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Oconee County Commissioners Scheduled To Get An Update On Controversial GDOT Project Framework Agreements
Projects on Jimmy Daniell Road and Daniells Bridge Road are slowed, and Commissioners will get an update on their status.
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to get an update on Tuesday night on pending project agreements with the Georgia Department of Transportation for widening of Jimmy Daniell Road, for widening of Daniells Bridge Road, and for construction of an extension of Daniells Bridge Road
At present, the BOC is not scheduled to take any action on those agreements.
County Clerk Jane Greathouse on Friday afternoon released an agenda for Tuesday listing the project “update” rather than Commission discussion and vote after BOC Chairman Melvin Davis sent the four voting commissioners an email message on Aug. 15 telling them that “several issues” regarding the agreements need “clarification.”
County Public Works Director Emil Beshara criticized the agreements before a citizen committee on Aug. 12, saying that the county should not take action without more information.
Davis told the four voting commissioners that he had held a conference call with GDOT officials and Beshara on Aug. 15 and concluded that the BOC did not have the needed information on the projects to take action.
For more details of the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Daniells Bridge Road as it approaches Hog Mountain Road