County Government Information Catalog 2007 Government Management Indicators Survey GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS 2007 Government Management Indicators Survey County Government Information Catalog GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNTY AFFAIRS Research Services 60 Executive Park South, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30329-2231 March 2008 If you are disabled and would like to receive this publication in an alternative format, please contact the Georgia Department of Community Affairs at (404) 679-4940 or 1-(800)-651-7954 (TDD). COUNTY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION CATALOG: 2007 Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................i Alphabetical Index to Counties ...................................................................................I-1 to I-3 Chapter 1: Management Functions...................................................Section 1-Summary to Page 1-5 Chapter 2: Services Provided .....................................................Section 2.a-Summary to Page 2.b-5 Chapter 3: Public Facilities........................................................Section 3.a-Summary to Page 3.b-5 Chapter 4: Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures.......................Section 4.a-Summary to Page 4.d-6 Chapter 5: Financial Management Practices.....................................Section 5.a-Summary to Page 5.f-5 Chapter 6: Economic Development Activities..................................Section 6.a-Summary to Page 6.d-5 Chapter 7: Public Safety.............................................................Section 7.a-Summary to Page 7.c-6 Chapter 8: Form of Government.................................................... Section 8-Summary to Page 8-5 Chapter 9: E-Government......................................................... ...Section 9-Summary to Page 9-5 Note: Page numbering is based on the tables contained within each chapter. Each chapter has separate page numbers. Click on the red Chapter link to move directly to that chapter. Acknowledgement The Department of Community Affairs acknowledges and thanks the local government officials who responded to the Government Management Indicators (GOMI) survey that result in this report. COUNTY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION CATALOG: 2007 What Information is Included in the Catalog? The Government Information Catalog is a comprehensive guide to the organization and operations of Georgia's local governments. The Catalog is unique in that it provides the data collected directly from local governments including: Management functions Services provided Financial management practices Planning, zoning and development procedures Public facilities Economic development activities Public safety Form of government E-Government What is the Purpose of the Catalog? Local elected officials, administrators, state agencies and academics are among those who find the Catalog a useful source of comprehensive information on local government operations in the State. While providing information on specific subjects such as public safety or services provided, the primary purpose of the Catalog is identifying general patterns of government management and operations. Cautions: Due to the large variety of local conditions and characteristics of the governments participating in the mandated survey and the turnover of local government employees, individual responses to specific survey questions may not be consistent from year to year. In addition, data is selfreported and not verified by an outside source. The data presented is best used in summary form to reflect general management practices and services among governments of a similar size. How is the Data Collected? The data was collected through the Government Management Indicators (GOMI) survey prepared by the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and administered to every county in Georgia with a response rate of 99 percent (158 counties of the 159 counties). How Do I Use the Catalog? 1. Determine the population group of the county for which you want information and whether the county responded to the survey. In each of the tables, counties are grouped by population and listed alphabetically within in each group to aid comparisons of similarly sized counties. 2. Use the "Table of Contents" to determine which tables are most likely to have the information you need. 3. Note that each chapter is paginated separately. Some chapters have several sets of tables with pages numbered accordingly. Example: Page 2.b 1 is the first page of the second table (Table B) in Chapter Two (Services Provided). 4. Each set of tables is preceded by a summary of totals and averages for each population group. The summary tables are useful for comparing an individual county to an aggregate of governments in its population group, and provide an overview of the data in each table. Department of Community Affairs Index to County Governments County 1 Appling 2 Athens-Clarke * 3 Atkinson 4 Augusta/Richmond * 5 Bacon 6 Baker 7 Baldwin 8 Banks 9 Barrow 10 Bartow 11 Ben Hill 12 Berrien 13 Bibb 14 Bleckley 15 Brantley 16 Brooks 17 Bryan 18 Bulloch 19 Burke 20 Butts 21 Calhoun 22 Camden 23 Candler 24 Carroll 25 Catoosa 26 Charlton 27 Chatham 2006 Population Population group 17,860 D 112,787 A 8,047 F 194,398 A 10,482 E 4,098 F 45,275 C 16,445 D 63,702 B 91,266 B 17,635 D 16,756 D 154,903 A 12,353 E 15,735 D 16,464 D 29,648 C 63,207 B 22,986 D 23,561 D 6,094 F 45,118 C 10,674 E 107,325 A 62,016 B 10,882 E 241,411 A Responded to survey Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes * - Consolidated county/city government. County 28 Chattooga 29 Cherokee 30 Clay 31 Clayton 32 Clinch 33 Cobb 34 Coffee 35 Colquitt 36 Columbia 37 Columbus/Muscogee * 38 Cook 39 Coweta 40 Crawford 41 Crisp 42 Cusseta-Chattahoochee * 43 Dade 44 Dawson 45 Decatur 46 DeKalb 47 Dodge 48 Dooly 49 Dougherty 50 Douglas 51 Early 52 Echols 53 Effingham 54 Elbert 2006 Population Population group 26,442 C 195,327 A 3,180 F 271,240 A 6,897 F 679,325 A 40,242 C 44,821 C 106,887 A 188,660 A 16,333 D 115,291 A 12,823 E 22,051 D 14,041 E 16,233 D 20,643 D 28,665 C 723,602 A 19,700 D 11,748 E 94,773 B 119,557 A 12,065 E 4,274 F 48,954 C 20,768 D Responded to survey Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes I - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Index to County Governments County 55 Emanuel 56 Evans 57 Fannin 58 Fayette 59 Floyd 60 Forsyth 61 Franklin 62 Fulton 63 Gilmer 64 Glascock 65 Glynn 66 Gordon 67 Grady 68 Greene 69 Gwinnett 70 Habersham 71 Hall 72 Hancock 73 Haralson 74 Harris 75 Hart 76 Heard 77 Henry 78 Houston 79 Irwin 80 Jackson 81 Jasper 2006 Population Population group 22,600 D 11,425 E 22,319 D 106,671 A 95,322 B 150,968 A 21,691 D 960,009 A 28,175 C 2,720 F 73,630 B 51,419 B 25,082 C 15,534 D 757,104 A 41,112 C 173,256 A 9,677 F 28,616 C 28,785 C 24,276 D 11,472 E 178,033 A 127,530 A 10,403 E 55,778 B 13,624 E Responded to survey Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes * - Consolidated county/city government. County 82 Jeff Davis 83 Jefferson 84 Jenkins 85 Johnson 86 Jones 87 Lamar 88 Lanier 89 Laurens 90 Lee 91 Liberty 92 Lincoln 93 Long 94 Lowndes 95 Lumpkin 96 Macon 97 Madison 98 Marion 99 McDuffie 100 McIntosh 101 Meriwether 102 Miller 103 Mitchell 104 Monroe 105 Montgomery 106 Morgan 107 Murray 108 Newton I - 2 2006 Population Population group 13,278 E 16,768 D 8,725 F 9,626 F 26,973 C 16,679 D 7,723 F 47,316 C 32,495 C 62,571 B 8,257 F 11,452 E 97,844 B 25,462 C 13,817 E 27,837 C 7,276 F 21,917 D 11,248 E 22,881 D 6,239 F 23,852 D 24,443 D 9,067 F 17,908 D 41,398 C 91,451 B Responded to survey Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Index to County Governments County 109 Oconee 110 Oglethorpe 111 Paulding 112 Peach 113 Pickens 114 Pierce 115 Pike 116 Polk 117 Pulaski 118 Putnam 119 Quitman 120 Rabun 121 Randolph 122 Rockdale 123 Schley 124 Screven 125 Seminole 126 Spalding 127 Stephens 128 Stewart 129 Sumter 130 Talbot 131 Taliaferro 132 Tattnall 133 Taylor 134 Telfair 135 Terrell 2006 Population Population group 30,858 C 13,997 E 121,530 A 24,785 D 29,640 C 17,452 D 16,801 D 41,091 C 9,887 F 19,930 D 2,486 F 16,354 D 7,357 F 80,332 B 4,198 F 15,190 D 9,168 F 62,185 B 25,143 C 4,754 F 32,490 C 6,605 F 1,877 F 23,492 D 8,792 F 13,268 E 10,657 E Responded to survey Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes * - Consolidated county/city government. County 136 Thomas 137 Tift 138 Toombs 139 Towns 140 Treutlen 141 Troup 142 Turner 143 Twiggs 144 Union 145 Upson 146 Walker 147 Walton 148 Ware 149 Warren 150 Washington 151 Wayne 152 Webster 153 Wheeler 154 White 155 Whitfield 156 Wilcox 157 Wilkes 158 Wilkinson 159 Worth I - 3 2006 Population Population group 45,135 C 41,685 C 27,623 C 10,525 E 6,852 F 63,245 B 9,322 F 10,184 E 20,652 D 27,676 C 64,606 B 79,388 B 35,748 C 5,949 F 20,723 D 28,895 C 2,252 F 6,908 F 24,738 D 92,999 B 8,712 F 10,468 E 9,995 F 21,938 D Responded to survey Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 1 Management Functions This chapter covers the provision of certain management functions that can be performed by local governments. Ways a government may provide a management function: A. Own-government provided directly by the government B. Other government agreement with other local government(s) C. RDC contracted with regional development commission D. Private contracted with a private provider E. Combination combination of one or more of the above functions F. NP function not provided Types of management functions include: Accounts Payable/Receivable Archiving & Historical Data Collecting & Maintaining Land Use Data Geographic Information System Issuing Occupation Tax Certificates Law Enforcement Records Maintaining Court Records Payroll Preparation Tax Assessment Tax Billing Tax Digest Utility Bill Preparation Voter Registration Department of Community Affairs Section 1: Management Functions - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number performing management functions in-house Number reporting Accounts payable/ receivable # % Archiving and historical data # % Collecting and maintaining land use data # % 21 21 100.0% 19 90.5% 20 95.2% 18 18 100.0% 11 61.1% 7 38.9% 30 30 100.0% 12 40.0% 14 46.7% 36 35 97.2% 20 55.6% 18 50.0% 22 22 100.0% 12 54.5% 7 31.8% 31 31 100.0% 15 48.4% 9 29.0% 158 157 99.4% 89 56.3% 75 47.5% Geographic information systems # % 18 85.7% 10 55.6% 12 40.0% 13 36.1% 5 22.7% 2 6.5% 60 38.0% Issusing occupation tax certificates # % 19 90.5% 10 55.6% 19 63.3% 22 61.1% 11 50.0% 8 25.8% 89 56.3% Law enforcement records # % 18 85.7% 16 88.9% 27 90.0% 35 97.2% 22 100.0% 30 96.8% 148 93.7% Maintaining court records # % 20 95.2% 15 83.3% 27 90.0% 33 91.7% 22 100.0% 29 93.5% 146 92.4% Number performing management functions in-house Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Payroll preparation # % Tax assessment # % 19 90.5% 19 18 100.0% 17 27 90.0% 26 34 94.4% 33 20 90.9% 19 30 96.8% 25 148 93.7% 139 90.5% 94.4% 86.7% 91.7% 86.4% 80.6% 88.0% Tax billing # % 16 76.2% 12 66.7% 13 43.3% 17 47.2% 10 45.5% 17 54.8% 85 53.8% Tax digest # % 19 90.5% 15 83.3% 23 76.7% 30 83.3% 14 63.6% 22 71.0% 123 77.8% Utility bill preparation # % 12 57.1% 4 22.2% 10 33.3% 9 25.0% 4 18.2% 10 32.3% 49 31.0% Voter registration # % 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 30 100.0% 36 100.0% 21 95.5% 30 96.8% 154 97.5% Section 1 - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 1: Management Functions County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton How does the government manage the following functions? 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Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Page 1 - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 1: Management Functions County Population Group C Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun How does the government manage the following functions? Accounts Collecting/ payable/ Archiving and maintaining receivable historical data land use data Geographic information system Issuing occupation tax cerificates Law enforcement records Maintaining court records Payroll preparation Tax assessment Tax billing Tax digest Utility bill preparation Voter registration Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. Own govt. NP RDC Own govt. NP RDC Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. 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Page 1 - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 1: Management Functions County Population Group F Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson How does the government manage the following functions? Accounts Collecting/ payable/ Archiving and maintaining receivable historical data land use data Geographic information system Issuing occupation tax cerificates Law enforcement records Maintaining court records Payroll preparation Tax assessment Tax billing Tax digest Utility bill preparation Voter registration Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. 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Own-government provided directly by the government B. Authority provided through a local government authority C. Other government agreement with other local government(s) D. Private contracted with private provider E. Available service available but not through local government F. NP service not available Types of services provided include: Animal Control Building Inspection Building Permits Construction and Code Enforcement Emergency Medical Services Emergency 911 Fire Protection Health Screening Services Jail Law Enforcement Planning Public Hospital Public Transit Senior Citizen Program Wastewater Collection Wastewater Treatment Water Distribution Water Supply Water Treatment Department of Community Affairs Section 2.a: Services Provided - Summary of Data C o n Number providing services directly Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Animal control # % 17 81.0% 17 94.4% 22 73.3% 18 50.0% 6 27.3% 2 6.5% 82 51.9% Building inspection # % 19 90.5% 14 77.8% 26 86.7% 28 77.8% 13 59.1% 15 48.4% 115 72.8% Building permits # % 19 90.5% 14 77.8% 28 93.3% 31 86.1% 17 77.3% 23 74.2% 132 83.5% Construction and code enforcement # % 19 90.5% 15 83.3% 27 90.0% 30 83.3% 17 77.3% 16 51.6% 124 78.5% Emergency medical services # % 10 47.6% 7 38.9% 20 66.7% 19 52.8% 14 63.6% 18 58.1% 88 55.7% Emergency 911 service # % 18 85.7% 15 83.3% 28 93.3% 36 100.0% 11 50.0% 12 38.7% 120 75.9% Fire protection # % 17 81.0% 12 66.7% 21 70.0% 23 63.9% 15 68.2% 22 71.0% 110 69.6% Health screening services # % 6 28.6% 1 5.6% 8 26.7% 6 16.7% 4 18.2% 7 22.6% 32 20.3% Jail # % 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 30 100.0% 36 100.0% 16 72.7% 21 67.7% 140 88.6% Section 2.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.a: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Method of providing services Animal control Building inspection Building permits Own govt. 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Page 2.a - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.a: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group F Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Method of providing services Animal control Building inspection Building permits Construction and code enforcement Emergency medical services NP Available NP NP NP Authority NP Other govt. NP NP NP NP Other govt. NP NP NP NP NP Own govt. NP Available Other govt. Other govt. NP NP NP NP NP NP Private Private NP Own govt. NP NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. NP NP NP NP NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. 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Page 2.a - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.b: Services Provided - Summary of Data C o n Number providing services directly Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Law enforcement # % 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 30 100.0% 36 100.0% 22 100.0% 31 100.0% 156 98.7% Planning # % 20 95.2% 12 66.7% 21 70.0% 27 75.0% 13 59.1% 15 48.4% 108 68.4% Public hospital # % 1 4.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 2 6.5% 4 2.5% Public transit # % Senior citizen program # % 6 28.6% 15 71.4% 6 33.3% 8 44.4% 10 33.3% 13 43.3% 16 44.4% 19 52.8% 6 27.3% 10 45.5% 12 38.7% 18 58.1% 56 35.4% 83 52.5% Wastewater collection # % 13 61.9% 4 22.2% 6 20.0% 3 8.3% 2 9.1% 2 6.5% 30 19.0% Wastewater treatment # % 11 52.4% 4 22.2% 4 13.3% 3 8.3% 2 9.1% 2 6.5% 26 16.5% Water distribution # % 14 66.7% 7 38.9% 12 40.0% 6 16.7% 5 22.7% 8 25.8% 52 32.9% Water supply # % 9 42.9% 7 38.9% 8 26.7% 5 13.9% 4 18.2% 9 29.0% 42 26.6% Water treatment # % Number providing services on a regional basis # % 10 47.6% 15 71.4% 6 33.3% 6 33.3% 8 26.7% 13 43.3% 6 16.7% 12 33.3% 4 18.2% 5 22.7% 6 19.4% 14 45.2% 40 25.3% 65 25.3% Section 2.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.b: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale Method of providing services Law enforcement Planning Own govt. 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No Page 2.b - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.b: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group B Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Method of providing services Law enforcement Planning Public hospital Public transit Senior citizen Wastewater program collection Wastewater treatment Water distribution Water supply Water treatment Does the government provide any of these services on a regional basis? Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. NP Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. No Own govt. Own govt. Available Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. Other govt. No Own govt. Own govt. Authority Own govt. Other govt. 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Authority Private Private NP NP Authority Authority Authority No Page 2.b - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.b: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group C Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Method of providing services Law enforcement Planning Public hospital Public transit Senior citizen Wastewater program collection Wastewater treatment Water distribution Water supply Own govt. NP Authority Own govt. NP NP NP NP NP Water treatment Does the government provide any of these services on a regional basis? NP No Own govt. NP Authority NP Private NP NP NP NP NP No Own govt. Own govt. Available Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. No Own govt. 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Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. NP NP Own govt. Authority Own govt. NP Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Other govt. NP Own govt. Authority Public hospital Available NP Available Authority Private Authority Authority NP NP NP Authority Other govt. NP Own govt. 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No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 2.b: Governmental Services Provided County Population Group F Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Method of providing services Law enforcement Planning Public hospital Public transit Senior citizen Wastewater program collection Wastewater treatment Water distribution Water supply Water treatment Does the government provide any of these services on a regional basis? Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. NP NP NP NP NP No Own govt. NP NP NP Own govt. NP NP NP NP NP No Own govt. Own govt. Private NP Own govt. NP NP NP NP NP No Own govt. Own govt. NP Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. Other govt. Own govt. Own govt. Other govt. No Own govt. Own govt. NP NP Available NP NP Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. No Own govt. 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Not available facility not available Types of public facilities provided include: Airport Bicycle, hiking, and/or jogging trails Cemeteries Civic center Correctional institute Golf courses Health clinic Libraries Multi-purpose center/Community center Neighborhood playgrounds/Playground equipment Outdoor courts (basketball, tennis, volleyball, etc) Outdoor fields (baseball, football, soccer, etc.) Parks Recreation center and/or gym Senior citizens center Stadium Swimming pools Department of Community Affairs Section 3.a: Public Facilities Provided - Summary of Data Number providing facility directly Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Airport # % Bicycle, hiking, and/or jogging trails # % 3 14.3% 18 85.7% 3 16.7% 12 66.7% 9 30.0% 9 30.0% 4 11.1% 9 25.0% 4 18.2% 4 18.2% 5 16.1% 5 16.1% 28 17.7% 57 36.1% Cemeteries # % 3 14.3% 1 5.6% 1 3.3% 0 0.0% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 7 4.4% Civic center # % 2 9.5% 4 22.2% 4 13.3% 5 13.9% 0 0.0% 2 6.5% 17 10.8% Correctional institute # % Golf courses # % 10 47.6% 4 19.0% 7 38.9% 0 0.0% 7 23.3% 3 10.0% 3 8.3% 2 5.6% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 3 9.7% 0 0.0% 32 20.3% 9 5.7% Health clinic # % 6 28.6% 3 16.7% 6 20.0% 3 8.3% 4 18.2% 11 35.5% 33 20.9% Libraries # % Community center # % Neighborhood playgrounds/ equipment # % 13 61.9% 14 6 33.3% 7 8 26.7% 9 9 25.0% 8 6 27.3% 5 14 45.2% 9 56 35.4% 52 66.7% 17 38.9% 12 30.0% 8 22.2% 13 22.7% 7 29.0% 8 32.9% 65 81.0% 66.7% 26.7% 36.1% 31.8% 25.8% 41.1% Section 3.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 3.a: Public Facilities Provided County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale Airport Biking, hiking, and/or jogging trails Cemeteries Civic center Correctional institute Authority Authority Agreement Authority Available Authority Authority Own govt. 