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$37 Million, Ten Years, One Vendor: What Cherokee County Needs to Know About the Sheriff's Axon Deal
The Cherokee Sheriff's Office wants a ten year, $37.3 million Axon contract covering TASERs, body and dash cameras, evidence storage, and unspecified "future" technology. This year, four Cherokee deputies were arrested for alleged license plate reader misuse, and the agenda summary mentions no safeguards. NGA CAN is asking commissioners to vote no as written on October 20. Join our town hall October 7 in Woodstock.
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Standing Room Only: What We Learned at the Prime Storage Data Center Meeting, and What Holly Springs Needs to Do Now
Holly Springs has no definition of a data center in its code, which is the entire reason this permit exists. Seven weeks until the first hearing. Everything we know about Prime Storage, the answers that didn't answer anything, and what to demand before the vote.
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Cherokee County Extends Its Data Center Moratorium to 180 Days After a Packed Public Hearing
Cherokee County commissioners voted unanimously August 18 to extend the data center moratorium 180 days. Eleven residents spoke, none in favor, and several asked for a permanent ban. Chairman Johnston: "I'd rather pay the higher property taxes than have the data center." The board also enacted a 30 day apartment moratorium, denied the BridgeMill townhome size reduction, approved the TJDJ rezoning 4 to 1, and heard a 13 year firefighter say public records cost her nearly $10,0
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Your Cherokee County Property Tax Rate Gets Set Tonight at 6:00. Here Is How to Read It.
Tonight at 6:00, five people decide what nearly 300,000 residents pay. Three residents spoke at the last hearing.
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Woodstock Scheduled a Silent Vote on a Contract That Had Already Been Replaced
Item 7.2 came off Monday's agenda, but it isn't dead. The city had scheduled a silent consent vote on a contract that had already been replaced by a newer version the City Attorney never reviewed. Two residents spoke. A third warned about data centers, which is where this data would actually live. And the City Manager has now promised in writing, to the full Council, that it returns as a regular agenda item with public comment.
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Cherokee County Is Rewriting Its Zoning Code. Here's What You Should Say.
Cherokee County is rewriting its entire zoning code for the first time since 1992. The new Unified Development Code will shape growth here for decades. We need residents to weigh in on housing affordability, data centers, environmental protections, and more. Take the online survey before June 30 or attend today's community workshop at 1130 Bluffs Parkway in Canton, 4 to 6 p.m.
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