Politics & Government
Decision On Daniells Bridge Road Projects Delayed Again By Oconee County Board of Commissioners
Three spoke in favor, and 10 against the projects. They will have to come back next week to make their cases again.
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners, unable to find a consensus, took no action last night on the two project framework agreements with the Georgia Department of Transportation for the widening of Daniells Bridge Road and for the Daniells Bridge Road extension and flyover of SR Loop 10.
Commission Chairman Melvin Davis pushed the four voting commissioners to give tentative approval to the projects, but none of the commissioners supported that decision.
That means that the three persons who spoke in favor of the agreements last night and the 10 who spoke against will have to come back again next week to try to make their cases before the commissioners. That meeting also will start at 7 p.m. in the Courthouse in Watkinsville,.
In other action, the commissioners heard from County Attorney Daniel Haygood that the county has gotten a favorable ruling in a lawsuit regarding a cell tower on McRees Mill Road, received a request from preservationist Russ Page for three projects in the county, and approved five restaurants licenses for alcohol by the drink.
For details of the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Chairman Melvin Davis