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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. SPD study suggests need for 28 more patrol cops; chief asks for 8 this year Officer Jasmyn Perez, left, the Statesboro Police Department’s newest officer, is welcomed aboard by Chief of Police Mike Broadhead after being sworn in by Mayor Jonathan McCollar at the City Hall steps April 16. (Photo courtesy of SPD)
The Statesboro Police Department, whose authorized workforce of 77 people includes 32 regular, or “line level,” patrol officers, could use 28 more, according to an internal study by the department.
But Chief of Police Mike Broadhead realizes that funding and hiring 28 officers in one year would be “impossible,” he told the mayor and City Council. He is instead asking to add eight patrol officer positions in the fiscal year 2022 budget. These include two he requested one year
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. City spending $65,000 more with firm that led $832,000 ‘Blue Creek’ study Penny: Engineers to amend flood maps, provide less costly alternatives for $40M-plus project
Statesboro’s city government will pay Freese and Nichols, the multistate engineering and design firm that led an $832,000 feasibility study for the Creek on the Blue Mile project, $65,000 more to do an additional hydrology study of the floodplain in the project area.
City Council authorized the additional expenditure Tuesday morning. Besides updating flood insurance rate maps, the added study should allow city officials and the project’s promoters to consider less expensive alternatives to the original reservoir-based Creek on the Blue Mile Plan, said City Manager Charles Penny.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Swim lessons, other programming planned for two upgraded parks Construction begins on Luetta Moore, Kent Park overhauls Bulloch County’s Board of Commissioners, the Statesboro-Bulloch County Parks & Recreation Department’s director and Statesboro’s Urban Redevelopment Agency members join the mayor, city manager and City Council in churning soil at Luetta Moore Park before taking the gold shovels to the Rev. W.D. Kent Park. Ceremonies Tuesday, March 16, launched park upgrades expected to be complete in July. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Boro adopts international maintenance code as law Changes local spec to allow lawns to 18” While some Statesboro City Council and Urban Redevelopment Agency members appear overhead Tuesday morning via Zoom, City Manager Charles Penny, left, and City Attorney Cain Smith address the mayor and council. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Statesboro City Council adopted the International Property Maintenance Code as a city law Tuesday by a 4-1 vote, after easing off on one localized provision so as to let grass grow up to 18 inches tall instead of 12.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. City set to issue bonds, contracts for 2 park renovations Tuesday
Statesboro’s mayor and council and the Urban Redevelopment Agency they recently created are poised to act Tuesday on a $4.5 million bond issuance and award $2.9 million in contracts for improvements to the Luetta Moore and Grady Street parks.
Both the regular City Council meeting and a meeting of the URA are scheduled for 9 a.m. in the City Hall council chambers. Soon after the council meeting is called to order, the mayor and council will recess for the URA meeting before returning to council business, said City Clerk Leah Harden.