Around 170 of Jefferson County's 175 employees should begin seeing significant increases to their next paychecks. Commissioners voted unanimously Nov. 3 to follow recommendations from a year-long classification and compensation study and enact the first phase of a plan that will amount to an increase of nearly $520,000 to its already $6 million salary budget.
Nine undergraduate UGA students committed to boosting Georgia's rural communities were named as inaugural PROPEL Rural Scholars at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
The Carl Vinson Institute of Government recently welcomed five new undergraduate students as Vinson Fellows, an educational opportunity for UGA undergraduates interested in state and local government. The program allows students to become involved in training, applied research and technical assistance programs, and other initiatives for local and state government in Georgia.
