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ZEBULON - The second meeting of the Pike County Public Facilities Authority will be held on May 22, 205 at 4 p.m. in the Conference Room in the County Commission Office located at 331 Thomaston Street.

The agenda is below as well as the minutes from the first meeting and a link to the Development Agreement between the county and the authority.

The public was invited to attend this meeting.

Attending were County Commissioners Tim Guy and Ken Pullin (Vice Chairman), Commission Chairman Briar Johnson, members Jenne Rae Overton and Jack Hancock (Chairman), and County Attorney/County Manager Rob Morton.

I. CALL TO ORDER: 4 p.m.

Chairman Hancock requested that item V. NEW BUSINESS: A. RATIFY PREVIOUS ACTIONS be moved to the beginning of the meeting. Motion and 2nd was made. Approved by all.

[Note from the Editor: The first meeting was not publicized like it should have been--especially since there are 3 commissioners on this board so it HAS to be public, but this was corrected by the New Business item to ratify previous actions. I am thankful for the concern that was shown for open meetings by this Board by ratifying everything in the new meeting to be sure that things are done properly.]

V. NEW BUSINESS:

A. RATIFY PREVIOUS ACTIONS

Motion and 2nd was made to ratify actions made at previous meeting. Approved by all.

II. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA

Motion to approve amended agenda. 2nd given. Approved by all.

III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Minutes from May 2, 2025

Motion and 2nd to approve. Approved by all.

IV. OLD BUSINESS

A. TAX ID

Morton advised that they have received their tax ID. No action required.

B. BANK ACCOUNTS INCLUDING LOCAL ACCOUNT FOR GEORGIA FUND ACCOUNT AND RELATED SIGNATORIES

Morton. Spoken with them, and they know that it will be dealing with action.

C. GWYN STREET PROPERTY: Development Agreement with Pike County
pikecountytimes.com/secondary/DevelopmentAgreementfor94GwynStreet5.14.25.pdf
[Note from the Editor: This is the old Health Department. You can look at this property on Qpublic from the Tax Assessor's page on https://qpublic.net/ga/pike/.

Motion to approve and execute this from the BOC at the past meeting. Motion to approve the agreement and allow the Chairman to sign. Approved 5-0.

D. COUNTY PROPERTY AND PUBLIC FACILITIES: Board of Education Property

Inquired with the BOE about their desire to sell or transfer the 2 acres for public access with the bus barn. Received info including the cost for a new bus barn and the price of the property. Info has been provided to the BOC and specifics have been provided including underground fuel tanks that will need to be addressed.

V. NEW BUSINESS:

A. RATIFY PREVIOUS ACTIONS: Moved to the beginning of the meeting.

VI. MEMBER REPORTS/COMMENTS: None

VII. ADJOURNMENT

Motion and 2nd to adjourn. Approved at 4:08 p.m.

MINUTES- INITIAL MEETING MAY 2, 2025
PIKE COUNTY PUBLIC FACILITIES AUTHORITY

[Note from the Editor: These minutes are verbatim since I was not notified about the meeting prior to it being held. That was rectified with notification about the second meeting and these minutes being sent to me by County Attorney/Manager Rob Morton.]

I. CALL TO ORDER. The initial meeting of the Pike County Public Facilities Authority was called to order at 4:00 p.m.

II. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA. Jack Hancock moved to approve the agenda, and the motion was seconded by Tim Guy and was unanimously approved.

III. INTRODUCTIONS. The Board Members, Briar Johnson, Tim Guy, Ken Pullin, Jenne Rae Overton, and Jack Hancock, introduced themselves as did the county manager, Rob Morton.

IV. ELECTIONS.
A. CHAIRPERSON. Tim Guy moved to appoint Jack Hancock as Chairperson, which was seconded by Ken Pullin and unanimously approved.
B. VICE CHAIRPERSON. Tim Guy moved to appoint Ken Pullin as Vice Chairperson, which was seconded by Jack Hancock and unanimously approved.
C. SECRETARY-TREASURER. Ken Pullin moved to appoint the county manager, Rob Morton, as the Secretary-Treasurer, which was seconded by Briar Johnson and unanimously approved.

V. BUSINESS ITEMS

A. AUTHORIZE TAX ID. Jenna Rae Overton moved to obtain a tax identification number for the Authority, which was seconded by Tim Guy and unanimously approved.

B. AUTHORIZE BANK ACCOUNTS INCLUDING LOCAL ACCOUNT FOR GEORGIA FUND ACCOUNT AND RELATED SIGNATORIES. Tim Guy moved to open a Georgia Fund account for the Authority as well as an account with United Bank in connection with the Georgia Fund account, which was seconded by Briar Johnson and unanimously approved.

C. GWYN STREET PROPERTY. Rob Morton provided background information regarding the approved property transfer to the Authority. There was much discussion regarding the approved transfer of property by the Authority including the request for Rob Morton to obtain an updated market valuation.

D. COUNTY PROPERTY AND PUBLIC FACILITIES

1. Debt Obligation. There was discussion regarding the County’s debt obligation related to county property.
2. Sheriff’s Operations and Jail. There was discussion about a proposed facility for the Sheriff’s operations and jail.
3. Conduit for the County regarding the debt and financing issues. There was discussion regarding serving as a conduit to pay off the existing debt obligation.

E. CLARIFICATION OF TERMS. Jenne Rae Overton moved to clarify that the terms of the non-commissioner authority members (Overton and Hancock) shall be for three (3) years beginning January 1, 2025, which was seconded by Jack Hancock and unanimously approved.

F. FUTURE MEETINGS. The next meeting of the Authority will be May 22, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. A called meeting can be scheduled if necessary. [Note from the Editor: This was changed to 4 p.m. when another meeting was scheduled at 5:30 prior to the 6:30 2nd Reading of the Budget ... all on the same day.]

VI. OPEN FORUM. There was discussion about quorums and open meeting requirements in connection with the meeting(s) of the Authority.

VII. ADJOURNMENT. Ken Pullin moved to adjourn the meeting at 4:08 p.m., which was seconded by Briar Johnson and unanimously approved.