Board of Commissioners Agendas and Minutes - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call to order the Mayweather County Board of Commissioners, July 28, 2026, 6 p.m. meeting. Please silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Please stand with the invocation given by Deputy Chief Jeff Fisher. Followed by the pledge.

Heavenly Father. us to be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer. Let that be our guide today as we face challenges, celebrate progress, and seek your direction. Bless our county, our employees, our first responders, and every citizen we are called to serve. We ask these things in your holy name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

Like to adopt the agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda?

Mr. Chairman, we need to add on a new business number seven. Consider work a session for August 10th, 4 p.m. for budget discussion.

Any other challenges? No, sir. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda?

So moved. Second.

All in favor? Any present? Patients?

Not so.

Financial report? Not so.

Commissioners, on the front page are the bank balances as of this morning. We should be receiving the lost, lost, and teased, lost distributions at the end of this week, and we should receive the tipping and host fees by next week. On the second page.

Pardon me? It says first quarter to the fees, first quarter to the host fees. Is it second quarter or first quarter?

They're due by the

It'll be the second quarter that we'll receive next week. In the second page, our SPLOST balance is a negative $271,708.74. The T-SPLOST balance is a negative $278,715.48. And that's it. Any questions?

Yeah, I got a couple. So on the T sports balance. It changed by 300 dollars. Is there something that came to the last meeting? Minutes say it was a negative 279. 068. Now it's negative 278, 715. Like, 353 dollar change that that seemed like a small.

I'll be glad to give you a detailed account. I can provide that to you.

Not just me, just the board, but yes.

Okay.

That's what it looks.

I'll send that to the board.

And then on the SPLOST, went further negative, about 163,000.

Yeah, the remediation, the $164,000.

Okay, I see you. Some of that was, I was not at the last meeting, so that's why I'm asking, and it didn't clearly call it out.

My memory's not photographic to... Yeah, all of the commitments that have been allocated to SPAS and C-SPAS have been fully made.

Okay, no, that item there makes a difference. Thank you. Any other questions?

I'll keep them. Department heads.

None present, Mr. Chairman, to speak.

Citizen comments.

Thank you.

Speakers must contact the county clerk at A. Stephens at Mayweather County, Georgia. dot gov or 672-706-672-3460 on or before the dates and times listed below in order to be placed on the agenda to speak. Speakers must provide their name, address, and topic they wish to discuss. For the second Monday of the month, 6 p.m. meeting, speakers must email or call before 5 p.m. on the day of the scheduled meeting. For the fourth Tuesday of the month, 6 p.m. meeting, speakers must email or call before 5 p.m. on the day of the scheduled meeting. Speakers must direct their remarks to the board, not to individual commissioners or to the audience. Personal disagreements with individual commissioners or county employees are not a matter of public concern and personal attacks will not be tolerated. Speakers will be allotted three minutes to speak on their chosen topic as they relate to matters pertinent to the jurisdiction of the Board of Commissioners. No question will be asked by any of the Commissioners during citizen comments. Outbursts from the audience will not be tolerated. Common courtesy and civility are expected at all times during the meeting. No speaker will be permitted to speak more than three minutes or more than once unless the board votes to suspend this rule. At this time, I'd like to recognize Ms. Pat Williams for citizen comments.

