Dev. Foundation office to move to Grove Hill
By Barry H. Hendrix Managing Editor

The Board of Directors of the Clarke County Development Foundation voted Nov. 29 to move their office from Thomasville to Grove Hill. The Clarke-Mobile Gas District has offered free office space in the Spence Walker building. They have also offered to donate office equipment in February 2008.

"Where we are in (downtown) Thomasville has been temporary," said Sharon Jones. "…It would put us back in the center of the county."

One problem - Peggy J. Pugh, who currently serves as Executive Assistant in the volunteer organization, would not be able to work in a Grove Hill office.

The foundation wants to hire an Executive Director and feels it has outgrown its space in Thomasville.

The space in Grove Hill can be used for meetings of the board and the various committees until the office is moved.

In other action from the Nov. 29 meeting, the board voted to partner with the Community Foundation of Southwest Alabama in Mobile.

The Development Foundation hopes to use their association with the Mobile agency to gain grants from organizations such as the Ford Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, said Sharon Jones.

"We, in their opinion, are the most organized (of area rural foundations) and ready to go," she said. "We already have committees and project managers doing most of the things that they want to see done.

"The community foundation's job is to support our efforts. They will provide us no services other than financial and technical." The Mobile agency has offered initial funding in the amount of approximately $22,000, Jones said.

• The Literacy Coalition of South Alabama was adopted as a supported agency.

• The board approved the officers: Terry Raybon, chairman; Rosalyn Sales, vice chairman; Sharon Jones, secretary; and Linda McGhee, treasurer.

• Steve Green and Roy Waite were named as at-large members to the Executive Committee.

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