[2:08] Yeah,

[2:11] that's fine.

[2:24] We like to call the regular board of commissioners August meeting to order.

[2:28] If we Mr. Keith, would you do the pledge I mean

[2:33] pray. Dear father, we come to you tonight just

[2:37] thank you for bringing us a good day, dear God. Thank you for your love and

[2:40] your mercy. Just thank you for allowing us to be in a in Miller County. The Lord

[2:43] just ask you to be with us tonight. God, our thoughts and actions to be in tune

[2:47] with you that we make the right decisions for our county, Lord, to make

[2:49] it feel a better place to to live and prosper. All the things in your son's

[2:53] name. Amen. >> Amen.

[2:56] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

[3:01] stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[3:07] for all.

[3:18] All right. No, nothing needs to be added to the

[3:22] agenda. I need approval of the agenda. I'll make a motion. Need a second.

[3:27] » A second. >> All in favor?

[3:31] » All right. Minute. The minutes look to be in order. I need a motion to approve

[3:34] the minutes. >> I make a motion.

[3:37] » I need a second. Second. All in favor? I >> financial reports. Everything looks to

[3:44] be in order. I need a motion to approve. >> Make a motion.

[3:48] » I need a second. >> I second.

[3:51] » All in favor? >> I.

[3:54] » All right. So, right now, you want to go with retirement plan, Mr. Ron?

[4:06] » Good evening. >> Good evening.

[4:07] » Good evening. >> How are you? Good. Good.

[4:09] » I'm Ron with ACCG retirement services. I was asked to come and speak a little bit

[4:14] about a cost study that we did at the recommendation of the council here, the

[4:20] commission to look at an unreduced early option for the fine benefit plan of

[4:25] pension for the county. The purpose of actually asking for this to start with

[4:30] is as you're out here looking for employees in the area, I think you know

[4:36] that a lot of your employees look in the same work in the same area here. So when

[4:40] the benefits are similar, then you don't have an issue with that. If the benefits

[4:45] are not similar, there may be an issue for some. And that's kind of the

[4:48] question is how are we looking at as far as benefit similarities across the

[4:53] region if you will. Some of your neighbors have unreduced early. And what

[4:59] does that really mean? It means once you reach a certain age and years of

[5:03] service, it's not an or it's an and. That you be eligible if you were able to

[5:09] retire, you could. Um, as it currently stands in your plan,

[5:15] the normal retirement age is age 65 with five years of service. So anytime got to

[5:20] have at least five, be at least 65. You'd be eligible for a retirement

[5:25] benefit. If you're 58 with 40 years, you're still not eligible to retire. You

[5:32] could you could leave, terminate your employment, and at 65, you would age

[5:37] into that benefit, but you would not be eligible to start receiving it until 65.

[5:42] With an unreduced early benefit, it would if something like that was put in

[5:46] place in your plan, then whenever you reach that age and years of service,

[5:51] then you'd be eligible to begin the benefit as soon as you reach that. If

[5:54] you decided to leave, doesn't mean you have to by any means. you can work as

[5:58] long as you want as long as you're productive etc. You know what I'm

[6:00] saying? [clears throat] So with that you can

[6:04] imagine with the cost study if we're going to say hey I'm assuming and

[6:09] remember pension valuations and the cost of a promised benefit is based off a lot

[6:14] of assumptions payroll increase investment returns your

[6:19] census of your population of employees how old they are how long they've been

[6:23] here how much money they make etc. So there's a lot of assumptions in it when

[6:28] we look at that data and we look at it over decades now with y'all is what is

[6:34] the most common how long people work etc. What number of people retiring 65

[6:39] 66 67 etc. If someone is going to start receiving a benefit as as much as in

[6:46] this case what we're talking about as much as 10 years early well you can

[6:50] realize that there's going to be a cost factor to it. If we're going to pay

[6:53] something out 10 years earlier, it's probably going to cost more money to do

[6:56] that. So, in this case, y'all do have the cost study, am I right?

