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Welcome to Bulloch County – the Gateway to the Coastal Empire! I am pleased to be able to convey why our motto, “First in Safety and Service” is our organizational mantra.
First, our community story. Bulloch County, now the home to over 76,000 residents, is located on the fringe of the Savannah metro area. While much of the county is within easy commuting distance to Savannah, we offer a quality of life that cannot be duplicated anywhere. We have a rich history, abundant cultural amenities, and ample economic and educational opportunities. Our county seat city of Statesboro and our smaller towns of Brooklet, Portal, and Register offer a Southern antebellum lifestyle, but with modern and progressive flair.
The geographic size of our county at 689 square miles affords us the room to grow our population and economy without sacrificing our dominant role in agriculture and forestry, or the ability to manage our valued environmental assets. Bulloch County has become a trade center for industry, commerce, health care, education and financial services which explains why our population has doubled since 1980.
Education is one of our main economic engines. We are especially proud to be the home of Georgia Southern University, the flagship post-secondary institution for South Georgia with an enrollment of 27,000 students, and Ogeechee Technical College, one of the fastest growing community colleges in the state with an enrollment of 3,000 students. East Georgia College, whose main campus is in Swainsboro, has begun construction of a satellite campus in Statesboro that has long-term plans for enrollment for up to 5,000 students.
Now, our organizational story. Bulloch County citizens can boast of their professionally run county government. In addition to our strong tradition of providing excellent county-based systems for surface transportation, law enforcement and corrections, criminal justice, the judiciary, and public health and welfare, we offer a higher level governmental services customized for our citizens and visitors. As our county has grown, so have our responsibilities as we have expanded our menu of services to include community development and engineering, advanced emergency services, environmental management, parks, recreation and cultural programs, after-school services, public transit and aviation.

County Manager

Contacts

Tom Couch

County Manager

Cindy Steinmann

Assistant County Manager

Our motto, “First in Safety and Service” is our approach to governance. This is our method for delivering services each and every day. It starts with employee commitment to safe work practices and teamwork. After all how can we begin to serve the public and look out for their safety, if we’re not doing so ourselves? Our ultimate goal is continuous improvement, while at the same time offering one of the lowest millage rates for county government in Georgia. When you come to Bulloch County, you’ll see it first-hand! 

Thomas M. Couch

County Manager
•A state-of-the-art web-based Geographic Information System that provides county departments and the public key data on land attributes and property information.
 
•Structured planning for land use, transportation, parks, greenspace protection, and capital improvements integrated with a dynamic forward-thinking “smart-growth” management system. All of the county’s master plan documents have been updated in 2010.
 
•Numerous investments and upgrades in our rural fire suppression and delivery system that has resulted in improved response capabilities and lower hazard insurance costs for property owners.
 
•Located at our award winning Mill Creek Regional Park we opened our a $5.6 million Aquatic Center and Splash Park in June 2004 which has greeted over 650,000 paid guests through the end of the 2009 season. We recently completed a $4.4 million expansion adding capacity and new features that have truly made the facility a regional and statewide draw. The expansion also earned Bulloch County a Georgia Trend Magazine “County of Exellence” award in 2009.
 
•The county operates a regional E-911 and Emergency Operations Center that serves over 90,000 residents Bulloch, Evans, and Candler County featuring a state of the art computer-aided dispatch system integrated with a 800 MHz interoperable communications system. We have also recently implemented “Reverse 911” service that allows us to notify residents and businesses in real-time of pending or active emergencies that could affect the community at-large.
 
•Development of 294 additional acres for the 972 acre Gateway Regional Industrial Park super site that is “building pad-ready” with full utilities and has easy access to I-16 and the Port of Savannah.
 
•Continuing expansion of the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport including modern navigation systems, continuing hangar expansion including a new corporate hanger along with on-going terminal and runway improvements.
 
•An aggressive transportation improvement program which over five years will result in a variety of key road, bridge and intersection improvements, including an eight-mile multi-use greenway connecting the GSU campus, and the cities of  Statesboro and Brooklet.
 
•Bulloch County is taking the lead in Southeast Georgia in moving toward becoming a “green” community. With the help of a state grant, Bulloch County will become a regional hub for collecting and processing recyclable products for surrounding communities, thus saving future costs for landfill space. Meanwhile, $1.25 million will be invested in county buildings and facilities for planned energy efficiency retrofits. Finally, in 2010, the county will initiate community outreach efforts to promote energy efficiency through public education, training county staff on new energy codes and LEED building programs, and development of a model “green” building code.
  

 

Clerk of the Board

Contacts

Venus Mincey-White

Clerk

Clerk of the Board

The Clerk of Board serves the Board of Commissioners as an executive secretary by recording its official actions, preparing correspondence and reports and maintaining county records; preparing and administering official minutes and proceedings of the Board of Commissioners; and, acting as a liaison to the County Manager.

