Watkinsville receives recycling approval from City Council
Residents of Watkinsville recognized the slowly encroaching appearance of blue recycling bins in subdivisions such as Morgan Manor Estates and Christian Lake on Tuesdays from the trash collectors Curbside Service for quite some time. Wednesday the Watkinsville City Council or morse specifically the Mayor of Watkinsville Joe Walter approved by decree the recycling companies' official activities inside the city limits.
The fee will remain $10.00 a month for the blue container picked up on Tuesday in a "single stream" - that is where you can put your plastics 1 through 7 right in with your glass and paper and aluminum and tin and steel and cardboard and Curbside will take care of them. No separation needed. You can get a wheel container for $15.00 which would be ideal for businesses inside the city limits.
"Just another step in the City of Watkinsville going green," said Walter. Previous attempts with other councils has not gone very far in getting recycling codified, and more than 50 families were already recycling inside. The goal is to get 601+ residents signed up which will reduce the monthly fee to $4.00 a month. So if you want to sign up for recycling and you live inside the city limits of Watkinsville, please call 706-769-1822 and sign up.
Guest and Tea Party favorite candidate for the House of Representative 113th district Kirk Shook did not seem too fired up about the recycling and instead talked about how bureaucracy drives off of businesses and pointed to the half dozen newly approved new businesses that had all left the meeting by the time that Mayor Walter has introduced the teacher from North Oconee who lives in Oglethorpe County.
The new business growth in Watkinsville includes a new place for the tots called Lifeboat Pre-K & Tutoring Center at 1450B Greensboro Highway for a woman named Kerri Williams. She will be located across from the Shell station down Highway 15 and will be receiving kids from the parents 8 to 12 noon hopefully dodging the log trucks across the street.
Suzanne Basham received approval for a furniture consignment shop called the Classic Cottage at 1021 Oconee Industrial Boulevard, Suite A. Tyler McClure received a reprieve from his pinestraw perdition at the intersection of Hog Mountain Road and 441 and instead will up introducing his product for purchase where there has been a barber shop and bondsmen and once was a used car lot at 73 North Main Street. He has to lease his property from the Board of Education, which seems kinda shady if you ask me.
Finally Jodie McWhorter received permission for her alternative bridal boutique called Dover Grace which should symbiotically fit in quite well with the Ashford Manor Bed and wedding factory across the street. She will be offering wedding dresses off the rack much less expensively and all the alterations and wedding day assistance with ruffles and what at 2 South Main Street, Suite 108 in the old Merle Norman store front in Town Center.
Jack Bauer look alike Luke Bishop received permission for a 40' x 100' warehouse on 1360 Greensboro Highway in his second municipal zoning area of his property.
Donald Addision recieved a building permit to begin building the 46,953rd Subway restaurant in world in Town Center owned by Mike Elder of Athens who has 100 of the stores himself. Subway has to come back and get a business license before they can serve a sandwich sometime toward the end of next month.
The city expanded by exactly 3.03 acres across from Southwire with the annexation of some property deed by that company which Police Chief Lee O'Dillon correctly called mud flats where kids go four wheeling. The will be zoned park and recreation area.
Residents Connie Massey and George Rodrigues (also on MACORTS and Planning Commission) will be part of an Ethics Committee and the city is seeking one more member to join.
Clubs and residents will be given a discount on the increased fees to rent the parks and town hall facility.
The city will give mulch to anyone so as to cut down on trips to the landfill (of which the county began charging the municipalities recently). The mulch in usually piled up on the entrance road of Harris Shoals Park. You do not even have to live in Georgia to get the mulch now, let alone Watkinsville or Oconee County. "I don't care if they live in Michigan," quipped Walter toward the end of the meeting.
The Oconee County Clean and Beautiful Committee figured out where the most cigarette butts were being tossed and now there will be "stylish" ash trays in strategic locations inside the city limits. The sprinkler system is on the fritz but will be fixed soon, according to Walter.
