Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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Good night. Well, say good night. It's almost time to go home. Good evening. Welcome to the June 16th County Commissioners meeting. Robbie Cheek is our chairman, but he's not here tonight. He had a medical procedure this afternoon and could not make it. He tried, but he couldn't do it. So we're going to begin with the invocation led by Jim Goodman and the Pledge of Allegiance. If you would, just please stand.

Let us stand as you're able to, please. I don't see any gentlemen with caps on tonight, so I'll skip that. Let us pray. Our Father and our God in heaven, we come to thee in prayer as always thanking you for all of the many blessings which you bestow upon us. We are so grateful to be together tonight to consider matters for the benefit of our citizens, and we ask that you lead us with humility, first of all, humbleness, and with wisdom to make the correct decisions. Father, we pray for those who serve us as public servants, first responders, those in uniform both here and abroad, bring them safely back to their families at the end of their tour as they are on duty. Father, we ask you to heal those who need healing, including our chairman, Robbie. Give him peace and comfort. Bring him back to us. And Father, most of all, we just humble ourselves and agree to submit to your will these things we ask in thy name. Amen.

Roll call, Katie.

Chairman Robbie Cheek is absent, but he may be attending virtually. I'm sorry.

Okay, and we also have an agenda amendment, am I correct?

Yes, we have an addition under presentations, which was accidentally left off the agenda. It is the Joint Development Authority quarterly report presented by Executive Director James Coughlin.

Okay.

Mr. Chairman, I move to accept the agenda as amended.

Do I have a second? Second. Okay, we have a first and a second. All in favor? Thank you. Now we need to approve the May 26th, 2026 work session minutes, May 28th, 2026 work session minutes. And do we need to hold off on the public hearing and do that separate Katie?

No, that's actually the June 2nd public hearing and regular meeting minutes. Okay.

So we can do all three of them at the same time. Yes, sir. Do I have an emotion? Okay.

Make a motion to approve the May 26th work session, the May 28th work session minutes, and the June 2nd public hearing and regular meeting minutes.

Okay. Do I have a second? I'll second it. All those in favor? Okay. Now we have several presentations. I guess we're going to begin with the disaster assistance presented by U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Disaster Recovery and Assistant Public Affairs Specialist, Leanna. I can't say your last name. Say it for me.

Jeanette, Your Honor.

Thank you.

My name is Liliana Chonet. I'm a public affairs specialist with the Small Business Administration, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience. My mission here tonight is to bring you accurate information about the federal assistance that's offered for the Georgia fire victims that happened on April 20th. With that being said, I'm going to be brief, I promise. And I'm just going to go quickly through what's offered, you know, and what, where, and when, okay? Disaster-assistant loans are available after a natural disaster happens in certain times when, you know, the threshold is met. It's a presidential declaration. This is not the case. That's why FEMA is not on board and just SBA is on the ground. We are present and we are trying to offer assistance to everybody that was impacted by the Georgia wildfires. Brantley County was mostly impacted. All the adjacent counties to Brantley They are part of this declaration, including Camden County, that could apply for all disaster loans, physical damage as well as economic injury disaster assistance loans. These loans are not your ordinary loans from the bank. They are coming directly from the Treasury and if your home or you know of somebody in Camden County, that lost their home. They could apply up to half a million dollars in disaster loan with us. And, you know, in addition to that, homeowners and renters, they get for physical damage $100,000 in loans to cover for their cars, personal, you know, goods, personal assets that they were damaged. These loans are for a limited, you know, amount of time. They're only available till July 27 of this year. And to apply is as simple... I brought this with me, but I was hoping to have this on the website. I have a flyer that has a QR code on it. You could just scan the QR code and you could be exactly looking into the disaster loans. You could also start your application online. These loans are also available for businesses that they've been impacted. And the good news is, even if the business didn't have any physical damage, so no brick and mortar damages to the business, you could apply for an economic injury disaster assistance loan that's up to $2 million for businesses that they will that were impacted by the Georgia wildfire. Most of the businesses, they take six to 10 months from the time of the disaster to actually look on the books and see the damage that was done to their business. That includes, you know, being short on paying their loans that they have for their business. That's also including on their personnel, that's including on revenue, that's including on everything that has to do with the business and it's not directly connected with their business. So the impact is gonna be shown in the eight to 10 months from now on. And statistics say that if a small business that just started a business less than three years ago goes through a natural disaster, most likely they're going to close the doors. So the reason for this program, and it's very important that you bring this information to your constituency and to your communities, because it's a way for them to bring back the economy in the region that would be otherwise impacted. Up to $2 million with 4% minimum interest rate, up to 30 years repayment. First 12 months, no interest and no payment expected to SBA. I think this is a good way to start and for them to just start to recover. loans are also available to private nonprofit organizations, including churches. So a lot of churches in the area, they will see that they were impacted by the Georgia wildfire, even though they were far away from the fire, so to say. I would strongly recommend you provide this information on the county's website. I believe it's already on it. Yes. on the city's website, anywhere in your network you could put this information. I have provided also outreach material, these flyers, that they should be distributed via, you know, social media, because it's very powerful nowadays, and people look into this. I am in the county attending any kind of events and I'm planning to attend more events that they will come. We have scheduled in the city of San Mario on the 29th a meeting with all the business owners in the area. Anybody here or anybody that's a business owner in Camden County is welcome to come to that meeting. I will have a virtual presentation provided by the city and I will explain in detail all these loans and how they work and how to apply for them and have a Q&A session in the end. So that's good to know. It's going to be June 29 at 11 o'clock in the city of St. Mary. to be determined the location. But with that being said, the disaster loans deadline, it's July 27 for physical damage. Economic injury, the deadline, it's March 1st of next year. And the reason for that is because we're trying to get everybody that will see the impact in the next 10 months. And to apply for a loan is as simple as I show you. You could just scan the QR code. You could go online at sba.gov forward slash disaster. Find out everything that it is to find out about these loans and about the programs. They could call the customer service line at 1-800-659-2955. And with that being said, I'm open to any questions from the commissioners or from the audience about this loans.

Any questions?

Thank you. You said this is already on the website, correct? Okay.

Yes, it's on the county's website and on several cities' website. I'm trying to be everywhere, but I'm assigned to Glynn County and to Camden County. And, you know, for the next couple of weeks, maybe I will be here. I don't know. But I'm trying to cover all grounds.

Well, thank you for coming tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. For your friends.

Okay, it's time for our third quarter financial report by Chief Financial Officer Lisa Lynch.

