Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

If you would, please rise. I'm gonna call on Commissioner Weisenbaker for the invocation and the pledge.

Heavenly Father, we're just so thankful for this rain. We're thankful for all of our blessings, Lord. We're thankful for our first responders, for our staff. We're thankful to live in Lowndes County and in the state of Georgia, South Georgia, and in the United States of America. Lord, we pray that you will be with us tonight, that you'll send your spirit to guide us as we do the work for our constituents here in this county. And Father, we last pray that thank you for the blessing of all blessings, and that's the blessing of Jesus Christ coming to save us from ourselves. Please continue to show your favor on us all. In Christ's name, amen.

Amen. We don't need it.

Thank you, Mr. Weisenbaker. All right, Ms. Dukes, I think our next agenda item, we got a little special presentation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I could invite all of the commissioners to go down front, and Debbie, if we could have you come up front, please. Most of you may know and recognize Debbie Nagy. Debbie has recently retired from But I've been with the county for 30 years in November and Debbie was here before me and she has been here every step of the way since. Debbie's family has continuously served our county through our court system for more than 110 years and while we have Many legacy families who have provided leadership here in our community, I don't know that we've had one that has continuously served or served at the level that Debbie and her family has. And Debbie, I know that you worked for your granddaddy and your daddy and then you were here. And I feel like with all the conversations that we've had, so many times you've talked about, you know, my daddy or my granddaddy. I just want you to know from all of us here in Lowndes County that if they could have been here for every minute of your career, you carried on on their behalf just as they would have wanted you to. As a woman in leadership, the example that you set and the way that you paved for the rest of us, and I know that Sabrina and a lot of the other ladies in the room would echo that, your leadership is a debt that we certainly cannot repay. So in recognition of that, We have our friend Theresa Middleton.

But this is not the end of this presentation.

Watchful eye of Jess Gayness, our new resident historian, not new to the county, not new to the community, but new to her role that she has claimed in a very big way there, which we're very proud of. We will also have a permanent installation at the historic courthouse that will reflect your granddaddy and your daddy and yourself and your years of service. And when that comes in, then we will let you show us where would mean most to your family for that to be installed at the historic courthouse. But we prepared, had this done for you because we wanted you to have something at home to remember the county and your service and to think fondly on that as well. So we love you. Thank you. We're glad that we know these folks are not going to let you totally go to the house and that we will continue to see you around the community. I look forward to the day that Kevin calls and say, hey, Judge Volz called me and Debbie's going to come back and fill in for a little bit. And when that happens, we'll get you back on the payroll. But again, thank you for your service. Thank you for your family's legacy. And thank you for letting us love you.

to all the commissioners. Lowndes County has been a special place to work for me for 53 years, even... Part of the time, I was not technically a Lowndes County employee. I felt like I was a Lowndes County employee, and I... Love to be in a Lowndes County employee. I probably will not get back on the payroll. I may come to work if somebody's desperate and out sick and needs a court reporter to fill in. But I thank you, and I thank you for all you do for Lowndes County and for who went before you. I knew the county commissioners and the county manager back to the 70s when I started, and they have all done great. an amazing job, and all of you have done an amazing job of making Lowndes County the place that it is today, and I'm so proud to be here. Thank you. And I thank y'all.

And we started the first grade together.

We may have known each other before that.

With Judge Powell. Exactly. Thank you.

Again, congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Ms. Dukes.

Very deserving and a very wonderful presentation there.

All right, commissioners, inside your package, you'll find your minutes of the work session of June the 8th. Let me get my glasses on. I think you're right. June the 8th and the regular session minutes of June 9th. If there's no additions, deletions, or corrections to those minutes, I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes.

Motion.

Do we have a motion by Ms. Evans? Do I have a second? I have a second by Mr. Weisenbaker. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll call the vote. All in favor signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign. Hearing none, motion carries. Agenda item 6A is the Lounge County Division of Family and Children's Services. The DFACS board is our one appointment this evening. Ms. Dukes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening, commissioners. The term of Mr. Raymond Conner on the Lowndes County Division of Family and Children Services Board will expire on June the 30th of this year, and Mr. Conner has expressed a desire to continue to serve.