[7:01] » Yes. >> Okay. You had a chance to look over

[7:03] that. There were three um columns on that call study. I believe a 55, age 55,

[7:11] 25 years of service, an age 55 with 30 years of service, and an age 62 with

[7:18] years of service. All three of those. And you can tell by the number the the

[7:23] the return cost from the actuary is going to be different based on those

[7:27] assumptions. The 5525 if you will, if I can call it

[7:32] that, age 55, 25 years of service. Uh you'll see that cost is around $113,000

[7:38] cost of what they call liability on the plan. That doesn't mean you got to throw

[7:43] the check for $13,000 to make something happen. You could if you wanted to. that

[7:49] would say, "Hey, we paid for it." You could do that. If you look at amortized

[7:54] cost on there, it's around $11,500. What that means is every year we do

[8:00] evaluation for the county and based off the census, etc. There is a required

[8:07] amount of payment to the pension trust because of the promised benefits, the

[8:12] paid benefits that are being the paid benefits to retirees and or survivors.

[8:18] the promised benefits and acrewing of benefits of people that have continued

[8:21] to work and some promised benefits of people that have vested and no longer

[8:26] work here that have a promised benefit later in future. So with all of that

[8:30] information, there's a required by the state of Georgia a required amount based

[8:35] off calculation of what the county has to put into the trust every year. Then

[8:39] there's a recommended amount. The recommended amount

[8:44] actually allows the county to pay the recommended amount. Pays off, if you

[8:48] will, the debt of the plan two years early. So that's what the recommended

[8:53] is. The other thing the recommended does is it allows you to build up what we

[8:58] call pension credits in the plan. It's kind of like an emergency fund. Let's

[9:02] say that we assume in our all the valuations we do is 7% return on

[9:06] investments. Say the market went down, say, three years in a row. Well, you're

[9:12] not getting 7% if the market's down. Not only that, your seven is a zero. So, if

[9:17] it broke even, you're still down seven. Well, those credits allow you to kind of

[9:21] smooth that budget out. So, you could use credits if you needed to during the

[9:25] bad times. That's why paying that recommend is so important. Not only does

[9:29] it pay down the debt of the plan, it also gives you some little a bit of

[9:33] emergency fund in the back, if you will. Now [clears throat] when we talk about

[9:37] required um I think your required amount is in

[9:41] this in what it is with the plan there and this would say hey if we adopted

[9:48] this assuming all this information right here what does that do to our payment

[9:52] every year it increases about $1,500 a year.

[9:57] That's it in a nutshell. If you decide to do it annually

[10:00] you can pay anything above that if you wish. Um,

[10:05] you're always able to pay as soon as you can and as much as you want within

[10:10] reason. You know, you don't want to over, you know, our policy statement is

[10:14] try to get every plan to 125% fund. Why is that? That puts you in a position

[10:19] where something happened. It's a lot easier to say, hey, we had a downfall in

[10:24] the market three or four years. I'm still 100% funded. Even if, you know

[10:28] what I'm saying? Versus if you were 70% funded, that happened. Now you're now

[10:32] you fixing to have to pay in some money. So it it moves your required

[10:36] contribution up. In this case, if you annual annualize about 11 $11,500 a

[10:41] year, that's for the most the earliest benefit possible. And

[10:47] you'll see that those same columns go across tells you similar story with

[10:50] those benefits there. So I'm here to answer questions if you have any.

[10:55] Hopefully I can give you what you need to do and then y'all can vote and do as

[10:59] you wish with the plan.

[11:03] So the the 11,500 is the uh recommended amount, not the

[11:09] bare bones bottom of the levels. Is that what you're saying?

[11:14] » Um your required contribution I believe is in the 60s.

[11:20] » It would be 11,500 on top of that. >> Okay.

[11:23] » So you'd be in the mid70s. >> Okay.

[11:25] » As a required amount with this information.

[11:28] » You know, assumptions go haywire. That number goes haywire.

[11:31] » Right. So, but that's what based off of a good history of your plan. That's

[11:36] pretty close. I think >> Mr. Ron, didn't you say that all the

[11:41] surrounding counties are pretty much >> there's a lot of people in your area

[11:45] that have the unreduced earnings, the ones that have a pension. If I I got

[11:49] some leway here to talk about pensions is unbelievable benefit nowadays. I

[11:54] think y'all most people realize that a lot of places don't have pensions

[11:58] anymore. And when you talk about a retirement crisis and how what a great

[12:03] benefit this is, modest but great for the employees, most people that don't

[12:08] have a pension benefit, they have to depend on their own money to find a

[12:12] retirement, you know, and that's not unusual in society nowadays. I mean

[12:15] about 90% of the people don't have access to pensions anymore. So they

[12:20] either have a 401k or something of that nature that they have to fall back on.

