Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest IV raised $143,551 in the 18 days from his qualification for the Dec. 9 House District 121 Special Election on Nov. 7 to the Nov. 24 filing date with the Georgia Ethics Commission, or almost $8,000 per day.
At that point–15 days before the election on Tuesday–Guest had spent only $1,260, so he had a net balance on hand for those 15 days of $142,290.
The Oconee County Planning Commission has only two items on its agenda for its Monday night meeting, but both items, if they are approved by the Board of Commissioners and developed as proposed, will have noticeable impact on the county.
Townley Family Partnership LLLP is asking the county to rezone 242.3 acres stretching from Clotfelter Road to Malcom Bridge Road from AG (Agricultural) to R-1 (Single Family Residential District) for a 119 lot residential subdivision.
The final day of early voting on Friday for the Dec. 9 House District 121 Special Election between Democrat Eric Gisler and Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest IV saw 665 Oconee County voters cast a ballot, the largest number of voters to turn out in the 14 days of early voting.
A total of 5,172 voters cast a ballot in Advance In Person voting and another 23 voted Absentee By Mail by the end of the day on Friday, meaning that 19.2 percent of the eligible voters in the county have cast a ballot going into Election Day on Tuesday.
Items related to Oconee County’s planned Dawson Park dominated the crowded agenda of the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night.
The meeting began with a nearly 50-minute long presentation and discussion with Kemper Sports about using the park for sports tourism.
Oconee County is considering contracting with Kemper Sports, a golf, sports, and hospitality company, to help it develop and market the planned Dawson Park for sports tourism.
Three representatives of the Northbrook, Ill., company attended the Tuesday meetings of the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) and the Board of Commissioners to present their analysis of the sports tourism potential of Dawson Park.
With only five days of early voting remaining, traditionally Republican Oconee County is greatly outperforming traditionally Democratic Clarke County in ballots cast for the Dec. 9 House District 121 Special Election.
At the end of the day on Nov. 26, the final day of voting last week, 2,897 ballots had been cast in Oconee County, while only 567 had been cast in Clarke County.
The Oconee County Planning Commission, in a 4 to 3 vote, recommended to the Mayor and Town Council of Bishop that it deny a request that it rezone six acres on High Shoals Road next to the planned St. Aelred Catholic Church for use as a special events venue.
The Commission then, in a 5 to 2 vote, recommended to the Mayor and Town Council that it grant a variance to the property owner asking for the rezone for the event venue for a reduction in the buffer from 15 feet to zero feet between the event venue and St. Aelred Church.
