Elbert County discusses adding discretion to fleet policy’s motor‑vehicle record standard

Feb 11, 2026

County fleet manager Ethan Me proposed advisory mileage benchmarks and flagged a section that could disqualify drivers for long‑past offenses. Commissioners asked staff to add explicit discretion or a lookback period and return the revised paragraph as an action item.

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Ethan Me, Elbert County fleet manager, presented revisions to the county’s fleet management policy on Feb. 11, including advisory mileage benchmarks and the integration of the pool‑vehicle policy into the main document. He highlighted section 12.2.12 on motor‑vehicle‑record (MVR) history and said the policy currently defines an "unsatisfactory MVR" to include DUI/DWI, vehicular homicide, or three or more moving violations or at‑fault accidents without an explicit lookback period.

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