Reimagine van gogh's starry night. Good afternoon. Let me welcome everyone to our tuesday,
december the 2nd, 2025 board of commissioners meeting. We're very honored today to have
having reverend jeff mccarthy from mountville baptist church here today to give our
invocation. After that, we have the pledge to the flag. And I'm going to ask commissioner
mckinney to lead us in the pledge to the flag. After jeff comes and gives our invocation.
so if everyone please rise. Let's pray. Dear father. I ask you to be with each person here.
father, there's so much going on in our community right now. We just need your guidance and
your wisdom and your peace. Father, that you'll just touch each person here, lord. And
just let us remember through all this that that we're your children and, lord, that we
just need to to hang on to you and keep keep our faith and don't let it post during these
times. Father, I ask you to to to to let these the commissioners here set aside
their personal thoughts and and just what's best for the community. Lord. We give you
praise for taking care of each one of us and and guiding us every step of the way. And we
ask it all in your son's holy name. Amen. Amen. Thanks, flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Just a reminder to some of you today's
election day. Not not everyone's voting, but some are. And the polls don't close till 7:00 tonight. So just a slight reminder. Alright. The next item on our agenda is the
approval of the agenda and the minutes. So first we before we do if you can. Troy anderson
came to us before the meeting and would ask that item c be struck from the agenda. The
hangar development. Okay. It will come back before you in two weeks. Okay. All right. So
with that item be removed, I then I would seek approval for the final agenda. So moved.
alright. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor? Alright. Thank you.
motion is carried. Next is the approval of the minutes from the troup county board of
commissioners work session, which was held on november the 18th, 2025. Do I have a motion?
they be approved a motion? Do I have a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor? Alright.
thank you. Motion is carried. And then finally is approval of the minutes from troup county
board of commissioners board meeting, which was held on november the 18th, 2025. Do I
have a motion to be approved? So moved. Alright. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. All those
in favor? Alright. Thank you. Motion carries. Next we go into special business. At this time,
I'll turn it over to the county manager. Thank you. Chairman. Commissioners. First item on the agenda is an item discussed this morning. Bill bullock was here this morning. Still here?
here again to ask for support for the ridley lake park funding project. The amount is
$30,000, which is a matching fund toward the georgia outdoor stewardship grant. If the board
makes motion to move forward, my recommendation would be that we take those funds from the
cip fund. Okay. Any questions? Yeah, I like to explain when this started, how many years
ago, when the agreements and all that had taken place since then? Yes, sir. So
approximately four and a half years ago, the city applied for the georgia outdoor stewardship
grant, which is you see, notice here on the document as part of that document, part of that
requirement. It's a it's a point system. And based on funding from external
government entity ourself, they would gain ten extra points for their their grant when back in
2021, bill came and asked the county if we would support the project. At the time we agreed
to do so, we did so with the thought that we would utilize it out of our arpa funds, which
is the money that we received during the covid era from the federal government, passed down
to troup county. We provided a letter of support. We didn't really have a whole lot of
correspondence with the city over the over the term about the project. But six months ago
or so, I guess, bill came back and asked, or I guess it's an invoice in to sonia, which
received and I'll say initially we rejected the request and felt it needed to come back
before our board being that it was above the county manager's spending authority. That letter
is original letter. Yes, sir. It is original letter of agreement. All right. Any other
questions? All right. If not, then I will entertain a motion that we approve the ridley lake
park funding request. So moved. Do I have a second? Second? Okay. All those in favor? All
right. Thank you. Motion is carried. All right, next up is the consideration of the lease
amendment for project wing. Troy is here. If you have any questions about project wing.
