{"id":27768,"date":"2024-02-07T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=27768"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:01:03","slug":"changes-in-the-georgia-dot-aviation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/georgia\/changes-in-the-georgia-dot-aviation-program\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Changes in the Georgia DOT Aviation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colette-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27769\" width=\"184\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colette-Williams.jpg 431w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colette-Williams-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><figcaption><em>Colette Williams<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 1, 2023, Steve Brian, the aviation program\nmanager at the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) for the last\nnine years stepped down to make way for Colette Williams as the new manager.\nMs. Williams has served as the assistant manager of the program for the last\nnine years. She played a key role in overseeing the Federal Aviation\nAdministration\u2019s State Block Grant and State Airport Aid Programs,\nadministering on average $100 million in airport funding annually. Her former\nrole provided her valuable experience in supervising project managers,\nmonitoring project compliance issues, and providing technical assistance to\nairport sponsors and local governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colette is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a\nBachelor of Science in Aviation Management and holds a graduate degree from\nCentral Missouri State University in Aviation Safety. She is an accredited\nmember of the American Association of Airport Executives and a licensed\ncommercial pilot. Before coming to Georgia DOT, she was in operational\npositions at the Titusville, Brunswick\/St. Simons, and Savannah airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In taking on this new role, Colette said, \u201cwhat an exciting\ntime it is for airports and aviation. We are witnessing incredible growth in\ncommercial and business aviation, along with electrifying development\n(literally and figuratively) in advanced air mobility within the industry. The\nsky is no longer the limit!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Brian will take on a new role as special projects\nmanager for Georgia DOT\u2019s Division of Intermodal on a part-time basis using his\n44 years of experience in airports and transportation to assist the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, 2023, Steve Brian, the aviation program manager at the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) for the last nine years stepped down to make way for Colette Williams as the new manager. Ms. Williams has served as the assistant manager of the program for the last nine years. She played a key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27770,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions\/27770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}