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Page 3.a - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 3.b: Public Facilities Provided - Summary of Data C o n Number providing facility directly Number Group reporting Outdoor courts (basketball, tennis) # % Outdoor fields (baseball, football) # % Parks # % Recreation center/gym # % Senior citizens' center # % Stadium # % Swimming pools # % Number operating facilities on a regional basis # % A 21 18 85.7% 19 90.5% 18 85.7% 17 81.0% 14 66.7% 3 14.3% 10 47.6% 6 28.6% B 18 12 66.7% 14 77.8% 15 83.3% 12 66.7% 12 66.7% 3 16.7% 6 33.3% 5 27.8% C 30 14 46.7% 18 60.0% 13 43.3% 14 46.7% 14 46.7% 0 0.0% 7 23.3% 7 23.3% D 36 20 55.6% 24 66.7% 18 50.0% 20 55.6% 22 61.1% 1 2.8% 9 25.0% 11 30.6% E 22 9 40.9% 14 63.6% 8 36.4% 9 40.9% 15 68.2% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 2 9.1% F 31 11 35.5% 17 54.8% 8 25.8% 13 41.9% 19 61.3% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 5 16.1% Total 158 84 53.2% 106 67.1% 80 50.6% 85 53.8% 96 60.8% 7 4.4% 34 21.5% 36 22.8% Summary 3.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 3.b: Public Facilities Provided County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale Outdoor courts Outdoor fields Parks Recreation center/gym Senior citizens center Stadium Swimming pools Own govt. 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No No No Yes No Yes No No No --No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No Yes No No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 3.b: Public Facilities Provided County Population Group F Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Outdoor courts Outdoor fields Parks Recreation center/gym Senior citizens center Stadium Swimming pools Does the government provide any of these facilities on a regional basis? Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Agreement Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Own govt. Agreement Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Own govt. No Own govt. Own govt. Available Not avail. Available Not avail. Not avail. No Available Available Available Available Available Not avail. Not avail. No Available Available Available Available Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Available Own govt. Own govt. Available Own govt. Available Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Own govt. Available Not avail. Not avail. No Not avail. Agreement Available Agreement Agreement Not avail. Not avail. No Not avail. Agreement Agreement Own govt. Agreement Not avail. Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Private Not avail. Not avail. Yes Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Not avail. Not avail. Available Not avail. Own govt. Not avail. Available No Available Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Agreement Agreement Agreement Agreement Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Agreement Own govt. Own govt. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Yes Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Not avail. Available Not avail. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. Not avail. No Available Available Available Authority Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. Yes Not avail. Own govt. Available Available Available Not avail. Not avail. No Agreement Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. Own govt. Not avail. Not avail. No Page 3.b - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 4 Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures Governments use planning and zoning mainly to control growth in an area, protect the character of neighborhoods, and ensure efficient and effective service delivery. Specific items covered in this chapter: Presence of a planning commission Zoning ordinance Including official responsible for the zoning ordinance Comprehensive Plan Review and amendments to comprehensive plan Variance and special exceptions When government policymakers grant a property owner a use for their property other than that for which it is zoned. Use of codes and ordinances Local governments pass regulatory codes for the purposes of managing growth, protecting the environment, and promoting public safety and welfare. Use of impact fees Impact fees are intended as a mechanism for growth to pay for itself. Local governments charge developers these fees, and the funds are earmarked for specific purposes based on the assessment method. Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures - Summary of Data Number with zoning administrator Number with zoning C o n Number Number with planning commission Number with zoning ordinance having primary responsibility for administering zoning ordinance board having final decision on variances in zoning process Group reporting # % # % # % # % A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 20 95.2% 21 100.0% 5 18 100.0% 18 100.0% 5 25 83.3% 21 70.0% 10 26 72.2% 24 66.7% 12 14 63.6% 12 54.5% 5 17 54.8% 15 48.4% 7 120 75.9% 111 70.3% 44 23.8% 8 27.8% 5 33.3% 1 33.3% 2 22.7% 2 22.6% 0 27.8% 18 38.1% 27.8% 3.3% 5.6% 9.1% 0.0% 11.4% Number with planning director maintaining comprehensive plan # % 16 76.2% 9 50.0% 5 16.7% 3 8.3% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 34 21.5% Number reviewing comprehensive plan in rezoning process # % 21 100.0% 16 88.9% 19 63.3% 20 55.6% 9 40.9% 12 38.7% 97 61.4% Number amending comprehensive plan for changes in zoning # % 5 23.8% 6 33.3% 2 6.7% 3 8.3% 0 0.0% 4 12.9% 20 12.7% Section 4.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes Yes Plan Director Other Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Plan commission Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Plan commission Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Other Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair Plan Director Yes No Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Plan commission Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Other Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Other Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Board zoning appeal Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes C.D. Director Board zoning appeal C.D. Director Yes Always No Always No Some cases No Some cases Always Some cases Some cases Always Some cases Some cases Some cases No No Always No Some cases Some cases Some cases Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair Plan Brd. Chair Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal Plan Director No Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Plan commission Mgr/Adm No Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Always No No Always Always --No --Some cases Some cases Page 4.a - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group B Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Other Other --- Yes Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Plan commission Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal RDC Yes Some cases Always Always Some cases Always Some cases Some cases Some cases Yes No --- --- Mgr/Adm No Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair --- Yes Yes Yes Other Council/chair --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Plan commission Plan Director Yes Yes No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- Mgr/Adm No --No Some cases --Some cases Always --No No --Some cases --Some cases Some cases --Some cases --No Some cases No Some cases Some cases --- Page 4.a - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group C Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair --- Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Plan commission Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director No No No --- --- Mgr/Adm No Some cases Always Some cases --No ----- No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Other Council/chair --- Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Zoning Adm Yes Yes No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Zoning Adm Yes Yes No --- --- Bldg. Insp. No Yes Yes C.D. Director Other C.D. Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes No Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal RDC Yes No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Plan Director Plan commission Plan Director Yes No No --- --- RDC --- No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- Mgr/Adm --- Yes Yes Other Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- Mgr/Adm No Yes Yes Plan Brd. Chair Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Other Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes --Some cases Some cases Some cases --Always --Some cases Some cases Some cases --No ------No Always --Some cases Some cases Some cases Some cases No No Page 4.a - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group D Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal RDC No Yes Yes C.D. Director Council/chair --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair Zoning Adm Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Mgr/Adm Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Other RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No Yes No --- --- C.D. Director No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair --- Yes Always ----No Some cases --No ------No Some cases Yes No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- Mgr/Adm --- Yes Yes Zoning admin Board zoning appeal Other --- Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes No Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes Yes No --- --- Mgr/Adm No No No Other Other RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Plan commission RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Board zoning appeal Zoning Adm No Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair Plan Director Yes No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- --- No Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair --- Yes ----No ----Some cases No --No Some cases Some cases No ----No --Some cases No No Page 4.a - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group E Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes No --- --- RDC Yes Yes Zoning admin Other RDC Yes Yes Other Plan commission RDC No --- No --- Yes Some cases Yes No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair RDC No No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Mgr/Adm Council/chair RDC Yes Yes No Mgr/Adm Council/chair RDC Yes Yes No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- --- No Yes Yes Zoning admin Plan commission --- Yes No No --- --- Other --- No No --- --- Mgr/Adm No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes No Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- RDC --- No Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No No No --- --- RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC No Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Zoning admin Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- Plan Brd. Chair No Yes Yes Bldg. Insp. Council/chair RDC Yes Yes Yes Plan Director Council/chair RDC Yes No No --- --- Mgr/Adm No ------No Some cases ----Always ----Some cases No Some cases Some cases No Some cases ----No Some cases Some cases Some cases Some cases Always No Always Always --- Page 4.a - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.a: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group F Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does government have a planning commission? Does government have a zoning ordinance? Entity with primary responsibility for zoning ordinance? Entity with final decision on variances in zoning process? Entity with responsibility for maintaining and revising comprehensive plan? Comprehensive plan reviewed in rezoning process? Comprehensive plan amended for changes in zoning? Yes No --- --- RDC --- --- No No --- --- Other --- --- No No Mgr/Adm --- Mgr/Adm No --- Page 4.a - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number of governments adopting the following codes: New construction code # % Existing building code # % Electrical code # % 20 95.2% 17 18 100.0% 14 26 86.7% 20 26 72.2% 23 13 59.1% 9 14 45.2% 8 117 74.1% 91 81.0% 77.8% 66.7% 63.9% 40.9% 25.8% 57.6% 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 26 86.7% 27 75.0% 14 63.6% 13 41.9% 117 74.1% Fire prevention # % 20 95.2% 14 77.8% 24 80.0% 23 63.9% 7 31.8% 6 19.4% 94 59.5% Flood damage prevention # % 19 90.5% 15 83.3% 21 70.0% 22 61.1% 10 45.5% 6 19.4% 93 58.9% Housing code # % 16 76.2% 13 72.2% 21 70.0% 21 58.3% 11 50.0% 8 25.8% 90 57.0% Plumbing code # % 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 26 86.7% 26 72.2% 13 59.1% 12 38.7% 114 72.2% Unsafe building abatement # % 19 90.5% 13 72.2% 15 50.0% 17 47.2% 2 9.1% 7 22.6% 73 46.2% Other # % 2 9.5% 0 0.0% 1 3.3% 5 13.9% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 10 6.3% Number not adopting any of the named codes # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 10.0% 8 22.2% 7 31.8% 13 41.9% 31 19.6% Section 4.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Page 4.b - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? County Population Group B Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Page 4.b - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? County Population Group C Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Page 4.b - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? County Population Group D Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Population Group E Bacon --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Bleckley Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Candler --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Charlton Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Crawford Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Cusseta-Chattahoochee --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Dooly Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Early --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Evans --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Heard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Irwin Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Jasper Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Jeff Davis --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Long --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Macon Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- McIntosh Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Oglethorpe Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Telfair --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Terrell --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Page 4.b - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? County Population Group E Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Page 4.b - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.b: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group F Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Which of the following codes has the jurisdiction adopted? New construction code Existing building code Electrical code Fire prevention code Flood damage prevention code Housing code Plumbing code Unsafe building abatement --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other Government has not adopted (specified) any of the preceeding codes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Page 4.b - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures - Summary of Data Number of governments adopting the following ordinances Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Historic preservation ordinance # % 7 33.3% 6 33.3% 3 10.0% 2 5.6% 5 22.7% 3 9.7% 26 16.5% Landscape ordinance # % 13 61.9% 6 33.3% 3 10.0% 4 11.1% 1 4.5% 1 3.2% 28 17.7% Sign control ordinance # % 20 95.2% 16 88.9% 21 70.0% 26 72.2% 7 31.8% 7 22.6% 97 61.4% Subdivision regulations # % 20 95.2% 17 94.4% 27 90.0% 28 77.8% 17 77.3% 19 61.3% 128 81.0% Tree ordinances # % 18 85.7% 9 50.0% 2 6.7% 2 5.6% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 33 20.9% Zoning code # % 21 100.0% 17 94.4% 21 70.0% 24 66.7% 12 54.5% 15 48.4% 110 69.6% Infill development incentives # % 6 28.6% 2 11.1% 0 0.0% 1 2.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 9 5.7% None of the preceeding ordinances have been adopted # % 0 0.0% 1 5.6% 2 6.7% 6 16.7% 1 4.5% 11 35.5% 21 13.3% Section 4.c - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Page 4.c - 1 Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group B Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Page 4.c - 2 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group C Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Page 4.c - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group D Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Population Group E Bacon --- --- Yes --- --- Bleckley --- --- --- Yes --- Candler --- --- Yes Yes --- Charlton --- --- --- Yes --- Crawford --- --- --- Yes --- Cusseta-Chattahoochee --- --- --- Yes --- Dooly --- --- --- --- --- Early Yes --- --- Yes --- Evans --- --- --- Yes --- Heard Yes --- Yes Yes --- Irwin --- --- --- --- --- Jasper Yes --- Yes Yes --- Jeff Davis --- --- --- --- --- Long --- --- --- Yes --- Macon --- --- --- --- --- McIntosh Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Oglethorpe Yes --- Yes Yes --- Telfair --- --- --- Yes Yes Terrell --- --- --- Yes --- Page 4.c - 4 Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group E Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Page 4.c - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.c: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group F Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Which of the following ordinances has the local government adopted? Historic preservation ordinance Landscape ordinance Sign control ordinance Subdivision regulations Tree ordinance Zoning code Infill development incentives Government has not adopted any of the preceeding ordinances --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Page 4.c - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Zoning and Development Procedures - Summary of Data Number applying impact fees to the following services: Number Group reporting Number requiring developers to pay impact fees # % Libraries and related facilities # % Public safety, including police, fire, and EMS # % Parks, open space, recreation areas # % Water supply production, treatment and distribution # % Wastewater collection, treatment and distribution # % Storm-water; flood control; bank and shore protection and enhancement # % Roads, streets and bridges # % Number taking action to implement impact fees in near future # % Number with capital improvement program for five years or longer # % A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 9 42.9% 3 33.3% 4 44.4% 3 33.3% 3 33.3% 2 22.2% 0 0.0% 2 22.2% 5 23.8% 17 81.0% 5 27.8% 3 60.0% 2 40.0% 3 60.0% 1 20.0% 1 20.0% 1 20.0% 2 40.0% 4 22.2% 15 83.3% 4 13.3% 0 0.0% 1 25.0% 1 25.0% 2 50.0% 2 50.0% 1 25.0% 1 25.0% 5 16.7% 15 50.0% 3 8.3% 1 33.3% 1 33.3% 1 33.3% 1 33.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 33.3% 4 11.1% 17 47.2% 3 13.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 33.3% 0 0.0% 1 33.3% 2 66.7% 2 9.1% 7 31.8% 2 6.5% 1 50.0% 1 50.0% 1 50.0% 1 50.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 100.0% 1 3.2% 12 38.7% 26 16.5% 8 30.8% 9 34.6% 9 34.6% 9 34.6% 5 19.2% 3 11.5% 10 38.5% 21 13.3% 83 52.5% Section 4.d - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution Storm water; flood control Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes No Page 4.d - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group B Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution Storm water; flood control Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Page 4.d - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group C Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution Storm water; flood control Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No Page 4.d - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group D Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Population Group E Bacon No --- --- --- --- --- Bleckley No --- --- --- --- --- Candler No --- --- --- --- --- Charlton No --- --- --- --- --- Crawford No --- --- --- --- --- Cusseta-Chattahoochee No --- --- --- --- --- Dooly No --- --- --- --- --- Early No --- --- --- --- --- Evans No --- --- --- --- --- Heard No --- --- --- --- --- Irwin No --- --- --- --- --- Jasper Yes --- --- --- --- --- Jeff Davis No --- --- --- --- --- Long No --- --- --- --- --- Macon No --- --- --- --- --- McIntosh Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Oglethorpe No --- --- --- --- --- Telfair Yes --- --- --- --- --- Terrell No --- --- --- --- --- Storm water; flood control ------------------------- ----------------------------------Yes --- Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? --- No Yes --- No Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes --- Yes No --- Yes No --- No Yes --- No Yes --- No No --- No No --- No Yes --- No No --- No No --- No Yes --- No No --- No Yes --- No Yes --- No Yes --- No No --- --- --- --- No No --- Yes No --- No No Yes --- Yes --- No No Yes --- --- --- No No Page 4.d - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group E Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution Storm water; flood control Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No Page 4.d - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 4.d: Planning, Development and Zoning Procedures County Population Group F Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson If impact fees are paid, toward which services are the impact fees applied? Are developers required to pay impact fees Libraries and related facilities Public safety services Parks and recreation services Water supply production/ treatment Wastewater collection treatment distribution Storm water; flood control Roads, streets, and bridges Has government taken any action towards implementing impact fees in the near future? Does government have a capital improvement program or schedule of construction planned for five years or longer? No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No No No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Page 4.d - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 5 Financial Management Practices This chapter covers aspects of a local government's finances including financial administration, budgeting, and use of revenue options. Specific items covered in this chapter: Preparation and approval of annual operating budget For governments with an annual operating budget, either the finance officer, elected or appointed executive, city/county clerk, or a combination is responsible for preparing the budget. Presence of a full-time finance director Type of finance software used Existence of capital budget This budget is prepared by some governments to account for the acquisition of equipment and construction of facilities over a period of time, separate from the annual operating budget. Financial policies For some governments there are written policies to govern investment activities and interfund transfers. Types of special tax districts Special tax districts allow cities to collect a tax for services directly benefiting the district such as sanitation, drainage and storm water, sewerage, street lighting, street construction, police and fire. Distribution of local option sales tax (LOST) State law allows a county and cities within the county jointly to levy a 1 percent sale and use tax. There are several ways of distributing the tax proceeds among cities within a county. Collection and use of special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) State law also allows adoption of a special local option sales tax for any of the specified purposes in statute. Assessment and collection of occupation tax, regulatory fees and user fees Governments may levy taxes on occupations according to state law. The allowable assessment methods include a fixed fee, or an assessment based on number of employees, gross receipts, and profitability ratios. Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number with finance director as the designated budget officer for the government # % 10 47.6% 10 55.6% 5 16.7% 5 13.9% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 32 20.3% Number with finance director having responsibility for preparing annual operating budget # % 7 33.3% 8 44.4% 7 23.3% 7 19.4% 3 13.6% 1 3.2% 33 20.9% Number with position of full-time finance director # % 20 95.2% 16 88.9% 20 66.7% 11 30.6% 6 27.3% 3 9.7% 76 48.1% Number with capital budget for the acquisition of major fixed assets # % 20 95.2% 13 72.2% 11 36.7% 11 30.6% 5 22.7% 6 19.4% 66 41.8% Number with capital budget plan of two years or less # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.3% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 2 1.3% Number with written investment policy to govern investment activities # % 18 85.7% 8 44.4% 12 40.0% 7 19.4% 4 18.2% 3 9.7% 52 32.9% Section 5.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director CEO Finance director Mgr/admin Finance director Budget director Finance director CEO Finance director Finance director Finance director Other Budget committee Finance director Finance director Other Clerk CEO Finance director Finance director Finance director Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? CEO Yes Finance director Yes Finance director Yes Other Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Finance director Yes Budget director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Finance director Yes Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Other Yes Budget director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin No CEO Yes Finance director Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years No Yes Three years No Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes No --- Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years No Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Finance director Yes Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Page 5.a - 1 Yes Five years No Yes Five years No Yes Other Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years No Yes Other Yes Yes Five years No Yes Five years No No --- No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? Finance director Finance director Yes Finance director Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Finance director Yes Finance director Finance director Yes CEO CEO No Finance director Finance director Yes Finance director Finance director Yes Finance director Budget committee Yes Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Yes No --- Yes No --- Yes Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years No No --- No Yes Four years No No --- No Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years Yes Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin CEO Finance director Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin CEO Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Clerk Budget director CEO Finance director Mgr/admin Yes Clerk No Finance director Yes CEO No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Budget committee Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Clerk No Finance director No Mgr/admin Yes Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Yes Clerk No Budget director No CEO Yes Finance director Yes Page 5.a - 2 Yes Five years Yes Yes Five years No Yes Three years Yes No --- No No --- Yes No --- No Yes --- Yes Yes Five years No No --- No No --- Yes Yes Five years Yes No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Two years Yes No --- No No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Yes Finance director Finance director Yes Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin Finance director Yes Clerk CEO No Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No No --- Yes No --- Yes Yes Five years Yes No --- Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes --- No No --- No Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin Finance director CEO Finance director Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No Other Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Clerk No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes CEO Yes Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin Yes Page 5.a - 3 No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years No Yes Five years No Yes Five years Yes No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No Yes --- Yes No --- No No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- Yes No --- Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group D Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Other Mgr/admin Staff committee CEO Mgr/admin Mgr/admin CEO Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon CEO CEO Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin Mgr/admin Finance director CEO Finance director Mgr/admin CEO Budget committee What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Other No Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes Finance director No Mgr/admin No Staff committee No CEO Yes Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes CEO No No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No Yes Five years No Yes Five years No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No No --- Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Clerk No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Budget committee Yes Mgr/admin No Clerk Yes Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Finance director Yes Staff committee No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No Staff committee No Clerk Yes Page 5.a - 4 No --- No No --- No Yes Other No No --- Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group E McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No CEO CEO No Budget committee Clerk No Clerk Clerk No CEO Clerk No CEO Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No No --- Yes No --- No No --- Yes No --- No No --- No Yes Two years No Yes Five years No CEO Budget committee Budget committee Mgr/admin CEO Clerk Clerk Other Mgr/admin Mgr/admin CEO CEO Budget committee Budget committee Mgr/admin CEO Clerk Clerk Clerk Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin CEO Clerk No Budget committee No Clerk No Mgr/admin No Clerk No Clerk No Clerk No CEO No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No CEO Yes Budget committee No Finance director Yes Mgr/admin No CEO No Clerk No CEO No Mgr/admin No Mgr/admin No Clerk No Mgr/admin Yes CEO No Page 5.a - 5 No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years Yes No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.a: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson By law, what entity serves as the budget officer for the government? What entity has responsibility for preparing annual operating budget? Does government have full-time finance director? Does government have comprehensive capital budget for major fixed assets? What is the time frame of the capital budget plan? Does government have written investment plan to govern investment activities? Mgr/admin Clerk Mgr/admin CEO CEO CEO Clerk Mgr/admin Mgr/admin No Clerk No Mgr/admin No Other No CEO No Clerk No Clerk No Mgr/admin No No --- No No --- No Yes Five years Yes Yes Other No No --- No No --- No No --- No No --- No Page 5.a - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number with written interfund transfer policy # % 17 81.0% 7 38.9% 7 23.3% 8 22.2% 5 22.7% 3 9.7% 47 29.7% Number applying transfer policy to following types of interfund transfers: water and sewer fund # % solid waste fund # % electric utility fund # % gas utility fund # % 12 70.6% 11 64.7% 1 4 57.1% 6 85.7% 0 4 57.1% 6 85.7% 0 2 25.0% 5 62.5% 0 0 0.0% 4 80.0% 0 1 33.3% 1 33.3% 0 23 48.9% 33 70.2% 1 5.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 14.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 2.1% capital project fund # % 14 82.4% 4 57.1% 6 85.7% 3 37.5% 2 40.0% 2 66.7% 31 2.1% special revenue fund # % 13 76.5% 7 100.0% 7 100.0% 6 75.0% 4 80.0% 3 100.0% 40 85.1% other # % 5 29.4% 3 42.9% 1 14.3% 1 12.5% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 10 21.3% Section 5.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Government have written transfer policy to govern interfund transfers? If the government has a written transfer policy, does it apply to the following funds? Water and sewer fund Solid waste fund Electric utility fund Gas Capital Special utility fund project fund revenue fund Other funds Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Page 5.b - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Government have written transfer policy to govern interfund transfers? If the government has a written transfer policy, does it apply to the following funds? Water and sewer fund Solid waste fund Electric utility fund Gas Capital Special utility fund project fund revenue fund Other funds Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.b - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Government have written transfer policy to govern interfund transfers? If the government has a written transfer policy, does it apply to the following funds? Water and sewer fund Solid waste fund Electric utility fund Gas Capital Special utility fund project fund revenue fund Other funds Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Page 5.b - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Government have written transfer policy to govern interfund transfers? If the government has a written transfer policy, does it apply to the following funds? Water and sewer fund Solid waste fund Electric utility fund Gas Capital Special utility fund project fund revenue fund Other funds No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Population Group E Bacon No Bleckley No Candler No Charlton Yes Crawford No Cusseta-Chattahoochee No Dooly No Early Yes Evans No Heard No Irwin No Jasper Yes Jeff Davis No Long No Macon No McIntosh No Oglethorpe No Telfair Yes Terrell Yes Towns No Twiggs No Wilkes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Population Group F Page 5.b - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.b: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Government have written transfer policy to govern interfund transfers? If the government has a written transfer policy, does it apply to the following funds? Water and sewer fund Solid waste fund Electric utility fund Gas Capital Special utility fund project fund revenue fund Other funds No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.b - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number with special tax districts # % 17 81.0% 11 61.1% 12 40.0% 9 25.0% 1 4.5% 4 12.9% 54 34.2% If special tax districts are available, how are these taxes used? business improvement districts # % community improvement districts # % downtown improvement # % 2 11.8% 2 11.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 11.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 3.7% 3 5.6% 3 17.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 5.6% drainage and sewage # % 1 5.9% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 1.9% fire # % 12 70.6% 8 72.7% 6 50.0% 7 77.8% 0 0.0% 2 50.0% 35 64.8% police # % 3 17.6% 2 18.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 5 9.3% If special tax districts are available, how are the taxes used? Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 sanitation # % 0 0.0% 2 18.2% 2 16.7% 4 44.4% 0 0.0% 1 25.0% 9 16.7% sewerage # % 0 0.0% 1 9.1% 1 8.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 3.7% street lighting # % 9 52.9% 7 63.6% 2 16.7% 1 11.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 19 35.2% tax increment financing # % 1 5.9% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 1.9% other # % 3 17.6% 3 27.3% 8 66.7% 2 22.2% 0 0.0% 1 25.0% 17 31.5% Page 5.c - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices County If the government has special tax districts, how are the taxes used? Government business community have special improvement improvement downtown drainage and tax districts? district districts improvement sewage fire Population Group A Athens-Clarke Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Augusta/Richmond Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Bibb Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Carroll Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Chatham Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Cherokee No --- --- --- --- --- Clayton Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Cobb Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Columbia Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Columbus/Muscogee Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Coweta Yes --- --- --- --- Yes DeKalb Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Douglas No --- --- --- --- --- Fayette Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Forsyth No --- --- --- --- --- Fulton Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Gwinnett Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Hall Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Henry No --- --- --- --- --- Houston Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Paulding Yes --- --- --- --- --- Population Group B Barrow Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Bartow No --- --- --- --- --- Bulloch Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Catoosa No --- --- --- --- --- Dougherty Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Floyd Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Glynn Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Gordon No --- --- --- --- --- Jackson Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Liberty No --- --- --- --- --- Lowndes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.c - 1 police sanitation sewerage street lighting tax increment financing other --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas If the government has special tax districts, how are the taxes used? Government business community have special improvement improvement downtown drainage and tax districts? district districts improvement sewage fire Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Page 5.c - 2 police sanitation sewerage street lighting tax increment financing other --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce If the government has special tax districts, how are the taxes used? Government business community have special improvement improvement downtown drainage and tax districts? district districts improvement sewage fire Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.c - 3 police sanitation sewerage street lighting tax increment financing other --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices County If the government has special tax districts, how are the taxes used? Government business community have special improvement improvement downtown drainage and tax districts? district districts improvement sewage fire Population Group D Pike No --- --- --- --- --- Putnam No --- --- --- --- --- Rabun No --- --- --- --- --- Screven Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Tattnall No --- --- --- --- --- Union No --- --- --- --- --- Washington No --- --- --- --- --- White No --- --- --- --- --- Worth No --- --- --- --- --- Population Group E Bacon No --- --- --- --- --- Bleckley No --- --- --- --- --- Candler No --- --- --- --- --- Charlton No --- --- --- --- --- Crawford No --- --- --- --- --- Cusseta-Chattahoochee No --- --- --- --- --- Dooly No --- --- --- --- --- Early No --- --- --- --- --- Evans No --- --- --- --- --- Heard No --- --- --- --- --- Irwin No --- --- --- --- --- Jasper Yes --- --- --- --- --- Jeff Davis No --- --- --- --- --- Long No --- --- --- --- --- Macon No --- --- --- --- --- McIntosh No --- --- --- --- --- Oglethorpe No --- --- --- --- --- Telfair No --- --- --- --- --- Terrell No --- --- --- --- --- Towns No --- --- --- --- --- Twiggs No --- --- --- --- --- Wilkes No --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.c - 4 police sanitation sewerage street lighting tax increment financing other --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.c: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson If the government has special tax districts, how are the taxes used? Government business community have special improvement improvement downtown drainage and tax districts? district districts improvement sewage fire No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- police sanitation sewerage street lighting tax increment financing other --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.c - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting Number receiving revenues from local option sales tax # % 21 16 76.2% 18 15 83.3% 30 27 90.0% 36 34 94.4% 22 22 100.0% 31 31 100.0% 158 145 91.8% How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibilities # % intergovernmental responsibilities # % use of revenues as a subsidy # % any coordinated agreement of service delivery and financing # % 3 18.8% 13 81.3% 0 0.0% 1 6.3% 3 20.0% 12 80.0% 1 6.7% 3 20.0% 5 18.5% 23 85.2% 0 0.0% 4 14.8% 15 44.1% 25 73.5% 0 0.0% 6 17.6% 4 18.2% 15 68.2% 4 18.2% 1 4.5% 5 16.1% 23 74.2% 0 0.0% 3 9.7% 145 100.0% 111 76.6% 5 3.4% 18 12.4% point of sale # % 1 6.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 5.9% 1 4.5% 1 3.2% 5 3.4% other method # % 2 12.5% 1 6.7% 0 0.0% 3 8.8% 2 9.1% 1 3.2% 9 6.2% Section 5.d - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Does the government receive revenues from a local option sales tax authorized in state law? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibility intergovt. agreements use of revenues as a subsidy coordinated agreement point of sale other Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Page 5.d - 1 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Does the government receive revenues from a local option sales tax authorized in state law? Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibility intergovt. agreements use of revenues as a subsidy coordinated agreement point of sale other --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Page 5.d - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Does the government receive revenues from a local option sales tax authorized in state law? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibility intergovt. agreements use of revenues as a subsidy coordinated agreement point of sale other --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Page 5.d - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Does the government receive revenues from a local option sales tax authorized in state law? Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibility intergovt. agreements use of revenues as a subsidy coordinated agreement point of sale Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- other ------------------- ----------Yes ------------------------------Yes Page 5.d - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.d: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does the government receive revenues from a local option sales tax authorized in state law? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How was the government's share of the local option sales tax determined? service delivery responsibility intergovt. agreements use of revenues as a subsidy coordinated agreement point of sale --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- other ----------Yes --------------------------------------------------- Page 5.d - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group Number reporting Number of governments receiving revenues from special purpose local option sales tax # % Number adopting special purpose local option sales tax in 2003 or 2004? Number using proceeds from special purpose local option sales taxes for the following authorized uses: airport facilities and equipment # % business improvement district # % civic center or coliseum # % courthouse or administrative building #% community improvement district # % cultural, recreational or historic facility #% A 21 19 90.5% 5 B 18 17 94.4% 4 C 30 30 100.0% 17 D 36 36 100.0% 12 E 22 20 90.9% 4 F 31 31 100.0% 11 Total 158 153 96.8% 53 1 5.3% 4 23.5% 3 10.0% 6 16.7% 3 15.0% 0 0.0% 17 11.1% 1 5.3% 1 5.9% 3 10.0% 4 11.1% 1 5.0% 0 0.0% 10 6.5% 3 15.8% 3 17.6% 2 6.7% 2 5.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 10 6.5% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 5.3% 1 5.9% 3 10.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 5 3.3% 11 57.9% 16 94.1% 14 46.7% 26 72.2% 10 50.0% 9 29.0% 86 56.2% hospital # % jail, correction or detention facility # % landfill or solid waste facility # % 1 5.3% 0 0.0% 4 13.3% 10 27.8% 5 25.0% 0 0.0% 20 13.1% 8 42.1% 8 47.1% 11 36.7% 13 36.1% 6 30.0% 8 25.8% 54 35.3% 2 10.5% 3 17.6% 7 23.3% 5 13.9% 5 25.0% 5 16.1% 27 17.6% Section 5.e - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Does the government receive revenues from a special purpose local option sales tax authorized in state law? Year in which most recent SPLOST tax was imposed? What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? airport facilities and equipment business improvement district civic center or coliseum courthouse or admin. building community improvement district cultural, recreational or historic facility Yes 2005 Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2008 --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 1999 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2006 Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2002 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2005 --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes 2007 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2004 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2005 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2005 --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes hospital ------Yes ----------------------------------- ------------------------- jail, correctional, or detention facility landfill or solid waste facility Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Page 5.e - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Does the government receive revenues from a special purpose local option sales tax authorized in state law? Year in which most recent SPLOST tax was imposed? What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? airport facilities and equipment business improvement district civic center or coliseum courthouse or admin. building community improvement district cultural, recreational or historic facility hospital jail, correctional, or detention facility landfill or solid waste facility Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2001 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2005 --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2002 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2002 Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2006 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2001 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Page 5.e - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Does the government receive revenues from a special purpose local option sales tax authorized in state law? Year in which most recent SPLOST tax was imposed? What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? airport facilities and equipment business improvement district civic center or coliseum courthouse or admin. building community improvement district cultural, recreational or historic facility hospital jail, correctional, or detention facility landfill or solid waste facility Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2006 Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes 2005 Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2006 Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2006 Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2005 --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes 2005 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2005 Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2001 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Page 5.e - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices County Population Group D Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Does the government receive revenues from a special purpose local option sales tax authorized in state law? Year in which most recent SPLOST tax was imposed? What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? airport facilities and equipment business improvement district civic center or coliseum courthouse or admin. building community improvement district Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- No 2007 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 Yes --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 Yes --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- Yes --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- Page 5.e - 4 cultural, recreational or historic facility hospital jail, correctional, or detention facility landfill or solid waste facility Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.e: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does the government receive revenues from a special purpose local option sales tax authorized in state law? Year in which most recent SPLOST tax was imposed? What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? airport facilities and equipment business improvement district civic center or coliseum courthouse or admin. building community improvement district cultural, recreational or historic facility Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes 2005 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2007 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2002 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes 2004 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2006 --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes 2003 --- --- --- Yes --- Yes hospital ------------------------------------------------------- jail, correctional, or detention facility landfill or solid waste facility --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Page 5.e - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting Number using proceeds from special purpose local option sales taxes for the following authorized uses: (Cont.) library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads and streets roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing water or sewer # % # % # % # % # % # % 21 8 42.1% 0 0.0% 18 94.7% 14 73.7% 1 5.3% 7 36.8% 18 7 41.2% 0 0.0% 15 88.2% 12 70.6% 0 0.0% 13 76.5% 30 8 26.7% 2 6.7% 28 93.3% 22 73.3% 0 0.0% 15 50.0% 36 5 13.9% 0 0.0% 33 91.7% 28 77.8% 0 0.0% 14 38.9% 22 5 25.0% 0 0.0% 18 90.0% 12 60.0% 0 0.0% 3 15.0% 31 1 3.2% 1 3.2% 25 80.6% 14 45.2% 0 0.0% 5 16.1% 158 34 22.2% 3 2.0% 137 89.5% 102 66.7% 1 0.7% 57 37.3% other purposes # % 5 26.3% 7 41.2% 5 16.7% 4 11.1% 4 20.0% 7 22.6% 32 20.9% Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting Number receiving revenues from occupation tax authorized by state law # % 21 19 90.5% 18 11 61.1% 30 19 63.3% 36 19 52.8% 22 12 54.5% 31 7 22.6% 158 87 55.1% Number using following methods to assess occupation tax: flat fee # % number of employees # % gross receipts # % 5 26.3% 10 52.6% 11 57.9% 2 18.2% 9 81.8% 1 9.1% 10 52.6% 9 47.4% 4 21.1% 7 36.8% 14 73.7% 3 15.8% 3 25.0% 6 50.0% 3 25.0% 1 14.3% 4 57.1% 0 0.0% 28 32.2% 52 59.8% 22 25.3% profitability ratios # % 4 21.1% 1 9.1% 1 5.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 6 6.9% Number amending occupation tax in either 2003 or 2004? # % 3 15.8% 2 18.2% 3 15.8% 2 10.5% 2 16.7% 1 14.3% 13 14.9% Number of governments with regulatory fees # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Number of governments with user fees # % 16 76.2% 16 88.9% 21 70.0% 23 63.9% 10 45.5% 13 41.9% 99 62.7% Section 5.f - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt (1) roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- water or sewer Yes ----Yes Yes ------Yes Yes ----------------Yes Yes --- Population Group B Barrow --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Bartow Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Bulloch --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Catoosa Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Dougherty Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Floyd --- --- --- --- --- --- Glynn --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Gordon --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Jackson Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Liberty --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Lowndes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Does the government collect occupation tax? If so, what method is used to assess the occupation tax? flat fee number of employees gross receipts profitability ratios Year in which occupation tax was last amended? Does government have regulatory fees? Does government have user fees? Yes --- Yes --- --- 2000 Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 2006 Yes No Yes --- Yes --- --- 1997 No Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- 1994 Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes 1995 Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 1994 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 1996 Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- 2004 No Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 1995 Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 2002 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 1999 Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 2003 No Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No No Yes --- --- Yes --- 2005 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- 2000 Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes 2004 Yes Yes No --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- 1994 No No Yes --- Yes --- --- 1995 No No Yes --- Yes --- --- 1995 No Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- 1995 Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- 2006 No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- 1995 No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- 1998 No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes 2004 No No Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- 1996 Yes Yes (1) - Retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads, streets and bridges. Page 5.f - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt (1) roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- water or sewer --------Yes Yes Yes Population Group C Baldwin --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Bryan --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Camden Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Chattooga --- --- Yes --- --- --- Coffee --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Colquitt --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Decatur --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Effingham --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Gilmer Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Grady --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Habersham --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Haralson --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Harris --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Jones --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Laurens --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Lee --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Lumpkin Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Madison --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Murray Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Oconee Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Pickens --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Polk --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Stephens --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Sumter Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Thomas --- --- --- --- --- --- Does the government collect occupation tax? If so, what method is used to assess the occupation tax? flat fee number of employees gross receipts profitability ratios Year in which occupation tax was last amended? Does government have regulatory fees? Does government have user fees? Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- 1978 No Yes --- 1978 Yes Yes --- 2006 No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2003 Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes No --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- 1995 No No --- 1996 No Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2005 No Yes --- --- No No --- --- Yes Yes --- 1995 Yes Yes --- 2005 No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2006 Yes Yes --- 2006 No No --- 2000 No Yes --- 1983 No Yes --- --- No No --- 1998 No Yes --- 2004 Yes Yes --- 2007 No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 1994 Yes Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2004 No No --- --- No No --- --- Yes No --- 2005 No Yes (1) - Retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads, streets and bridges. Page 5.f - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt (1) roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- water or sewer Yes --Yes --Yes Population Group D Appling --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Banks --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Ben Hill --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Berrien --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Brantley --- --- Yes --- --- --- Brooks --- --- --- --- --- --- Burke --- --- Yes --- --- --- Butts Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Cook --- --- Yes --- --- --- Crisp --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Dade Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Dawson --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Dodge --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Elbert --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Emanuel --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Franklin Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Greene --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Hart --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Jefferson --- --- --- --- --- --- Lamar --- --- Yes Yes --- --- McDuffie --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Meriwether --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Mitchell --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Monroe --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Morgan --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Peach --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Pierce Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Does the government collect occupation tax? If so, what method is used to assess the occupation tax? flat fee number of employees gross receipts profitability ratios Year in which occupation tax was last amended? Does government have regulatory fees? Does government have user fees? Yes Yes --- --- --- 2003 No Yes No --- --- --- --- --- No No Yes Yes Yes --- --- 1994 No Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes 2006 Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- 2006 No No No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes No --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Yes --- 1995 No Yes --- 1995 No Yes --- --- No No --- 2003 No No --- 1999 No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2000 No Yes --- 2006 Yes Yes --- --- Yes No --- 1989 Yes Yes --- --- No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No No --- 2001 No No --- 1995 No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No No --- 1994 No No --- 2006 Yes Yes --- 1995 No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- 1994 No Yes --- 1995 No Yes --- 2006 No No (1) - Retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads, streets and bridges. Page 5.f - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt (1) roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- water or sewer --Yes --------------- Does the government collect occupation tax? If so, what method is used to assess the occupation tax? flat fee number of employees gross receipts profitability ratios Year in which occupation tax was last amended? Does government have regulatory fees? Does government have user fees? Yes Yes Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- No No --- --- No Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- 1994 No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2003 No Yes --- 1995 Yes No Population Group E Bacon --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- 1983 No Yes Bleckley --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Candler Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Charlton Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No No Crawford --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Cusseta-Chattahoochee --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- 2004 No No Dooly --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- 2003 No No Early --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No No Evans Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Heard --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- 2005 No No Irwin --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- 2000 No No Jasper --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- 1999 No Yes Jeff Davis --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Long --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Yes Macon --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Yes McIntosh --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- 1997 No No Oglethorpe Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- 1995 No No Telfair --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- 1991 No No Terrell --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- --- 1998 No No Towns --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No No Twiggs --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes --- --- No No Wilkes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No Yes Population Group F (1) - Retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads, streets and bridges. Page 5.f - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 5.f: Financial Management Practices County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson What are the authorized uses for the special purpose local option sales tax? library retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt (1) roads, streets and bridges public safety facilities and capital equipment tax increment financing --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- water or sewer ------------------------Yes --------------------Yes ----Yes Yes ----Yes Does the government collect occupation tax? If so, what method is used to assess the occupation tax? flat fee number of employees gross receipts profitability ratios Year in which occupation tax was last amended? Does government have regulatory fees? Does government have user fees? No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- 2006 No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- 2005 Yes Yes --- --- No Yes --- 2000 No Yes --- 1998 Yes Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- --- No No --- 2004 No Yes --- --- No No --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- --- No Yes --- 1996 No Yes (1) - Retirement of previously incurred G.O. debt for roads, streets and bridges. Page 5.f - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 6 Economic Development Activities This chapter covers the administration and conduct of economic development activities sponsored by a government to attract new business and retain business. Specific items covered in this chapter: Initiatives for economic development activities Presence of a full-time economic developer Some governments employ a full-time staff person dedicated to economic development activities. Financial incentives used to attract and retain business Incentives may include land, grants or loans, and tax incentives, among others. Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number of entities taking initiative for economic development activities by type: Number reporting local chamber # % multi- jurisdictional chamber # % development authority # % joint development authority # % 21 13 61.9% 4 19.0% 20 95.2% 9 42.9% 18 11 61.1% 0 0.0% 17 94.4% 6 33.3% 30 11 36.7% 0 0.0% 24 80.0% 11 36.7% 36 19 52.8% 3 8.3% 29 80.6% 20 55.6% 22 14 63.6% 0 0.0% 19 86.4% 11 50.0% 31 10 32.3% 0 0.0% 23 74.2% 8 25.8% 158 78 49.4% 7 4.4% 132 83.5% 65 41.1% local government # % 12 57.1% 9 50.0% 11 36.7% 12 33.3% 13 59.1% 12 38.7% 69 43.7% no economic development activities # % 0 0.0% 1 5.