On the agenda: Woodbine meeting — license plate reader (Oct 6)

AGENDA
Camden County Board of Commissioners
Government Services Complex, Second Floor, Chambers
200 East Fourth Street, Woodbine, GA 31569
Regular Meeting & Public Hearing
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 ~ 6:00 PM
Code of Conduct - Meeting Decorum
To view the meeting live online - Camden BOC - YouTube
Opening Ceremonies
•
Invocation delivered by Commissioner Jim Goodman
•
Pledge of Allegiance led by Chairman Robbie Cheek
I.

Roll Call

II.

Agenda Amendments

III.

Adoption of Agenda as amended

IV.

Approval of Minutes
•
September 15, 2026 Regular Meeting, Public Hearing and Executive
Session minutes.

V.

Presentation
•
Proclamation recognizing Thursday, October 15, 2026, as Rosemary
Hall Cuthbert Day.

•

Proclamation recognizing the week of October 4 – 10, 2026 as Fire
Prevention Week.

•

Proclamation recognizing the
Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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2026

VI.

Public Comments – Comments regarding items featured on the
Agenda

VII.

Adjourn the Regular Meeting and convene a Public Hearing

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Public Hearing
• To receive comments from the public regarding the proposed Millage
Rate.

Public Hearing

To receive comments from the public regarding the following items:
• Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0008 – Applicant is requesting to rezone
approximately 2.6 acres from Medium-Density Residential (R-2) to Commercial
General (C-G) zoning. This parcel is located in District 4 at GA Hwy 40 E, St Marys.
Tax parcel 122 011C. Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant, Braveland Capital
LLC, owner.

• Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0010 – Applicant is requesting to rezone
approximately 4.38 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) to Agricultural
Residential (A-R) zoning. This parcel is located in District 1 at 4222 GA Hwy 259,
White Oak. Tax Map 014 027. Eric Taylor, applicant, Rhonda McCurry, owner.

• Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0009 – Applicant is requesting to rezone
approximately 1.43 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) and Commercial
Neighborhood (C-N) to Commercial General (C-G) zoning. This parcel is located
in District 1 at 6870 US Hwy 17, Woodbine. Portions of Tax Parcels 081 067APZ, 081
067 PZ & 081 067B. Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant, Sarah Kristin Wood,
Owner.

VIII.

Adjourn the Public Hearing and reconvene the Regular Meeting.

Regular Meeting
Interim Planning Director Cassie Turpin
1.

Request to rezone approximately 2.6 acres from Medium-Density Residential (R-2)
to Commercial General (C-G) zoning. This parcel is located in District 4 at GA Hwy
40 E, St Marys. Tax parcel 122 011C. Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant,
Braveland Capital LLC, owner.

2.

Request to rezone approximately 4.38 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) to
Agricultural Residential (A-R) zoning. This parcel is located in District 1 at 4222 GA
Hwy 259, White Oak. Tax Map 014 027. Eric Taylor, applicant, Rhonda McCurry,
owner.

3.

Request to rezone approximately 1.43 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) and
Commercial Neighborhood (C-N) to Commercial General (C-G) zoning. This parcel
is located in District 1 at 6870 US Hwy 17, Woodbine. Portions of Tax Parcels 081
067APZ, 081 067 PZ & 081 067B. Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant, Sarah Kristin
Wood, Owner.

Grants Manager Julie Haigler

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4.

Acceptance of Grant Award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s
Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.

Purchasing Officer Kelsey Kelley
5.

Extension of Contract for the EOC/E911 Design and Engineering Services to McCall
Architecture.

Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
6.

Request to amend Multi-Bank Securities (MBS) account users for General Fund and
Solid Waste.

7.

Request to amend Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP) account users for
General Fund, SPLOST 8, & SPLOST 9 Accounts.

8.

Approval of Budget Amendments for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.

Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Lisa Boyett
9.

Purchase two (2) Power Pro 2 stretchers and (2) two Power load systems for
Ambulance 2 and 3.

Public Works Director Jared Beaudoin
10.

Purchase and Installation for Lifeline and Cable Climb System Replacement on
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

Board of County Commissioners
11.

Appointment to the St. Marys River Management Committee.

12.

Approval of a funding request from Come As You Are Recovery (CAYA).

IX.

Reports
• Calendar – October & November 2026
• County Administrator Comments

X.

Additional Public Comments

XI.

Commissioner Comments

XII. Adjourn the Regular Meeting and Convene
an Executive Session - for
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the purpose of discussing items exempt under O.C.G.A. § 50-14-3(b)(4)
(Information Technology related) and Litigation.

XIII.

Adjourn the Executive Session and Reconvene the Regular Meeting.

XIV.

Adjournment
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County does not discriminate on the basis of disability, and will assist
citizens with special needs, given proper notice. Please contact the
Office of the County Clerk for assistance prior to the given meeting.
We can be reached at (912) 576 – 5651.

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Chapter 2
ADMINISTRATION
ARTICLE II. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Sec. 2-33 Code of Conduct
(1)

Commissioners. Each Commissioner shall conduct themselves in a
professional and respectful manner during all meetings, work sessions and
public hearings. The Commissioners will treat one another, staff, and
members of the audience with courtesy and respect. Inappropriate,
offensive, insulting or malicious remarks will not be used. Commissioners will
refrain from engaging in any type of behavior that disrupts the orderly flow
of the meeting. During the open, public portion of a meeting,
Commissioners will refrain from making personal remarks that challenge
the integrity or competency of any staff member. Commissioners will
direct all remarks to the Chair and not to individual Commissioners, staff or
members of the audience, unless otherwise granted by the Chair.

(2)

Members of the audience. All members of the audience are expected to
comply with the Code of Conduct established for the Commissioners.
Vocal, boisterous or other disruptive demonstrations that disrupt the
orderly flow of the meeting will not be allowed.

(3)

Enforcement of the Code of Conduct. The Sheriff, or such member of the
Sheriff’s Office as he/she may designate, shall be sergeant at arms of the
Commissioners’ meetings. Said sergeant at arms shall carry out all orders
and instructions given by the Chair for the purpose of maintaining order
and decorum during the Board of Commissioners meeting. Upon
instruction of the Chair, it shall be the duty of the sergeant at arms to
place any person who violates the order and decorum of the meeting
under arrest and remove such person from the building in which the
meeting is being conducted.

Sec. 2-34 Rules Governing Public Participation
Public participation in the Board of Commissioners meetings shall be permitted in
accordance with the following provisions:
(a)

Speaker Request Form. The Speaker Request From can be requested
in advance from the County Clerk, obtained from the county
website, or obtained at any Board of Commissioners regular
meeting. The form may be completed and submitted to the Clerk
prior to any meeting by hand delivery, regular mail or email.

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(b)

Public Comment(s) Section. Persons wishing to address the Board
during the Public Comments Section of the agenda should do so in
the following manner:

(1)

Clarification of two (2) public comment sections. The first public comment
section shall be featured at the beginning of the meeting and will be
dedicated to comments related to items featured on the agenda. The
second public comment section will be featured prior to the close of the
agenda and will be for any items the public wishes to address.

(2)

Complete a Speaker Request Form (Form) and submit it to the County
Clerk at least five (5) minutes before the start of the meeting. Failure to
complete and submit the Form will not preclude anyone from addressing
the Board during Public Comments section of the meeting. However,
individuals who complete and submit the Form shall be heard first, and any
other person wishing to make a comment shall subsequently be heard in
the order in which they come forward.

(3)

The Chair will open the floor to public comments and individually call each
speaker forward to address the Board.

(4)

The speaker should begin his/her remarks by stating his/her name and
address.

(5)

All comments should be directed to the Chair. Discussions or debates with
any individual Commissioner, staff members or members of the audience
will not be permitted unless otherwise granted by the Chair.

(6)

Comments should be kept pertinent to the speaker’s chosen subject
matter, and the speaker will refrain from making personal remarks that
challenge the integrity or competency of any staff member. The speaker
will avoid being repetitive, and refrain using inappropriate, offensive or
vulgar language.

(7)

Each speaker will be allowed a reasonable amount of time to speak as
determined by the Chair.

(8)

Before closing the floor to public comments, the Chair will inquire if there
are any additional public comments.

(c)

Public Hearings. Persons wishing to address the Board during a duly
advertised public hearing will be heard in the order in which they come
forward. Speakers will begin his/her remarks by stating his/her name and
address. Comments are to be kept pertinent to the subject matter of the
hearing, and the speaker will avoid being repetitive or using inappropriate,
offensive or vulgar language. Each speaker will be allowed a reasonable
amount of time to speak as determined by the Chair.

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CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026, 6:00 PM
Present: Chairman Robbie Cheek; Vice-Chairman Martin Turner; Commissioner Ben
Casey; Commissioner Jim Goodman; Commissioner Cody Smith; County
Administrator Joey Yacobacci; Deputy County Administrator Shannon Nettles;
County Clerk Katie Bishop; Deputy Clerk Shekia Robinson and County Attorney
Jacqueline Fortier.
Chairman Cheek called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
Commissioner Jim Goodman delivered the invocation.
Vice-Chairman Turner led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Agenda Amendments:
Removal of Item 10 under the Regular Agenda - 10. Consideration of Acceptance
of Come As You Are Recovery Proposal.
Commissioner Casey made a motion, seconded by Vice-Chairman Turner to
amend the agenda to remove Item 10 under the Regular Agenda The motion carried unanimously.

Motion to Adopt the Agenda
Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Vice-Chairman Turner to adopt
the agenda as amended.
The motion carried unanimously.

Approval of the Minutes
• September 1, 2026 Regular Meeting, Public Hearing and Executive Session
minutes.

Commissioner Goodman made a motion, seconded by Chairman Cheek to
approve the September 1, 2026 Regular Meeting, Public Hearing and Executive
Session minutes.
The motion carried unanimously.
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Presentations
• Presentation by Come As You Are Recovery (CAYA) presented by
Sarah Jumper and Carley Simeone.

