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Hart County Administrative Offices
Jon Caime
County Administrator
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Jon Caime
County Administrator
Email address: pwdirector@hartcom.net
Hart County Administrative Offices
From Jon Caime, County Administrator
February 16, 2010
Hart County continues to make slow steady progress towards prosperity as we continue our journey through these tough economic times. We continue to focus our efforts on investing in workforce development, infrastructure, and a great business climate in order to draw in new economic investment.
The Hart County Board of Commissioners continues to place economic development as one of our top priorities. Our I-85 industrial family continues to grow with new employment opportunities for Hart County residents. CD logistics has begun operations at their new facility in our Gateway I industrial park. Our first tenant in our brand new second phase of the Gateway Industrial Park, RITZ, will begin operations of their new manufacturing facility this spring.
Other existing and new employers near the City of Hartwell continue to prosper including a new tire recycling facility in the 29 industrial park. Tenneco Automotive has selected Hart County to bring new investment and 180 new jobs to Hart County.
The Hart County Board of Commissioners also continues to support additional economic development efforts included increasing tourism to Hart County. Every tourist dollar generates a penny to directly offset property taxes, a penny to build new schools, and a penny for fire department, recreation, economic development, new water lines, and for road construction. This vital source of revenue keeps Hart County’s property taxes as one of the lowest in the State of Georgia. This spring, the brand new Lake Hartwell Mega Ramp (which was constructed with no property tax money) will open and will draw in large fishing tournaments to Hart County and the City of Hartwell.
The Hart County Board of Commissioners continued to implement their long range road maintenance plan. Since implementation of this plan in 2001, the BOC has repaved 135 miles of county paved roads, resurfaced 100 miles of tar and gravel roads (extending their life another 10 years), and paved 55 miles of our dirt roads. In addition, the County continues to focus on road safety, aggressively fixing and replacing our bridges and pipes.
The first building of the new 14 acre governmental campus will be open this year with the completion of the new 6,000 sf building to house the Sheriffs office. Other projects such as the construction of a new 10,000 square foot building to relieve overcrowding at the courthouse have been put on hold for now due to budget cuts. These investments will be a long term solution allowing the county to expand to meet the future needs of the county as the county continues to grow.
The Hart County Board of Commissioners lowered the tax millage rate for seven years in a row and has progressively moved up in the ranks and maintains the lowest County tax rate in Georgia (out of 159 counties). This lower millage rate is 28% less than the millage rate five years ago and is a critical sales tool to continue to entice businesses to locate to Hart County.
Maintaining quality government services, increasing the efficiency of providing these services, and reducing the cost of these services to the taxpayers is our continued focus.
800 Chandler St. 
Hartwell, GA 30643
Phone: 706-376-2024
Fax: 706-376-9477