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Resident urges road repair; county receives annual 'State of the Pierce County Family' briefing
Summary
During public comment July 8, resident Ala Mae Myles asked the board to accept and repair a private road she says has been unsafe since 2021; Stephanie Bell delivered the annual 'State of the Pierce County Family' report and provided a packet of child-wellbeing statistics.
Ala Mae Myles used the July 8 public-comment period to urge Pierce County officials to accept and repair a privately classified local road she says has large holes and has been a problem since 2021. Myles said she gathered a petition to convey the road to the county and reminded commissioners that in February 2022 the board denied accepting the road; she told Chairman Neal Bennett that she receives mail at a P.O. box and, when asked if the road was private, said "Only because you said it was."
Separately, Stephanie Bell delivered the annual "State of the Pierce County Family" address and presented commissioners with a packet titled "Georgia Kids County," which she said contained statistics on health and safety, education and child-wellbeing. Bell provided two websites for the data: gafc.org/data-definitions and datacenter.kidscount.org. Later in the meeting Bell was reappointed to the Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging advisory council for a three-year term.
Why it matters: Residents’ requests to accept and repair local roads affect emergency access and daily travel. The child-wellbeing briefing provides commissioners with data they can consider when setting priorities for health, education and social services.
What’s next: The minutes record the resident’s plea and the briefing; any county action on the private road or specific follow-up items were not recorded in the provided transcript.
