The Pulaski County Community Development Commission (C.D.C.) was established on 19 December 1995 by a resolution of the County Commissioners. In 2023, the Board of Commissioners (Board) and Council adopted various ordinances and resolutions restructuring community-development operations and reorganizing the C.D.C.
The Commission exists to provide supervision, budgetary oversight, and limited, as-appropriate policy guidance to the executive director and staff of the Pulaski County Department of Community Development, which provides staffing to the Pulaski County Advisory Commission on Industrial Development (ACID), Economic Development Commission (E.D.C.), Redevelopment Commission (R.C), and Tourism Advisory Committee (TAC) in addition to supporting the Board and Council. The Department of Community Development is responsible for implementing Pulaski County’s economic-development, community-development, and tourism-development efforts.
The mission of the Commission is to promote, to facilitate, and to support community-development and business-growth efforts throughout Pulaski County in the pursuit of improved quality of opportunity, life, and place and community wealth.
This mission will be accomplished by implementing the Commission’s strategic plan, as is and as amended, and by participating in or supporting projects, programs, and charitable and educational activities deemed to be beneficial to Pulaski County and complementary to the strategic plan.
C.D.C. Members
Pursuant to Pulaski County Resolution 2023-09, the C.D.C. is composed of a county commissioner appointed by the Board; a county councilor appointed by the Council; the presidents of the ACID, E.D.C., R.C., and TAC; and a resident of the county employed in agriculture or an agriculture-related field who is knowledgeable in matters relating to agricultural economic development and shall be appointed by the Board.
President: Sheila Hazemi (Council)
Vice-President: Bill Champion (ACID)
Secretary: Brian Ledley (R.C.)
Donald Street (Board)
Al Breyfogle (E.D.C.)
David Scott (TAC)
Maurice Loehmer (ag/ag-business citizen-member)
All commission-president–members serve terms concurrent with their presidencies; the county commissioner, county councilor, and at-large ag-sector member serve at the pleasure of their appointing bodies.
