March 24, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
The county commission Monday night during its regular monthly meeting is expected to fill a vacancy on the commission from the seventh district and the person likely to be appointed is Mathias Anderson.
Anderson is the only person to step forward who has expressed an interest in the position.
During Thursday night’s committee of the whole meeting of the county commission, Anderson introduced himself and asked to be considered to serve on the commission as an appointee until the August 1, 2024 DeKalb County General Election.
“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. Reynolds stepped down from the commission last month.