Board of Commissioners Agendas and Minutes - Regular Meeting

Order the Mayor with the County Board of Commission meeting February 24, 2026 at 6 PM. Please silence your cell phones and other electronic devices and please stand for the invocation given by Mark Preacher Mark Harrington, please.

Thank you, Emit Commissioners. I appreciate the opportunity uh say a word of prayer. very important part of everything we do and uh thank you for acknowledging that. Let's bow our heads in prayer tonight. Heavenly Father, we come before you with humble hearts tonight lifting up the county board of supervisors or commissioners and all leadership, heads of leaders, departments. We thank you for their leadership that you have given them uh the appointment to serve our community and we ask for your divine wisdom, your guidance, your discernment as they make crucial decisions that affect every person in our community. Grant them clarity in their deliberations, integrity in their actions, and compassion for those they serve. May they seek and promote unity and work diligently to improve the lives of all the residents of this county. Bless their efforts with patience, with humility, and a spirit of cooperation. Protect them from division and discord and inspire them to lead with fairness and with a servant's heart. We trust in your sovereignty over our community and pray that your will would be done as they put their minds and their in their wisdom together for the best effort of this community. May all they do bring honor to your name and foster peace and prosperity among every person in Mayweather County. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. and I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation

indivisible with liberty and justice for all need to adopt agenda any changes to the agenda no sir Mr. Chairman make a motion we adopt the agenda. Second. All in favor. Any presentations? No sir. Finance report. Miss Tammy Lackey.

Yes sir. Commissioners on the first page are the bank balances as of this afternoon. Uh we should receive the loss loss and t loss distributions for February and the end of this week. On the second page, this loss balance is a negative 248,000. But you will see at the bottom I have listed uh the phase one of the courthouse. We've made the first payment to Libert City and it includes the two uh change orders. So you can see the detail that makes that balance. The TLOS balance is 973,000 and that's it. Ready? Yes, sir.

Any question, please. M I like to add one thing. The 2026 allocation should be in on this upcoming February. That was the one that was just passed in November. So, you will see 2026, not 2020 on the next report. Any department heads? Yes, sir. Good evening, commissioners. Good evening.

Thank you for allowing me to give a brief update from the clerk's office. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve in this role, and I'd like to share what our team worked on in 2025 and continue what we're going to focus on moving forward. As clerk, my responsibility is to make sure your actions are properly recorded, legally compliant, and accessible to the public. I approach this role with a strong sense of responsibility and integrity. And our team works daily to ensure agendas, minutes, ordinances, and resolutions are accurate and properly maintained in accordance with state law. My goal is to carry out these duties with fairness, accountability, and respect for the citizens we serve. In 2025, we prepared agendas and documentation for 40 meetings. That includes the regular meetings, the work sessions, and the special call meetings. Preparation for each meeting includes assembling agenda packets, coordinating supporting documentation, ensuring proper posting, attending meetings, and preparing detailed minutes afterwards. We continue um working to keep meetings organized and consistent so both the board and the public have clear and reliable documentation. That work naturally um connects to public access and transparency. In 2025, we processed 268 open records requests. So far in 2026, we have processed 61 requests. Each request requires logging, coordination with departments, document reviews, timely response, and proper record retention. We strive to handle each request with professionalism, fairness, and service mindset. In 2025, I handled the county's annual property and liability insurance renewal, and we are working on the 2026 as we speak. This involves gathering updated information from the different departments, coordinating with the insurance carrier, reviewing documentation, and ensuring coverage remain current. It's an important responsibility that supports the