Okay, my name's Patsy Williams. I live at 1494 Coleman Roof Circle, Riversville, Georgia, 30251. Okay, I really appreciate all that y'all have done and you continue to do it. I do, I do. You've done a lot for this county. I've seen a lot of commissioners up here and have not been pleased a lot of times. And I've seen less needed improvement. However, in 2016, we voted on a fire box. So that's been 10 years ago. We were promised we're going to have all these fire stations and these state employees. It's going to be man. Well, I live in Primrose District. We do not have a fire department. We don't have any fun man. We got a lot of growth in that part of the county. There's a lot of new homes. Okay, am I concerned about them? Yes, I am. But I'm concerned about me. We've lived here for 46 years, been a taxpayer for 46 years. The last 10, we put money into this fire bond. We're not getting our money for it. We don't have anything. I'm not putting anybody down. All I ever hear, I hear the fire department come in. They ask for things. Y'all are very agreeable. You obliged them. But I don't hear any mention of, I don't know if there's other districts. I don't have a clue. They don't have a fire department. But we need a fire department at Prince Rose. It was promised. And so for 10 years, I sat back, and believe it or not, I kept my mouth shut, more or less, but I'm not going to continue keeping my mouth shut. I want that fire department. We have lived through a house fire. We lost everything we own. In fact, when we drove off, my husband said, well, I never thought you'd be homeless. And I said, we're not homeless. He looked around and said, you can't even be a bag lady. You don't even have a Walmart bag anymore. So I'm asking you, the police, Find out what's going on. Either y'all can handle it. If you need citizen, if we need more land, I talk to the fire chief. I'm not centering him out, but he's the fire chief. He said, oh, we don't have any land up there. I said, oh, but you do. I remember. I know the woman that donated the land. Then he comes up, well, there's not enough for water and sewer. I'll be glad to go and talk to and join these people and see. Would you donate or sell to us at a small price? I know people on one side. They're not people that you go in and tell them what they're going to do. But you can talk to them graciously. You know, feed them a little bit of sugar. But that's all. All right, thank you.

Thank you. Minutes, July 13th, 2026, regular meeting, 6 p.m.

I'd like to make the motion to table this to the August 10th, 6 p.m. meeting so the rest of the board that was in attendance can be here for the approval.

Second.

All in favor? Public hearing? There is none. Appointments. Appointment to the Region 6 Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Board. This is a three-year term. It was filed June 30, 2029.

Commissioner, as I received a letter from the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Board, right now our current representative that serves on that is Commissioner Threadgill. We need to go ahead and reappoint. If you are willing, he is willing to reserve on that board. He is our representative for that. His term ended on June the 30th.

He is willing?

He is, yes. I've spoken with him.

Make a motion to reappoint Commissioner Threadgill.

Second.

All in favor? Appointment to the Region 4 EMS Council Position 2. This is to fill an unexpired term that will end on June the 30th, 2027.

With the recent, Chief Grice has left the county, and I think she may still be part-time, but we have now moved, they're needing to reappoint someone for that slot, for the slot two position for the MS Regional Council, and Chief Stevens would like to recommend Chief Andrew Meeks for that position, and he is willing to serve.

Make a motion we appoint Chief Meeks for the Region IV EMS Council position 2.

Second. All in favor? Unfinished business. Request from the Tax Assessor's Office reclassify position in-house commercial re-evaluation.

Commissioners, the Tax Assessor's Office has submitted a request to reclassify the position currently filled through the Board of Commissioners appointment. as a property appraiser position and to create one additional property appraiser position resulting in a total of two property appraiser positions. The county has made multiple attempts to procure commercial property revaluation services through competitive bidding process. The most recent RFP was properly advertised but received no bids. Previous solicitation generated only two responses demonstrating continued limited vendor interest. Staff recommends completing the commercial property re-evaluation in-house through the tax assessor's office and reclassifying the existing position and adding a second property appraiser position where provided staffing needs to perform the commercial property re-evaluation throughout Meriwether County. And Chief Appraiser William Harris is here to answer any questions.

So this is to add two positions to what you currently have. One is to reclassify the board aid position and add an additional one to that. So two total people increase. Correct. Do we have an estimate or maybe you know, Ralph, what is our expected return on the commercial re-evaluation?

I actually don't have that number yet. The way I based it was the companies that we've spoke to, none have actually submitted any RFPs, but they were about $700,000 to a million dollars for them to come do the total reval. Pay a vendor.

And they could do it over a three-year period.