Good evening, everyone. Tonight, I'd like to present the third quarter financial review, which goes from July 1st, 2025 through March 31st, 2026. I do apologize that it's been late, but as you know, we've been doing budget. Y'all have been involved in that, so you're aware how much time that takes. So I should be more timely in the next months. So I just wanted you to know that. All right, so... We'll start off with our revenue comparison. The annual budget for the revenues this year is $48,195,616. And so what you're going to look at here, this should be, we should be at the 75th percentile in terms of collections and expenditures so that since we're three-quarters of the year through. So the actual for this year is $40.7 million. Our budgeted is $36.1 million. That's 75% of the budget, so we're already over that. And then the actual for 2025, if you compare it to that, was $36.8 million. So as you can see, we've collected pretty well this year. Property taxes were 89.3%. Prior year taxes, 94.2%. Sales tax at 65.3. I think that falls a little bit behind because the months we collect are in arrears, so we'll have those probably through July. Service charges are at 88.8%, and the courts are at 71.2%. Then we'll compare the expenditures. It's also 48,195,616. The actual expenditures for this year are 37 million, and that's a 76.8%. And then budgeted for this year would be 36.1 million as well, so we're a little over that. The actual for last year was 34.1 million. And these numbers include our general government at 79.5%, health claims are a little bit high at 108%, but that's expected, and workers' comp at 98.14%. Our public safety is at 73.9%, courts are at 68.7%, and public works is at 99.7%. So as you can see, most of the, most, all the expenditures there are in that 75th percentile, somewhere in there. Sometimes you'll have things that are, you know, you won't have as many. You'll have some expenditures that occur during the year that you're not expecting. So those are, those are to be expected in that Public Works. The next slide. Oh, let's see. Hang on a sec.

Hey Josh.

Oh, here we go. All right, the next slide shows our general fund budget. Again, that's the 48 million. Those and that's the summarizes the first two slides. There's 40.7 million in revenues and 37 million in expenditures. So we have a we're in the in the black for that 3.6 million. Last year at the same time, we only had 2.6 million. So we're doing a little bit better than we did last year. A little bit ahead there. This one is our...

So you're saying as of the third quarter, we're $3 million over what we projected to take in?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, we're revenues are over expenditures for right now. So that's, yes, we're $3 million. Okay, the next slide shows our, this will be, this is by type, expenditures by type. We have salary and benefits, if you'll see up there. That's just a comparison of fiscal year 25 to 26, just to show you where we are. Last year, we had 18 million, 18.4. This year, we're at 19.6. Employee health was at 3.1, this year we're at 3.4. Contracted services at 4.2, and this year we're at 4.8. And supplies and materials at 2.6, we're currently at 2.9. Insurance property, that's our property, vehicle, equipment, liability, and legal, 1.4 million, and this year's at 1.5. Transfers out are 1.5 million, and this year's only 975 so far. And then our intergovernmental would be, is 2.3 this year, last year, and then this year is 3.1. And then our capital costs, we haven't transferred all of those out, but we've 65,000 last year and 197 this year. And then the last line is for Medicare adjustments for $232,000 last year and $363,000 this year. So overall, we had $34 million last year in total expenditures at this time, and this year we're at $37 million. So it's not quite $3 million. All right. Next slide. Now I'll go through some of the different funds and their budgets and where they are right now. This is the curbside collection. Their budget is 1.756653. And the revenues they've collected this year, they're at 72.1% at 1.2 million. And expenditures are also at 1.2, 68.5%. So they do have an excess there of 63,000 right now. Last year it was only at 49,000. So they're doing a little better this year. The next one will be the emergency telephone budget, which is 1.8 million. So far, we've gotten 1,022,097, which is about 56%. The expenditures are at 1.456979. That's a little bit higher at 79%. And the difference is they're at a small deficit of 434,882. Last year, however, it was a little bit higher. It was at 582. So that is a better number there. Okay, next is our unincorporated service district budget. It's 4.3 million, and the revenues so far collected are 3.3 million. We're at 75%. Expenditures are at 3.0 million, and that's 68.9%. That does include insurance premiums tax revenue of 1.6 million. And it includes capital equipment for fire of $1 million, our right-of-way mowing of $303,000, and parks of $102,000. So the difference there, they're also in the black there at $285,996. Last year, it was at a deficit of $1.3 million this time. So we're doing much better there. The next will be the solid waste authority budget. It's $5 million this year, and this year for this third quarter, they're at $3.5 million in revenues, 71%. The expenditures are at $3.8, 76%. C&D and MSW revenue is at 71%, and the difference there is $275,156, which is... probably pretty much to be expected, but the last year it was at 2.2 million, so it is a much better number this year. And we also carry an investment account for reserves for closure that's required, and that's at 7.5 million. Okay, on the gun range, our Two Rivers gun range, the budget this year is $293,610, and the revenues by the third quarter were at $193,513, and expenditures at $198,063. The difference there is negative 4%. But last year, if you can see, that's a huge difference. Last year, this time, they were at a deficit of 52,000. So they're improving every year. And also, Ricky's told me that the revenues tend to increase during the summer anyway. So, you know, we haven't gotten through June yet. So I'll expect to see some higher numbers there. Okay, now I'll go through our SPLOST funds. We have SPLOST 8 and SPLOST 9. SPLOST 8 is mostly spent, but there's still some to go. The collections to date are 69 million, and through 331, our expenditures, as you can see, I have them grouped together. The Public Safety Radio Communication center is 1.049925. Ambulances, we spent 1.1 million. Superior court records, 516,000. Property acquisition, we've spent half a million there. The library, 106,000. Highway 17 Blue Bridge is 177,000. And the public health department was 5 million. And then distributed to the cities and PSA is 30,127,190. So that gives us a total of $38,753,467. Now this slide kind of breaks it down a little bit just to show you what we've actually, you know, how the projects are done. These are the miscellaneous projects. The other ones were tier one and tier two. These are the other projects that are remaining that are kind of grouped as general, like road projects, building renovations, and vehicle technical and equipment. So as you can see, the referendum, the top line is the budgeted number there. And then below that will be what expenditures you have. So in road projects, our budget's 4.1 million there, and we've spent 3.2. So there's a $886,000 remaining budget. The building renovations is a $2.9 million budget, and we've spent $770,000 so far, so we still have a little over $2.1 million. For vehicles, technical, and equipment, that's $5.4 million, and so far we've spent $6.4. So we did go over that a little bit, and I think that was because of... Was it the PSA? You know, I was thinking of something else. I'm not real sure on that, but I can get back to you on that if y'all want to know. I'm not sure what the... Actually, in this grouping, it's okay on the SPLOST money if you go a little over and a little under in one category because you still have the total funds there. The total budget there is $12 million for all of those. But sometimes you, you know, may not spend quite as much in one and then a little bit more in another one. So as far as those numbers go, they're okay. Our SPLOST 9 actual collections to date is $9.2 million. As you can see, we haven't spent a whole lot there yet. Those first four items, these are Tier 1 and Tier 2 again. We're going to use that for the public safety complex, the jail. uh... local park rehab the georgia florida sports tourism and that county ambulance is another seven uh... but we haven't spent any money there yet so uh... the j d a industrial entrance road we spent twenty one thousand two hundred forty four dollars and cities in p s a distributing to those is two point nine million so that's the total there is two point nine six seven forty one uh... so that's uh... spots nine and these will be the projects that we will be doing with this, with the SPLOST. Did I get the right one? Hang on a minute. Oops, sorry about that. I went backwards. Here we go. Here's plus nine. So the top line, again, is the budgeted number. Your road projects is $6.2 million. None of that's been spent yet. The building renovations is $1.5. We haven't spent that yet either. And then the machinery, equipment, and technology. items is 6.2 million. We have spent 573,000 so far, so we still have 5.6 million. But again, this SPLOST 9 just started, so we've got it for another five years, I believe.

