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with past due bills, effective July 1
the JWSC will remove accumulated
late fees provided a customer has
kept their current bill current for six
months, and is on a payment plan for
the past due amount and has paid
the agreed upon payment amount
for six months.
Also starting July 1 JWSC cus
tomers who want to help those in
need pay their water and sewer bills
may round up their bill, pledge a
monthly amount or make a one-time
payment.
The donations will accrue in an
escrow account held by the Coastal
Georgia Area Community Action
Agency (CAA) and will be paid out
as funds are available.
Andrew Burroughs, JWSC’s Act
ing Executive Director, pointed out
that amounts available will depend
on donations, and it may take a
while for the money to accrue.
The JWSC will pre-qualify those
who can apply for assistance. Those
names will be turned over to the
CAA for further qualification and
counseling. The CAA will notify the
JWSC the names of those who have
qualified. Each qualified person will
receive a voucher from CAA which
they must take to the JWSC’s cus
tomer service to get credit off their
bill.
The money is then transferred to
the JWSC by CAA.
Burroughs said customers must
be on an active payment plan to
qualify for the monetary assistance.
He also said these customers would
receive a letter from the JWSC noti
fying them of their pre-qualification.
Projects
• The JWSC approved $325,228
in project funding for smoke testing
25 mainland sewer basins.
Burroughs said staff ran flow
rates during dry and wet weather
and compared the results to deter
mine which basins needed to be
smoke tested.
“Anything over 100 gallons per
minute we will smoke test,” he said.
Staff conducting the flow test
ing will save the JWSC well over
$300,000 which is what the flow test
ing cost to determine which basins
on St. Simons to smoke test.
More than twice the linear feet
of piping tested on St. Simons will
be tested on the mainland. While
the testing will be done county wide
on the mainland, much of the test
ing will be done on the south end of
Brunswick.
According to Burroughs the RFP
(Request for Proposal) will go out
in July, contract awarded in Au
gust, and the smoke testing should
be done by September. Funding will
come from the Repair and Replace
ment Capital reserves.
• In August 2018 the JWSC signed
an MOU (Memorandum of Under
standing) with the Georgia Dept,
of Transportation (DOT). The DOT
planned to pave almost seven miles
of Highway 341 from the southern
end of Yellow Bluff Creek south to
the intersection of Highway 17. The
JWSC agreed to adjust 47 man holes
and 55 water valve boxes to grade at
DOT’s estimated cost to the utility of
$77,250.
DOT awarded the paving con
tract to Plant Improvement Co.,
Inc. in April 2019. The actual cost
of the JWSC’s portion increased to
$101,929, a difference of $24,679.
The JWSC approved increasing
their portion of the project from
$77,000 to $102,000. Funding will
come from the Repair and Replace
ment Capital reserves.
• The JWSC awarded a CIPP con
tract (Cured In Place Pipe) to Inland
Pipe Rehabilitation Southeast, LLC
for $2,550,519. The project is part
of the 2016 SPLOST funded North
Mainland Phase II and Phase II
Sewer Improvement project.
The repair includes 7,800 linear
feet of 30 inch pipe and 425 linear
feet of 42 inch pipe and 70 manholes.
The repair area of the gravity sewer
mains is from B and W Grade Road
to the Academy Creek Wastewater
Treatment Plant. The contract is for
120 days.
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former car wash.
Ragsdale also had questions about
the tree ordinance.
IPC member Patrick Duncan
pointed out that three other commis
sions, the airport commission, the
Brunswick Glynn Development Au
thority and the county commission,
all oversee and approve issues at the
airport.
“There is no lack of citizen over
sight at the airports,” said Duncan,
“The airport commission is very good
at what they are doing.”
Duncan also noted that when the
old Airport Rd. was widened and re
named Demere Rd. the reason was to
take the heavy traffic off of the tree
line stretch of Demere that is now
called Old Demere Rd. He said it was
done to avoid cutting the trees and to
keep commercial uses away from the
residential property.
Duncan made a motion to approve
the airport’s request and Michael
Torras seconded.
Saying he didn’t like to modify
things “on the fly,” Ragsdale request
ed the original motion be amended
twice.
Once to require a site plan if the
use of an existing building changes.
The other amendment included re
quiring all three tracts to comply with
the tree ordinance. It also cleaned
up language regarding special and
conditional use permits so all three
tracts have the same requirements.
Ragsdale and member Odessa
Rooks both wanted to defer any ac
tion so they could see the revisions
before they go to the County Board of
Commissioners.
Willis said, “If there is any prob
lem with the language, I will go to the
county commission and ask them to
send this back to us.”
When the motion was called, Wil
lis, Torras and Duncan voted in fa
vor, while Ragsdale and Rooks voted
against.
The IPC is required to take action
and action requires four votes, so Wil
lis asked if anyone wanted to offer a
motion to deny.
Ragsdale said the would change
his vote to yes. So with one more
round of voting the airport’s request
was approved with three changes on
a 4-1 vote. Rooks voted no.
The entire approval process was
confusing, but it appears restaurants
are now an allowed use in the airport
PD text for tracts B and C. Tract A
uses of the PD text previously includ
ed restaurants.
Library program
Tuesday June 25, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Spanish for Kids 208 Gloucester
St., 912-279-3740 Brunswick-Glynn
County Library
This is an informal Spanish class
for school-aged children. The group
meets each Tuesday in Meeting Room
2 at the Brunswick Library. Rising
3rd graders and older are invited to
attend.
Property Sales
on St. Simons and Sea Island
are broughtl to you weekly as a courtesy of Fred Freyer
To Buy or Sell Land
in Coastal Georgia
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912-230-0539
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S 815.00
Fredericks, Craig Allen
Laff Cor LLC
Unit 18, Cloister Ocean
& Jessica Lynn
Residences, **10 Dune Ave
#1432
S 2,072.60
Gallo, Kenneth A;
Stabler, David Scott II &
Lot 1, Blk 95, Sea Island No 1
Joseph, Susan E
Elizabeth Rodgers
Ext 1, **3819 Oglethorpe Dr
Cottage 322
St Simons
S 125.00
Construction BC Inc
Adams, William; Adams,
Lot 13, Lake View Cottages,
Scott & Kathryn
**5 Lake View Cottages Ct
S 195.00
Hodnett Cooper &
Perala, Scot & Jennifer L
Unit 5 Bldg 2507, Island
Hodnett LLC
Retreat Condos, **2507
Demere Rd #5
S 228.50
Power, Shelly F; Power,
2019 Darlene M McLelland
Unit 740, Deer Run Villas,
Ashley M
Trust
**740 Deer Run Villas
S 285.00
Hamid, Shireen A
Jones, Jack P & Cynthia J
Lot 17, Sect 2, Forest Park,
**249 Alabama St
S 555.00
Furse, James &
McGinty, Fred W Sr
Lot 1, Blk 6, East Beach,
Deborrah
**1700 Bruce Dr
$ 825.00
Thomas, Arnold Dr &
Veal, Zachry T & Leigh T
Lot 69, Ph 4, Hawkins Island,
Theresa
**116 Hawkins Ln
$ 1,150.00
McLeod, Scot E &
The Tides Inn LLC
Lot 6, Blk 26, East Beach,
Laurel A
**4226 13th St
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