Any questions? I'll open the floor up for nominations.

Mr. Conner. I nominate Mr. Conner.

Okay, we have a nomination from Mr. Connor. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, we'll close the nominations, and Mr. Raymond Connor will be reappointed by acclamation. Thank you, Commissioners. Agenda item 7A is the Lowndes County DUI Court FY27 Grant Award. Commissioners, at the work session yesterday morning, you heard from Judge Golden. Are there any other questions that you need answered? If not, I will entertain a motion.

Motion to approve.

Okay, we have a motion by Ms. Evans to approve. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second by Mr. Smith. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? Hearing none, the motion carries. Agenda item 7B is the Lowndes County accountability court grant approval and the cash match. Again, commissioners, you heard from Ms. Fabry at the work session yesterday morning. If there's no questions, then we will entertain a motion.

Motion to accept the grant.

Do we have a motion to accept the grant? Do we have a second? Second. Do we have a second? Any discussion? Hearing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Any opposed, like sign. Hearing none, the motion carries. Agenda item 7C is the Lowndes County Juvenile Accountability Court, the grant approval and cash match as well. As the previous one you heard yesterday morning at the work session from Ms. Fabri, if there's no questions, I will entertain a motion on this agenda item.

Motion to approve the continued funding and cash match.

Okay, we have a motion to approve and to continue funding with the cash match. Do we have a second?

Second.

We have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign. Hearing none, motion carries. Agenda item 7D is the acceptance of infrastructure for Camelot Crossing commercial development. Mr. McLeod.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Camelot Crossing commercial development is located off North Valdosta Road at the end of the existing Camelot Crossing. The developer has asked the county to accept three roads, which will be the extension of Camelot Crossing, and two smaller roads to the right as you come into the development. All construction and paperwork have been completed, and the developer has requested Lowndes County to accept the infrastructure, which includes right-of-way roads, stormwater structures within the right-of-way, and water and sewer infrastructure.

Any questions for Mr. McLeod? Similarly related, do we know about the traffic signal at North by Austin and Camelot?

Yes, sir. Two weeks ago, the DOT in Atlanta, the traffic engineer, approved the design. In talking to the developer there now in dealings with Corbett Electric about getting the pricing done. Okay.

Thank you. Any other questions? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion.

Motion to approve the infrastructure.

Okay, we have a motion to approve and accept the infrastructure. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? Hearing none, motion carries. Agenda item 7E is the email software and license. Mr. Costi.

Yes, sir. Good evening, Chairman. Good evening, Commissioners. As discussed yesterday, the county's current email platform has reached end of life and is no longer able to receive support. Microsoft has released a new model for online exchange. We're recommending that we move to that. This is a budgeted purchase, and it is on a state contract.

Any questions for Mr. Kosky? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion.

Motion to approve.

Okay, we have a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? Hearing none, motion carries. Agenda item 7F is the 2026 Lowndes County Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance. Ms. Black?

Aye.

Yes, sir, thank you. At your direction, staff has worked with the county attorney to make some changes to the alcoholic beverage ordinance. There is a resolution included here as well as a copy of the new ordinance. The relevant changes are section 43B, which has the distance for establishments. The distance for beer and wine will remain the same, but in regards to distilled spirits, that distance has increased to 600 feet of any church building or 400 yards of any school building. There was also a section or Article 13 that was added to that that addresses any existing establishments. As long as their use remains the same, those would remain unchanged by the new ordinance.

Any questions for Ms. Black? Yes, Ms. Black, will you clarify, because I know we have at least one establishment owner here that's very close to an existing church. His business has been there for years and years. I spoke with him today and I just want to clarify, I know we kind of talked about this a little bit yesterday, but should he sell his business, his existing business, to a new buyer and they continued the use as a liquor store, then there's no problem. That can continue on forever, right?

As long as the use remains the same, they would not be impacted by the new ordinance.

So the one thing, just to go a step further, if he sold that business to any other business, a hair salon, for instance, and then he wanted to buy it back and turn it into a liquor store.

Then it would not meet the requirements anymore.

I just wanted to clarify that.

And this only affects the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County?

This is only the unincorporated.

