Flip-flopping on a decision made last month, the Warren County Board of Supervisors Monday unanimously approved changing the name of Bowie Road to Oak Ridge.

The change was requested by the Emergency 911 Commission.

The change will eliminate the Bowie name and extend the Oak Ridge name west to intersect with U.S. 61 North.

The change was recommended after a 2005 construction project eliminated a T-intersection at Bowie and Oak Ridge.

The change will become official June 1.

The motion was voted down at the board’s meeting Jan. 17 on a 3-2 vote, with District 1 Supervisor David McDonald, in whose district the intersection is located, on the losing end.

Supervisors Charles Selmon, William Banks and Richard George defended that vote by citing a lack of timely produced information and any viable alternatives by the commission, represented at the meeting by address coordinator Kenny Staggs.

It marked the first time that a name change resolution was rejected by the county board after the commission made such a request.

This time, McDonald offered the motion near the end of the board’s meeting Monday.

&#8220Last time, we didn’t have copies of the maps,” McDonald said, passing out maps and copies of the resolution to fellow supervisors.

Letters were sent to the lone business, Vicksburg Specialty Co., a church, Gibson Memorial United Methodist Church, and the few apartment dwellers and private landowners affected by the change, McDonald said.

Although members of the church responded in writing to the commission with concerns about changing stationery, McDonald told the board that no other such written correspondence was received.

Two lay leaders of the church who were wary of the change spoke to supervisors on the issue during an informal meeting late last year.

Mail addressed to an old address will still be delivered a year after the official change, giving residents and businesses a 17-month grace period in changing checks and stationery.

The commission is charged with road naming and numbering responsibilities to ease confusion and speed response in emergencies, the latter being the chief reason cited by the E-911 Commission to make the change.

The initial Bowie Road change request was made at the same time as one to extend the name of Culkin Road to the old Bowie-Oak Ridge intersection. That change was adopted on the first vote.