...city council members on Mr. Few's behalf in 2000, along with Mr. Beard, Commissioner Marion Williams and Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays. From the beginning, the city's first black chief was a lightning rod for criticism. Everything he did seemed...
...the deal." Mr. Persaud wrote in a Dec. 15 memo to Mr. Hankerson. WHO WILL IT BE THIS TIME?: Some say Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays will be re-elected at the first meeting of the year Tuesday because it will be his last year on the board. Last...
...under-served children since it began in Atlanta on June 1. Meadow brook was the 23rd site visited. Augusta Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays attended Friday's event, saying the screening of at-risk children should help them grow up to be healthier...
...have since charged the bartender with providing alcohol to minors and she was later fired, Sgt. Smith said. Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays and commissioners Tommy Boyles, Jimmy Smith, Don Grantham, Marion Williams and Andy Cheek voted to pass the motion...
...Cheek called it a proactive move to show the community that commissioners were serious about cutting expenses. Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays, who cast the lone dissenting vote, asked officials whether they had made provisions to live with the deep departmental...
Augusta Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays may have overplayed his hand in his diatribe last week against an agreement with Augusta Entertainment LLC, the corporation wanting...
...number required to pass any commission motion. Commissioner Andy Cheek said the projects' most vocal critic, Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays, had suggested Tuesday night after the meeting that a called commission meeting could reconsider the agreements...
...recommended that commissioners "bear the pain for the immediate future with some relief coming in sight." Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays said he wanted to defer action until after the upcoming Association County Commissioners of Georgia meeting so commissioners...
...option sales tax referendum is safe for another day. Augusta city attorney Stephen Shepard ruled Tuesday that Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays was authorized in the mayor's absence to sign the resolution calling for a sales tax referendum. Mayor Bob Young...
...government states that the mayor must sign all "written contracts and instruments" executed by the city. Since Mayor Pro Tem Willie Mays signed the resolution calling for the referendum, the document is invalid, Mr. Young contends. "It's very...
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