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Politics: Fayette County, Georgia and Beyond:
When is a Noise MORE than a Noise?
9/28/07 The County Commission is considering changing the current noise
ordinance. I suppose I should say Commissioners Herb Frady and Eric Maxwell are
pushing to change the noise ordinance...
More
Politics: Fayette County, Georgia and Beyond:
Contrasts
9/10/07 Back when Harold Bost, Greg Dunn, Glen Gosa, Linda Wells and Herb
Frady comprised the County Commission, they goofed. One night in an executive
session they were discussing a legally permissible issue and the conversation
drifted...
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond:
If they really want to prove it's non-political...
8/12/07 At the Commission retreat down at Callaway Gardens one of
the items on the agenda concerned hiring the new in-house attorney...
Poltics: Fayette County & Beyond:
I can't keep up...
8/11/07 You’re probably wondering why so many of my blogs are
focusing on the Fayette County Commission…
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond:
Noisy Neighbors
8/10/07 We’re lucky. At least thus far! We live on five acres at
the moment and we’re surrounded by five-acre tracts. We have neighbors on all
side, a few with children, but many are much older than we are and have lived
here since before we were born. It’s a fairly quiet neighborhood with lots of
wildlife and woods...
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond:
Retreat Impressions 8/8/07Well, I just got back from the Fayette County Commission
retreat at Callaway Gardens. I have family in the area so I went down Tuesday
thinking I might go to that night’s introductory session. Spending time with my
cousin beat out sitting with the Commissioners. I very much enjoyed dinner and
yakking with my cuz…
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond:
Purchasing Cards... Again????
8/5/07 The Fayette County Commission is once again looking at
instituting a purchasing card program. They tried this back in late 2001 or
early 2002, finally ending the program in 2006 due to serious misuse of the
cards...
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond: Bloggers, Newspapers, Bias VS Facts
8/1/07 I rarely read the blogs on the local newspaper site. Seems
to me a lot of people with axes to grind (some of them pretty strange
axes) and very little real factual (or even vaguely correct) information
like to spout off about every and anything. How do they find the time?
Better yet, why do they make the time?...
More
Politics: Fayette County & Beyond:
Seven Fayette County Commission Chairman have spoken out... It's time to
wake-up!
7/30/07
Seven, yes SEVEN,
former Fayette County Commission Chairman have now voiced their opposition to
actions of the current Board of Commissioners. That is unprecedented in the
history of this county, and perhaps in any county in Georgia or the United
States...
More
1/4/08 (10:00) A couple of events occurred during the
County Commission meeting on January 2. I’d like to explain them to you. First, I did not vote for the re-election of Jack Smith as
Fayette County... More
The right way
is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is
unpopular is a true test of moral character. - Margaret Chase Smith
County Commission Meeting Jam Packed
with News!
9-6-07 The agenda for the September 5th County Commission meeting was
long and, as expected with a jam-packed agenda, full of many newsworthy actions.
It has also become expected that items not on the agenda will pop
up that are worthy of sharing with our readers. One such item is the subject of
our first video from the meeting (to the right).
We will be writing a series of articles from the meeting to
include: “Did the County Commissioners Break the Law”, “Committee Deems
Defined Benefits as Feasible” (Retirement Study Committee results), “County
Commission Turns Down Sewer for Tyrone Schools” among others.
The Fayette Front Page will also be
providing video of the various segments of the meeting so you can judge for
yourself. We hope you’ll view the first video from the meeting, “Did the
County Commission Break the Law”, (above) and watch for more videos and
articles regarding the meeting. - FFP
Proposed
Redistricting Stirs Up a Storm
8/23/07 The redistricting of Fayette County's voting precincts is
once again stirring up a storm. At the County Commission's retreat held at
Callaway Gardens earlier this month Commissioner Herb Frady presented the Board
with a redistricting map. He said he had already presented his version of the
re-drawn lines to the Georgia Reapportionment Services Office and they had
suggested one fairly minor change...
More
Commission Continues Retreat... and to
Discuss Redistricting
8/15/07 The Fayette County Board of Commissioners will hold a
called meeting on Monday, August 20, 2007, beginning at 8:30 a.m., for the
purpose of discussing items that first appeared on the Commissioners’ agenda for
the Annual Planning Retreat held on August 8. Time did not allow for the
discussion of all items on that day. Also, the Board will continue a previous
discussion about a proposal to request consideration from the Georgia
Reapportionment Services Office and the Justice Department for a redistribution
of population among the three County Commission Districts. The meeting will be
held in the County Commission Conference Room, located in Suite 100 of the
Fayette County Administrative Complex, 140 Stonewall Avenue West, in
Fayetteville.
Commissioner Opts
for Local, Open, Accessible Retreat
8/6/07 The Fayette County Commission has chosen to meet, for a
Retreat, in Callaway Gardens. We will meet Tuesday evening, August 7th,
and Wednesday, August 8th. I have attended other Commission Retreats
in the past and they were all held here in the County...
More
Former County Commission Chair Chuck Watkins
Resigns from the Fayette County Water Committee 7/25/07 Chuck Watkins, the Chairman of the County's
Water Committee and a former County Commission Chairman has resigned from the
Water Committee. His resignation follows that of former County Chairman George
Patton last week from the same Committee. Both pointed to the current Board's
firing of County Attorney Bill McNally as one of the main reasons for choosing
to resign their positions.
A total of seven past County Chairmen have now spoken out in
protest regarding the current Board's actions. (Dunn, Bost, Price, Wallace,
Patton, Watkins & Barronton)
7/13/07 (Audio included) Three former County Chairman
attended the July 12th County Commission meeting to speak for themselves and
three others who could not be in attendance. Former County Commission Chairs
Greg Dunn, Harold Bost and George Patton spoke to the current Board...
1/30/08 (9:39 p.m.) This is the time of year when your state
and local governments and school systems work out their budgets. When they
establish their budgets, they also create the need for the taxes that pay for
those budgets... More
Politics: Fayette County, Georgia and Beyond:
The Tax Hike Cometh...
Oops, goofed, the tax hike has already
cometh…
However, if you think the County’s tax increase this year is something, wait
until the County Commission votes to implement defined benefits for county
employees!...
More
County Commission Discusses Changes to Noise Ordinance
More rail
crucial for metro Atlanta, say officials
AJC 9/27/07 Article: Fayette County Commission Chairman Jack
Smith said the need for traffic relief is greater on the metro
northside... But Smith said he sees a need to extend existing MARTA lines in
several directions into the suburbs...he particularly leans toward building MARTA rail
along I-85 to south Fulton's Union City, "if not Newnan." Suburban acceptance of transit is growing, he said.
"There is a willingness to understand that congestion has gotten
bad enough..."
More
County Commission Revives Purchasing Cards for Employees
8/5/07 (Video) One of the items for discussion on Wednesday’s
County Commission Workshop Agenda was “Approval to initiate a revised
Purchasing Card Program, and approval of the proposed policy...
More
Heritage
Christian Church Denied Sewer by Commission Maxwell and Frady Vote to Extend Peachtree City Sewer to
County
7/15/07 Heritage Christian Church appeared for the second
time before the County Commission to request that they approve... More
Letter:
Commissioner Peter
Pfeifer Weighs in on County Attorney 6/25/07 Let’s discuss the County Attorney. There is an effort, by
some, to replace our current County Attorney, McNally, Fox & Grant,
with an “in-house” Attorney....
3/9/07 -Watch the
March 7th County Commission Meeting(We didn't
film it all, but it's still close to three hours long. If you read the
various stories you'll be able to pull up individual snippets of the film rather than
wading through the entire video!)
