BOC to hold storm water hearing Tuesday night

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BOC to hold storm water hearing Tuesday night

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Mike Buffington

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Tuesday, March 22. 2011

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Better late than never. That seems to be what underlies impending action by the Barrow County Board of Commissioners to adopt a county storm water ordinance tonight (March 22) after officials discovered the county didn't have an ordinance. The only public hearing on the proposed ordinance will be at 6 p.m. tonight in the BOC meeting room.

But the lack of that detail hasn't stopped the county from collecting over $1.2 million in fees over the last two years.

The proposed ordinance was distributed to the media and to a few other people on Friday, March 18, but it has never been presented or discussed at a public meeting.

Asked Monday if he thinks it was legal for the county to collect the revenue without having a Stormwater Utility Ordinance, BOC Chairman Danny Yearwood said in an email to the Barrow Journal that he doesn’t know.

“I didn’t even know we didn’t have an ordinance until we were sitting in a storm water meeting & I asked how we were collecting fees without an ordinance,” Yearwood wrote.

Unlike the ordinance adopted by the Auburn City Council, the county’s proposed ordinance does not specify a dollar amount of the fee or how the county would structure the fee schedule.

It says only that the fees will be based on a property’s impervious surface area and that the fees will be “determined and modified from time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners.”

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#1 What??? on 03/22/11 at 07:01 PM [Reply]

“I didn’t even know we didn’t have an ordinance until we were sitting in a storm water meeting & I asked how we were collecting fees without an ordinance,” Yearwood wrote.

How would he know to ask how they could collect fees without an ordinance if he didn't even know they didn't have an ordinance?????

#1.1 Confused on 03/23/11 at 09:39 AM [Reply]

I thought the budget showed a salary for someone to manage stormwater in Barrow County? Why didn't she know we didn't have an ordinance and bring it to the attention of the BOC? If she didn't know about the lack of an ordinance, what else doesn't she know?

#1.2 Confused on 03/23/11 at 09:41 AM [Reply]

#2 Just stupid! on 03/22/11 at 08:35 PM [Reply]

Don't confuse Danny with the facts, afterall he did score the first touchdown at the Claire Harris stadium! It is Danny's shovel... problem is that he doesn't know when to dig, or to stop digging.

#3 Metro on 03/23/11 at 09:39 AM [Reply]

Everyone involved needs to remember that if you raise our taxes we will have you voted out next election, no more carpet baggers!

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