Sarah Jumper, CAYA
Good evening, commissioners, and thank you for allowing us this opportunity to
speak with you all this evening. We will be presenting about the opioid crisis and its
impact on Camden County and how establishing a recovery community
organization will minimize that impact and offer solutions. We will start by telling you
who we are and why this project is so important to us. My name is Sarah Jumper and
I'm a person in long-term recovery, and what that means is that in December it will
be five years that I thought I would be better off dead or that my kids deserved a
better mom. It will be five years since I've consumed illicit substances or laid my head
down on concrete to sleep at night. I'm proud to say now that I'm an active mother,
a faithful employee, college student, and now one of the founders and directors of
Come As You Are Recovery. I spent 12 long years in active use and three of those
homeless, and what I learned in that process was that I was always worthy of
recovery, and recovery looks different for different people. If I had just had
somewhere to belong without judgment, I think my recovery would have started
much sooner and my family and I would have been spared a lot of suffering, and I'll
let Carly introduce herself.
Carly Simeone, CAYA
My name is Carly and I am also a person in long-term recovery, and what that
means for me is that it has been over eight and a half years since I've had to use
any mind- or mood-altering substances to change the way that I think or feel. It
means that I get to be a good mother today, a good daughter, sister, employee.
I've gotten a college degree. I own a house now. I have a passport because I was
able to get my record expunged. Now I can go all over the country, I mean all over
the world. It means that, you know, I now am able to pay taxes and contribute to
my society, and I have a desire to change the way that Camden County recovers.
I want to make it fun. I want people to be able to think, you know, not think that
they have to leave Camden County to get sober and never ever come back, and,
you know, I just, I want to stop losing people that I care about due to substance use
disorder.
Sarah Jumper, CAYA
Thank you, Carly. So I want to start by asking a simple question for you to ponder.
Where do people who use drugs in Camden County go for help? The nearest crisis
center is 30 miles away, and sometimes it's in another county or another state, and
the only support group that exists here in Camden is Alcoholics Anonymous. It's
effectively easier to just use drugs again than it is to find help. From 2024 to 2025,
overdose deaths in Camden have more than doubled, and that is devastating. Last
year we lost 11 people who were brothers, sisters, moms, and dads. They're no longer
with us, and these are the only the deaths that were reported as overdoses. Some
of them likely did not get reported as such. Every life loss matters, and preventing
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further loss does too. Compared to the rest of Georgia, our opioid overdose rate is
staggering. Georgia is 8.5 people per 100,000, while Camden is sitting at 18.3 people
per 100,000. That is a shocking difference. In fact, we are the only county in Georgia
who did not see a decrease last year, and if you guys are curious, this data is
sourced from the Georgia Department of Public Health, their OASIS data tracking
tool. You can see here on the graph, this is a five-year trend. Camden County is the
black line, and we sort of followed the trend from 2021 to 2024, but that's when we
took a sharp turn upward, and unfortunately it put us head and shoulders above
our surrounding neighboring counties. So how are we already helping? What is
Camden already doing to help this crisis? Well, we're a county that we care about
each other. We love our neighbors. So a lot of organizations and departments have
already implemented some assistance. The Kingsland Fire Department distributes
leave-behind bags after overdose reversals. Camden Family Connections
distributes Narcan into the community. Georgia Overdose Prevention, which is a
statewide nonprofit, they distribute Narcan and provide training through volunteers,
and then other community members are also doing what they can to mitigate this
crisis. But all of this is still not enough. This is a response to the problem, but it's not
active prevention or support. So unfortunately, it's not creating a network for peers
in recovery to tap into and stay in recovery. Come As You Are Recovery
incorporated in March of this year with a hope and a dream and a board of
directors who really care and have passion to see it through. We established bylaws
and became incorporated, and we have members on our board from Drug Court,
a counselor from Drug Court. We have the RCO in Brunswick, New Roots Glen, the
director of that RCO is also on our board. And we all just really, really care about
saving lives and creating a network in Camden. So this is what we're already doing
to help. We do outreach, we get Narcan into the community, and we even deliver
it to people anywhere they are in Camden. If they call us, we'll meet them in a
reasonable location. We provide one-to-one peer support for peers when they
need encouragement. Carly and I take calls at all hours of the night and day for
people who are in crisis or just need a little help or connection to resources. We
advocate to their employers, to their family members and treatment providers.
We've even been assisting out of our own pockets for some clinic costs and limited
transportation to recovery supportive services. And we've been providing stigma
trainings to local organizations. We also help find placement and treatment
recovery housing. But what can we add with funding? So many recovery supportive
services that will enrich the lives and prevent relapse and overdose. For example,
we can have dedicated transportation to peers so they can make it to detox,
treatment, court, probation. And when someone leaves jail and they need to make
it to treatment, we're not going to leave them alone with time to use again. There's
a study that found the risk of overdose after leaving jail is 40 times higher. And that
car ride to treatment with a peer is actually life-saving. When you can ride in a car
with somebody who's been there and can give you support and encouragement
instead of shame and guilt, sometimes that's all somebody needs to decide to stay
in treatment and find recovery. We can also offer a variety of support groups,
meetings. AA works for a lot of people, but some people who are looking for support
they're looking for something different. So we'd like to offer a lot of different
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meetings. And we can also help replace vital documents like IDs and birth
certificates. This is often the reason that someone is unable to return to work. And
we'd like to offer re-entry support to reduce recidivism and help peers be ready for
work by helping them create resumes, build skills, and find employment, and so
much more. So what do we propose if we're able to have one year of funding? CHI
will complete six CHI's come as you are recovery. By the way, that's us. We'll
complete 16 hours of community outreach each week for a total of 832 hours over
the year. We will establish at least two weekly all recovery meetings, one in person
and one virtual, so there's an option for anonymity. Some people are scared to
reveal that they need help. We'll offer recovery supportive transportation to support
the recovery supportive transportation needs for 12 peers, which totals about 480
hours per year. We will provide one sensitivity and stigma reduction training per
month for EMS, first responders, and other government staff on interacting with
individuals affected by opioid use disorder and justice involvement. We will establish
an MOU for referrals between a local MAT clinic, Coastal Community Behavioral
Health, for services for peer support and medication assisted treatment, because
medication assisted treatment is the gold standard of treatment for opioid use
disorder. We'll collect demographic data and make it available to the grants or to
you all and see any other interested parties to assess the effectiveness and identify
additional needs. We'll provide overdose reversal training at the rate of one per
month, and we'll establish come as you are recovery as Camden County's recovery
community organization through partnership and technical assistance from the
Georgia Council for Recovery. So what do we need from you to make it happen?
We are proposing that the Camden County Board of Commissioners, through its
opioid settlement funding, fund come as you are recovery for one year by providing
a salary of $55,000 for a full-time program director, a salary of $25,000 for a part-time
certified peer, $4,200 for recovery supportive transportation, $2,100 for mobile
outreach, $3,000 for training and educational materials, $1,600 for computers and
printers, $2,000 for insurance, and $2,000 for a naloxone purchase. This would
provide one year of funding for us in which we will pursue additional funding through
grants and fundraising, and we'll be more likely to receive other grants with the
history and experience of managing these funds, as well as we'd be more likely to
receive grants that work on reimbursement. Camden County is ready for come as
you are recovery to become its recovery community or We had 45 plus people
come out to support us as Georgia Council for Recovery came down and
facilitated this meeting. People are ready to see this happen in Camden. We have
an opportunity to do more than respond to the next crisis. We have an opportunity
to build something that helps prevent people from falling through the cracks in the
first place. Come as you are recovery can bring peer support, harm reduction,
transportation, and connection to care directly into our community with one year
of startup funding totaling $94,000. We can build the infrastructure, demonstrate
measurable outcomes, and create a foundation for long-term sustainability. I asked
earlier, where do people in Camden go when they're in need of substance use
related help? The answer to that question is at least 30 miles away. That 30-mile
journey is a life-or-death decision for some, and when you're on foot or you've
burned all your bridges and don't have a ride, sometimes it does end in overdose.
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CAYA wants to bring help home and save lives. Thank you for your consideration
and for your investment in the people of Camden County, and we've also provided
you with a written proposal. Thank you for letting us present.

• Discussion regarding the 2026 Tentative Millage Rate presented by
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng.

Tiffanie Cheng, Finance Director
I'm the finance director here at Camden County Board of Commissioners. With me
tonight, I have Brian Bishop, our Chief Appraiser. The purpose of this presentation is
to provide information and context for the commissioners to discuss and give
direction on a tentative millage rate to run in the newspaper advertisement next
week. The ad is due to the newspaper on Friday, so the commissioners are being
asked to decide a tentative millage rate for unincorporated county and
countywide districts tonight. So to start, I'd like to take a few minutes to give a little
background information to clarify our numbers and terms. I want to start by
reviewing the total fiscal year 27 budget for all funds. So for the fiscal year 27, which
runs from July 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2027, the board adopted a total budget of 86.8
million dollars. Now that figure includes not just the general fund but all special
revenue funds and enterprise funds, which have very specific revenue sources and
allowed uses. So for the purposes of this conversation, we are only looking at the
general fund budget of 50.8 million dollars and for the countywide millage rate and
the unincorporated fund budget of three million dollars for the unincorporated
millage rate considerations as shown on the chart. So to start, I'd like to look at the
unincorporated fund. The unincorporated fund is pretty straightforward. It services
operating and capital expenditures for fire rescue, parks, and right-of-way mowing.
The primary sources of this funding for this budget are actually insurance premium
taxes and TABIT, which is the title ad valorem taxes. For fiscal year 2027, the county
did not budget for any capital expenditures to come out of this fund, so the amount
shown here is just operating costs for those three departments. When we look at the
unincorporated fund balance, the county does not have a policy that requires us
to keep any percentage of the unincorporated services budget in the fund
balance. Historically, this money has been used to purchase capital equipment
that directly supports the unincorporated area, most notably fire trucks. So although
the county has expanded unincorporated services to include park maintenance
this year, the fiscal year 2027 budget is not utilizing any unincorporated funds for
capital equipment, which accounts for the increase to unincorporated fund budget
in the budget of figures. So per the OCGA section 48.532, the county is required to
compute a rollback millage rate for which the prior, which is the previous year's
millage rate, minus the millage rate equivalent of the inflationary factor. Any
proposal in excess of the millage rate must be advertised, issued in a public release,
and three public meetings held before adoption. Basically, the rollback rate is the
millage rate that produces the same revenue as the prior year, excluding the new
construction. So the rollback rate for the unincorporated district would be 1.109, that
would produce a revenue of $683,677 approximately, depending on collection
rates, and then with an estimated fund balance at the end of fiscal year 27 of
$348,460. The current rate is 1.123, which produces a revenue of around $705,712
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with an estimated fund balance at the end of fiscal year 27 of $357,258. And then
the budgeted rate, what we would need to have the budget that we adopted in
27, for 27, is 1.195, which would produce a revenue of $750,750 with an estimated
fund balance of $402,296 at the end of fiscal year 27. So there's a lot of numbers.
So a tentative millage rate set anywhere in this range, from the rollback rate to the
budgeted rate, would still increase our fund balance for future expenses to help
maintain fire services, right-of-way mowing, and parks. So really anywhere in this
range we would still be net positive for the end of the next fiscal year. So moving on
to the general fund budget, from an overall picture, the breakdown of the general
fund budget, the two largest portions are the government, the general government,
around 37 percent, and public services at 42.5 percent. For context, looking at the
same budget broken down by the services that the county is required by legislation
to provide, these numbers we have 20 million .8 that are mandated services and 30
million that are not mandated services. The numbers aren't perfect because it's
difficult to scale back certain items, such as the animal control budget that would
be specific to what dangerous dog control would cost, that's the mandated part of
animal control. And then also allocating what the auto insurance, IT services, or
payroll that would be applicable to just mandated services. So realistically that
number would be a little bit higher to make those services functional, but this is a
pretty good approximation. I was surprised to find that some of the things that are
not legally mandated services, 9-1-1 for instance, before I started working here,
assumed that was like a federally funded item that everyone should have, but it
turns out that we we pay for that, the county pays for that. So this pie chart looks
very similar to the last pie chart, but it's actually the revenue sources for the general
fund budget.
Approximately 19.6 million dollars, or 39 percent, comes from other sources. About
2 million of that is EMS collections, another 6 million comes from lost. The fiscal year
27 budget was balanced using 2 million dollars in fund balance, which is about 4
percent of the budget, and then the other 57 percent is taxes.
When we look at the general fund balance, the county does have a policy that
requires us to keep 25 percent of the current year's general fund budget, general
budget in the fund balance. The fiscal year 27 budget, the tax revenue was
estimated based off of a preliminary digest report using the current millage rate of
11.929. This created a fund balance usage of about 2 million dollars. While the fund
balance does not directly equal cash in the bank, they are very closely connected,
and it does heavily impact our cash flows.
So the county's budget starts in July, but our primary revenue stream is the tax
collections in December or January, which leaves the county with revenue that
comes from other sources, and then the fund balance to get through half of the
year. So most of our annual renewal charges are in July, software and insurance are
the big ones. This time last year we had a higher fund balance, but the hiccup in
the timing of when the tax notices were able to go out kind of warranted applying
for a TAN because the cash flows were low at this time. So to ensure that we have,
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that was to ensure that we had enough to cover essential operating expenses
throughout the end of the year. So when we look at the county-wide district, again,
per the OCGA section 48-532, the county is required to compute a rollback millage
rate, which is the previous year's millage rate less the millage rate equivalent of
inflationary factor, and then any proposal in excess of this rollback rate must be
advertised, issued in a press release, and three public meetings held before
adoption. And then per the county's financial policies, Camden is required to have
25 percent of the current rate, the current budget in the fund balance. So the
rollback rate for the county-wide district would be that 11.263, which would produce
27.6 million dollars in revenue with an approximate fund balance at the end of next
year of 8.7 or 17 percent. The rollback rate, oh sorry, the current millage rate for the
county-wide district is 11.929, which is what we kind of balanced our budget with
the two million dollars from fund balance that would leave an estimated 10.4 million
dollars at the end of next year, or 20 percent of the fund balance, the budgeted
fund balance. In order to maintain the 25 percent of the current general fund
budget, we would require, it would require a millage rate of the county-wide district
of 12.963 to reduce a revenue of 31.8 million and an approximate fund balance of
12.9 at the end of fiscal year 27. And then to move up to a 27 percent budget, it
would require a 13.313 and that would leave about 13.6 million at the end of fiscal
year 27. So with fund balance, the fund balance is intended to be a sort of
emergency fund for unplanned expenses. Using fund balance for regular operating
expenses is not recommended and will negatively impact our credit rating.
Because of the way our fiscal year is structured, the fund balance also helps bridge
that gap between the beginning of the fiscal year in July to when property taxes
are collected in December to January. And so shown in the revenue pie chart
before, approximately 60 percent of our general fund revenues come from property
taxes. So the cash flow timing of our major expenses hit in July, and so this year our
margin's a little bit tight as well, but we've set up a spending freeze for anything that
we could possibly delay until the new year, and we're heavily monitoring what our
cash flows are. So in the past though, and about three years ago, I know that we
were able, we had a healthy fund balance and we were actually able to invest a
small amount into short-term investments, and that was able to generate some
revenue, but at this time we do not have any available capital to put into
investments.
Commissioner Cody Smith
Can we stop right here for a second if you don't mind? Yeah. So I heard you mention
fund balance could be used for unexpected expenses or bridging that gap
between when the budget is set and when tax collections happen, correct?
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
Yes.
Commissioner Cody Smith
But we seem to be running tight. Correct. But we used to have a fund balance.
What happened from the time where our fund balance was healthy to now where
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we're barely making it through? What do you think's changed in that time?
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
I have in two slides, I have a history slide that kind of shows where the fund balance
and what those militaries were at the time. A couple more questions just while they're
fresh, if you don't mind. You mentioned that the policy had changed and we're
required to have a 25 percent fund balance. That policy didn't change, that just
has been the policy. It's an internal policy. I remember at one point, I think it was
towards the tail end of Spaceport, we got pretty low, so that changed around that
time.
Commissioner Cody Smith
My question being is, I don't want us relying on the 25 percent fund balance to be
the reason we have to accept a higher millage and raise taxes. Okay. My question
is, so that's an internal policy. I just don't want that to be the reason we have to do
this because that would result in a tax increase, as I understand it, correct?
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
The current millage versus the 25 percent budgeted fund balance. It used to be that
people thought that 25 percent was state mandated. It is not.
Commissioner Cody Smith
I hear you mention it quite often and that's why I'm just trying to make sure.
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
Yeah, those are our financial policies.
Commissioner Cody Smith
Okay, and when we started the financial year last year, we were at 25 percent fund
balance.
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
Correct.
Commissioner Cody Smith
So really it's not for unexpected purchases that pop up, it's to get us through to tax
collections.
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
I believe so.
Commissioner Cody Smith
Okay, we have a history of using it to pay for unexpected purchases. Right. Okay, I
just wanted to make sure I got all of that clear before we move forward. Thank you.

