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Committee approves multiple Watershed contracts and budget transfers totaling tens of millions
Summary
The City Utilities Committee approved consent items authorizing a state consent order payment, emergency and on-call contracts, and several FY2025 budget transfers and contract amendments for Watershed Management projects, including a multi‑million dollar small-diameter rehabilitation amendment to Ruby Collins Incorporated.
The City Utilities Committee approved a package of consent and regular-agenda items that authorize multiple Watershed Management contracts and FY2025 budget adjustments.
Key actions approved by the committee included: a consent order payment of $156,833.25 to the Environmental Protection Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, to resolve compliance violations; authorization of an on-call diving services contract with Salmons Dredging Corporation retroactive for one year with an amount not to exceed $2,000,000; amendments to the FY2025 water and wastewater commercial paper and renewal-and-extension funds to transfer $21,573,164.06 and $11,655,140.99, respectively, for the Small Diameter Rehab Sugar Creek outfall project; a companion resolution that adds funding to sewer Group 4 small-diameter rehabilitation contract A with Ruby Collins Incorporated in an amount not to exceed $33,228,305.05; and approval of a water supply tunnel connection contract with Ruby Collins SC Concertorium joint venture not to exceed $13,788,184.00.
Several of those items were amended on the floor to correct milestone dates and to incorporate cooperative-agreement details; each measure passed the committee unanimously, with recorded votes of 5 yays, 0 nays. The items cited the Atlanta City Code (Part 2, Chapter 2, Article 10, Division 4) where procurement rules were waived or special procurement actions were authorized.
Other approved items in the packet included emergency procurement extensions and funding adjustments for small-meter installation and yard‑debris processing and hauling programs; a substitute increased one meter‑installation emergency amount to $499,800 and another emergency amendment authorized up to $2,700,000 for additional small‑meter work. The committee also authorized transfers totaling $8,000,000 to a green infrastructure project (Valley of Hawkes) and accepted a $10,000 donation to support the city’s recycling education initiative.
The approvals expand Watershed’s contracting authority and add multiple capital and operational dollars to ongoing projects; council members did not attach additional conditions in the committee beyond the amendments recorded in the meeting.
