Glynn County school board donates 0.6 acres for county road, approves superintendent contract effective July 1

The Glynn County Board of Education unanimously approved two major items at its Jan. 14 regular meeting: the donation of roughly 0.6 acres to Glynn County for a road connection between Mackenzie Drive and DePrater Lane and a contract naming Mike Blackabee as superintendent effective July 1.

Board members said the donated parcel will allow the county to construct a second way in and out of the Sterling Elementary/Jane Macon Middle School area, improving emergency access for parents, buses and first responders. Dr. Spence, a district staff member who presented the proposal, said the county approached the district about the project and that the county would build the road if the district donated the land.

The board emphasized that the district would retain a vegetated buffer between the new road and Sterling Elementary. "That buffer would stay there ... we won't even see that road," Dr. Spence said during the presentation, referring to trees on district land that the board expects to remain…