The board packet includes the SPLOST IX Agreement and Project Lists, as well as the agreements for the Opioid and Groundwater Claims and the Hightower Road Quit Claim and a resolution for the TREES Act.

This is for yesterday’s Work Session and this evening’s Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Collage, Packet @ LCC 2025-08-25-26

The SPLOST IX Agreement and Project Lists are the same as LAKE already published two weeks ago from a usually reliable source.

The entire board packet, obtained in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website, and images of each page are below.

It is still mysterious why Lowndes County does not publish its board packets on its own website, like many counties larger and smaller have done for years in Georgia and Florida.

See also the LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Work Session and the agenda.

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Agenda 2025-08-25-26

Millages and Opioid Litigation
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Adoption of the 2025 Millage Rate

The county-wide millage rate for 2025 should be set at the rollback rate of 5.051 mills. This represents a reduction of 0.232 mills from 2024.
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Adoption of Special District Millage for the Industrial

The Industrial Authority rate was set at 1.00 mill since it was first implemented, but was reduced to 0.823 mills in 2024. The proposed millage for 2025 for the Industrial Authority is 1.00 mill.
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Adoption of Special District Millage for the Parks and Recreation Authority for 2025

The Parks and Recreation Authority rate was set at 1.25 mills since it was first implemented. The proposed millage for 2025 for the Parks and Recreation Authority is 1.25 mills.
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Adoption of Special District Millage for Fire Services for

The 2025 rate should be set at 2.50 mills which is no change from the prior year millage.
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Opioid Litigation – Purdue Pharma

Special counsel for Lowndes County, Cale Conley, recommends Lowndes County participate in this settlement and accept the Purdue Bankruptcy Plan to receive funds from Purdue to abate the opioid crisis.
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Quit-Claim Deed of Abandoned Section of Hightower Road

The Air Force has now asked the County for a quit-claim deed of the abandoned section of right-of-way.
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SPLOST IX

Further to the SPLOST IX Agreement approved by the Board on August 4, 2025, and also thereafter by each of the cities, the Resolution of the Board of Commissioners calling for the tax to be reimposed is attached.
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TREES Act Resolution

Subsection (b) of this Act provides that the Board may grant temporary property tax relief from taxes levied for certain eligible standing timber pursuant to OCGA § 48-5-7.5 during the final quarter of 2024 and each quarter of 2025. Subsection (c) provides that to grant such temporary tax relief the Board shall adopt a resolution or ordinance including certain specified provisions.
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AFFF/PFAS Groundwater Claims

Stag Liuzza, a law firm in New Orleans that specializes in representing local governments in the AFFF/PFAA litigation, and Carothers & Mitchell, a law firm in Buford, Georgia, have offered their services to counties in Georgia related to making a claim for a portion of the settlement funds paid by 3M and DuPont. These firms would be paid on a contingency basis, i.e., attorneys’ fees and expenses would be taken out of any settlement recovery. If the County recovers nothing, it would pay nothing in fees and expenses to these firms.
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August-11-2025-Work-Session-Minutes

look at the land use pattern, you will notice that many of the lots surrounding this are more appropriate
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August-12-2025-Regular-Session-Minutes

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