HR1753: HR1753 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

Forsyth County built a new administration center outside the city limits of Cumming, which has been the county's official county seat since the 1830s. Georgia law and a 1975 Georgia Supreme Court case say a county's official business, including votes on ordinances and resolutions, must happen at the county seat, or those actions risk being declared invalid. This resolution does not change any law. It formally urges the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners to keep holding official meetings and votes at county buildings inside Cumming's corporate limits, and to work with the City of Cumming to annex the new administration center into the city. It also directs the Clerk of the House to send copies of the resolution to the county commission.

• Urges the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners to reconsider conducting official business outside the designated county seat.
• Urges the board to coordinate with the City of Cumming to have the new administration center annexed into the city.
• Urges the board to continue holding official county business at buildings located inside Cumming's corporate limits.
• Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to distribute copies of the resolution to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
• Creates no new law, penalty, or funding; it is a nonbinding statement of the House's position.

The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners and county government staff, the City of Cumming, and Forsyth County residents and taxpayers whose official county business and votes could be affected by where meetings are held.

If the county keeps voting and deliberating outside Cumming, court precedent suggests those actions could later be challenged as invalid, creating legal uncertainty for county decisions, contracts, and taxpayer money. The resolution itself changes nothing but signals legislative pressure on the county to move official business back to the county seat.

• Recites 1834 and 1843 Georgia laws that established the City of Cumming as the official county seat of Forsyth County.
• Cites Brewster v. Houston County, 235 Ga. 68 (1975), which held that deliberation and voting on county business must occur at the county site.
• First resolving clause urges the board to reconsider conducting business at the new, out-of-city administration center and to pursue annexation of that site into Cumming.
• Second resolving clause urges the board to keep conducting official business at county buildings within Cumming's corporate limits.
• Final clause directs the Clerk of the House to distribute copies of the resolution to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

1. 2026-03-20House Second Readers (House)
2. 2026-03-19House First Readers (House)
3. 2026-03-18House Hopper (House)

• 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