On Monday evening with little to no discussion the Warner Robins
City Council voted to spend $275,000 to furnish the new Law Enforcement Center.
The vote came after a very heated discussion at the Feb 19
work session where Redevelopment Agency executive director, Gary Lee came to
the council requested $183,000 for shelving for the LEC.
After some questioning form council members at the last
meeting, Lee threw his hand up and told council to take the item off the
agenda. It wasn’t disclosed at Monday’s meeting of the agreement made to
approve the budget transfer of the $275,000 but Mayor Chuck Shaheen said this
amount of money is a small percent on a project of this magnitude. The project
was slated to cost $9.4 million, but it is unclear at this time what the final
cost will be.
In other business, the council voted to rescind the
ordinance that would ban truckers from parking in commercial lots for long
hours.
Council members approved the truck-parking ordinance
two weeks ago, banning trucks from parking in commercial and industrial lots
for more than two hours without permission from the owner. The ordinance was
passed after a number of trucks were parking at the vacant Winn-Dixie parking
lot on Ga. 96.
Trucker’s nationwide flooded city officials with
phone calls and e-mails in opposition of the ordinance. The truckers stated
that having such an ordinance in place made their jobs of getting goods to the
city more difficult.
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