Responsibilities

  • Serves as the official custodian of records
  • Receives all open records requests
  • Provides requested information and documents to Board of Commissioners, elected officials, agency and department heads, the media, and the general public
  • Maintains Bulloch County’s Boards and Committees

Community Room Policy and Application

Courthouse Square Application

Open Records Request Form

Finance

The mission of the Bulloch County Finance Department is to conduct the financial operations of Bulloch County, Georgia, in accordance with applicable laws and standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Our vision is to ensure the effective and economical use of public resources by promoting competent, professional financial management while providing superior customer service to all County departments and the citizens of Bulloch County.
The Finance Department is responsible for collecting, monitoring, analyzing, and presenting financial data including outstanding bonded indebtedness, capital projects, grants, and other general ledger activities. Other responsibilities include developing and monitoring the annual budget, processing cash receipts and all pay requests, preparing the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, investment of cash resources, and processing payroll.
 
 
 
 

Finance

Contact

Kristie King

Chief Financial Officer

Human Resources

The Human Resources Department is responsible for:
•recruiting, supporting, and sustaining an empowered workforce
•administering personnel policies, classification/compensation plans, and employee benefits
•maintaining compliance with regard to employment practices.
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Human Resources

Contact

Cindy Mallett

 Human Resources Director

Holiday & Observances
Policies
Employee Portal
 
 
 

Legal

To provide legal counsel to the Board of Commissioners in a cost-effective manner by attending all regular and special meetings of the Board; to advise and represent the Board of Commissioners, other boards, the County Manager, County Officers and department heads in legal matters; to approve and/or draft legal ordinances and other legal instruments; to assist in enforcing County ordinances; and, to aid in compliance with various human resources regulations and risk management activities including employee benefits, training for harassment, ADA, FMLA and HIPAA. Like the budgets of the Board of Commissioners, the County Manager and Clerk, most of the expenditures are for salaries, travel, training and incidental costs to fulfill the duties of the office.

Legal

Contact

Jeff Akins

County Attorney

FAQs

For further questions please contact the Bulloch County Address Office at 113 N. Main Street or call (912) 764-2181. Office Hours are Mon. thru Fri. 8am-5pm.

The Department is frequently reviewing Bulloch County for any addressing errors. As errors are found, efforts are made to correct them as quickly as possible to avoid any confusion when sending emergency responders or delivering parcels of mail to your residence. If you receive a change of address notice, you have 30 days to post the new number on the structure in question. You then have up to 1 year to change over all of your mail (e.g., bills, voter’s registration, utilities, subscriptions, etc.). After the year is up, the old address will be removed from the system.

Residential structures must use a minimum of 3-inch numbers and Commercial / Business / Retail must use a minimum of 4-inch numbers. Address numbers must contrast with their background and be clearly visible from the road during the day and at night. If the structure in question is not clearly visible from the road, the numbers must be posted by the road and on the structure.

GIS Fee Schedule

Addressing Fees

Addressing FAQS

Maps

Mapping/Addressing

Our Mission is to cost-effectively develop and maintain an automated system of relational data to be used for analysis, decision-making and public information, consisting currently 20+ of map layers and associated information for tax assessment, roads, zoning and land use, political boundaries, utilities, and other purposes.
The department also provides periodic services for compensation for the cities of Brooklet, Portal, Register, Statesboro and Screven County for the production and maintenance of map layers for tax assessment, zoning/land use and utilities, as applicable.
Online Maps
Addressing
The Addressing Department is responsible for supplying residents and businesses with a physical E-911 address. The main purpose for this address is to provide emergency responders with a more detailed address for quicker response times, in the event of an emergency. In addition, the address is used for deliveries by the USPS (United States Postal Service), UPS, FedEx, etc.
The Addressing Department is responsible for maintaining county addresses and road names. Using FGDC (United States Thoroughfare Landmark and Postal Address Data Standard), in conjunction with NENA Standards (National Emergency Number Association Standards), an address is assigned and/or a road name is created. Using these standards as a guide, every structure in Bulloch County that has a power source is assigned an official address. A permit is required prior to assigning a new address. Information regarding the location of the driveway and structures on the property is needed to assign the address. Vacant lots are not assigned an address until an application for a building permit has been made.
Addressing Application Form
Fees
Each new address assigned will be assessed a fee: $10 per unit for a single-family dwelling and $11 per unit for multi-family, Subdivisions, etc. Cash or checks are accepted as payment. Checks should be made out to the Bulloch County Tax Assessors.
Tax Assessor
Tax Commissioner

Government Buildings

To maintain the appearance, structural integrity, safety and functionality of all county-owned buildings in a cost-effective manner. The personnel supported in this department are mostly responsible for light maintenance, custodial and janitorial duties for county administrative buildings and courtrooms. Heavy maintenance is reliant on contractor labor and skilled inmate laborers from the Correctional Institute. With several new administrative buildings proposed over the next several years, consideration will be given to either increasing staff levels or alternatively providing technical resources to execute job responsibilities more efficiently.

Government Buildings

Contact

Darryl Hopkins

Government Buildings Manager