County to set fees for qualifying
Floyd commissioners also will recognize several employees Tuesday who helped others in emergency situations.
The Floyd County Commission is slated to set the qualifying fees Tuesday for county offices up for election this year.
Three seats on the commission and two on the Floyd County Board of Education will be on the ballot. Fees are expected to be set at $216 for the commission and $144 for the school board, equal to 3 percent of their annual salaries.
Candidates for the partisan seats will qualify March 5 through 9 with the local parties, at locations that will be announced later. The primary is May 22.
All five incumbents — Scotty Hancock, Larry Maxey and Rhonda Wallace on the commission and Tony Daniel and Chip Hood on the school board — have said they expect to seek re-election. All are Republicans.
Candidates for state and federal offices will qualify at the state capitol in Atlanta. The Georgia secretary of state has already set the fee for state legislators at $400 and U.S. representative at $5,220. Local incumbents have said they’ll be running for new terms.
The two Floyd County Superior Court seats that will be on the ballot also are part of the state system. The nonpartisan election will be decided in the primary. The qualifying fee is set at $3,787.95.
The County Commission caucus starts at 2 p.m. Tuesday with the regular session set for 4 p.m. in the County Administration Building. Both meetings are public.
Also on the agenda are special recognitions of several county employees who helped others in emergency situations.
County Manager Jamie McCord is also slated to present the 2017 annual report and the board is expected to approve a contract with West Co. to clear trees and brush from four acres of vacant industrial land off Prosperity Way at no more than $4,500 an acre.