The Macon-Bibb County Board of Commissioners met for their regularly-scheduled Board Meeting on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Pre-Commission started at 5 p.m. and the full Commission Meeting began at 6 p.m. The meeting was live-streamed to our Facebook page and our website at MaconBibb.us. Old Business The Commission voted to uphold Mayor Robert Reichert’s veto […]
Commissioners and community partners are working together to give the public the chance to ask questions and express their opinions on limiting the maximum penalty for certain minor marijuana offenses (possession of less than an ounce) and making it so that offenders should not sentenced to be jailed. A Town Hall Forum will be held […]
Main street Macon focuses on building a vibrant and thriving downtown. Last year, the program hosted many events, and facilitated partnerships, to bring businesses and fun to the heart of Macon-Bibb. In this MaconBibbTV video, we hear from Main Street Manager Steven Fulbright about what MSM did in 2016, and what’s planned for 2017. Follow […]
A splash pad, a second (and brand new) indoor gym, fitness center, computer lab, recording studio, meeting rooms, warming kitchen and more! There are a LOT of new features at the renovated Rosa Jackson Recreation Center. Click here to see more about them in a feature video from MaconBibbTV. The facility just underwent $3.8 million […]
The Rosa Jackson Community Center held a Grand Reopening on Friday, February 17 and is continuing the celebration with a family fun day on Saturday, February 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Families are invited for food, fun, and fitness to celebrate new life for a community center that has served East Macon for […]
The newly-expanded John Drew Smith Tennis Center is partnering up with Middle Georgia State University to host college matches. The school’s tennis program will use the center for practice and matches, and special events. You can read more about the agreement, here. To see more about what’s new this year to the John Drew Smith […]
If you’ve driven by the Rosa Jackson Recreation Center on Maynard Street lately, you’ve seen the vast changes thanks to a major voter-approved SPLOST funded upgrade! Now, there’s even more money going into the center and the area surrounding it. Macon-Bibb Commissioners approved using $150,000 in blight funds for the Rosa Jackson Park Plaza. You […]
Macon-Bibb County’s Earth Day Festival for 2016 brought thousands of people to Tattnall Square Park for a day of fun and education. This year’s celebration had a theme of ‘Trees for the Earth’ and featured dozens of vendors from farmers to gardeners to people just looking to make the world around us a better place. […]
For the first time in more than 30 years, a new place for low-income seniors to live is coming to East Macon-Bibb. The Hunt School Village is under construction now, and it will be a 60-unit affordable rental housing development for persons 62 and older. The $11.8-million-dollar development is possible thanks to partnership between Macon-Bibb […]
A bright group of Macon-Bibb County teenagers is getting hands-on experience with how the local government operates, and how to make connections for the future. The Georgia Civic Awareness Program for Students (GCAPS) program included a February trip to the Gold Dome in Atlanta, where the teens met with Governor Nathan Deal and state legislators. […]