Lee County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Day public forum and the disabled veteran’s tax-assessment complaint

The board. "Lee County has a five member Board of County Commissioners elected by the voters through district elections for four year staggered terms ... The Chairman and Vice-Chairman are selected among the Board members every January. The County also has six other elected officials ... The Board of County Commissioners appoints a County Manager to supervise the day-to-day operations of the County." The members: Chairman Luke Singletary (District 2), Vice-Chairman Chris Guarnieri (District 4), Dennis Roland (District 1), Billy Mathis (District 3) and George Walls (District 5). County Manager Scott Addison; County Clerk Kaitlyn Good; County Attorney Jimmy Skipper. The board "conducts their meetings twice a month. The Regular Session is held the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm, and the Voting Work Session is held the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm. All meetings are held in the Opal Cannon Auditorium in the T. Page Tharp Governmental Building, 102 Starksville Avenue North in Leesburg." The veteran item. The work-session minutes of Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - Veterans Day itself - record the public forum: "Jeanie Hurst - Discussed the tax assessments. Ms. Hurst stated that she disagrees with the mass approach to taxation and would like to see it fixed. She discussed being locked in on a specific income with the raised taxes as a disabled veteran. Mr. Goodin stated there is a military exemption. However, the state sets the exemption amount, not Lee County. Ms. Hurst stated that she agreed with previous citizens, raising concerns about needing validation for the software." Mr. Goodin is the county's Chief Tax Assessor, Doug Goodin. No board action followed in the record. The rest of the window. The county's 2025 and 2026 meeting pages carry 146 agenda, agenda-packet and minutes PDFs; every one was downloaded and read on 2026-11-03, and the Hurst exchange is the window's only veteran item - a September 2025 memorandum-of-understanding's standard non-discrimination clause naming veteran status is the only other mention. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window.