The Macon-Bibb County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) and Recreation Department are now making hand sanitizer available for free at all ten recreation centers, along with the face masks and gloves that have been handed out the past several weeks. People can visit any of the recreation centers listed below Monday – Thursday from 9:00 […]
The production company Morning Bee, Inc., will film scenes Downtown Sunday for the show being filmed at the Centreplex. There will be intermittent traffic closures on Poplar Street from 5th to 7th Streets from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Carolyn Crayton Park (formally Central City Park) will be closed to the public from 5:00 […]
Yard, bulk was collection continues The Solid Waste Department has reopened the Walker Road Landfill (327 Lower Poplar Street) as crews were able to return to work. It is open to the public Monday through Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Material not accepted at the landfill includes yard waste, liquids, light bulbs, and […]
Beginning the week of Monday, August 30, employees with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Public Works Department, and Parks & Beautification Department will have face masks in their vehicles to give people who are not wearing one. Nearly 25,000 face masks are being put in about 500 vehicles to be distributed to the public for […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] At a Special Called Meeting on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, the Macon-Bibb County Commission approved two mandates requiring people to wear face masks or coverings when in public and in government facilities and vehicles, both when social distancing cannot be maintained. Both were passed in an ongoing effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 […]
On Monday, August 24, the Recreation Department and Emergency Management Agency will starts its third week giving free trifold surgical face masks and gloves to people to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect Middle Georgia. In the two weeks of distribution, 50,424 masks and 34,487 gloves were given to people. To get gloves […]
Macon-Bibb County Commissioners met via Zoom for the regularly scheduled meetings on Tuesday, August 18. You can watch the meeting here. Old Business: Commissioners approved reallocating $200,000 in voter-approved Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) funds for planned improvements to Cotton Avenue Plaza, First Street, and Rosa Parks Square. The projects will […]
The Solid Waste Department is having to close the Walker Road Landfill (327 Lower Poplar Street) beginning Monday, August 17, 2010 because of a severe staffing shortage. Crews have been exposed to a person that tested positive, and there are not enough people to safely have the landfill open. “For anyone that uses the landfill […]
• Free gloves now available • The Recreation Department and Emergency Management Agency will continue giving free trifold surgical face masks and gloves on Monday, August 17. In the first week of distribution, 37,977 masks and 24,180 gloves were given to people. People can visit any of the below recreation centers Monday through Thursday between […]
At the end of July Macon-Bibb’s County Manager, Dr. Keith Moffett, was notified he would become an International City Managers’ Association’s (ICMA) Credentialed Manager. This was done after ICMA’s Executive Board approved the recommendations of its Credentialing Advisory Board. Throughout the next year, Dr. Moffett must complete identified professional development activities and complete an annual […]