[12:24] With this pension being such a great benefit, it takes a lot of pressure off

[12:28] the employee of having to save all their money to be able to someday have enough

[12:32] to retire. So, it's a phenomenal benefit from that standpoint.

[12:37] What happens is some of your neighbors have unreduced earies that do have

[12:42] pensions. And typically what I see is it helps with recruitment and it helps with

[12:51] retention. You know, if you have somebody saying,

[12:55] "Well, what is your benefit pay? I'm used to a pension. Let's just say I'm an

[12:59] employee hypothetical. You know, this is not a a factual conversation. It's

[13:04] hypothetical here. If I was an employee with a pension and said, "Hey,

[13:08] I got to compare what I have now to what I'm going to. It may or may not be

[13:12] okay." Whatever that their family decides. If you um if I was employee,

[13:19] I've been here 23 years and I've got a 25 eligibility,

[13:25] I'm probably going to stay two more years. You know what I'm saying? I'm not

[13:27] going to give up on. But if I'm 53 with 25 years

[13:33] and I got to say to 65, opportunities may make me think about

[13:37] that. So, it's very possible, not guaranteed, nothing's guaranteed, but

[13:42] very possible recruitment and retention that could help.

[13:46] you have to decide is that dollar amount worth the potential recruitment and

[13:51] retention and then on the other side is the dollar amount um worth it to make

[13:58] that benefit available to your employees because you know if you have somebody 55

[14:03] they come in here at 20 they got 35 years at 55 even with your plan I don't

[14:09] think most people would be able to go home and retire at 55 they may be moving

[14:14] on to another job, if you will, because your benefit calculator is basically 1%

[14:20] a year. If I got 30 years, 30% of my pay, it's not bad, but I'm not going to

[14:26] go I'm not going to be able to go travel the world 30% of my you know, when you

[14:31] team that up with other benefits. It's awesome.

[14:34] » But does that make sense?

[14:39] » Is this transferable? >> Okay. So [clears throat]

[14:44] in the ACCG world, we do 112 pension plans. Inside of that, almost all of

[14:50] them are transferable with each other. If you have a vested benefit, let me

[14:55] explain that. If you if I worked here for three years and then went to another

[15:00] county where we service the pension, I would have nothing to transfer

[15:04] » because I didn't have I didn't earn a benefit.

[15:06] » You got there five years, >> right? You have to invest. You got to

[15:09] have something to move. Four years and 11 months, nothing. So, you got to have

[15:15] that vested benefit to be able to think about transferring. Most plans do. If it

[15:21] goes anywhere else, no. So, if you went from, let's just say, for example, the

[15:26] county to the city, different different organizations, they're not going to

[15:31] transfer. So, potentially it could transfer.

[15:36] Anything

[15:42] else? >> Thanks. Anybody else got any questions?

[15:48] You got any questions? >> Okay.

[15:51] » Is there anything that you need me to expand on or do it?

[15:55] » That's what

[15:59] they wanted to work here.

[16:05] » That's I have to say it this way. As long as the county wants the employee to

[16:10] work here, they can work here. >> So the benefit will just keep building,

[16:13] I guess. >> Yes. You keep acrewing. There is no

[16:15] maximum on your benefit. So if I came here at 20 and worked 70, I get 50 years

[16:21] worth of benefit. >> You'll get 50% of your

[16:24] » right pays essentially.

[16:31] » Well, if there's no other questions, we appreciate it.

[16:33] » Yes, sir. Thank you all so much for having

[16:39] » that's okay with everybody. >> Yeah,

[16:43] » we're going to talk about it >> kind of review.

[16:49] Now the transit final plan.

[16:54] » Good evening everyone.

[16:58] » All right. My name is Amanda from Southwest Regional Commission and I am

[17:02] the director of for the transit service um for the rural transit service that

[17:07] benefits the community. Um before you is the plan that was drafted and just a

[17:13] little bit about the plan. Um it is drafted under a 5304 grant planning

[17:18] application or planning grant from G. Um they asked that we provide community

[17:24] individual community plans for each each county under our transit system. So

[17:30] there's no new information essentially in this plan. It's just taking from the

[17:33] demographics the census um it's taking from our range the recently or not

[17:38] recently but the adopted regional plan um and just condensing it to be more

[17:44] Miller County independent Miller County. Um the only

[17:49] new information I will say that is in this plan is I held two community input

[17:52] meetings. I did live surveys as well. Um so anything that the community said in

[17:58] in that um survey is in the plan. So that's really the new the only new

[18:03] information this

[18:08] resolution for adoption

[18:12] » once adopted we'll get on our website on our website and then

[18:22] it looks pretty

[18:26] if anyone has any questions for you [clears throat]

[18:33] So, you just need us to adopt this resolution.