stability and protection of the county. Beyond required clerk duties, our team also assisted with special projects and research. We helped compile and organize road lists. We worked with departments on documentation and follow-up items. We attended additional meetings when support was needed. We prepared agendas and documentation for the Lake Mayweather Advisory Board, the recreation advisory board, and the airport authority. We try to remain flexible and supportive wherever we can to help county operations move forward and smooth smooth and responsibly. In January, the board appointed Miss Hay Palmer as our deputy clerk, and she has been a strong addition to our team. She has taken initiative in learning our records system. She assists with agenda preparation, helps coordinate open records requests, and supporting um the daily operations of the office. She has been very dependable and willing to step in whenever needed. We also hired a part-time administrative assistant, Miss Aniston Jones, which this is to help us divide responsibility efficiently while remaining mindful of taxpayer dollars. She's part-time. Together, our team works to serve the board and this county with diligence and respect. And as we continue to move forward through 2026, we want to keep improving the organization and efficiency of the office. One important improvement that I would like to explore adding is the invoicing feature to our open record system. That would allow citizens to pay securely online. It improves the tracking of the open records. It reduces manual processing time and it also makes the process easier for everyone involved. It's just simply about improving the service and being good stewards of the responsibilities entrusted to us. In closing, I am very pleased with the progress our team has made this year and the steady support that we have been able to provide to the board and to the citizens of Marworth County. I take this role seriously and I approach it with gratitude and a strong sense of duty. My goal is to continue serving with integ integrity, consistency, and a heart for the people of this county. Thank you for your continued support and thank you for the opportunity to serve. Thank you.

Thank you. You guys do a fantastic professional, responsible economy. I appreciate it. Any other department head?

Commissioners, you have heard over the past few meetings our department heads presentations about 2025. I'm here to give my report to the commissioners and most importantly to the citizens of Marie County. The county has begun transitioning into commercial handheld radios and rebuilding our radio infrastructure for the sheriff's office, E91, and the fire department. This project is being funded through LGIP interest income earned on our fund balance reserves, allowing us to complete these critical public safety upgrades without placing any additional burden on our taxpayers. This year we utilize Elmink funds to resurface roads throughout the county and 2024 L funds to repair culverts and bridges enhancing the safety and reliability of our infrastructure. We will assign projects for the 2025 L funds during March 9th meeting through SPLAS the special local option sales tax and 1 cent sales tax and Tesplas transportation special local option sales tax and additional one sales tax totaling two cents generated by everyone who shops in Mayweather County. We have continued to reinvest directly into the community with SPLS funds. We remounted an ambulance box into the chassis, purchased and outfitted new sheriff office vehicles, acquired public works trucks, added a recreation concession trailer, and completed multiple building renovations. The largest share of SPLS funding supports improvements. This includes the initial phases of the courthouse renovation project, addressing the roof and third floor courtroom, as well as working toward exterior restoration and upgrades to first, second, and third floor HVAC systems and interior renovations. T-sponds are dedicated exclusively to roads and equipment. Using these funds, we have placed gravel on numerous alert roads, widen Albertton Road and Judson Bullet Road, started a lease equipment to launch an in-house pavement program scheduled to begin in 2026 that will cover 8.98 miles. We have also purchased essential road equipment including a mini excavator, dump truck, and flatbed pickup to support our paving operations. Looking

ahead, Tespos will continue to focus primarily on gravel for dirt roads, asphalt for in-house paving, and equipment necessary to properly maintain roads across Marwa County. It has been an honor and a privilege to work alongside the commissioners of Marwa County to initiate and complete these projects. I will continue to advise the commissioners on the most effective and responsible ways to invest the taxpayers's dollar. My office door remains open to every county employee and every citizen of Maruel County. With the continued input and collaboration of both the commissioners and our citizens, we can work together to make 2026 an even better year for Mayweather County. Thank you and have a blessing. Thank you.

Thank you. And it's the list of projects you just went through is huge and it's uh the most work we've seen coming out of the county in in quite some time. So, takes a lot of effort from the staff and everyone else. I hope everyone's paying attention to it and seeing that effort and that's pretty good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank y'all. All right, move on to the minutes. February 9th, 2026, regular meeting 6 p.m. We We didn't have any citizen comments. Oh, my bad. That's okay. But we didn't have Was that all the department? Yes.

Minutes. February 9th, 2026 regular meeting. Commissioners, I did make a few typographical changes. One of the numbers was transposed. I fixed that. There was several items that needed to just be spelled correctly. Went back through that. Now, that's not a current copy, but those changes have been made. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes based on those changes. Second. All in favor? Any public hearings? No, sir. Apartments? No, sir. Unfinished business. None of that.

