Linda Jordan Is Citizen of the Year
More than 100 people were present when Mrs. Linda Jordan was named Citizen of the Year at the Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner last Thursday at Frank’s Restaurant.
U.S. Rep. Mac Collins was guest speaker at the annual dinner. He outlined many of the highlights of President George W. Bush’s state of the union address given just two days earlier.
Steve Currie was introduced as president for 2004, and the other officers include Tricia Armistead, vice-president, Seema Mohamedy, secretary, and Lori Gray, treasurer.
New members of the board of directors include Dave Dammann, Don Kelly, Kathy Mudd and Garrett Wild. They join board members Jay Brinson, Steve Griswold, Don Morgan and Evern Williams.
Dan Jordan, Clerk of Courts for Jasper County introduced the Citizen of the year.
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He nominated her because, as he said, she is the epitome of a good citizen. She has served as Jasper County surveyor since 1973.
She has served on the Board of Directors for Griffin Tech for many years, including when the Jasper County campus was conceived and built. She is on the Board of Directors of Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation and is long-time music director at Monticello Presbyterian Church. In addition, she is active in several committees of the church.
Mrs. Jordan serves on Jasper County’s Future Land Use Committee and is treasurer of the Jasper County Water and Sewer Authority.
Mr. Jordan went on to say, however, that his real reason for nominating Mrs. Jordan as Jasper County Citizen of the Year is her work with the Jasper County Courthouse Committee.
“Almost four years ago, Linda was asked by the Jasper County Commissioners to chair a committee that was charged with the responsibility of assessing the needs of and creating a plan to improve the 95-year-old Jasper County Courthouse.
“She organized a committee which selected an architect and eventually came up with a plan that would add 15,000 square feet to the existing Courthouse and renovate the original building.
“She also organized a campaign to pass a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax to finance the project. The SPLOST passed overwhelmingly and also provided significant funding for the county volunteer fire departments.
“The Courthouse project is now almost complete and provides access to the disabled, adequate restroom facilities, central heating and air and plenty of space which was really needed in our fast-growing county,” said Mr. Jordan.
“For the past two years Linda has met with the architect and builder every other Tuesday working out the details of the addition and renovation project.
“She has actually put much more time than that into her efforts as chairman of the Courthouse committee. The commissioners have allowed Linda and her committee to oversee the entire project. This includes everything from making decisions involving change orders to selecting paint colors and furniture for the Courthouse.
“This is a facility we can all be proud of and it literally would not have been and could not have been done without Linda Jordan,” Mr. Jordan concluded.
