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THE ^ISLANDER Published by Permar Publications www.theislanderonline.com ssislander@bellsouth.net September 2, 2019 County to consider $76,000 Impact fee study By Matthew J. Permar Impact fees for new devel opment are on the table for consideration by the Glynn County Board of Commis sioners (BOC) and will be dis cussed at this week’s regular meeting (Thursday, Septem ber 5). What the BOC will be con sidering Thursday is whether to spend $76,450 on a study and professional services to prepare an impact fee pro gram for Glynn County. The BOC’s Finance Com mittee heard a presentation about the proposed study at their meeting last week (Tues day, August 27) and unani mously voted to recommend approval to the full BOC. Oftentimes items from the finance committee go straight Turn to Page 13 Impact fee study Kemp considers budget cuts to libraries By Matthew J. Permar Governor Brian Kemp has mandated state wide budget cuts for the current fiscal year as well as the next that will reduce funding to our two lo cal libraries - the Brunswick Glynn Library and the St. Sinons Island Public Library, which make up the Marshes of Glynn Libraries. The Georgia Public Library Service had to submit plans to the state for a 4% reduction in this year’s budget last week. This will reduce the state grant funding to all Georgia library systems by 4%. Next year the Library Ser vice will be required to reduce their budget by another 2%. According to Marshes of Glynn Director Geri Lynn Turn to Page 10 Library budget cuts Established in 1972 Home safe every night for 35 years!!! Top photo: Soon-to-be former Glynn County Assistant Police Chief Scott Trautz (second from left) and his wife Jan, took a moment during his retirement party last week to talk with Representative Don Hogan (left to right) current County Police Chief John Powell and former County Police Chief Carl Alexander. Bottom photo: Chief Powell presents Trautz with his service weapon, lengthy, honorable careers. honor granted only to officers who have served Islander Staff Photos - Permar After 35+ years in Glynn law enforcement Assistant Chief Trautz steps down “First... I want to thank the Lord for getting me home safe ly to my family every night.” Along with the respect he’s earned in the law enforcement community over a 35+ year career, two things were appar ent at soon-to-be former Glynn County Assistant Police Chief Scott Trautz’s retirement par ty last week - those were that By Matthew J. Permar Trautz is deeply religious and a devoted family man. During his comments at the end of the evening, Trautz not only talked about how much he enjoyed being a police of ficer, but how he had always carried his Bible with him, even back in the days when he was a patrol officer on St. Si mons Island - a time he spoke of fondly. The retirement party was Friday night, August 30 at the Casino building on St. Simons. It was attended by a large group of people who had worked with Trautz over the years, along with some local dignitaries including former Turn to Page 6 Trautz County-Wide News - Read County-Wide Page 2 - Zeh hearing News Shorts Page 3 - Plant Vogtle progresses Page 8 - GA Student receives Dart scholarship Page 11 - NEW - The Football Page Page 14 - Pew News Page 15 - ACS models honored Page 16- Back Talk Vol 47 Issue 35 Mainland Planning to hear Blythe Island rezoning By Pamela Permar Shierling The Glynn County Main land Planning Commission will hear a rezoning request at their Tuesday, Sept. 3 meeting for 8.253 acres called Fiddler Island which is located off the the north end of Blythe Island. According to Glynn County records the property was sold in April this year by James Jinkins to Fiddler Island LLC with a mailing address in Summerville, S.C. The existing zoning is one- family residential estate (RE) and conservation preservation (CP). The proposed zoning is Planned Development (PD) to include an event venue and residential uses. Turn to Page 4 Blythe Island rezoning East Beach resident wants roundabout stopped By Pamela Permar Shierling During last week’s (Aug. 29) SPLOST 2016 Oversight Com mittee meeting an East Beach resident asked the Oversight committee to stop the round about at Ocean Blvd. and the East Beach Causeway. She became angry when the com mittee members told her they did not have that authority. Catharine Gilchrist, who lives on Ocean Road, one house away from where the East Beach Causeway roundabout will be constructed, said there was never any public hearing concerning the roundabout. Then she said, “In the meetings we attended, Com missioner (Peter) Murphy Turn to Page 12 East Beach roundabout 0 9492229970 3
