Oconee County Commissioners Approved Lease For Space in Government Annex But Not Bids For Renovation

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners approved two bids last Tuesday night, one for $17,000 and another for $52,562.

The action was routine. County Finance Director Wes Geddings presented the six submitted bids to the Board with a recommendation at the Sept. 24 agenda-setting meeting.

The Board accepted the recommendation without discussion and gave the selected bids formal approval at the regular meeting on Tuesday.

That routine was not followed in March, however, when the county received two bids for renovation work at the Government Annex on SR 15 in the south of Watkinsville.

The county accepted one of those two bids without bringing the bids to the Board for action in a public meeting.

In fact, the BOC never voted in an open meeting to do the renovation.

The story of how the county made the decision to renovate space in the Government Annex for the USDA is a complex one, and one that is difficult to follow in the public records available.

For details of those public records and what they reveal, go to Oconee County Observations.