Oconee Library Board To Hear Proposals For New Library Site

Representatives of the Watkinsville City Council and the Oconee County Board of Commissioners are scheduled to make separate presentations to the Oconee County Library Board of Trustees at its 4:30 p.m. meeting on Monday on competing sites for a new Oconee County Library.

The Library Board voted in July of 2019 to move the Oconee County Library from its current location at 1080 Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville to the planned new county administrative building at the intersection of U.S. 441 and SR 15 (North Main Street).

At the meeting of the Watkinsville City Council on Nov. 18, however, Watkinsville Council Member Brian Brodrick presented a proposal to move the library instead to Wire Park, a mixed use project being developed by Duke Gibbs on the former Southwire property on Barnett Shoals Road.

Brodrick and Council Member Christine Tucker have agreed to represent the city in the presentation to the Library Board on Monday. Gibbs also will be part of the team.

County Administrator Justin Kirouac said late on Friday afternoon that either he or Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell will represent the county at the meeting.

The Library Board is meeting at the Oconee County Civic Center Banquet Room, 2661 Hog Mountain Road, west of Butler’s Crossing.

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