Covington, VA (Sept. 2, 2025)— Covington's Regularly Scheduled Work Session, held Tuesday evening from 6:30 p.m. to about 7:00 p.m., included several appointments. The first appointment was to vote between Tammy Scruggs-Duncan and David Goff for the vacant District 1 Seat of late Covington City Mayor Lance Carson. Unanimously, council voted to appoint Goff to the seat.
Additionally, newly appointed Mayor Fred Forbes was unanimously approved by council to fill the unexpired term of the late Mayor Carson and Kayla Jones (Department of Social Services) was appointed to the Covington Housing Authority to fulfill the unexpired term of Tammy Wilson following Wilson's resignation.
Allen Dressler later spoke, presenting meeting-goers with his usual City Manager's report. In it, he noted the progress of the locker rooms beneath Casey Field which are not yet open to the public. As such, porta-potties will be used for this Friday night's first home Varsity football game. "There's a few t's and i's to dot with those facilities," Dressler said Tuesday night. "I'm just hesitant to open it [locker room bathrooms] up to public use without it being completely done, so we will have that taken care of and hopefully we'll be in there certainly before the season is over with."
Dressler's full City Manager's report is available now on our Alleghany Journal Facebook page.
City Attorney Mark Popovich also addressed council with a legal report. "On July sixteenth of this year, the corporation that is the parent corporation of the Virginian Review sued small business coordinator Miss [Terri] McClung alleging certain Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] violations," Popovich stated. "We had a hearing on July twenty-first in which all three petitions that were filed alleging those allegations were dismissed by the court. The argument was that the Freedom of Information Act does not permit filing suit against an individual. Only local government entities. So, the court agreed with our argument and dismissed all three of those cases without prejudice."
Popovich continued, "Subsequently, on July twenty-ninth, Mr. [Scot] Refsland filed suit again against the city and Miss [Terri] McClung for various FOIA violations. The petition against Miss McClung, when we had the hearing on August fourth, was summarily dismissed with prejudice because the court again reminded the plaintiff that she's [McClung] an individual. She cannot be sued under the Freedom of Information Act. The remaining three petitions were also dismissed following that hearing."
|  | Covington City Manager Allen Dressler updated the council with several developments, including the progress on the Casey Field locker rooms.
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