Five speakers on Monday night asked the Oconee County Board of Education to conduct mold testing at Oconee County Elementary School, even offering to pay for an independent firm to do the work.
The five, speaking in the Public Communication section of the meeting, made their request after Oconee County Schools Chief Operations Officer Ryan White said analysis of data from moisture meters and humidity sensors indicated conditions were not sufficient for mold to grow at the school.
The agreement the Oconee County Board of Education has signed with Georgia Leadership Associates (GLA) lists a wide range of services that the Folkston company will provide to help the Board select the next superintendent of Oconee County Schools.
The contract lists phases of the search, beginning with meeting with the Board to explain the search process, establishing time lines, developing a leadership profile for the superintendent, and then planning surveys to get public input.
Although the U.S. Constitution sets up three equal branches of government--the executive, the legislative, and the judicial--the judiciary is the “least equal” of the three, former Congressman Jody Hice told Oconee County Republicans last month.
“They’re not elected,” Hice, a Republican, said in justifying his distinction.Oconee County Finance Director Melissa Braswell released the first draft of the Fiscal Year 2026 General Fund Budget at the Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday night showing an increase of $694,695 in projected spending over the Amended Budget for the current fiscal year.
Revenue is projected to increase over the Amended Budget largely as the result of growth in sales tax, but the General Fund Budget requires the use of $310,000 in Fund Balance to be balanced at $45.7 million.
The Oconee County Board of Education on Monday approved a contract with Georgia Leadership Associates (GLA) of Folkston to help it find the next superintendent of Oconee County Schools.
Board Chair Michael Ransom said after the meeting that he expects Allan McCannon from GLA to join the Board next week in executive session to begin the process.
Parents of children in Oconee County Elementary School have started a second petition offering to help fund professional mold testing at the school.
Mandy Moreira, president of the Parent Teachers Organization at the elementary school, presented an earlier petition to the Board of Education at its meeting on April 21, asking the Board to conduct mold testing at the school.
The Oconee County Water Resources Department expects to begin this week replacing 1,000 feet of the force main sewer line that runs along an unnamed tributary to McNutt Creek that separates Tanglebrook subdivision and the Pinewood Estates South mobile home park.
The line, a crucial part of the county’s sewage infrastructure, has experienced three breaks in the last year resulting in the discharge of untreated sewage into the tributary.