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 6.5% 3 1.9% Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number of governments with full-time economic developer # % 13 61.9% 5 27.8% 11 36.7% 23 63.9% 3 13.6% 6 19.4% 61 38.6% Number of governments using the following incentives in attracting new industry all of the time: land (at little or no cost) # % local or regional low-interest or deferred payment loans # % state grants and loans # % federal grants and loans # % 0 0.0% 2 9.5% 1 4.8% 1 4.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 2 6.7% 2 6.7% 3 8.3% 3 8.3% 6 16.7% 3 8.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 1 3.2% 2 6.5% 1 3.2% 5 3.2% 7 4.4% 11 7.0% 7 4.4% QuickStart # % 4 19.0% 5 27.8% 9 30.0% 9 25.0% 2 9.1% 4 12.9% 33 20.9% subsidies # % 1 4.8% 0 0.0% 2 6.7% 2 5.6% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 6 3.8% Section 6.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Which of the following entities takes the initiative for economic development activities in the jurisdiction? local chamber multijurisdictional chamber development authority joint development authority local government no economic development activities undertaken Does the government employ a full-time economic developer? How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to your community? land (at little or no cost) low-interest or deferred payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program subsidies Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- No Never Most of time Always Sometimes Always Sometimes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Most of time Never Most of time Never Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Never Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Never Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Always Sometimes Always Always Never Yes --- --- --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Never Never --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Never Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Always Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time Always Sometimes Page 6.a - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Which of the following entities takes the initiative for economic development activities in the jurisdiction? local chamber multijurisdictional chamber development authority joint development authority local government no economic development activities undertaken Does the government employ a full-time economic developer? How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to your community? land (at little or no cost) low-interest or deferred payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program subsidies Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- --- --- --- Yes No Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Never --- Sometimes Never Always Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Always --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never Always Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Always Always Always Always Always Always --- --- --- --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- No Sometimes Most of time Always Always Always Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Never Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Page 6.a - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Which of the following entities takes the initiative for economic development activities in the jurisdiction? local chamber multijurisdictional chamber development authority joint development authority local government no economic development activities undertaken Does the government employ a full-time economic developer? How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to your community? land (at little or no cost) low-interest or deferred payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program subsidies Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Always Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- No Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Never Never Always Never --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Always Always Always Always Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Always Always Always Always Always Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Always Most of time Always Sometimes Always --- Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Most of time Always Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Most of time Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time Sometimes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Never Always Always Never Sometimes --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Always --- Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Never Page 6.a - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Which of the following entities takes the initiative for economic development activities in the jurisdiction? local chamber multijurisdictional chamber development authority joint development authority local government no economic development activities undertaken Does the government employ a full-time economic developer? How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to your community? land (at little or no cost) low-interest or deferred payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program subsidies Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time Always Never Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Always Most of time Always Most of time Always Most of time Population Group E Bacon --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Bleckley Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Candler Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Charlton Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Crawford --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Cusseta-Chattahoochee Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Dooly --- --- --- Yes --- --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Early Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time Always Always Evans --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Heard Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Irwin Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Jasper Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Jeff Davis Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Long Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- Macon --- --- Yes --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- McIntosh --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Most of time Never Never Never Never Never Oglethorpe Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Telfair Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Never Terrell Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Towns Yes --- --- --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Twiggs --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Wilkes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Population Group F Page 6.a - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.a: Economic Development Activities County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Which of the following entities takes the initiative for economic development activities in the jurisdiction? local chamber multijurisdictional chamber development authority joint development authority local government no economic development activities undertaken Does the government employ a full-time economic developer? How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to your community? land (at little or no cost) low-interest or deferred payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program subsidies Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Sometimes Never Always Most of time Always Never --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never --- Never --- --- --- --- Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Always Sometimes Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Always Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Most of time Sometimes Always Most of time Never Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Always Sometimes --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Yes --- --- Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- Yes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- --- --- Yes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- --- --- --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Never Never Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes --- --- --- --- Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- Yes Yes --- --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- No Most of time Never Most of time Always Never Never --- --- Yes --- --- --- No Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Always Sometimes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- No Never Never Never Never Never Never Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- No Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Yes --- Yes --- --- --- No Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Page 6.a - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities - Summary of Data Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Number of governments using the following incentives to attract new industry all of the time: (Cont.) tax incentives # % utilities at little or no cost # % commitment of additional local government services # % industrial development bonds # % expedited permitting # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 4.8% 5 23.8% 3 14.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 11.1% 4 22.2% 0 0.0% 2 6.7% 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 2 6.7% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 2.8% 3 8.3% 10 27.8% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 2 9.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 0 0.0% 3 1.9% 4 2.5% 12 7.6% 22 13.9% waiver of regulations # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.6% waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 2.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.6% other # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 2.8% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.6% Group A B C D E F Total Number of governments using the following incentives to encourage the retention and expansion of existing industry all of the time: Number reporting land (at little or no cost) # % local or regional low-interest or deferred # % state grants and loans # % federal grants and loans # % QuickStart # % 21 0 0.0% 1 4.8% 1 4.8% 1 4.8% 4 19.0% 18 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 4 22.2% 30 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 9 30.0% 36 1 2.8% 4 11.1% 4 11.1% 3 8.3% 5 13.9% 22 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 1 4.5% 1 4.5% 2 9.1% 31 1 3.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 9.7% 158 3 1.9% 7 4.4% 7 4.4% 6 3.8% 27 17.1% Section 6.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities County How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to the community? (Cont.) tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Sometimes Most of time Always Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time Always Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Most of time Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time Never Always Sometimes Always Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Most of time Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Never Most of time Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes --Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Never Never Always Sometimes Sometimes Always Always Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time --Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? low-interest land (at little or deferred or no cost) payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --Never Never Sometimes Never Never Always Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Always Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Always Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Never Most of time Never Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Always Always Most of time Sometimes Never Always Never --Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --Most of time Most of time Never Always Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time --Always Page 6.b - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to the community? (Cont.) tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? low-interest land (at little or deferred or no cost) payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Always Most of time Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Always Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Most of time Always Most of time Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Always Never Never Never Always Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Most of time Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Always Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Never Never Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Always Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Always Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Always Sometimes Always Always Sometimes Always Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Never Never Always Never Most of time Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Page 6.b - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to the community? (Cont.) tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? low-interest land (at little or deferred or no cost) payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Never Never --Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time --Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- Most of time Never Never Sometimes --Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes --Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always --- Always Most of time Never Sometimes Always Always Always Most of time Most of time Always Most of time Most of time Never Most of time Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Always Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Always Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Always Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Always Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Always Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never --Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Always Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Sometimes Always Always Never Never Sometimes Never Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Always Always Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Always Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Always Always Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Sometimes Never Page 6.b - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to the community? (Cont.) tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? low-interest land (at little or deferred or no cost) payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Never Always Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Sometimes Most of time Always Never Most of time Sometimes Never Always Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Never Always Most of time Never Most of time Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Always Never Never Always Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Always Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes ----Always Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Always ----Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Most of time ----- Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes ----Always Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes ----Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never ----Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes ------Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time ----Most of time Never Most of time Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time ----Most of time Never Always Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes ----Never Never Always Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes ----Never Never Always Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Always Never Never Never Never Always ----Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Population Group F Page 6.b - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.b: Economic Development Activities County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson How often does the government use the following incentives in attracting new industry to the community? (Cont.) tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? low-interest land (at little or deferred or no cost) payment loans state grants and loans federal grants and loans QuickStart Program Always --- Never Most of time Never --- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Always Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Never Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Never Sometimes Never --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Most of time Never Never Most of time Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time --- Never Sometimes Never --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Always Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- Never Never Sometimes --Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Always Never Never Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- Never Sometimes Sometimes --Never Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- Never Most of time Sometimes --Never Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes --- Never Most of time Sometimes --Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Always --- Never Never Sometimes --Never Never Never Always Never Always Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never --Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never Most of time Page 6.b - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number of governments using the following incentives to encourage the retention and expansion of existing industry all of the time: (Cont.) Number reporting subsidies # % tax incentives # % utilities at little or no cost # % commitment of additional local government services # % industrial development bonds # % expedited permitting # % waiver or regulations # % 21 0 0.0% 1 4.8% 0 0.0% 1 4.8% 3 14.3% 3 14.3% 0 0.0% 18 0 0.0% 1 5.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 11.1% 3 16.7% 0 0.0% 30 2 6.7% 2 6.7% 2 6.7% 2 6.7% 1 3.3% 2 6.7% 1 3.3% 36 1 2.8% 1 2.8% 0 0.0% 1 2.8% 3 8.3% 8 22.2% 0 0.0% 22 1 4.5% 2 9.1% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 31 1 3.2% 2 6.5% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 0 0.0% 158 5 3.2% 9 5.7% 3 1.9% 4 2.5% 10 6.3% 18 11.4% 1 0.6% waiver or reduction of required fees of assessments # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 1 0.6% other # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Number of counties collecting the additional mill of ad valorem tax for economic development # % 1 4.8% 1 5.6% 1 3.3% 9 25.0% 1 4.5% 4 12.9% 17 10.8% Number collecting the additional mill for the following purpose: county development authority # % Multi-jurisdictional development authority # % Other # % 1 100.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 8 88.9% 1 100.0% 4 100.0% 15 88.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 25.0% 2 11.8% Section 6.c - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? subsidies tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes --Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Most of time Always Most of time Most of time Never Always Never Always Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never other Does the county collect the one mill for economic development? For what purpose is the mill of ad valorem taxes used? --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes County DA --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- Sometimes No --- --- No --- --- No --- Never No --- --- No --- --- No --- Population Group B Barrow --- Most of time Most of time --- --- Most of time --- --- --- No --- Bartow Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes No --- Bulloch Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Catoosa Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes --- No --- Dougherty Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Floyd Never Always Never Never Most of time Always Never Never --- No --- Glynn Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Always Always Never Never --- No --- Gordon Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never --- No --- Jackson Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --- No --- Liberty --- Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- Yes Both Lowndes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Always Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Page 6.c - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities County Population Group B Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? subsidies tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments other Does the county collect the one mill for economic development? For what purpose is the mill of ad valorem taxes used? Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never --- --- No --- Sometimes Most of time Never Most of time Sometimes Most of time Most of time Most of time --- No --- Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Always Never Sometimes --- No --- Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Most of time Most of time Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Most of time Never Most of time Never Never --- No --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Never Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes --- No --- Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- No --- Always Always Always Always Always Sometimes Always Sometimes --- No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never --- No --- Never Sometimes Never Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Never Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Always Never Never --- No --- Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Most of time Most of time Sometimes Never Never --- No --- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never No --- Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never --- No --- Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes No --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never --- No --- Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Page 6.c - 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities County Population Group C Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? subsidies tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments other Does the county collect the one mill for economic development? For what purpose is the mill of ad valorem taxes used? Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- Sometimes Always Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --- Never Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- --- Sometimes --- Most of time --- --- --- --- --- Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- No --- Yes County DA No --- No --- No --- Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- No Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- Yes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes --- No Never Most of time Never Sometimes Most of time Never Never Never --- No Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Always Never Never --- No Always Always Never Sometimes Always Always Sometimes Most of time --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never --- No Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes No Never Most of time Never Most of time Never Always Never Most of time --- No Never Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time No Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never No Never Never Never Sometimes Most of time Never Never Sometimes --- No Never Most of time Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes --- No Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --- Yes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Always Never Always Never Sometimes --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes --- No Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never No Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never --- Yes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Always Never Never --- No --- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Never Never --- No Never Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never --- Yes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Always Never Never --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes --- No Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Most of time Never Sometimes --- No Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Always Sometimes Sometimes --- Yes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never --- No --County DA ------County DA ------------------------County DA ----County DA ------County DA --- Page 6.c - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities County Population Group D Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? subsidies tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Never Most of time Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Most of time Always Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Always Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Always Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Always Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes ----- Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Always Never Most of time Never Sometimes Sometimes ------Never Always Never Never Most of time Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Always ----Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Most of time ----- Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes ----- Always Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Always Never Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes ----Most of time Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never ----Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes ----- Always Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Population Group F Page 6.c - 4 other Does the county collect the one mill for economic development? For what purpose is the mill of ad valorem taxes used? ----------Never ------- No --- No --- No --- Yes County DA Yes County DA No --- No --- No --- Yes County DA ----------------------------------Never --------- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes County DA No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.c: Economic Development Activities County Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson How often does the government use the following incentives in encouraging the retention and expansion of existing industry? subsidies tax incentives utilities at little or no cost commitment of additional local government services industrial development bonds expedited permitting waiver of regulations waiver or reduction of required fees or assessments Never --- Never Never Sometimes --Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Always Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Always --- Never Never Never --Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Most of time Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Always Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Most of time --- Never Never Never --Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Sometimes Never Most of time Sometimes Most of time Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Never Never Never --Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Never Most of time Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Most of time --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Never Sometimes Always Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Never Sometimes --- Never Never Never --Sometimes Never Never Never Never Most of time Never Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes other Does the county collect the one mill for economic development? For what purpose is the mill of ad valorem taxes used? ----Never Never ----------Never --------------Never ------Never Never ----Never ----------- No --- --- --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes --- No --- No --- Yes County DA No --- No --- Yes County DA No --- No --- No County DA No --- No --- No --- No Both No --- No --- Yes County DA No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Page 6.c - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Developement Activities - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Number with constitutional development authority # % 13 61.9% 10 55.6% 16 53.3% 24 66.7% 9 40.9% 15 48.4% 87 55.1% three mills # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Number and percentage dedicating by amount two mills # % 0 0.0% 1 10.0% 1 6.3% 0 0.0% 1 11.1% 0 0.0% 3 3.4% one mill # % 1 7.7% 0 0.0% 3 18.8% 3 12.5% 1 11.1% 0 0.0% 8 9.2% other amount # % 0 0.0% 2 20.0% 2 12.5% 9 37.5% 2 22.2% 4 26.7% 19 21.8% none # % 13 100.0% 8 80.0% 12 75.0% 13 54.2% 5 55.6% 10 66.7% 61 70.1% Of those governments not dedicating additional mill of ad valorem tax, number supporting economic development through the normal budgeting process Number providing more than $50,000 support to economic development # % # % 18 85.7% 16 88.9% 26 86.7% 29 80.6% 14 63.6% 20 64.5% 123 50.6% 17 94.4% 12 75.0% 18 69.2% 21 72.4% 8 57.1% 4 20.0% 80 65.0% Page 6.d - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Development Activities County Population Group A Augusta/Richmond Athens-Clarke Bibb Coweta Columbia Carroll Cobb Columbus/Muscogee Chatham Cherokee Clayton Douglas DeKalb Fulton Forsyth Fayette Gwinnett Henry Hall Houston Paulding Population Group B Bulloch Bartow Barrow Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Gordon Glynn Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walton Does government have a constitutional development authority? If government has a constitutional development authority, what amount of ad valorem tax is dedicated to the authority? If additional mills are not dedicated, does government support economic development through the budget process? What is the range of the government's level of financial support? Yes None Yes None Yes None Yes None Yes None No --- Yes None Yes One mill No --- Yes None No --- Yes None No None Yes None Yes None No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes None Yes None Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 --- Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 --- $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 No --- Yes None Yes None No --- Yes None Yes None No --- Yes None Yes None Yes Two mills Yes Other No None No --- No --- No --- No --- Page 6.d - 1 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 No --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Development Activities County Population Group B Whitfield Walker Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Coffee Colquitt Camden Chattooga Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Haralson Harris Habersham Jones Lumpkin Laurens Lee Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Ben Hill Banks Does government have a constitutional development authority? If government has a constitutional development authority, what amount of ad valorem tax is dedicated to the authority? If additional mills are not dedicated, does government support economic development through the budget process? What is the range of the government's level of financial support? Yes Other Yes None Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes None No Other Yes None Yes None Yes One mill No --- Yes None Yes Two mills Yes None No --- Yes None No --- Yes None No --- No --- No None No --- Yes One mill No --- Yes None No --- Yes Other No --- Yes None No --- Yes None Yes One mill Yes None No --- No --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 No $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Less than $10,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 No --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes --- Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $11,000 - $25,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes None Yes None Yes One mill Page 6.d - 2 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Development Activities County Does government have a constitutional development authority? If government has a constitutional development authority, what amount of ad valorem tax is dedicated to the authority? If additional mills are not dedicated, does government support economic development through the budget process? What is the range of the government's level of financial support? Population Group D Berrien No Brantley Yes Butts Yes Brooks Yes Burke No Cook No Crisp Yes Dade Yes Dawson Yes Dodge Yes Emanuel Yes Elbert No Franklin No Greene Yes Hart Yes Jefferson No Lamar Yes Morgan No Monroe Yes Mitchell Yes McDuffie Yes Meriwether Yes Putnam Yes Pike No Pierce Yes Peach No Rabun No Screven Yes Tattnall Yes Union No Worth Yes White Yes Washington --- --Other None Other ----None None None None One mill ----None None Other Other --None None None Other Other --Other ----One mill Other --Other None --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 No --- Yes --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $11,000 - $25,000 No --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 No --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 --- --- --- --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 --- --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 --- --- Population Group E Bacon Yes Bleckley Yes Crawford No Cusseta-Chattahoochee No Other None ----- Yes Greater than $100,000 No --- No --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 Page 6.d - 3 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Development Activities County Population Group E Charlton Candler Dooly Evans Early Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Towns Terrell Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clinch Clay Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Seminole Does government have a constitutional development authority? If government has a constitutional development authority, what amount of ad valorem tax is dedicated to the authority? If additional mills are not dedicated, does government support economic development through the budget process? What is the range of the government's level of financial support? No --- Yes None No --- Yes None --- --- No --- Yes One mill Yes Other Yes None No --- No --- Yes Two mills Yes None No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 --- --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 No --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes Less than $10,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 No --- Yes Less than $10,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 No --- No --- Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes None --- --- No --- No --- Yes None No --- Yes None Yes None Yes --- Yes None No --- No --- Yes None No --- Yes Other Yes Other No --- No --- Yes Other Page 6.d - 4 Yes Less than $10,000 --- --- Yes Less than $10,000 No --- Yes Less than $10,000 No --- Yes Less than $10,000 Yes Greater than $100,000 Yes --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 --- --- Yes Less than $10,000 Yes Less than $10,000 --- --- Yes $11,000 - $25,000 No --- No --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 6.d: Economic Development Activities County Population Group F Stewart Schley Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Talbot Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does government have a constitutional development authority? If government has a constitutional development authority, what amount of ad valorem tax is dedicated to the authority? If additional mills are not dedicated, does government support economic development through the budget process? What is the range of the government's level of financial support? --- --- Yes None No --- Yes None Yes Other Yes None No --- No --- Yes None No --- No --- No --- --- --- Yes Less than $10,000 No --- Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $26,000 - $50,000 Yes $11,000 - $25,000 Yes Less than $10,000 No --- No --- Yes Less than $10,000 Yes $51,000 - $100,000 Page 6.d - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 7 Public Safety This chapter covers provisions of a government's public safety functions, encompassing both fire and police services. Specific items covered in this chapter: Law Enforcement Existence of police department Issuance of handguns Use of law enforcement vehicles Assigned patrol shift hours Jail operations Fire Services Fire classification rating The Insurance Services Office (ISO) issues a fire protection scale on a range of 1 to 10, with "one" being the highest response and "ten" being the lowest response. Number of fire stations Use of volunteers for fire fighting Fire departments can include volunteer fire fighters in their force, or consist of all volunteers. Number of fire fighters on duty per shift Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number reporting 21 18 30 36 22 31 158 Questions refer to the operation of a county police department Number of counties operating police department # % Number with county government providing handguns to officers # % Number assigning patrol shifts by number of hours 8 hours # % 9 hours # % 10 hours # % 7 33.3% 7 100.0% 4 57.1% 1 14.3% 1 14.3% 4 22.2% 4 100.0% 2 50.0% 0 0.0% 1 25.0% 2 6.7% 2 100.0% 1 50.0% 0 0.0% 1 50.0% 1 2.8% 2 200.0% 1 100.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.0% 2 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 14 8.9% 16 100.0% 11 78.6% 1 7.1% 3 21.4% 12 hours # % 1 14.3% 1 25.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 1 0.0% 0 0.0% 4 28.6% other # % 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 1 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 14.3% Number with "One Car, One Driver rule" # % 4 57.1% 2 50.0% 2 100.0% 2 200.0% 2 0.0% 2 0.0% 14 100.0% If more than one driver per car, maximum number of drivers 3 2 2 1 1 --- 3 Section 7.a - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group A Augusta/Richmond Athens-Clarke Bibb Coweta Columbia Carroll Cobb Columbus/Muscogee Chatham Cherokee Clayton Douglas DeKalb Fulton Forsyth Fayette Gwinnett Henry Hall Houston Paulding Questions refer to the operation of a county police department ... Does the county operate a police department? Method of providing handguns For the majority of the police patrol officers, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Govt. provides 12 Hours No --- --- No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 10 Hours Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours No --- --- No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 9 Hours --- --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Population Group B Bulloch No Bartow No Barrow No Catoosa No Dougherty Yes Floyd Yes Gordon No Glynn Yes Jackson No Liberty No Lowndes No --------Govt. provides Govt. provides --Govt. provides ------- --------12 Hours 8 Hours --10 Hours ------- Page 7.a - 1 Does the police department have "One Car, One Driver rule"? --Yes --------No Yes ----No --No Yes ----Yes --------- If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? ------------3.0 ------3.0 --3.0 ----------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No 2.0 Yes --- --- --- No 2.0 --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety Jurisdiction Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walton Whitfield Walker Questions refer to the operation of a county police department ... Does the county operate a police department? Method of providing handguns For the majority of the police patrol officers, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? No --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours Population Group C Baldwin No Bryan No Coffee No Colquitt No Camden No Chattooga No Decatur No Effingham No Gilmer No Grady No Haralson No Harris No Habersham No Jones No Lumpkin No Laurens No Lee No Madison No Murray No Oconee No Pickens No Polk Yes Stephens No Sumter No Thomas No Tift No ------------------------------------------Govt. provides --------- ------------------------------------------10 Hours --------- Page 7.a - 2 Does the police department have "One Car, One Driver rule"? ------------Yes If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --1.0 --------1.0 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2.0 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety Jurisdiction Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Questions refer to the operation of a county police department ... Does the county operate a police department? Method of providing handguns For the majority of the police patrol officers, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? No --- --- No --- --- Yes Govt. provides 8 Hours No --- --- Population Group D Appling No Ben Hill No Banks No Berrien No Brantley No Butts No Brooks No Burke No Cook No Crisp No Dade No Dawson No Dodge No Emanuel No Elbert No Franklin No Greene No Hart No Jefferson No Lamar No Morgan No Monroe No Mitchell Yes McDuffie No Meriwether No Putnam No Pike No Pierce No Peach No --------------------Govt. provides ----------------------Govt. provides ------------- Other ------------------- 8 Hours ----------------------- 12 Hours ------------- Page 7.a - 3 Does the police department have "One Car, One Driver rule"? ----Yes --- If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --------- --- --- Yes 1.0 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety Jurisdiction Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Worth White Washington Questions refer to the operation of a county police department ... Does the county operate a police department? Method of providing handguns For the majority of the police patrol officers, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Population Group E Bacon No Bleckley No Crawford No Cusseta-Chattahoochee No Charlton No Candler No Dooly --- Evans No Early No Heard No Irwin No Jasper No Jeff Davis No Long No Macon No McIntosh No Oglethorpe No Telfair No Towns No Terrell No Twiggs No Wilkes No ------------------Other ----Other ----Other ------------- ------------------Other --12 Hours ------8 Hours ------------- Population Group F Atkinson No --- --- Baker No --- --- Calhoun No --- --- Page 7.a - 4 Does the police department have "One Car, One Driver rule"? --------------- If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --------------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes 1.0 --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.a: Public Safety Jurisdiction Clinch Clay Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart Schley Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Talbot Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Questions refer to the operation of a county police department ... Does the county operate a police department? Method of providing handguns For the majority of the police patrol officers, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? --- --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No