WR council spends more money on LEC

kriner@sunmulti.com

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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