Are there really kangaroos in Coffee County?” was a question recently asked of Rod Morgan, Chief Operations Officer for Coffee County at this week’s Lions Club meeting. Rod has been with the Coffee County government for 14 years and reported that, “Coffee County is doing fine.””

In fact, the 2026 county budget of $41 million was recently passed by the County Commission. Where a city’s revenue comes largely from sales taxes and business licenses, the county’s revenue comes from a variety of sources and there are more restrictions on how it can be spent. The business portion of the county’s budget comes from fee-based services such as garbage pick-up and landfill fees. The highway portion is funded by gas taxes, and there are ten different gas taxes, each with a restriction on how it can be

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