Bryan County adopts 5.77-mill rollback rate and approves multiple road, water and development contracts
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Summary
At its Sept. 9 meeting the Bryan County Board of Commissioners adopted the 2025 rollback millage rate (5.77 mills) and approved contracts and change orders including a $359,000 roundabout task order, a $612,053 water transmission change order, a transportation contribution agreement and awards for aerial imagery and commercial reassessment.
The Bryan County Board of Commissioners adopted the 2025 rollback millage rate of 5.77 mills at its Sept. 9 meeting and approved a series of contracts and development agreements across transportation, water and tax-assessment work.
County finance staff recommended the rollback rate of 5.77 mills, which commissioners adopted by voice vote. County staff noted the board has adopted the rollback rate for nine consecutive years; one commissioner observed the county's millage had fallen from 9.15 in 2016 to 5.77 in 2025.
Major approved items included:
- A resolution requesting Georgia Department of Transportation reduce posted speed limits on Belfast River Road (55→45 mph between Harris Trail Road and Belfast Killer Road; school-zone limits to 25 mph) and permission to use speed-detection devices. Commissioners authorized transmittal to GDOT.
- Task Order 41A for the Wilma Edwards Road/US-280 single-lane roundabout: board approved a change-in-scope observation/engineering contract in the amount of $359,000 to support construction observation and the state transfer process.
- Change order 1 for the Bryan water transmission main (Phase 3): approved $612,053 to cover piping and booster-station revisions, property acquisitions and revised contract dates; staff said the work is funded by a state grant and ARPA-eligible water/sewer funds.
- A transportation improvement contribution agreement for Port Royal Road development: the board approved an agreement assigning construction and payment obligations among Bryan County and two developers (HIC Port Royal Development LLC and Employer Investments Port Royal LLC) where annexation altered impact-fee collection.
- Contracts and awards: authorization to execute an imagery-flight contract with EagleView for countywide aerial imagery; authorization to execute a commercial-property reassessment contract with Georgia Mass Appraisal Solutions and Services Inc.
- A negotiated private development agreement with Belfast XG LLC for Belfast Killer Road improvements was authorized for the chairman's signature.
Commissioners approved each item by motion and voice vote; detailed roll-call tallies were not read into the record for most items. Several staff presenters and commissioners underscored the public-safety rationale behind traffic and road improvements and said engineering work would proceed under existing budget authorities.
What happens next: contracts will be executed and staff will proceed with project administration. The water project change order includes revised milestone dates of April 30, 2026 and June 29, 2026 for substantial completion milestones as stated by staff.