Action Agenda
Board of Commissioners
February 12, 2009
7:00 P.M.
The
Board of Commissioners of Fayette County, Georgia, met in Official Session on
Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the Public Meeting Room of the
Fayette County Administrative Complex,
Commissioners
Present:
Herb
Frady, Vice-Chairman
Lee
Hearn
Robert
Horgan
Eric
Maxwell
Staff
Present: Jack Krakeel,
Scott
Bennett,
Carol
Chandler, Executive Assistant
Karen
Morley, Chief Deputy Clerk
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Chairman
Smith called the meeting to order.
Commissioner
Hearn offered the Invocation.
Pledge
of Allegiance.
Chairman
Smith requested to move item C listed under New Business to the first item to
be discussed immediately following the Consent Agenda.
ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA: COMMISSIONER
FRADY MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED WITH THE REQUESTED CHANGE
FOR THE LOCATION OF ITEM C ON THE AGENDA.
COMMISSIONER HORGAN SECONDED THE MOTION.
THE MOTION CARRIED 5-0.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
NONE.
CONSENT AGENDA: COMMISSIONER HORGAN
MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS 1-5 AS PRESENTED. COMMISSIONER FRADY SECONDED THE MOTION. THE MOTION CARRIED 5-0.
1. Approval of
Sheriff’s Department request to amend the Overtime Budget for the Criminal
Investigation Division by $5,530.13 for reimbursement for employees assigned to
work with various Federal Agencies.
2. Approval of
request from the Sheriff’s Department Criminal Investigations Division to allow
disposition of a trailer that is of no further use to the Department.
3. Approval of
the Fayette County Water Committee’s 2009 meeting schedule.
4. Approval of
staff’s recommendation that Bid #680 for Uniform Rental and Purchase be awarded
to UniFirst Corporation and Riverside Uniform Rental.
5. Approval of
minutes for the Special Called Board of Commissioners’ meeting held on January
14, 2009 and Board of Commissioners’ meeting held on January 22, 2009.
NEW BUSINESS:
C. Patricia Pryor
of Cherry, Bekaert and
SENIOR MANAGER PATRICIA PRYOR OF
CHERRY, BEKAERT AND
CHAIRMAN SMITH THANKED MS. PRYOR
FOR HER PRESENTATION AND COMMENDED CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER MARY HOLLAND AND
ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR TONI JO HOWARD FOR ALL OF THEIR DILIGENT AND HARD
WORK IN COMPILING THIS REPORT.
OLD BUSINESS:
A. Consideration
of staff’s recommendation to award bid for the E911 Communications building
expansion construction project to Whitworth Construction Company, Inc. with a
base bid in the amount of $611,037.
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS CHERYL
ROGERS BRIEFLY DISCUSSED THIS ITEM.
COMMISSIONER HORGAN MADE A MOTION
TO AWARD THE BID FOR THE E911
B. Discussion of
staff’s request that the Board of Commissioners consider issuing a request for
proposals for a Feasibility Study for implementation of a Stormwater
Utility. Representatives from other
operating Utilities will present information to the Board as requested at the
Commissioners’ recent Annual Planning Meeting.
DEVELOPMENTAL ENGINEER BRYAN
KELLER OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT INTRODUCED THE DIRECTOR OF HENRY COUNTY
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ERIK LOMBARD, P.E., DIVISION DIRECTOR OVER BUILDING AND
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR HENRY COUNTY JIM LUEBBERING, P.E. AND ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND
UTILITIES FOR THE CITY OF
IT WAS THE CONSENSUS OF THE BOARD
THAT CHAIRMAN SMITH BE AUTHORIZED TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE MAYORS OF THE
VARIOUS CITIES IN FAYETTE COUNTY TO DETERMINE IF THERE MIGHT BE ANY POLITICAL
ABILITY TO HAVE ONE COMBINED STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR FAYETTE COUNTY; AND
ALSO THAT STAFF CONTINUE WITH THEIR WORK IN REVIEWING THE COUNTY’S ORDINANCES
THAT MIGHT HELP WITH THIS AS WELL.
NEW BUSINESS:
D. Consideration of the Water Committee’s
recommendation to award specified construction mitigation services for the Lake
McIntosh Reservoir Project to Eco-South, Inc. for a cost of $583,494.
WATER SYSTEM DIRECTOR TONY
PARROTT BRIEFLY DISCUSSED THIS ITEM.
COMMISSIONER MAXWELL MADE A
MOTION TO AWARD THE SCOPE OF WORK REGARDING THE SPECIFIED CONSTRUCTION
MITIGATION SERVICES FOR THE
ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT:
NONE.
ATTORNEY’S REPORT:
NONE.
STAFF REPORTS:
NONE.
BOARD REPORTS:
CHAIRMAN SMITH: Chairman Smith
remarked that former Sheriff Randall Johnson had been recognized by Governor
Sonny Perdue as well as by the State Senate and the House of Representatives
this morning at the Capitol for his 49 years of law enforcement service to the
State of
EXECUTIVE SESSION:
NONE.
ADJOURNMENT: COMMISSIONER HORGAN
MADE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 8:20 P.M. COMMISSIONER FRADY SECONDED THE MOTION. THE MOTION CARRIED 5-0.
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Karen Morley, Chief Deputy Clerk