Governor signs county legislaton

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Mike Buffington
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Saturday, September 10. 2011
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Gov. Nathan Deal has signed the legislation calling a Nov. 8 referendum to allow local voters to choose if they want the daily operations of Barrow County’s government to be managed by the chairman of the Barrow County Board of Commissioners or a by professional county manager.

Also on Sept. 7, the governor signed the bills establishing new election district boundaries both for the BOC and for the Barrow County Board of Education.

The new election districts will be in place for the 2012 county elections, and any change to the role of the BOC chairman will become effective in January 2013.

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#1 DuWayne R. Anderson on 09/10/11 at 01:36 PM [Reply]
This is an easy choice........ A county Manager and a part time Commission Chairman that will be accountable to the citizens of Barrow, going forward........
DuWayne
#1.1 Anonymous on 09/10/11 at 02:48 PM [Reply]
So will you be running for chairman or hoping for the county manager position? Or do you plan on another run for the BOE?
#1.1.1 DuWayne R. Anderson on 09/12/11 at 07:17 AM [Reply]
Have not yet decided. Brown and Jennings seem to be the early favorites in the BOC Chair race, although that could change quickly. It is still early. My goal would be to represent the needs of all Barrow Citizens as a priority, not personal political agendas. We must restore confidence in gov. first. Then we can move forward.
DuWayne
#1.1.1.1 Good OIe Boy on 09/12/11 at 07:30 AM [Reply]
DOOOOOWAYNE, you get better and better. As you have not held a stable job in years, how could you possibly be worthy of any position in Barrow Gov't. You would not begin to know how to run a county, period.
#1.1.1.1.1 DuWayne R. Anderson on 09/12/11 at 12:15 PM [Reply]
The question was asked, and I simply gave a straight forward answer,as you would if asked. Someone told me you are planning to run for office. Is that true?
DuWayne
#1.1.1.2 Melvin Turples on 09/12/11 at 08:10 AM [Reply]
Jack Legg is the clear winner in every pre election poll I have conducted around Barrow county. Its pretty much a 3-1 margin over all other mentioned candidates that the people think Jack Legg could do a better job.
get a legg up in 2012.
#1.1.1.2.1 Anonymous on 09/12/11 at 09:45 AM [Reply]
And precisely how did you conduct your "poll"? Love to hear your random sampling methodology. Not that you could even define random sample.
#2 TickedOff on 09/10/11 at 02:51 PM [Reply]
Whos the county manager accountable to ? And its a travesty we don't hold both our commissioners and chairman accountable. After all we pay their salaries as well as all county employees. Yet we don't like the current chairman and we get a legislative order to vote on something we vote on. Pretty asanine. Nothing changes until we whitewash the current commission.
#2.1 Anonymous on 09/10/11 at 03:51 PM [Reply]
TickedOff, And who is Yearwood accountable to?
#2.1.1 Anonymous on 09/10/11 at 08:54 PM [Reply]
He's accountable to the voters in the next election. this how Our System operates. D'uh.
#2.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/11/11 at 06:34 AM [Reply]
No remember he stated he is NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE. Made that statement more than once
#2.1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 09/11/11 at 09:34 AM [Reply]
What he "said" is not tantamount to the fact. You asked to whom he is accountable; I told you.
#2.1.2 wow on 09/11/11 at 08:11 AM [Reply]
enough already! blog after blog of someone you obsess over...after all a dang election will take care of this
#2.2 Jack Legg on 09/11/11 at 01:15 PM [Reply]
The county manager would be accountable to the Board of Commisioners.They set county policy, he see's to the day to day running of the operations.
It needs to be someone qualified to do the job though or we would be just as well off sticking with what we have now.
I dont think Kieth Lee was ever really qualified to do that job, he just sort of fell into it because of family connections.
Overall this style of govt. should take the petty politics out of the day to day operations, B.S. will still rear its ugly head though.
I think the best thing this style of govt. gives us is continuity of sevice, continuity of vision and future direction.Im voting for it.
#3 A non on 09/10/11 at 05:43 PM [Reply]
Congratulations Danny this would not be possible without your leadership style.
#4 Hmm on 09/10/11 at 08:21 PM [Reply]
This will not work. Can anyone say Keith Lee?
#4.1 Anonymous on 09/11/11 at 04:16 PM [Reply]
When Keith Lee was manager, the form of government was still chairman ran. Keith Lee was nothing more than a friend who needed a job.

We are talking about hiring a PROFESSIONAL, who HAS EXPERIENCE in RUNNING a county government.

BIG DIFFERENCE.
#4.1.1 Liberty for All on 09/11/11 at 07:38 PM [Reply]
So you mean a career bureaucrat, someone who knows the ins and outs of how a government operates. Just what we don't need. Another lifelong government worker who has never had to make a payroll, run a business, etc. Give me a citizen, elected by the PEOPLE, over a PROFESSIONAL government employee who will tell the Board of Commissioners only what he wants them to know.
#4.1.1.1 Why? on 09/11/11 at 08:01 PM [Reply]
Why in the world would a professional person , unless desperate or fired from a previous job or fresh out of college, would want to step into the mess this county is in or the mess we continue to make of it?
Is there anyone that is a resident of this county, that you guys can think of being willing to step forward? If so, name names now.
#5 Anonymous on 09/11/11 at 11:46 PM [Reply]
People this is easy to fix. When it comes election time. Vote against anyone with (Incumbent) by their name. ALL elected officials. The people of Barrow County came to an agreement to do this about 15 years ago and it worked well. Every election we were getting fresh blood and no one became stale. Somewhere along the way it fell apart and we started letting incumbents stay and look where it got us. This was accomplished by citizens placing ads in the local paper to “Vote them out” Now we have the internet and blogs. It should be even easier . Lets all stick together and once again “Vote them out”
#6 DuWayne R. Anderson on 09/14/11 at 06:39 AM [Reply]
The next BOC Chairman must have a concrete plan to restore the confidence of the citizens of Barrow County in the operation of their government.Personal politics must take a back seat to the will of the people.
DuWayne
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