None of that. Wow. We do this new business. That's good. Approval to open open local government investment pool account LGIP A 2025 TPL. Commissioner staff is seeking approval to open a local government investment pool. The LGIP account titled 2025 Tsplies in order to deposit funds into the LGIP fund that yields a higher interest rate.

This same as what we've been doing in the previous accounts, correct? Correct. This is just a new 2025 T-sp. The resolution is later in the agenda just for clarification for everyone. And these are the funds we are generating out there that's doing the majority of the first phases of the courthouse and other buildings is where we're able to generate this revenue without tax. Yes. It's the additional income interest earned is but the last is yes is coming next. Oh, I got ahead of that one. Okay, good. I'll make a motion we approve it. Second. All in favor? Item B, 2026 splashed.

Commissioner staff is seeking approval to open a local government investment pool LGIP account title 2026 in order to deposit these funds into the LGIP fund that yields a higher interest rate.

Make a motion to approve. All in favor? Item two, approval to update resolution for local government investment pool account a general account. Commissioners, this is done every year with the change of signers. Staff is requesting approval to update the resolution to reflect the current authorized check signers for 2026 on the LGIP account title general account, which is the landfield LGIP account. The updated resolution will include the current account number in the revised list of authorized signers. This resolution must be signed by the chairman and identification will need to be verified by LGIP. Staff recommends approval of the updated resolution for LG account authorization for the chairman to execute the resolution. What you see behind all these documents are just a generic resolution. I have not inputed all the information yet.

I make a motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Item B, general fund. This is the same as the previous one, commissioners. This is just to do the one that's actually the general fund and is actually our general fund that's currently sitting at 14 million 1651 15346 in LGIP. We just need to update the resolution for the current signers. I'll make a motion. All in favor? Item C, 2020 splash.

Commissioners, this is for the 2020 splash. It is titled actually 202022 splass with the state of Georgia. There's no way of correcting that without closing and reopening. So, we're leaving the count as it is. Um, this is the same thing just updating the resolution with the current check signers of 2026. I'll make a motion for item C 2020. Second. All in favor? the general fund and profits

measures. This is the last one for update resolution for 2026 signers. This is for the general projects LGIP. This was the used to be the ARPA money that currently sits at 3,763 28153 in LGIP account. I'll make a motion to approve. All in favor? Number three, approval of sign new resolution for local government investment pool of account scale GIP A 2025 TLS.

Measures, we will need to sign a brand new resolution with the same check signs as 2026 title 2025 TLOS. We'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? Item B, 2026 splashed. This is the same as the previous one, just that this one will be titled 2026 splice and that is misspelled in the issue paper. It should be splot. We have a motion on this. So, all in favor, we're going to correct the spell. What else?

Adam B 2026 splash. That's what we just did, bro. We just did that. All right. So, if you don't want to, this is for everyone this list. This is something we started three years, two years ago.

It was in place before I started, but it's been really hit heavy since I came on board in August of 23. We took the taxpayer funds or even SPAS dollars or T- spots dollars, put them in the highinterest LGIP account that's managed through the state and we're getting a very good return on it. As you can see on the bank balance of $250,000 investment in there is bringing $800. Close to a million is bringing about 3,000. Um 3 million is bringing $11,000 of interest where a bank account would give you maybe $1,000. I just want to make sure everybody had clarity to what we were doing with all that. It went pretty fast. So, it's a state funed opportunity for us to invest like you can as an individual and get a return on the money that we sit on. And in 2025, forgive me, I have the hiccups, so I have to pause. Um, we generated over $700,000 of additional income for this county without using tax. but by using the tax money invested. So, it's been a great program, great opportunity, and we're seeing that money now being

being available whenever we need it. Yes. It it keeps us from having a rate of millage rate on the taxpayers, and it's just additional funding that the county can use for those projects listed within SPLY, TPL, their general fund. Fantastic advancement that's been done over the last two to three years. Yes. Thank you. Item four, approval to close local government investment account LGIP 2020 TLOS.

