Stephens Co. Commission Meets This Morning

Stephens County Commissioners will start their calendar year this morning with a regularly scheduled meeting and work session.

The county commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa for its first meeting of 2017.

With this being the first meeting of the year, the county commission will take up a number of yearly measures, including the election of a commission chair and vice-chair.

Those two positions are chosen from among the five commissioners.

County commissioners will also make various appointments to boards that the commission is represented on and also set its meeting dates and times for 2017.

Also on today’s meeting agenda is consideration of a motion to award the legal services bid and appoint the law offices of Sanders, Ranck, and Skilling as Stephens County Attorney, as well as consideration of a motion to award the Stephens County Fire Services Brush Truck bid to Mike Jones Ford for the Big Smith Volunteer Fire Department.

Today’s 8:30 a.m. Stephens County Commission meeting is open to the public.