DADC Accepts Executive Director’s Resignation

DAWSONVILLE, Ga.—Meeting in executive session Tuesday, the Development Authority of Dawson County voted to accept the resignation of Executive Director Charlie Auvermann and Office Administrator Mary Simmons.

Fetch Your News broke the news of their resignations last Friday. The resignation came one day after the Dawson County Board of Commissioners voted to approve a FY 2018 budget that did not include funding the Authority. Auvermann and Simmons’ salaries were paid out of the Development Authority’s budget which was previously funded by county taxpayers.

According to the Authority website, Auvermann helped to install multiple Dawson County-based projects with a capital investment of $125 million.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Joint Development Authority for Dawson, Lumpkin and White counties and as adjunct professor at the University of North Georgia’s Mike Cottrell College of Business since 2005.

He also sits on the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission where he was selected as the 2014 Appointed Official of the Year and is currently Chair of the GMRC 13 County Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Committee.

 

 

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