The Waycross City Commission’s scheduled bimonthly meeting Tuesday, April 1 was reduced to executive duties and public announcements for lack of a quorum.
Only Commissioners Sheinita Bennett and Alvin Nelson were present along with Mayor Michael Angelo-James for the session in City Hall. Mayor James said Commissioners Shawn Robert and Katrena Felder were absent for medical and work reasons, respectively.
The same was the case for the commissioner’s planning and information session the previous day.
Commissioners were facing an abbreviated agenda for the meeting. There was a request to surplus outdated equipment related to the city’s group of copy machines, and a resolution to be considered for that purpose.
Among that equipment were 85 toner cartridges now obsolete following an upgra de of the city’s copiers.
They would be sold on govdeals.com.
Mayor James and the commissioners recognized Public Works Department staffer William “Bo” Scurry as the April Employee of the Month. Nearing his fifth anniversary with the city, Scurry is a maintenance mechanic in charge of mowing and landscape equipment, particularly that for cemetaries, Director Matthew Elwell said.
“We appreciate the work he does on a daily basis fixing all the equipment so others can keep (city) looking beautiful,” Elwell said in introducing Scurry. “You need people behind the scenes getting their knuckles cut up and hands dirty to make that happen and that’s Bo.”
The director said Scurry recently was responsible for making the fleet of mowers safer for their operators. He said Scurry had the idea to attach lights to the mowers to make them more visible to motorists when they’re being used alongside the city’s major roadways.
Scurry wired LED lights to the roll bar of mowers and wired them come when the mower is started.
“I was driving on Plant Avenue and could see these blinking amber lights well ahead,” Elwell said. “He really improved the visibility for the guys out there in harm’s way.
“He was thinking outside the box for safety first.”
