The economic rebound continues to percolate in lovely downtown Watkinsville, with Delores Schofill of CIRCA returning to the Main Street strip at 13 1/2 Main Stgreet, and Mae Rivera returning to cut hair basically across the street from her original location where pine straw has been sold with Watkinsville Clipper Cuts at 52 N. Main Street, Suite B, in the same development as Sunshine Cycles.
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| Delores Schofill of CIRCA comes back to Watkinsville |
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| Kristina Butler received the OK for Fresh Baked Home |
Just down the street from the return of CIRCA and their authentic antiques from the 1700s and 1800s is Fresh Baked Home run by Kristina Baker at 17 North Main Street.
All these businesses received unanimous approval by the City Council in an otherwise brief meeting. Mayoral candidate Dan Matthews was in the audience, and his opponent Charles Ivie continued his absence from the regular meetings.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans received non-unanimous approval for a solar powered lighted flagpole and granite monument in the city cemetery. Syd Johnson spoke for the group and had support from three members of the organization. Council member Brian Brodrick declined to support their monument.
The current Mayor Joe Walter talked briefly about the Saturday bike ride and passed the baton on to avid cyclist Brian Brodrick to discuss the Teardrop ride this weekend. Brodrick said the group plans to bike from Watkinsville 9 am to Buckhead in Morgan County and back in the 100 mile route. There are approximately 150 riders signed up already and they are expecting double that Saturday morning at 9:00 am.
Walter also talked about the 9/11 Remembrance at Veterans Park, patriotic luminaries on Main Street Sunday evening and the T-SPLOST meeting a few days before that. He also described his shock at seeing a fallen tree narrowly missing the new bridge and slightly damaging a small wooden walkway during the remnants of Hurricane Lee a week-plus back in the newly paved Harris Shoals Park.
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| Council members Mike Link and Brian Brodrick |
Councilman Mike Link echoed Walter's sentiments about the 9/11 ceremony and also pointed out where another downed tree is as well in the woods of Harris Shoals.
Council members Samantha Purcell and Toby Smith were in attendance and very supportive of most of the measures in the evening's meeting. City Attorney Joe Reitman attended as well as well and offered various opinions on legal matters and legislation throughout the 45 minute meeting.
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| City council members Toby Smith and Samantha Purcell vote for passage. |
The reconciliation report showed that $390,302.09 in the general fund and $123,171.62 in the SPLOST fund. The prepaid wireless service ordinance passed which will essentially provide the city 75 cents for every prepaid wireless which would have been collected by the State of Georgia and not distributed back to the city had it not passed. Council member Henry Norman objected to a paragraph in the proposed nuisance ordinance which would have essentially charged residents a fee to pay city employees to clean up excessive vegetation. No action was taken on this portion of the ordinance in this first reading.
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