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December 9, 2024
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Vol 52 Issue 49
New archive room at Library
Cutting the ribbon last week (Tuesday, Dec. 3) to reopen the renovated Archive Room at the
Brunswick Glynn Library on Gloucester St. were: (left to right) Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce
President & CEO Ralph Staffins; Marshes of Glynn Libraries Executive Director Geri Lynn Mullis; and
Georgia Pacific Brunswick Cellulose General Manager Mike Sussman Islander Staff Photo - Permar
Brunswick Glynn Library Archive room open
after renovation
By Pamela Permar-Shierling & Matthew J. Permar
County okays
budget fix for
Sheriff's dept.
By Matthew J. Permar
Last week (Thursday, Dec.
5) the Glynn County Board
of Commissioners (BOC) ap
proved a budget amendment
for the Glynn County Sher
iffs Department’s Fiscal Year
2024 budget.
During the BOC’s special
called work session on Tues
day, November 19 Sheriff
Neal Jump explained to the
BOC that the department was
$1,500,817 over budget due to
overtime pay.
Jump explained in detail
the various reasons for the
overtime overage saying the
issue involved three divisions
in his department:
• Deputies and Adminis
tration (which includes 71
positions);
• Detention Officers (100
positions) and
• Traffic Unit (8 positions).
Jump listed five causes for
the overtime overage, none of
which the department has any
control over:
• the number and length of
prisoner hospital stays;
• the number of prisoner
transport hours;
• the number of inmates in
jail;
• court system delays; and
• prisoners with mental
health issues - many of which
Jump said do not need to be in
jail, but in institutions where
they can receive proper care.
Just as one example, one of
the issues with prisoner trans
port hours is with juvenile
offenders.
Juveniles are not housed in
the Glynn County Detention
Center, so they must be taken
to an out of county juvenile fa
cility. Sheriff Jump’s deputies
must then go back, pick them
up and bring them back for
Juvenile Court and then re
turn them.
Without knowing in
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Sheriff's budget
The renovation of the
Marshes of Glynn Libraries
(MOGL) Archive Room in the
Brunswick-Glynn County Li
brary is finished and officially
opened last week with a cel
ebratory ribbon cutting.
Before the major renovation
of the Brunswick Library in
2019, the Heritage Room was
both the genealogy and the ar
chive space for the building.
The collection had grown
considerably since the library
system left the Three Riv
ers Regional Library System
and became MOGL in 2013,
and the single room has been
outgrown.
In the renovation plans an
alternate was included to re
work and open up a storage
room next to the Heritage
Room to create a dedicated
Archive Room. The additional
alternate was finished, but
funds were not available to
furnish it and existing pieces
were used.
Then, in stepped Georgia-
Pacific Brunswick Cellulose
(GP).
The Library has an archival
collection on the Brunswick
mill, and last year an exhibit
was held at the library to cel
ebrate the 85th anniversary of
the plant.
This exhibit sparked a dis
cussion between the library
and GP about the Archive
Room, and GP kindly offered
to help complete the space.
Not only did they provide
the funding for proper archive
storage, they also provided
funding to hire the interior
firm, McMillan Pazdan Smith,
that did the 2019 design.
The South Carolina firm
specializes in libraries, and
was able to layout the space
for the optimal usage, provide
furnishing specs, and tied in
the new pieces with the over
all schematic of the building.
To honor the dedication of
preserving the history housed
in this space, the Marshes
of Glynn Libraries Board of
Trustees named the space the
Georgia-Pacific Brunswick
Cellulose Archive Room.
“The archive room is packed
with history of our communi
ty,” Geri Lynn Mullis, MOGL
Executive Director said.
“It is hard to pick just one
of my favorite items in the
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Archive room
County-Wide News - Read County-Wide
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— Merry Artists Market
Page 3 - City supports amicus brief
-GP Cellulose to hold Holiday party
Page 4 - D.A. King: Looking for a Better Life
Page 6 - Hwy. 17 car wash deferred
Page 9 - Port City Page
Page 12 - Back Talk
Saved by Grace
moves forward
with plans
By Pamela Permar-
Shierling
Even though the non-profit
organization Saved By Grace
removed their rezoning re
quest prior to a recent Glynn
County Board of Commission
ers (BOC) meeting (Thurs
day, Nov. 21), Donna Howard,
founder and Executive Direc
tor of the organization, told
The Islander in an interview
last week that they will move
forward with the purchase of
the property on 5140 Blythe
Island Highway.
The rezoning request in
cluded adding homeless ser
vices to the uses approved in
the Planned Development text
governing the property.
However, the rezoning re
quest was withdrawn before
the BOC discussed and voted
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Saved By Grace
City close to
adopting blight
ordinance
By Pamela Permar-
Shierling
Last week (Wednesday,
Dec. 4) during their regular
meeting the Brunswick City
Commission reviewed what
will soon become a new blight
ordinance.
The ordinance provision
has been included in a rewrite
of Ordinance 1084, Chapter
12, Housing and Building
Regulations.
The 75 page ordinance con
solidates all the city’s housing
and building regulations.
“Anything pertaining to a
building code or permit,” said
John Hunter, Planning, De
velopment, and Codes Direc
tor for the city, “is found in
this ordinance.”
Article 3 of Chapter 12
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Blight law
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