Lance Farrar, a founding member of the East Alabama Republican Assembly, addressed the Lee County Commission during the public comments section of their June 12th, 2023 meeting. Farrar had recently taken it upon himself to petition Commissioner Richard Lagrand directly in regards to removing P.O. Box 666 as the official address for the commission. Standing before the commission, Farrar stated "I would like to read this East Alabama Republican Assembly resolution denouncing 666 as the address for the Lee County Commission. The East Alabama Republican Assembly will not endorse, promote, campaign nor vote for any one of the Lee County commissioners who votes to have P.O. Box 666 as the address of correspondence. The address of the Opelika Courthouse is 215 South 9th Street, Opelika, AL 36801. Why is the commission sacrificing taxpayer monies to operate a P.O Box at all? At that, the number chosen 666 is quite alarming. The commission either does not read the agenda before each meeting or knows little about what they are doing. Or, they know that the 666 number is what they are voting for. Regardless, either situation is untenable."
Later on during the new business portion of the meeting Commissioner Lagrand stated "Over the past couple of months I have been listening and talking with some citizens that have some type of way feelings about us having the P.O Box 666. I think it is important that we look at changing that. All the stationary and letterhead that we have with 666 on it, mail it out and say 'hey, we're changing to our new post office box'." Commissioner Gary Long offered support by remarking "Personally, commissioner, I hate it too. I really do, always have, I am good with changing it." Commissioner Morris shared those sentiments, noting "I didn't put it on my card, I wasn't going to put a 666 on my card. I just wasn't going to do it."
Commissioner Lagrand followed up "I would like to make a motion that we get rid of 666 and just maybe go with the mailing address of 215 South 9th Street or maybe get another post office address." Chairman Bill English raised the concern that the county's invoices did not reflect the costs of changing the commission's address to which Commissioner Lagrand responded "I think for $216 for concerns of the citizens, I think it is very important that we go ahead and do away with it." At that point the commission voted unanimously to discontinue the use of P.O. Box 666.
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