Okay, thank you for that. Any other questions? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion. Approve as presented. Okay, we have a motion to approve it as presented. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll call the vote. All in favor, signify by aye. Aye. Any opposed, like to sign? Hearing none, the motion carries. Thank you, Commissioners. Thank you, Ms. Black. Jen, I'm a county managed report. Miss Dukes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to invite our 9-1-1 director, Miss Tanya Davis, to update the commission on one of the audits that 9-1-1 goes through, I think, annually. Tanya?

Um, so this is actually, um, an audit that we do every three years and it is from, um, the GBI Georgia criminal information center, um, unit. So what that does is basically they come in every three years and they assess our compliance, um, with basically out state laws, federal regulations, and then the FBI security policy, as it relates to how we access the criminal information database, where we run tags, people's criminal histories, things of that nature. So I'm pleased to report that we recently completed our audit. We received a perfect compliance report. Um, this is the first during my tenure, and I think it's only the second in the history of our whole 911 center. So the last one was, I think, early 2000s, if I remember correctly. So what this audit does for us is it evaluates numerous areas such as our agreements with the agencies that we serve, policies regarding dissemination, discipline, how we handle the information in general, how we coordinate with our IT departments, our other vendors that can access our computers, training certifications, using proper agency identifiers whenever we're requesting the information for the purpose. And all that is important. What makes this achievement, I think, a big thing for me is that in a 24-7 environment, when you access the information as many times as we do, we have our turnover, we constantly have new employees coming in, learning the system, getting accustomed with it, the workload increases, all of the things. Even a minor mistake, such as entering a case number incorrectly, using the wrong agency identifier, so we chose the wrong agency that had requested us to do that. A typo, a misspelling, that will put you out of compliance with that entire section. One person lapses in their training by one hour, we're out of compliance with an entire training section. So the sheer volume of stuff that we're doing makes it very easy to make a mistake that's going to put you out of compliance. And honestly, it's an achievement that I was – it was never going to be achievable in my book because we have so many people and we do so many things. It's so easy to make those mistakes. So for me, it just represents the professionalism of our people, their attention to detail, and They're constantly working to improve that. The commitment to excellence that is demonstrated by our team, and not only our internal team, but our external partners, like I said, such as our IT and the agencies that we serve. So it was a pretty big accomplishment. I don't know that we'll ever do it again. We're going to shoot for it. But for now, we're going to enjoy this one.

Congratulations. Thank you, Tonya.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

Mr. Chairman, I've been sitting on this information for about a week because I wanted Tanya to have the opportunity to let all the commission know herself publicly. This is a tremendous achievement. It's a tremendous credit to not just Tanya's leadership, but the organizational team that she has under her. But at the end of the day, I think that she would agree, if she was still standing before you, that it is every single one of those dispatchers working extremely hard every single day, paying attention and being attentive. And I think what the general public may not understand is that we don't have call takers and dispatchers in our 911 center. Whenever we have those dispatchers that are sitting there, they have the call coming in and that person who needs help or that officer that is communicating with them in one ear, and then they are giving out those directions and dispatching from their other ear sitting in the same chair. And with some of the events that we've had, certainly working through two hurricanes, There was a lot of room for error there. And so I'm extremely proud, Tonya, congratulations. And I do think that we can do it again. So we're gonna kind of strive to maintain that standard. And the last thing that I have for my report this evening is just a reminder that on July 2nd, we have scheduled the exhumation of the time capsule that is buried on the historic courthouse square. So that will be at 6 p.m. on July the 2nd. And we do plan an event for later in the year to bury a second time capsule, but we'll plan that closer to the end of the year as we wrap up our nation's 250th. That concludes my report. Thank you all.

Any questions? Did we receive any communication related, anything new related to the property on Coleman Road or the data center? Does anything come past your desk that's related to that?

There's been no new development or communication related to that. No, the last information that we've heard, we shared with you all, was that Georgia Power is planning a power study in September, but I don't expect any additional information between now and then.

Paige, any follow-up with NextGen 911, where the state is on that, or our preparedness on that, or has anything been happening?

