The Nahunta City Council approved retaining the services of Georgia-Southeast, LLC as its tax specialists during Monday night’s January meeting.
City Attorney Adam Ferrell discussed the details of retaining their services.
“We’re going to try to recover any sales tax refund the City would be entitled to on money they spent on the waste water treatment facility,” Ferrell said. “Nahunta is a municipality and the City would have some money we could recover and it would not be a lot of work. We could give them some documents related to the construction project.”
Mayor Marty Lee will be authorized to sign the contract to retain the services.
The City Council also discussed the utility bills and late fees as well as cut offs and that citizens would not get water bills for the month of November and December.
During the November meeting, council members voted to hold all utility cut offs and late fee accumulations. This was shown to the USDA with City Manager Tom Wirth giving the council insight into this process.
“We have a letter of conditions to abide by,” Wirth said. “We did everything we could and only four people were left.”
The four individuals who couldn’t pay now have their utilities back on, according to Wirth.
City Attorney Ferrell recommended Wirth talk to the USDA about these issues. Two residents were told they are bound by that letter of conditions which includes water and sewer.
Other agenda items discussed/ voted on included:
• The City Council approved the 2026 Year Election Qualifying Fees. These fees are to be put in case of an election. There must be a run in the local papers before February 1, 2026.
The fee for the Mayor is $216 and the fee for each council member is $108.
• The council approved the appointment of Angie Wirth as the City Clerk.
• Council members approved the re-appointment of Brad Todd as the police chief.
• The Council approved the appointment of Adam Ferrell as the City Attorney.
• Chief Todd gave the December Nahunta Police Department report. He reported the NPD wrapped up ‘Operation Quicksand’, a three-month operation from October 1 through December 31.
During December, officers conducted 743 traffic stops and made 32 arrests in which most of those were drug and felony arrests.
The Nahunta Police Department also met with over 400 students at Nahunta Elementary School and did a reading program for the Head Start.
Investigators and patrol officers attended over 300 hours for training for Crimes Against Children and criminal investigations.
• Jeremy Ryan stated there were 514 total work orders in the month of December for Public Works.
The biggest jobs during the month of December were placing up the Christmas decorations as well as working on drainages throughout the city.
The Public Works cleared drains throughout the City of leaves and dirt. Also, ditch next to the library was dug out.
• City Clerk Report, Angie Wirth discussed setting up a committee for the scoring of the architect for the grant to either remodel City Hall or build a new one.
The committee met Thursday, January 8. Mayor Marty Lee and Councilwoman Crystal Johns were the representatives for this meeting.
The next Nahunta City Council meeting is Monday, February 2 at 7 p.m.
