Local government roundup includes legislative forum

Members of the local legislative delegation revisit the most recent legislative session and preview the 2022 General Assembly today at the Classic Center: Athens’ House and Senate members will speak to a joint meeting of the Athens Rotary Clubs in a noon-hour forum organized by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce.

There is water talk today in Athens: the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority meets 9:30 this morning at Authority offices on Research Drive in Athens.

There was a special called meeting in Monroe: the City Council convened last night, hearing from a delegation of Monroe residents who are opposed to a plan to put a new Walton County jail on East Church Street in Monroe.

Elbert County Commissioners have given unanimous approval to a $13.5 million Elbert County budget, highlighted by two percent pay raises for the County’s public safety workers.

There is a resignation in Barrow County, where Holly Sheats has stepped down from her post on the City Council in Winder. Sheats was serving her first term as a Winder City Councilwoman.

Hart County Commissioners met last night in Hartwell, taking up an ordinance that would impose a moratorium on the construction of chicken rendering plants of the sort proposed and rejected in Franklin County and now under consideration in Elbert County.

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