Finance Committee Meeting Minutes

Glynn County Board of Commissioners

4:00 P.M., Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Third Floor Conference Room

W. Harold Pate Courthouse Annex

Brunswick, Georgia

 

 

Present:

                        Committee Members: F. Tullos, J. Chapman, and M. Bedner

Staff:  D. Chunn, M. Eckert, C. Johnson, G. Hegstrom, P. McNicoll, B. Rogers, J. Sanders, S. Schaeffner, R. Shell, A. Thomas

Press:   M. Permar, J. Rayburn

Others:  

 

1) Consider approval of the Consent Agenda.

a)      Approve the August 27, 2002 Finance Committee Meeting Minutes. 

b)      Approve a request from Ms. Anne L. McDonough that $263.04 paid in penalties and interest on her 2001 Property Tax bill be refunded. 

c)      Approve the real property corrections to the 1999, 2000, and 2001 digest as recommended by the Board of Assessors and/or the Chief Appraiser at their August 28, 2002 meeting. 

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

The following motion made by Commissioner Bedner and seconded by Commissioner Chapman passed unanimously.

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

2)      Consider award the bid for the drilling of the Fancy Bluff well to Rowe Drilling Company, Inc., of Savannah, Georgia in the amount of $161,498.  Funding will be from SPLOST III. 

 

Mr. Ray Shell, Utilities Manager, stated that there is one well on Mainland South and that it does not have a storage tank or back up of any kind.  If the well were to come off line for maintenance or repair, all homes and business on the system would be without water.  The first Division of the Fancy Bluff project consists of the drilling of a 24” diameter well casing into the Miocene aquifer.  The following motion made by Commissioner Bedner and seconded by Commissioner Tullos passed with Commissioner Chapman abstaining.

Recommend award the bid for the drilling of the Fancy Bluff well to Rowe Drilling Company, Inc., of Savannah, Georgia in the amount of $161,498.  Funding will be from SPLOST III.  (Vote: 2-0-1)  

 

3)      Consider approving the implementation of the Fire Inspection fees as listed in Table IV.  This fee structure would be applicable to all structures inspected by the Glynn County Fire Department under both state and local jurisdiction fire codes. 

 

Assistant Fire Chief Al Thomas discussed the fee proposal.  After discussion regarding the use of the new money, impact on millage rates, and the reason for bringing this item forward now instead of during the budget process, Commissioner Bedner made a motion to approve the new rates.  The motion died for lack of a second.  Fire Chief Carl Johnson then requested that the item be pulled and stated that the request would be brought to the Board of Commissioners during the FY 03-04 next budget process. 

No Action.

 

4)      Consider approving staff’s recommendations as follows:

a)   Award a contract to Southland Waste Services of Georgia for Glynn County’s Solid Waste Program as outlined in RFP #00337 and Southland Waste Services response as referenced in column A of the table above.

b)      Approve staff’s recommended customer fee schedule as outlined in column E of the table above.

c)      Approve staff’s recommendation that user fees as outlined above fund the drop-off centers.

d)      Direct staff to begin an educational program for residents concerning the changes/improvements in service. 

 

Ms. Barbara Rogers, Utilities Administrative Assistant, gave a brief description of the process that the Solid Waste Team used.   After discussion, Commissioner Bedner made a motion to recommend approving staff’s recommendations and the motion failed for lack of a second.  The following motion which was then made by Commissioner Bedner and seconded by Commissioner Tullos passed with Commissioner Chapman abstaining.

Defer to the full Board of Commissioners the consideration to approve staff’s recommendations as follows:

a)   Award a contract to Southland Waste Services of Georgia for Glynn County’s Solid Waste Program as outlined in RFP #00337 and Southland Waste Services response as referenced in column A of the table above.

e)     Approve staff’s recommended customer fee schedule as outlined in column E of the table above.

f)       Approve staff’s recommendation that user fees as outlined above fund the drop-off centers.

g)     Direct staff to begin an educational program for residents concerning the changes/improvements in service.  (Vote: - - ) 

 

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

 

Commissioner Tullos identified items 1 and 2 as consent items.  Item 4 will be deferred to the Full Board without a recommendation from Finance Committee.  Item 3 was pulled at the request of Chief Johnson.