Board of Commissioners - November 3, 2026 Regular Meeting

At the November 3, 2026 regular meeting, the Liberty County Board of Commissioners approved a contract with Berkeley Buckley & Associates to design a coroner’s office and morgue. The contract amount was not stated; commissioners discussed using funds identified for the coroner in the anticipated SPLOST VII. The board also approved an emergency incident management system contract with ESI Acquisitions to move from a locally hosted system to a cloud solution, at an annual cost of $20,186 plus a one-time $1,800 conversion fee. The expense was described as budgeted, and the contract was to receive county attorney review.

The board held a public hearing on the proposed 2026 property tax millage rate. Staff described a planned reduction and cited $3.6 million in the county’s share of five months of floating local option sales tax revenue, equivalent to about 1.65 mills; the hearing transcript does not show a final millage vote. Commissioners also discussed proposed water and wastewater fee adjustments, but no clear vote on the fee schedule is captured. They authorized advertising a public hearing for proposed Unified Development Ordinance amendments, scheduled for December 1; the changes include making certain commercial uses conditional and revising sign, accessory-structure, temporary-use, and well-lot provisions. No further procurement decision on those proposed rules was made at this meeting.