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Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
Okay, so the impact on the individual home owner. If we're going to talk about
homestead and non-homesteaded figures here, so did you want to? Okay, so for a
homesteaded house, if you have a fair market value of $400,000, but it's assessed
at$250,000, there's an example tax bill here that we can look at what those figures
would actually be. So with the rollback rate, the tax bill would be around, obviously
these are ballpark figures, but for this rate and it would be $1,126 for the annual year,
which would be a reduction because it's a rollback rate, it would be a reduction of
$57 for the whole year. At the current rate, the tax bill would be about the same as
it was last year, which would be around $1,193. To move the millage rate up to the
$12.963, that increases the tax bill by $108 for the year, and to increase the fund
balance to that 27%, it would be $133 for the year for that individual homeowner.
For a non-homesteaded home, the rollback rate would be the same about as their
prior year's tax bill at $1,802. The current rate would increase the tax bill by $107 to
$1,909, and then to go from there to the $12.963, it would be $280, and then from
there it would be an additional $26. $100 increase on homesteaded properties,
roughly, annual, and then a $200 annual increase on non-homesteaded properties
at the 25% fund balance level.
Chief Appraiser Brian Bishop
I'm the Chief Appraiser for the Tax Assessor's Office, if any of you don't know me. I'm
not here to talk about millage rates or taxes in particular, it's not really what we do.
We're the property appraiser's office for the county, we do valuations of properties.
What I am here to talk about is the homestead exemption and the tax digest, which
plays a large part in the calculation of the millage rate. This year, we saw the tax
digest from 25 to 26 go up about 2.9%. From 24 to 25, we saw about a 7% increase
on the digest. So that has gone down just a little bit. We just got into the 2027 digest,
looking at the 2026 sales. We're hopeful that that will increase and that they'll be
building more homes and stuff around the county, which will increase the digest.
And the larger the digest, as long as the budget stays the same, the taxes
theoretically should stay the same. But with the homestead exemption, what you're
looking at on the screen there is on the left is a home with a fair market value of
$400,000. That is the 100% fair market value. That's the value that we would assess
the property at as of January the 1st. The assessed value is actually what you are
taxed on. That is the actual taxable value. So, $250,000. So, that person has about
$150,000 in homestead exemption on that property. The other home does not have
any homestead exemption. In Camden County, I ran a couple of numbers. We
have currently 19,315 homes. That's single-family residences and also mobile homes.
Of those, about 11,500 of those carry a homestead exemption, or about 60%. In
Camden County, we have three basic types of homestead exemption. If you're
under age 62 and own the property and reside at the property on January 1st,
you're eligible for the regular exemption. That's a $4,000 off the appraised or off the
taxable value. 62 or older is a $25,000 exemption. If you are a 100% disabled veteran,
that goes up to $126,000 a year in exemption. So all of our disabled veteran
exemptions, if their home is valued less than $315,000 of fair market value, they're
not paying any taxes at all. We have a couple of thousands of those particular
individuals in the county. You get more every year, obviously. To sign up for a
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homestead, if you don't have homestead, and this happens a lot in the office, we
have people that bought a home two or three years ago. They come in the office
and they say, I just heard about this homestead. I didn't know, but I didn't know I
was eligible for it. If you own the home January 1st and live there, you're eligible for
it. If your name was on that deed, definitely come in and sign up. There are a lot of
different ways that you can sign up. As far as taxes go to get any type of exemption
on the property other than homestead exemption or the conservation use program,
which with that you have to have 10 acres of land use of agricultural use. So we
always try to encourage people to come in and sign up for homestead. In Camden
County, we have a floating frozen homestead exemption, which means when you
come and sign up for homestead, you get what we like to call a frozen or a floating
homestead value. That is established off the previous year's value. Basically, as the
current fair market value increases, your homestead also increases to offset that
increase in the fair market value. So it just gives you more homestead, so you're
basically frozen at the same value for the entire time that you own and reside at
that home. But you can sign up from January 1st to April 1st for the homestead. It's
as easy as coming into the office. I just bring a driver's license that reflects the
physical address. We've already got all the deed information and stuff and owner
information in the office. It's a very simple process. If you have any neighbors that
you might see on our website, QPublic. If you see anybody that doesn't have
homestead, definitely encourage them to come into our office and get signed up.
Finance Director Tiffanie Cheng
And then here's the history of the millage over the past few years with the fund
balance at the end of that fiscal year. And so for the 25, it's an unaudited figure.
We're in the process of doing our audit now. But you can kind of see that over the
past six years, basically since COVID, the millage rate has gone mostly down over
the prior years. And for a little while we were still able to put more money in the fund
balance, but as time has gone on, the fund balance has gone down as well to
where we are today.

Public Comments
Ricky Manning, Bullhead Bluff, submitted in writing for the record
Agenda items 3,4,5 are very concerning for several reasons. First off as soon as the
agreement with Kings bay is over there should not be a renewal of agreement. Our
County Government should not be in the contractor/sub-contractor business using
taxpayer assets and county employees. The argument that we are benefiting
financially is not putting out all the facts. There are reasons companies and
governments use contract services frequently, to avoid the liability and employee
benefit costs, these are absorbed by the contractor. So are we really coming out
ahead? Have we taken in the costs of our part of the hidden costs? Such as worker
comp insurance, employer costs for each employee as in Social Security, Medicare,
401 contributions, insurance, Etc. Each piece of equipment and vehicle also comes
with hidden costs, fuel, maintenance, DOT permits, certified operators, Etc. We listed
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charges for our employees and equipment but fail to tell the total costs of what it takes
to keep and maintain these employees and assets. The taxpayers are being held
responsible for all these hidden costs and liabilities These are just a few of the hidden
costs that are passed on to the taxpayers. Meanwhile we are told that nothing in
Public Works is being neglected in our County, THIS IS FALSE. Our infrastructure is all but
fell apart and we are lucky no serious tropical systems have landed here in years, as
our ditches, culverts, and drainage systems have been neglected. Our roads and
bridges are in terrible shape also. While our Public Works department concentrates on
Kings bay, costly mistakes are being made elsewhere, costing even more in tax funds.
This being said we need to shed our County from being a Taxpayer funded contractor.
If we insist nothing is being neglected while we spend so much time and resources on
base and/or corrected the costly overlooked mistakes at the PW site, then we
obviously have had too many employees for a long time now. We need the full costs
of this contactor service with nothing hidden or absorbed thru other means. Let's start
with the actual time spent traveling to and spent on base, we can retrieve this
information thru some of the GPS data on some of our county equipment and
vehicles. Yes the data that no one wants us to know about. We can also retrieve data
from the base gates as that is all recorded also. Ask why on this same agenda tonight
we are approving a contract for janitor services? It keeps the County from paying for
those employees benefits, also for vehicles for them to go to each site. This saves tax
money, yet here we are doing the same thing with and becoming a contractor.
Ben Goff, Harriett’s Bluff
Back here in time for this. And on the way back, I saw this little sign on the back of the
truck. It wasn't little, it was very large. And I'm trying to remember it exactly, which I
won't, I'm sure, but the sign was the ability to speak out must be matched by the ability
to listen. For some reason, I thought that was rather profound. I'm going to try to do
this in three minutes or less, but items on the agenda. Number one, I personally object
on general principle to that item. Item number two, three, and four, and five,
specifically item number two, public works director. I totally, absolutely disagree with
any sort of charge for use of the parks by a public citizen, well a citizen. We already
tax it, and whatever charges you're going to collect is going to be a net as far as any
tax increases that you're going to do. So why not give the public back something?
Three, four, and five, I hope that the time spent on the Navy base by public
management is equally spent on county business. Item number seven, in particular,
the surplus list, this may not make a lot of sense, but if I understand correctly, we spent
a hundred thousand dollars in maintenance on this vehicle that we're going to surplus
because it's high mileage and high expense. Have you considered the actual cost of
replacement? You know, I drove back from Macon today in my old 2007 truck. It's got
310,000 miles on it. It didn't blink, and that's pretty high mileage for an old truck. I don't
know, I don't remember what the mileage is on this surplus truck, but it makes no sense
to me to get rid of an asset that we're going to have to replace with tax dollars. Thank
you for your patience.

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Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Goodman to
adjourn the Regular Meeting and convene a Public Hearing at 7:05 PM.
The motion carried unanimously.

Public Hearing
• To receive comments from the public regarding the Second Reading and
Adoption of the addition of Chapter 12 Parks and Recreation Facilities to the
Official Code of Camden County, Georgia.

There were no comments from the Public offered during this time.

•

To receive comments from the public regarding Bluffside Wine & Spirits
Alcohol License AL-26-0001 – Consider a request for an alcohol license to
Ashwini Kumar Yadav and Bluffside Wine & Spirits for Retail Dealers of Malt
Beverages, Beer, Wine and/or Spirituous Liquors. Located in District 2 at
1979 Harriett’s Bluff Rd., Woodbine, Ga. 31569. Tax Map & Parcel 093
016C.

There were no comments offered In Favor of this item of this item.
In Opposition of this item:
Ben Goff, Harriett’s Bluff
I already spoke against it, so I'll do it again. It's a general principle for the alcohol
consumption. Thank you.
Commissioner Goodman made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to
adjourn the Public Hearing and reconvene the Regular Meeting at 7:10 PM.
The motion carried unanimously.
Chairman Cheek made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to take a five
(5) minute recess at 7:10 PM.
The motion carried unanimously.
Chairman Cheek reconvened the regular meeting at 7:15 PM.

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Regular Agenda
1.

Bluffside Wine & Spirits Alcohol License AL-26-0001 – Consider a request for an
alcohol license to Ashwini Kumar Yadav and Bluffside Wine & Spirits for Retail
Dealers of Malt Beverages, Beer, Wine and/or Spirituous Liquors. Located in
District 2 at 1979 Harriett’s Bluff Rd., Woodbine, Ga. 31569. Tax Map & Parcel 093
016C.

Commissioner Goodman made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to
approve the request for an alcohol license to Ashwini Kumar Yadav and Bluffside
Wine & Spirits for Retail Dealers of Malt Beverages, Beer, Wine and/or Spirituous
Liquors. Located in District 2 at 1979 Harriett’s Bluff Rd., Woodbine, Ga. 31569. Tax Map
& Parcel 093 016C.
So Voted:
Chairman Cheek – Yes
Vice-Chairman Turner - Abstain
Commissioner Smith – Yes
Commissioner Goodman – Yes
Commissioner Casey - Yes
The motion carried 3 - 0, Vice-Chairman Turner abstained from the motion.
2.

Second Reading and Adoption of the addition of Chapter 12 Parks and
Recreation Facilities to the Official Code of Camden County, Georgia.

Chairman Cheek made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to waive the
second reading of the addition of Chapter 12 Parks and Recreation Facilities to the
Official Code of Camden County, Georgia.
The motion carried unanimously.
Chairman Cheek made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Casey to adopt the
addition of Chapter 12 Parks and Recreation Facilities to the Official Code of
Camden County, Georgia.
The motion carried unanimously.
3.

Approval of a Multi-Pronged Project Award for Railroad Crossing Improvements
on USS Samuel Houston at Kings Bay Naval Base.

Commissioner Casey made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to approve
the Multi-Pronged Project Award for Railroad Crossing Improvements on USS Samuel
Houston at Kings Bay Naval Base as presented by staff.
The motion carried unanimously.
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4.

Acceptance of a proposal from Davis Contracting for Concrete Replacement
Services on USS Samuel Houston on Kings Bay Naval Base.

Commissioner Casey made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Goodman to
approve the Contract Award to Davis Contracting for services, labor, and materials
involved in replacement of concrete located on USS Samuel Houston at Kings Bay
Naval Base.
The motion carried unanimously.
5.

Approval of Installation Services for a Temporary Drydock Grounding Project on
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

Commissioner Goodman made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to
approve the installation Services for a Temporary Drydock Grounding Project on
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay to Barber Klein Electric, LLC.
The motion carried unanimously.
6.

Acceptance of Grant Award from the Georgia Tree Council – Georgia Releaf
Program.

Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Goodman to
accept the Grant Award from the Georgia Tree Council – Georgia Releaf Program.
The motion carried unanimously.
7.

Approval of Surplus Item List (1 item).

Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Vice-Chairman Turner to approve
the Surplus Item List (1 item), Life Squad 6, as presented.
The motion carried unanimously.
8.

