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.
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.
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.
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.