Commissioner staff is requesting approval to close the 2020 Tesplas LGIP account as all remaining funds will be dispersed upon completion of the 2025 LMIG project which is anticipated completed in March. The remaining funds will be transferred to the 2020 Tesplas bank account and remitted to CW Matthews upon receipt of the final invoice. Staff recommends transferring the remaining funds to the 2020 Tesplas bank account at F&M Bank and closing the 2020 Tesplas LGIP account. If any documentation is required to finalize the closure of this account, staff requests authorization for the chairman to execute the necessary documents. I've never closed one, so I'm not sure what all that entails. I just want to put that in there for the board to consider allow the chair to sign any related documents to close that account.

I'll make a motion to approve. All in favor? Item five, budget amendment for in-house paving. Director Tammy Lackey. Commissioners, this is a request to reallocate funds in the amount of 1,88,93 for in-house paving. The current budget in fund 541 site improvements is $1,530,11. Reallocating the1,88,93 would leave a budget balance of $441,198 in site improvements. This amount is available from fund 541 site improvements and would be transferred to the fund 541 site improvements repaving account. Staff recommends approval of this budget amendment to properly allocate the in-house paving expenditures for accounting purposes. This would require the chairman and finance director signature. accounting u debit and credit follows and it just says your signature

and this is to allow for the work we already approved for in the house baby correct it was budgeted it's just moving into the right account financial work since I'll make a motion to approve the second all in favor consideration of resolution establishing a temporary morator Dorium on new data center development.

Mr. Chairman, county clear. Miss Stevens will read this one as it reflects the ordinances. Commissioners, staff requests the board consider adopting a temporary moratorum on the acceptance and approval of new data center development within the unincorporated area of Marwa County. Data centers are currently an allowable use within the planned industrial district. Appendix A zoning of the county code of ordinances. The purpose of the moratorum is to allow the county a limited period of time to evaluate whether the existing public infrastructure including water supply distribution and fire protection capacity is sufficient to support the demands associated with data center facilities. The moratorum will also allow the county to ensure that its service delivery strategy is current and adequately addresses the impacts of such development. Given the infrastructure requirements typically associated with data centers staff believes additional review is appropriate prior to further approvals. The proposed moratorum would be effective February 24, 2026 and would remain in place through August 23rd, 2026 unless earlier terminated by the board. It would apply only to new applications submitted after the effective date and would not affect permits already issued or complete applications lawfully submitted prior to February 24, 2026. A draft resolution has been prepared and reviewed by legal counsel. Staff recommends approval.

Are there any recommendations or or requests turned in at this time? Good. So, we don't have that to worry about. And if we did have a moratorum, somebody did go in there and get a permit tomorrow and so forth, uh, since the permit would allow to do that, we would be obligated to supply them with whatever means they would have to have at that time, wouldn't we? Right. So, yeah. So, we we definitely uh need to make sure we're ready for it. Yeah. If I think it just a lot of unanswered questions we need to know before we

What I'm saying is I ain't saying I'm forward or against. I'm just saying I want to clear that up because if that's the case, we don't want one coming in. Then all of a sudden the taxpayers are paying, you know, for all this infrastructure for this company to come in and we didn't get prepared for it and know what we're what we're Okay, I'll make a motion we approve. I'll second that. All in favor? Number seven, approval of grant writing proposal from Miss Terico. Commissioners, I ask that we table this item to the March 9th meeting. I have not heard from Miss Ter regarding legal's revision to our contract

in two weeks. It's been two two weeks, right? Uh she got her contract reviewed and sent back to her the first part of or latter part of last week. So we we Okay. Few days after our decision before it went to her. Yes. She said a proposal and then it went to legal and it went back to her. I have not been back into okay sometime middle of last week I believe. Uh we sent back some suggested revisions. There's also some some clarity we need on the compensation portion. Um some things that we looked at suggest that we need we need to be very specific on on how we deal with that. So

I understand. I just want to make sure we wouldn't this wasn't an indication of a timing issue we'd be dealing with with grant issues. This is just a negotiation back and forth. It is she's requested access of SAM.gov to do the grant study. So she's get access for that, but we need to work out the contract details for grant writing. I'll make a motion we table it to March 9th regular meeting. All in favor discussion of consideration to purchase smart cop software sheriff's office e911 and fire department.

