Moving Henry Forward hopes others will join us in celebrating the blog has surpassed 10,000 followers. This is measured by combining all of our communications channels. Our primary method of communication through our Facebook page has over 7,500 followers. The page has also seen over 10,000 unique engaged users in the past ninety days. Other... Continue Reading →
McDonough installed the city’s first solar-powered light in October 2019. (city photo) The McDonough city council approved the purchase of solar-powered lights for various locations throughout the city. The lights will be purchased from Integrated Power Systems, Inc. of Aurora, CO. The council voted 6-1 (Roger Pruitt opposed) to approve the $296,265 purchase. The package... Continue Reading →
Henry County Libraries Director Kathy Pillatzki presented the library system’s budget request earlier this week to commissioners during the board’s two-day budget workshop. The library board’s top priority in FY 2021 is a request for funding to provide Saturday hours at all locations. March 10 update: the county management team is recommending funding for Saturday... Continue Reading →
Public Safety accounts for over half of the county’s annual expenditures. (Henry County photo) Commissioners heard from department cluster leaders on Monday morning about their FY 2021 budget requests. The meeting was one in a series of budget workshops being held by the county. The budget workshops are happening after commissioners requested to be more... Continue Reading →
The Georgia House unanimously approved House Bill 786 on Thursday, February 20, to create a fourth Superior Court judgeship in Henry County. The bill now awaits a committee hearing and vote in the state senate. Discussion about adding a fourth judge has been ongoing for several years. The board of commissioners adopted a letter of... Continue Reading →
I-75 in Henry County is a major link for freight traffic between the port of Savannah, Florida markets, and metro Atlanta. (Trucks.com photo/ Brian Hadden) In the 2020 listing of America’s top 100 truck bottlenecks, I-75 in McDonough was ranked sixty-second (62nd) among the nation’s trouble spots. Three major system-to-system interchanges in Atlanta were in... Continue Reading →
Commissioners split along party lines when approving the county’s five-year capital improvement plan this week. At the center of the split was the inclusion of $90 million dollars for a proposed county-owned convention center and arena in Stockbridge. The vote to approve the five-year CIP passed 3-2 (Clemmons, Thomas, and Holmes in favor; Wood and... Continue Reading →
The Henry County Board of Commissioners approved the mid-year FY 2020 budget adjustment on Tuesday night. The board approved additional funds for Henry County DOT as part of the adjustment. The mid-year adjustment was presented to the board by county staff to reflect revenue increases and unbudgeted expenditures the county had occurred during the first... Continue Reading →
House Bill 898, sponsored by state rep. Mike Wilensky (D - Dunwoody), would codify a local government’s option to consider impacts to the local school system when making zoning decisions. Stockbridge representative Demetrius Douglas is a co-signer on the bill. HB 898 would amend Georgia code to add the following: “[zoning] standards may include the... Continue Reading →