But if we were to reallocate their funds at about $120,000, which is also in the memo, $120,000 for two new staff members where their sole focus is learning revaluation tactics. So we would no longer go outside for cost table analysis. We would no longer go outside for residential revials or commercial revials. It would completely be in-house. And we already got one position that kind of is already budgeted, but again, it was under you guys. So I would have to have that one moved under us reclassified and then a second person. So that way we can actually meet the requirements in terms of the amount of parcels we're supposed to look at every year.

So I guess I'll rephrase what I was asking. We anticipate a significant return in tax revenue by reevaluating commercial property in this county. Is that correct? Or we wouldn't be looking to spend close to a million dollars on having an agency do it for us?

I want to say I know we'll see a return because we've already seen a return on like pictometry when you guys invested in the pictometry. But I can't actually give you the exact figure on what that number is going to be because I don't know what those values are.

Well, I understand that it's significantly better now at one hundred twenty thousand versus close to a million. Right. So it's but I want to make sure for people that are listening to hear that we're expecting this additional cost to the county. will come back more so through additional revenue from getting accurate valuations of commercial property.

Correct. And it also made the assessments more fair. That's the main point we're trying to get to is make sure the commercial infrastructure is more in line so we can welcome more commercial into Meriwether County.

So John, if we improve these positions and that's not in his budget structure, as far as the hierarchy and org chart of his budget, Dollars-wise, is he okay to add two positions for the remainder of this fiscal year?

Those won't be filled until probably the budget year to the new fiscal year. If you take out David Knowles' old position at that pay rate, considering the amount of hours, you're probably looking at a $15,000, $20,000 increase in his salary budget plus benefits.

For the remainder of this fiscal year?

For the next budget year. Because by the time he advertises and gets it, it'll be fiscal year.

So basically what we're asking for is a modification for next year's budget.

Correct.

Okay.

And since this was a Board of Commissioners appointed position, it needs to be removed from David Knowles because he was appointed by the Board of Commissioners at one point. I think it was prior to this board.

It was prior to this board, yes. Yeah, 2016. okay so do we need to approve this tonight or do it at the time of budget presentation to see the full impact of what this does to his budget we were going to run the budget analysis at the next meeting after the work session

but we'd add the work session, but we still can run essentially the budget requests and bring back to the board. Based off of analysis financially, we can afford one position or two positions. Tax commission is working on the tax digest right now. Once I have that number by the millage rate, I'll know what tax revenue we're working with. So the board wants to table it to the August 10th meeting minimum so staff can run the calculations, bring it back and let you know what the costs will be if we took out David Knowles position.

Yeah, I mean, it's my personal opinion from what I know. The citizens have been paying the tax burden of the employee position that David Knowles filled. So I have no problem with reclassifying that to his department where he could have that resource field. And we move the budget line item to reflect under his department. The county has been supporting that kind of salary payment anyway. I'd like to see the data that justifies being able to add the position.

We can run those.

That's the only difference. And I think it's there. I just want to make sure we're transparent with everybody.

I think it's going to be a small increase just because the amount of hours and salary David Knowles was making at a time for that position. It's going to be an increase, but I can't say off the top of my head exactly what that dollar amount is going to be without running it, along with benefits.

So do we need to make any decision tonight then to allow him to begin recruiting right away so we don't have to wait until budget approval is another 30, 60 days from now?

We would have to approve the positions before we can advertise.

Well, what I'm saying, I can make a motion to approve reclassifying the Board of Commissioners appointment to the Board of Tax Assessors.

And then hold on to one position?

For that one position and let him start recruiting for that so he can get that going because that's already.

Correct.

And then we can, the data review for the second one.

Awesome. Because the budget, because that position is a budgeted position. We're just reclassifying.

Yeah, it's budgeted under the board. We're just moving it to budget it under him. There's no more burden to the taxpayers.

And then we're just asking for additional personnel as a table.

So I'll make a motion to approve reclassification of the board of commissioners appointment property appraiser position to the board of tax assessors budget and allow them to recruit for filling it.

And I'll suck at that. Well, he'll need both to do your in-house.

Yeah, but I can start training first.

Also, allow in-house on the revaluation of commercial residential tax table.

