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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
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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
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East Beach roundabout
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