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Fayette County board adopts fire-services report, withdraws proposed fee changes and recognizes water, fire volunteers
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Summary
At its May 22 meeting the Board adopted the 2024 Fire Services impact-fee report for transmission to state and regional agencies, approved several recognitions including water-system awards and an AMI project honor, and backed staff recommendations to withdraw proposed Development Impact Fee amendments.
At its May 22, 2025 meeting the Fayette County Board of Commissioners took routine and informational actions including adoption of a required annual report on fire-services impact fees, recognition of local public-safety and water-system achievements, and approval of staff recommendations on development-impact fee amendments.
The Board adopted Resolution 2025-03 to transmit the Fayette County 2024 Annual Report on Fire Services Impact Fees and related Comprehensive Plan amendments for FY2025–FY2029 to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Atlanta Regional Commission. Staff and the towns of Tyrone, Brooks and Woolsey collaborated on the report; the DCA and ARC had already provided notifications of compliance. The motion to adopt and transmit the resolution passed 4-0 (Vice Chairman Edward Gibbons absent).
Staff recommended withdrawing proposed changes to Article XII (Development Impact Fee) after legal review found the proposed amendments involved only limited legal changes. Commissioners approved staff’s recommendation to retain the existing Article XII and withdraw the proposed amendments, 4-0.
During the recognitions portion of the meeting, Fire Chief Jeff Hill presented graduates of the 10-week Fire & Emergency Services Citizen Fire Academy. Water System Director Vanessa Tigert introduced Pam Burnett, executive director of the Georgia Association of Water Professionals, who presented Gold Awards for 2024 to Fayette County’s Crosstown and South Fayette water treatment plants for full compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and NPDES permit requirements. Tigert also presented the inaugural Fayette County Water System 'Water Drop' award to 37-year employee Johnny Hudson for sustained work on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) rollout; staff said the AMI project is scheduled for completion by the end of June.
In public comment, resident Keith Bardo urged the county to restore curbside recycling options for areas outside Peachtree City; Chairman Lee Hearn said the question “came down to dollars” and that recycling programs must make fiscal sense. Other residents raised concerns tied to the contested rezoning (traffic and pollution near Highway 85 and Corinth Road).
County Administrator Steve Rapson updated the Board on stormwater, transportation and parks projects, announced two public hearings on the FY2026 budget (June 12 and June 26), and said he had made an offer to hire an Assistant County Manager (Jason Tinsley). The Board recessed into executive session to discuss two threatened-litigation items and review prior executive-session minutes, then returned and approved the executive-session affidavit and minutes before adjourning at 6:10 p.m.