Agreement to settle sewer differences
After a closed-door session, the Oconee County Council reached agreement to end years of squabbling with the Joint Regional Sewer Authority. The county will now pay the sewer authority $1.9 million dollars. That’s around three years worth of $610 thousand dollars of payments that the county held back as part of a dispute over a previous inter-government agreement that required the payments annually through the year 2038. Council Chairman Paul Cain believes it’s a good settlement.