Civil Municipal - June 2024

the Chamber of Commerce and the Development Authority of Lanier County both lost their executive directors.Asked by a chamber member to help define the role of a new executive director, Culpepper joined a committee of community members. “There were representatives from the Board of Commissioners, representatives from the chamber, representatives from the Development Authority, I represented the School District, and we had some other community members and business partners who had people on this committee.We didn’t have any authority we had just been tasked to try to build this job description,” he explains. Over a year and a half, they crafted a job description, and the position was eventually filled by Terry Moore. As the newly appointed Executive Director for the Lakeland Lanier County Chamber of Commerce and Development Authority, Moore was also drawn back to the community, as he describes, “I grew up in Lakeland, I went to school here from kindergarten to high school, graduated, went to college next door, Valdosta State. I went into the military, spent 41 193 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 06 LANIER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT