The Columbia County Board of Supervisors Executive Committee is negotiating a proposal to re-orient the county’s Emergency Management Office, reversing roughly 20 years of precedent extending from a historic personal exception.
Originally coming up in the Executive Committee’s December 12 meeting and then discussed in the Dec. 18 meeting of the full board, the Executive Committee revisited the issue in their Jan. 9 meeting, addressing many of the concerns raised by skeptical board members.
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