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THE
^ISLANDER
Published by
Permar Publications
www.theislanderonline.com
ssislander@bellsouth.net
August 5, 2019
Established in 1972
Vol 47 Issue 31
East Beach
roundabout
approved
• Memorial benches
coming to Gascoigne
By Matthew J. Permar
During their regular meet
ing last week (Thursday Aug.
1) the Glynn County Board of
Commissioners (BOC) voted
6-1 to move forward with con
struction of the roundabout at
the intersection of Ocean Blvd.
and the East Beach Causeway
on St. Simons.
Commissioner Bob Cole
man (At Large #2) was the
nay vote.
Public Works Director Dave
Austin said the project will be
under construction sometime
next month once the summer
beach season is over.
The cost of the roundabout
was estimated at $1.2 mil
lion for the SPLOST 2016
referendum.
Turn to Page 5
Roundabout
County okays
employee
upgrades
By Matthew J. Permar
Last Thursday (Aug. 1) the
Glynn County Board of Com
missioners (BOC) unanimous
ly approved a staff organiza
tional change that included
pay raises and increased sal
ary grades for 11 employees.
Based on a pay grades and
classification study done by
the Archer Company of Rock
Hill, North Carolina, the to
tal salary increase for the 11
employees was $51,600 and
represented a 5% increase for
each employee.
The employees also re
ceived a jump-up in their pay
grade, while four got new job
titles.
During the classification
review that was conducted
by Archer for the department
Turn to Page 4
County pay raise
City drainage
Lanier Blvd. not ready for prime time
The City of Brunswick was
almost finished with their 10
miles of road paving and then
ran into a problem with Lanier
Boulevard.
Storm drain pipes cross
Lanier in four places, accord
ing to City Engineer Garrow
Alberson, and these pipes
were in much worse shape
than originally thought and
must be replaced.
The project would have
been finished in time for Glynn
County’s school start date of
August 8 except that the city is
waiting on Atlanta Gas Light
to move a gas line that runs
By Pamela Permar Shierling
parallel to Lanier Blvd. on the
west side of the road.
“We can’t finish the drain
work and paving until the gas
line is moved,” Alberson said.
“We are hoping the line will
be moved within the next two
weeks and then we can finish
the pipe work.”
What the crews found dur
ing the paving is that some of
the huge 36” drain pipes were
broken and some had com
pletely disappeared into the
marsh muck.
“We will use rock and a
geo-textile fabric under the
new pipes to keep them from
sinking,” Alberson said.
All the pipe and gas line
work will take place between
Prince Street and Fourth
Avenue.
“The contractor is trying
to keep Lanier as passable
as possible until the work is
done,” Alberson said.
What parents taking their
children to Glynn Middle
School should watch for is one
lane traffic from Fourth Av
enue north on Lanier to the
school.
Two lanes will be open to
traffic north of the school but
may not be paved.
Top photo: The
Brunswick City drainage
project along Lanier Blvd.
Photo taken facing north.
4th Ave. is to the rear.
Glynn Middle school is to
the left.
Bottom photo: The work
location, photo taken
facing 4th Ave. to the
south.
Islander Staff Photos -
Permar
County-Wide News - Read County-Wide
Page 2 - City Finance Committee meets
- Motion filed to suppress GBNET
requested traffic stop
Page 8 - Jekyll Island Art Assoc Exhibit
Page 11 - College names new VP
Page 13 - Sports with Dave
Page 14 - Pew News
Page 16- Back Talk
Another Guale
Preserve wrinkle
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
You can’t get there from
here.
The Glynn County Board
of Commissioners received
notice last Thursday (August
1) from the Augusta law firm,
Hull Barrett, stating that the
right to cross their client’s
property at the end of Village
Drive does not extend to the
St. Simons Land Trust.
The property in question
belongs to a homeowner in the
German Village subdivision.
The German Village Prop
erty Owners Association
(POA) has for almost three
years objected to the use of
their only subdivision road
by the St. Simons Land Trust
(SSLT) to access the water
front portion of the 258 acre
Guale Preserve (formerly
Musgrove Plantation.
Turn to Page 10
Guale Preserve
Terry Creek
consent decree
approved
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
According to documents
filed August 1 in the U.S. Dis
trict Court Southern District,
the Consent Decree (CD) filed
in May 2018 by the Environ
mental Protection Agency
(EPA) and Hercules detailing
the clean up of the Terry Creek
outfall ditch or Operable Unit
1. (OU1) was approved by the
court to move forward.
This decision went against
both the City and County
Commissions as well as the lo
cal state legislative delegation
along with over 100 comments
from the community stating
that the remedy prescribed for
OU1 was not enough.
The crux of the clean up
matter is the hazardous
Turn to Page 6
Terry Creek
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