After Oconee County moved its nonjudicial offices to the new Administrative Building at 7635 Macon Highway north of Watksinville in the summer of 2023, it designated as excess property two buildings it had been using near the Courthouse and another on SR 15 on the south of the city.
When the Oconee County Library moved to Wire Park earlier this year, the county also designated that property an excess. It put all four properties up for sale.
Analysts asked by the Oconee County Democratic Party and by the Oconee County Republican Party to offer post-election assessments gave very similar interpretations of the outcomes of the Nov. 5 elections.
The experts said the margin of victory for the Republicans was small, that Georgia remains a swing state, and that elections are likely to be very competitive in the next election cycles.
The Oconee County Board of Education on Monday approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and the county Board of Commissioners to provide school resource officers (SROs) for Oconee County Schools.
The Memorandum states that one resource officer will be assigned to each of the system’s two high schools for the remainder of this year.
Townley Family Partnership’s plans for a 120-lot residential subdivision on 300 acres north of Hog Mountain Road between Rocky Branch and Hodges Mill roads received a setback on Monday when the Oconee County Planning Commission recommended denial of a rezone for the project.
The 4 to 3 vote against the rezone request by the Townley Partnership came after its representative agreed to double the delay in the start of the project to 10 years and to add two segments of multi-use paths to the development to connect with the county’s Master Trail Plan.
The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration has taken the first steps to consolidate the current eight precincts in the county into four.
Dark Corner and Colham Ferry precincts would remain unchanged in the proposed consolidation, but Bogart and Marswood Hall precincts would be merged into one precinct called Oconee Northeast.
Oconee County Commissioners on Tuesday night reappointed three current members of the Oconee County Library Board and filled two other vacancies with a housewife and community volunteer and with a retired university education professor.
Forty-seven citizens had applied for the five openings, and the commissioners passed over people who have been vocal critics of the Oconee County Library and its programming as well as those closely associated with the library.
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners has a full agenda for its meeting on Tuesday night, the last meeting of the year.
The Board is scheduled to hold a second hearing and vote on revisions to the county’s Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance that will slightly expand the service area, allow for brew pubs, and relax restrictions on sale of alcohol in University 16 Cinemas in Epps Bridge Centre.
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is going forward with plans for a right-in, right-out interchange for SR 316 and McNutt Creek Road with the complete elimination of cross traffic on McNutt Creek Road.
Oconee County officials have expressed a preference for a grade-separated interchange, citing the negative impact the proposed design will have on Fire Station No. 7, on traffic on local roads, and on the Gateway Technology and Business Park.