Consideration of Bid Award for Janitorial Services Contract.

Vice-Chairman Turner made a motion, seconded by Chairman Cheek to approve
the bid award contract for Camden County Janitorial Services to Clean Space in the
amount of $256,968.60 from the General Fund.
The motion carried unanimously.

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9.

Approval of the Resiliency Operations Center Mission Use Policy.

Commissioner smith made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Casey to approve
the Resiliency Operations Center Mission Use Policy as presented.
The motion carried unanimously.
10. Consideration of Acceptance of Come As You Are Recovery Proposal.
This item was removed during agenda amendments.
11. Approval of 2026 Tentative Millage Rate.
Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Casey to adopt a
tentative millage rate of 1.123 for the unincorporated area.
Commissioner Smith retracted his previous motion, Commissioner Casey retracted his
second to the motion.
Commissioner Casey made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to
tentatively adopt a millage rate of 1.123 for the unincorporated area.
The motion carried unanimously.
Commissioner Casey made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Goodman to
tentatively adopt a millage rate of 13.139 countywide.
So Voted:
Chairman Cheek – Yes
Commissioner Smith – No
Commissioner Goodman – Yes
Commissioner Casey - Yes
The motion carried 3 - 1, Commissioner Smith voted against the motion.

Reports
•

Calendar – September and October

County Clerk Katie Bishop announced that the dedication of the Camden Life
Development Center here in Woodbine at 1402 Camden Avenue is going to be
held on Saturday, September 19th at 3 p.m. for all those that can attend, and I will
also scan and email this to you and get that out as well. And also, one addition that
was not in your packet is going to be the Board of Commissioners' Variance Appeal,
which I did send you calendar invites today, but that'll be here in Chambers at 6
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p.m. on Thursday, October 15th, and that was the day that the gentleman that filed
the appeal, that's the day he agreed on.

•

County Administrator Comments

County Administrator Joey Yacobacci
Last Thursday, we had our final summer town hall meeting, so I just want to give a big
shout out to the citizens that attended and all the staff and all the elected officials. I
really do appreciate it. We're going to gather all this comments and suggestions and
make improvements, and hopefully we'll come back to you around November December range and give you some updates and then continue the summer town
hall meetings next year. So, just thank you all for everything.

Additional Public Comments
Betsy McGriff, Center for Economic Development Research at Georgia Tech
I am a project manager with the Center for Economic Development Research at
Georgia Tech. We are part of Georgia Tech's outreach and extension arm, part of
the Enterprise Innovation Institute. Sometimes it's a mouthful for this South Georgia
girl. When you hear my voice, I don't sound like I'm from Atlanta, and I'm not. So I'm
from a town not unlike this. I'm from Metter, so you're all probably pretty familiar with
it. A little bit of my personal background. I've done community and university-led
economic development and community development for most of my career, and
my heart is really with rural communities. I firmly believe that we should serve all the
communities in Georgia, all 159 of them with the same expertise and innovation that
are available on our campus in Atlanta. I want to extend that offer to you, but to tell
you a little bit more about why we're here, and I want to make sure I hit all my points.
We're here because a local landowner has come to us with some ideas. I've been
hearing the news here lately, and that is the potential for data center development.
I understand that both the city and the county are under a moratorium, and I want
to commend you for that because what that means is you've pressed pause, and
you want to know more. You want to learn more, make the right decisions for your
community before a developer is locked in, right? And so I think we never make a
mistake. We never make a worse decision by seeking further information.
So I want to tell you a little bit about, we have a program that we developed
because we were getting a lot of outreach from landowners who had been
approached even by a data center developer, and they're like, hey, I'm just a farmer
in South Georgia, or I'm just a landowner in South Georgia, and I don't even really
know what these people are asking me about my own property. We're also getting
calls from local governments, local chambers of commerce. Hey, we don't
understand about this. Everybody's online. What can we do? Can you help us? We
know you have people who are very, very smart, have expertise in water and sound
and energy and policy and all these kinds of things, and can you help us figure out
this situation? And so we created this program. We're calling it Digital First, and if
you're familiar with DCA and their planning conventions, you have plan first and
water first. We kind of structured it such that you could meet, that a community that
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participated in this program could meet some of those definitions for outreach and
meet some of those targets for your comprehensive planning program. But really
what we want to do, what Digital First does is we look at sort of the fiscal piece, so
just the things you talked about, what could a development like this mean for our
digest? Small, medium, large, what does that mean for Camden County and your
digest, not what it means for DeKalb County and their digest? Infrastructure, do we
have the ability to service this, roads, water, the things that you control? Now, power
infrastructure is controlled at a statewide level, and those decisions are made by
Georgia Transmission, Georgia Power, Public Service Commission. We'll also look at
community impact. So what does the community think about this? We're not
affiliated with the developer. Georgia Tech is not part of any development scheme.
We don't take a position. I don't live here. I don't pay taxes here. What I want to do
is bring you information, listen to what the community wants, and then we can help
sort of aggregate all of that feedback. So come in with listening, come in with some
information, some experts, much like your local listening sessions, then sort of
aggregate that, and then that helps you figure out what you want for your
community. I've had some conversations here lately where people have a lot of
feelings about data centers and development in general. I mean, and they're
entitled to that, but feelings, as you know, don't make compliance and feelings don't
make policy. So you have to take all of those feelings and what people think and
turn that into policy, right, whatever that policy might be. So we're not here to say
you should have a data center or you shouldn't have a data center. We're here to
say this is what your community thinks, this is what it means to have a data center
from a site impact, from a fiscal impact, and then you can make those kinds of
decisions. So really that's what we're here to do is sort of walk the community through
what this could be. This is how it'll work here. So we're going to host three community
listening sessions. Those will be sequential, so you could come to any of them, but
coming to all of them would be best. They will be held on October 1st, 15th, and
22nd at the College of Coastal Georgia Camden Center. The first one will be sort of
a fireside chat, if you will, a panel with some Georgia Tech experts in the
development of data centers of grid resilience. I heard some resilience in this room,
so grid resilience, what the state is doing and what folks can do locally. We'll talk
about water use. I am not any kind of expert in any of that. What I'm the expert in is
helping communities think through and sometimes translate what can be really,
really hard to understand into you and I, into South Georgia language. So we'll have
those experts to come in and just people will be able to submit questions ahead. We
will work to have the right experts in the room that can answer those questions. We'll
present all of that. Then the second piece will be answering any questions that we
didn't get to the first time. So if something comes up, we don't have that particular
expert on the panel, I'm not going to answer something that I don't know the right
answer to. So we'll bring somebody back, but then that second piece will be like,
would be talking to the community about if you were to get a, and this could be any
large user, right, could be a data center, could be a large manufacturer, but what
do you want that to look like? Where should that go? Do you want plants planted in
front of it? How should that look? What does that look like for here? Again, with the
goal of translating that at some point, should you go forward with a new ordinance
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into policy? And then the third session would be talking about a community benefits
agreement. So if you are to entertain a development, what you would ask of the
developer. So you as the community can be in the driver's seat and say, you know
what, we've decided we want this kind of development. We only want it to be this
big. It needs to go in this place. It needs to look like this. And we need you to do this
list of things. And if you're interested in having that conversation with us, then we're
interested in having that conversation with you. But you're really setting the
community up for what you want or what you don't want. And ultimately, that's
where we're trying to get. So we really want, we know that there's a lot of strong
feelings on both sides, but those don't go away by not addressing them. And so what
our goal here is to really bring that sort of unbiased subject matter expert information
and viewpoint to the community so that their questions can be answered and that
policy can be developed that reflects what the citizens of Camden County want,
whatever that might be. So I'm happy to answer any questions you might have now.
Happy to stay after or share my contact information with you. If you have further
questions about these listening sessions, it will all culminate in a report that will be
publicly available. So you'll be able to see the results of those listening sessions, fiscal
analysis, and any of the other information that we gather as far as best practices.
Mike Alford, Woodbine
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says, the right of the people to be
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable
cause supported by oath and or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched and the person or things to be seized. Supreme Court Justice Neil
Gorsuch in a recent decision said in Shattery v. U.S. that location data forms part of
an individual's private effects under the Fourth Amendment and is protected. And
despite all this, and despite the reams of citations that could be presented,
automatic license plate reader cameras are continuing to be installed and
deployed in Camden County. These cameras do not passively record, they actively
log citizens' whereabouts using license plates, vehicle footprints, and time stamps.
Block Safety, the largest manufacturer of these cameras, offers a wide variety of
capabilities including facial recognition software that ties the car to the driver in a
searchable database in real time, all without probable cause or a warrant or even
the reasonable, articulatable suspicion that a crime has been committed. Let me
clarify a common objection to my objection. It is true I do not have the right to be
not photographed in public, but according to the Fourth Amendment and legal
precedent, I do have the right to be anonymous and unmonitored in public, unless I
am a suspect in a crime. The argument is public safety, but then again, that's always
the argument. When Edward Snowden exposed the NSA's decade-long program of
warrantless wiretapping, safety was the excuse. Safety justified the secrecy, the
denials, the lies to Congress. They need to spy on us, they need to violate the
Constitution they swore to uphold, they need to track us and monitor us in order to
keep us safe. The argument used to be that if you weren't doing anything wrong, you
had nothing to fear. The argument used to be that they were only spying on the bad
guys, but now the technology exists for them to spy on all of us at every major
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thoroughfare in the county. I'll tell you something as an aside that I find particularly
interesting. The CEO of Flock Safety, Mr. Garrett Langley, he not only said that people
who oppose these cameras are domestic terrorists, which is, you know, nice of him
to say that, but he had his own house hidden on Google Street View. This seems to
me, sounds like a man who understands the value of anonymity, at least for himself.
Now, as much as I would love for all you commissioners to tear down all these
cameras, that seems unlikely, even though they are banned in Texas and in Florida
and there's a pending ban in Maine. Even though this monitoring has been rejected
legally in roughly 150 American cities, I don't expect them to go away, at least not
yet. Somebody has spent a lot of money putting them up and somebody authorized
that money. But according to Flock, the data gathered doesn't belong to them. It
belongs to the client, which in this case would be the government of Camden
County. I was going to suggest, I don't know how we would make this happen, but if
that is public information and public record, which Flock says it is, then you make
that searchable by anybody, by any citizen. Everybody in this room could file
Freedom of Information Act requests so the cows come home, but we shouldn't have
to. If it's public information, we should have access to it. And I don't know how we do
that. But I figured coming up here and talking to you all would be the first step in
figuring out how we do that. I'll back off now.

Commissioner Comments
Commissioner Cody Smith District 3
To the gentleman with the concerns about the Flock cameras, so that was a City of
St. Mary's City Council decision to enter into that contract with Flock and put them
throughout the City of St. Mary's. The Camden County Board of Commissioners does
not have a contract with Flock. And the only licensed plate reader technology that
is used is used by the Sheriff's Office and they're the patrol-mounted vehicles. So
essentially, you're only going to pass it if there's already a deputy there, which I believe
is reasonable, as opposed to the type of technology Flock is using. Ms. Betsy with
Georgia Tech, and I want to thank you for coming here and getting involved. You
know, we put up a moratorium almost about five months ago as it relates to data
centers. I don't want people to think that we've just been sitting on our hands. We've
been doing a lot of independent research. I think you bringing in experts for us to hear
from, I think, is an incredible opportunity that you're presenting to us. So thank you for
that. And I just want to reiterate the dates that the public can make a plan to attend
or at least try to get some more information. That was October 1st at 6 p.m. at the
College of Coastal Georgia Kingsland Campus. October 15th, same location, same
time, 6 p.m. at the College Campus in Kingsland. And then the 22nd at 6 p.m. College
Campus in Kingsland, all in October. So people that are interested in learning more
about data centers, I know there's a lot of questions and concerns about those. I
have several myself. I would definitely make a plan for you to be there.
Commissioner Jim Goodman
I have two comments to make. One is I want to defend our decision to increase,
excuse me, incrementally to make up for lost time the tax assessment because we
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are facing some major expenditures that are tied up to some bond issues that are
tied to our credit rating and we cannot allow our funds to sink below the 25 percent
level, or we'll pay a dear price for that. We have listened for years about the need
for the new public safety complex and jail, animal control, and a host of other things.
And yes, we do need to be good stewards, but we also have to understand the cost
of business for everybody, including government, has gone up. So we've got some
incremental increases to undertake. The second thing is I'm going to need a ride back
to St. Mary's. I've been getting the evil eye ever since I made that proposal to increase
the taxes incrementally. So somebody please take me home tonight.
Chairman Cheek made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Goodman to adjourn
the Regular Meeting and convene an Executive Session for the purpose of discussing
Real Estate at 8:15 PM.
The motion carried unanimously.

