Gwinnett County commissioners approve broad consent agenda, defer 2025 budget adoption to 2 p.m. business session

The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a large consent agenda of appointments, routine authorizations and contract awards and moved formal adoption of the county's 2025 operating, capital and grants budgets to the 2:00 p.m. business session for discussion.

The budget item (agenda 20 25 40) was presented by Russell Royal, acting director of Financial Services, who said the budget adoption had been advertised on Dec. 29 and requested that it be placed on the 2:00 p.m. business session for discussion. "The adoption of the 2025 budget was advertised on December 29 to be considered at today's 2PM meeting. Therefore, I request that this item be placed on discussion for this afternoon's 02:00 business session," Royal said. The board moved the item to discussion.

By unanimous consent the commissioners approved dozens of routine appointments across county boards and authorities, including reappointments and new appointees to bodies such as the Gwinnett County Water and Sewage Authority (agenda 20 25 21; 20 25 22; 20 25 82), the audit committee (20 25 27),…