[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?