This is a lot of interceptors. Is this different than the interceptors from the proposed budget?

Yeah, because this is for this year. That's for next year, yeah. Okay, let's see what's next. The ARPA expenditures, this is just kind of ARPA's, that's kind of over where we have just a little bit more money to spend on that, but we did want to show there we had 10.6 million that was received. We have spent a little over 9 million, and we do have some encumbered already, 668,000 for a total of 9.7 million. And below you can see the, I won't go through each of those, but those are the projects that we've that we assigned to the ARPA funds, and most of those have been completed. There's only three that are remaining, and so we do need to spend those by the end of this fiscal, or not the fiscal year, end of the calendar year, December 31st. And that's all I have for tonight. Is there any questions or comments?

I do have a question. I know you said you're going to work on it. I know you were going through the budget and this got out a little late. The previous CFO used to send out a month to date. Yes, I will be doing that. Yes, it is.

I'll be doing that. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Sure.

I have one question.

Okay.

Let me find it. Because I have been told that the court records... were complete and paid for, am I correct?

I believe it is. I think the budget on that was $550,000, and I think I reported that they're $516,000, but they've since, we just got an invoice the other day was for $30,000, so they're still a little under budget, but I think it is completed, yes.

Okay.

Anything else?

Anybody got a question? Thank you.

Thank you all, appreciate it.

Thank you. We're now going to have a presentation by the Joint Development Authority and James Coughlin.

Time to do it from up here?

Time with me.

