Durham retains chairmanship

For a second year, the Oconee councilman from Mountain Rest will chair the county’s five-member governing board.  But Matthew Durham was less than a unanimous choice as District Four’s Julian Davis nominated District Three’s Don Mize.  The second-year councilman from Seneca, Mize last night moved higher in the pecking order of council offices.  He was elected vice chairman.  In council’s 2024 organization meeting, there remained differences among the five councilmen, and one of them last night was a bump up between Durham and Davis on whether Davis wished to accept Durham’s appointment of Davis as chairman and member of two council committees.