12 The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Residents Encouraged to Apply for Brownfield Advisory Board
The City of Savannah
Office of Sustainability is seek
ing residents to serve a two-
year term on the new Brown-
held Advisory Board.
The City of Savan
nah’s Brownfield program is
funded through a $1 million
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Brownfields
Revolving Loan Fund Grant,
which was awarded to the City
in June 2023. The purpose of
the program is to clean up en
vironmental hazards and rede
velop vacant sites into neigh
borhood assets.
Program funds assess
sites for contamination, con
duct site-specific or area-wide
redevelopment planning, and
provide grants or below-mar
ket loans to developers to cover
cleanup costs.
A Brownfield is a
vacant site that may be con
taminated from its former use
as a factory, dry cleaner, gas
station, mechanic shop, hair sa
lon, etc. or from the presence of
lead and asbestos.
Board members will
be asked to commit to a two-
year term, during which they
will attend quarterly board
meetings; review applications
for site assessments, reuse
planning, and cleanup loans;
provide recommendations as to
which sites the program should
fund; and conduct eight hours
of community engagement per
quarter, including speaking at
community meetings, passing
out literature, and talking with
neighbors to collect commu
nity input and keep residents
informed of Brownfield work
happening in their neighbor
hood.
To serve on the
board, applicants must be at
least 18 years of age; be a res
ident of the City of Savannah;
and live in a grant focus area,
which includes Hudson Hill,
West Savannah, Woodville be
tween 37th and Victory Dr., or
between Habersham and Penn
sylvania.
A map of the grant
focus areas as well as an ap
plication for the board can be
found at //savannahga.gov/
brownfield. Residents who are
interested must complete an
application before April 15.
Interested residents
may contact Brownfield Pro
gram Manager Denise Chee-
seman of the Office of Sustain
ability at denise.cheeseman@
savannahga.gov for more in
formation.
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Speakers for May 16th Event at
Georgia Southern’s Armstrong
Campus
Elizabeth Adams
2024 TEDxSavannah
Speakers include:
Elizabeth Adams:
Affiliate Fellow - Stanford
Institute for Human-Cen
tered Artificial Intelligence;
Bruce Feiler: Best-selling
Author, Speaker and TV host;
Lillian Grant-Baptiste: Gul-
lah-Geechee Storyteller and
Founder of Baobab Speaks
Consulting Group; Dr. Deidre
Grim: Executive Director
- Forsyth Farmers’ Market;
Steve Hein: Founder and Ex
ecutive Director - Georgia
Southern University Wildlife
Center; Mike Kentz: English
Teacher - Benedictine Military
School; Suzanne Kirk: Presi
dent and Executive Human Re
sources Consultant - Employ
ee Development Strategies,
Inc.; Jessica Leigh Lebos:
Award-winning Writer; Bri-
ana Paxton: Chief Executive
Officer - Hestia Community
Partners LLC; Bonzo Reddick,
M.D., District Health
Director - Georgia Department
of Public Health; Nina Sam
uels: Sculptor Working with
Clay and Sustainable Materi
als; and Christian Shellman:
Community Development
Manager - Housing Savannah,
Inc.
Full bios for the
TEDxSavannah speakers,
along with photos, are avail
able at tedxsavannah.com.
TEDxSavannah re
ceived more than 150 speaker
applications for the 2024 event.
Each TEDxSavannah speak
er will present an interesting
talk influenced by the theme
and of interest to the Savannah
community. Live talks will be
filmed and posted on the TEDx
Talks YouTube channel follow
ing the event.
Guided by a mission
to share ideas worth spreading,
Continued from Page 1
Nina Samuels
TEDxSavannah welcomes the
public to enjoy live presenta
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active-duty military and non
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also available for $75, which
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Groups of more than
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STEP ONE AUTO Presents
Chatham-Savannah Citizen
Advocacy Local Hero Award
During 37th Grab-n-Go Meals
Citizen Advocacy Executive Director George Seaborough
and Weslyn “Mahogany” Bowers
Step One Automotive
Group will present their Local
Hero Award to Chatham-Sa
vannah Citizen Advocacy
during their 37th Grab-n-Go
Meals for veterans and first re
sponders. The monthly awards
event was held Thursday,
March 28th at the Step One
Auto North Savannah Store
located at 1011 Chatham Park
way, Savannah GA 31401.
“Since April 2020,
Step One Grab and Go Meals
for Local Heroes has been ded
icated to bringing our commu
nity together, showing appre
ciation and supporting local
businesses. Together with Sa
vannah Food Truck force we
served 3,500 delicious meals
to first responders, military,
veterans, and medical workers
and honored sixteen incredible
individuals and organizations.
From veterans, police officers,
EMS, medical workers, SWAT
team members, single moms,
cancer survivors, social work
ers, and volunteers, we put a
spotlight on the dedicated giv
ers in our community,’’ shares
Step One Automotive Group
Marketing Manager Weslyn
“Mahogany’’ Bowers.
“I choose Chatham
Savannah Citizen Advocacy
because they have continued to
support and match adults with
disabilities with good meaning
adults who will advocate for
them to have a better quality
of life. These matches often
become the start of a lifelong
friendship,’’ adds Bowers. “We
will have community partner
Sweet Spice food truck onsite
serving fresh authentic Jamai
can cuisine.’’
“As a local non-profit
serving the Chatham County
area for the past 45 years, we
are dedicated to find advocates
for people with developmental
disabilities. From a five month
old to a 66 year old senior in a
nursing home, advocates have
found ways to understand, rep
resent and respond to the needs
and desires of the persons they
are matched with. Donations
from community partners like
Step One Auto help with our
operational expenses and al
low people to meet others that
they may not normally have
the chance to meet,’’ shares
Chatham-Savannah Citizen
Advocacy Executive Director
George Seaborough.