Was this board approved there or was the Board of Taxes approved there? Board of Tax Assessors. They can appraise any property they want to as a Board of Assessors in your office, right?

But you currently have an RRP out for...

The RRP is expired.

Okay.

So we don't need to do anything with that. I mean, we don't... We appointed Tax Assessor Board members to make that decision, not us. I don't want to take that.

And then we'll handle the rest with his office.

Yeah. And they can get you started and we'll get the data that everybody can be transparent with and That board still controls this board is not controlling that board.

Adam made a motion and I second. All in favor? Consent approval of a resolution extending the data center moratorium for an additional 90 days.

Admission as a current moratorium is set to expire on August 23rd, 2026. Staff is requesting that the board extend the moratorium for additional 90 days through November 21st, 2026 to allow sufficient time to complete and present a proposed data center ordinance that addresses the county's identified concerns. Staff recommends approval at a 90 day extension to allow the chairman to sign. Legal has reviewed the moratorium and has signed off on the moratorium.

Are we currently working on modifications to our...

Yes, sir, we are. Staff is close to getting something ready to turn over for legal review. That's why we're requesting the 90 days. It's not ready to hand over just yet.

I make a motion that we approve the 90 days. I'll second it.

All in favor? Consider approval of the ordinance amendment. 2026-01 regarding board meeting schedule.

Commissioners, this is to amend Article 1, Section 2-2 regarding commissioners' regular meetings. The proposed amendment formally establishes the board's regular meeting schedule as the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of each month at the time and location established by the board. The amendment also clarifies that if a regular meeting cannot be held due to a legal holiday or other unforeseen circumstances, the board may reschedule the meeting in accordance with ethical Georgia law. This is just some cleanup. Basically, what we're having to do is change it because in your ordinance, you had the first Monday and the fourth Tuesday, so we're just getting that corrected.

I'll make a motion to approve and authorize the chairman to sign.

Second.

All in favor? Aye.

Consider approval to purchase two AEDs for the Recreation Department using available recreation funds.

Commissioners of the Recreation Department request an authorization to purchase two AEDs exclusively for the Recreation Department facilities and activities. In accordance with CGYSA football league requirements, an AED must be available at all locations where youth practices are held. The Recreation Department currently has one AED, and the purchase of this is to purchase two additional for a total of three. This will allow coverage at multiple practice locations. The total cost of the two AEDs from Stryker is $4,472.92. That's two AEDs in a cabinet. We could probably get a cabinet off Amazon cheaper than what's quoted. These are the same model AEDs that the county has purchased previously and are fully compatible with equipment used by Meriwether County EMS. providing consistency in training, operation, and maintenance. Staff recommends approval of the purchase with funding being paid from the Recreation Department funds. And these will be the same AEDs that are located outside of the chambers.

And what do you say about you could get them cheaper off?

The cabinet. So $250, we can get it for about $65.

So we just said not to exceed?

$44. Just not to exceed that amount.

I make a motion that we approve the purchase of funding to be paid from the Recreation Department not to exceed $4,472.92. I second. All in favor?

I do have a question. Yes, sir. If we have a Recreation, and this is for any department, but a Recreation Director, we've got a County Administrator, an Assistant County Administrator, they have an approved budget by this board. Why are we approving and delaying getting life-saving measures to them for $4,472?

It's not paid out of general fund. It's utilizing a special service fund. The recreation fund is a special fund designated for recreation. It needs board approval. Same thing with SPLOST, TSPLOST. I cannot authorize SPLOST or TSPLOST dollars. Only the board can.

Is there something maybe we can investigate to where in safety type items where we find ourselves lacking in areas where children or a lot of communities are going to be?

We can look in the ordinance and see what needs to be tweaked. There is an ordinance over safety protocols that can be done and bypass procurement. I can look at that and say.

I just hate to be deficient in something like this. And in the two weeks it waits for this meeting, we have an event that we were trying to get ahead of and we're Yeah.

