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75 C THE IS IAN D E www.theislanderonline.com ssislander@bellsouth.net August 19, 2019 Established in 1972 Vol 47 Issue 33 New year, new Burroughs - Molette While the new Burroughs Molette Elementary School (above) opened this past February, since the old school had not been removed, the parking lot and playground could not finished until that happened. This year the entire project is finished and students started off the new school year in the new Burroughs Molette. Fifty plus years ago when the original building opened it was two schools: Viola Burroughs Elementary and Sarah Molette Junior High. The school also served as the school system’s seventh-grade center and then an elementary school. The FACES and Leaps and Bounds preschool programs were added later as well and remain at the school today. The building of the new Burroughs Molette was funded with ESPLOST 3 and budgeted at $28 million. Islander Staff Photo - Permar Board of Elections discusses possible new polling locations City, county file opposition to Terry Creek Consent Decree By Pamela Permar Shierling Last Thursday the City of Brunswick and Glynn County jointly filed two amici cur iae briefs in opposition to the consent decree recently filed in Federal Court by the U.S. Dept, of Justice and Hercules Inc. One brief asks permission to file the amici curiae brief since Brunswick and Glynn County have special interests that are not represented in this case, and one brief was filed in opposition to the Con sent Decree. An amicus curiae is some one who is not a party to a case, may or may not have been solicited by a party, and who assists a court by offer ing information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case. The City and County are not parties to the filing of the Con sent Decree but are extremely affected by the Decree. The City and County briefs were filed in response to docu ments filed August 1 in the U.S. Southern District Court by the Dept, of Justice and Hercules asking that the Con sent Decree (CD) filed in May 2018 by the federal Environ mental Protection Agency (EPA) and Hercules detail ing the clean up of the Terry Creek outfall ditch or Oper able Unit 1 (OU1) be accepted by the court. One of the points in the joint City / County opposi tion brief was that the EPA proposed an Interim remedy (IROD) to OU1 rather than a final one, because it did not have sufficient knowledge regarding the toxicity of de graded or “weathered” toxa- phene to make a final decision Turn to Page 4 Terry Creek The Glynn County Board of Elections (BOE) is looking to move polling locations out of schools whenever possible for safety reasons and to use pub lic buildings where possible. This is apparently a state priority. It is also important to keep the polling location with in the precinct. Last Tuesday (August 13) during the BOE regular meet ing the school locations up for immediate change consider ation were Burroughs-Molette Elementary, Satilla Marsh Elementary, and Oglethorpe Point Elementary. During construction of the new Burroughs-Molette school, By Pamela Permar Shierling that voting precinct was re located to the Zion Baptist Church. Instead of going back into the school or remaining in the church, the BOE will work with the City of Brunswick to see if the precinct location can be moved to the Roosevelt Har ris Senior Center. The board voted to autho rize staff to make this move to the Senior Center provided the City agrees. According to BOE Super visor Chris Channell Center Point Church, which is located within the Satilla Marsh El ementary School precinct, is willing to act as the new polling location. The church is located off Highway 17 near the inter section with Highway 82. There was discussion about combining the Satilla Marsh precinct and the Marshes of Glynn Church precinct and re locating those polling places to the Bay Harbor Church. Channell said Bay Harbor was large enough to handle two precincts and that would help reduce BOE costs. Another option to move out of the Marshes of Glynn Church would be to move to the Brook man Community Building. Turn to Page 11 Board of Elections BOC denies alcohol license for Boomer's By Matthew J. Permar During their regular meet ing last Thursday, August 15, the Glynn County Board of Commissioners (BOC) unani mously denied, with little dis cussion amongst themselves, an alcoholic beverage license for Boomer’s Truck Yard in Brunswick. The business is proposed for the intersection of Highways 341 and 303 in Glynn at the location of the former Pump kin Patch fruit stand. It also includes the mostly vacant lot behind the old Pumpkin Patch building on Hwy. 303. While Boomer’s owner, Tony Clark, got the site plan for the business approved at the Mainland Planning Com mission’s (MPC) July meeting, it was a split 4-3 decision. Turn to Page 9 License denied County tax bills will look slightly different By Pamela Permar Shierling Both Glynn County and the Glynn County Board of Education have adopted their 2019 millage rates. The City of Brunswick will hold a final pub lic hearing Wednesday (Aug. 21) at 5:30 prior to their 6 p.m. meeting when it is expected they will adopt their millage rate. The good news: there are no millage rate increases and for city and Jekyll Island residents, their county millage rates will go down. This year Glynn County re moved the police fund and the emergency services fund from the general fund since Bruns wick residents do not pay for Turn to Page 11 County tax bills County-Wide News - Read County-Wide Page 2 - Clark announces run for County Page 3 - Local Business Commission Post 2 Page 8 - Sports with Dave Jordan ~ Brunswick Glynn Library Page 10 - Pew News to hold book sale Page 12 - Back Talk
