Community Visits 2025
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- Director Kenneth Boswell and some of ADECA’s senior staff members visited Selma to meet with Mayor James Perkins and other leaders from Selma and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell’s office about community needs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell and Deputy Director Ashley Toole visited the town of Brilliant in Marion County to meet with Mayor Perry Franks and discuss community needs and ADECA grant programs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell visited Montevallo to meet with leaders, including Sen. April Weaver and Rep. Corley Ellis, to discuss how ADECA grant programs may be able to help meet some needs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell and some members of ADECA’s senior staff visited North Courtland in Lawrence County.
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- Community visits are an opportunity for Director Kenneth Boswell to meet with local leaders and see needs and upcoming projects firsthand. He and Deputy Director Ashley Toole visited the town of Newbern in Hale County to discuss community needs and ADECA grant programs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell visited the town of Mentone to meet with Mayor Rob Hammond and discuss community needs in the scenic northeast Alabama town as well as ADECA’s programs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell and Deputy Director Ashley Toole met with Mayor Josh Gates, Sen. Matt Woods and other local leaders on a community visit to Jasper. The visit was an opportunity to see and learn about local projects and needs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell met in Hale County with leaders, including State Sen. Bobby Singleton, to discuss our agency’s grants and programs and how they help meet community needs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell visited the city of Livingston in west Alabama to talk about community needs and ADECA’s grant programs that help communities address needs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell joined other state and local leaders to celebrate the opening of a new warehouse to increase capacity at the Port of Birmingham. An ADECA grant awarded through the Alabama Inland Port Infrastructure Program helped support the facility.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell joined Gov. Ivey and many others to celebrate the grand opening of the new, much-larger distribution warehouse for Pepsi Bottling Luverne, which distributes to several southeast Alabama counties. An ADECA grant helped fund needed infrastructure for the new facility which kept the family-owned business in its hometown of more than 100 years and retained 80 jobs and created 10 new jobs.
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- Director Kenneth Boswell attended the Tuskegee and Macon County ceremonial opening of a new electrical substation in Tuskegee Commerce Park. The station will help supply needed power to the Samkee automotive supplier facility as well as future industries that locate in the park, all creating jobs for area residents with the new substation.