Commissioners, the sheriff's office recommends that Mayweather County adopt the smart cop public safety platform to replace the sheriff's office legacy eagle records management system which has been in use for 20 for over 20 years. This will also replace E911's current aging cast system and GCIC/NCIC interface. The current system reflects an outdated officebased system and lacks mobile capability and cannot meet modern operational standards for the state of Georgia and we're required by new mobile driver licenses by July 1st of 2027. And I'll let Justin is here to speak on the sheriff. He wrote the Miranda that is attached with the packet. A lot of this is just verbiage and acronyms. So Jason can probably break it down in layman terms for everybody or Justin.

Good evening. Oh, so essentially what we started looking at was state of Georgia couple years ago legislature passed a law says every law enforcement agency in Georgia you have to take mobile driver's licenses be able to verify them accept them by July 1st of 27. So we started looking what solutions do we have available for that and pretty thin in terms of solutions that are available for that at the moment. uh had an opportunity to meet smart cop representatives at a department of driver safety event where they were talking about this mobile driver's license requirement. As we engaged in that conversation with them and their ability to deal with this, we learned not only could they fix this problem for us, but they could upgrade pretty much all the systems that we ourselves and our office use in terms of our records management, jail management, the full gambit of software that we use. Their system supports replacement. We have a lot of issues with our system as it is. It's pretty old. We've had it for over 20 years. It's limited in its capabilities and its scope and it's it's in need of an upgrade. The system as it sits, we have to use it in the office. So, if we have a deputy that's in Colia and takes a report, he's got to drive all the way back here to Greenville to write that report and a call comes out back in his zone in Colia. Well, now he's got a long ride all the way back to get to that citizen who's calling for assistance. So, this enables us to not only get compliant with the state requirement, but to keep our deputies out in the field, streamline a lot of processes where we're doing a lot of double and triple entry of records and save us a lot of money probably in the long run by eliminating that maintenance, that fuel, the time that they're spending driving back and forth across the county. We had over 1300 incident reports last year. you get just half of them, they came back to the Greenville. If you're racking up a lot of expenses in that aspect, uh, not only will it support our software, but it's also they have a whole 911 system piece that I'll let Director Jones speak to, but it unifies

everybody's systems in one. So, instead of him having a firewall system separate from ours, it they communicate as a single platform. Um, one of the things it's going to bring back that we lost when we did change our radios is a what we call AVL. It's a vehicle locator. Not only will this keep up real time where our cars are, but if the deputy gets out of his car and he's chasing somebody off into a field, it's going to switch to his cell phone, we're going to know in real time where he is in case he's calling for help and he's not getting out his location, we know exactly where he is down to a few meters. Um, pretty much all I got. I'll let Director Jones hit on the CAD stuff, but in terms of just our side, it's going to modernize the things we do to a great capability and put us on par with surrounding counties and cities that we're just frankly a little bit behind on right now.

So, the biggest thing that I can say about this is collaboration. uh what 911 does, ESO can see, the fire department can see. What they do, we can see. It allows us all to communicate with our data. And that's the biggest thing here is it's sharing data between the departments. Um things like, you know, inmates and things like that. If they're out with somebody, we can tell if they were in jail at one point, what they were in there for from now on. Um the other the other thing is is basically we're due for an upgrade. Our system now is 10 years old. Um, and uh, it's one of the things that we were going to officiate at this point anyway. It was an upgrade for the CAD system. The CAD system basically computer assisted dispatching. That's what the CAD system stands for. Um, and again, it's the big database that everything goes through. Uh, and like like Justin said, when we went to the new radio system, we really didn't think about it, but we lost the ability to track our deputies. And that had become very very useful. uh to the point where sometimes they ask us where they're at because you know they may get into a chase not really know exactly where they are especially with the newer deputies coming in and we can tell them not only them but the other deputies trying to go to them. So it does have the AVL built into it. Uh it gives us the ability down the road to do mobile CAD where they'll get all their information real time inside the vehicles. Um it's it's just uh the biggest thing I can say about it, the one word I would use is collaboration. Um, it allows everybody to share data. Um, and uh the the the the excuse me, the actual interface, uh, most of my dispatchers, uh, that were able to see the demo, they well, I said all of them actually, they liked it. Um, it has another feature called command line, which basically once they learn these commands, they can do anything by just a couple button touches. Right now,

