Oconee County Commissioners Set to Decide on New Member for Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Board

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday is set to fill the vacancy on the Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Management Board created back in early July when citizen member Hank Huckaby resigned to become chancellor of the University System of Georgia.

At its , the commissioners tentatively decided to replace Huckaby with Commissioner Chuck Horton, and the Board is scheduled to take final action on that decision at its regular meeting on Tuesday.

The proposed action would set aside, at least in the short term, the outcome of a revision to the intergovernmental agreement between Oconee and Walton counties approved at the request of the commissioners as part of the final agreement on the reservoir project on Sept. 4, 2007.

The agreement specified that “at least one of the appointees must be a member of such Board of Commissioners,” making it possible to appoint citizen members.

Also on the agenda on Tuesday night is consideration of expenditure of farmland protection funds and acceptance of a conservation easement for property selected for preservation.

For more background on these agenda items for the Tuesday meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.