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Votes at a glance: Lee County Board of Supervisors, Jan. 21, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and board votes taken during the Jan. 21 meeting; includes approvals for repairs, grants, committee appointments, training and a scheduled public hearing on personal property proration.
At its Jan. 21 meeting the Lee County Board of Supervisors recorded the following formal actions and votes. A public hearing was scheduled on vehicle tax proration for Feb. 18, 2025; no ordinance was adopted.
- Election of chair and vice chair: Brian Schumacher was nominated and approved as chair; a vice chair nomination was approved (recorded by roll call as "Aye").
- Agenda modification: The board approved adding a board-comments slot after public expression.
- Approval of minutes and routine payroll/bills: The board approved meeting minutes and routine payroll/bill payments.
- Dumpster repairs: Approved expenditure of $7,316.66 to repair 22 county dumpster bottoms (motion approved).
- Sales tax petition and public outreach: Board approved circulating a sales tax petition and agreed to run a quarter-page informational ad (motion approved); board members volunteered office locations to collect signatures.
- Ceasefire continuation grant: Board approved acceptance of the 2025-26 ceasefire grant solicitation/award (motion approved).
- Animal control repairs and training: Board approved $2,901.68 to repair animal-control fencing using previously donated funds and approved $1,200 for required animal-control training (motions approved).
- EDA local match for Tobacco Regional Opportunity Fund (Project Maggie): Board approved using $25,000 from EDA funds as a local match to pursue Tobacco Commission funding (motion approved).
- ACIP (airport) document: Board voted to approve the ACIP document for the airport (motion approved).
- Public hearing on prorating personal property tax: Board voted to advertise a public hearing (motion approved); date scheduled for Feb. 18, 2025.
Several other nominations and committee appointments were tabled or taken under advisement; some motions were introduced and withdrawn (notably a later motion to sell a county-owned parcel near the former airport, which was withdrawn pending deed review).