[18:35] » Yes. And it would just be for Miller County. Again, no new information. Just

[18:38] pulling from regional sources, um, senses and community input.

[18:46] » I'll read it.

[18:50] Resolution numbers 26-0810.0.

[18:55] a resolution of Miller County Board of Commissioners to adopt a local rural

[18:59] transit development plan. Whereas the Georgia Department of Transportation

[19:03] helps communities plan safe and reliable public transportation across the state.

[19:08] And whereas the Southwest Georgia Regional Commission provides and helps

[19:12] communities plan safe and reliable public rural transportation across

[19:16] Southwest Georgia region. Whereas G DOT and Southwest Georgia Regional

[19:21] Commission provide guidance to help counties study local traffic, map out

[19:25] community travel needs, and design a five-year plan to improve public transit

[19:30] transportation services. And whereas Miller County work with Southwest

[19:34] Georgia Regional Commission to build a rural transit development plan tailored

[19:39] to our community. And whereas the county as required had public involvement and

[19:43] stakeholder input in compliance with state regulations to ensure the plan

[19:48] reflect the needs of the community. And now therefore be it resolved by the

[19:52] board of commissioners of Miller County, Georgia. The board of commissioners

[19:56] officially adopt this rural transit development plan as our guide for

[20:00] improving public transportation adopted this day 2026.

[20:06] I need a motion to adopt the resolution. That's a motion to adopt a resolution.

[20:11] Need a second? >> I second.

[20:13] » All in favor? >> I

[20:16] thank you.

[20:24] » Old business, the county business licenses.

[20:27] » Yes. So, you know, we discussed it for the last two months about the U

[20:31] approving the county business license. um had a chance to study it and we just

[20:36] need to pass a resolution to go ahead and put that in

[20:38] » order.

[20:54] Resolution number 26-0810.0 a resolution adopting an occupational

[21:00] tax businesses located within the unincorporated areas of Miller County.

[21:04] Whereas the Miller County Board of Commissioners is the duly elected

[21:07] governing authority of Miller County, Georgia. And whereas article

[21:16] is

[21:21] nine. Section two of the constitution of the state of Georgia and the OCGA title

[21:27] 48 chapter 13 authorize counties to levy to collect occupational taxes and

[21:33] require occupational tax certificate for businesses operating within their

[21:38] jurisdiction and whereas the board of commissioners finds that the licensing

[21:42] and regulation of businesses operating within the uninccorporated areas of

[21:46] Miller County promote the public health safety welfare and orderly development

[21:51] of the county And whereas the board further finds that the establishment of

[21:55] a uniform occupational tax program will ensure equitable administration, provide

[22:01] accountability for businesses operating within the county, generate revenue to

[22:05] offset the cost of administering county services, and whereas the municipalities

[22:11] located within Miller County return exclusive authority to licensed

[22:16] businesses located within their respective municipal boundaries unless

[22:20] otherwise authorized by law or intergovernmental agreement. And whereas

[22:24] the board of commissioners desire to adopt the occupational

[22:28] tax program applicable only to businesses located within the

[22:33] unincorporated incorporated areas of Miller County. Now therefore, be it

[22:37] resolved by the Miller County Board of Commissioners.

[22:40] I need a motion to adopt the resolution. >> Make a motion.

[22:46] » I need a second. All in favor?

[22:54] the Miller County Charter. >> Yes. So, you know, last month I told you

[22:58] that me and the county attorney was working on updating our charter. It's

[23:02] the same information. It's just put in a modern format so we can go ahead and get

[23:06] codified through uni code. So, we just need to pass this resolution to go ahead

[23:10] and get that in place. Same difference.

[23:16] Resolution

[23:20] number 26-0810.0,

[23:24] a resolution adopting the updated Miller County charter. Whereas the Miller

[23:28] County Board of Commissioners is the duly constituted governing authority of

[23:32] Miller County, Georgia, and is charged with promoting the efficient,

[23:35] transparent, and effective administration of county government.