We right now are capable as far as texting and all of those things where our current system is concerned. We'll see. We thought that might have been a topic of conversation during the 2026 session of the General Assembly. It was not. So we're looking towards the 2027 session. session there have been a lot of things that we have done internally worked through Tanya and her team with such as connecting to forestry forestry went to a new radio system this year and we had some breakdowns through through the wildfires and so between forestry's leadership and Lowndes County Fire Rescue and Chief Young and then Tanya and her team We've worked out that locally. So we are as close to that as you could possibly be without moving to a new system here. So we'll see what comes from the General Assembly. We do have some SPOS funding allocated if there is a mandate. If there's not, or if there is state funding that becomes available, which is what we have been told, then that funding in SPOS is worded in a way that it could be used for some other technology improvements that we desperately need.

Wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions? Thank you, Ms. Dukes. Thank you. All right, we'll now move to our public citizens wishing to be heard portion of the meeting, and our first citizen is Mr. George Fisher. Please come forward and state your name and address for the record, please.

Motion to adjourn.

Good evening. My name is George Fisher. I live at 5278 Hall Road in Hay Harbor, Georgia, 31632. And I'm here tonight to talk to you about sinkhole identification. And by coincidence, my wife is in Croatia doing a walking tour, and she sent me a photo of her in the bottom of a sinkhole, 1,000 feet down, 1,000 feet across, which is interesting. Sinkholes... I think being able to identify them is important for the county to continue the development. I'm preparing a report. It's going to be one that I want to add more data to. It's not complete. I'm also prepared to come in at any time and make a presentation on sinkholes. As you know, I've been studying the aquifer. They're interrelated. The sinkholes are the source of the water for our area. but I do need additional data. On March 1st, 2013, in Sefner, Florida, a sinkhole opened up and swallowed Jeff Bush. He went down into the sinkhole, his brother heard him screaming, he went there, he was devoured. They never found him, they never found his body. The city, county of Hillsboro filled in the sinkhole 2015, it opened up again. They filled it in again. 2023, it opened up again. They filled it in a third time. So sinkholes are serious. They cost lives, property damage. Florida used to report the property damage to sinkholes. They quit reporting it for some reason. At least I haven't been able to find any compiled reports on the damage to sinkholes. We know we've had the Snake Nation Road sinkhole, which was problematic and expensive. Shiloh Road sinkhole. I read the Lowndes County Hazard Risk Assessment, and it's an excellent document. It's one of the best, most thorough documents I've seen, but if you look at the sinkhole section, basically we don't know. We can't predict sinkholes, we don't know where they are. Now, I've been studying this, and what I've been doing is looking at photographs, satellite photographs, and I've had training in that in the petroleum industry using satellite photos to identify features, oil possibilities, even tried to look at minefields left over from World War II in the western deserts of Egypt. I've been looking at satellite photos from about 1988 all the way up through 2026 and I can chronicle the development of sinkholes particularly the sink nation the Shiloh Road sinkhole where you watch the sinkhole developing something very interesting happened I and we had Hurricane Adele and Hurricane Helene. I lost about 60 trees, beautiful big oaks, pecans, cypress trees, and it was all piled up and cleared, and when they cleared it, then we had the drought. We had a serious drought, and when I look at the 2026 photograph that was uploaded what I noticed is you can see what I believe are areas of interest and this is because the water is coming up through the aquifer even though it's still a drought the water still migrates up because of pressure and feeds some of the vegetation so you see these I call them a bloom it's kind of a green spot a green spot a green spot I've been in conversation with some of the people at University of Georgia, the hydrologists and the geologists, and they liked this idea. They said, yeah, that's a very interesting concept. It's interesting because they're very interested in studying this, particularly over by Albany, or Albany there in Dougherty County. They're studying, there's a $50 million budget that they have to study this from the state budget. I'm trying to get them to, help me understand better our sinkhole issues here. And I'd like to get invited up there to look at some of, they have stuff that makes what I'm looking at look like toys. It's really important stuff. I'm running out of time, so I can't talk anymore about the technology. But I would like your permission, please, to come in and take a look at GeoHazard's report on the Snake Nation sinkhole done by Mr. Jim Olson. I've talked to him. He won't tell me anything. He said non-disclosure agreement, and I argue with him. He's like, my tax dollars paid for that. I'd like to see it. But I would like to come in sometime in the future. I won't take anything away. I won't make any copies. I just want to look at what happens they did to investigate that sinkhole. I think this would help.

