Today, I am officially announcing my campaign for re-election to the Office of Mayor of the City of Eutaw, Alabama. It has been a privilege and honor to hold this position since November of 2020. Following my election, I did my best to put together a team (TEAM EUTAW) of people and citizens, who would work together to continue moving this city forward. While there have been some problems and difficult times there have also been some accomplishments and successes that far exceed difficulties.
These are some of the challenges that we faced and how Team Eutaw addressed these: Eutaw Water Department’s revenue was down due to the billing system. Over 100 customers were not billed due to meter issues. We were able to correct these issues and tripled our water revenues. The city was in debt with IRS (over) $300.000 lien on the city, and with the help of staff, our financial advisors (Ralph Liverman), CPA (Rob Person), and Sheriff Joe Benison, we were able to resolve these issues.
Our city suffered through severe weather conditions, including three tornadoes and other strong wind storms. Thankfully, there were no fatalities, but tremendous amounts of property damage to several homes, buildings, and excessive amount of trees and limbs damage throughout the city. FEMA was some help, but a large amount of the expenses fell on the city.
The City paid off the debt on the former Carver School facility. Partnering with the County and the Industrial Development Authority, we completed Streetscape Project which resulted in new sidewalks with railings, curbs, gutters, and an area for beautification downtown. This project started under former Mayor Raymond Steele. 
 The City installed streetlights on Exit I- 20/59 (Love truck stop exit). We secured a $500,000 loan from Merchant and Farmers Bank to purchase street sweeper, boom debris pickup truck, water/street department work trucks, police cars, a new Fire Truck ($250,000) The last payment of that loan will be in September 2025. The City purchased the former Lon Grubbs building for future police department and storage of records. We partnered with the Town of Boligee and secured over $ 9 million dollars in grant monies from ADEM to fix water lines, lift stations, water tanks and pumping station.
I am asking citizens of Eutaw to please RE- ELECT me (Latasha Johnson) as Mayor. I will continue my team work to improve roads, bridges, draining ditches, restoring old sidewalks/curbs, demolishing old overgrown houses/buildings. I will also work very hard for recreational activities for our children. As a community, we will continue to work together to grow our City; therefore, I am asking the citizens of Eutaw to please re-elect me (Latasha Johnson) for Mayor of Eutaw for 4 more years and I will continue to build up our city.