Politics & Government
Oconee County Commissioners Delay Until Next Week Final Decision On Mars Hill Overlay And On Animal Control Documents
Oconee County seems likely to get a new web site, at a cost of just less than $40,000.
The proposed Mars Hill Road Overlay District survived one more week.
Oconee County seems likely to get a new web site, at a cost of just less than $40,000, and to spend $52,000 for a study of water and sewer rates.
Commissioners Tuesday night moved forward with consideration of a change in sewer policy that would allocate capacity to residential use for the first time since 2008.
They also put on the agenda for discussion next week changes in the resolution defining the Animal Control Advisory Board and that group’s bylaws even though citizens opposed the documents and the county staff had recommended against them.
Commission Chairman Melvin Davis, who has said he plans to retire, and Commissioner John Daniell, who has said he will seek the chair position in the May primary, spent 36 minutes in a back-and-forth over staff pay near the end of last night’s meeting.
Davis wanted to pin on Daniell the charge that the pay plan Daniell designed and the BOC approved in January is not working. The discussion ended where it started, and Davis said he’ll bring it up again next week.
Further evidence of the election season came earlier in the day, as Mark Thomas, a member of the Board of Education, announced that he plans to resign from the BOE and seek Post 1 on the BOC, being vacated by retiring Commissioner Jim Luke.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: BOC Chair Melvin Davis.