Okay. Mr. Carter, he said, going to that meeting, they said it needs to be multiple AEDs. And we talked with Jumaane, direct director today, and he said the numbers are 100 kids assigned for football. So they'll have multiple locations. So we need more than one AED.

Yes. Okay. Thank you.

Instead of approval, of change order number 15, historic annex, additional tuck-pointing.

Commissioner, the River City contract has submitted change order number 15 for the amount of $4,600 for the courthouse project to be paid for the project contingency fund. Approval of this change order will leave a remaining contingency balance of $7,788.50. The change order covers additional tuck-pointing at the base of the roofline where the gutters with priviliges installed. Staff recommends approval and allow the chair to sign. there's additional pictures in here when they took the roof off of that that little annex building this is the restoration work on it and this would complete the exterior project of the courthouse i'm not sure what else it should be in fact yes that should be all the pictures My great. This will complete all the exterior renovations.

And all the scaffolding's down today, right? That's amazing. So excited.

I don't know if you've been up to the third floor too, but it's got it.

I went in it recently, but I need to go back over there.

Well, I'm going to motion for approval courthouse change order number 15 to be approved in a lot of children. So, yes, I would fight.

Like to thank you.

I do not easy.

Mr. Request from Manchester. Letter of support for city of Manchester, Georgia. News to folks immunity housing application.

Commissioners, you'll see behind the issue paper, there's a request from Mark Pulliam, City Manager at Manchester, requesting a letter of support from the Board of Commissioners. There's a draft letter in your packet. And it's the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing, GICH, is a three-year technical assistance program that helps Georgia communities develop and implement strategies to address local housing needs, neighborhood revitalization, and community development. The program is administered by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs in partnership with the University of Georgia and other state organizations. Manchester City Manager Mark Pulliam has requested a letter of support from the Meriwether County Board of Commissioners for the City's application to participate in the GICH program. Participation in GICH would help the City of Manchester identify opportunities to increase affordability in workforce housing, support downtown and neighborhood revitalization efforts, strengthen future applications for state and federal housing grants, Foster partnerships among the city, Merriweather County, developers, nonprofit organizations, and local businesses. Developing a long-term housing strategy that supports economic growth and enhances the quality of life for residents. A letter of support from the board of commissioners would demonstrate the county's commitment to working collaboratively with the city of Manchester to address housing needs and support community development initiatives that benefit the residents of Merriweather County. If approved, the draft letter will be put on the county letterhead for the chairman to sign, which is already done and is stated Today, I believe.

It's already done?

Yes, the draft letter. It's in your packet.

Legal review this?

I don't believe I sent this thing, but we can do a contingent upon legal review.

Yes, I just. I know it's just a support letter, but I'd like to make sure that the wording is.

Yeah, I can send it a legal first thing on the lines. I'll send a night that we need to look at it first thing in the morning.

I mean, in my opinion, did I make a motion to approve upon the legal review?

Second.

All in favor?

Consider approval of replacing six shower traps, Bearwood County jail.

It measures max air plumbing and recently performed a video inspection of approximately 150 feet of the main sewer line at the Maryweather County Jail and found no issues with the main line. However, the inspection identified six deteriorated shower P-traps that are encased in concrete and need a replacement. The proposed project includes removing existing concrete, replacing deteriorated P-traps, and re-pouring the concrete. The work will include cell blocks one and two, replace P-traps in four shower drains, cell block three, replace two replace P-traps and two shower drains. Replacing these aging plumbing components is expected to resolve ongoing plumbing issues in these areas and improve reliability of the jail's plumbing system. Max Air Plumbing has previously completed similar plumbing repairs at a jail involving underground plumbing, encased in concrete, and is an established county vendor with experience performing this specialized work. The total cost of this project is $41,103. Staff recommends approval and allow the chair to sign with funding to come from SPLOST. And this is the same verbiage that they've used and legal has a red line. They have agreed to using the red line. Once I submit it to them with legal changes, I just need to change the proposal number on that document. So if the board approves it, legal has already approved the terms and agreements.

