Watkinsville City Council plugs in with charging station, statues, recycling bins in immediate ideas implemented at June 2015 meeting
The Watkinsville City Council is nothing if not ambitious in their plans for the future of Watkinsville with wooded parks and comfort stations and now new art work and maybe even an electronic automobile charging station springing up everywhere.
Not everything everyone wants is going to be included in the future plans and the budget passed this evening for 2016 and beyond, but they seem always willing to listen to just about idea and discuss its merits or concerns.
One such curveball was thrown by your author asking for recycling bins to be included next to all city trash cans, and Mayor Charles Ivie knocked it out of the park with a resounding endorsement even without a vote.
Cindy Farley of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation showed up and spoke almost as much a Greek goddess statue, and at the end of the evening the city has committed $10,000.00 in tax payer money toward building bases in 15 locations around Watkinsville with the idea of installing some sort of sculpture or statuary in the city limits.
The City has wisely decided that the recently expanded Watkinsville Woods project has just about grown beyond their control and will explore hiring some kind of landscape architect crew to keep cutting back and hopefully smoothing out near the pulpit rock behind the Chappelle's Gallery. Volunteers and especially neighbors living near the wonderful tract have been doing an amazing job crafting this mighty old growth forest free of invasive plants and other nuisances, ranging from bed springs to barbed wire, but now it is time for the professional to take over.
I sincerely hope whomever they hire do not use Round-Up, but alas, I know what must be done to try and make Mother Nature bow to our whims and fancies. One can walk the whole perimeter in about 20 minutes top, and it compares very favorably to nearby Harris Shoals Park and the walk around the creek and wetlands.
Chef Jose Zambrano was supposed to be there (or someone representing them) and once again it appears that this was not sufficiently communicated to whoever needed to know at the restaurant, and the motion for Watkinsville's second distilled spirits license was tabled until the July meeting.
Randy Peterman received a building permit for 4000 square feet worth of a series of 20' x 50' units with no heating or air conditioning at 1031 Industrial Drive, next to where he is already doing something similar.
The Mayor unveiled the options with the sewer at the 9 Water Street Comfort Station with Mark Campbell presenting plumbing and other concerns in blueprints for the council's review.
Former State Representative Bob Smith wants to halt nonresidential traffic somehow on McRee Street as trucks have repeatedly used his front yard as turning radius for their traffic mistakes.
Not everything everyone wants is going to be included in the future plans and the budget passed this evening for 2016 and beyond, but they seem always willing to listen to just about idea and discuss its merits or concerns.
One such curveball was thrown by your author asking for recycling bins to be included next to all city trash cans, and Mayor Charles Ivie knocked it out of the park with a resounding endorsement even without a vote.
Cindy Farley of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation showed up and spoke almost as much a Greek goddess statue, and at the end of the evening the city has committed $10,000.00 in tax payer money toward building bases in 15 locations around Watkinsville with the idea of installing some sort of sculpture or statuary in the city limits.
The City has wisely decided that the recently expanded Watkinsville Woods project has just about grown beyond their control and will explore hiring some kind of landscape architect crew to keep cutting back and hopefully smoothing out near the pulpit rock behind the Chappelle's Gallery. Volunteers and especially neighbors living near the wonderful tract have been doing an amazing job crafting this mighty old growth forest free of invasive plants and other nuisances, ranging from bed springs to barbed wire, but now it is time for the professional to take over.I sincerely hope whomever they hire do not use Round-Up, but alas, I know what must be done to try and make Mother Nature bow to our whims and fancies. One can walk the whole perimeter in about 20 minutes top, and it compares very favorably to nearby Harris Shoals Park and the walk around the creek and wetlands.
Chef Jose Zambrano was supposed to be there (or someone representing them) and once again it appears that this was not sufficiently communicated to whoever needed to know at the restaurant, and the motion for Watkinsville's second distilled spirits license was tabled until the July meeting.
Randy Peterman received a building permit for 4000 square feet worth of a series of 20' x 50' units with no heating or air conditioning at 1031 Industrial Drive, next to where he is already doing something similar.
The Mayor unveiled the options with the sewer at the 9 Water Street Comfort Station with Mark Campbell presenting plumbing and other concerns in blueprints for the council's review.
Former State Representative Bob Smith wants to halt nonresidential traffic somehow on McRee Street as trucks have repeatedly used his front yard as turning radius for their traffic mistakes.
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