Public Notices

The State of Georgia recently passed a law which allows local counties, cities, and school boards to limit value increase to all homeowners with a homestead exemption (House Bill 581). The Lee County Board of Commissioners opted in to the new law. This means that your home value will be locked in at the 2024 (not the new 2025) value and will only increase at the rate of inflation as determined by the Georgia Department of Revenue. The County Board of Commissioners approved a rollback...

The Lee County Tax Assessor’s Office has identified an error in the calculation of Homestead Exemptions applied to property owners who submitted their Homestead application during the appeal period of July 1, 2025 through August 15, 2025. This issue is related to the implementation of HB 581 and has since been corrected within the Tax Assessor’s system. Updated information will be provided to the Tax Commissioner’s Office so that affected properties may be re-billed accurately. This...

A public hearing shall be held at the Opal Cannon Auditorium in the T. Page Tharp Governmental Building, located at 102 Starksville Avenue North in Leesburg, on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm before the Lee County Board of Commissioners. The Board will consider a resolution transmitting a draft Capital Improvements Element Annual Update to the Southwest Georgia Regional Commission for regional review pursuant to the Georgia Planning Act of 1989.

NOTICE OF VIOLATION Fluoride MCL Violation (Type – 02) Public Notification Requested (Tier 2) Lee County Utilities Authority Water System, Lee County WSID#: GA 1770068, EP 310 Violation ID:2025-43142 Notice of Violation (NOV) of the Georgia Rules for Safe Drinking Water (Rules) 391-3-5-.18 and Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 141.62 for the Lee County Water System, in Lee County, a Community Water System. During a review of sample analysis results, the Environmental...

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM (Post Award Hearing) The Lee County Board of Commissioners will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 6:00 P.M. in the Opal Cannon Auditorium of the T. Page Tharp Governmental Building, located at 102 Starksville Avenue North, Leesburg, GA 31763, for the purpose of discussing the approved activities of the County’s Community Development Block Grant. On October 6, 2025 the County was awarded a grant in the...

The regular scheduled meeting of the Lee County Utilities Authority has been changed from Thursday, October 16, 2025 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025. The change is due to the parage in downtown Leesburg scheduled for October 16, 2025.

The Lee County Utilities Authority will hold a Special Called Meeting Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 12:00 pm in the Kinchafoonee Meeting Room of the T. Page Tharp Governmental Building, located at 102 Starksville Avenue North, Leesburg, Georgia. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss bond refinancing options.

Z25-036 MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN UPDATE: The goal of Lee County’s Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Update is to make residents, businesses, property owners, operators of critical infrastructure, and municipalities less susceptible to the effects of future disasters by increasing the disaster resistance of the County and its municipalities. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lee County Board of Commissioners, Leesburg City Council and Smithville City Council...

A Special Called Meeting of the Lee County Board of Commissioners will be held Friday, September 26, 2025 at 10:00 am in the Opal Cannon Auditorium of the T. Page Tharp Governmental Building, located at 102 Starksville Avenue North, Leesburg, GA 31763. The purpose of this meeting is to hold a Public Hearing and set the 2025 millage rate. Current 2025 Tax Digest & 5 Year History of Levy

The objective of the 2016 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) process was to research, analyze, and identify prospective impediments to fair housing choice throughout non-entitlement areas of the State. To ensure an accurate evaluation of current fair housing conditions, the AI includes a review of demographic and housing market data, relevant legislation, policies and practices affecting fiar housing, public education and outreach efforts and direct community involvement...

Please view the 2025 August Flooding document below for information regarding availability of flood insurance, drainage design standards, rainfall totals for early August. 2025 August Flooding Information

Lee County is transitioning its erosion and sediment control plan reviews to the Georgia Soil & Water Conservation Commission, Region 5 Office. This change reflects an effort to streamline the review process and improve service delivery at the local level. Beginning August 14, 2025, all qualifying plans submitted to Lee County for review will be evaluated by the Region 5 Office. This will replace the current process where plans are reviewed by the Georgia Soil & Water Conservation...