Do I need the clicker? Thank you all for having me. This is our normal quarterly update. Commissioner Turner requested that I take the same slide presentation that I used for Citizens Academy, which I think was earlier this month or late last month, and add a few updates to that and bring that to you. So that's what I've done here tonight. We'll kind of go through that. All right, let's rock right into that. All right. So for those of you that don't know, and obviously this was for the benefit of the folks that were in Citizens Academy, this is the mission of the JDA. The mission of the Camden County Joint Development Authority is to promote and stimulate economic development in Camden County. So that means attracting new business, helping existing businesses to grow, and encouraging private investment in Camden County. Below that is the code in Georgia statute that establishes development authority law. I won't bore you with that. How do we do that? Primarily, we work with state and local government agencies to bring infrastructure to support development. We position sites for future development. You all know how we do that. We deliver infrastructure, roads, water, sewer, like that splossed road that Lisa was just talking about. We incentivize sites to overcome obstacles to development. We put them in the military's own job tax credit program, for example, that the state has so that when a new company locates on that, Because we do have Kings Bay in town, they get a $3,500 per job tax credit against their state income tax. So that's valuable. So that runs through us. We work with state and local education leaders to ensure that workforce education programs are in place to serve business, increase awareness of our workforce training opportunities, and make our available workforce, make them available to industry, market them to industry, excuse me. And we market Camden County to state project managers, site consultants, and to industry leaders. Most companies who are considering relocating or expanding in an area, they don't go out and look at communities themselves. They either reach out to the state of Georgia and say, hey, Georgia, we've heard you're a good place to do business. What counties would meet the specifications that would be needed for my business? The state will in turn reach out to us if we fit that. And likewise, some of them use third-party site consultants, and it's basically a realtor that works with industry. They would say, hey, I need X amount of land, X amount of water, sewer, electric, et cetera, and the site consultant would go out and find qualified sites for that. All right, so this next slide. This is our business plan, obviously not our entire business plan, but the key areas that we'll be focusing on as we wrap up FY26 and step into FY27, we focus on redevelopment of the former Gilman, which we call the North River property, development of the Coastal Georgia Commerce Park, supporting advancement of the Georgia-Florida Sports Park, and then continuing countywide economic development support and collaboration. I'll kind of go over each one of those for us. All right, so that's the former Gilman Mill site. That's the description. It's about 718 acres, of which 145 is salt marsh. There's 85 wetlands, 260 uplands, 165 in waste ponds, and 45 in landfills. You may remember that Jacoby Development had planned what they called Cumberland Inlet on the site, a marina with 160 slips, dry stack, boutique hotel, condos, town center, et cetera. We had worked with Jacobi Development to redevelop that site. We had issued a bond and the developer was responsible for making those bond payments. The developer failed to do so. He made them for the first couple of years and then fell behind and then eventually stopped making the payments altogether. We had to foreclose on that developer. He in turn filed bankruptcy. We took him to court. We were told by the attorneys at the time that it would likely take two to three years to resolve. We really put together a strong legal team, and we had it resolved in eight months. So this is where we stand today. As of January 13th, we took possession of the property. We took possession of everything except the landfills and the salt marsh. And I want to emphasize that because those landfills, they come with some liabilities, you might imagine, and some long-term maintenance costs. And that's still Jacoby's responsibility. We did that by, when we decided what collateral we wanted to take for our participation in the project, we did not include the paper mills. Excuse me, we did not include the landfills. So when it came time to take land back, we did not take those. He's still responsible for those. So we took that as of January 13th. The very next day, we had an RFP ready to go out for developers and brokers. We brought in the top three in April. Most were eliminated just due to their plan or finances or other factors not being appropriate. There were plenty of people that wanted to get involved. They wanted us to take on additional debt, or they had plans that were incompatible with the site, incompatible with St. Mary's, and we eliminated those from consideration. We will now move forward with a plan that involves putting a portion of the property into a conservation easement in cooperation with the Navy, subdividing and selling the peripheral property around the edge of the site, and then selling the waterfront property with the assistance of a global broker. That second column over there, the $8.6 million, that is the outstanding debt on that site. Our payments are already included in our budget. Part of that had to be set aside by Jacobi as part of the bankruptcy agreement. There's two payments to be made a year, and March 1st of every year, $180,000, and September, $763,000. Those payments will be made by selling that land and entering into that conservation easement. The conservation easement should yield us about $2.5 million. That'll make that payment for several years. And then as we sell off additional pieces of property, we will pay the remainder of it. That was supposed to be what Jacoby Development was supposed to do. Every time they sold a piece of land out there, they were supposed to pay us 80% of the revenue that they yielded from that. But they never sold anything. So anyway, that's... We are moving on from them. We will no longer refer to it as Cumberland Inlet. That was their name. So if you come to one of our board meetings, you'll see that it's referred to as the North River site, not Cumberland Inlet. I took the opportunity during Citizens Academy, and I wanted to do this since Martin asked me to, to explain that property is a TAD. It's a tax allocation district. So the cities, Kingsland and St. Mary's have what's called redevelopment powers and they can create TADs. The county does not have redevelopment powers and therefore cannot create a TAD, but they could if you're interested. you could get redevelopment powers. But what a TAD does, it stands for tax allocation district, meaning the taxes, the increase in property taxes that are generated on that property or within that development have to be reinvested or reallocated back into that development. So the example I gave during Citizens Academy, if that entire property was worth $1 million today, somebody comes in and builds something worth $5 million, that $4 million difference in taxable value is reinvested in the site to support public infrastructure or other public benefit on the site. So that site is a TAD, and that TAD revenue, again, created by the City of St. Mary's, is eligible for helping to clean up the site, environmental cleanup, site demo, riverbank stabilization, parking lots, the marina itself, the marina basin itself was determined to be a public benefit. Any of those expenses are eligible TAD expenses that a potential developer could apply for. Coastal Georgia Commerce Park is the second thing I mentioned. I've talked to you all about this before, and this is the project that Lisa mentioned the road for, for SPLOST. This is a 1,400 acre grad mega site that is on the west side of Highway 17. The first 150 acres are already under our control. The road, water, and sewer, this is an advertisement of what it will look like. The road, water, and sewer is being run to that now. I don't know if those of you who have seen in downtown Kingsland, but the rail line is being rebuilt now. So that rail service is being put in there as well. Fiber, gas, and electric are already available on Highway 17, but they're being run into the site as well. So we think this is going to be a very attractive park for industry. And we're doing this because we filled up our existing industrial park. The industrial park that was originally built in 1996 that we inherited was already chopped up into little pieces, the biggest property out there being 18.5 acres. That's where we put plug power. Since then, we've filled up all the remainder of the park, so we need more land. This is a look at the property that is under our control now. It's a little more than 150 acres total because of the wetlands, but Rainier's not charging us for the wetlands. But that's a look at the site. If you'll, I don't know if the pointer works or not, maybe not. Right down here on Harriet's Bluff Road, you can see... There will be turn lanes, deceleration lanes, a rail crossing with safety guards, all of that. And also the water and sewer will be bored under Highway 17 and come into this. It opens up this entire area west of Highway 17. Rainier owns about 40,000 acres west of here. So they're obviously very cooperative. I mean, not that they wouldn't be anyway. but they're very cooperative with this effort because this opens up this entire property for future development. They're excited about that. All right. This is the funding strategy for the coastal Georgia commerce park. Um, we were applied for and receive the Georgia rural site development initiative grant for 2 million. That is specifically, um, intended for the road. So if you'll see on the, the left-hand column over here, I've got the sources of revenue and on the right-hand column, I've got the uses of the RSDI grant has to be, uh, uh, applied to the access road. The federal seed grant or site economic improvement development grant of $1 million has to go to the water and sewer that will run from Harriet's Bluff Road under Highway 17. SPLOST 9, that's a total of $3 million that will be paid over six years. That is... For the access road, those bullet points don't line up, but that third bullet point there, that has to go for the access road. And then the JDA bond that we issued goes for the land, the road, and the remaining infrastructure. So I wanted to make clear, I shared with the Citizens Academy class, and I wanted to make sure y'all are aware that these are very strictly governed. Our SDI funds cannot be used for water and sewer. They can't be used for operations. They can't be used for land acquisitions. The same is true for the seed grant. It has to be specifically used for water and sewer, SPLOST, et cetera. The way we handle that, we've got separate accounts for all of them, separate bank accounts. We've got separate checks that we use, and there's no intermingling of those funds, just to make sure that exactly what we promised the grantor, or in the case of the SPLOST, the voters who voted for it, that it's going to exactly what we said it would go to. These are current projects. So the state gave us a $2 million grant. As you might imagine, the state wants to see a return on that. They want to send the governor down here to cut a ribbon, and we'd love to have it as well. So they've been sending us projects on a pretty regular basis, about one every other week now, to compete, see if we are competitive for these projects, see if we can accommodate them. Some we've quite frankly had to turn away because we just don't feel like they'd be appropriate for Camden County for whatever reason, based on the material that they handle, based on the size of the structure, whatever. These are the four that we're currently working for the Coastal Georgia Commerce Park. Keep in mind the code names are not assigned by me. They come in with these code names. Project Cobra is a defense manufacturer. You can see there what they need to be 150 jobs, a CapEx or a capital investment by the private sector, not a capital investment from our side of 65 million. Project Grace is a steel fabrication company out of Florida, 75 acres, 110 jobs, a capital investment of 12 million. Project East is a relatively new one. They need 150 acres. It's 300 jobs, $300 million investment. And then the one we literally just got yesterday, Project Storehouse, 100 acres, 700 jobs, $1.325 billion is the capex on that. So with all of these companies, they're being led first by a site consultant. And then the site consultant reaches out to the state. We deal with the state project manager. We're not allowed to speak to the site consultant until later in the process. And we're certainly not allowed to speak to the company or know who the company is. That doesn't come until later. So we're in competition for these. We'll see if we make We've already made the first cut on Cobra and we made the first evaluation on Storehouse. So anyway, we'll see where this goes and if they amount to anything. And obviously if we do, we bring them back to the County Commission for any approval. All right, the next one that I mentioned in the business plan is the Georgia Florida Sports Park. That was another splost item that the voters supported and we appreciate it. The whole focus here is to attract tourism to Georgia and attract tourism to Camden County, increase our hotel room nights, change it from a stop that somebody makes along I-95 to a destination that'll drive retail traffic, therefore feeding splossed and lost collections for future efforts, create jobs and business opportunities, and improve our quality of life.

