March 25, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
A seventh district vacancy on the county commission has now been filled.
During Monday night’s regular monthly meeting, Mathias Anderson was appointed to take the seat of former commissioner Tim Reynolds who stepped down from the commission last month. Anderson will serve as an appointee until the August 1, 2024 DeKalb County General Election.
Anderson was the only person to step forward who had expressed an interest in the position. He was nominated for the appointment by Commissioner Greg Matthews and because no other name was placed in nomination Commissioner Larry Green moved that Anderson be appointed by acclamation. Commissioner Tony (Cully) Culwell offered a second to the motion and Anderson’s appointment was approved by a voice vote of the commission.
After the meeting Anderson was sworn into office by County Mayor Matt Adcock.
During Thursday night’s committee of the whole meeting of the county commission, Anderson introduced himself.
“My name is Mathias Anderson and I live in District 7. I was selected on Saturday, March 16 to be on the ballot in August for the (vacant) commissioner seat for District 7. I have lived here for about 8 years and have been involved as I can be between kids sports and schools, etc. I try to help out where I can. I saw where there was an empty seat for my district and I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to help out and contribute. I work for Nissan. I am a senior analyst for the claims risk department so a lot of my job is budgeting dollars, figuring out where money is going and where it has to go and where to get the money for those expenditures. I think I would really enjoy helping out and hopefully be a benefit to everyone in the county as well,” said Anderson.
A Republican, Anderson was nominated by the DeKalb County GOP on Saturday, March 16 by caucus to be the party’s nominee in the August election to serve out the remaining two years of former commissioner Tim Reynolds’ unexpired term.