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Grand Jury Meets
Monday; New Jail
Proposal Planned
Chattooga County Sheriff
Ralph Kellett is expected to
present a report to the February
term Grand Jury next week on
why he and other elected and
appointed officials don’t think a
new county jail is needed.
Commissioner Jim Parker
said he would give Sheriff Kellett
the minutes of a Jan. 17 Jail
Study Committee meeting that
drew that conclusion. The sher
iff would then give them to the
new Panel, Parker said.
He'll be around the Grand
Ju? more than I am,” Parker
said.
The 1999 August term
Grand Jury asked that a commit
tee investigate whether the
countX needed a new jail. It sus
gested that its members include
the sheriff, Commissioner
Parker District Attorney Herbert
“Buzz” Franklin and t)(l)ur non
appointed and non-elected per
sons, each appointed by the
Town or City Councils of Sum
merville, Trion, Menlo and Ly
erly.
The members were Parker,
Kellett, Franklin, former Trion
Mayor Hoyt Williams, Trion;
Police Capt. Harold Tucker,
Summervi?le; Superintendent
Sid Swords of Menfi)o and farmer
Ralph Cook, Lyerly.
The existing jail has a cayac
ity of 47 inmates, Sheriff Kellett
said earlier.
Throufih about nine
months, it had cost the county
about $12,000 more to board out
?risoners than it had received
rom boarding other jails’ in
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ose called as prospective
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Holland’s ‘Big MaMa’ Does The Job
Stanley Johnson, left by water pumping truck
“Big MaMa,” and Sam Johnson, volunteer
firefighters with the Holland Fire De
partment, Station Five, recently answered a
Council Debating
“Irashy’ Property
Trashy yards inside the
Trion town limits will be cleaned
one way or the other, according
to comments made and actions
taken during the monthly Trion
Town Council meeting.
Trion Mayor Don Hayes and
other Council members said they
wanted to know what they legally
can do to force the cleaning of
yards that don’t meet the town's
standards of cleanliness.
Trion/Summerville Build
ing Inspector Billy Hughes said
he is gressing Trion resident
Toby Brock to act on cleaning
Brock’s property.
“There is a lot of work to be
done to clean this property,”
Hughes told the Council last
Thursday evening, Jan. 27. “Itis
quite evident that Mr. Brock is
not planning to clean it.”
The property is located on
Second Street, said Mayor
Hayes. Brock has been sent to
City Court and fined, city officials
said. A]thoufif\ those measures
have been taken, Mayor Hayes
said he was still not satisfied with
the results.
COURT-FINE
“The gentleman has been
sent to court and fined and still
has not done any improve
ments,” the Mayor said. “I guess
my question to you is what steps
can we or do we need to go from
here?”
“Well, Judge (Jon) Payne, I
call to extinguish a mile-long grass fire along
Ga. 100 near Holland. More than 300 gallons
of water were used to extinguish the blaze.
(Staff Photo By D. J. Laan).
loaned him my codebook on that
today,” Hughes said. “He said he
would still go over this and study
and see what path he wanted to
take.
“As [ pointed out to you once
before, we would try this route
and if it didn’t work, we would
come back and condemn the
house,” Hughes said.
To condemn the house and
property, the building inspector
would have to §ive Brock proper
legal notice, dp ace a lien on the
pros:erty and then possibly sell
the house and property. Hughes
said the resale value woulg be
“small.”
FLOOD ZONE
“But, the property is in that
Zone A flood zone,” Hughes con
tinued. “The property is not go
ing to bring as much as it is go
ing to cost to clean it.
“The Town needs to look at
this if it wants to foot the bill as
far as cleaning the property when
it knows it is going to lose some
money on it,” Hug%xes warned.
“That is Whfi I wanted you
to point out to the Council that
we are in the process of working
on it,” Hughes said. “Basically,
it's in the city judge’s hands. If
and when the d,ecision comes, it
might be that we say the town
revert back to the town's clean
it and lien-it ordinance.”
“All the legal papers have
been served. If we go ahead and
clean it, if we go ahead with that
process, there would be some
more pafi)ers, letters and things
that would have to be served be
fore we could sell the property,”
Huihes said. “Everything that
we have done to this point has
been legal and binding. So we
haven'’t taken any steps that are
not going to be useful if we have
to get that step.”
