Rocky Branch on Tuesday's BOC Agenda

Once again Lee Becker does an excellent job explaining the situation much better than I could, so please read his post about the upcoming Oconee County Board of Commissioners meeting and why you should attend:


Dear Friends,

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners will get an update on the bids for the upgrade of the Rocky Branch sewage treatment plant at its meeting on Tuesday.

It is not possible to know if the Board will be asked to take action or anything about the bids themselves or the review process since the County has closed the entire process to citizens.

The County offered bidders the option of using one of two technologies for the plant. I've been told by an expert on these plants that the technologies differ significantly  and that the only way to know which will produce the higher quality water is to have details about the bids.

At the BOC meeting on Tuesday, members of the Board of Directors of Friends of Barber Creek will ask the BOC not to take any action on the Rocky Branch bids until the public has been given an opportunity to review them and have access to the evaluation process.

Two other items on the Tuesday agenda also are important: Transfer of Development Rights, which could be used to protect the rural parts of the County from development, and Impact Fees, which are used to cover costs associated with development.

See my blog, http://www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com/, for further details on the meeting.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Please attend if you can. If not, send a message to the Commissioners telling them that citizens should be able to know what bidders have proposed to do at a plant that will cost taxpayers between $8 and 10 million and that will discharge treated sewage water into Barber Creek.

Here is email contact information:

Melvin Davis, (Chairman), mdavis@oconee.ga.us
Margaret Hale, margarethale@oconee.ga.us and marghale@aol.com
Chuck Horton, chorton@oconee.ga.us
Jim Luke, jluke@oconee.ga.us
Don Norris, dnorris@oconee.ga.us

Thanks

Lee

 
 
Lee Becker
 
 

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