Executive Session
Chairman Cheek convened the Executive Session for the purpose of discussing items
Real Estate, Litigation and Personnel at 8:15 PM.
RESOLUTION OF THE CAMDEN COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
BE IT RESOLVED by the Camden County Board of Commissioners as follows: At the
meeting held on the 15th day of September 2026, with the following Commissioners
being present: Chairman Robbie Cheek; Vice-Chairman Martin Turner;
Commissioner Ben Casey; Commissioner Jim Goodman; Commissioner Cody Smith.
Board Commissioners entered into closed session for the purpose of discussing Real
Estate. At the close of the discussions on this subject, the Board did agree to
reconvene into open session and herewith takes the following action in open session:
Also present: County Administrator Joey Yacobacci; Deputy County Administrator
Shannon Nettles; County Clerk Katie Bishop; County Attorney Jacqueline N. Fortier.
(1) The actions of the Board and the discussion of the same regarding the matter set
forth for closed session purposes are hereby ratified.
(2) Each member of this body does hereby confirm to the best of their knowledge,
based upon the advice of the County Attorney, was devoted to matters within the
exceptions provided by law and the specific relevant exception is the subject matter
as set forth above.
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(3) The Chairman of this Board, or the presiding officer, is hereby authorized and
directed and pursuant to the Resolution shall execute an affidavit, in full support of
the members of this Board, in order to comply with O.C.G.A. § 50-14-4(b).
(4) The affidavit shall be included and filed with the official minutes of the meeting
and shall be in a form as required by the statute, which shall be substantially as
follows:
AFFIDAVIT AS REQUIRED UNDER O.C.G.A. § 50-14-4(b)
Personally appeared before the undersigned attesting officer duly authorized to
administer oaths, Chairman Robbie Cheek, who, after being duly sworn, deposes
and on oath states the following:
(1) I was the chairperson/presiding officer of a meeting of the Camden County Board
of Casey held on the 15th day of September 2026.
(2) The subject matter of the closed portion of the meeting which was closed for the
purpose of discussing Real Estate, and was devoted to matters within those
exceptions and as provided by law.
(3) This affidavit is being executed for the purpose of complying with the mandate
of O.C.G.A. § 50-14-4-(b) that such an affidavit be executed.
This 15th day of September, 2026.
Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Casey to adjourn
the Executive Session and reconvene the Regular Meeting at 8:27 PM
The motion carried unanimously.
Chairman Goodman made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Smith to approve
a letter of intent for acquisition of property to be utilized for a public safety complex.
The motion carried unanimously.

Adjournment:
Commissioner Smith made a motion, seconded by Chairman Cheek to adjourn the
regular meeting of September 15, 2026. The motion carried to adjourn the meeting
at approximately 8:27 PM.
The motion carried unanimously.
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BY: _______________________________________________
ROBBIE CHEEK, CHAIRMAN
CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ATTEST: ______________________________________
KATIE BISHOP, COUNTY CLERK

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CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 1
SUBJECT:

Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0008 – Applicant is requesting to
rezone approximately 2.6 acres from Medium-Density Residential (R2) to Commercial General (C-G) zoning. This parcel is located in
District 4 at GA Hwy 40 E, St Marys. Tax parcel 122 011C. Cumberland
Land Surveyors, applicant, Braveland Capital LLC, owner.

COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:

October 6, 2026

PURPOSE:

To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Consider request to rezone approximately 2.6 acres from R-2 to C-G.

BACKGROUND:
1.
2.

3.

Parcel is located in District 4.
The applicant is requesting a rezoning in order to make the parcel
compatible with surrounding commercial uses.
The current Future Land Use designation is “Commercial”.

UDC Section 1213 (a) Standards for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment):
In consideration of a rezoning, the planning commission and the county commission shall
consider factors relevant in balancing the interest in promoting the public health, safety, or
general welfare against the right of the individual to the unrestricted use of property the
commissioners shall consider relevant factors and shall specifically consider the following
objective criteria. Emphasis may be placed on those standards most applicable to the specific
use proposed:
1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve the pattern
of uses in the general area?
2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood deterioration, the
spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a similar nature which
would expand the problem?
3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the pattern of
development of the area?
4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied to
others similarly situated in the same area?
5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the zoning
sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise and traffic
hazards?
6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital improvements
staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public facilities, water, sewer, police
and fire protection?
7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood character?
8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth and
distribution?
9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of future public
facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public service? b.
Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on future plans for

it?
12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the disadvantage of
long term, development goals?
13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening wedge for
further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond what is indicated
in the proposal or existing plan?
14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or tax rates of
nearby properties?
15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose and intent of
the Comprehensive Plan?

OPTIONS:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

Motion to approve the rezone approximately 2.6 acres from
Medium-Density Residential (R-2) to Commercial General (C-G)
zoning. This parcel is located in District 4 at GA Hwy 40 E, St Marys.
Tax parcel 122 011C. Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant,
Braveland Capital LLC, owner.
Motion to approve with modifications.
Motion to deny the request.
Table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Planning Commission recommends approval of RZN-26-0008.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

Cassie Turpin

Jacqueline Fortier

__________________________
Interim Planning Director

_________________________
Attorney

Camden County, GA
Overview

Legend
Parcels
Roads
USA Major Highways
Limited Access
Highway
Major Road
Local Road
Minor Road
Other Road
Ramp
Ferry
Pedestrian Way
City Labels
Zoning
RVD
Unknown
A-F

531 ft

A-R
C-G
C-I
C-N
C-P
City
I-G
I-R
LCI
MHP
PD
R-1
R-2
R-3

Parcel ID
Class Code
Taxing
District

122 011C
Residential
41 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE
DIST
41 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE
DIST
Acres
2.6
(Note: Not to be used on legal documents)

Owner

Physical
Address
Assessed Value

BRAVELAND CAPITAL LLC
400 FARM PATH
ROSWELL, GA 30075
n/a
Value $36000

Last 2 Sales
Date
Net
Price
6/14/2019 $36600
9/5/2014 0

Reason Qual
LM
FC

Q
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LETTER OF INTENT TO REZONE
The objective of rezoning a portion of Tax Parcel 122 011c from R2 to C2 is make it
compatible with surrounding uses.
Sec. 1213. Standards governing consideration of a zoning change. (a) Standards
for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment).
(1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve
the pattern of uses in the general area?
Yes.
(2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood
deterioration, the spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a
similar nature which would expand the problem?
No, to both.
(3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the
pattern of development of the area?
No, it is related.
(4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied
to others similarly situated in the same area?
No.
(5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the
zoning sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise
and traffic hazards?
No.
(6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital
improvements staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public
facilities, water, sewer, police and fire protection?
No, it is in conformity.
(7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood
character?

No.
(8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth
and distribution?
Conforms.
(9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of
future public facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
No.
(10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public
service? b. Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
No, to a., b., and c.
(11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on
future plans for it?
No.
(12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the
disadvantage of long term, development goals?
No.
(13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening
wedge for further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond
what is indicated in the proposal or existing plan?
No.
(14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or
tax rates of nearby properties?
No.
(15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose
and intent of the Comprehensive Plan?
Yes.

Chris Amos, P.E., Public Works Engineer
418 Osborne Street
St. Marys, Georgia 31558
(912) 882-4415

September 24, 2026
Cassie Turpin
Interim Planning & Development Director
Camden County Georgia
135 Gross Road
Kingsland, GA 31548
RE:

County Rezoning
Tax Parcel 122 011C

Dear Ms. Turpin:
The City of St. Marys does not ordinarily provide water or sewer service to new development projects
that are located outside of the city limits. The provision of these utilities would require annexation
and a developers’ agreement related to the water and sewer system improvements needed to serve
the project would also be required. This parcel in located in an area that currently does not have
adequate sewer capacity to serve any additional development. Because of these limitations, we
cannot provide water or sewer to the parcel even with annexation.
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Sincerely,

Chris Amos, P.E.
Public Works Engineer
Cc: Jamie Stein, Community Development Director

City of St. Marys | 418 Osborne Street | St. Marys, Georgia 31558 | www.stmarysga.gov

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 2
SUBJECT:

Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0010 – Applicant is requesting to
rezone approximately 4.38 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) to
Agricultural Residential (A-R) zoning. This parcel is located in District
1 at 4222 GA Hwy 259, White Oak. Tax Map 014 027. Eric Taylor,
applicant, Rhonda McCurry, owner.

COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:

October 6, 2026

PURPOSE:

To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Consider request to rezone approximately 4.38 acres from A-F to A-R.

BACKGROUND:
1.
2.

3.
4.

Parcel is located in District 1.
The applicant is requesting a rezoning in order to subdivide 2 acres
from a 4.38-acre tract. The minimum acreage for A-F is 3 acres, and
A-R is 2 acres.
The remaining acreage will be 2.38 acres after MIN-26-0023.
The current Future Land Use designation is “Rural”.

UDC Section 1213 (a) Standards for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment):
In consideration of a rezoning, the planning commission and the county commission shall
consider factors relevant in balancing the interest in promoting the public health, safety, or
general welfare against the right of the individual to the unrestricted use of property the
commissioners shall consider relevant factors and shall specifically consider the following
objective criteria. Emphasis may be placed on those standards most applicable to the specific
use proposed:
1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve the pattern
of uses in the general area?
2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood deterioration, the
spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a similar nature which
would expand the problem?
3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the pattern of
development of the area?
4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied to
others similarly situated in the same area?
5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the zoning
sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise and traffic
hazards?
6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital improvements
staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public facilities, water, sewer, police
and fire protection?
7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood character?
8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth and
distribution?
9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of future public

facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public service? b.
Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on future plans for
it?
12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the disadvantage of
long term, development goals?
13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening wedge for
further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond what is indicated
in the proposal or existing plan?
14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or tax rates of
nearby properties?
15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose and intent of
the Comprehensive Plan?

OPTIONS:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

Motion to approve the request to rezone approximately 4.38 acres
from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) to Agricultural Residential (A-R)
zoning. This parcel is located in District 1 at 4222 GA Hwy 259, White
Oak. Tax Map 014 027. Eric Taylor, applicant, Rhonda McCurry,
owner.
Motion to approve with modifications.
Motion to deny the request.
Table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.

Planning Commission recommends approval of RZN-26-0010.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

Cassie Turpin

Jacqueline Fortier

__________________________
Interim Planning Director

_________________________
Attorney

Camden County, GA
Overview

Legend
Parcels
Roads
USA Major Highways
Limited Access
Highway
Major Road
Local Road
Minor Road
Other Road
Ramp
Ferry
Pedestrian Way
City Labels
Zoning
RVD
Unknown
A-F

531 ft

A-R
C-G
C-I
C-N
C-P
City
I-G
I-R
LCI
MHP
PD
R-1
R-2
R-3

Parcel ID
014 027
Class Code
Residential
Taxing District 43 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE DIST
43 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE DIST
Acres
10.97
(Note: Not to be used on legal documents)

Owner

MCCURRY RHONDA
4222 GA HWY 259
WHITE OAK, GA 31568
Physical Address 4222 GA HWY 259
Assessed Value
Value $77956

Last 2 Sales
Date
Net Price Reason Qual
12/20/2021 $70000
LM
Q
3/4/2016
0
NM
U

LETTER OF INTENT TO REZONE
The objective is to rezone two portions of Tax Parcel 014 027 from A-F (AgricultureForestry) to A-R (Agriculture-Residential) to subdivide two tracts out of the parent tract.
This subdivision creates three tracts resulting in sizes of 2, 2.38 and 6.59 acres, as shown
on a Minor Subdivision plat by 31 North Land Surveying dated July 22, 2026.
Sec. 1213. Standards governing consideration of a zoning change. (a) Standards
for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment).
(1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve
the pattern of uses in the general area?
Yes.
(2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood
deterioration, the spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a
similar nature which would expand the problem?
No, to both.
(3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the
pattern of development of the area?
No, it is related.

(4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied
to others similarly situated in the same area?
No.
(5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the
zoning sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise
and traffic hazards?
No.
(6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital
improvements staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public
facilities, water, sewer, police and fire protection?
No, it is in conformity.

(7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood
character?
No.
(8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth
and distribution?
Conforms.
(9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of
future public facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
No.
(10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public
service? b. Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
No, to a., b., and c.
(11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on
future plans for it?
No.
(12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the
disadvantage of long term, development goals?
No.
(13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening
wedge for further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond
what is indicated in the proposal or existing plan?
No.
(14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or
tax rates of nearby properties?
No.
(15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose
and intent of the Comprehensive Plan?
Yes.

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CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 3
SUBJECT:

Zoning Map Amendment – RZN-26-0009 – Applicant is requesting to
rezone approximately 1.43 acres from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) and
Commercial Neighborhood (C-N) to Commercial General (C-G)
zoning. This parcel is located in District 1 at 6870 US Hwy 17,
Woodbine. Portions of Tax Parcels 081 067APZ, 081 067 PZ & 081 067B.
Cumberland Land Surveyors, applicant, Sarah Kristin Wood, Owner.

COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:

October 6, 2026

PURPOSE:

To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Consider request to rezone approximately 1.43 acres from A-F & CN to C-G.

BACKGROUND:
1.
2.

3.
4.

Parcel is located in District 1.
The applicant is requesting a rezoning in order to run a commercial
business.
The current Future Land Use designation is “Commercial”.
Rezoning will be contingent upon approval of minor subdivision
plat RCB-26-0020.

