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Barrow County’s only award-winning Georgia Press Association member newspaper Wednesday, July 6, 2016 Barrow k Journal www.barrowjournal.com Barrow County’s Legal Organ Newspaper VOL. 8 NO. 37 24 PACES 2 SECTIONS, PLUS INSERTS A PUBLICATION OF MainStreet Newspapers, Inc. WINDER, BARROW COUNTY GEORGIA 30680 50« COPY Barrow Briefs Diabetes Support Group to meet The Diabetes Support Group’s meeting will be Monday, July 18, at 6 p.m. in the third floor conference room at Barrow Regional Medical Center on N. Broad Street in Winder. The speaker will be Toni R Miles, MD. PHD, from the University of Georgia, College of Public Health. The speaker for the Aug. 15th meeting will be Cheryl Williams from Longstreet Clinic. The Diabetes Support Group meets the third Monday of each month. Winder Library offers free lunch program The Winder Public Library is providing free meals to children this summer in part nership with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, Georgia’s Bright from the Start agency and the Athens Housing Authority. Lunch will be served from noon until 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at the library, locat ed at 189 Bellview Street. The program will continue through Tuesday, July 12. The program is open to children up to 18-years-old. Children must be able to eat alone, without the assistance of parents. Inside: Index: Church News 10A Classifieds 4-5B Legals 6-10B Obituaries 11B Op-Ed 5A Pets of the Week 10A Public Safety 6-8A School News 9A Sports 1- -3B,11 B Contact Info: Phone: 770-867-6397 Mail: 77 E. May Street, Winder, Ga. 30680 Fax: 706-621-4115 Follow us on Facebook by becoming a fan of the Barrow Journal. www. BarrowJourn al.com Online: Mailing Label Below RED, WHITE AND BLUE WEEKEND A FUN TIME IN AUBURN Aubrey Warbington, who will turn 2 years old in September, enjoyed the festivities Saturday afternoon in downtown Auburn. The city was hosting its annual July 4 celebration. COLORFUL DRESS The Reyes family, Regina, Fausto, Candance (7) and Trinity (3) were showing their patriotic pride at Auburn Saturday. Saturday’s July 4 celebration featured numerous events includ ing a fireworks display. A \m—' \ • ■ L % " fee *J ***** BUBBLE FUN These youngsters had a fun time with bubble guns in downtown Auburn. ASSISTING VETERANS Dolce is a service dog who will be going to Florida to help a vet eran as part of Operation Atlas. -ans of Georgia» tlas PTSD Dogs - One Mission 27-0580 vt'tcraii.solga.ami PERFECT FORM Angela and Adrianna Sanchez from the North Georgia School of Dance strike a pose. See more photos from Auburn’s Independence Day weekend celebration on page 12A. Photos by Jessica Brown Winder set to approve new fiscal year budget next week City of Winder officials took another step toward approving its new fiscal year budget with a public hearing Tuesday. The Winder City Council held a hearing for citizens to voice their concerns on the FY2017 budget proposal although other than city officials only two media members and one citizen were in attendance. Finance director Leslie Henderson gave an overview of the proposed budget to those in attendance including mayor David Maynard and all city coun cil members. The FY2017 budget is set to go up $1.8 million, a 6.3 percent increase from 2016, and an 11.8 increase from 2015. The proposed budget, which could be approved next Tuesday, calls for $40.9 million in reve nues with $37.1 in general expen ditures and $3.8 million in other expenditures such as debt pay ment services. Included in the proposed bud get will be $1 million in water and sewer capital projects with funds from Barrow County Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). An addition of one city employ ee, bringing the total number to 163, is also in the budget. Approximately $1.1 million in capital requests is included in the budget from all depart ments including almost $200,000 from the City of Winder Police Department. Chief Jim Fullington is requesting four new vehicles as well as computers for police cars. Other items in the budget include a new pickup truck for the fire department and two new mowers for the public works department. The city’s water and sewer fund totals $32 million for the new fiscal year. Some of the costs include $2.5 million for sewer upgrades and $800,000 for water line installment on the ongoing McNeal Road project. The budget includes a 3 percent increase in salaries for possible merit raises.
