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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 – 6:30 p.m.
Courthouse Annex, 79 Jackson Street, Zebulon, Georgia
**** Click here to read a copy of the official minutes from this meeting since Pike County Times.com did not attend this meeting.
1. CALL TO ORDER....................................................................................Chairman J. Briar Johnson
2. INVOCATION……………………………………………………………………………Ben Maxedon
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE...................................................................Chairman J. Briar Johnson
4. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA - (O.C.G A. § 50-14-1 (e) (1))
5. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES - (O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1(e) (2))
Minutes of the July 9, 2014 Regular Monthly Meeting.
6. INVITED GUESTS - None
7. REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONS, DEPARTMENTS, COMMITTEES, AUTHORITIES
a. Monthly Reports submitted from County Departments and County Authorities, including a Revenue/Expenditure Statement for all departments, and a summary check register.
b. County Manager Report
▫ Update on County finances for the following funds/accounts:
General Fund ............................................................................................ $1,701,190.72
Fire Dept. Donations........................................................................................ $1,200.46
Cash Reserve Account................................................................................. $176,527.22
Jail Fund ........................................................................................................ $35,492.64
E-911 Fund .................................................................................................... $36,991.46
DATE Fund ................................................................................................... $31,333.87
Juvenile Court Fund....................................................................................... $18,676.90
Residential Impact Fee ................................................................................ $270,483.13
Commercial Impact Fees ............................................................................... $11,427.04
General Obligation SPLOST Tax Bond Sinking Fund, 2011...................... $214,220.86
L.M.I. Grant (DOT)..................................................................................... $253,321.14
c. County Manager Comments.
d. Commissioner Reports.
e. County Attorney Report to Commissioners.
8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Approve/deny Second Reading of the Solar Farm Ordinance.
9. NEW BUSINESS
a. Per Section 155.03, a previously approve plat with proposed lot line changes for two parcels is being submitted to the Board of Commissioners for approval. The parcels front Hwy. 362 West and are also known as Tax Map Parcel #038 036 and #038 036C respectively.
b. Per Section 155.03, a previously approved plat with proposed lot line changes for two parcels is being submitted to the Board of Commissioners for approval. The parcels front McDaniel Road and are also known as Tax Map Parcel #095 048 and #095 048A respectively.
c. PUBLIC HEARING: To receive public input on REZ-14-05 – Sheila F. Everitte, property owner, and Reggie Blount, applicant, are requesting a re-zoning fromM-1 (Manufacturing – Rural) to C-3 (Heavy Commercial to allow for the continued use of mini-warehouse storage units on the subject property. The subject property, located on U.S. Hwy. 19, will have approximately 165 feet of frontage along the western side of U.S. Highway 19. The property is located in Land Lot 206 of the 8th District of Pike County, Georgia. If approved, the property will consist of 2.00 acres and is further identified as a portion of Tax Map #084 024C.
Action: Discuss/Approve/Deny
d. PUBLIC HEARING: To receive public input on REZ-14-06 – Sheila F. Everitte, property owner and applicant, is requesting a re-zoning from M-1 (Manufacturing - Rural) to M-2B (Manufacturing Heavy) to allow for a recycling center on the subject property. The subject property, located at 1407 U.S. Hwy. 19 (former site of Everitte Enterprises), currently has approximately 322 feet of total frontage along the western side of U.S. Highway 19. The property is located in Land Lot 206 of the 8th District of Pike County, Georgia. The property currently consists of approximately 5.61 total acres and is further identified as a portion of Tax Map Parcel #084 024C.
Action: Discuss/Approve/Deny
e. PUBLIC HEARING: To receive public input on Code Section 154.05, of the Pike County Environmental Review Committee's July 24, 2014 reports concerning SE-14-05 and SE-14-06.
Action: Discuss/Approve/Deny
f. PUBLIC HEARING: To receive public input on SE-14-05 – J. David and Kathy Hughes, property owners, and Beaufort Rosemary, LLC, applicant, are requesting a special exception in an A-R zoned district to allow for a solar photovoltaic farm / solar electricity generating facility on a portion of the subject property (+/-80 acres). The entire property, located at 1101 Williamson Zebulon Road, has approximately 2713 total feet of frontage along the west side of Williamson Zebulon Road, approximately 2555 total feet of frontage along the north side of County Farm Road, and approximately 750 total feet along the south side of Drew Allen Road. The entire property is located in Land Lots 1 and 32 of the 2nd District and Land Lots 225 and 256 of the 8th District of Pike County, Georgia. The entire property consists of 122.97 acres and is further identified as Tax Map Parcel #066 020. (A portion of the total property is within the city limits of Zebulon and is zoned industrial. This hearing pertains to the County portion only.)
Action: Discuss/Approve/Deny
g. PUBLIC HEARING: To receive public input on SE-14-06 – Stephen F. Brown Trustee for the Laura Brown Credit Shelter Trust and Chad Proctor, property owners, and Beaufort Rosemary, LLC, applicant, are requesting a special exception in an A-R zoned district to allow for a solar photovoltaic farm / solar electricity generating facility on a portion of the subject property (+/-100 acres). The entire property, located on County Farm Road, has approximately 2220 total feet of frontage along the south side of County Farm Road, approximately 100 feet of frontage along the east side of County Farm Road. The entire property is located in Land Lot 15 of the 9th District of Pike County, Georgia. The entire property consists of 133.58 acres and is further identified as Tax Map Parcel #066 003.
Action: Discuss/Approve/Deny
h. Consider one appointment to the Pike County Family and Children Services Board to fill a five-year term set to expire June 30, 2019. Applicant has met criteria.
i. Consider authorizing a referendum for the November ballot allowing “the governing authority to issue licenses to sell distilled spirits for beverage purposes by the drink, such sales to be for consumption only on the premises”
10. PUBLIC COMMENT- (Limited to 5 minutes per person)
11. EXECUTIVE SESSION
12. ADJOURNMENT
Agenda subject to revision.
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