it's all click and and and so forth. So, you know, in closing, uh, I definitely support it. Um, this is one of the things that us and the so have been looking at for a long time. Um, their ecosystem, I know back when I was over it, um, you know, it was it was out of date then. Um, so this is basically something that's going to streamline the whole process. And like I said, the biggest thing I said I could say is collaboration. So I see u in what you were reading here it's uh $1,55 more than what the proposal is showing in the packet. Is there an explanation of what that is a different cost or something? On the issue paper, it says one thing, but the thing that it says the other price on this page right here.

It was in the issue paper. The issue paper says 37976. The quote here in the package 378 271. Yeah. Budget annual maintenance cost. Same. You're referring to the one that I wrote. That was before we made some changes to uh I don't know who wrote those. This was based off your first report. Yeah, my first report the numbers were wrong because you had a position of 911. Okay. So, what's in the issue paper here is correct? Yes.

Okay. And then it said it will be allocated between E911 and the sheriff's office. That's is already budgeted funds. That's was just a request for more funds from the county. It's budgeted. 911 has resilient is roughly around $24,150. Eagle advantage from the sheriff's office is about $25,000 annual cost as general fund subscription. So that would replace that agent John is another $3,500 a year that would eliminate that as well.

None of that add number 379776. So that cost there would be expected to be funded from the board or from the budget already approved for e 911 and sheriff. What smart cop has approved and is through government capital is a five-year term which will be a year and a rears that gives us time to figure out the funding. We can use LGIP from general projects. We can use we can split it between the general fund for the maintenance cost and then the rest from splass. So it is a request for us to fund this. It's not already in the budget. That's what I was asking. It's not in the budget. If I do, okay,

it's $91,000.50 a year for annual lease. If I was do strictly out of splice, I can set aside almost $7,600 a month and that will pay for it. And that's just a very small fraction of our allocation. Then you were saying the annual maintenance basically will be a wash because of the things that will offset that we're currently pay our annual maintenance would actually would lower u it would it would lower by like $12,000 in my head that my head real quick because currently our annual maintenance on resilient is $24,500 plus the 3500 we pay to e agent which 28

smart does that already. there. Anyway, it says if I'm not mistaken, I believe 16 165. Is that right, John? I think that's what's in the Yeah, for just for 91. Okay. I did at one point I separated them out to see what we're paying. Yeah. And the proposal is for E91 K annual maintenance would be 22,434 on this new agreement for SP. But so just to be clear then in total we're requesting the board approve funding $91,50 a year starting in 2027.

Correct. For five years or if we had the funds we pay it all in full and just do away with lease all together. But we have a year if we go through the finance company to secure the funding and pay it all in full. So five 591,455,000. Yeah. We're paying about 70 little 73,000 in interest. Okay. If I got the funding next year with the first payment due, I would just pay it all in full, bring it to the board and say, "Hey, I've secured the funding for all of it. Let's pay it all in one lump sum and be done with it." That gives us 10 months to figure out if we can Okay. And I think it's about a 9month onboarding. Yeah, it's about 9 to 12 month onboarding.

That's about you say 9 to 12. We usually do it faster than that's why we won't pay for it. can't use it for you. Well, that's a lot of them converting our current data into the new system as well. Okay, that's that's that's a big job. That's big. This is a source well contract. Um, we don't have to put out for bid and they're limited to I think they're the only provider right now that can do the scanning of the driver license. That will be required in 27 at a purchase price of 378. Now, if you wait 6 months, you're looking at probably half a million to 600,000. the cost is just going to go up as more people jump on board.

