The commission kicked off the Tuesday November 17Th meeting voting on a new board chairman and a familiar face took the seat, returning chairman Eugene Lamb.

After the election was held the commissioners moved down the agenda to discuss county beautification.

Every person in the meeting was given a packet of seeds to jump-start the process.

But flowers can't grow if county land is flooded which brought the board to another important topic.

Folks with the City of Tallahassee are working on building a new spillway to control flooding, should Lake Talquin rise well above normal pool level.

"The green line shows what would happen if we did nothing, and the spillway failed like technical experts say it would," said Robert McGarrah, Power Production Manager with the City of Tallahassee.

McGarrah says the current spillway will erode beyond normal level and could cause massive flooding to the area if a large storm came through.

But not everyone thinks construction of a new spillway is a good idea, especially folks living down the Ochlocknee River.

"Take you a trip down the Ochlocknee river and you will see the destruction that is going on," said Davis Stoutamire, Liberty County Commissioner.

Perhaps the most pertinent problem the county is facing is job loss, which is why farm workers at Florida Prime stopped by the meeting to ask for help.

"We need some kind of a bridge loan where we can get this farm started again, get this farm back on its feet," said Clara Davis, a mushroom farm worker.

Farm workers say they are going to take their cries to the steps of the Capital next if something isn't done soon to try and save their jobs.