BOCC votes to lower tentative millage rate for 2018-2019 …………….

By | July 27, 2018
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by Kathy Foster

 

Keeping their promise to county ad valorem taxpayers, the Washington County commissioners voted 5-0 on Thursday to set the 2018-2019 tentative millage rate at 8.9735, down from 9.2335.  

 

The first Budget Hearing on the 2018-2019 budget was set for 5:05 p.m., September 5th, at the County Annex on South Boulevard in Chipley.

 

Commissioners also voted 5-0 to grant a Special Exception Applicaiton to allow development of a cemetery on St. Marys Road in Caryville.  The Washington County Planning Commission earlier this month approved the application, although the Caryville City Council later voted 4-2 to deny the application.  On Wednesday Washington County commissioners commented that there was no legal reason to deny the application, stressing that it met all of the requirements of the County’s Comprehensive Plan.   

 

Shown at the left are Washington County Board of County Commissioners (l-r) Steve Joyner, Todd Abbott, Tray Hawkins, Alan Bush, Charles Kent.

 

 

Dealing with other agenda items, commissioners took the following actions:

 

  •  Approved placement of a 300-foot Wireless Communications Tower for C-4 Towers LLC, at 4173 Douglas Ferry Road.

 

  •  Agreed to assist the Caryville Fire Department in applying for a Firefighter Assistance Grant.

 

  •  Approved a Resolution in suppport of the State Road 77 widening project, from South of Ben Road to South of Cane Mill Road.

 

  •  Approved allowing the BOCC to deed 0.21 acres to the City of Vernon to permit that entity to conduct a land swap with Jim Harris.  In turn, Harris is to deed the parcel, which is known as  the parking lot for the Sportsplex, to the City of Vernon.

 

  •  Approved for the Washington County Public Works Department to purchase a Bat Wing Bush Hog from Modern Agriculture in the amount of $17,5000.

 

  •  Approved the sale of the Big Bend Building to Washington Human Services, LLC in the amount of $200,000, subject to the Commercial Contract/Purchase Agreement.

 

  •  Agreed to  release liens and administrative fees for parcels that were brought into compliance during the recent Amnesty period.