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Ben Hill County commissioners approve surplus resolution, submit hospital board nominations and name voting delegate
Summary
At its Aug. 6 meeting, the Ben Hill County Board of Commissioners approved a surplus property resolution, submitted three names to the Hospital Authority to fill a vacancy and appointed Vice‑Chair Hope Harmon as the county's voting delegate for the Legislative Leadership Conference.
The Ben Hill County Board of Commissioners approved a surplus property resolution and made several personnel and conference appointments at its Aug. 6 regular meeting at the Ben Hill County Courthouse Annex.
Vice‑Chair Hope Harmon moved to approve the surplus property resolution; Commissioner John Mooney seconded and the motion passed with Vice‑Chair Harmon, Commissioner Mooney, Commissioner Bennie Calloway and Commissioner Daniel Cowan voting in favor. The minutes record those four commissioners as voting for the motion; the minutes do not specify additional votes or abstentions.
Commissioner Daniel Cowan moved to appoint Vice‑Chair Hope Harmon as Ben Hill County’s voting delegate to the 2019 Legislative Leadership Conference; Commissioner John Mooney seconded. The motion passed with Commissioners Cowan, Mooney, Calloway and Vice‑Chair Harmon recorded as voting for the motion.
On board appointments, Commissioner John Mooney moved to submit the names Lawton Lovett, Scott Spivey and Quincy Frank Gilleland to the Hospital Authority to fill a vacancy; Vice‑Chair Hope Harmon seconded. The motion passed with Mooney, Harmon, Calloway and Cowan recorded as voting in favor. Hospital Authority Board Member Stephen Pair earlier provided an operational and financial report to the commissioners and distributed handouts with hospital operational and financial details.
The meeting minutes list routine procedural approvals earlier in the meeting, including approval of the meeting agenda and the July 2 and July 25 meeting minutes. Chairman Steve Taylor called the meeting to order and later reminded commissioners that the September regular meeting date was changed from Sept. 3 to Sept. 10 because of Labor Day. The meeting adjourned following a noted executive session (no content of the executive session appears in the minutes).
