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The Jefferson City Council agreed Monday night to a list of “action items” city manager Jason Tinsley compiled from input received at a recent retreat.
Among the items Tinsley considers to be “action items” include coordinating efforts with the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the development of commercial and retail expansion including the diversification of dining establishments, business class lodging and conference facilities and high-speed data connectivity.
Tinsely said that some of the items would be incorporated into the budget process, while others would come back to the council as policy action items.
Other “action items” listed include:
•transfer the property that houses the “old Police Station” to the Downtown Development Authority.

•evaluate and procure fire suppression systems for city-owned historic buildings.

•renovate/replace flooring in Ballroom C of the city’s civic center.

•seek the University of Georgia assistance for development of master plan for downtown Jefferson.

•continue to purse construction of Parks Creek Reservoir (in partnership with the Jackson County Water & Sewerage Authority.
•implement recommendations from the preliminary engineering report for upgrades to the west side sanitary sewer basin and lift station.
•begin acquisition process for a replacement pumper truck for the city fire department.
•finalize implementation of city’s pay classification plan.

•create pamphlet/document highlighting the City’s Parks Creek Reservoir Project.

•finalize development of the city’s website redesign.
Tinsley also noted strategic priorities and strategic initiatives, as well as creating a “vision statement” and listing “core values.”

A man has been arrested in connection to a theft of close to $1 million worth of household products that were reported missing from some tractor-trailers outside a warehouse in Jefferson.
Sgt. James McNatt with the Jefferson Police Department said employees with Reckitt Benckiser reported two missing trailers outside the warehouse located on H D Robinson Blvd in Pendergrass in January.
An investigation determined that Russell Scott Tittle, 42, a contract employee hired to move trailers around was the last person with access to the trailers, McNatt said.
“Both trailers had merchandise on them and were supposed to be taken to Old Dominion and were to be transported,” said McNatt. “Eventually they recovered their own trailers on their overflow lot and they were empty.”
Stolen items included Lysol products, Mucinex DM and condiments like ketchup and mustard, McNatt said.