Officer provides 8 Hours No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No Govt. provides 8 Hours No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Does the police department have "One Car, One Driver rule"? --------------Yes ----------------------------Yes ----------- If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --------------------------------------------------------- Page 7.a - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety - Summary of Data Questions refer to the operating of a county sheriff's department Number Group reporting Number of departments providing handguns to sworn law enforcement personnel # % 8 hours # % ------------ Number having following shifts in hours: ------------ 9 hours # % 10 hours # % 12 hours # % A 21 21 100.0% 6 28.6% 1 4.8% 0 0.0% 13 61.9% B 18 14 77.8% 6 33.3% 1 5.6% 0 0.0% 10 55.6% C 30 28 93.3% 2 6.7% 1 3.3% 1 3.3% 26 86.7% D 36 32 88.9% 2 5.6% 2 5.6% 1 2.8% 31 86.1% E 22 9 40.9% 5 22.7% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 15 68.2% F 31 21 67.7% 6 19.4% 2 6.5% 1 3.2% 19 61.3% Total 158 125 79.1% 27 17.1% 8 5.1% 3 1.9% 114 72.2% other # % Number of governments with "One Car, One Driver Rule" # % If more than one driver per car, maximum number of drivers 1 4.8% 10 47.6% 2 0 0.0% 14 77.8% 1 0 0.0% 21 70.0% 2 0 0.0% 35 97.2% 1 0 0.0% 18 81.8% 2 3 9.7% 26 83.9% 2 4 2.5% 124 78.5% 2 Section 7.b - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety Questions refer to the operation of a county sheriff's department ... Jurisdiction Method of providing handguns to sworn deputies For the majority of the sheriff's deputies, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? Does sheriff's department have "One car, One driver rule"? Population Group A Augusta/Richmond Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Athens-Clarke Govt. provides 12 Hours No Bibb Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Coweta Govt. provides 12 Hours No Columbia Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Carroll Govt. provides 12 Hours No Cobb Govt. provides 8 Hours No Columbus/Muscogee Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Chatham Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Cherokee Govt. provides 9 Hours No Clayton Govt. provides 12 Hours No Douglas Govt. provides 12 Hours No DeKalb Govt. provides Other No Fulton Govt. provides 8 Hours No Forsyth Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Fayette Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Gwinnett Govt. provides 8 Hours No Henry Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Hall Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Houston Govt. provides 12 Hours No Paulding Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Population Group B Bulloch Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Bartow Officer provides 8 Hours Yes Barrow Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Catoosa Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Dougherty Govt. provides 8 Hours No Floyd Govt. provides 8 Hours No Gordon Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Glynn Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Jackson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Liberty Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Lowndes Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Page 7.b - 1 If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --2.0 --2.0 --1.0 3.0 ----3.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 2.0 ----5.0 ----2.0 --- --------2.0 2.0 --.0 ------- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety Questions refer to the operation of a county sheriff's department ... Jurisdiction Method of providing handguns to sworn deputies For the majority of the sheriff's deputies, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? Does sheriff's department have "One car, One driver rule"? Newton Officer provides 9 Hours Yes Rockdale Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Spalding --- --- --- Troup Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Walton Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Whitfield Govt. provides 12 Hours No Walker Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Population Group C Baldwin Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Bryan Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Coffee Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Colquitt Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Camden Govt. provides 12 Hours No Chattooga Govt. provides 10 Hours No Decatur Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Effingham Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Gilmer Govt. provides 12 Hours No Grady Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Haralson Officer provides 12 Hours No Harris Govt. provides 12 Hours No Habersham Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Jones Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Lumpkin Govt. provides 12 Hours No Laurens Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Lee Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Madison Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Murray Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Oconee Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Pickens Govt. provides 12 Hours No Polk Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Stephens Govt. provides 9 Hours Yes Sumter Govt. provides 12 Hours No Thomas Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Tift Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Page 7.b - 2 If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? ------1.0 --1.0 .0 --------2.0 4.0 ----2.0 --2.0 2.0 ----2.0 .0 --------2.0 ----2.0 ----- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety Questions refer to the operation of a county sheriff's department ... Jurisdiction Method of providing handguns to sworn deputies For the majority of the sheriff's deputies, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? Does sheriff's department have "One car, One driver rule"? Toombs Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Upson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Ware Govt. provides 12 Hours No Wayne Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Population Group D Appling Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Ben Hill Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Banks Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Berrien Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Brantley Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Butts Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Brooks Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Burke Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Cook Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Crisp Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Dade Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Dawson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Dodge Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Emanuel Govt. provides 12 Hours No Elbert Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Franklin Govt. provides 9 Hours Yes Greene Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Hart Govt. provides 9 Hours Yes Jefferson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Lamar Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Morgan Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Monroe Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Mitchell Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes McDuffie Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Meriwether Govt. provides 10 Hours Yes Putnam Other 12 Hours Yes Pike Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Pierce Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Peach Other 12 Hours Yes Page 7.b - 3 If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? ----3.0 --- 1.0 ------------------------2.0 ------------1.0 ----------------- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety Questions refer to the operation of a county sheriff's department ... Jurisdiction Method of providing handguns to sworn deputies For the majority of the sheriff's deputies, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? Does sheriff's department have "One car, One driver rule"? Rabun Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Screven Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Tattnall Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Union Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Worth Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes White Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Washington Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Population Group E Bacon Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Bleckley Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Crawford Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Cusseta-Chattahooch Govt. provides 8 Hours No Charlton Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Candler Officer provides 8 Hours Yes Dooly --- --- --- Evans Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Early Govt. provides 12 Hours No Heard Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Irwin Officer provides 8 Hours Yes Jasper Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Jeff Davis Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Long Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Macon Officer provides 9 Hours Yes McIntosh Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Oglethorpe Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Telfair Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Towns Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Terrell Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Twiggs Govt. provides 12 Hours No Wilkes Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Population Group F Atkinson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Baker Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Calhoun Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Page 7.b - 4 If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? ----.0 .0 --.0 --- ------5.0 1.0 ----.0 4.0 2.0 --1.0 ----------1.0 ----1.0 1.0 ------- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.b: Public Safety Questions refer to the operation of a county sheriff's department ... Jurisdiction Method of providing handguns to sworn deputies For the majority of the sheriff's deputies, for what shift hours are they primarily assigned? Does sheriff's department have "One car, One driver rule"? Clinch Officer provides 9 Hours Yes Clay Govt. provides 8 Hours No Echols Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Glascock Other 8 Hours Yes Hancock Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Jenkins Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Johnson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Lanier Officer provides 8 Hours Yes Lincoln Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Marion Officer provides 8 Hours No Miller Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Montgomery Officer provides 12 Hours No Pulaski Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Quitman Govt. provides Other Yes Randolph Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Seminole Govt. provides 9 Hours Yes Stewart Officer provides 12 Hours No Schley Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Taliaferro Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Taylor Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Treutlen Govt. provides Other Yes Turner Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Talbot Govt. provides 8 Hours Yes Warren Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes Webster Officer provides Other Yes Wheeler Officer provides 12 Hours Yes Wilcox Govt. provides 10 Hours No Wilkinson Govt. provides 12 Hours Yes If not, what is the typical number of drivers per vehicle? --2.0 --------------2.0 --2.0 --------3.0 ----------------1.0 2.0 --- Page 7.b - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety - Summary of Data Group A B C D E F Total Number of governments operating Number a jail facility reporting # % Number of these governments owning the facility they operate # % 21 20 95.2% 20 95.2% 18 17 94.4% 17 94.4% 30 30 100.0% 30 100.0% 36 36 100.0% 36 100.0% 22 18 81.8% 18 81.8% 31 22 71.0% 21 67.7% 158 143 90.5% 142 89.9% Number of governments adding the 10% fee to court fines (1) # % 21 100.0% 16 88.9% 30 100.0% 33 91.7% 16 72.7% 30 96.8% 146 92.4% Number with ISO rating of 4 or better # % 13 61.9% 4 22.2% 3 10.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 3.2% 21 13.3% Number of fire stations that the government supports: minimum maximum Number of governments using volunteers for fire fighting duties # % Number of these departments as allvolunteers departments # % Number of departments with fire fighting personnel working on scheduled shifts Number of fire fighting personnel on duty on any shift: # % minimum maximum 0 27 7 33.3% 0 0.0% 16 76.2% 2 170 0 18 13 72.2% 2 15.4% 11 61.1% 2 39 0 15 25 83.3% 7 28.0% 15 50.0% 1 20 0 14 29 80.6% 14 48.3% 14 38.9% 1 30 1 13 19 86.4% 12 63.2% 7 31.8% 0 14 0 10 23 74.2% 19 82.6% 2 6.5% 0 50 0 27 116 73.4% 54 46.6% 65 41.1% 0 170 (1) Number of governments adding the additional 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines. Section 7.c - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group A Augusta/Richmond Athens-Clarke Bibb Coweta Columbia Carroll Cobb Columbus/Muscogee Chatham Cherokee Clayton Douglas DeKalb Fulton Forsyth Fayette Gwinnett Henry Hall Houston Paulding Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Yes Own govt. Yes 5 19 Yes Own govt. Yes 2 8 Yes Own govt. Yes 1 8 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 14 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 16 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 13 Yes Own govt. Yes 3 27 Yes Own govt. Yes 2 16 Yes Own govt. Yes 3 0 Yes Own govt. Yes 5 24 Yes Own govt. Yes 3 13 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 3 26 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 11 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 15 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 26 No Other govt. Yes 9 1 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 14 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 8 Yes Own govt. Yes 7 9 Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? No --- --- No No --- No --- Yes No Yes No --- No --- --- --- --- Yes No --- --- No No --- --- --- --- Yes No Yes No No --- No No --- --- Yes No Yes No Population Group B Bulloch Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Bartow Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Barrow Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Catoosa Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Dougherty Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Floyd Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Gordon Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Glynn Yes Own govt. Yes 4 Jackson Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Liberty Yes Own govt. Yes 4 8 Yes Yes 14 Yes No 6 Yes No 8 Yes No 5 No --- 10 No --- 11 Yes No 8 Yes No 9 Yes --- 7 No Yes (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 1 Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? --- --- Yes 46 --- --- --- --- Yes 3 Yes 24 Yes 150 Yes 108 --- --- Yes 53 Yes 97 Yes 40 Yes 170 Yes 43 Yes 40 Yes 30 --- --- Yes 3 Yes 81 Yes 2 Yes 25 No --- Yes 29 Yes 24 Yes 2 --- --- --- --- Yes 8 Yes 39 --- --- No --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group B Lowndes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walton Whitfield Walker Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? Yes Own govt. No 5 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 No --- No 5 Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 18 Yes No 13 Yes No 7 --- --- 0 No --- 12 Yes No 13 Yes No 9 Yes No 18 Yes No Population Group C Baldwin Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Bryan Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Coffee Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Colquitt Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Camden Yes Own govt. Yes 4 Chattooga Yes Own govt. Yes 8 Decatur Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Effingham Yes Own govt. Yes 4 Gilmer Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Grady Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Haralson Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Harris Yes Own govt. Yes 8 Habersham Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Jones Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Lumpkin Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Laurens Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Lee Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Madison Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Murray Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Oconee Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Pickens Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Polk Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Stephens Yes Own govt. Yes 6 8 Yes No 6 Yes No 11 Yes No 0 No Yes 9 Yes No 11 Yes --- 9 Yes No 8 Yes No 10 Yes No 10 Yes --- 10 Yes No 12 No Yes 9 Yes No 10 No Yes 5 Yes No 13 Yes --- 4 Yes No 11 No Yes 6 Yes No 7 Yes Yes 8 Yes --- 9 No Yes 7 Yes --- (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 2 Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? No --- Yes 25 Yes 27 --- --- Yes 22 Yes 15 Yes 10 Yes 9 Yes 10 Yes 8 Yes 3 No --- Yes 20 --- --- Yes 4 Yes 8 Yes 3 --- --- Yes 4 No --- Yes 1 No --- Yes 2 --- 5 Yes 2 No --- Yes 9 No --- --- --- No --- --- --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group C Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 4 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 8 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 5 4 Yes --- 15 Yes No 10 Yes No 6 Yes Yes 7 Yes --- 9 Yes No 6 Yes --- Population Group D Appling Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Ben Hill Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Banks Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Berrien Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Brantley Yes Own govt. Yes 8 Butts Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Brooks Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Burke Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Cook Yes Own govt. Yes --- Crisp Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Dade Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Dawson Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Dodge Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Emanuel Yes Own govt. No 9 Elbert Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Franklin Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Greene Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Hart Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Jefferson Yes Own govt. Yes 8 Lamar Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Morgan Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Monroe Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Mitchell Yes Own govt. Yes 5 McDuffie Yes Own govt. Yes 6 10 Yes --- 6 Yes Yes 11 Yes No 7 Yes Yes 7 Yes Yes 5 Yes No 8 No Yes 12 No --- 7 No Yes 6 Yes No 7 Yes --- 7 Yes No 9 Yes Yes 13 Yes No 9 Yes Yes 12 Yes Yes 9 Yes Yes 8 No Yes 8 No Yes 7 Yes No 14 Yes No 12 Yes No 7 Yes --- 6 Yes No (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 3 Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? --- --- Yes 6 Yes 10 No --- --- --- Yes 4 --- --- --- --- No --- Yes 10 No --- --- --- Yes 14 No --- Yes 30 No --- Yes 5 --- --- Yes 5 No --- --- --- No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes 1 Yes 4 Yes 12 --- --- Yes 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group D Meriwether Putnam Pike Pierce Peach Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Worth White Washington Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Yes Own govt. Yes --- Yes Own govt. No 7 Yes Own govt. No 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Yes Own govt. Yes 7 13 No No 11 Yes No 8 Yes Yes 7 Yes --- 6 Yes No 12 Yes Yes 8 Yes No 0 --- --- 12 Yes No 14 Yes No 8 Yes --- 9 Yes Yes Population Group E Bacon Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Bleckley No --- Yes 9 Crawford Yes Own govt. No 9 Cusseta-Chattahoochee Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Charlton No --- Yes 9 Candler Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Dooly No --- No 5 Evans Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Early Yes Own govt. No 9 Heard Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Irwin Yes Own govt. No 6 Jasper Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Jeff Davis Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Long No --- Yes 5 Macon Yes Own govt. Yes 9 McIntosh Yes Own govt. No 9 Oglethorpe Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Telfair Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Towns Yes Own govt. No 6 7 Yes No 6 Yes No 8 Yes Yes 1 Yes Yes 5 Yes Yes 1 Yes No 1 Yes Yes 4 Yes --- 10 Yes Yes 9 Yes No 5 Yes Yes 7 Yes --- 5 Yes No 4 Yes Yes 5 No Yes 8 No Yes 13 Yes --- 5 Yes Yes 6 Yes No (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 4 Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? No --- Yes 3 No --- --- --- Yes 6 No --- Yes 2 --- --- Yes 2 Yes 2 --- --- --- --- Yes 3 Yes 2 --- --- No --- No --- No 1 No --- --- --- No --- Yes 14 No 0 --- 1 Yes 2 No --- No --- No --- --- --- Yes 2 Yes 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group E Terrell Twiggs Wilkes Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 8 1 Yes No 5 No Yes 10 Yes Yes Population Group F Atkinson Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Baker Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Calhoun Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Clinch Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Clay No --- Yes 9 Echols No --- Yes 8 Glascock No Other govt. Yes 8 Hancock Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Jenkins Yes --- Yes 1 Johnson Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Lanier No --- Yes 9 Lincoln Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Marion Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Miller Yes Own govt. Yes 6 Montgomery No --- Yes 8 Pulaski Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Quitman No --- Yes 9 Randolph Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Seminole Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Stewart Yes Own govt. No --- Schley Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Taliaferro No --- Yes 9 Taylor Yes Own govt. Yes 5 Treutlen Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Turner Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Talbot Yes Own govt. Yes 7 Warren No --- Yes 9 Webster No --- Yes 9 2 Yes --- 2 Yes --- 1 Yes Yes --- Yes --- 5 Yes --- 1 Yes --- 4 No Yes 5 Yes Yes 1 Yes --- 10 Yes Yes 7 Yes Yes 5 Yes --- 0 Yes Yes 4 Yes Yes 0 No Yes 4 Yes No 4 No Yes 6 Yes Yes 0 Yes Yes 3 No Yes 1 No Yes 1 Yes --- 6 No Yes 5 Yes --- 7 Yes Yes 7 Yes Yes 6 No Yes 2 No Yes (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 5 Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? Yes 1 No --- No --- --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- --- --- --- --- No --- Yes 50 --- 2 No --- No --- --- --- No --- No --- No --- Yes 2 No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- No 0 No --- No --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 7.c: Public Safety Jurisdiction Population Group F Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does the government operate a jail? What entity owns this jail? Government add the 10% fee onto court fines? (1) What is the govts. fire classification rating (ISO)? Number of fire stations supported by the govt.? Does fire dept. use volunteers for fire fighting duties? Is the fire department all-volunteer? Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes 9 Yes Own govt. Yes --- 3 Yes --- 1 Yes --- 8 Yes Yes Do fire fighting personnel work scheduled shifts? ----No What is the typical number of personnel on duty on any shift? ------- (1) - Does the jurisdiction add the 10% fee authorized by the Jail Construction and Staffing Act onto court fines? Page 7.c - 6 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 8 Form of Government This chapter briefly summarizes how governments elect or appoint their commissioners/mayors and board/council members. Electing/appointing the chief elected official Popular vote Vote of council (municipality) Vote of commission (county) Excluding the chief elected official: The methods of electing members of the board/council The number of seats on the board/council Department of Community Affairs Section 8. Form of Government Number electing/appointing the chief executive/commission chair by the following methods: Number Group reporting popular vote # % vote of commission # % no CEO/chair # % A 21 17 81.0% 3 14.3% 0 0.0% B 18 13 72.2% 4 22.2% 0 0.0% C 30 13 43.3% 14 46.7% 3 10.0% D 36 22 61.1% 14 38.9% 0 0.0% E 22 11 50.0% 10 45.5% 0 0.0% F 31 11 35.5% 19 61.3% 0 0.0% Total 158 87 55.1% 64 40.5% 3 1.9% Number electing members of the commission by the following methods: by district at-large some by district and some by at-large not applicable # % # % # % # % 15 71.4% 3 14.3% 2 9.5% 0 0.0% 10 55.6% 3 16.7% 2 11.1% 2 11.1% 22 73.3% 5 16.7% 0 0.0% 3 10.0% 28 77.8% 6 16.7% 1 2.8% 1 2.8% 18 81.8% 1 4.5% 0 0.0% 2 9.1% 23 74.2% 5 16.1% 1 3.2% 1 3.2% 116 73.4% 23 14.6% 6 3.8% 9 5.7% Excluding the CEO or chair, what are the minimum and maximum number of seats on the board? (1) minimum maximum 4 10 0 6 1 7 2 6 0 5 0 5 0 10 (1) - May show a '0' for those counties having a sole commissioner. Section 8 - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 8: Form of Government County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Lowndes Newton Rockdale How is the chief executive or commission chair elected/appointed? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how are members of the board elected? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how many seats are there on the board of commissioners? Popular vote By district 10 Popular vote By district 10 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 6 Popular vote By district 8 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote District/at-large 10 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 7 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission At-large 5 Vote of commission At-large 4 Popular vote District/at-large 6 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 --- --- --- Popular vote At-large 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Page 8 - 1 By district not applicable By district By district By district At-large District/at-large At-large By district By district By district By district At-large 6 0 6 4 6 4 6 4 4 6 3 5 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 8: Form of Government County Population Group B Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware How is the chief executive or commission chair elected/appointed? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how are members of the board elected? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how many seats are there on the board of commissioners? --- --- --- Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote not applicable 0 Popular vote By district 6 Vote of commission District/at-large 5 Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission No CEO Popular vote Popular vote No CEO Popular vote No CEO Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Page 8 - 2 By district By district By district not applicable By district By district By district By district At-large By district At-large By district By district By district By district By district At-large By district not applicable At-large not applicable By district At-large By district By district By district By district By district By district 4 5 4 --4 6 5 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 --1 4 --5 2 4 7 6 4 4 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 8: Form of Government County Population Group C Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union How is the chief executive or commission chair elected/appointed? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how are members of the board elected? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how many seats are there on the board of commissioners? Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Popular vote Popular vote Page 8 - 3 By district At-large By district By district At-large By district By district By district By district By district By district At-large By district By district By district At-large By district By district By district By district By district By district By district By district By district District/at-large By district By district By district At-large By district By district not applicable 5 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 5 --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 8: Form of Government County Population Group D Washington White Worth Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock How is the chief executive or commission chair elected/appointed? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how are members of the board elected? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how many seats are there on the board of commissioners? Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote At-large 2 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 5 Popular vote not applicable 0 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission At-large 4 --- --- --- Popular vote By district --- Vote of commission By district 5 Popular vote By district 5 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 5 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote not applicable 0 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote Vote of commission Vote of commission Vote of commission --Vote of commission Popular vote Page 8 - 4 By district At-large By district By district --At-large At-large 5 4 4 4 --2 2 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 8: Form of Government County Population Group F Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson How is the chief executive or commission chair elected/appointed? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how are members of the board elected? Excluding the chief executive or commission chair, how many seats are there on the board of commissioners? Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission District/at-large 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote not applicable 0 Vote of commission At-large 4 Vote of commission By district 5 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote At-large 2 Vote of commission By district --- Vote of commission By district 4 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 2 Popular vote By district 4 Vote of commission By district 2 Vote of commission By district 4 Popular vote By district 4 Page 8 - 5 2007 County Government Information Catalog CHAPTER 9 E-Government This chapter gives a brief overview of those governments that use the Internet to conduct government business, specifically: Whether the government maintains an official website Types of services offered on the government website Whether government maintains a general email address Department of Community Affairs Section 9. E-Government Number Group reporting A 21 B 18 C 30 D 36 E 22 F 31 Total 158 Number of governments maintaining an official web site: # % Number of government's providing the following online services on the official web site: general information # % tax payments # % utility bill payments # % voter registration # % 21 100.0% 21 100.0% 13 61.9% 4 19.0% 3 14.3% 17 94.4% 16 94.1% 6 35.3% 2 11.8% 2 11.8% 26 86.7% 22 84.6% 7 26.9% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 24 66.7% 24 100.0% 7 29.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 7 31.8% 9 128.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 5 16.1% 4 80.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 20.0% 100 63.3% 96 96.0% 33 33.0% 33 33.0% 6 6.0% car tags and renewals # % 15 71.4% 6 35.3% 2 7.7% 1 4.2% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 24 24.0% other # % Number of governments maintaining general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public # % 9 42.9% 13 3 17.6% 11 5 19.2% 11 2 8.3% 17 1 14.3% 11 0 0.0% 11 20 20.0% 74 61.9% 61.1% 36.7% 47.2% 50.0% 35.5% 46.8% Section 9 - Summary 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 9: E-Government County Population Group A Athens-Clarke Augusta/Richmond Bibb Carroll Chatham Cherokee Clayton Cobb Columbia Columbus/Muscogee Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Hall Henry Houston Paulding Population Group B Barrow Bartow Bulloch Catoosa Dougherty Floyd Glynn Gordon Jackson Liberty Does county maintain an official website where vital activities of county are presented? Yes/No Web address Yes www.athensclarkecounty.com Yes www.augustaga.gov Yes --- Yes www.carrollcountyga.com Yes www.chathamcounty.org Yes www.cherokeega.com Yes www.co.clayton.ga.us Yes www.cobbcountyga.gov Yes www.columbiacountyga.gov Yes www.columbusga.org Yes www.coweta.ga.us Yes www.co.dekalb.ga.us Yes www.CelebrateDouglasCounty.com Yes www.fayettecountyga.gov Yes www.forsythco.com Yes WWW.FULTONCOUNTYGA.GOV Yes www.gwinnettcounty.com Yes www.http://www.hallcounty.org/ Yes www.co.henry.ga.us/ Yes www.houstoncountyga.org Yes www.paulding.gov Yes www.barrowga.org Yes www.bartowga.org Yes www.bullochcounty.net Yes www.catoosa.com Yes www.dougherty.ga.us Yes www.floydcountyga.org Yes www.glynncounty.org Yes www.gordoncounty.org Yes www.jacksoncountygov.com Yes www.libertycountyga.com What online services does the county's website offer? General Utility bill information Tax payments payments Voter Car tags and registration renewals Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- Yes Other Yes Yes ------Yes Yes ----- --Yes ------Yes --Yes Yes ----Yes ----------Yes Yes ----Yes Does county maintain a general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public? Yes/No Email address Yes info@athensclarkecounty.com Yes www.augustacares@augustaga.gov Yes www.bibb.ga.us Yes info@carrollcountyga.com No --- No --- No --- Yes information@cobbcounty.org Yes commissioners@columbiacountyga.go v Yes webmaster@columbusga.org No --- Yes www.ceo.co.dekalb.ga.us Yes webmaster@co.douglas.ga.us No --- Yes forsythpr@forsythco.com No --- Yes webmaster@gwinnettcounty.com No --- Yes info@cityofhampton-ga.gov No --- Yes administration@paulding.gov No --- Yes www.bartowga.org Yes info@bullochcounty.net Yes commissioners@catoosa.com Yes doughety.ga.us No --- No --- No --- No --- No --- Page 9 - 1 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 9: E-Government County Population Group B Lowndes Does county maintain an official website where vital activities of county are presented? Yes/No Web address Yes www.lowndescounty.com What online services does the county's website offer? General Utility bill information Tax payments payments Voter Car tags and registration renewals Yes --- --- --- Yes Newton Rockdale Spalding Troup Walker Walton Whitfield Population Group C Baldwin Bryan Camden Chattooga Coffee Colquitt Decatur Effingham Gilmer Grady Habersham Haralson Harris Jones Laurens Lee Lumpkin Madison Murray Oconee Pickens Polk Yes www.co.newton.ga.us Yes www.rockdalecounty.org --- --- Yes www.troupcountyga.org Yes www.co.walker.ga.us Yes www.waltoncountyga.gov Yes www.whitfieldcountyga.com Yes www.baldwincountyga.com Yes www.bryan.county.org Yes www.co.camden.ga.us No --- No --- Yes www.ccboc.com Yes www.decaturcountyga.org Yes www.effinghamcounty.org Yes www.gilmercounty-ga.gov Yes www.gradycountyga.gov Yes --- No --- Yes www.harriscountyga.gov Yes www.jonescountyga.org Yes www.laurenscoga.org Yes www.lee.ga.us Yes www.lumpkincounty.gov Yes www.madisoncountyga.us Yes www.murraycoga.com Yes www.oconeecounty.com Yes www.pickenscountyga.gov Yes www.polkcountygeorgia.us Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Page 9 - 2 --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other --- --------------- Does county maintain a general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public? Yes/No Email address Yes lowndescounty.com then click on hyper link that says "contact us"; there is a form to fill in and the inquirer may hit a "submit" button. Yes newtonboc@co.newton.ga.us Yes feedback@rockdalecounty.org --- --- Yes smills@troupco.org Yes --- Yes ltalbird@co.walton.ga.us Yes webmaster@whitfieldcountyga.com Yes No --- Yes Yes sshuman@bryan-county.org Yes No --- --- Yes chattcom@windstream.net --- No --- --- Yes is@ccboc.com --- No --- --- Yes pmorris@effinghamcounty.org Yes No --- --- No --- Yes No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes leila.brittain@jonescountyga.org --- No --- --- Yes leecounty@lee.ga.us --- Yes commissioner@lumpkincounty.gov --- No --- --- Yes mcgovt@alltel.net --- Yes contact@oconee.ga.us --- No --- --- No --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 9: E-Government County Population Group C Stephens Sumter Thomas Tift Toombs Upson Ware Wayne Population Group D Appling Banks Ben Hill Berrien Brantley Brooks Burke Butts Cook Crisp Dade Dawson Dodge Elbert Emanuel Franklin Greene Hart Jefferson Lamar McDuffie Meriwether Mitchell Monroe Does county maintain an official website where vital activities of county are presented? Yes/No Web address Yes www.stephenscounty-ga.gov Yes www.sumter-ga.com Yes www.thomascountyboc.org Yes www.tiftcounty.org No --- Yes www.upsoncountygeorgia.com Yes www.warecounty.com Yes www.co.wayne.ga.us Yes WWW.BAXLEY.ORG Yes www.co.banks.ga.us Yes WWW.BENHILLCOUNTY.COM No --- No --- No --- Yes www.burkecounty-ga.gov Yes www.buttscounty.org No --- Yes www.crispcounty.com Yes www.dadega.com Yes www.dawsoncounty.org Yes www.dodgecountyga.com No --- Yes www.qpublic.net/ga/emanuel Yes www.franklincountyga.com Yes www.greenecountyga.gov Yes www.hartcountyga.org No --- No --- Yes www.thomson-mcduffie.com No --- Yes www.mitchellcountygov.net Yes www.monroecountygeorgia.com What online services does the county's website offer? General Utility bill information Tax payments payments Voter Car tags and registration renewals --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- Yes --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- Yes Yes --- Page 9 - 3 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Other --------------- --- Does county maintain a general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public? Yes/No Email address No --- No --- Yes tcbc@rose.net No --- Yes tccommissioners@bellsouth.net No --- No you may contact the different departments on the website. No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes MANAGER@BENHILLCOUNTY.C OM --- No --- --- Yes bcbc@btconline.net --- No --- --- Yes county@burkecounty-ga.gov --- No --- --- No --- Yes No info@crispcounty.com --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes dodgecounty@bellsouth.net --- No --- --- Yes emanboc@pineland.net --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes lamarco@bellsouth.net --- Yes --- --- No --- --- Yes mitchellcountyga.net --- No --- 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 9: E-Government County Population Group D Morgan Peach Pierce Pike Putnam Rabun Screven Tattnall Union Washington White Worth Population Group E Bacon Bleckley Candler Charlton Crawford Cusseta-Chattahoochee Dooly Early Evans Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Long Macon McIntosh Oglethorpe Telfair Terrell Towns Does county maintain an official website where vital activities of county are presented? Yes/No Web address Yes www.morganga.org Yes www.peachcounty.net Yes www.piercecountyga.org Yes www.pikecounty.ga.gov` Yes www.putnamcountyga.us Yes www.rabuncountygov.com No --- No --- Yes www.unioncountyga.gov No --- Yes whitecounty.net No --- No --- Yes www.bleckley.org No --- No --- No --- Yes www.ugoccc.us No --- No --- No --- Yes www.heardcountyga.com No --- Yes www.jaspercountyga.org No --- No --- No --- No --- Yes www.onlineoglethorpe.com No --- No --- Yes www.townscountyga.com What online services does the county's website offer? General Utility bill information Tax payments payments Voter Car tags and registration renewals Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes Yes --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- Other --Yes --------------------- ------------------Yes --------------- ------- Does county maintain a general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public? Yes/No Email address Yes --- Yes webmaster@peachcounty.net Yes piercecc@accessatc.net Yes info@pikecounty.ga.gv Yes putnamboc@putnamcountyga.us Yes rcboc@alltel.net No --- Yes tattnallchair1@alltel.net Yes unioncounty@uniongov.com Yes washboc@bellsouth.net No --- No --- Yes tedyal@baconcounty.org Yes info@bleckley.org Yes candler@pineland.net No --- No --- Yes manager@ugoccc.us No --- No --- No --- Yes heardcounty@charter.net No --- No --- Yes jdcboc@bellsouth.net No --- No --- Yes mcbc@darientel.net Yes sarnold61@alltel.net sbpeterman@alltel.net Yes telfairboc@alltel.net No --- Yes townscommissioner@alltel.net Page 9 - 4 2007 County Government Information Catalog Department of Community Affairs Section 9: E-Government County Population Group E Twiggs Wilkes Population Group F Atkinson Baker Calhoun Clay Clinch Echols Glascock Hancock Jenkins Johnson Lanier Lincoln Marion Miller Montgomery Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Treutlen Turner Warren Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Does county maintain an official website where vital activities of county are presented? Yes/No Web address What online services does the county's website offer? General Utility bill information Tax payments payments Voter Car tags and registration renewals Yes www.twiggscounty.us No --- Yes --- --- --- --- Yes --- --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes www.claycountyga.org --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes --- Yes --- Yes www.http://home.windstream.net/marionga Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes www.pulaskico.com Yes --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- No --- --- --- Yes www.wilkinsoncounty.net Yes --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Yes --- Page 9 - 5 Other ----- Does county maintain a general email address for broad-spectrum concerns or information from the public? Yes/No Email address No --- Yes wilkescoboc@yahoo.com --- Yes jjatco@planttel.net --- Yes bakergov@bellsouth.net --- No --- --- Yes administrator@claycountyga.org --- --- --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes commissioners@johnsonco.org --- Yes boardofcomm@alltel.net --- No --- --- Yes marionga@windstream.net --- Yes millercounty@bellsouth.net --- No --- --- Yes pulaski.county@gsccca.org --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes taylor@pstel.net --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes warrencoboc@classicsouth.net --- No --- --- No --- --- No --- --- Yes bdofcomm@wilkinsoncounty.net 2007 County Government Information Catalog