The Marshall Economic Development Corporation met in a special called session for its board Thursday afternoon for deciding items to present to the Marshall City Commission that night.

Its first open session item was to approve nominations for MEDCO board members.

“John Wilborn’s term is expired. He has been here for six years, and we are really sad John is no longer going to be here,” said Chairwoman Leslie Chambers. “We think we have found someone good to recommend, named Anthony Coleman.”

Motioning to recommend Coleman was Wilborn, seconded by Bill Marshall, and the vote was 5-0.

Coleman is the CFO of Alpha Omega Furnishings of Marshall, and the former assistant director of residential life for Wiley College.

Kathy Wood was nominated to continue her service on the MEDCO board with a motion by Wilborn and seconded by Danny Kirkland. The vote was also unanimous.

On the matter of approval for an engineering design on Phase II at the U.S. Highway 59 business Park, the board’s closed-doors deliberation narrowed the field to Stokes & Associates.

“The board created a four-step process to score those engineering design proposals and we have narrowed the options to two recommendations for the board to determine which one of those to use,” said Chairwoman Chambers.

Their final order of business was to approve a revision of the MEDCO bylaws for final approval by the Marshall City Commission.

The bylaws to be changed are sections 4.01 and 4.05 of the corporation, dealing with the number of directors, where they should work and who may be ex-officio members.