Finance Committee Meeting Minutes

Glynn County Board of Commissioners

4:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Third Floor Conference Room

W. Harold Pate Courthouse Annex

Brunswick, Georgia

 

Present:

                        Committee Members:  H. Lynn, U. Keller, T. Thaw

Other Commissioners: 

Staff:  J. Bruner, P. McNicoll, D. Newbern, B. Rowell, A. Sapp, C. Stewart, S. Trautz, W. Worley

Press:  

Others:   T. Clark, A. Coburn, M. Coburn, J. Johnson, S. Moreland

 

1.      Consider approval of the Consent Agenda.

 

a)      Approve the July 12, 2005 Finance Committee Minutes. 

 

b)      Approve a request from Mr. Steve Moreland that $1,675.76 paid in penalties and interest on his 2004 property taxes be refunded. 

 

c)      Declare the unusable items listed on the attached page as surplus and approve the sale of these items in the best interest of the County. 

 

 

The following motion made by Commissioner Thaw and seconded by Commissioner Keller passed unanimously.

 

Recommend approval of the Consent Agenda.  (Vote:  3-0-0)

 

2.      Consider approving the contract with the Georgia DHR Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases in the amount of $310,138 that will help finance the Glynn/Camden Drug Court for FY 2005/06, subject to the review of the County Attorney. 

Chairman Lynn questioned why the County was paying $400+ thousand to a Savannah company instead of to a local business.  He stated that 78% of the Drug Court budget was going to Savannah.  Mr. Dick Newbern, Grants Administrator, stated that the total Drug Court budget was $629 thousand and that the Judge had selected the Savannah agency in the first year of the Drug Court operation.  The following motion made by Commissioner Keller and seconded by Commissioner Thaw passed unanimously.

 

Recommend approving the contract with the Georgia DHR Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases in the amount of $310,138 that will help finance the Glynn/Camden Drug Court for FY 2005/06, subject to the review of the County Attorney.  (Vote:  3-0-0)

 

3.      Discussion regarding bidder pre-qualification. 

 

Mr. Will Worley, Assistant County Attorney, discussed his review of the State law for Public Works Contract bidding in comparison to the County’s pre-qualification requirements.  He suggested changes to the prequalification process which included a change from one year submission requirement to once every four years.  After further discussion which included comments from Mr. Tommy Clark, Mr. J. J. Johnson, and Mr. Mike Coburn, the following motion made by Commissioner Keller and seconded by Commissioner Thaw passed unanimously.

 

Motion to set us a committee made up of Commissioner Lynn, Tommy Clark, J. J. Johnson, Mike Coburn, and Allen Coburn, to review the prequalification process and return to the Finance Committee in thirty days to present recommendations for changes.  (Vote 3-0-0)

 

4.      Request that Chairman Lynn identify the Finance Committee items which should be included as consent items in the Commission’s Meeting Agenda.

 

Chairman Lynn identified items 1 and 2 as consent agenda items.  Item 3 will be brought back to Finance Committee on August 23, 2005.