LaFayette City Council approves next Food Truck Friday
BY KADIE TAYLOR
THE LAFAYETTE SUN
LAFAYETTE — At the April 20 LaFayette City Council Meetings, Michelle Walden, Vice President of Public Affairs at Energy Southeast, and Jennifer Stinson, Senior Accountant at Energy Southeast, congratulated four scholarship recipients from LaFayette.
“We just absolutely love visiting our members, and LaFayette is a part of Energy Southeast,” Walden said. “First and foremost, we want to say congratulations to the winners of the scholarship program. We have quite a few applicants statewide, and we are giving out just under $100,000 in scholarships to those recipients. Here tonight are four winners of the scholarship program for this school year. So we really just want to say congratulations, congratulations to all of the winners of that scholarship. We are excited for you for that future.”
Mayor Kenneth Vines presented certificates of scholarship to:
- Autum Kiana Blackall
- Jack Everett Holcomb
- McKenzie Cole Johnson
- Jacob Peyton Yerta
During the time for public comments, District 34 State Representative Candidate Christopher F. Davis informed attendees about his campaign.
“So, the purpose [of my campaign] is to actually be able to initiate, garnish, galvanize and elevate within that position, to be able to actually enhance and create the necessary infrastructure that actually brings about attraction or what have you, developmentation, preservation and actually culminating certain things that needs to be done throughout the actual county that actually call it to be a bridge, a causeway to where things actually develop,” he said. “It will attract businesses, perhaps Fortune 100 and 300 corporations and/or industrials, to where, when the infrastructure is actually enhanced and or developed. To make those attractions that will actually cause a constant galvanization in terms of more attraction, in terms of residential, commercial, to where it actually brings about finances, if your revenue into the actual city, as well as other cities.”
In Other Business
• The council approved the minutes from the April 7 Special Called Meeting.
• The council approved the food truck and patriotic banner request from DeAnna Hand, Executive Director of LaFayette Main Street.
“I know everybody’s been asking, when is the next Food Truck Festival?” she said. “I think that’s a highly anticipated event, and we’re really excited to have approval for it to be held on Friday, May 8, at the start of summer. Usually, we have one in May before school lets out for the summer, and then once again, in August when school goes back. So we’re pressed into doing this at the courthouse square. I had checked with our business owners to make sure that it was not going to interrupt any events and other things that may be happening downtown.”
• The council voted to approve the Chambers County 911 Center 2026-2027 Agreement Discussion.
• The council tabled acting on a discussion on sidewalk repairs from Superintendent George Green until the next meeting.
• The council approved the District D Recreation Board Appointment: Ebony Askew.
• The board approved the account audits.
