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Chatham County commission approves appointments, omnibus budget amendments and a new housing coordinator position
Summary
At its March 28 meeting the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved two board appointments, an omnibus package of budget amendments and created a new housing development coordinator position. Specific vote tallies were not provided in the public transcript.
Chatham County commissioners voted to confirm two appointments, approved a package of budget transfers and amendments, and approved creation of a new housing development coordinator position during the board’s March 28 public meeting.
The board appointed Steve Green to the Savannah Economic Development Authority and Herman Washington to the Chatham County Recreation Authority. A motion to approve an omnibus set of budget amendments and transfers also passed; the package moved funds among the general fund, state and local fiscal recovery fund, multiple grant fund, capital improvement program fund and sales tax fund. The board also approved establishing a housing development coordinator position in the county workforce.
Board members did not read roll-call vote totals in the recorded public transcript for these items. The minutes show motions, a second, and that votes were cast; the transcript does not supply individual “yes/no/abstain” names or numeric tallies for each action. The clerk recorded the motions as approved in sequence during the meeting.
The omnibus budget item listed several specific transfers in the motion: a $27,000 transfer in the general fund (strategy planning operations to salary and benefits); a transfer of $1,809,108 from a public library project in the state and local fiscal recovery fund to the sales tax fund; an increase of $500,000 in the multiple grant fund for supplemental funding from the Georgia Office of Child Advocacy; and a $106,330 transfer from contingency in the Capital Improvement Program fund to establish a creek upgrade project. The transcript contains an unclear large figure related to sales tax fund project expenditures; that figure is garbled in the recording and is not restated by staff in the transcript, so the article flags that total as not specified in the record.
Commissioners recessed into an executive session later in the meeting for acquisition, appointments and litigation, the chairman announced.
Ending: The clerk will reflect these approvals in the formal minutes and personnel/finance records. No implementation dates or additional reporting requirements for the new housing coordinator position were stated on the public record during the discussion.
