A vote on the first reading of a proposed ordinance regulating the definitions and use of child and adult day care centers had to be deferred until a later date.

The Rockdale County Board of Commissioners chose to wait another week to discuss the ordinance at voting session Tuesday morning after not being able to talk one-on-one with Planning and Development Director Marshall Walker about the ordinance.

The proposed law will bring the county's law on child and adult day care centers up to the state's standard laws.

The proposed law is separated into three different sections.

The first section completely does away with the old definitions of day care center, adult, day care facility, adult day-care center, child, playschool and child day-care facility. Replacing them will be more specific definitions and categories to define a day care, including adult day center, child care learning center, group day care home, family day care home and pre-kindergarten.

Section two of the new law clarifies the permitted uses of the newly categorized day care facilities and section three states that all facilities should comply with all applicable State of Georgia rules and regulations.
At the last week's work session, Post 1 Commissioner Oz Nesbitt requested Walker have a one-on-one talk with each commissioner about the law, but scheduling conflicts prevented any meetings with the commissioners from occurring, Walker stated during the meeting.
Walker requested the deferment on behalf of the department to give them more time to meet with the commissioners, at which point Nesbitt stated, "We'll make it happen."

Post 2 Commissioner JaNice Van Ness made the motion to defer the first-read of the proposed law until the next week's work session and it passed unanimously.
In other county business, under the consent agenda, the board approved dissolving the county's second Board of Equalizaiton, which hears challenges to property tax assessments, because the two boards have caught up on the case loads.