HR 1753: Forsyth County Board of Commissioners; continue to conduct official business within the designated county site and to coordinate with the City of Cumming to have the new administration center annexed into such city; urge

Georgia law requires counties to conduct official business, like voting on ordinances and resolutions, at the designated county seat. Two 19th-century laws set the City of Cumming as Forsyth County's official county site. In recent years the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners built a new administration center outside Cumming's city limits and reportedly plans to hold official votes and deliberations there. This resolution does not change any law. It urges the county commissioners to reconsider that plan, to keep conducting official business inside Cumming's corporate limits, and to work with the City of Cumming toward annexing the new administration center into the city so it would fall within the county seat. It also directs the Clerk of the House to send copies of the resolution to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

• Urges the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners to reconsider conducting official county business at a new administration center located outside Cumming's city limits.
• Calls on the county commissioners to keep holding votes, deliberations, and other official business at county buildings within Cumming, the designated county seat.
• Urges the county to coordinate with the City of Cumming on annexing the new administration center into the city.
• Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to distribute copies of the resolution to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
• Does not create any new law, penalty, or funding; it expresses the House's position without binding the county commissioners.

The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, the City of Cumming government, and Forsyth County residents and taxpayers whose access to public meetings and whose county's official actions could be affected by where business is conducted.

If the county keeps voting and deliberating outside the legal county seat, the resolution warns that those actions could later be challenged as invalid under a 1975 Georgia Supreme Court ruling, which could create legal uncertainty for ordinances, contracts, and other county decisions affecting residents and finances.

• The preamble cites Georgia law and two 1834 and 1843 state laws that designated the City of Cumming as Forsyth County's official county seat.
• The preamble quotes Brewster v. Houston County (1975), where the Georgia Supreme Court held that deliberation and voting on county business must occur at the county site.
• The first resolving clause urges the county commissioners to reconsider using the new administration center for official business and to pursue annexation of that site into Cumming.
• The second resolving clause urges the commissioners to continue conducting official business at county buildings within Cumming's corporate limits.
• The final resolving clause directs the Clerk of the House to distribute copies of the resolution to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

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• Brent Cox (R, HD-028)Primary sponsor
• Carter Barrett (R, HD-024)
• Rick Jasperse (R, HD-011)
• Lauren McDonald (R, HD-026)
• Todd Jones (R, HD-025)
• David Clark (R, HD-100)

• Forsyth County government
• county seat law
• Cumming annexation
• local government meetings