The Fayette County Board of Commissioners is accepting applications to fill a three-year term on the Region Six Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases Regional Planning Board.

The three-member volunteer body meets bimonthly in Thomaston to help prepare an annual plan for the provision of services in central-western Georgia. Applicants must be Fayette residents and be either a consumer of disability services or a family member, advocate or local business leader with an interest in behavioral health.

Informtion: Floyd Jones at fjones@fayettecountyga.gov or 770-305-5102 by July 1.

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Corbin Spencer, right, field director of New Georgia Project and volunteer Rodney King, left, help Rueke Uyunwa register to vote. The influential group is shutting down after more than a decade. (Hyosub Shin/AJC 2017)

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