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Page 8, July 29, 2019, The Islander JWSC consent order Continued from Page 1 In an email to all staff on July 25, Burroughs thanked them for their hard work to bring the systems back into compliance and for their contin ued efforts to assure this will not hap pen again. Finance and facilities committee meetings committee The JWSC finance and facilities committees met last week (July 24), but due to lack of a quorum the regu lar commission meeting was not held. During the public portion of the fi nance committee meeting Cameron Owens spoke to the committee and said he owned acreage at Exit 38 & 1-95 and that the lack of sewer capac ity out there “almost cost us a deal.” He asked the JWSC to help get ad equate sewer capacity to the area to keep up with the pace of development there. The finance committee approved but reduced staffs budget request for basin expansion in that same area. The utility has two comprehensive agreements for expansion work as sociated with the Bergen Woods de velopment and Wade Jurney Homes’ Saddlebrook development that will increase sewer capacity for these Entities in Georgia’s six coastal comi ties are continuing a joint battle against the nation’s number one most littered item: cigarette butts. Providing compre hensive coverage of Georgia’s coastal area, Tybee Clean Beach Volunteers, the City of Tybee Island, Keep Savan nah Beautiful, Keep Mchitosh Beautiful, Keep Camden Beautiful, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful, Keep Liberty Beautiful, Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Fort McCallister State Park and Crooked River State Park have again united in a coast-wide cigarette litter awareness educational initiative: Georgia’s Coast is Not an Ashtray. Made of cellulose acetate, a type of plastic, cigarette butts do not easily bio degrade. Discarded butts have a negative impact as land litter, but once blown into storm drains or tossed directly into water sources, this toxic litter becomes marine debris, leaching chemicals into marine and aquatic environments and potential ly being ingested by those inhabitants. With coastal Georgia’s proximity to the Atlantic Ocean as well as its abundance of streams, rivers, lakes, creeks, salt and freshwater marshes and ponds, the coast-wide initiative focuses on cigarette butts in relation to water bodies. Funded by a $10,000 Keep America Beautiful cigarette litter prevention pro gram grant, the latest initiative consists of cigarette waste receptacle placement, radio public service announcements, so cial media/video promotion, educational outreach, drink coaster outreach and pocket/car ash tray distribution. The combined two-year effort results in a to tal of 142 public space receptacles placed in coastal Georgia. While simultaneous project-specific outreach activities will occur in all six coastal counties during the effort, com munity-specific outreach activities are developments. When the Wade Jurney agreement was presented, staff told the JWSC that additional capacity above what Wade Jurney’s expansion would pro vide would be needed for expected fu ture development as well as half of the flow from the Tradewinds Industrial Park when it’s developed. Staff asked for a budget of $2.2 million but the finance committee approved $1,465 million. The project scope of $2.2 million was approved by the facilities committee at their July 11 meeting. Commissioners Ben Turnipseed and finance chair Commissioner Steve Copeland wanted to hold back on in cluding the 12 inch force main in the budget. Commissioner Tripp Stephens wanted “real” numbers through an engineering design before approving the budget. Turnipseed disagreed saying, “We need to open the area for development and the only way to do that is to ear mark the funds.” The committee voted to approve the $1,465 million which will come from the Capital Improvement Fund Reserve and the Repair and Replace ment Reserve. At their meeting on Thursday (July 24) the facilities committee approved encouraged as well. For more Georgia’s Coast is Not an Ashtray program info, contact: Keep Golden Isles Beautiful, info.kbgib@gmail. com or 912-279-1490 or log onto georgias- coastisnotanashtray.org Save German Village from 0 The Land Trust andDNR Find us on FB at Save German Village awarding the engineering contract for this same project to Roberts Civil En gineering for $65,000. Turnipseed told facilities commit tee members that the scope of the project had been changed during the finance committee meeting since “the Tradewinds development was not moving as fact as we thought but the design needs to be done.” The finance committee also ap proved the Altama CIPP (cured in place pipe) project. There are multiple gravity sewer crossings under Altama Avenue that are old and need repair. Staff has concerns about cleaning and televising these lines without by pass pumping in place so the request ed budget of $625,000 for this project includes bypass pumping. The finance committee also ap proved $300,000 budget for roof re placement to the Academy Creek building which houses JWSC inventory. The facilities committee received an update from Interim Executive Director Andrew Burroughs on the Academy Creek rehab project. Burroughs said staff had met with five vendors who currently provide equipment for the Academy Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and, Burroughs said, “We have options for filter, screening and odor control equipment.” Construction on the Academy Creek water pollution rehab project is expected to start summer 2020. Hand in Hand Continued from Page 1 the permitting process would include consideration by the Brunswick City Planning and Appeals Commission, followed by the full City Commission. The Planning and Appeals Com mission would hold a public hearing and consider the permit, then make a recommendation to the City Com mission. The City Commission would then also hold a public hearing and approve, deny or defer the permit. Permit applications must be re ceived by the city 20 days prior to the Planning and Appeals Commission meeting. The next Planning and Ap peals Commission meeting is sched uled for Aug. 14, 2019, and any ap plicants who have not yet filed permit applications have missed the deadline for that meeting. The next opportunity for appli cations will be 20 days prior to the Planning and Appeals Commission meeting slated for Sept. 11, 2019. The Planning and Appeals Commission has 65 days to consider permit appli cations after its meeting. Because of this timeline, the earli est any permit applicant would be able to appear before the full City Commis sion would be Oct. 2, 2019. The City Commission has sched uled a Town Hall meeting for Thurs day, August 1, 6 p.m. in Old City Hall, to receive citizens’ comments and con cerns regarding Harper’s Joy. Fashion Trunk Show Featuring Trendy and Affordable Apparel for Women and Men. 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