And so what is the JDA's involvement with that?

Yeah, can I go backwards? So the JDA's involvement has been really coordinating between Kingsland and the private developer. We led the effort to get the SPLOST word out and make sure people understood the opportunity for SPLOST. Kingsland had a tax allocation district in this area. And to accommodate this project, they needed to change the property boundaries of that, include some parcels that weren't previously included, cut out some parcels that were included before so we can reconfigure that TAD for them. They paid us back for that. And now we're leading the discussions between the developer, the civil engineer, rather, the city. We host them on a regular basis just to kind of work through any issues that come up. So this is the funding sources and uses for Georgia Florida Sports Park. The SPLOST is going for road improvements, water and sewer, sidewalks, and the first section of sports fields, restrooms, facilities, etc. TAD will take over and finish the sports fields and pay for the exhibit hall and conference center. And the TAD, keep in mind, that's only available if private investment happens. So TAD is the increase in value in that property. So it takes private investment to create that TAD revenue. So when the private developer comes in and builds hotels and restaurants and retail and apartments and RV park and family entertainment center, that increases the taxable value of that property, that money that's in the property. In between where it's valued now and what it will be valued at, we call increment. That increment is reinvested to pay for all this other stuff.

So in terms of just the SPLOST money, how many items on that list is the SPLOST?

Road improvements, water, sewer, and the first half of sports fields.

So that money will be going towards sports fields?

Yes, it will. Yes, it will. And I tell you what, recent discussions that we've had with the city of Kingsland, with Commissioner Cheek and the developer, we've talked about before using SPLOST to strictly pay for the water and sewer and the road. The problem there is... That's what I've consistently heard.

That's why I was curious.

So when we started, it was going to be just for the sports fields, right? And then later on, some people had some misgivings about that and felt like, well, it should just pay for infrastructure. That's not how it was listed on the referendum. What the citizens voted for was a SPLOST for a sports park. So we want to make sure that the end of this SPLOST period, at the end of this six years, they've got a sports park. So at least the first half of the sports park, along with the infrastructure to support it, will be paid for. So that was very important to the leaders of Kingsland. They didn't want to find themselves in a position where they were looking back at the county saying, hey, we spent $10 million and you don't have a sports park, right? These are the partners that are involved. WH Grows, everybody knows Bill Grows, does great things around the community, around the state, quite frankly. And then Greenstone Properties, they do sports facilities. This is a minor league stadium that they operate in Fort Wayne, Indiana. But they do these kind of projects around the country. Other projects, and I'll kind of go over here, plug power. You're familiar with those, the hydrogen facility in our current industrial park. They're getting ready to begin phase two. Right now they produce 30 tons of hydrogen a day. They're going to take that to 50 tons. Keeping in mind all the hydrogen they currently produce is already paid for, already sold. to Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart. They use it in their warehouses for their material handling equipment. Interestingly enough, two of the projects I mentioned earlier that are looking at the Coastal Georgia Commerce Park are specifically looking because they need hydrogen as part of their process. And so they want to be located close to a hydrogen production facility. St. Mary's Commerce Park, that was the repurposing of the former St. Mary's Airport. There's not much of a role for us anymore, but again, this was something we covered at the Citizens Academy. We led the city through the repurposing, the engineering, the wetlands, the road construction. We got the grant from the state. to help out with the road construction. In fact, that grant is finally closed out with the state. And then we handle selling property out there to private entities. We pay ourselves back for whatever we had invested in it, and then we give the remainder to the city. Pigmental Studios owns the majority of the land out there. She's having to reconfigure her site plan now. She's gonna reduce the amount of studios that she plans to build, so she's reconfiguring that. which I just talked to her on the way up here. In the process of doing that, it means that she'll have to reconfigure her electrical demand and some other things, go back to Georgia Power to change her request with them. But hopefully we'll have a new site plan from her soon. Griffin Lumber and Specialty Structural Products, they're the group that if you're standing on Point Peter Road looking into this, is right immediately to your left of this new sign. Since this picture was taken, the landscaping has been done. It actually is very nice. I think the city's very proud of it. This is Sicce Water Products, an Italian company that located in the Camden County Industrial Park late last year. They actually had the ribbon cutting earlier this year. They've closed on eight acres and built a 30,000 square foot distribution facility. They're already planning phase two because they're moving their North American headquarters to Camden County. Stopped by there late last week to meet with them. They've signed on with a German company now that they'll So they're Italian. They're featuring German tanks, aquariums and water tanks and things like that that they'll be selling. And they've also done a deal with an aquatic plant company from Denmark. So it's a little like going to Epcot out there with all their different signs and labels and everything else. And this, again, this is stuff I covered in Citizens Academy. It's not necessarily anything you need to know, but I'll mention it anyway. Everybody feels it when you're driving around. We've got a lot of residential development happening very quickly, and that residential development demands infrastructure. It demands and will require, and it will be followed by, retail development. That naturally follows this kind of residential development There's over 12,000 residential units that are coming between exit one and exit seven in the next five or so years Those they've already you know developers have bought property and they're already submitted their plans to the cities. That's a very Significant increase in our population if you just figure two or two and a half people per per house so it does demand that the cities and the county work together and on planning and the school board and everybody else worked together on planning the requirements it takes to serve this. I would encourage you, if you're in the cities, either the cities or any of the cities, to look at this development dashboard that City of St. Mary's has on their website. You can hold your cursor over any of the sites that are planned here, and it'll show you what's planned, the densities, the type of homes, the number of approved lots, et cetera, and you can see where the infrastructure's coming from. The Kingsland map is static, but they do update it on a regular basis. It's a tremendous amount of growth that's coming to Kingsland, both commercial and residential. And then workforce housing. I wanted to go ahead and address this because it comes up all the time. People say, what's the deal with all the apartments being built? Some of the apartments that are being built are market rate, meaning the developer goes in, they're going to build those, and they're going to charge exactly what the market will bear as much as they possibly can. Some of these are what we call workforce housing projects. These are developers who come to town, they get a piece of property under control, they've put an option on that property. They look at the property and they say it's close to schools, it's close to medical facilities, it's close to everything that someone would need to raise a family here or to work here. They submit it to the state. If it's approved by the state, the state will award them tax credits. Those tax credits they sell, and those aren't, I'm not talking local tax credits, these are state of Georgia tax credits that the apartment developer then sells But in selling those tax credits, it creates equity into their project. That allows them to offer those apartments at a lower rent rate because they've got this injection of equity. And they're required to keep those apartments at a lower rent rate for 20 years. They're targeted toward people who are at 40 to 60% of the area median income. And surprisingly enough, in many cases, that's police officers, teachers, nurses, et cetera.