I know we have continued SPAS, T-SPAS funds coming in. How far in the negative is this board allowed to go with a proven on future fund generation before we are in trouble or should not do it?

We do have a million dollar buffer that we could use out of the general fund. I do not foresee that happening with the The way the funding is allocated out, your chassis, ambulance remount, that's 12 months out. So you got $150,000, $160,000 coming in for the next seven, eight months. Now, when we get to the courthouse third floor repair, that's maybe when we have to tap into that million-dollar reserve. But currently, over the next two, three months, SPLOST should be back in the positive.

So the transparency is what I'm doing this for, is it? Our negative balance is a reflection of the commitments we have made with the existing fund balance.

Right.

We have the commitments coming through based on the timeline of project completion. We should not be actually negative in the account.

Correct. We just want to be transparent and have it committed. That way it shows it's earmarked.

So we are not actually negative in the account physically. That's right. We're committed negatively if they called all of those and were completed today.

Okay.

And make sure as we continue to do that, everybody understands that.

Yes, because your SPLOST cash on hand right now is $901,564. Your T-SPLOST cash on hand is $602,327. So we are not running negative per se in the bank balances. It's just with the commitments.

We're negative with the commitments. If all the work was completed tomorrow, then we would be negative. I'm going to make sure that's on record. They need to get a margin card.

Then I will come to the board and request that we... Barber from the general fund and pay it back within a year.

So I recommend approval. And I'll tell them to sign with funds from sports. I'm on second there.

I have a question while we're on the. Where do we stand with the logs? I know you've reached out and we ask it, but.

You can leave it to my comments.

We're having people, they're hearing it from one spot and hearing it from another. And I just want all on the same page about where we stand with the lock situation and what's going on.

I spoke with the, our email with the actual owner of the company. He replied back on 723 that. 36 locks are in the final staging of testing. There'll be upgraded series and upgraded stainless parts. He does say the series 400 locks are also in the final stages of testing. So the question I asked him, and I was unclear about him, still waiting on a response, is these 36 locks that he's referring to going to the 1200 series, the first phase, and then they're coming back with the 400 series, which is a more durable lock.

Can we explain why we're doing these in phases for people like me who weren't on the board then?

When the RP went out and they came back with the initial lock, they went with a cheap manufactured lock. And now they have had to upgrade it. And someone has recently acquired that company and has inherited these problems. So now they're doing a 1200 series. And that's why I need clarification. Is a 400 series going to replace the 1200 series as a temporary fix until the 400 is existing? So I went on response on that one and he's been relaying back and forth. If no response was given, I was going to reach out to legal about drafting up a letter, but he's been communicating back and forth.

Does he have any idea with how long this testing is going to take place?

I reached out to him again today and asked him, does he have a timeline?

Okay.

Because at first he just said it in real future. I will.

Because I know we're getting a lot of questions from what everybody's going on out in the county. We're getting questioned a lot. So that way you have a good answer.

As soon as he emails me back with it, because I asked him, are we looking at a few weeks? We're looking at a few months. Just give me a generic, a generic timeline so I can pass on to y'all. So then no questions can be answered, but they are in the process of updating the locks. There are additional keys that have been provided for the current locks. We all know there's ongoing issues at the jail. We're addressing those as they come up and that we've been brought to the board as we come up with solutions.

Thank you.

But last year when we found a problem with a lock, they were supposed to be fixed and corrected by June of this year.

Right. It's supposed to be the two-phase summer of 26 and then the beginning of 27, I believe, was going to be the last fix. But the way the email worded was that both of them are kind of in their final testing phase. So I told them for my clarity, trying to understand what's going on, break it down for me in simple terms. What are you doing first? Is the 400 replacing the 1,200? Because it's kind of all over the place.

Just stay on top of it when we get that. I will.

And the new owner has been very responsive to emails. It takes him a little while, but he's, if I send two or three of them, he'll respond.

Okay.

