Oconee County, GA Politics

Lee Becker once again effects positive change on the Oconee County, Georgia government with repeated and successful Open Records requests making more public and noticed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:51 PM Subject: County Agrees to Follow Open Meetings Law To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, Without admitting any wrongdoing in the past, Oconee County has informed the state's Attorney General that it plans to notify the public of meetings of its Drought Contingency Committee and of meetings of other advisory committees in the future in keeping with the state's Open Meetings Law. Documents provided by the county in response to an open records request I filed on May 13, 2008, showed that the Drought Contingency Committee met on Feb. 19, 2008, and approved an increase in water rates for residential users of the county. The county did not provide any evidence of advance notice of ...

Why does our current Board of Commissioners keep doing the people's business without notice or input? It is time for these people to be sent home, and we need your help to do it. Read more about the following at the Lee Becker blog, and thanks to Charlie Baugh for letting us know Subject: A BOC Meeting We Aren't Supposed to Know About Dear Friends: In a meeting Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis has tried to keep out of the public eye, the Commissioners met on December 7 in Madison, Georgia, to discuss a variety of issues, including the Rocky Branch sewage plant upgrade, a County sales tax, and the sale of beer, wine and alcohol by the drink in the County. The meeting took place at the James Madison Inn & Conference Center. The Inn gave the County an invoice of $683.20 for the meeting, payable on the day of the meeting. Chairman Davis used emergency procedures to give minimal public notice of the meeting, which actually was planned at least three w...