Morgan County Board of Commissioners (Chairman Blake McCormack): the 2025-2026 minutes read whole - 59 files - with the Disabled Veteran exemption values briefed to the Board of Assessors and the June 2026 LHOST local legislation

The board. The county's staff directory seats the five: "Carl Jones, District 1 Commissioner"; "Blake McCormack, District 2 Commissioner"; "Ben Riden, District 3 Commissioner"; "Philipp von Hanstein, District 4 Commissioner"; and "Nathan Park, District 5 Commissioner", with "Adam Mestres, County Manager", "Mark Williams, Assistant County Manager" and "KC Kim Cox, County Clerk", at "Board of Commissioners (BOC), 150 E. Washington St., P.O. Box 168, Madison, GA 30650, Phone Number (706) 342-0725, Fax (706) 343-6450"; the minutes seat the officers - "Chairman Blake McCormack, Vice-Chairman Ben Riden, Jr., Commissioners Philipp von Han..." - and the Advisory Boards page seats the meetings, "First Tuesday of each month @ 10:00 am, 150 E. Washington St., Madison." The record. The Agenda Center's 52 posted 2026 agenda and minutes documents (January 6 to November 12, 2026, the Board of Commissioners' and the Board of Assessors' files alike) were read whole, and the 2025 window was enumerated from a February 24, 2025 Wayback capture of the Agenda Center - seven January-February 2025 files, downloaded from the county's own server and read whole; any 2025 file outside that capture's list was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). The veteran record: the January 22, 2025 Board of Assessors minutes' "NEW HOMESTEAD & MILITARY 100% DISABLED HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS & NEW EXEMPTION VALUES FOR 2025" and the $121,812 100% Disabled Veteran value; the January 29, 2026 minutes' $126,526 value and the February 24, 2026 minutes' S5 exemption approval "because the homeowner is considered 100% unemployable by the VA"; the August 25, 2026 minutes' "An ACO for 036D-051, for S5- 100% Disabled Veteran Homestead Status, was presented to the Board for a signature"; and the June 16, 2026 minutes' "LHOST LOCAL LEGISLATION - County Manager Adam Mestres presented proposed local legislation to enact a Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST)" - "An Act to provide a homestead exemption from Morgan County ad valorem taxes in the amount of the assessed value of the homestead property determined annually for the special district based upon the proceeds of a new Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST) to be imposed within the special district conterminous with Morgan County." No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed. The county's own organizations. American Legion Post 37 sits in Madison per the Department of Georgia's post list (District 10). The VFW's own post locator, searched for Madison on 2026-11-03, names no post.