Consider work session August 10th, 2026 at 4 p.m. Commissioner, this is the reschedule of the work session that was supposed to be held today with no quorum for budget discussions.

August 10th?

Yes, sir. Monday. Okay.

Is that going to work for you? It will. I'm putting a reminder in to make sure I'm on time.

I make a motion that we approve having the work session on August 10th to discuss budget at 4 p.m.

I'll second. All in favor? The Portman County Administrator.

Commissioners, I met with Penco on the demo progress. The third floor is ready for remediation, still working with vendors on the bell tower remediation. Like Travis said, it is totally gutted out on the third courtroom. So all the exterior drywall is down, the courthouse in the center. There was no signs of any remediation being needed on that part. So none of the work on the inside of the courtroom needs to be touched. So it's just redrywalling the three foot that was cut on the inside, on the outside of the inside portion of the courthouse. Also met with River City on the progress of the scaffolding. It is down around the courthouse. They are working on removing it now. They're also working on an annex and the HVAC is slated to start on August 10th. I'm waiting on a third floor renovation pricing. That cannot be done until a demo is done for remediation. Trees around the courthouse will be trimmed and removed starting August 7th and finished on August 9th. They'll come back and grind the stumps and roots on August 15th on a Saturday. The tree on 109 is overhanging. It's in the GDOT right away, but I'm waiting on response for Georgia Power to see if they will come and remove the tree due to the power lines being across the street. So GDOT did come out and measure it is on there right away, but they won't see if Georgia Power will take care of it first. Discussed the jail locks, had a department head meeting. We finalized interviews for building planning, zoning, community development director. Had a meeting with insurance broker Mark 3. Met with Georgia Power about putting a transformer pole at the jail. Attendance certified public official training in Pine Mountain. I'll be finishing my finance officer two certification in the next 90 days, and then we're working on a budget for FY27.

That's all I have. Report from County Commissioners by Chairman Smith.

I just want to remind everyone that it's sign-ups for the fall season of our rec sports. This year we have flag football, soccer, and fall team ball for ages three to five, and we still have our football and cheerleading. I know that everyone is probably aware that the Flint River Bridge on Flat Shoals Road is closed down, and hopefully we can find information with GDOT about when they'll possibly be starting work on that. Hopefully it's not so many years out. And I just want to thank, I know Public Works, it seems like they're working hard in this rainy with the potholes and stuff, but I'm hearing more compliments than complaints. And so I just want to thank those people for getting it done. And our fire and EMS and first responders, thank them for what they do. There's been a lot going on lately.

Thank you.

I just don't have much to add to that other than just thank everyone for what they do and the hard work we're putting in. And to her comment is I'm getting more positive feedback than negative. And it's tough when it's raining like that. The weeds on the side of the road are growing faster than they can get to and fix sometimes. Some of them look pretty bad, but they're working on them and they're working on potholes. And then everyone else across the county seems to be recognizing some of the hard work that's going on. So I appreciate what everybody's doing and continue to do it. I do have a question. We mentioned one time about around the courthouse landscaping and the grass. Did we still need to follow up with that? Did you ever get anywhere with it?

Once we get all the trees out so they got a clear picture of what everything looks like, I'll be reaching out to the landscaper. Okay.

That was all I had. I'd just like to say thanks to all the staff and employees for what they're doing and thankful for the citizens of bringing a lot of the problems to life and Believe me, we're working on it. And that's all I have. Report from the county attorney.

I have no report. Yes. Yes. Future meetings and notices. Monday, August 10th, 2026.

Work session at 4 p.m. Monday, August 10th, 2026, regular meeting, 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 25th, 2026, regular meeting at 6 p.m. Closed in the service of Labor Day, Monday, September 7th, 2026. And Monday, September 14th, 2026, regular meeting at 6 p.m. I need a motion to go into executive session for litigation, personnel, real estate, tax matters, and cybersecurity. So moved.

Second.

All in favor? No action was taken in the executive session. I'll make a motion we adjourn.

Second.

All in favor?