Board considers multiple capital purchases, bids and contract approvals including fleet building and loader purchase

Paulding County commissioners considered several capital procurements and project approvals during the meeting, including a construction contract for a new county fleet building, purchase of a wheel loader for the water department, and renovation of Fire Station No. 1.

Fleet building: County staff asked the board to authorize the chairman to sign a construction agreement with Hogan Construction Group, Inc. to build a new fleet facility on the old jail site at 25 Industrial Way North. The construction total presented in the meeting was $4,430,000. Staff said the building will include roughly 3,000 square feet of office space and about 20,500 square feet of shop space and that the low bid came from Hogan Construction after 11 bidders responded; the stated project timeline is 14 months.

Wheel loader purchase: The water department requested board approval to buy a midsize wheel loader from Central Atlanta Tractor Sales under the Sourcewell contract for $207,890. Staff said the loader will give county crews additional bucket reach, capacity and horsepower to perform field work that has been done by contractors and that in-house capacity may save money over time.

Fire Station No. 1 remodel: Staff presented a contract with Jock Construction to remodel Fire Station No. 1 (169 Thomas B. Murphy Drive). The total remodeling cost listed was $334,149.42. Staff said the existing structure had originally been a fire administration building and needs interior redesign to provide larger kitchen and bunk spaces for an active station.

Bobo Road roundabouts — supplemental agreement: Staff requested authorization to enter into a supplementary engineering agreement with Kimley-Horn for $155,177.58 to finalize design work for the Bobo Road at Macklin Road and Mount Tabor Church Road project (two single-lane roundabouts, turn lanes, drainage and sidewalks; project length about 0.75 miles). Funding for the supplemental work was identified as SPLOST. Staff said right-of-way revisions and unfinished parcels required additional design hours and that a tentative letting date is November 2025.

Consent and other items: The consent agenda included acceptance of a criminal justice coordinating council subgrant (subgrant number W-24-8-O24) and several surplus declarations; staff also presented a revised transfer station calendar and a proposed gate-rate increase (discussion revealed a proposed lower rate for Paulding County residents of $20 per ton and $50 per ton for outside customers, correcting an apparent typographical error in the written item). No formal roll-call vote on these consent items is shown in the transcript excerpt.

Why it matters: the projects would add county maintenance capacity (new fleet building and loader), update critical fire-station space, and advance a long-delayed road safety project; they also carry budget and schedule implications for SPLOST and capital planning.

What was not decided or specified: the transcript records staff presentations and requests for authorization but does not record final roll-call approvals for every item in the excerpt provided. For each item staff asked the board to approve or authorize the chairman to sign agreements.