By MIKE WILLIAMS
The Patriot
The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors should now fill an unprecedented third emptiness this 12 months with the information right now that Massie District Supervisor John Travis has moved from the district.
Travis confirmed to The Patriot this morning he had offered his residence at 1950 Peppers Ferry Street in Pulaski and can be residing in a house at Claytor Lake – exterior the Massie District.
“Donna and I’ve offered our home positioned within the Massie District. We formally closed on it right now, Might 10, 2022. We live at our Claytor Lake residence within the Draper District.
“Once I was elected, my intentions have been to satisfy my time period. A small residence on Claytor Lake turned out there that we deliberate to make use of as a second residence. A number of issues occurred that brought on us to make the choice to relocate full time to our lake home,” Travis defined in a letter he wrote Monday and offered to The Patriot right now.
“I remorse not having the ability to fulfill my duties as an elected official and characterize the residents of the Massie District. Efficient right now, Might 10, 2022, I’ll now not be on the Board of Supervisors. I’ll proceed to be very supportive of the Board of Supervisors. I’ve loved working with County Administrator Jonathan Candy. I’ve nice confidence in Jonathan and the current board members and the path they’re taking the County.
I sit up for this subsequent chapter in my life. I plan to proceed to volunteer in our neighborhood wherever I can,” Travis mentioned.
Travis mentioned he’ll miss serving on the Board of Supervisors and famous he believes the board completed “some nice issues” throughout his two and half years on the board, and “there are extra nice issues to return.”
Travis mentioned the identical procedures to fill the now vacant Massie District seat on the board can be adopted as within the changing of former supervisors Charles Bopp and Joe Guthrie. He mentioned the board hopes to have the Massie seat crammed by its common assembly on June 27.
Bopp, Robinson District, introduced on Dec. 20 of final 12 months he can be retiring from the board for well being causes.
After accepting purposes from potential replacements, the board voted to call Jeff Reeves as the brand new Robinson District Supervisor.
On Jan. 4 throughout the board’s organizational assembly for 2022, former Chairman Joe Guthrie, Cloyd District, introduced he can be leaving the board to take a place in newly elected Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration.
Ingles District Supervisor Laura Walters was that night named as the brand new board chairman.
On Feb. 8, the board named Adam Corridor as the brand new supervisor for the Cloyd District.
In keeping with PulaskiCounty.org, the county’s web site, Travis was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2019, and has lived in Pulaski for the final 31 years.
He labored at Pulaski Furnishings for greater than 19 years and was the plant supervisor for the final 5 years till the plant closed in 2007. In 2000, he acquired his Virginia Contractor Class A license and began his personal contracting firm. After a few years of constructing customized houses, he switched to the true property facet of the enterprise. In 2014, he acquired his Virginia Realtor’s license and went into enterprise together with his spouse Donna, working with Lengthy and Foster Actual Property as The Travis Group.
John enjoys volunteering in the neighborhood, taking part in occasions and actions of every kind via his church in addition to civic organizations. He has two grown youngsters who attended Pulaski County Public Faculties, and two grandchildren that he adores. His hobbies embrace spending time together with his household, in addition to having fun with the actions and outside round Pulaski.
