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President’sMessage Strength of ACCG’s Policy Process Lies in Your Participation Association County Commissioners of Georgia Officers serving through April 2009 President VIRGINIA GRAY Clayton County First Vice President JAN TANKERSLEY Bulloch County Second Vice President LAMAR PARIS Union County Third Vice President G. MELVIN DAVIS Oconee County By Virginia Gray President s I remarked in my opening address to the Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) membership in Savannah, the policy process our association provides for commissioners is among the most valuable services offered. I cannot over-emphasize the importance of your participation in this process, or in the “nuts and bolts” that hold it together, our policy committees. The ACCG policy process enables us to avail ourselves of ongoing education and information – which we can use in order to prepare for the coming Legislature – through a yearlong process of committee deliberations, beginning each spring following the annual meeting. Committee deliberations take place under the auspices of our standing policy committees – General County Government, Public Safety and the Courts, Natural Resources and Environment, Economic Development and Transportation, Health and Human Services and Revenue and Finance. Our policy staff convenes a series of these in-depth forums beginning in early summer on policy concerns that directly affect counties and how they operate daily. If you have not investigated joining an ACCG policy committee, do so. There is surely a policy committee, or perhaps several, of special interest to you and your constituents. In many cases, your PRESIDENT continued on page 6 A Executive Director JERRY R. GRIFFIN Board of Managers 1st District JERRY SHEARIN, Paulding County 2nd District MIKE BERG, Dawson County 3rd District BURRELL ELLIS, DeKalb County 4th District EUGENE HARDWICK, Lamar County 5th District KEVIN LITTLE, Walton County 6th District C. BROOKS BAILEY, Pulaski County 7th District JOHN R. GRAHAM, Warren County 8th District CLINTON PERRY, Taylor County 9th District D. M. MULLIS, Laurens County 10th District CHARLES LINGLE, Dougherty County 11th District EUGENE DYAL, Bacon County 12th District JOHN McIVER, Liberty County Consolidated Government Representative HEIDI DAVISON, Athens-Clarke County At-Large DAVID GAULT, Jones County JAMES KHOURY, Peach County SAM OLENS, Cobb County HELEN STONE, Chatham County AARON VARNER, Newton County Active Past Presidents GLENDA BATTLE, Decatur County CLARENCE BROWN, Bartow County BILLY CROKER, Polk County JAMES V. HAM, Monroe County BENJAMIN HAYWARD, Mitchell County TOM MCMICHAEL, Houston County O. D. NETTER, Ben Hill County Ex-Officio NACo Board Members/Officers: RICHARD ENGLISH, Troup County JAMES HAM, Monroe County Section Presidents Attorneys’ Section: MICHAEL LONG, Houston County Managers’/Administrators’ Section: KEVIN POE, Floyd County Clerks’ Section: BRENDA STALVEY, Echols County Service Program Chairs ACCG Insurance Program Representatives (IRMA) JOHN STRICKLAND, Clinch County Group Self Insurance Workers’ Compensation Fund (GSIWCF) WALTER L. SANDERS, Greene County Pension Representative H. JAY WALKER, Houston County JULY 2008 www.accg.org It is my belief, and that of many of my colleagues, that ACCG’s strength and continued success depends on the membership’s involvement in the policy process. 5 http://www.accg.org

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Georgia County Government - June 2008 Contents President’s Message County Matters Laurens, Treutlen and Wheeler Counties Work Together to Leverage Economic Development 2008 Hurricane Season Forecast to be Active GDEcD: Georgia Is Bolstering International Marketing Efforts U.S. Communities Announces Auto Parts Service Contract Energy Innovation Center Opens in Warner Robins Coweta County Uses Innovative Road Construction Techniques Counties & The Law: An Analysis of Ten Commandments Displays in Georgia Courthouses Georgia’s Grand Old Courthouses: Talbot County Extension News: Youth Summit Teaches Civic Engagement Research Corner: Train Me! NACo News: NACo Seeks Obesity Prevention Programs County Parade Index of Advertisers

Georgia County Government - June 2008

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