Copenhaver looks at legacy in last city address | The Augusta Chronicle

Making his final “State of the City” address Thursday, Mayor Deke Copenhaver outlined a legacy of creating jobs, building buildings, uniting the community and having an occasional regret.

Copenhaver, giving the speech at a meeting of the Augusta Exchange Club, is completing his second full term and is ineligible to run again this year. He has no immediate plans to seek another elected office, he said.

“I get so frustrated because it’s so hyper-partisan now,” he said. “I’m somebody that focuses on the common ground, and to go any further would drive me crazy.”

Copenhaver said his greatest accomplishments were uniting the community in prayer, recently holding his “98th straight” prayer breakfast, and constructing, with the help of former Administrator Fred Russell, a new library, convention center, sheriff’s administration building and courthouse.

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