MOULTRIE –  At Tuesday’s meeting, Colquitt County Commissioners voted to adopt a resolution to support legislation that will add a technology fee to traffic and motor vehicle violations in Colquitt County.

At a previous meeting, after discussion, the commissioners decided the technology fee should be a flat fee of $10 collected by the State Court of Colquitt County.

In a July commission meeting, County Administrator Chas Cannon, who also serves as the local representative in the state House of Representatives, explained to the commissioners that he could introduce the legislation at the Georgia Assembly this year.

“A lot of counties are doing this. A lot of cities are doing it. There must have been 20 or 30 technology fee bills passed last session,” he said.

Also at the previous meeting, this month, the commission discussed how the collected fee would be used. Clerk of Court Donna Wilson, who was in attendance, told them she could give more information on the subject.

“Having the technology fee, that was the only way to be able to accommodate the fees in which the City and/or County has to pay per ticket to the State,” she said.

She also said purchasing software was pretty expensive, but most agencies have to do so in order to process the tickets in an efficient manner, she said.

At the meeting, Commission Chair Denver Braswell wanted to know who owned the account that the money would go into. Cannon replied, he believed it was the clerk of court.

“And it’ll be up to her discretion to use it how she sees fit?” asked Braswell and Cannon replied that’s what he understood.

Wilson said the goal of collecting the technology fee was to help offset the cost of the software. She added that she received a bill for it monthly.