mr. Chairman, there you are again. So to recap, the faa package that was submitted in
august, faa came back and withheld approval contingent on a couple of specific items. And
one of those items is the amendment to the existing ground lease, which now, if
approved, will capture a a business plan that was not originally incorporated into
the the the ground lease. And so the intent was to codify, if you will, for the faa how the
use of the facilities would be to utilization towards aeronautical and
non-aeronautical use between the two facilities. The apron is the third facility, but that
is strictly aeronautical. So the intent is to within the 60 day period dating back 38 days
ago, the faa asked us to to have something in writing within 60 days as a means to
move forward with the approval to build the air aircraft component aviation complex. All
right. Any questions? All right. If not, then I will entertain a motion that we approve the the
ground lease amendment for project wing. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a
second? Second. Okay. All those in favor? All right. Thank you. Motion carried. All right. For
our final item under special business, I'll invite jay and zach up to discuss the
consideration for the troup county fire station number 14. Chairman. Commissioners. Good
evening. Good evening. Director steele and myself discussed this morning asking permission
to move forward with constructing a new fire station out at 3157 roanoke road. As
you're aware, we received that property from the troup county school system. Used to be the
old tatum school. And we've been working with two on the design of the the station and
harris gray. The site design and everything is ready. We put it out to bid, with your
permission, earlier in october, and we received bids last tuesday on the 25th. We
received ten bids, the low bid on the base bid, which is the two bay fire station. The low
bid was principal construction at $3,299,000, and the plans have been reviewed by all the
various agencies it's ready to permit, ready to move forward with your permission. So we would ask permission to award that contract to principal construction $3,299,000 per
their bid. Mr. Chairman, if just add just for clarification. Assuming the board would
approve to move forward as mr. Anderson is is recommending. Valley. Can you hear me now?
yes. Did you hear me before? No. Alright. Assuming that the board is inclined to move
forward, we need to recognize that whatever action the board takes is going to have to be
contingent upon the actual transfer of the property, because the while the agreement
is in place, the actual deeds have not been been executed and transferred. So any the board
could certainly award the bid, but any contract would have to be contingent upon obviously
legal review and also the closing of the property, because obviously we can't kind
of can't build a fire station on property that hadn't been transferred to the to the
county. When is the deed transfer supposed to take place? I have prepared a draft deed
and sent it to the attorney for the school board a couple weeks ago, and I have not emailed
them yesterday, and we're just waiting to hear back. They're aware that the plan is to try
to, I think, look at early january. Groundbreaking. So I mean, I've talked to the school
school board superintendent as well, and I think she only sees it as a a formality at this
point that their board has already approved the transfer. It's just more, I guess, the
legal transfer at this point. Right. We we just legally shouldn't be building,
constructing on property that you don't, you don't own. Good idea. When we move forward.
which way? The way we're moving forward here this evening. Do we put in a motion that, that
that we're, we're, we're waiting on to get the deed from the school system? Yes.
unfortunately, you'll miss the chairman will probably be looking over scolding me for
having too long of a motion, but it would have to be do it right. It would have to be
contingent upon negotiation and review of the contract and acquisition of the property
from the school board. Mr. Short, as I can make it to continue. Yeah, we're going to
continue this. Well, and regardless, typically when we approve something like this,
the contract process happens every time we've ever approved a building project. There is
contract negotiations. Yes, but we don't have the deed to the land on this contract. I mean,
that's what we're we're waiting on. We we we got we gotta make sure we're in our motion that
we have. Oh, I agree, let's find the deed. The land. Oh, absolutely. I think what eric's
kind of hinting hinting at is usually the contract process and the review by the attorneys
on both sides and then getting the payment performance bonds and insurance. That takes 30
days anyways. And if things proceed as expected, we should be fine. And we decided this
morning was it funding for this 5050 splost five? Yes, sir. Sighing I both talked actually
earlier before the meeting and we both feel comfortable with a a 5050 split of splost, $5 from
the fire department and 50% coming from the cip fund. Any other questions? Do you have
that motion memorized? I'm going to try and see what I can do. So I would seek a motion
that we approve the construction contract for the troup county fire station. Number two, subject to receiving and review of all of the league. 1414. Oh, god. Okay.
a fire station in 14, subject to a receiving and review by our attorney of all the deeds
and any other legal documents. Good enough. Okay. Do I have? I have a motion. So moved. All
right. Do I have a second? Second? All those in favor? All right. Thank you. Motion is
carried. Thank you. Thank you all. Alright, the next item is the public hearing section of
our meeting. So I'll entertain a motion. Or something. Okay. The next section of our meeting
is the public hearing. And so I will I will entertain a motion that we come out of the regular
meeting and go into public hearing, make a motion. We come out of regular meeting in a
public hearing. All right. Do I have a second? Second? All those in favor? All right.
