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Bibb County names first neighborhood program coordinator, launches 'Making Good Neighbors' initiative
Summary
Bibb County introduced Jerry Battle as its first neighborhood program coordinator and previewed 'Making Good Neighbors,' a targeted, neighborhood-by-neighborhood effort to coordinate county services, cleanups and local programming based on resident priorities.
Jerry Battle, Bibb County’s newly hired neighborhood program coordinator, said his job is to act as a consistent liaison between residents and county departments and to concentrate limited resources on one neighborhood at a time. “My ultimate goal is to make each community in [Bibb County] self‑sustainable,” Battle said on the county’s podcast.
Battle described the initiative, called Making Good Neighbors, as a targeted program that brings county departments together to address specific local requests — from trash pickup and lighting to playground repairs — and then helps neighborhoods maintain improvements. He described…
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