This is something that the JDA is heavily involved in.

Yeah. So the way the state did this, the developer has to apply through us. Um, and then we issue a bond, it's called the conduit bond, uh, meaning it's no debt for us. There's no debt to the county. There's no debt to the city, but we have to issue the bond for them to receive the tax credits. Again, this is part of the Citizens Academy presentation. What's driving all this? People ask us all the time, where are all these people coming from? Why are we increasing so rapidly? A lot of it's Florida, the cost of living in Florida. A lot of folks, and we hear it all the time, I'm sure you all do too, who thought they were going to retire in Florida, maybe already did retire in Florida. The cost of living is too high. The cost of insurance is too high. And so they come, I guess we don't call them halfbacks, quarterbacks, an eighth back. whatever, but they end up coming to this beautiful community that they've stopped in for years on their way to Florida. Some of it's Kings Bay, and that long-term won't be the case, but there is temporary increase in population and contractors that are working on Kings Bay as they prepare for the Columbia-class submarine, and that does have contractors coming to town, and in some cases they're here for months or years while they make improvements out there on the base to accommodate the new subs. And not to mention top tier schools, low crime rates, relatively low land prices, all of that fuels growth. We've been discovered. And what are we doing about it? So on a regular basis, your county planners and county administrators join the cities and their administrators and staff and the school system. And for the first time this past month, we had the base participate. We meet on a quarterly basis to kind of review projects, see where they intersect. In several cases, Kingsland has water and sewer projects. that are, uh, that are going on immediately adjacent or intersecting with, uh, St. Mary's. Um, so it's important that they plan those things and talk through them together. Um, countywide traffic study that, uh, that Joey and Shannon are, are leading with the consultants that they engaged. That's a tremendous help, uh, because there's a lot of traffic issues that need to be considered. Um, we talk about the tans, how those are being applied, the splast, uh, how those projects are coming along. And having the school system there is valuable as well as we look at the impact that this increase in population is having on our school system. Interestingly enough, at our last meeting, they did inform us that enrollment right now is down. Not by much, but it's slightly down, surprisingly enough. Something I wanted to cover before I wrap up. Recently, as recently as yesterday, we put out some information on our social media about some retail market data that just came out. Retail market data show that area median income is significantly up. Average household income is significantly up. Population, of course, is significantly up. Home ownership is significantly up. A lot of really strong indicators for Camden County. We already knew we were one of the wealthiest counties in southeast Georgia. Area median income has, for years, we've known that we're higher than Nassau County, we're higher than Duval County. and we're higher than most of the areas around us. Excuse me, Bryan County has exceeded us now, largely because of the Hyundai project, but we do very well. But we get these things and we share them, and we share them mainly for, corporate investment. We want people who are considering building the next wonderful restaurant here, the next residential development here, the next grocery store here, to know that this community can support the level of customer base that they would need. That's what that information is for. Somewhere along the line in the comments, I noticed there were people that thought it was the result of some survey that went out. It was not a survey. Those reports are put together by professionals that we engage that use Bureau of Labor and Statistics data, they use census data, they use Esri data, which is a large data collection firm. They use data from the state. They don't send out a survey and look at answers from individuals to compile that kind of data. And then that kind of information is sent to shopping center developers, industrial developers, real estate developers all over the country. and they look at it and say, hey, does Camden County meet my specs? Would I consider investing here? And what they've told us is we have now crossed over from the rural community that we were, we've crossed over into a different investment category to attract a different level of business that wouldn't have considered our area before. So that's encouraging, but I just wanted to share that because I think there was some misinterpretation about that. What questions can I answer?

When you say the median income is up, is any of that tied to inflation?

You know, I guess if you reverse engineered that, right, and said that some employer is having to pay his employees more due to inflation, or her employees more, excuse me.

Due to their employees' expenses, right.

Right, because the employee is coming in and saying, look, I can no longer survive on X. If you want to keep me here, you're going to have to pay me more. Sure, yeah, it could definitely be a result of inflation.

These workforce housing credits, is that something that you are obligated to do when approached, or is that something that's a choice by the JDA?

It's a choice by the JDA. So what we do, we have a policy. First of all, it had never been done before about two or three years ago, and we didn't even think it was legal. When the first one came to us, we didn't think it was legal because development authorities focused on economic development typically have stayed out of the housing realm. We don't get involved in residential development. We had to bring an attorney in who looked at it and said, no, because these are commercial projects, they're not residential. I'm not building a house for you. I'm building a commercial project. We could do it. But the policy we adopted said the first thing we'll do is go to the city where the development has been planned. And we'll say, has this developer met with you and do you want it? Does it meet your zoning? Can you support it with the infrastructure you have available? And do you want it? Has it been approved by your planning commission and your city council? If the answer is yes, they can come to us and apply for a conduit bond and we'll look at it. But we won't make that decision without talking to the city first.

Anything else? Not off the top of my head, but you're always available. I can give you a call, right?

Anytime. You got my number. Thank you, James. Appreciate it. You want this back?

We have one more presentation. It's the Sheriff's Office. I'd like to say this before we start. I appreciate all of the Sheriff's Office. I appreciate everything you do. I appreciate the fact that you guys are willing to protect us. So, Sheriff? Or Kristen, whichever. She looks familiar.

