Macon-Bibb commissioners’ year winds down

The end of the year and the first terms of a consolidated Macon-Bibb County government are giving way to a change of pace.

The County Commission has two regular meetings — Tuesday and Dec. 20 — before the end of 2016. A week later, on Dec. 27, the commission will be inaugurated for a new four-year term, and Mayor Robert Reichert will give an inaugural message.

The Jan. 3 meeting will be when commissioners are appointed to various committees and a mayor pro tem is named. Those committees are what determine the agenda items voted on by the full commission, typically a week later.

“We will have basically no business ... other than to vote for mayor pro tem and the third member of committee of committees,” Reichert said this week.

This story was originally published December 9, 2016 at 5:31 PM with the headline "Macon-Bibb commissioners’ year winds down."