...OCCUPATION: Retired educator; taught public school for 34 years TERM ENDS: March 31, 2010 APPOINTED BY: Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard; reappointed by Mayor Pro Tem Betty Beard POLITICAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE BACKGROUND: Ran for the Super District...
...Mr. Few never applied for a homestead exemption on his Augusta condo, which he purchased from the late Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard in 2003. Had he received an exemption on that property rather than on the Evans house, he'd have saved...
...Operations Management International as a contractor for the city's sewage treatment plants. It criticizes Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard's family business, radio station WRDW-AM, for entering a contract with OMI four days before the contract...
...has been Augusta's best mayor. Plus, we were moving forward under Mr. McIntyre's leadership. Also, Augusta Commissioners Lee Beard, Marion Williams, Willie Mays, Andy Cheek and the Rev. Bobby Hankerson should keep up the good work...
...recommendations have been acted on publicly by the authority. Ms. Ruben, who is slated to be replaced on the board by Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard at the commission's meeting Tuesday, said new leadership in needed to tackle these tough issues. "I suspect...
...believed what another politician said? Maybe the same tactic would work to foist off the three stooges (Augusta Commissioners Lee Beard, Marion Williams and Willie Mays) on to some other dumb city like Washington where misrepresentations are...
...center crisis became just too much for him to handle. Another discouraging development occurred Friday when Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard notified coliseum authority member Bonnie Ruben that her services were no longer needed. He said she'd...
Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard dismissed Bonnie Ruben as a member of the Augusta Richmond County Coliseum Authority today, saying the 9-year veteran of the...
...another authority member, is at risk of losing her seat because she made the motion to fire Williams. Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard controls her seat and is also unhappy at Williams' ouster. Firing African-Americans, even if they're...
...suggested that land owners petition the city for additional funds from the property taxes they already pay. But Augusta Commissioner Lee Beard, whose district includes the BID, said the city could not allocate any more resources to downtown and instead...