Okay, sir, your time's up. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Got the point. All right, our next speaker is Mr. Michael Knoll. Please come forward and state your name and address for the record, please.

Good afternoon, everyone. It's nice to see all of you. I hope you had a wonderful Father's Day weekend. But that's for the fathers in here, of course. And I was enjoying mine thoroughly. I apologize that we were disturbing the early meeting. We had no idea there was something going on at 5 o'clock. So I hope that wasn't too much of a bother. I'm Michael Noll. I live at 2305 Glendale Drive, in case I forgot to say that. And I'm here to talk with you again about data centers today. I'm sure you have noticed the relatively recent guest column I was able to publish of the Waldorf State Daily Times that sort of summarizes the different concerns that we have, citizens in general have, about data centers coming into the communities. And despite one typo that was in there where I was actually more generous and I needed to be with Georgia Power, I think if you check in all of those details that are provided in this guest column, you'll find that there are plenty of facts or pieces of information that basically confirm what I was writing in it. What you have in front of you actually is, and this is really, really important, you may also have seen a video we recently produced, and as you were handing out a special award to the lady that has been working for such a long time for Lowndes County, and I was listening to her, she said in her own words what I would say as well, Lowndes County is a very special place. We have a very special community. It's about family. It's about the environment. It's about how we treat each other. And it's worth protecting. That's basically the essence of the message that we created with our video failure recently. I also had to take note recently as I was looking through some of the pieces of information that are available online. This kind of came up indirectly with the comments that were made earlier by two of you. We need to really be more prepared when it comes to should there be a data center coming. We do not yet have an application as far as I understand. There might be a study being done by Georgia Power, but this is the time as Lowndes County Board of Commissioners to develop a data center ordinance. Regardless of where we might or might not have a data center, regardless of what will happen in the next few months, for all of us it is in our best interest that we have a strong data center ordinance in place. Now, I realize that, and this was an important thing of you to do, that on March the 9th, you basically shared some of the data center prospects with us, but that was more than three and a half months ago. So I would like to know where we are with the data center ordinance. It addresses these kinds of things that are listed also on the outline that you have in front of you in regards to the minimum distance that a data center should have to any kind of residential dwelling, school, hospital, or park. in regards to the vegetation buffer that is created, in regards to the fact that, and this is something that Mr. Fisher is bringing up indirectly on a regular basis, in regard to a location of a data center should never ever be in an area where you have a potential for sinkhole development where you are above a karst terrain because it allows for, should there be a spill, the water, the polluted, the wastewater, whatever it may be, directly go into the aquifer. And as Mr. LaFalz mentioned at his presentation the last time and the time before, these PFAS, these forever chemicals, are nothing to fool around with. They stay in our environment for a very, very long time. In those requested entities for the data center ordinance, we are also referring to such things as when it comes to maintaining existing night skies. And honestly, I've never heard the term foot candle before. It seems to be something that is used in the United States. In Europe, we use lux or lumens per square meter. But I actually kind of like the 19th century English foot candle expression in there. But we're giving you an idea also what we think would be an appropriate amount of light or a limit of light that should be allowed. Also mentioned in there you have what kinds of decibels are allowed during the daytime and during the nighttime. That the testing of backup generators can only be done during certain days of the week and not during certain times. And that we also have certain limits when it comes to the height of the buildings. We also should, you should also clearly state that whatever cooling method is going to be used and the different kinds of options you have, closed-loop cooling system, which we talked about before, but also such things as direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, those are some of the evolutionary processes that we're actually observing as we speak, that we minimize any consumption of water. Now, I personally... would like to not see any data center in the area where it right now is proposed anyway. It's too close to residential areas, and it's above and an area where there's sinkhole development. Perhaps there's another location that Mr. Langell can consider to sell for that purpose, but that will be something that we can come to discuss at a later point. Please take a look at these requested entities for data center ordinance. If you have any questions, let me know. This is ultimately in the interest of our community and all of us. Thank you.

Thank you. All right, our next speaker is Tetiana Babcock. If you will, please state your name and address for the record, please.

