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County work session reviews operations, audit concerns and discusses HB 581 'FLOST' option
Summary
At an Oct. 28 work session county staff reported operational updates—Paychex payroll live, fiber installation ongoing, motor grader repaired—and County Manager Thomas Weaver said an audit review raised questions about prior audits. Attendee Alan Horniday briefed the commission on HB 581, described in the meeting as 'FLOST,' and the potential opt-in implications for local sales-tax allocations and a homestead freeze.
At the Oct. 28 work session the Cusseta–Chattahoochee County Commission heard operational updates from department heads and a briefing on proposed state legislation referred to in the meeting as HB 581 or "FLOST."
Department updates included recreation events and a breast-cancer awareness walk (Mordie Askew), community-development plans for holiday events and two proposed conditional-use public hearings (Samantha Hedgecoke), and public-works repairs: plumbing fixes, road maintenance, repair of the motor grader and animal-control truck, a dock repair at Riverbend Park, installation of trash cans and a flagpole, and a new slab prepared for a radio building with radios distributed to crews (Tom Bickel). The county’s rabies clinic issued more than 100 vaccines and microchips, and a library reading garden advanced using library-construction funds (Lou Beck).
County Manager Thomas Weaver told commissioners the Paychex payroll system is live and fiber-installation contractors have encountered and repaired some hit water lines. Weaver said an annual audit with auditor David McCoy "ran into some things he did not like," prompting a review of prior audits before finalizing current work. Weaver said departments are largely on track budget-wise but the county will provide another update in the new year.
The meeting included a discussion of HB 581, described by attendees as a 'FLOST' option. According to the county manager and attendee Alan Horniday, the bill would create a local sales-tax option with separate buckets for education, transportation and a homestead-value freeze; passage would require local opt-in and a referendum. Weaver and the commission characterized the change as potentially beneficial to homesteaded properties but noted the county would need to decide whether to opt in if the law takes effect.
Kristy Laney, who was listed as a speaker, did not appear. The work session adjourned at 10:05 a.m.
