TCN for Tuesday
WEATHER UPDATE
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
WEATHER UPDATE
Areas of smoke will continue across the area today with easterly flow winds. Visibilities will be reduced to around 1 mile at times this morning across portions of the Florida Big Bend and extreme southwestern Georgia before improving this afternoon. Slightly drier air is expected to be in place today to combine with warmer temperatures to produce low relative humidity values in the area that will enhance the spread of any wildfires that are ongoing or may develop. A weak cold front will approach the region on Wednesday bringing a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms. This cold front will pass through the region late Thursday bringing slightly cooler and a much drier airmass. Breezy northeast winds could once again bring back areas of smoke across the region into the weekend.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
The Thomasville City Council had a regular meeting Monday, May 14. Several purchases were approved and other matters taken care of.
--The Council approved an irrigation system for Country Oaks Golf Course. Of four bids submitted, the lowest accepted was from On Course Irrigation of Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for $585,160.
--Twelve new police cars were purchased from Allan Vigil Ford of Morrow, Georgia, 11 marked cars and one unmarked. The total price was $283,907. Council members asked why Dodge Chargers were no considered and Police Chief Ellis Jackson said there were problems with the mechanical reliability of those cars.
--The Council passed on second reading a definition of condos that included provisions that a developer could not start an apartment complex and then switch to calling it condos.
--The Council passed a resolution to approve a Downtown Development Revolving Loan Fund Application with the Department of Community Affairs for the development of the International Design and Display Group project.
--A first reading was passed to rezone property located at 591 Old Albany Road from M-1 and R-1 (single family residential) to R-2 (multifamily residential). The developer, Mark Buckman, wants to build 56 single-family units on the property that is just north of Archbold's Northside.