UDC Section 1213 (a) Standards for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment):
In consideration of a rezoning, the planning commission and the county commission shall
consider factors relevant in balancing the interest in promoting the public health, safety, or
general welfare against the right of the individual to the unrestricted use of property the
commissioners shall consider relevant factors and shall specifically consider the following
objective criteria. Emphasis may be placed on those standards most applicable to the specific
use proposed:
1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve the pattern
of uses in the general area?
2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood deterioration, the
spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a similar nature which
would expand the problem?
3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the pattern of
development of the area?
4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied to
others similarly situated in the same area?
5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the zoning
sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise and traffic
hazards?
6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital improvements
staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public facilities, water, sewer, police
and fire protection?
7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood character?
8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth and
distribution?

9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of future public
facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public service? b.
Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on future plans for
it?
12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the disadvantage of
long term, development goals?
13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening wedge for
further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond what is indicated
in the proposal or existing plan?
14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or tax rates of
nearby properties?
15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose and intent of
the Comprehensive Plan?

OPTIONS:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

Motion to approve the request to rezone approximately 1.43 acres
from Agricultural Forestry (A-F) and Commercial Neighborhood (CN) to Commercial General (C-G) zoning. This parcel is located in
District 1 at 6870 US Hwy 17, Woodbine. Portions of Tax Parcels 081
067APZ, 081 067 PZ & 081 067B. Cumberland Land Surveyors,
applicant, Sarah Kristin Wood, Owner.
Motion to approve with modifications.
Motion to deny the request.
Table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.

Planning Commission recommends approval of RZN-26-0009.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

Cassie Turpin

Jacqueline Fortier

__________________________
Interim Planning Director

_________________________
Attorney

Camden County, GA
Overview

Legend
Parcels
Roads
USA Major Highways
Limited Access
Highway
Major Road
Local Road
Minor Road
Other Road
Ramp
Ferry
Pedestrian Way
City Labels
Zoning
RVD
Unknown
A-F

531 ft

A-R
C-G
C-I
C-N
C-P
City
I-G
I-R
LCI
MHP
PD
R-1
R-2
R-3

Parcel ID
081 067 PZ
Class Code
Consv Use
Taxing
42 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE DIST
District
42 UNINCORPORATED SERVICE DIST
Acres
50.11
(Note: Not to be used on legal documents)

Owner

WOOD SARAH KRISTIN
104 LONGWOOD ROAD
ST MARYS, GA 31558
Physical Address 6870 US HWY 17
Assessed Value
Value $178857

Last 2 Sales
Date
Net Price Reason Qual
3/28/2024 $109443 MN
U
4/6/2006 0
NM
U

LETTER OF INTENT TO REZONE
The objective of rezoning a portion of Tax Parcel 081 067PZ, 081 067B, 081 067APZ
from AF to C2 is for a commercial operation.
Sec. 1213. Standards governing consideration of a zoning change. (a) Standards
for consideration of a proposed rezoning (map amendment).
(1) Is this request a logical extension of a zoning boundary that would improve
the pattern of uses in the general area?
Yes.
(2) Is this request an illogical extension of a zone boundary that would intrude a
damaging volume of commercial, industrial or high-density use to a stable
neighborhood? Would the change be likely to lead to neighborhood
deterioration, the spread of blight, and a request for additional zoning of a
similar nature which would expand the problem?
No, to both.
(3) Is this zoning change generally unrelated to either existing zoning or the
pattern of development of the area?
No, it is related.
(4) Would granting this request extend to the applicant development rights denied
to others similarly situated in the same area?
No.
(5) Could traffic created by the proposed use or other uses permissible under the
zoning sought traverse established neighborhoods, lead to congestion, noise
and traffic hazards?
No.
(6) Is the proposed zoning in conformity with the community capital
improvements staging, or could permitted uses overload existing public
facilities, water, sewer, police and fire protection?
No, it is in conformity.
(7) Could the uses allowed in this request disrupt existing neighborhood
character?

No.
(8) Does this request conform or alter general expectations for population growth
and distribution?
Conforms.
(9) Will this request eliminate options for the acquisition by governments of
future public facility sites, roads, open spaces, etc.?
No.
(10) Will this request require a major change in existing: a. Levels of public
service? b. Municipal services? c. Fiscal stability?
No, to a., b., and c.
(11) Will this request place irreversible limitations on the area as it is or on
future plans for it?
No.
(12) Does this request have the potential of achieving short term, to the
disadvantage of long term, development goals?
No.
(13) Could this request have "domino effect" in that it becomes the opening
wedge for further rapid growth, urbanization or other land use change beyond
what is indicated in the proposal or existing plan?
No.
(14) Could the change in classification adversely affect market values and/or
tax rates of nearby properties?
No.
(15) Is the proposed rezoning compatible with the goals, objectives, purpose
and intent of the Comprehensive Plan?
Yes.

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 4
SUBJECT:

Approval of Assistance to Firefighters Grant Award

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE SUBMITTED:

September 24, 2026

BUDGET INFORMATION:
REVENUES:
EXPENSES:
MATCH:

$90,289.75
$99,318.72
$9,028.97

FUNDING SOURCE: AFG award/Grant match
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:
October 6, 2026
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
To consider the approval of 90,289.75 grant award from FEMA’s
Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.
HISTORY:
1.
2.

Camden County's recently adopted Community Wildfire Protection
Plan identified 170 wildfires that burned more than 1,285 acres
within the county between 2015 and 2024.
The plan specifically recognizes the need to strengthen local
wildfire response capabilities as development expands into high-risk
Wildland Urban Interface areas.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
When providing mutual aid during the Brantley County fires, CCFR
did not possess compliant wildland PPE, firefighters were required to
borrow equipment from the Georgia Forestry Commission before
they could safely participate in suppression activities.
2.
This incident highlighted a critical safety gap and reinforced the
need to equip personnel with the appropriate protective
equipment necessary for safe and effective wildfire response.
3.
The PPE will be used during vegetation fires, brush fires, wildland
fires, roadside fires, prescribed fire support operations, and mutual
aid incidents.
4.
Acquisition of this equipment directly supports the mission of
Camden County Fire Rescue to protect life and property while
ensuring firefighters can safely perform their duties in increasingly
challenging wildfire conditions.

OPTIONS:
1.

2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve the acceptance of the grant award from
FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program in the amount of
$90,289.75 with a match of $9,028.97 from AFG award/Grant
match.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To be determined by the Board.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

Julie Haigler, Grants Manager
_________________________

N/A

_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng, Finance
Director
_____________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 5
SUBJECT:

Request approval to extend the contract for the EOC/E911 Design
and Engineering Services to McCall Architecture.

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE SUBMITTED:

9/28/2026

BUDGET INFORMATION:
REVENUES:
EXPENSES:
ANNUAL:
CAPITAL:
OTHER:
FUNDING SOURCE:
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:
October 6th
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
To consider to extend the contract for of EOC/E911 Design and
Engineering services to McCall Architecture.
HISTORY:
1.

2.

3.
4.

5.

In 2019, the voters of Camden County demonstrated strong
support for the improvement of public safety infrastructure by
approving SPLOST 8, which allocated $4.1 million for the
construction of a new, combined public safety complex.
The decision to move forward with this project was driven by the
urgent need for an updated facility to meet the growing demands
of the county's emergency response systems. Specifically, both the
current Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and E-911 Center
have reached capacity and are unable to adequately serve the
county's needs during worst-case scenarios.
To address these challenges, the decision was made to construct a
new, single consolidated facility on the property of the Resiliency
Operations Center.
This strategic location was selected to leverage its existing
infrastructure while ensuring the new facility meets the high
standards required for critical public safety operations. The new
building will house both the EOC and the E-911 Center under one
roof, creating synergy between emergency management and
emergency communications.
At the February 18, 2025 Board of Commissioners meeting the
contract was awarded to McCall Architecture.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
The project was put on hold by Camden County due to deciding
on where to place the building.
2.
The County is now ready to move forward with the project,
therefore Camden County needs to extend the contract until
October 31, 2028.
3.
The price of the project remains the same.
OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve to extend the contract for the EOC/E911 Design
and Engineering Services to McCall Architecture.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To be determined by the Board.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Kelsey Kelley, Purchasing
Officer
_____________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng, Finance
Director
_________________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 6
SUBJECT:

Request to amend Multi-Bank Securities (MBS) account users for
General Fund and Solid Waste.

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
DATE: September 28, ,2026
COMMISSION ACTION:
October 6,2026
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Amend Multi-Bank Securities account users and permissions for
General Fund and Solid Waste.
HISTORY:
1.
2.
3.

Multi-Bank Securities currently holds Certificates of Deposit for the
Closure/ Post-closure liability for the Solid Waste fund.
Prior years have also allowed for Certificates of Deposit for the
General Fund to reduce tax payer burden by generating increased
interest revenues.
The Finance Director currently has View only access of these
accounts.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
A resolution is required by MBS to amend the account users for
transfers, deposits and withdrawals.
2.
Attached is the MBS Resolution Request form..
3.
The Finance Director, deputy county administrator and County
Administrator will be authorized users and may transfer funds
between the Multibank Securities and the Synovus account.
OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve to amend Multi-Bank Securities (MBS) account
users for General Fund and Solid Waste.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
Staff recommends approval.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Tiffanie Cheng,
Finance Director
________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng,
Finance Director
_______________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 7
SUBJECT:

Request to amend Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP)
account users for General Fund, SPLOST 8, & SPLOST 9 Accounts.

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
DATE: September 29, 2026
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON: October 6,2026
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Amend Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP) account users
for General Fund, SPLOST 8, & SPLOST 9 Accounts.
HISTORY:
1.
2.
3.
4.

SPLOST 8 & 9 proceeds must be kept in a separate account from
other county funds and cannot be commingled with other county
funds prior to their expenditure.
Good accounting practices suggest that a separate account
should be kept for each SPLOST levy.
The account with LGIP is held in trust by the State of Georgia on the
County’s behalf under a separate authority.
The monthly SPLOST 9 distribution will be automatically deposited in
the LGIP SPLOST 9 account by the State of Georgia.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
An electronic resolution is required by the bank to amend the
account users for transfers, deposits and withdrawals.
2.
Attached is the Georgia Fund 1 (GF1) Resolution Request forms for
General Fund, SPLOST 8 & SPLOST 9.
3.
Once the GF1 Resolution Request is submitted, the resolution will be
completed via a video call to Chairman Casey and County Clerk
Bishop.
4.
The Finance Director, deputy county administrator and County
Administrator will be authorized users and may transfer funds
between the LGIP Accounts and the appropriate Synovus
accounts.
OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve to amend Local Government Investment Pool
(LGIP) account users for General Fund, SPLOST 8, & SPLOST 9
Accounts.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
Staff recommends approval.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Tiffanie Cheng,
Finance Director
________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng,
Finance Director
_______________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 8
SUBJECT:

Budget Amendments for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
DATE: September 28, 2026
BUDGET INFORMATION:
The budget amendments are for the general fund, unincorporated tax district,
capital improvement fund, and solid waste authority.
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:

October 6, 2026

PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Consider the budget amendments regarding the changes needed
to the FY 2026 budget.
HISTORY:
1.

The amounts are adjustments to reflect increases in revenue and
expenditures.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
The budget amendments are for the general fund, unincorporated
tax district, capital improvement fund, and solid waste authority.
OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget amendments
as presented.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
Approve the FY 2026 budget amendments as presented.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Tiffanie Cheng
Finance Director
________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng
Finance Director
_______________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 9
SUBJECT:

Request the Approval to purchase two (2) Power Pro 2 stretchers
and (2) two Power load systems for Ambulance 2 and 3 approved
through SPLOST 9

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE SUBMITTED:

September 29, 2026

REVENUES: EXPENSES:
ANNUAL:
CAPITAL:
OTHER:
FUNDING SOURCE:

$129,195.08
SPLOST 9

COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON: October 6, 2026
PURPOSE:
a.
Request the Approval to purchase two (2) Power Pro 2 stretchers
and Power load systems for Ambulance 2 and 3 approved through
SPLOST 9
HISTORY:
1.
2.
3.
4.

The SPLOST 9 - Capital Equipment list for Ambulance replacements
included the purchase of 7 Ambulances.
Each ambulance purchased previously has been stocked with the
State required equipment once received by CCFR from the builder.
The Unit and equipment cost was originally requested in the
Agenda Summary presented in March 2026.
CCFR is the sole provider of EMS Service to all citizens and visitors of
Camden County.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
The money for this equipment will be funded through SPLOST 9.
2.
The order will be placed but delivery will not be until April/May
2027.
3.
Payment for this equipment will not be made until delivery in 2027.
4.
There is a price increase expected on October 15, 2026.
OPTIONS:_____________________________________________________________________
1.
Motion to approve purchase two (2) Power Pro 2 stretchers and
Power load systems for Ambulance 2 and 3 in the amount of
$129,195.08 from SPLOST 9
2.
Motion to deny this item.
3.
Motion to table this item.
4.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To be determined by the Board.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Jeannie Pierce, CCFR
________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng, Finance
Director
_________________________

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 10
SUBJECT:

Approval of Purchase and Installation for Lifeline and Cable Climb
System Replacement on Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE SUBMITTED:

09/29/2026

BUDGET INFORMATION:
REVENUES: $102,066.90
EXPENSES: $92,788.09
FUNDING SOURCE: Kings Bay Naval Base
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:
PURPOSE:
a.

