Macon-Bibb Commission 10/15/24

The most controversial item at Tuesday's Macon-Bibb County Commission meeting was not on the agenda. Three Macon-Bibb County commissioners backtracked on votes from two weeks ago in favor of recognition for a Black Confederate fifer. Mayor Lester Miller exercised his right to refuse to accept the United Daughters of the Confederacy's donated placard in honor of the late Charley Benger, whose grave cannot be located in the Old City Cemetery. Tuesday's agenda items passed with little debate or discussion as the county approved nearly $600,000 in improvements to docks and campgrounds at Lake Tobesofkee, agreed to buy generators for public safety radio towers, funded upgrading digital records to allow those workers eligible for pensions to calculate benefits online, authorized an agreement with Tri-State Charters to lease a hangar at Middle Georgia Regional Airport, and accepted a $240,000 Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention grant for the district attorney's office. Here are highlights captured in social media posts during the meeting.