[23:39] Whereas the Miller County Charter serves as the government document establishing

[23:43] the organization, power, duties, and responsibilities of the county

[23:47] government. Whereas the current charter has been reviewed to identify provisions

[23:51] requiring CL clarification, modernization, and revision in order to

[23:55] reflect current law exceptal practices and operational needs of Miller County.

[24:01] Whereas the board of commissioners has caused an updated charter to be prepared

[24:06] that preserves the intent of the existing charter while improving its

[24:09] organization consistency, readability, and administrative effectiveness.

[24:14] Whereas the board of commissioners find that adoption of an updated charter is

[24:19] in the best interest of the citizens of Miller County and will enhance

[24:23] accountability, efficiency, and orderly administration of county government.

[24:27] Whereas the board recognizes that any revisions to the county charter

[24:31] requiring approval by the Georgia General Assembly or other otherwise

[24:35] governed by applicable provisions of the constitution and the laws of the state

[24:40] of Georgia shall be submitted through the appropriate legislative process

[24:43] before becoming effective. Now therefore be it resolved the Miller County Board

[24:47] of Commissioners. I need a motion to adopt. I'll make a motion to adopt. I

[24:53] need a second. >> I second.

[24:55] » All in favor? Hi. >> Hi.

[24:59] » Resolution passes. Shooting range update.

[25:03] » I just want to give y'all an update. So, you know, um we sent an invoice to the

[25:08] uh Georgia Department. I guess it was the DNR actually. Um we did receive the

[25:14] check for $40,000. And down in the new business, we'll discuss that, but we

[25:19] just need to put that in a bank account so we can go ahead and get it on file.

[25:23] Me and Mark, I brought Mark in. We we talked with the draftsman and I think

[25:27] you talked with Keith >> about he and somebody else to draw us a

[25:31] map. We have to have a conceptual drawing where it's got to be placed

[25:35] where it's got to be turned and then I guess they'll take that and do an

[25:39] environmental study from that. So that's where we're working. We may have to use

[25:42] some of that 40,000 for that. As of right now we don't have a price but

[25:46] that's that's where that money is going to come from. Um but that's where we are

[25:50] now. We have we do have the first bit of money that they give us. We we just need

[25:54] to create a bank account. Like I said, we'll talk about that later. And I just

[25:57] wanted to update y'all on that. >> Any questions on that?

[26:02] » All right. County road name approval. >> So that would be for y'all to decide

[26:08] what two roads that y'all want to discuss at the park. So we talking about

[26:13] doing that this month.

[26:17] So y'all can discuss it. Come up the names and all agree to it however you

[26:22] want to do it.

[26:28] What if we take the uh top vote getting name from the one that we

[26:35] put on Facebook and take the top vote getting name that Miss Christine had on

[26:39] her survey and just use those? Did you say there was two roads to be named?

[26:44] » That's correct. >> Circle and I think the the other one

[26:49] they call Mayhal Drive, but I don't think that's an official name. That's

[26:52] just that's listed in Google. >> Do you have any input to this rec

[26:56] director?

[26:59] » Yeah. Um, in all reality, I think everybody that I've talked to is okay

[27:05] with it being called the one May drive or whatever it may be and then the other

[27:10] one the Spring Creek Circle. So, just keep it easy. It's kind of what people

[27:14] already call it. Just get it done and get moving, you know.

[27:19] » So, I need a motion to name it. And how many how many hits did you get

[27:24] on that >> on Facebook? Oh, I don't remember it.

[27:27] That was uh I didn't ask those two, but that was the one of the top few. And

[27:31] then I think those were some of the top views on yours as well, but just like

[27:35] talking to the community in general and just saying what it might be. Um we've

[27:39] had a lot of agree with it. You know, nothing crazy. I don't know if it's 10

[27:44] or 12. >> I know. I got a lot of hits on Spring

[27:47] Creek Lane. >> So, yeah,

[27:48] » I got a lot of hits on that. So again, we should um like Mr. Bowen says, who

[27:55] has the most hits on on it? I mean, we should take in consideration also these

[28:00] people also voted, you know. >> So, one of them is going back toward the

[28:05] egg. Is that right? >> Yes. And then

[28:08] » one's dirt right now and then one's page already. We just need to rep

[28:17] May drive and Spring Creek I think. I've just I've used both of them

[28:28] » and I got a total of 88 hits but majority of them was Spring Creek Lane.