HISTORY:
1.

October 6th

To request that the Board of Commissioners:
Consider the Approval of Purchase and Installation for a Lifeline
and Cable Climb System Replacement on Naval Submarine Base
Kings Bay.
Camden County Board of Commissioners entered into an IGSA in
2026 to help support infrastructure maintenance projects.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
Quote received from Onsite Safety of Oviedo, FL is an
existing vendor that is cleared and certified to perform this
installation on the naval base.
2.
Quote includes removal of lifeline and cable climb system that
recently failed certifications, furnish and install new replacement
system including final inspection and certifications.
3.
The Navy has requested this quote be treated as a sole source.
4.
The IGSA includes a fee schedule to cover County expenses.
OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve the Purchase and Installation for Lifeline and
Cable Climb System Replacement on Naval Submarine Base Kings
Bay from Onsite Safety.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To Approve installation services from Onsite Safety.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:
Jared Beaudoin,
Public Works Director
______________________

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:
N/A
_________________________

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:
Tiffanie Cheng,
Finance Director
____________________

Board of County Commissioners
P.O. Box 99/200 East 4th Street • Woodbine, Georgia 31569
Phone: (912) 576-3028 • www.camdencountyga.gov

Department of Public Works
September 29, 2026
CDR Michael Mitsch
PWO – Subbase
PWD Kings Bay
Please accept this as a written proposal to complete the Fall Protection Repairs at the Dry Dock
Area on Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. This proposal includes the following scope of work to
complete the project with an estimated project cost of $105,000.
Project Scope:
-Furnish, install, and repair identified Failed and Red Tagged lifelines necessary to complete the
Temporary Dry Dock Grounding Project.
-Furnish, install, and repair additional identified Failed and Red Tagged lifelines in the surrounding
area within established budget.
-All work completed will not exceed the estimated project cost of $105,000.
-All work is to be completed during normal business hours.
Camden County Public Works Responsibilities
-Award project to Guardian Fall Protection, review and sign agreement.
-Provide assistance and coordination with deliveries and lay down areas.
-Monitor project progress and ensure compliance with contract.
-Ensure site clean-up and restoration is completed.
Invoicing:
-All work self-performed by Camden County Public Works will be invoiced utilizing the IGSA Fee
Schedule based on actual time and equipment utilized, attached.
-All subcontracted work and materials will be invoiced at total cost plus 10% (per IGSA).
Please review the information and contact me with any questions.
Thank You,
Jared Beaudoin
Director, Public Works
[email protected]
912-674-0675
ROBBIE CHEEK
Commissioner, District 1

“Award-Winning Government”

MARTIN A. TURNER
Commissioner, District 2

CODY SMITH
Commissioner, District 3

JOEY YACOBACCI
County Administrator

JIM GOODMAN
Commissioner, District 4

JACQUELINE FORTIER
County Attorney

BEN L. CASEY
Commissioner, District 5

Page 2 of 2

FY 27 FUNDING ESTIMATE – Dry Dock Fall Protection Repairs
Service to be performed

Qty

Cost

Sub Total

Admin Fee

Fee

Total

Onsite Safety

1

92,788.09

92,788.09

9,278.81

10%

102,066.90
102,066.90

Construction Preparation
Supervisor
Pick Up truck

0
0

30.00
16.81

0.00
0.00

0.00
0.00

5%
5%

TOTAL ESTIMATED
COST

0.00
0.00
0.00
102,066.90

“Leadership that Listens”
ROBBIE CHEEK
Commissioner, District 1

MARTIN A. TURNER
Commissioner, District 2

CODY SMITH
Commissioner, District 3

JOEY YACOBACCI
County Administrator

JIM GOODMAN
Commissioner, District 4

JACQUELINE FORTIER
County Attorney

BEN L. CASEY
Commissioner, District 5

Safety Proposal

BILL TO:

United States Navy

SHIP TO:

Naval Submarine Base - Kings Bay

PROPOSAL #:

2026211

SUBMITTED ON:

ONSITE SAFETY, INC.
2460 W State Rd 426 #1002
Oviedo, FL 32765
(407) 323-9201 | [email protected]
www.onsitesafety.com

9/29/26

Scope of Work / Material List

Onsite Safety will demo existing system.
Onsite Safety, Inc. will install MEA Lifeline and Cable Climb System
To Include: Guardian product, freight, site services, demo of existing and installation of the new system.
Turnkey Proposal. Onsite Safety will manage the project from approvals to completion.

Additional Options

OPTIONAL System Annual Certification $4750.00
• Guardian Fall Protection requires that these systems are inspected by a factory trained Qualified Person on an annual basis.
• One (1) re-certification to be scheduled 12 months after system installation
• Each re-certification provides an additional 12 month warranty for the system

DESCRIPTION

TOTAL

MEA Lifeline and Cable Climb System install (see scope of work for details)

$92,788.09

SUBTOTAL:

$92,788.09

TAX / FEES:

$2,159.28

PROPOSAL TOTAL:

$94,947.37

Terms and Conditions
The above prices, specifications and conditions are satisfactory and are hereby accepted. You are authorized to do the work as
specified. Payment will be made as outlined above. Signature on this proposal constitutes a binding contract. This proposal is valid for 30
days from the date above. All work is to be completed in a workmanlike manner according to standard practices. Any alteration or
deviation from specifications involving extra costs will be executed only upon written orders and will become an extra charge over and
above the estimate. This estimate is based on a General Liability of $2,000,000, bonding excluded. Our workers are fully covered by
Workmen’s Compensation Insurance.

Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Client shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Onsite Safety Inc. and its agents and
employees from and against claims, damages, losses and expenses, including but not limited to attorney's fees, arising out of or
resulting from performance of the work, provided that such claim, damage, loss or expense is attributable to bodily injury, sickness,
disease or death, or to injury to or destruction of tangible property, but only to the extent caused by the negligent acts or omissions of the
Client, the Client's subcontractors, anyone directly or indirectly employed by them or anyone for whose acts they may be liable,
regardless of whether or not such claim, damage, loss or expense is caused in part by a party indemnified hereunder.

GUARDIAN: ESGXXXXX

CREATING SAFE SOLUTIONS
HONOR GOD. HELP PEOPLE. SAVE LIVES.

29 Sep 2026
From:
To:

Intergovernmental Support Agreement Program Manager,
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
Camden County Public Works Director

Subj:

SINGLE-SOURCE JUSTIFICATION FOR DRY DOCK HORIZONTAL AND
VERTICAL LIFELINE SYTEMS REPAIR UNDER INTERGOVERNMENTAL
SUPPORT AGREEMENT (IGSA)

Ref:

(a)ESG18367 – NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE KINGS BAY Quote, Dated
25 SEP 2026
(b) DFP Recertification Report, Dated 08 SEP 2026
(c)Onsite Safety Proposal – Navy- NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE
KINGS BAY, Dated 29 SEP 2026

1. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF). This memorandum justifies
single-source award to Onsite Safety and Guardian Fall
Protection under the Camden County Intergovernmental Support
Agreement (IGSA) to execute horizontal and vertical lifeline
systems repair at the Dry Dock. Onsite Safety and Guardian Fall
are the only vendors capable of meeting this requirement due to
critical end-of-fiscal-year funding execution constraints and an
accelerated project timeline.
2. Background and Scope of Work. Trident Refit Facility (TRF)
has an immediate operational requirement to correct failed
vertical and horizontal lifeline systems per refence b. Guardian
Fall Protection will replace all failed components of the
affected lifeline systems and certify the completed
installations comply with American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standards.

1

Subj: SOLE-SOURCE / SINGLE-SOURCE JUSTIFICATION FOR DRY DOCK
TEMPORARY GROUNDING REPAIRS UNDER INTERGOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT
AGREEMENT (IGSA)
3. Justification Rationale. Single-source award to Onsite
Safety and Guardian Fall Protection is justified based on the
following reasons:
a. Late-FY Constraints. Submarine Base Kings Bay is using
end of the year fiscal funds to execute this project, and Onsite
Safety and Guardian Fall are the only companies that has
provided a compete proposal prior to end of fiscal year. Resoliciting at this point is not feasible.
c. Accelerated Project Timeline. This project needs to be
completed by November 2026. Guardian Fall currently has all
required materials in their inventory and Onsite Safety is fully
prepared to mobilize labor and equipment immediately, minimizing
transition delays and mitigating schedule risk.
4. Recommendation. Recommend sole-sourcing this requirement to
Onsite Safety and Guardian Fall Protection.
S. P. ABENOJAR
ENS, CEC, USN

2

CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 11
SUBJECT:

Appointment of an individual to the St. Marys River Management
Committee.

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE: September 28, 2026
BUDGET INFORMATION:

N/A

COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:
October 6th
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
To consider the appointment of an individual to the St. Marys River
Management Committee.
FACTS & ISSUES:
1.
The St. Marys River Management Committee (SMRMC) is an
intergovernmental entity of elected and appointed members from
four (4) counties along the St. Marys River including Camden,
Charlton, Nassau and Baker counties.
2.
The committee is made up of individuals who are involved
because of a personal commitment to the St. Marys River. The
committee meets monthly to discuss, develop and implement
plans and programs in regard to the St. Marys River.
3.
The Committee prepares and presents to each County Commission
an annual report at the end of each fiscal year. This report
summarizes accomplishments of the Committee over the past year
and provides recommendations for future activities as well as a
financial report.
4.
Currently, there one (1) vacancy on this Committee.
5.
Five (5) applications have been received:

OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

•
•
•
•
•

David Patrick
Defonsio Daniels
John S. Burleson
Michael Fendley
Misty Tanner

Motion to appoint an individual to the St. Marys River Management
Committee.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To be determined by the Board.

DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:

Katie Bishop, County Clerk
________________________

N/A
_________________________

N/A
_________________________

From:
To:
Subject:
Date:

[email protected]
Katie Bishop; Claire Y. Feazel; Loushekia W. Robinson
Online Form Submittal: Citizen Board Application Form
Sunday, September 20, 2026 2:01:56 PM

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Citizen Board Application Form
Name:

David Patrick

Home Address:
City

Woodbine

Home Phone:
Additional Phone:

Field not completed.

Email Address:
Please select the
Board or Committee
you are submitting this
application for:

St. Marys River Management Committee

Are you currently
serving on a County
Board(s)?

No

If yes, which board(s)
do you serve?

Field not completed.

Are you a resident of
the County?

Yes

What District do you
live in?

District 1

If needed, you may
click on the link below
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the interactive map.

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Do you hold a public
office?

No

Are you employed by

No

Camden County?
Have you been
convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony,
excluding civil traffic
infractions? (Note: A
DUI and/or revoked
license are NOT "civil
traffic infractions" and
must be reported.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Do you have any
potential conflicts of
interest that may arise
from time to time if you
serve on one of these
boards? (A conflict of
interest would be
anything that inures to
your benefit, your
employer's benefit, or a
member of your
family's benefit. Note:
Having a potential
conflict of interest does
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you from serving on a
board.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Please list any
community
involvement, special
skills, talents,
experience, expertise
or other qualifications
that you would bring to
theboard(s) for which
you are applying:

Human Resources Director for Dept of Navy, Coach, 30+ years,
Mentor, Outdoorsman/farmer, Federal Mediator

I hereby declare that the information provided by me in this application is true,
correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that, if chosen,
any misstatement or omission of fact on this application shall be considered cause
for ineligibility for appointment. Applicants are considered for all appointments
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran

status, medical condition or disability.

Electronic Signature
Below:

David Lamar Patrick

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Katie Bishop; Claire Y. Feazel; Loushekia W. Robinson
Online Form Submittal: Citizen Board Application Form
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 9:28:34 AM

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Name:

Defonsio Daniels

Home Address:
City

Saint Marys

Home Phone:
Additional Phone:
Email Address:
Please select the
Board or Committee
you are submitting this
application for:

St. Marys River Management Committee

Are you currently
serving on a County
Board(s)?

No

If yes, which board(s)
do you serve?

Field not completed.

Are you a resident of
the County?

Yes

What District do you
live in?

District 3

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Do you hold a public
office?

No

Are you employed by

No

Camden County?
Have you been
convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony,
excluding civil traffic
infractions? (Note: A
DUI and/or revoked
license are NOT "civil
traffic infractions" and
must be reported.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

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potential conflicts of
interest that may arise
from time to time if you
serve on one of these
boards? (A conflict of
interest would be
anything that inures to
your benefit, your
employer's benefit, or a
member of your
family's benefit. Note:
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conflict of interest does
not necessarily exclude
you from serving on a
board.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Please list any
community
involvement, special
skills, talents,
experience, expertise
or other qualifications
that you would bring to
theboard(s) for which
you are applying:

Community Organizers Housing Authority Commissioner NAACP
VFW and independent candidate for State House.

