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The Leisure Services Department has launched the online community input phase in the development of its master plan, which hasn’t been updated in 20 years.

Clarke County Election officials are turning to legal advice to figure out how to address voter challenges facilitated by a new state law. Several members of the board worried that excessive numbers of challenges would bog down their already beleaguered work force.

Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement founder and Executive Director, Mokah Jasmine Johnson, says the drafted ordinance is connected to last year’s controversial racial justice resolution.

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Also at the meeting, Director of Elections and Voter Registration Charlotte Sosebee updated the board on her office’s preparation of Spanish-language ballots.

ACC District 3 candidate Tiffany Taylor

The Commission will consider putting $500,000 toward the Real-Time Crime Center. The money was donated by QuickTrip Corporation to the Athens-Clarke County Police Foundation.

The money can go towards a number of purposes, including creating affordable rental housing, rental assistance, and capacity-building for non-profit groups.

At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Mayor and Commission heard from Bill Mosely, a lawyer with an outside law firm who will be representing the county in upcoming negotiations with the firefighter’s union. Also discussed were the results of Athens-Clarke County’s illegal dumping abatement efforts.

Local lawyer and former president of the Clarke County Board of Education Ed Tolley announced his candidacy for the Athens-Clarke County Commission District 7 seat last Monday.