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July 15, 2013
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Established in 1972 Vol 41 Issue 28
Rewards
program for
worker safety a
possibility
• Jail construction cost
changes
By Matthew J. Permar
After hearing the worker’s
compensation report from
Glynn County Human Re
sources Director Orali Reed
last week, Commissioner Bob
Coleman (At Large #2) asked
if the county had any kind
safety rewards program for
county employees.
Reed said they did not have
one at this time but it is a goal
of her department to research
the possibility of starting one.
Ms. Reed said it would have
to be fair to employees across
the board, in addition to being
cost conscious.
In addition, Reed told the
county finance committee on
Tuesday, July 9 that her de
partment had hired a safety
officer who would work with
employees on safety training
and planning.
• In other Finance Com
mittee business:
- The committee was set
to make a recommendation
to the full county commission
for approval of a contract with
the Georgia Dept, of Correc
tions to have two work details
in Glynn at a cost of $39,000
per detail per year.
The item was pulled from
the agenda due to issues with
the contract that Assistant
County Attorney Will Worley
said were being worked out.
- Another item that was
pulled from the agenda was
a construction Change Order
#21 for the new County De
tention Center in the amount
of $34,800.
Jail architect Jim Ingram
told the committee that he
was working with the subcon
tractors and hoped to reduce
the change order cost.
The change order will be
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Finance committee
Mainstreet Brunswick
Downtown Brunswick contributes to
Region 12 growth
Georgia’s Main Street pro
gram is a community-based
development initiative that
encourages public and private
partnerships to create success
ful central business districts
utilizing the nationally recog
nized 4-Point Approach™ for
downtown revitalization.
Working in the program
areas of organization, design,
promotion and economic de
velopment, Main Street com
munities utilize local busi
ness owners, property owners,
citizens, non-profit organiza
tions, and local governments
to build a comprehensive ap
proach to sustainable down
town development.
The Georgia Main Street
Program began in 1980 as
one of the original pilot state
coordinating programs of the
National Main Street Initia
tive launched by the National
Trust for Historic Preserva
tion. The program launched
By Pamela Permar Shierling
with five local communities
and has grown to serve 96
communities statewide.
Georgia Main Streets rep
resent some of the strongest
central business districts in
the state and in the Southeast
and now serves as one of the
largest Main Street networks
in the country.
Main Street is a program
of the National Main Street
Center, a subsidiary of the
National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
Since their inception, Geor
gia Classic Main Street Com
munities have created over
56,000 net new jobs, nearly
12,000 net new small busi
nesses and $2.98 billion in
public and private investment
in 96 downtown’s across the
state.
In 2012 Georgia Mainstreet
led the nation in private in
vestment and job creation.
The economics of Georgia
Main Streets were present
ed recently by the Georgia
Department of Community
Affairs.
The snapshot provides a
glimpse into downtown devel
opment to date for 2013. The
96 member cities are divided
into 12 regions. Brunswick is
in Region 12 which includes
Darien, Kingsland, Pem
broke, St. Marys, Statesboro,
Sylvania, Tybee Island and
Woodbine.
After Region Three, which
is the Atlanta region, Region
12 was first in net new jobs
and building rehabs, second
in total investment and tied
for first in new businesses.
Businesses which have
located to Brunswick dur
ing 2013 include South
Coast Bank and Trust, the
Brunswick and Golden Isles
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Mainstreet
County-Wide News - Read County-Wide
MOAA/SGHS
Pew News
Chief Ellis
Back Talk
scholarship
Church News
Trains in Israel
Editorial Column
Community News
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The heart of downtown Brunswick - facing south along Newcastle St. looking at the intersection of
Gloucester St. Islander Staff Photo - Permar
Surfin’
the
Seaboard gets
Bwk airport
runway contract
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
The Glynn County Airport
Commission (GCAC) voted
last week to select Seaboard
Construction as the contrac
tor for the Brunswick Golden
Isles Airport Runway/Taxi
way Rehabilitation Project.
The GCAC received two
bids on June 28 from Seaboard
Construction and McLendon
Enterprises.
Seaboard was the low bid
der at $15,117,704.
The bid is under engineer
Brian Thompson’s estimate of
$16 million and almost $9.5
million lower than Seaboard’s
original bid of $24.5 million in
March of this year.
Thompson works for RS&H,
the GCAC engineering firm.
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GCAC
BOE increases
millage rate
• Mann's contract
renewed one year
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
For the first time since
2005, the Glynn County Board
of Education (BOE) voted to
advertise a millage rate in
crease. The vote came during
the Tuesday, July 9 meeting.
In 2005 the millage rate
went from 16.482 mils to
16.980 mils. The rate dropped
to 16.23 in 2006 and to 15.23 in
2007 where it has remained.
All concerned citizens are
invited to the public hearings
on this tax increase to be held
at the Glynn County School
System Administration Build
ing 1313 Egmont Street,
Brunswick, on Thursday, July
18 at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., and
on Thursday, July 25 at 9 a.m.
Following the third and
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School millage
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