Local briefs: jobs fair today at UGA, COVID vaccines in Clarke Co schools

The University of Georgia’s part-time job and internship fair is on tap for today, underway from 11 til 2:30 in the Grand Hall at UGA’s Tate Student Center. The fair, sponsored by the University’s Career Center, is looking to fill job openings both on and off campus.

Athens’ newly formed and still controversial Public Safety Civilian Oversight Board meets this afternoon, a session underway at 5:30. Athens-Clarke County Commissioners created the Board last year and appointed its members earlier this year to review the actions of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

The Clarke County School District continues to offer coronavirus vaccinations, with COVID vaccine clinics today at Whitehead Road Elementary School and at Burney Harris Lyons Middle School in Athens.

There is more talk about the Prince Avenue corridor today in Athens. The TSPLOST 2018 Prince Avenue Corridor Improvements User Group meets at 3 o’clock this afternoon.

The Transportation Special Purposes Local Options Sales Tax that will be on Oconee County ballots in November was the focus of last night’s Oconee County Commission town hall, a session that took place at the Civic Center in Watkinsville. County Commission Chairman John Daniell says the tax, if approved by voters, is designed to generate $60 million over five years.

The developers who are looking to build the Rivian automobile manufacturing facility say they are seeing illegal garbage dumping and vandalism on the property that straddles the Morgan and Walton county line: Rivian plans to build electric trucks and SUVs on the two thousand acre tract near Rutledge, eventually hiring more than 75 hundred workers.

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