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Board proclaims Black History Month; presents Lt. Lloyd Burton Jr. award to Lavelle D. Monger
Summary
The board proclaimed February 2025 Black History Month and presented the Lieutenant Lloyd Burton Jr. Service Award to Lavelle D. Monger. NAACP representatives and Burton's family participated in the recognition.
The Osceola Board of County Commissioners proclaimed February 2025 as Black History Month and presented the Lieutenant Lloyd Burton Jr. Service Award during the Feb. 3 meeting.
The proclamation cited the 2025 national theme, “African Americans and labor,” and noted the observance’s origins with Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926. Chair remarks invited NAACP representatives to join the presentation; Nina Hill of the NAACP addressed the board and thanked commissioners for the recognition.
Commissioner [chair] introduced the Lt. Lloyd Burton Jr. award, created in 2016 to honor Lieutenant Burton, the county’s first Black deputy and founder of the Black Benevolence Association. This year’s recipient, Lavelle D. Monger, accepted the award and spoke about his appreciation for the community’s support since he moved to Central Florida in 2018. Demetrius Burton McCray, Lt. Burton’s grandson, joined by phone and congratulated Monger on behalf of the Burton family.
Monger’s biography, read by the presenter, described him as co-owner of RTW Photography, an Osceola County planning commissioner, executive board member of the Education Foundation and the Osceola Chamber of Commerce, vice chair of United Way Emerging Leaders, and a graduate of Leadership Osceola and Leadership Florida Connect. The board took a photograph with award recipients and NAACP members after the presentation. The proclamation motion was moved and seconded and recorded in the affirmative.