[28:33] » Yeah, I think that would be more than fine. What about Spring Creek Circle and

[28:37] Spring Creek Lane? How about that? >> I

[28:42] need a motion.

[28:46] » Circle.

[28:49] » Call that right. >> Uh, not that I'm aware of. Pending

[28:56] » review. >> Pending review.

[28:58] » If that's okay with everybody, we'll go with the Spring Creek Circle and Spring

[29:01] Creek Lane.

[29:05] We're good. Should be good on that. All right. Everybody good? Yes.

[29:12] I'll make a motion. Need a second. >> I second.

[29:15] » All in favor?

[29:25] » New business. The building department fe as Mark to attend. Um me and him put

[29:31] together. We were looking and we hadn't raised the building fees in what Mark 20

[29:36] years maybe. >> Yeah, it's been a long time. Um the

[29:40] books the the code books that I had when I got here

[29:46] were 20 n. So you know

[29:54] it was supposed to be in the 2015. But anyway, y'all adopted those the other

[29:58] day when I got the new ones and they're the 2020

[30:02] word edition and they have a paper in there that gives you your val everything

[30:08] that's permitted is by valulation. So every how much something costs you got a

[30:14] chart in there you go down see how much it is it you know you follow little

[30:18] steps through there and um like I say it's all there. That's right.

[30:24] » Is that what we need to adopt this? Yes, >> it would just catch us up with the other

[30:30] count surrounding counties around. >> Everybody had time to look over national

[30:37] come out of the international code.

[30:41] » Everybody's okay with it. Motion to adopt the Miller County Building

[30:45] Department fee schedule. I'll make a motion. Need a second.

[30:50] » Second. >> All in favor? All

[30:54] right. The shooting range bank account. >> Yeah. So, this is what we was just

[30:58] discussing. Um, we just have to be able to go ahead and open a bank account and

[31:03] put that money in. Um, I guess it can be an interesting account. So, y'all

[31:08] approve that. We'll you need a motion to make the Mayhaul shooting range bank

[31:12] account. Check. Is a checking account s >> checking account. I need a motion to

[31:18] create the Mayhawk shooting range checking account.

[31:22] » Make a motion. >> Need a second.

[31:24] » I second. >> All in favor?

[31:28] » Department?

[31:33] Nothing crazy. Tractor's nice getting some work done. We had a lot of um down

[31:38] at the bath house by the where the boardwalk used to be. Um there was some

[31:43] very bad termite damage. Um half block construction, the other half a stick.

[31:49] Um, and I can show you all picture pictures later on, whatnot, but we end

[31:55] up um putting a temporary beam in and supporting the uh trusses and a whole

[32:01] new walls getting put in. Um, that should be we took it out today, framed

[32:06] it all in today. I'll have it all not sided, but sheeted over and door and

[32:12] windows done tomorrow. So, um, that kind of fixes that and then just keep

[32:19] driving. >> And you don't need anything.

[32:21] Everything's good down there. Ball near about over, I guess.

[32:25] » B, baseball softball's over. Um, we football signups end this coming Friday.

[32:31] So, that's where we're at. So, we'll see how many people turn out for that and

[32:38] full throttle with that and see what we can do this year.

[32:42] Good.

[32:47] I just have one question about like irrigation crossing the road.

[32:52] We've had a couple calls like on Cleveland. Is there done now? But uh

[32:58] Kirkland is having a problem

[33:04] and uh people are just asking, you know, is it supposed to be going across the

[33:10] road or not going across the road and who's responsible for stopping it from

[33:13] going across the road? It's causing like safety issues. In some spots it does,

[33:18] some spots it doesn't. Our normal thing we just go in there back to back like

[33:25] documentation of like tow trucks or you know police being called to see people

[33:30] going but people call say that they've seen people go in the ditch but no one's

[33:35] been like there's no really like you know officer or anything going out

[33:39] there. The lady on her was asking like how does how does it stop because she

[33:46] has to go five miles out of the way instead of a half a mile. She's the

[33:50] elderly car through there, you know, it's kind of clay through

[33:54] there when used to just practice. just get a call just go there and the other

[33:59] day she was like you know she kind of like wanted to stop in some spots like

[34:03] on Cleveland when they're ordering you don't have any too cut the road we just

[34:08] go in there wipe out sometimes you wipe it out two or three times a month

[34:12] sometimes it's not so bad sandy roads kind of absorb it you know but clay

[34:16] roads kind of get cut usually just go there they just want to know like who's

[34:22] responsible for stopping it from happening

[34:26] We have to look into >> we don't we don't have the in ordinance.