All right, my name is Tetiana Babcock, and I live at 3561 Skeet Range Road.

Ma'am, please pull the mic. There you go, or a little closer to it.

Are we good now? Okay. Okay, so like many in this room, I live in this community, and I deeply care about Lowndes County's future. Tonight I come before you with a straightforward question. Where does the county currently stand in developing a specific data center ordinance? As we know, in July of 2025, the board rezoned the 719-acre Langdale property on Coleman Road to M1 Light Manufacturing. county statements have made it clear that general manufacturing standards are not adequate for data centers and that no specific ordinance yet exists many of us are eager to know what progress has been made since then when can we expect to see a draft ordinance will there be public hearings and meaningful citizens input before it's adopted clear strong standards on noise buffers water usage power infrastructures traffic and environmental protections will get everyone confidence moving forward. The Langdell family has been a well-known part of this community for generations and they have contributed to much of Lowndes County. They take pride for being good stewards of the land. Mr. Pope Langdell himself stated in the rezoning meeting that the last thing they would ever do is get in there and pollute the river disturb wetlands, affect endangered species, or do something that would harm the neighbors. A well-written ordinance doesn't prevent good development. It protects our rural character, our property values, our quality of life, and it also protects responsible developers from future conflicts. We've all heard of other conflicts in other counties involving these data centers. An ordinance would ensure that any large-scale projects such as data centers is compatible with the homes, the properties, and the natural areas that already exist here. We've seen protected species habitats concerns, questions about buffers, potential low-frequency noise, power demands, and water usage raised by the neighbors. These are legitimate issues that deserve clear rules upfront rather than case by case reactions later. Lowndes County has a chance to lead with standards that can welcome economic opportunity while protecting the people in what makes this place so special. Commissioners, I respectfully ask you to please give the public a clear update on the timeline for the data center ordinance to commit to transparent public engagement as the ordinance is developed and ensure that any future projects on Coleman Road or elsewhere must meet strong specific standards that protect the adjacent property owners and the community. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, our next speaker is Ms. Kelly Saxon. Please come forward and state your name and address for the record, please.

Good afternoon, and happy Juneteenth. We're still celebrating. It was so nice to see the post from the county's website commemorating Juneteenth. It's such an important holiday, so thank you for that. My name is Kelly Saxon.

I live at 8 Baldwin Place, Vinalstra, Georgia, 31602.

So June marked the beginning of hurricane season several meters ago. I came before the commission to request assistance with the rehabilitation of the Craig Center. As one of the community volunteers and organizers who helps to coordinate community response efforts during storms and other emergencies, I know firsthand the importance of having a safe and reliable location available for our Lowndes County. The initial request was for $50,000 to make the necessary repairs and improvements to the facility. Since that time, additional donations and city efforts have helped move the project forward. At this point, I'm asking what level of financial support is the county willing to provide to help contribute and complete this project? Lowndes County needs a dedicated location where residents can seek shelter from severe weather, extreme heat, extreme cold, and other emergency situations. And mind you, we're not just talking about the homeless population. I know a lot of people connect me with the homeless, but we do have a lot of senior citizens who are in housing that they don't Have heating and air, appropriate heating and air. People are struggling. Lowndes County Indians are struggling with paying their bills. And so when it comes extreme, we really need to have a support system for all citizens. The CRED Center has the potential to serve as an inclement weather shelter and resilience hub for anyone in our community who needs a safe place during times of crisis. Unfortunately, I have not received any follow-up regarding this request. Last year we managed to get through the season and I pray we can do the same this year. However, I firmly believe that if we are prepared, we will not have to scramble to get prepared when disaster strikes. I respectfully ask for an update on this request and for the commissioners to consider providing financial assistance to help ensure that Lowndes County residents have a safe place to turn when emergencies occur. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Prashant Patel. Please come forward and state your name and address for the record, please.

Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Prashant Patel. I'm manager at Holiday Spirits. I came for the liquor store, whatever, on a paper on it. But I'm happy with the Scott. Ask question to the lady, and I'm happy with that. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. That's the end of our citizens wishing to be heard. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Entertain a motion to adjourn.

Motion. Motion.

We are adjourned.