On the night of one his greatest accomplishments, Fayette County attorney Bill McNally was voted out of his primary job.
The Fayette County Commission announced Thursday the long-awaited permit for Lake McIntosh had been granted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The reservoir will supply more than 10 million gallons of water after a four-year construction phase. The 650-acre reservoir is on Line Creek, between Fayette and Coweta counties.
Shortly after thanking McNally for his hard work in the 30 years it took to obtain the permit, the County Commission voted 4-1 to have an in-house attorney hired to do the county's primary legal work. Commissioner Eric Maxwell made the motion and said the county would save thousands of dollars by utilizing an attoney on staff. He did recommend that if the scope of work exceeded the attorney's knowledge that McNally be used as a the outside attorney.
Commissioner Peter Pfeifer voted against the measure.