I hereby declare that the information provided by me in this application is true,
correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that, if chosen,
any misstatement or omission of fact on this application shall be considered cause
for ineligibility for appointment. Applicants are considered for all appointments
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran

status, medical condition or disability.

Electronic Signature
Below:

Defonsio Daniels

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Katie Bishop; Claire Y. Feazel; Loushekia W. Robinson
Online Form Submittal: Citizen Board Application Form
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 11:29:38 AM

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Citizen Board Application Form
Name:

john S. Burleson

Home Address:
City

St Marys

Home Phone:
Additional Phone:
Email Address:
Please select the
Board or Committee
you are submitting this
application for:

St. Marys River Management Committee

Are you currently
serving on a County
Board(s)?

Yes

If yes, which board(s)
do you serve?

Tax Assessor Board

Are you a resident of
the County?

Yes

What District do you
live in?

District 4

If needed, you may
click on the link below
to find your District on
the interactive map.

District Map

Do you hold a public
office?

No

Are you employed by

No

Camden County?
Have you been
convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony,
excluding civil traffic
infractions? (Note: A
DUI and/or revoked
license are NOT "civil
traffic infractions" and
must be reported.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Do you have any
potential conflicts of
interest that may arise
from time to time if you
serve on one of these
boards? (A conflict of
interest would be
anything that inures to
your benefit, your
employer's benefit, or a
member of your
family's benefit. Note:
Having a potential
conflict of interest does
not necessarily exclude
you from serving on a
board.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Please list any
community
involvement, special
skills, talents,
experience, expertise
or other qualifications
that you would bring to
theboard(s) for which
you are applying:

Five years serving in Elections as a Poll Worker. Skilled in
diplomacy. Five years on the Board of Tax Assessors; only
missed one meeting due to hand surgery. BA; MBA education.
Retired and ready to serve. Love and cherish all waterways but
especially our beautiful St Mary's River. I plan on being here a
long time; property owner in Oak Grove Cemetery.

I hereby declare that the information provided by me in this application is true,
correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that, if chosen,
any misstatement or omission of fact on this application shall be considered cause
for ineligibility for appointment. Applicants are considered for all appointments
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran

status, medical condition or disability.

Electronic Signature
Below:

John S. Burleson

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Katie Bishop; Claire Y. Feazel; Loushekia W. Robinson
Online Form Submittal: Citizen Board Application Form
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 3:52:57 AM

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Citizen Board Application Form
Name:

Michael Fendley

Home Address:
City

Woodbine

Home Phone:
Additional Phone:
Email Address:
Please select the
Board or Committee
you are submitting this
application for:

St. Marys River Management Committee

Are you currently
serving on a County
Board(s)?

No

If yes, which board(s)
do you serve?

Field not completed.

Are you a resident of
the County?

Yes

What District do you
live in?

District 2

If needed, you may
click on the link below
to find your District on
the interactive map.

District Map

Do you hold a public
office?

No

Are you employed by

No

Camden County?
Have you been
convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony,
excluding civil traffic
infractions? (Note: A
DUI and/or revoked
license are NOT "civil
traffic infractions" and
must be reported.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Do you have any
potential conflicts of
interest that may arise
from time to time if you
serve on one of these
boards? (A conflict of
interest would be
anything that inures to
your benefit, your
employer's benefit, or a
member of your
family's benefit. Note:
Having a potential
conflict of interest does
not necessarily exclude
you from serving on a
board.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Please list any
community
involvement, special
skills, talents,
experience, expertise
or other qualifications
that you would bring to
theboard(s) for which
you are applying:

I hold advanced degrees in Engineering, served in the US Navy
for over 20 years. I navigated submarines in and out of Kings
Bay and was intimately involved in Right whale and nesting turtl
protection efforts.

I hereby declare that the information provided by me in this application is true,
correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that, if chosen,
any misstatement or omission of fact on this application shall be considered cause
for ineligibility for appointment. Applicants are considered for all appointments
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran

status, medical condition or disability.

Electronic Signature
Below:

Michael Fendley

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Katie Bishop; Claire Y. Feazel; Loushekia W. Robinson
Online Form Submittal: Citizen Board Application Form
Saturday, August 22, 2026 10:05:36 AM

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Citizen Board Application Form
Name:

Misty Tanner

Home Address:
City

Kingsland

Home Phone:
Additional Phone:
Email Address:
Please select the
Board or Committee
you are submitting this
application for:

St. Marys River Management Committee

Are you currently
serving on a County
Board(s)?

No

If yes, which board(s)
do you serve?

Field not completed.

Are you a resident of
the County?

Yes

What District do you
live in?

District 5

If needed, you may
click on the link below
to find your District on
the interactive map.

District Map

Do you hold a public
office?

No

Are you employed by

No

Camden County?
Have you been
convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony,
excluding civil traffic
infractions? (Note: A
DUI and/or revoked
license are NOT "civil
traffic infractions" and
must be reported.)

No

If yes, please explain:

Field not completed.

Do you have any
potential conflicts of
interest that may arise
from time to time if you
serve on one of these
boards? (A conflict of
interest would be
anything that inures to
your benefit, your
employer's benefit, or a
member of your
family's benefit. Note:
Having a potential
conflict of interest does
not necessarily exclude
you from serving on a
board.)

Yes

If yes, please explain:

I work with a handful of developers in Camden.

Please list any
community
involvement, special
skills, talents,
experience, expertise
or other qualifications
that you would bring to
theboard(s) for which
you are applying:

Stormwater andevelopment Consultant. I have experience
working with municipalities for projects and management

I hereby declare that the information provided by me in this application is true,
correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that, if chosen,
any misstatement or omission of fact on this application shall be considered cause
for ineligibility for appointment. Applicants are considered for all appointments
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran

status, medical condition or disability.

Electronic Signature
Below:

Misty Tanner

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CAMDEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR AGENDA ITEM: 12
SUBJECT:

Approval of a funding request from Come As You Are Recovery
(CAYA).

( ) Recommendation
( ) Policy Discussion
( ) Status Report
(X) Action Item
( ) Other
DATE SUBMITTED: 09/08/2026
BUDGET INFORMATION:
REVENUES:
EXPENSES:
ANNUAL: $94,900.00
CAPITAL:
OTHER:
FUNDING SOURCE: Opioid Settlement Funds
COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED ON:
PURPOSE:
To request that the Board of Commissioners:
a.
Consider the approval of funding the Come As You Are (CAYA)
Recovery Program for at least one year utilizing funds available
through the Opioid Settlement Fund.
HISTORY:
1.
2.
3.

Come As You Are Recovery, Inc. is a non-profit 501c3 organization
in Camden County, Georgia. It was incorporated in March, 2026.
A non-clinical recovery support service led by passionate peers in
long-term recovery.
CAYA has two Certified Peer Specialists, Addictive Disease, to
execute the deliverables.

FACTS & ISSUES:
1. Mission is to create a Recovery Community Organization (RCO)
where everyone is welcome at any stage of substance use disorder
or recovery.
2. CAYA will offer transportation, linkage to care, peer support,
recovery meetings, and harm reduction outreach.
3. Program will help expand access to naloxone to decrease overdose
deaths, expand warm hand-off services to secure more successful
recovery outcomes, and decrease stigma associated with opioid use
disorder.
4. CAYA will also collect and review data to determine the
effectiveness of our efforts and to determine the need for additional
services.

5.

Opioid Settlement Funds Legal Counsel John S. Myers has
recommended this program to be eligible to receive settlement
funds.

OPTIONS:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Motion to approve funding for the Come As You Are (CAYA)
Recovery Program for at least one (1) year utilizing funds available
through the Opioid Settlement Fund.
Motion to deny this item.
Motion to table this item.
Other action by the Board.

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1.
To be determined by the Board.
DEPARTMENT:
Prepared by:

IF APPLICABLE:
County Attorney Review:

IF APPLICABLE:
Finance Review:

Shannon S. Nettles, Deputy
County Administrator
________________________

Attorney Jackie Fortier

Tiffanie Cheng, Finance
Director
_________________________

_________________________

Monthly report required by the 9th of each month on the following:
1. How many individuals were helped?
2. How many doses of Narcan were distributed?
3. How many recovery meetings were held and how many participants at
each meeting?
4. How much transportation was provided to offer assistance to individuals
needing help?
5. What other events or activities took place during the month?
6. Monthly expense to be provided.

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Date:
Importance:

Katie Bishop
Katie Bishop
Per John Myers- Recommendation Opioid Abatement funding request
Thursday, October 1, 2026 3:57:27 PM
High

From: John Myers <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2026 3:08 PM
To: Julie E. Haigler <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacqueline N. Fortier <[email protected]>; [email protected]
<[email protected]>; Joey A. Yacobacci <[email protected]>; Shannon Nettles
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Recommendation Opioid Abatement funding request
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Julie - I have reviewed the proposal from Come As You Are Recovery and I find that it complies with the
requirements of Appendix E to the Final Distributor Settlement (https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2021/12/Exhibit-E-Final-Distributor-Settlement-Agreement-8-11-21.pdf) governing the
use of recovered opioid funds. Please remember that this is a year to year determination of usage based
on the annual distributions received by the County. I endorse the use of the funds for this project.

JOHN S. MYERS
Attorney at Law
John S. Myers, P.C.
1721 Osborne Road
Ste A
St. Marys, GA 31558
912/882-2332
www.johnmyerslaw.com
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM Julie E. Haigler
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi John,
I spoke to Shannon and she wanted me to send this to your correct email. Please
review and give me your thoughts.
This group has presented at the BOC this summer and were well received. This
could be a good opportunity.
Thanks,
Julie
From: Julie E. Haigler

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:55 AM
To: Jacqueline N. Fortier <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: Joey A. Yacobacci <[email protected]>; Shannon Nettles
<[email protected]>
Subject: Recommendation Opioid Abatement funding request

Hello,
I wanted to follow up regarding a funding request we have received from Come As
You Are Recovery, a local nonprofit organization seeking support from the County's
opioid abatement funds. They submitted an application July 7, 2026, requesting
$94,000. The director has carefully outlined in the application how the
organization's programs and proposed use of the funds align with the allowable
uses and requirements of the opioid settlement funding.
The director has also requested an opportunity to present the application to staff
and if appropriate, have the request move forward to the BOC for consideration. I
would like to have your legal review and recommendation on the following items:
1. If the proposed project and use of funds meet the requirements of the
settlement and if the County is legally permitted to provide funding to this
organization and;
2. Your assessment of the application and if you would recommend that staff
allow the request to be considered by BOC.
I have rescheduled this meeting several times, and I would really like a to get a
definitive answer, whether that is an approval to move forward or a determination
that the request cannot be funded. I want to give the organization a clear
response. I believe this is a worthwhile application and would like to give the
organization the opportunity to present its request if it is legally eligible and
otherwise appropriate under the settlement requirements.
Please review attached application and letters of support and provide your
recommendation.
Thanks,

Julie Haigler
Grants Manager
Camden County Board of Commissioners
(912) 576-9631

Board of County Commissioner’s Calendar
October 2026
October 1

October 5

October 6

Voter Registration
Deadline for the
November 3, 2026
General Election.

October Tax Sale
12:00 PM,
Commissioners
Meeting Room

October 12
County offices will
be closed in
observance of
Columbus Day.

October 19

Board of County
Commissioners
Regular Meeting and
Public Hearing 6:00
PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

October 13

October 7

October 8

October 9
Deadline Showcase
Camden County
Photo Contest

October 14

Board of County
Commissioners
Special Called
Meeting and Public
Hearing 6:00 PM,
Chambers,
Woodbine

October 20

Board of County
Commissioners
Public Hearing
10:00 AM and 6:00
PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

October 2

October 15

October 16

Board of Elections
& Registration
Regular Meeting,
4:00 PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

October 21

Board of County
Commissioners
Variance Appeal
Hearing 6:00 PM,
Chambers,
Woodbine

October 22

October 23

October 29

October 30

Board of County
Commissioners
Regular Meeting 6:00
PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

October 26

October 27

October 28
Planning
Commission
Regular Meeting,
6:00 PM ROC,
Kingsland

Twilight Tales at
the Tabby Mills,
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM,
Sugar Mill
Ruins/Tabby Ruins

Board of County Commissioner’s Calendar
November 2026
November 2

November 3

November 4

November 5

General Election Day

November 9

Board of County
Commissioners
Regular Meeting 6:00
PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

November 10

November 6
Board of Elections
& Registration
Meeting, 3:00 PM,
Chambers,
Woodbine

November 11

November 12

November 13

November 19

November 20

November 26

November 27

County offices will
be closed in
observance of
Thanksgiving.

County offices will
be closed in
observance of
Thanksgiving.

County offices will
be closed in
observance of
Veteran’s Day.

November 16

November 23

November 30

November 17

November 18

Board of County
Commissioners
Regular Meeting 6:00
PM, Chambers,
Woodbine

Planning
Commission
Regular Meeting,
6:00 PM ROC,
Kingsland

November 24

November 25