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BOC considers new meeting schedule
SPLOST VI projects for FY19, alcohol licensing administrator position also on agenda
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
The Dawson County Board
of Commissioners could
change its meeting schedule in
an effort to make meetings
more efficient and productive.
Dawson County Commission
Chairman Billy Thurmond pro
posed restructuring the BOC
meetings at the March 28 work
session which would reduce the
number of regularly scheduled
meetings from four to two.
The BOC has four meetings
per month, with voting sessions
on the first and third Thursdays
and work sessions on the sec
ond and fourth Thursdays.
The county is required to
conduct two regularly sched
uled meetings each month.
The proposed meeting struc
ture would be consist of a work
session at 4 p.m., an executive
session at 5 p.m. and a voting
session at 6 p.m. on the first
and third Thursday of each
month.
Items discussed at the 4 p.m.
work session would not be
voted on at the 6 p.m. voting
session that same evening.
They would be voted on at the
next scheduled meeting in
order to allow commissioners
and citizens two weeks to con
sider the proposed items.
Thurmond said limiting the
number of meetings would
allow for the meetings to be
more efficient and save revenue
in personnel and legal costs. It
would also allow citizens who
attend the public meetings to
receive more information at one
time.
“(Citizens) may not mind
leaving their house and driving
all the way up here and spend
ing 10 minutes with us and then
hitting the road again to go
back, but looking out for them
I’d like to give them as much
information all at the same time
as possible so that they have a
full day’s worth of information,”
See BOC18A
DCN hosts Best of Dawson
Winners’ Open House
Photos by Jessica Taylor Dawson County News
Dawson County News hosted its inaugural Best of Dawson Winners' Open House at the Professional
Development Center on March 26.The drop-in event gave winners in the 2019 Best of Dawson Readers' Choice
Awards a chance to meet with other award winners and celebrate their accomplishment.
Event posted record-breaking
number of votes on categories
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
The Dawson County
News hosted its inaugural
Best of Dawson Winners’
Open House last week at
the Professional
Development Center
where hundreds of award
winners came out to walk
the red carpet and cele
brate their achievement in
being named the best of
Dawson in the paper’s
2019 Best of Dawson
Readers’ Choice Awards.
The community was
asked to cast their votes
for the best businesses,
organizations, restaurants
and professionals
Dawson County had to
offer, and they delivered.
This year posted a
record-breaking number
of votes, with more than
160,000 votes being cast
in 192 categories ranging
from Best Pediatrician to
Best Ice Cream and all
that’s in between.
Winners of the annual
contest were invited to
attend the open house
See Best 14A
Pecan Pie Bars were one of the many desserts made by
Jacki's Kitchen at the Open House.
Dawson County
Schools legend
Bill Zadernak dies
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
“He was just larger than
life. Always smiling,
always trying to get you to
smile whether it’s cracking
a joke or teasing or whatev
er,” said Dr. Janice Darnell
as she remembered Bill
Zadernak. “He was defi
nitely full of life. You knew
when ‘Z’ was in the house.”
Integrity, generosity, kindness and loyal
ty are words Darnell used to describe
Zadernak, her friend and colleague, who
died at age 57 March 24 after a battle with
cancer.
Darnell, who serves as the director of
student support at Dawson County
Schools, met Zadernak in the early 1990s
when they were teachers together at
Dawson County High School.
“He was a great, great educator,” Darnell
See Zadernak 110A
Zadernak
Photo courtesy of Dawson County Emergency Services
Dawson County Emergency Services
responded March 31 to a structure fire on
Hwy. 53 East near Hightower Parkway.
DCES units respond to
home fire on Hwy. 53
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
Dawson County fire units responded to a
structure fire on Hwy. 53 East, near
Hightower Parkway, Sunday afternoon that
caused significant traffic delays as person
nel extinguished the fire.
Dawson County Emergency Services
received reports of a mobile home fire at
12:26 p.m. on March 31.
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