[34:31] I think that was taken out. But there's I mean there's an ordinance I think with

[34:34] the state of Georgia where they have to Yeah. stay right on it.

[34:39] » Um back I know I talked to Mr. Keith about that. You contacted the farmer and

[34:44] I did and he said he would cut it off. Yeah. He hasn't been running it since

[34:48] that out there. He soil. >> He said he had he had cut it off and um

[34:54] if any others of his are causing problems to let him know and he can

[34:58] adjust it. You know, most farmers have those things on their phones now

[35:04] to to let him know. He'd be more than glad to to do that. you know, um I'm not

[35:09] saying this is the what occurred, but

[35:15] a lot of times the farmer needs to be there to see where it needs to be cut

[35:19] off and not to actually get it just right. You know, I think if we if we

[35:23] work with each other and sort of do aformational

[35:27] » blitz around that we can get because it it's easier now than it used to be and

[35:31] we can inform folks that I mean and it's a liability for the farmers also if

[35:36] something happens. I'm I'm familiar with that also. So, I think we might need to

[35:42] take a a while and start informing uh people out there, the

[35:49] farmers that, hey, help us out to protect all this stuff to where

[35:53] something bad don't happen in the future, you know, just be proactive

[35:56] about it, you know, and thank you for bringing that to our attention. And and

[36:00] I got right to him and he he jumped right on it. He he said he's he's fixed

[36:05] it on his phone, but he said when it goes around the next

[36:08] time to be sure to let him know if it's needs to be adjusted one way or the

[36:12] other cuz you're you're doing it on a computer screen and computers in

[36:17] actuality is two different things sometimes, you know. So

[36:20] » I went out there several times over the weekend in the middle of the night

[36:23] running. So >> most everybody's they're not

[36:27] he was saying the one they thought was causing problems was actually a corn.

[36:34] Okay. >> Yeah. Said be sure if anything comes up

[36:39] again to let him know and he'll he'll jump right on. You know,

[36:43] » but didn't we sign something about stopping the ends? Anyway,

[36:47] » I don't think that ever got passed because we talked to the sheriff and he

[36:50] wasn't going to enforce it. There was something in in like July 22

[36:56] that was like >> that um that we were supposed to

[37:02] » not be the >> Did didn't you talk sheriff

[37:10] may not >> that's going to fall more under the uh

[37:16] » the code enforcement deal in the sheriff department deal That's what

[37:22] » but as of right now he has to enforce all of our codes.

[37:24] » Yeah. And it's it causes problems that that's the process of finding a code

[37:30] enforcement officer would would help with a lots of these areas are sort of

[37:34] gray right now with the barking dogs and the trash and the junk cars and all of

[37:40] that. The code enforcement would be very valuable in Miller County to start

[37:45] getting things more modernized. >> And we u we've got we've got it narrowed

[37:51] down. We do have two candidates, so we just have to get with the city. Um, we

[37:55] did draft a intergovernment agreement up and I think you've talked to the city

[37:59] manager since we're going to draft another one up two different ways to

[38:03] where either it's our full employee and then we just contract them or it's

[38:07] split. So, I'm going to have two different ways and y'all can decide

[38:10] which which way y'all want to go.

[38:18] No, >> she you got anything?

[38:23] You got anything? >> Yeah. You got anything? [clears throat]

[38:27] » We met with the U lawyers. We were trained last week for

[38:33] the final project specializ in working with the development authorities and

[38:40] counties that participated in projects like that. So he revised theou that we

[38:47] had have gotten from the solar panel people

[38:51] » and to favor more the county and development.

[38:55] So we voted to allow him to go ahead and start negotiating with

[39:01] the town people getting correct you know we can proceed with

[39:09] right now. >> Anybody got any questions about that?

[39:21] I think everybody said that there's any no other business. I need a

[39:27] motion to adjourn. >> She

[39:31] » I'm gonna call her up after the meeting because she's not on she come up here

[39:35] and talk to us. >> So I need a motion to adjourn.

[39:39] » I make a motion. >> Second.

[39:41] » Second. All in favor?

Miller County Board of Commissioners - 08/10/2026

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