COFFEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

REGULAR MEETING

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011

9:30 O’CLOCK A.M.

COMMISSIONERS’ MEETING ROOM

Coffee County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, March 21, 2011, at 9:30 o’clock A.M. with the following present: Chairman Jimmy Kitchens, Commissioners Earl Brice, Frank Jackson, Charles H. Deen and Tom Rice, County Attorney Tony Rowell, County Administrator Wesley Vickers and County Clerk Jo Ann Metts. Chairman Kitchens called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone. Commissioner Brice introduced Father Curtis Mears, St. Andrews Episcopal Church of Douglas, who gave the invocation. Everyone participated in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

Chairman Kitchens announced the City/County/Board of Education meeting would be held on March 31, 2011, at 6:00 o’clock P.M. at the C. E. Weir Center.

Commissioner Rice made a motion to approve the minutes of the pre-meeting work session and regular meetings held on March 7, 2011, and this was seconded by Commissioner Deen. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.

Commissioner Jackson made a motion to approve the agenda and this was seconded by Commissioner Brice. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.

Mr. Eddie McGriff, President of the Douglas Exchange Club, appeared before the Commissioner with a report on the activities of the Exchange Club including a golf tournament to support youth activities, fireworks for the Fourth of July, and Child Abuse Prevention Month. County Attorney Rowell read the Proclamation Commemorating the 100^th Anniversary of the National Exchange Club. Commissioner Brice made a motion to approve this Proclamation and this was seconded by Commissioner Jackson. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.

County Attorney Rowell stated the moratorium on any new mobile home park or on the enlargement of any existing manufactured home park or community needed to be extended until June 6, 2011. Commissioner Brice made a motion to extend the moratorium until June 6, 2011, and this was seconded by Commissioner Deen. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.

County Administrator Vickers stated he had an unconstrained investment list for submission to the Department of Transportation Director of Planning in connection with the 2012 T SPLOST. This is a mechanism for adding 1% sales tax for funding road improvements. This will be forwarded to Atlanta for review and voted on by the regional commission and then voted on by the public. Seventy-five percent of these funds will be used for regional transportation and the remaining twenty-five percent will be split up among the cities and counties to be used as they deem fit. The two projects already in the pipeline are: Four lane Highway 32 from city limits of Douglas to CR 296 Mitchell Road and Four lane Highway206 from US 441 east to SR 32 including RR separation. Commissioner Deen made a motion to submit the proposed list to Mr. Todd Long, Director of Planning, Department of Transportation, Atlanta, Georgia, and this was seconded by Commissioner Rice. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.

Commissioner Rice made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:46 o’clock A.M. and this was seconded by Commissioner Deen. All Commissioners unanimously agreed.