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Public commenters tell Augusta Charter Review Committee to slow review, consider race-relations history
Summary
Four residents, including a former commissioner and two reverends, urged the Charter Review Committee to extend the Carl Vinson Institute timeline, review a 2001 report on race relations, and treat the consolidation review as a deliberate, multi‑month process rather than a rush to a political deadline.
Members of the public urged the Augusta Richmond County Charter Review Committee on May 15 to slow its review timetable and to address race‑relations history and the 1996 consolidation more carefully.
Multiple speakers said the committee had been given an unrealistically short deadline. Ben Hassan, a resident who identified himself at the meeting, said the Carl Vinson Institute told commissioners the review would take 12 to 18 months and that shortening that plan leaves the committee little time to do the work.
The comments matter because the committee is examining the 1996 consolidation act (House Bill 805) that merged…
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