WHEREAS, Butts County is a duly created and validly existing political subdivision of the State of Georgia, governed under the Constitution and laws of the state of Georgia; and

WHEREAS, the Butts County Board of Commissioners, the duly elected governing body of the County is required to meet on a regular basis to discharge the affairs of the County and therefore has demonstrated a need to publish a calendar of the anticipated meeting dates for the ensuing calendar year, as well as to provide the authority for the rescheduling or cancellation of said meetings, and;

WHEREAS, it has been determined that the County has anticipated and planned for the closure of certain business and administrative offices of the government in order to observe a number of generally accepted holidays that occur throughout the year, and that said holidays shall be accounted for in the respective fiscal year budget in which they fall, be it the current fiscal year budget existing or the future planned budget, both of which will span the proposed calendar year, now therefore be it;

RESOLVED, that the County Commission hereby declares that the foregoing preamble and whereas provisions set forth hereinabove constitute, and shall be considered to be, substantive provisions of this Resolution and are hereby incorporated by reference into this provision and that the Board, through this Resolution, does hereby create and establish the following calendar of scheduled County Board of Commissioners meetings and County holidays, as follows:

New Year’s Day – Monday, January l, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
January BOC Meeting – Monday, January 8, 2024 (Opening of the 1261h Session)
Martin Luther King Day – Monday, January 15, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
January BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, January 22, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
February BOC Meeting – Monday, February 12, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
February BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, February 26, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
March BOC Meeting – Monday, March 11, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
March BOC Meeting 2 – Monday March 25, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
Good Friday Holiday – Friday, March 29, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
April BOC Meeting – Monday, April 8, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
April BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, April 22, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
May BOC Meeting – Monday, May 13, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
Memorial Day – Monday, May 27, 2024 (Holiday Observed-No Zoning Meeting)
June BOC Meeting – Monday, June 10, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
Juneteenth Holiday – Wednesday, June 19, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
June BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, June 24, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
Independence Day – Thursday, July 4, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
July BOC Meeting – Monday, July 8, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
July BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, July 22, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
August BOC Meeting – Monday, August 12, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
August BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, August 26, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
Labor Day – Monday, September 2, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
September BOC Meeting – Monday, September 9, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
September BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, September 23, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
October BOC Meeting – Monday, October 7, 2024 (Rescheduled due to Columbus Day)
Columbus Day – Monday, October 14, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
October BOC Meeting 2 – Monday, October 28, 2024 (Zoning and Hearings Meeting)
Veterans Day – Monday, November 11, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
November BOC Meeting – Monday, November 18, 2024 (Regular Meeting)
Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 28, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
Day after Thanksgiving – Friday, November 29, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
December BOC Meeting – Monday, December 9, 2024 (Adjournment of the 126th Session)
Christmas Eve – Tuesday, December 24, 2024 (Holiday Observed)
Christmas Day – Wednesday, December 25, 2024 (Holiday Observed)

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County may, depending on any number of exigencies that might occur during the calendar year, elect to reschedule any meeting; to combine any meeting with another meeting; or to cancel a meeting in its entirety, provided that all notices and requirements are met in accordance with Georgia law, and vests the responsibility for making this decision with the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners or the Vice Chairman in the absence of the Chairman, and;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners reserves the right to modify or change holidays scheduled; to substitute other holidays for scheduled ones; to award additional holidays or to reduce the number of holidays, depending on the needs of the County, and;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners vests the responsibility for determining unscheduled closures of County offices that, due to a serious threat of or the actual
occurrence of severe weather, has the potential to put employees or facilities at risk with the County Manager or his/her designee, after consultation with the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, and;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption by the Butts County Board of Commissioners and that any and all
resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict with this Resolution shall be, and they, to the extent of
such conflict are. hereby REPEALED; and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Board authorizes the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners to sign this Resolution on their behalf and to authorize the Clerk of the 125th Session to attest all signatures and to implement this resolution with immediate effect, said Resolution being filed in the Book of Resolutions, Volume 2

Adopted in open session this 11th Day of December, 2023

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Chairman Keith Douglas

J. Michael Brewer, Deputy County Manager,
Attesting as Clerk of the 125th Session