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Page 6, December 17, 2018, The Islander
BOE discusses securing GA campus
by Pamela Permar-Shierling
Glynn Academy High School was
chartered in 1788 and is the second
oldest high school in the south and
sixth oldest in the nation.
It’s campus consists of multiple
buildings and as such is difficult to
secure.
The Glynn County Board of Educa
tion has approved perimeter fencing
around the school, is working with the
City of Brunswick to close off Mansfield
Street with locked gates during school
hours, and is now looking for a way to
create a “front door” to the campus.
At their Dec. 4 facilities committee
meeting, the BOE heard a presenta
tion from architect John Tuten about
securing the campus and creating one
City responses
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Economic Development Authority
(EDA), or the URA would have to take
the debt for the conference center,
which would be guaranteed by the city.
Since the Center is a URA project,
a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) has been prepared for the URA
to take on the debt, with funding to be
guaranteed by the city.
The URA is expected to approve the
MOU when they meet on December 18.
It will be presented to the City
Commission for consideration at their
Wednesday meeting.
To sum up, at their Wednesday, Dec.
19 meeting:
• the city commission will consider
a financing proposal for the conference
center;
• consider an MOU / intergovern
mental agreement with the URA to
take on the conference center debt
backed by the city; and
• consider approval of a construc
tion contract with Elkins Construction,
LLC of Jacksonville, Florida for pre
construction services and construction
of the Oglethorpe Conference Center.
Druinm told The Islander that there
is enough increase in the City’s General
Fund 2019 revenues to pay for the con
ference center debt service.
“Much of the increase is in the sales
tax revenue,” he said. The budget
shows a $200,000 increase over 2018
in the LOST (Local Option Sales & Use
Tax) revenues.
Druinm also said the center is not
meant to compete with the Jekyll Island
Convention Center but the Oglethorpe
Center would handle medium sized
groups.
The city’s fiscal year 2019 budget in
creased by $6.3 million including $6.2
million in loan proceeds. $1 million of
entry point where all visitors would en
ter and exit.
Tuten suggested a structure at
tached to the campus side of The His
toric Glynn Academy building, which
sits on Monck and Norwich Streets
would, that could house the principal,
a nurse, and an SRO (School Resource
Officer).
Everyone coming onto campus once
school has started and all other access
es are locked would enter the campus
through this building and leave the
same way.
It would be like entering the front
door of any other school.
Tuten will present more informa
tion and costs to the board in January.
those loan proceeds is for the T Street
Landfill and $5.2 million is for the
Oglethorpe Conference Center.
The city also owes about $500,000 for
the purchase and renovation in 2009 of
monies borrowed from Suntrust for the
Mansfield St. building.
The City borrowed $1.1 million in
Oct. 2009 to purchase and renovate the
building. The annual debt service is
$106,000 and will be paid back by Oct.
2024.
When asked about the operations
cost of the Oglethorpe Center, Drumm
said it was hard to cost-out at this point.
“Two things have not been deter
mined,” he said. “We don’t know if a
management company will operate the
center or if city staff will operate it.”
“Then there is always the possibility
that the hotel would operate the center.
If there is not hotel at the beginning,
then city staff would probably operate
the center,” he said. “Right now the con
ference center schedule is ahead of the
hotel.”
“If the city operates the center
it would probably cost $180,000 to
$225,000 per year to operate, and it
would be like operating a community
center,” he said.
“The city is looking to the URA
for the direction of the management
choice,” Drumm said.
In response to a question regarding
marketing costs, Druinm said again
that the city is looking to the URA to
determine who would do the marketing.
“If the city markets the center, it
would be done through Travis Stegall’s
department (Stegall is Director of the
city’s Department of Economic and
Community Development),” Drumm
said.
“The City Commission has autho
rized the URA to make these decisions,”
Drumm said.
Terry Creek
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‘We have been dealing with this
for 24 years,” Brunson continued. “It’s
in our town and our community. We
fish in these waters, we water ski in
these waters and now our children and
grandchildren will have to deal with
this.”
Both commissions subsequent
ly unanimously passed resolutions
against the IROD.
The most recent court filing states
the United States received 100 re
sponses during the public comment
period.
The filing states: “If, after review
ing the public comments, the United
States concludes that the Consent
Decree should be entered, the United
States will seek the entry of the Con
sent Decree as an order of the Court.”
It is not known when a decision on
the Consent Decree will be made.
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