Members Brian Brodrick and Toby Smith were absent from this meeting. Member Samantha Purcell voted against the much ballyhooed conditional use realignment to the zoning statutes in anticipation of a photographic portrait studio coming in the forthcoming meeting on the Simonton Bridge corridor. City Attorney Joe Reitman received permission to leave early after considerable input on the conditional use verbiage.
The fee will remain $10.00 a month for the blue container picked up on Tuesday in a "single stream" - that is where you can put your plastics 1 through 7 right in with your glass and paper and aluminum and tin and steel and cardboard and Curbside will take care of them. No separation needed. You can get a wheel container for $15.00 which would be ideal for businesses inside the city limits.
"Just another step in the City of Watkinsville going green," said Walter. Previous attempts with other councils has not gone very far in getting recycling codified, and more than 50 families were already recycling inside. The goal is to get 601+ residents signed up which will reduce the monthly fee to $4.00 a month. So if you want to sign up for recycling and you live inside the city limits of Watkinsville, please call 706-769-1822 and sign up.
Guest and Tea Party favorite candidate for the House of Representative 113th district Kirk Shook did not seem too fired up about the recycling and instead talked about how bureaucracy drives off of businesses and pointed to the half dozen newly approved new businesses that had all left the meeting by the time that Mayor Walter has introduced the teacher from North Oconee who lives in Oglethorpe County.
The new business growth in Watkinsville includes a new place for the tots called Lifeboat Pre-K & Tutoring Center at 1450B Greensboro Highway for a woman named Kerri Williams. She will be located across from the Shell station down Highway 15 and will be receiving kids from the parents 8 to 12 noon hopefully dodging the log trucks across the street.
Suzanne Basham received approval for a furniture consignment shop called the Classic Cottage at 1021 Oconee Industrial Boulevard, Suite A. Tyler McClure received a reprieve from his pinestraw perdition at the intersection of Hog Mountain Road and 441 and instead will up introducing his product for purchase where there has been a barber shop and bondsmen and once was a used car lot at 73 North Main Street. He has to lease his property from the Board of Education, which seems kinda shady if you ask me.
Finally Jodie McWhorter received permission for her alternative bridal boutique called Dover Grace which should symbiotically fit in quite well with the Ashford Manor Bed and wedding factory across the street. She will be offering wedding dresses off the rack much less expensively and all the alterations and wedding day assistance with ruffles and what at 2 South Main Street, Suite 108 in the old Merle Norman store front in Town Center.
Jack Bauer look alike Luke Bishop received permission for a 40' x 100' warehouse on 1360 Greensboro Highway in his second municipal zoning area of his property.
Donald Addision recieved a building permit to begin building the 46,953rd Subway restaurant in world in Town Center owned by Mike Elder of Athens who has 100 of the stores himself. Subway has to come back and get a business license before they can serve a sandwich sometime toward the end of next month.
The city expanded by exactly 3.03 acres across from Southwire with the annexation of some property deed by that company which Police Chief Lee O'Dillon correctly called mud flats where kids go four wheeling. The will be zoned park and recreation area.
Residents Connie Massey and George Rodrigues (also on MACORTS and Planning Commission) will be part of an Ethics Committee and the city is seeking one more member to join.
Clubs and residents will be given a discount on the increased fees to rent the parks and town hall facility.
The city will give mulch to anyone so as to cut down on trips to the landfill (of which the county began charging the municipalities recently). The mulch in usually piled up on the entrance road of Harris Shoals Park. You do not even have to live in Georgia to get the mulch now, let alone Watkinsville or Oconee County. "I don't care if they live in Michigan," quipped Walter toward the end of the meeting.
The Oconee County Clean and Beautiful Committee figured out where the most cigarette butts were being tossed and now there will be "stylish" ash trays in strategic locations inside the city limits. The sprinkler system is on the fritz but will be fixed soon, according to Walter.
Members Brian Brodrick and Toby Smith were absent from this meeting. Member Samantha Purcell voted against the much ballyhooed conditional use realignment to the zoning statutes in anticipation of a photographic portrait studio coming in the forthcoming meeting on the Simonton Bridge corridor. City Attorney Joe Reitman received permission to leave early after considerable input on the conditional use verbiage.
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