Oconee County, GA Politics

This is the video from the meeting where the Board of Commissioners vote to change the duties of the Chair and more specifically the Administrative Officer Allen Theriault in reporting to the Board and not just to the chair. Oconee County BOC Mtg. 8-4-09 from Oconee County IT on Vimeo .

I have never been more proud of my home county government than this evening. I sat in the front row and even got up and spoke in favor of the Ordinance Providing for Organizational Structure, Allocation of Duties AMong Certain Officials of Oconee County and Meeting Procedure. The motion passed unanimously but not without some heated exchange and general gnashing of rhetorical teeth. Some people in audience need to remain quiet during the meeting as well, but that is for another post. Chairman Melvin Davis spoke against it, and several other people got up to speak against it as well such as Kate McDaniel and Mary Mellein among several others. Charlie Baugh was one of the few to support it besides me. Commissioner Chuck Horton said he had been working on this since 2005. Davis said his count with 24% percent in favor and 76% against it, and Commissioner Jim Luke questioned where he pulled such numbers from before the vote. Commissioner Margaret Hale spoke passionately about how things...