December 7, 2023, Camden County Commission meeting at 10:00 a.m.

I attended the December 7, 2023, Camden County Commission meeting at 10:00 a.m.

All commissioners were present.

Commissioner Gohagan mentioned he had watched the previous Commission meeting online and he approved of the idea of selecting primary and alternate vendors for some Camden County contracts.

The first agenda item was Budget Changes / Enhancements.

The County Auditor wasn’t present at the meeting so the Commission voted to table this item until he could be present. Apparently, the Auditor was not aware he was going to be on the agenda.

The second agenda item was Huber/IT Issue – Email Preservation.

The Commission will pay Huber an extra $1,200 annually to amend their IT contract to retain and archive internal Camden County email correspondence. In other words, Camden County will now start preventing the destruction of deleted emails that should have been retained all along.

This was approved by the Commission.

Kendra Hicks, the County Treasurer, reported that the the county has received its share of the sales tax from one single marijuana dispensary so far.

For October 2023 alone, the county’s 3% sales tax portion was $18,946. (That’s a pretty hefty 3% chunk from a single dispensary for just one month! I might need to get out of the blogging business!)

A citizen was also present to voice her complaints to the commissioners about the condition of the roadway at Four Waters Drive. She asked the Commission to allocate additional money to the roads. (Maybe even some of that marijuana money?) She described that her road currently has giant raised areas on it that drivers attempt to avoid by driving around them. She emailed me a few photos of the road (Thanks, Linda!):

Commissioner Williams commented that Road and Bridge have added patches over the previous existing patches. Unfortunately, it’s currently too cold to properly patch the road. They are going to try to mill the tops off of the elevated patches.

County Auditor Laughlin appeared at the end of the meeting and explained that the Budget Amendment on the agenda was for $7,500. This was funding for inmate transports by the Sheriff that the Sheriff’s Office gets reimbursed for by the State. It would cause no net change in the budget.

And that was that.