The county commissioners spent more than an hour honoring volunteers and others in the county.
The board meets at 7 tonight at the government complex, 100 Cherokee St., Marietta. See the attached complete agenda.
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The commissioners voted to suspend the acceptance of applications for rezoning to the UC (urban condominium) district through July 24.
This is a live blog of the commissioners March 13 meeting.
The vote is nonbinding. It's up to the legislators who draw the maps to make any changes to the map already approved by the state House.
The board met with the Citizens Oversight Committee this afternoon for the group's final report. Not a whole lot changed since the preliminary report in June 2011. But there were several tweaks here and there. For the entire report, see the attachment. On tap tonight for the commissioners is a relook at the county's redistricting maps. Commissioner Woody Thompson, who represents South Cobb, is upset that Mableton has been split in two. The board gave their preference tonight to a different map that alleviated some of Thompson's concerns.
The Cobb County commissioners meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for a work session including the final report from the Citizens Advisory Committee. The regular board meeting is at 7 p.m., 100 Cherokee St., Marietta.
The state House of Representatives voted a week ago to accept new district lines for Cobb County. But the issue is on the commissioners agenda Tuesday night. Commissioner Woody Thompson is upset because Mableton, which was in his district, will now be split into two different districts — his and Commissioner Bob Ott's. Thompson was joined by Commissioner JoAnne Birrell at the last meeting, Feb. 14, in adding a new map to the agenda at the last minute. The new map would keep all of Mableton in Thompson's district. Birrell told the Marietta Daily Journal that revisions could be made to the map before it is voted on by the state Senate. Chairman Tim Lee and Commissioner Helen Goreham said at the Feb. 14, meeting that they would be glad to …
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The Cobb County commissioners meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for a work session including the final report from the Citizens Advisory Committee. The regular board meeting is at 7 p.m., 100 Cherokee St., Marietta.
The state House of Representatives voted a week ago to accept new district lines for Cobb County. But the issue is on the commissioners agenda Tuesday night. Commissioner Woody Thompson is upset because Mableton, which was in his district, will now be split into two different districts — his and Commissioner Bob Ott's. Thompson was joined by Commissioner JoAnne Birrell at the last meeting, Feb. 14, in adding a new map to the agenda at the last minute. The new map would keep all of Mableton in Thompson's district. Birrell told the Marietta Daily Journal that revisions could be made to the map before it is voted on by the state Senate. Chairman Tim Lee and Commissioner Helen Goreham said at the Feb. 14, meeting that they would be glad to …
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Cobb County’s redistricting maps have become a divisive issue in the county with Democrats accusing Republicans of playing politics with the county commission districts.
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The former Cobb Commission chairman talks about his new statewide office.
Sam Olens, former chairman of the Cobb County Commission, will be sworn in Jan. 10 as Georgia's attorney general. Olens has lived in Cobb County since 1984 and in East Cobb since 1987. In this first part of a recent Q&A interview, he discusses the challenges of his new position. Part II, focusing on his time in Cobb public service, will run Tuesday. Q. You are just back from a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General in Florida. What did you take away from the group? A. I think a couple of things. No. 1: Ninety percent of the issues that an attorney general deals with are nonpartisan, and the primary role of the office is to defend and enforce laws, not to serve in a partisan manner. There are certain issues that by their…
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11:27 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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