Or Dalton. Good evening. Thank you for having us. This really means a lot. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Kristen Kennedy. I'm the public information specialist for the Sheriff's Office, and my entire career tenure has been invested in public information. I started with Georgia Sheriff's Association, then transferred into local government a couple years ago and got to spend some time with y'all. And then in February, I transferred to the Sheriff's Office. So, as you know, I have seen both sides of the long and laborious meetings and the challenge of balancing limited resources and the difficult decisions that come with being mindful of taxpayer dollars. It's hard. I've sat in those meetings on all sides, from GSA, Georgia Sheriff's Association side, to local government in which I sat in with you guys. I've seen departments come hungry for the support necessary to fulfill their mission. I've seen the burden of public service, the responsibility commissioners carry when shaping the future of the county, and the weight of the sheriff that he carries to ensure the safety of the people who live here. And typically the budgets are line items. You see spreadsheets, you just see numbers, and you see hundreds of pages for months on end, I know. But a lot of times it gets lost. You get lost in the pages, you get lost in the numbers, because you just get tired. So tonight we're not here with a presentation of charts or graphs or more numbers. Instead, we're offering a video as a conduit between the numbers and the lives who live them. This is an educational opportunity for all of us to see what these people right here, everyone sitting here behind me in black with a badge, they represent courage. I can't say that if I was given the opportunity to do what they do that I would have the courage to embody what it takes to do what they do, but they do it every single day. And because I know personally I don't have the courage to be that, I want to be a mouthpiece. I want to be an advocate for them because I believe in what they do. Because what they do is be ready. They're always ready for a citizen when they need them. They're answering calls at 3 a.m. They're dispatchers listening to someone who's taken potentially the worst moment of their life. It's corrections in the jail maintaining order and safety. And I have a little bit of statistics for you. Camden County's crime index, even though I like to be roses and rainbows, like James's, the crime index is not decreasing. It's increasing. In 2019, GBI crime index had Camden County at 6%. The most recent data, 2024, do you know what Camden County's crime index is? 11.8%. That's almost doubled in five years. Our population in that five years has almost been 5,000. And as you know, the economic development just told us that we're getting another 12,000 homes in the next five years. What's the crime index going to do then? The other thing is that we still have the same number of deputies on patrol, the same number in the jail, handling that increased crime. We have not had the reflection of increase in public safety to meet the population increase and to also meet the demand. So today is not about the numbers. It's truly about you being able to see what goes on. It's our opportunity to just educate you on what these people, the courage, the courageous people do every single day because it does matter. So while I understand that every budget request comes with a cost, we hope this presentation helps illustrate the value behind each request. And while the sheriff believes these needs are not optional, they are truly mission essential. They're mission critical. So in the video you're about to hear, I want to give you a disclaimer, and for anybody who's listening, the first section of the video are a series of 911 calls, and they are heavy, intentionally. When you hear them, you cannot unhear them. And they will resonate with you. But the purpose of that is to help all of us understand what these people do every single day. and they do it selflessly. So I ask you tonight to listen to it and listen to the series of employees who are willing to share their experiences. After the 911 calls, there's going to be five employees who come and they speak to you on the video and they share the challenges that they face to stay and serve here in Camden County. So I ask tonight that you listen and you recognize that we are the cost of readiness.

Will you be available for questions after the video?

The sheriff will, yes, sir.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I just heard some great stories from some great heroes. Public safety. When I say public safety, it's also fire rescue because we're all in it together. It's hard to get up here after you watch that video because it's very touching to me. And law enforcement, fire rescue, go out there every day and witness the worst moments of people's lives. Then they have to clear their head and go answer the next call. 12 hour shifts or 24 hour shifts for fire rescue. And most people may experience three to five traumatic events in life, a whole lifetime. We see hundreds in a lifetime, several in one call. Every call is different. Every call has its unique path. We just have a front row seat to it. I know y'all's jobs are tough. The Board of Commissioners job is tough, tough, tough. I don't want to do your job. But also we have a tough job too. And I appreciate what y'all do for us, how you help us out. Those heroes that are talking up there, Bunch of them in here. That's why we do it. That's why I do this call. It's about the man and woman next to you every day when you're out there on that call at 2 o'clock in the morning by yourself and your buddy shows up to help you out, man, you feel a calm relief come over you. I just want the citizens to understand that we're here to protect them and serve them every day. Thank you. Questions?

I just wanted to say, I mean, it was kind of alluded to that this video was in response to our discussion on the budget, the sheriff's office budget. And I don't believe supporting law enforcement and wanting to be responsible with taxpayer dollars is mutually exclusive. So when we ask questions, it's not to criticize the job that those deputies out there are doing. But when I do look out there and see, you know, a third of the room full of deputies Yeah, I see paychecks as well. And we've talked about overtime. So those are the things that we're honing in on, not necessarily their ability to do their job.

No, this is just educational video.

Right, right. We want to make sure that they're just as prepared in a state of readiness as possible.

But we do have to be responsible. They're not getting paid overtime. They're here on their own free time now, most of them.

Most of them? Mm-hmm.

There's probably one or two that probably just left out grants or a call.

Yes, sir. But I just don't want it to be misconstrued that we don't support the job that they do.

That's not what we're here for. That was just educational video to show you what we do every day.

I will say this. My nephew back in 2002 was working for us in our business. We paid him $25 an hour back in 2002. That was pretty good money. And I remember he went to work for the sheriff's office, and I remember telling him, have you lost your mind? you're going to go get shot at for $12 an hour, and that's what they were paying then, and they had to start in the jail and work through the system. So all of you guys, we appreciate you. I do very, very, very much for your ability, but not necessarily just your ability, your purpose to run to the problem rather than being like us and running from the problem. So thank you very much. Thanks, Sheriff. We'll move on. There you go. There you go. Thank you. All right. It's time for public comments. Comments regarding items featured on the agenda. No one signed up? Does anyone like to speak about any item found on the agenda? Yeah, there you go, Ricky. Amen. Okay, John.

I'm John Wojcik, Clarks Bluff Road. I had a two-hour conversation with Mr. Coughlin with the JDA this morning, and I'm glad I had it. He and I established a dialogue about the JDA, and I learned a lot, okay? Because I can't ask you questions because you can't answer me back. I can't talk to them when they put on a presentation because they're not open for comment. And when you go to their meeting, they say to pledge allegiance and open with invocation and then they go executive meeting. But thank God I was able to get an appointment to see him that lasted two hours. I have a... There are still some questions that need to be answered, but a lot of my questions were answered that you won't see me spouting off like I have been the last couple of months because I have a lot of questions that need answering and you guys couldn't do it. And that kind of irritated me that I was trying to reach out and get answers and nobody was answering me. And that's what upset me. But I feel calmer now. I believe in a lot of things that the JD is trying to do, but there are some things that I still question, okay? It's not 100%. I have an open door policy with Mr. Coughlin that if I have any more issues, I'd rather bring it to him come to the Camden County Commissioner meeting and air my differences and hopefully we can settle it in his office rather than me jumping up and down here. You guys signed a memorandum of understanding in 2025 and it's good until 2030. You guys signed it and I have to agree or settle with what you guys did. And if I'm still alive at 2030 and a memorandum of understanding comes up again, it's going to depend on how we act between now and 2030, whether or not I spout off again. Let's hope that don't happen. Thank you for listening to me.

