Workshop Action Agenda

Board of Commissioners

  March 4, 2009

    3:30 P.M.

 

The Board of Commissioners of Fayette County, Georgia met in an Official Workshop Session on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at 3:30 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Conference Room of the Fayette County Administrative Complex, 140 Stonewall Avenue, Fayetteville, Georgia.

 

            Commissioners Present:                   Jack Smith, Chairman

                                                                        Herb Frady, Vice Chairman

                                                                        Lee Hearn

                                                                        Robert Horgan

                                                                        Eric Maxwell

 

            Staff Present:                                      Jack Krakeel, County Administrator

                                                                        Scott Bennett, County Attorney

                                                                        Carol Chandler, Executive Assistant

                                                                        Karen Morley, Chief Deputy Clerk

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3:31:46 PM                             

Chairman Smith called the meeting to order. 

 

3:31:52 PM                                                     

ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA:

COMMISSIONER HORGAN MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED.  COMMISSIONER HEARN SECONDED THE MOTION.  THE MOTION CARRIED 5-0.                       

 

3:32:13 PM     

OLD BUSINESS:

A.         Update on U.S. Postal Service’s plans to change two zip code areas in North Fayette County.

 

FIRE MARSHAL DAVID SCARBROUGH UPDATED THE BOARD ON THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE’S PLANS TO CHANGE TWO ZIP CODE AREAS IN NORTH FAYETTE COUNTY.  HE REMARKED THAT SUGGESTIONS FOR STREET NAME CHANGES HAD BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC AND A RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE MARCH 12TH BOARD MEETING. 

 

3:36:11 PM     

B.         Update from the Retirement Study Committee. 

 

PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR ALLEN MCCULLOUGH UPDATED THE BOARD ON THE RETIREMENT STUDY COMMITTEE’S FINDINGS REGARDING A RECOMMENDATION FOR DEFINED CONTRIBUTION AND DEFERRED COMPENSATION FOR THE FAYETTE COUNTY RETIREMENT PROGRAM.  HE STATED THAT THIS WOULD BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE MARCH 12TH BOARD MEETING. 

 

3:43:21 PM

NEW BUSINESS:

C.        Presentation by Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc. regarding the County’s new Comprehensive Transportation Plan.

 

LEAD CONSULTANT JOEL MANN OF GLATTING JACKSON KERCHER ANGLIN, INC. DISCUSSED PROJECT GOALS, PUBLIC INPUT, AND COUNTY GOALS.  HE  SAID THE CONSULTING TEAM WOULD BE GLAD TO DISCUSS THIS PLAN WITH ANY INTERESTED CITIZENS AT THE PUBLIC KICK-OFF MEETING/WORKSHOP BEGINNING ON MARCH 9 - 12, 2009 FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 6:00 P.M. IN THE COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING ROOM, 140 STONEWALL AVENUE, FAYETTEVILLE. 

 

4:13:23 PM     

D.        Presentation of information from the County’s Animal Control Director concerning the tethering of animals in Fayette County.

 

ANIMAL CONTROL DIRECTOR MIGUEL ABI-HASSAN PRESENTED INFORMATION ON HIS RESEARCH REGARDING AN ANTI-TETHERING ORDINANCE FOR FAYETTE COUNTY.  THE BOARD ASKED HIM TO PROVIDE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION AT A LATER DATE.

 

4:38:57 PM     

ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT:

NONE.

 

4:39:04 PM     

ATTORNEY’S REPORT:

NONE.

 

4:39:08 PM     

STAFF REPORTS:

RFP FOR AIR-CONDITIONING PROJECT FOR FLINT RIVER PUMP STATION AND CROSSTOWN PLANT: Water System Director Tony Parrott asked for the Board’s consideration to send out an RFP for a bid for an air-conditioning project for the Flint River Pump Station and the Crosstown Plant pump station.  He said this would involve the electrical controllers for the pumps.  He said the summer heat affects the controllers and causes them to cut off during the afternoon hours.  He said this was estimated to cost approximately $70,000 with the  cost of this project coming out of the Renewal and Extension Fund.

 

IT WAS THE CONSENSUS OF THE BOARD FOR MR. PARROTT TO PROCEED WITH THE RFP.

 

4:43:16 PM     

REQUEST FROM THE THOMAS WINGFIELD CHAPTER OF THE COLONIAL DAMES 17TH CENTURY: Executive Assistant Carol Chandler briefed the Board on a request she had received from the Thomas Wingfield Chapter of the Colonial Dames 17th Century to place a bronze marker on the south wall of the old Fayette County Courthouse to recognize its importance to the history of Fayette County.

 

THE BOARD TOOK NO ACTION ON THIS REQUEST AND ASKED MS. CHANDLER TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

 

4:46:07 PM                                         

BOARD REPORTS:

NONE.

 

4:46:12 PM     

EXECUTIVE SESSION:

NONE.

 

4:46:20 PM     

ADJOURNMENT:

COMMISSIONER HEARN MADE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 4:46 P.M.  COMMISSIONER HORGAN  SECONDED THE MOTION.  THE MOTION CARRIED 5-0.

 

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Karen Morley, Chief Deputy Clerk