Pickens County Development Authority authorizes sewer easements to Jasper and approves dismissal of dispossessory case

The Pickens County Development Authority on an administrative motion authorized the chairperson and secretary to prepare and execute deeds and easements to convey sewer lift station infrastructure and related sanitary sewer lines crossing tax map parcel 041081001 to the City of Jasper, contingent on review and approval by the authority’s legal counsel.

The action followed an executive session on pending or potential litigation and other legal matters. The authority also voted to authorize its attorney, Melissa Tracy, to dismiss with prejudice a dispossessory action styled Development Authority of Pickens County v. North Georgia Financial Holdings LLC, civil action file number 2024SUCV0600, in the Superior Court of Pickens County; the transcript record shows a recorded vote of 4–0 on that motion (the transcript includes a conflicting count in one passage). Mayor Radford recused himself from the easement vote as recorded in the minutes.

Chairman Shaw presided over the meeting. The easement authorization is limited to documents associated with the sewer lift station, sanitary gravity sewer lines and related infrastructure crossing the named parcel and is contingent on the authority’s legal review before execution. The motions and the votes were recorded during the meeting’s executive-session actions and subsequent motions to implement outcomes of that session.

The authority previously considered closing certain bank accounts and other administrative matters during the same meeting; the conveyance, the dismissal of the dispossessory action, and the recusal were recorded as formal actions in the meeting minutes.

The authority scheduled no additional details about the physical transfer timetable of the infrastructure in the minutes; the motions require legal review and any further steps will be subject to counsel approval and any related city or county administrative processes.