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Effingham County board restructures committees, updates bylaws to permit statutorily allowed remote military participation
Summary
The county board voted to merge several standing committees into an administrative 'committee of the whole,' rename building and grounds to 'transportation infrastructure,' estimate roughly $18,000 in savings, and update bylaws to add teleconference participation for exceptions allowed by state statute (noting a pending military exception to the Open Meetings Act).
The Effingham County board approved a committee restructuring that will combine tax and finance and legislative personnel into an administrative committee of the whole, fold health and insurance into that new committee, and rename the building and grounds committee to the transportation infrastructure committee.
Board leadership said the changes are intended to reduce the number of committee meetings,…
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