Oconee County Schools has received accreditation with glowing scores, Susan Stancil, Chief Academic Officer for the school system, told the Board of Education at its final meeting of the year last week.
The accrediting body Cognia assigned Oconee County Schools an overall score of 326, considerably above the score of 300 that signifies a system meets expectations for accreditation.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 17 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 7, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
None of those cases was in Oconee County.
This is the first time that the Department of Public Health has not reported a COVID-19 case in Oconee County since the Department began releasing weekly rather than daily reports in April of 2022.
Oconee County commissioners on Tuesday night turned down two requests to convert residential lots on Mars Hill Road to commercial development.
The Board of Commissioners, in a 3 to 1 vote, turned down a request to rezone 6.0 acres at the corner of Mars Hill Road and Julian Drive for an office park.
In a 2 to 1 vote, the Board rejected a request to rezone 3.1 acres on Mars Hill Road at Hollow Creek Lane for a dental office.
Oconee County commissioners and Board of Education members seem to have worked out an agreement for use of county and school sports facilities that basically rolls back the arrangement between the two governing bodies to where it was in 2010.
Neither Oconee County Schools nor the county will charge the other for use of its sports facilities.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 22 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on May 31, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier had been 42. The number of cases added has fallen three weeks in a row.
Oconee County Board of Education Member Tim Burgess, in discussing earlier this month the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget the Board is expected to adopt on June 5, expressed concern about the “substantial debt” Oconee County Schools is facing.
Burgess praised Chief Financial Officer Liz Harlow for setting aside $11 million in the Budget to help retire the bonds the Board of Education sold in 2021 to build a new middle school, add classrooms at three elementary schools, and build a new administrative building.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 42 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on May 24, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier had been 65. The number of cases added on May 10 had been 84.
