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Votes at a glance: Athens-Clarke County Commission actions, Jan. 7, 2025
Summary
The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved multiple budget ordinances, grant applications, housing-counseling contracts and an IGA amendment, took actions to hold several transportation items for further study, and appointed an acting county manager.
The Athens-Clarke County Commission on Jan. 7, 2025, approved a series of budget ordinances, grant submittals and contract recommendations, held several transportation items for further review and unanimously appointed an acting county manager.
The commission approved ordinances to amend the FY2025 operating and capital budgets to accept potential grant awards from the Georgia Department of Transportation (Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant) and the Georgia Transit Trust Fund; approved changes to the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) 2011 program budget and the FY2025 operating and capital budget related to grant funding (consent items). Several consent items were adopted by voice vote; Commissioner Stephanie Johnson recorded abstentions on multiple items that predated her term.
Other recorded outcomes at the meeting included: - Item 1 (GDOT Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant application submittal): Approved; Commissioner Stephanie Johnson abstained from the final vote. - Item 2 (Georgia Transit Trust Fund grant submittal): Approved; Commissioner Stephanie Johnson abstained. - Item 3 & 4 (ordinances amending SPLOST 2011 program budget and FY2025 budget for grant awards): Approved as part of the consent agenda. - Item 5 (SPLOST 2020 Project 1: facilities modernization, courthouse repairs including elevators): Approved; Commissioner Johnson abstained. - Item 6 (unspecified consent item moved to discussion by request earlier in the meeting): Approved. - Item 9 (Nicoutian Boulevard all-way yield proposal): Motion to hold passed; staff directed to complete a comprehensive analysis before further action. - Item 10 (Newton Bridge Road TAD advisory committee recommendations and design authorization): Motion to hold passed after discussion about scope, funding and community input. - Item 11 (FY2025 housing-counseling funding recommendations): Approved; two vendors recommended and contracted services to proceed. - Item 12 (amendment to intergovernmental agreement for a loan to the Athens Housing Authority, North Downtown Athens project): Approved. - Item 13 (resolution authorizing settlement): Original motion passed after a substitute motion to deny failed; roll-call votes were taken. - Item 14 (appointment of an interim/acting manager, Bradley A. "Brad" Griffin): Approved unanimously; Griffin to begin transition period on Jan. 8, 2025 and serve as acting manager Jan. 17–May 2, 2025 unless extended.
Votes were recorded by voice where noted; roll call votes were used for the contested settlement item. The commission also briefly amended the agenda during the meeting to add the interim-manager appointment as item 14.
The meeting included several public commenters and a number of policy discussions — notably about Title VI coordination for GDOT-funded projects, courthouse elevator repairs and SPLOST project sequencing — that will return to the commission for follow-up.
The commission adjourned after a series of committee and community updates and scheduled future follow-ups on the held transportation items.
