War veteran among the districts

The board. The county's County Commissioners page seats the six districts: "DISTRICT 1 - GEORGE ANDERSON" - whose own biography records the veteran: "In May 2014, Commissioner George Anderson was elected District 1 Commissioner ... Commissioner Anderson is a retired veteran who served 20 years in the U.S. Army. He is a Gulf War Veteran of Desert Storm who served as Tank Platoon Sergeant ... After his military retirement, Commissioner Anderson attended Correctional Officer School and served as Captain at the Decatur County Prison"; "DISTRICT 2 - STEVE BROCK"; "DISTRICT 3 - DENNIS BRINSON/VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD"; "DISTRICT 4 - RUSTY DAVIS"; "DISTRICT 5 - BOBBY BARBER, JR"; and "DISTRICT 6 - PETE STEPHENS/CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD." The Staff page seats "COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR - RANDY WILLIAMS" and "COUNTY CLERK - MICHELLE B. WEST." Meetings: "The Decatur County Board of Commissioners Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at 9 a.m. and on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at 203 W Broughton Street, Bainbridge, Georgia 39817." Contact: P.O. Box 726, Bainbridge, GA 39818, 229-248-3030, fax 229-246-2062. The record. The county's minutes library posts the board's files back years; the 2025-2026 minutes - 116 PDFs - were downloaded and read whole, 114 of them scanned images converted and read by OCR. The window's veteran items: the October 28, 2025 minutes carry "Consider Cancellation of November 11, 2025 Meeting (Veteran's Day). Commissioner Barber made the motion to cancel the meeting. Commissioner Anderson seconded the motion, a vote was taken and unanimously approved"; the Board of Tax Assessors' monthly Errors and Releases carry the "Disabled Veteran's homestead added" rows recorded in the exemptions entry, including the retroactive refunds; and the February 10, 2026 minutes carry the FAA airport grant agreement's standard clause - "Veteran's Preference. It shall include in all contracts for work on any project funded under this Grant Agreement which involve labor ... preference shall be given to Vietnam era veterans, Persian Gulf veterans, Afghanistan-Iraq war veterans, disabled veterans, and small business concerns owned and controlled by disabled veterans as defined in 49 U.S.C. 47112." No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed. The county's own organizations. The Department of Georgia's post list seats Post 340 and Post 502 in Bainbridge (District #2); VFW Post 4904 - the Phillips-Jester Post - sits in Bainbridge per the post's own page, "Your local VFW Post for the Decatur and Seminole County area."