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Emergency Management Agency

Location:
507 Shoe Factory Road
Blairsville, GA 30512

Contact Person:
Director: R. David Dyer, GA PCEM
Deputy EMA Director: Richard Jones, GA CEM
Deputy EMA Director: Brent Long, GA CEM
Deputy EMA Director: Ernie Pruitt
Administrative: Jeannie Matheson, GA CEM



Contact Details:
Emergency Phone: 911
Non-Emergency Phone: (706) 439-6091
ucema@uniongov.com

About:
The Emergency Management Agency office is responsible for maintaining the County Emergency Operations Plan and for the overall management of any disaster that should befall Union County, responding to all types of emergencies such as lost persons on trails, injury, floods, large scale fires, blizzards, etc.

Working closely with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, (GEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA) the American Red Cross and other state and federal agencies, Union County is very well prepared in case of emergency. In the past eighteen years, Union County has responded to three federally declared disasters and received funds to handle damage from a blizzard in 1993 and a tornado that hit the county in 1998 and a hurricane in 2004.

Announcements

NOTICES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - AGENDA

A Public Hearing will be held on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 5:00pm in the Union County Courthouse, 65 Courthouse Street, Blairsville, Georgia.

The purpose of this hearing will be for Union County to provide information and answer questions regarding the proposed revisions of the Union County Code of Ordinances pertaining to Chapter 10, Article III, Section
10-80 addressing Temporary Special Event Licenses for the sale of alcohol, Chapter 38, Article III, Section 38-51 addressing Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishments and the proposed Commercial Firing Range Facilities Ordinance.

Please send your comments via regular mail or to the email address listed on our website at www.unioncountyga.gov.

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At the County Meeting scheduled for October 19, 2023 at 6:00pm, Union County Government will be adopting the proposed Ordinance for Cryptocurrency and Data Mining.

The final draft of this Ordinance will be available on the website and hard copies will be available in the Union County Commissioner’s Office and with the Union County Clerk of Superior Court on
Wednesday, September 20, 2023.

The following meetings have been held in relation to this ordinance:

1st Reading – June 15, 2023
Public Hearing – July 20, 2023
2nd Reading – August 22, 2023

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What: UNION COUNTY DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION & ELECTRONIC RECYCLING EVENT
When: October 28, 2023 10am - 12noon.
Where: Union County Sports Center (Across from high school)
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