...that happened, elected officials would follow the will of voters.City Attorney Cathy Hampton said the city's law department had reviewed the appropriate statutes and case law, determining state legislation would have to authorize such a...

...Meritain as the top choice, but in the process used to reject Meritain's bid protest.Jody Smitherman of the city's law department was joined by Blue Cross Blue Shield's attorneys James Hollis and Mike Bowers ? of the Atlanta office of the Balch...

...Smith said.Commissioner Wayne Guilfoyle said Augusta has more at stake that requires the extra expense. Plus, the law department, like many Augusta departments, remains understaffed. MacKenzie said he's kept an attorney slot open for several...

...in No vem ber, and Rep. Quincy Mur phy moved for the House to reconsider. Both failed.Ultimately, Augusta's law department and Georgia Deputy Attorney General Den nis Dunn issued opinions asserting that Au gusta, unlike the rest of Georgia's...

...Development contracts by requiring only the mayor, city administrator and HCD director to sign? Authorizing the law department to update bylaws for a HCD citizens' advisory committee? Authorizing Guilfoyle, who heads the finance committee...

...Donnie Smith. The journalist is moi.) WOULD MORE OVERSIGHT PREVENT MORE OVERSIGHTS?: One item called for the law department to update the bylaws for the Hou sing and Neighborhood Development Department's Citi zens Advisory Commit tee...

...20 million, largely because of the cost to dispose of the removed material.The administrative ser vices committee referred a system of naming buildings and facilities back to the law department and set a work session for other items.

...included the hearing within Smith's request for the policy change, which was prepared at Smith's request by the city law department.The report, obtained by The Chronicle, shows payments to Jackson's business, Kirby Locksmith, for three Rich...

...Cor rectional Insti tute, Augusta Re gion al Airport and the utilities department.Such requests extend beyond the law department and sometimes leave department heads scrambling to assemble information at a commissioner's request.According...

...the income they earned, it was quite misleading," Bowles said.The agreements had the approval of Augusta's law department, Russell and Augusta Riverfront before they were presented to the commission.Before the meeting, City Administrator...