Well, and the hours saved that he mentioned for a deputy is basically like having an extra deputy for 6 months. Um just travel time for fuel and the maintenance the van hours were saving thousands of dollar. Yeah. And not only that, the response time is, you know, you're able to keep that deputy in that zone because they reports from the field. those response times to those areas is you know I mean drastically reduced and they'll have access to your dispatch CAD on the road as well and it improves safety for the officers themselves everybody I mean not just officers but citizens even the firefighters will have access to that mobile CAD uh system there

the other thing I failed to mention I apologize but the biggest thing too here is reporting right now currently 911 has to generate any kind of reports that they need or want CAD reports uh what have you. They will be able to generate their own reports. They can go in and they can print their own CAD because it stands now they do a a call, they get a case number, they got a new case, they got to run by 911 and pick up the CAD and then go back to the sheriff's office to do their report. Um they'll be able to generate that CAD themselves. Uh either from the field or from, you know, sheriff's office or wherever. That's one thing I told them. respect that.

Okay. Does all that make sense? Any question? I mean, I know I was rattling off clear. Okay. Gate across it. This puts Mayweather County on par with the surrounding counties that have been outdated for has legal had a chance to review this. We would make a motion that if the chair at the board would like to pending final legal reviews, uh we've been in communication with smart cop. They've agreed to all legal terms except for well all of them. We just need to verify that the final contract does update legals. We we suggested revisions. I think we sent a final batch earlier today. John said they'd accepted them all. We just haven't seen the final the final form.

And they can have that ready in a day or two. I should have that tomorrow afternoon. I don't have any more questions in my make a motion to approve it and when I guess funded out of general fund now and we can change that correct later I can bring it back to the to the board with exact funding source. So I'll make a motion to approve based on legal approval uh and funding source to be determined later. Second. All in favor and authorize the chair to sign all financing. minutes.

Report from Vice Chairman and ACCG legislative coordinator.

Okay. I have a couple things. The um the one that I was telling you about the Senate bill where they're talking about the ambulance fees that is progressing pretty quickly through the Senate. So, it's looking like the state's going to make it mandated where the ambulance fees have to be covered. uh even if it's out of network insurance. They are looking at House Bill 1063 right now that it's going to require the electric utilities to structure their data center contracts to ensure that all the costs are on the data center themselves, not the customers um residential or retail. So that was something that people have been concerned about the cost getting pushed down to the citizens. So that is actually passed the house and heading on through. Um there's a constitutional amendment to establish industrial use property and data centers be a separate class of property. This resolution would be a constitutional amendment to establish them separate for adalorum purposes. So I didn't know how that might help us when we're working on our ordinances. That'll keep them separate. So if something's industrial a data center can't just come straight on in. Now, um, one thing is they're looking at House Bill 1280 provides for the election of a chief tax appraiser for a county there. That is going through right now. It's been introduced and they're negotiating it. But that would be an elected official, not just appointed by the tax assessor board.

You say it allows that. It's not mandated. Well, they're they're wanting to provide that the chief appraiser has to be is starting right now that it will have to be a constitutional officer instead of by a board of assessors. Okay. So, um the ACCG is in opposition of that currently, but they're looking into it more because at that point then they don't have to have any certification, right? They just be elected and then we got to wait on them to get certified. They be a constitutional officer, not answer to a board with that.

Yeah, that okay. Um, one thing I know that this being an election year, so I pointed it out, the new county commissioner training, if you don't get it completed within the certain time frame that they say, then you don't get your pay, you lose pay if you're not completing your elected training. Just thought that was an interesting one they threw in there. I guess people aren't getting their training. I thought it was required. Um I did too when I first I thought we had to be done in a year or you couldn't you come to find out you did and there's the only one you had to do and but

and House Bill 1252 is a 30-day wait time for investor purchasing. This legislation defines institutional real estate investors and restricts their ability to acquire a single family residence only after the property has been for sale at least 30 days and a home buyer failed to acquire it. So someone can't just come in and buy it the day it gets listed. They're looking at stopping developers from just coming straight in. Thank you. Thank you. Report me from administrative