thank you. Motion carries. Miss ruth. Good evening, commissioners. Good evening.
this item is a rezoning request that was submitted by timothy stamper for 1462 new franklin
road. He does have approval from the property owner to put forward the request for the
rezoning. The parcel is 1.1 acre. This is used to be the old mr. Shelnut veterinary
clinic. It's always been commercial. Unfortunately, it was always a residential parcel.
so it meets all of the standards for the ordinance. And if it is approved by the
commissioners, the staff recommends that the applicant must obtain the necessary
building permits, business license and a site plan, then must submit a site plan to the
community development office. We did place a notice in the newspaper on 1025 and the sign
posted on 1028. The board of zoning appeals and planning commission did approve that.
the rezoning. And it is the first reading and vote eligible. Did we how was a business run
there for so many years without being proper zoning? I'm just I'm just asking that I do not
know. Okay. But it has been there as long as I can remember. Yes. It's not the first. I
think that probably the concept is, is probably grandfathered in over many, many years before
zoning maybe even existed. It could have been. But once the new owner comes, they do have
to request a rezoning to continue business there. If you say it was any conditions, yes.
just make sure they obtained the necessary building permits, submit the required site plans
and obtain a business license. Okay, to be able to operate. But all of this, the approval
for them to buy the property is contingent on your approval of that rezoning. All right. Any
other questions? All right. If not, this is a public hearing. We give the public an
opportunity for those that might support or be in the opposition to this rezoning. So
I'll open it up if there's anyone that would like to speak in opposition to this, you're
welcome to come forth. Alright. Hearing none, then anyone would like to speak in support.
you're welcome to come forth. Alright. Hearing none is. Miss ruth said this is the first
reading, but it is vote eligible, so I'll entertain a motion to approve the rezoning
at 1462 new franklin road. With. With those conditions that you mentioned earlier, I'll make a
motion to approve for those conditions. Do I have a second? Second? Okay. All those in
favor? All right. Thank thank you. That motion is carried. Mr. You the I think this is the
last item on the agenda. This was discussed, as you know, at some length at the work session
this morning. The item for consideration under before the board now is whether or not to
extend the data. We're calling it data center moratorium. Technically, I think the
ordinance is the law for large commercial developments to include data centers and crypto
mining. The decision as to whether to extend it and if it is extended for how long. The a
draft resolution was part of the packet this morning with blanks. My recommendation was,
I think, to extend, given the imminent expiration of the current moratorium for an
additional 90 days, that would put it. Terminating almost precisely with the termination
of the only other moratorium in place in the county with the city of lagrange. Okay. Any
questions? All right. So we're asking for approval to extend our moratorium for 90
additional days from the date that I was expired, which is, as we determined, is not week
after next may, right before our next meeting. So we don't have time. Okay. Scroll down.
valerie, you can see the termination date 16. Yeah. Yeah I think. So. It's the 16th of
december. Second. Any additional estimated? So this would extend through the close
of business 90 days close of through the close of business on march 16th, 2026. If you
went with the 90 days okay okay. Okay. Any other questions. All right. If not again this is
public hearing. So if there's anyone that would like to speak in opposition to us extending this moratorium, you're welcome to come forth. Alright. Hearing none, if there's anyone that
would like to speak in support of this moratorium, you're welcome to come forward. And if
you give us your name and address, for the record. Hi, my name is cindy hutchings. My
address is 912 south willow crest way. Hi, rex. Please, please extend the moratorium.
there's still work to be done. Please. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Anyone else
like to speak in support? Alright. Hearing none. Then I'll entertain a motion that we
approve extending our moratorium on data centers till the close of business on march
the 16th, 2026. Do I have a motion? I have a second, second, second. Those in favor? I
didn't have to turn to hold the bridle to the horse at all. He went running for the block.
okay. And that that concludes our public hearing. So I'll entertain a motion. We come out
of public hearing, go back into regular meeting and adjourn. Do I have a motion, mr. Chairman?
I'll make a motion. We come out of public hearing into the regular meeting and adjourn.
okay. Do I have a second? Okay. All those in favor? All right. Thank you. Motion carries. All
right. Thank you all very much for being here.