PUBLISH PHOTOS
Mayor Pro Tem Bobby
Ward saidwould like to see the
Town the publish names of prop
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houses that were not in compli
ance with the Town's clean-it or
lien-it ordinance.
Hughes also talked about a
house on First Street that needed
repair. Mayor Hayes asked about
another house on 7th Street.
“I've still got several that are
waiting that [ want to give cita
tions to, but there is no need in
loading up the system until we
get some of these we got going
taken care of,” Hughes rep%ied.
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Ward Mayor Pro
Tem For Trion
Bowers Votes For His Opponent
The Trion Town Council has
chosen Councilman Bobby Ward
as Mayor Pro Tem of the panel.
The vote was split, 3-2. Ward'’s
opponent for the post even voted
for the new official.
The nomination of a mayor
pro tem was the first item of busi
ness for the new Council.
TWO CANDIDATES
Two candidates were
quickly nominated.
“I would like to nominate
Bobl;y Ward for mayor Ero tem,”
proffered new Town Recorder
John Drennan.
“I have a motion that Bobby
Ward be nominated to mayor
pro tem,” Mayor Don Hayes re
peated.
Without much hesitation,
Councilwoman Mar{ Haygood
nominated Councilman Roy
Bowers. He was recently re
elected to the Council after be
ing out of politics for several
years.
“ I would like to nominate
Roy Bowers,” Mrs. Haygood said
at the Thursday, Jan. 27 meet
ing.
“Mr. Ward and Mr. Bow
ers,” Mayor Hayes said. “Are
they any other nominations? If
not, the nominations cease . . .
We have two names, Mr. Ward
and Mr. Bowers and we take the
first one at this time.
“Those of you in favor of
Mr. Ward please let it be known
by a raise of hands.”
BOWERS: NO
Councilmembers Drennan,
M. L. “Bo” Sprayberry and even
Bowers voted against himself
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and raised his hand in support
for Ward.
“OK, for Mr. Bowers,”
Mayor Hazles then said.
Mrs. Haygood and Council
man Dwight Arden tossed their
votes towards Bowers,
“Okay Mr. Ward, you are
the mayor pro tem,” the mayor
said.
“You better shake my hand,
I nominatewou," Drennan said
jokingly to Ward.
ASSISTANT
The Council also unani
mously adopted a resolution cre
ating an assistant town
recorder’s position. The position
was created because Drennan
and his wife were goiné on vaca
tion and someone had to com-
Flete his duties while absent, of
icials explained.
“We did not do this in the
past,” Mayor Hazes said. “But it
];_tl"obably should have been done.
e police chief has an assistant
police chief and the gas depart
ment has these and the recre
ation department has this. But
there may be times when the citx
recorder might not be in town,
Mayor Hayes said.
The recorder’s position has
two functions: voting the same as
a Council member and adminis
trating the town’s cemeteries.
This requires him to be on call
all the time.
“It’s a very delicate matter,”
Drennan explained. “While I'm
totally committed to this job, I'm
not available seven das's a week
365 days a year. [ asked my good
friend Les (Shives, the t)o,rmer
recorder) what he did when he
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on vacation. My wife works.” But
Idon't.
“I was baffled that we didn’t
have a system in fpla\ce where
someone filled in for you while
you were awa[\;,” Drennan said.
Because he maifht be out of
town when a funeral home needs
him to tend to burial matters, the
Council unanimously agreed to
adopt a resolution creating an
assistant position. The Council
might or might not choose to
compensate an as yet unnamed
assistant.
The Council also agreed to
move its monthly meeting time
from 6:30 to 6 p.m. The Council
also considered moving the
meeting day to earlier in the
month or to another day. The
Council now meets on the fourth
Thursday of each month.
Mayor Hayes sugfiested
moving the meeting to the first
Thursday of the month or the
first Tuesday of the month. No
action was taken on his sugges
tion.
OTHER MATTERS
In other action, the Council:
* Listened to Recorder
Drennan §ive an update on the
number of late property tax bills
from 1999.
* Heard Trion Cit{ School
Superintendent Don Elam talk
about construction of the pre
kindergarten building.
* Agreed to spend $2,500
for a street-sweeping unit that
fits onto the front of a tractor. It
will be used to clean sludge off
the roadwaf's around the town’s
sewerage plant on U.S. 27.
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