Thank you, John. Anyone else like to speak? Please keep it to three minutes if you possibly can, which you did, John. Thank you. Seeing no one, we'll move on then. Julie?

Good evening. I'm requesting approval of a grant award from GEMA for a drought study in the amount of $68,034. The county will use the funds to hire consultant to the, to develop the study and provide the following services assessment of existing conditions, water source inventory, and mapping develop strategies to reduce the ISO rating. and reduce insurance premiums for residents. The study is important for the residents of Camden County as it will identify additional water sources that will reduce turnaround times for tanker trucks during a fire and may reduce property damage. A 15% match of $12,006 is required, and GMO will also provide $4,002 in management costs that can be used to cover a portion of my salary. I am requesting approval of award as presented.

Okay. Make a motion we approve the acceptance of the grant award from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program as specified. Second.

All in favor?

Is there a discussion?

Okay.

I just have a question because I don't have the expanded agenda in front of me. What does the counties match on that?

$12,006. Yeah.

$12,006. I'm good now. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Julie.

I guess that's it, right? I think now we vote on it.

Oh, we didn't vote, did we? I just need you to do it again. All in favor? Okay.

Do you want to do the check?

Huh?

Do the check.

I'm not dressed for the check.

Oh, we got to do a picture? Okay. Okay.

Thank you.

Good evening, gentlemen. I am here to request or you to consider the approval of our First Amendment for fiscal year 2026 with the Coastal Regional Commission for our congregate meal contract. Coastal Regional Commission granted us an additional $10,000 funding for this year.

So more money?

Yes, and we're over budget, so that's going to keep us within our guidelines because we've had so much growth with congregate meals. with aging population needing their lunch.

Do we have a motion? Mr. Chairman, I move we approve this contract amendment. Second.

OK. We had a first, had a second. Discussion? You're kidding.

She's getting more money.

I'm getting more money. Yay.

Yay. OK. Now we can vote then, right, Katie? Yes. OK. All in favor?

Thank you.

Thank you. Chief.

Good evening, Commissioners. I come before you tonight on behalf of Camden County Fire Rescue and request your consideration and approval for a clinical agreement between Camden County Fire Rescue and Peds and Parents LLC. This is a continuation of an agreement that we currently have that will allow our in-house EMS education program to conduct the required clinical contacts, and we've used this location in the past and been very successful with the outcomes of our students. Any questions? Do we have an answer?

Okay. Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve this item.

Is this just number three? We're not doing number four yet, right? Okay.

Those words are next. Do we have a second? To be specific, the clinical agreement between Camden County Fire Rescue and Pets and Parents.

Do we have a second?

I'll second.

Okay. Any discussion? All in favor?

Great. And next, I will ask for your consideration and approval to renew the contract for Dr. Amir Wind as the medical director for Camden County Fire Rescue. Having a medical director is a requirement of the Georgia Office of EMS and Trauma. Dr. Wind is extremely involved in the progressive care that we have at Camden Fire Rescue, and we appreciate his efforts in continuing to make us stronger as EMS providers. So if you have any questions, you have to answer those.

Make a motion we approve the agreement for professional services with Dr. Wynn. Second.

Any discussion? Okay. All in favor?

Thank you, Chairman.

There you go. Thanks, sir. Okay. Number five. That's the employment contract for magistrate and probate court public defender with attorney Clyde Urhart. Urhart. Urhart.

Thank you.

Do I have a motion on that?

I move to approve the employment contract for magistrate and probate court public defender with attorney Clyder Cart.

Okay, second?

Second.

Any discussion? All in favor? All right, then reappointment of Craig Root as non-public representative on the Coastal Regional Commission Board, CRC. Do I have a motion?

make a motion to approve the reappointment of Craig Root as non-public representative on the Coastal Regional Commission Council.

Okay. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? E911 agreement between Sheriff James K. Chaney and the Board of County Commissioners. Do I have a motion? Yes.

There is one change to that. Okay. The sheriff's going to come up. Okay.

Item number seven, we're going to amend item number seven. Yes. And take the confiscated funds out of there. That was it.

Say again.

Amend item number seven where it says confiscated funds. That part will be removed.

Okay. Number seven in the contract. The words confiscated funds need to come out. Okay. All right.

All right, do we have a motion on that?

Mr. Chairman, I move we approve this agreement with the stated removal.

Okay.

Second.

Any discussion? Does anyone have a copy of the contract in front of them? I do.

I can pull it up. Could you explain the nature of the change to the confiscated funds, number seven in the contract?

What was that referencing towards? Using confiscated funds?

Yeah, I didn't know why it was inside there, so it shouldn't be a part of the 911 center. We're just clarifying that.

I don't need you to pull it up. I'm good.

Okay, any more discussion? All in favor? Okay, say aye. All right, Katie, I guess a calendar question.

Yes, I do have two additions to the calendar, which is the upcoming Camden County Joint Comprehensive Transportation Plan meetings. The first will be held on Monday, June 22nd, here in this room from 6 to 8 p.m., and you can drop in any time. The second will be the following day on Tuesday, June 23rd, at the Resiliency Operations Center, located at 135 Gross Road in Kingsland. That is the old Georgia Power Building, for those that don't know. And that is also from 6 to 8 p.m., and it is a drop-in any time during those hours. If you want to learn more prior to deciding whether you want to go to those, you can visit camdencountyga.gov backslash transportation plan, and you can find out what those meetings are about. That's all I have.

Okay. Any additional public comments on any subject? Okay.

You don't want to hear from Joey? Huh? You don't want to hear from Joey?

Yeah, but he's not on here. I don't see him. I know it. I got it. I was making a slight comment. It doesn't say that, Joey. I'm going by the book here. Yeah, absolutely. County Administrator, your comments.

Thank you, Martin. This past weekend, the landfill hosted close to 50, I mean, well, close to 60 kids at their annual fishing derby. And I just want to give a big shout out to John Pittman and his staff for putting on an excellent program out there. And the pictures that I reviewed today were just smiles, nothing but pure smiles from the children. So I really appreciate everything that y'all put on for us. Thank you.

Okay.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

I make a motion to adjourn. Second, Mr. Chairman.

You got any comments?

I actually do have one comment. I didn't know if we were going to do that tonight. My job has taken me out of the county for a good part of last week and probably the remainder of this month until the 15th of next month. I have been behind in scheduling my next town hall. I just wanted to make the public aware that I am looking at dates, and I will make that public soon. Thank you.

Thank you.

That's all.

Any other comments?

We're done.