commissioners. We have the cameras up at the Red Oak cover bridge. They are working off solar panel. Um as I said last time I just need to tweak the settings. The Lake Merryweather cameras. I plan on having those up this week. We do have solar panels fully charged with the cover bridge working as well as they are. Expect Lake Merry Mayweather to be just as efficient. Um we have noticed vehicles coming on and we've seen them turning around. So the enclosure being closed down has restricted access coming across. So that's a good thing. Um I've had meetings with Chip Meers with the Roosevelt Institute. um department head meetings relating to the board the progress of EMC report to the courthouse and been monitoring the progress at the courthouse with River City with Travis. Um it's been a busy week. Um we had interviews. We actually hired an administrative assistant and then we are actually interviewing or fixing to be interviewing for recreation director and that's all I have. Mr. him

hammock mason uh the mason I'll try and get through it without hiccup I really appreciate what everybody's doing there's a lot of good work going on so thank you everybody's hard work um that's pretty much it is an election year it's very critical uh seems to be a lot of activity around that this year which is fantastic usually you don't see that going on at this level Um just make sure we all are communicating you know what this board is, what it can and cannot do. There's a lot of confusion out there on social media uh of what this board is responsible for and not responsible for or is allowing or not allowing or trying to do or not trying to do that doesn't pertain to this board. So, as as we campaign, if we're going to run again and and if if we uh discuss with citizens, I make sure we communicate that clearly so that people understand what what they're voting for and who they're voting for. It takes time to get all the classes like she mentioned, you have to do to understand what you can and cannot do as you sit here and make decisions and then then to get the team to working together and to get progress and there. So, this board is I've enjoyed working with it. Excuse me. Um, we've got a lot of progress going. It's really getting some traction this year. So, the next three to five years is going to be huge. A lot of benefit will come regardless of who the commissioners are. Groundwork's been laid. So, thank you. Thank you,

Vice Chairman Snapson. I just want to say I'm glad to see the things that have gotten done in the past few years and this past year has been great. Um, today I was on Tik Tok and there's apparently somebody who went to Lake Merryweather. They're from Atlanta and they've made some really cute Tik Tok videos about how awesome Lake Merryweather is. So, I will forward those if anybody wants to see those. But, they went out there and went fishing and it was great seeing outsiders come to our community and talk so nicely about how beautiful the facilities are and things like that. And I'm just proud to say I'm here and in Mayweather County.

Thank you, Commissioner King. Just like usual, thanks to all the staff and the public works has been getting out there. I know social media is helping us find all the potholes because everybody will surely get on there and tell you where they're at. And uh so it does help. I had a gentleman made a comment on there said, "Well, call your commissioners. That's what we left them for and that's their job." And I politely explained to him and he and he was agreeing with I said the commissioners don't go out here and run up and down the streets and and monitor the whole county with our everyday lives. It helps us when the citizens file a report or they call us, you know, instead of sitting back and go, they're not doing anything, you know, we got to see it. So, one was complaining last night about something and public work was on it today and had it fixed. So, it takes a it takes the work of the community and citizens along with the commissioners and um I've had an opportunity to talk to a lot like you has mentioned there, Commissioner WS, a lot of folks don't realize where our hands are tied up here sometimes that we don't make those decisions. We don't have nothing to do with that. And so we have to explain to them that that goes under another category or that goes on administrator or that goes to the school board. We don't have a say on that kind of stuff. So it's it's very educational, but the more that people will learn about it, the more we can all work together as a team throughout the whole county and u and I look forward to keep working making the progress and thank everybody for what they've done and the staff and appreciate all your hard work. Oh, and don't forget the uh state of the union address is tonight at 9:00. Thank you. I just like say thank you the staff and all the workers for what they do and thank the like uh Commissioner King said, thank the people for calling and letting know where all the potholes are. Thank you.

And uh that's all I have. Thank y'all for coming and uh county attorney. I have nothing to report. We have need for we have need for executive session for litigation personnel and real estate. Future meetings and notices. Monday, March the 9th, 2026, work session at 400 p.m. Monday, March 9th, 2026, regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 24th, regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. And Monday, April 13th, 2026, regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. Have a a motion to go in executive session for litigation, personnel, real estate, and tax money. So move.

Second. All in favor? 646. Thank you. should go back in regular session. So move second. All in favor? No action was taken in executive session. Make a motion we adjourn. Second.

All in favor. didn't get