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Board approves multiple transportation, construction and technology contracts totaling several million dollars
Summary
At its March 11 meeting the Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved a string of routine project contracts, amendments and change orders from DOT, Support Services and Property Management totaling multi-million dollars across transportation, sidewalk, drainage and enterprise software contracts.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners on March 11 approved multiple contracts, amendments and change orders across the Department of Transportation, Support Services and Property Management. Most items were approved by unanimous vote and involved project authorizations, consultant agreements, construction contracts and multi-year technology procurement.
Key actions approved by the board (votes described in meeting minutes):
- DOT: Intergovernmental agreement with the City of Acworth for a traffic study of Nance Road and Acworth-Due West Road (Project B2548) — motion approved 4–0.
- DOT: Project framework and memorandum of agreement with the Georgia Department of Transportation for preliminary engineering design of the Allstate Powder Springs Road Trail (Project B2439); payment of preliminary engineering oversight fee — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Consultant services agreement with HNCB Corporation for transportation planning and engineering services for the East-West Connector Corridor Improvement Scoping Study, not to exceed $685,000 (Project AR19) — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Determination to commence condemnation (declaration of taking) for one parcel on South Gordon Road at Pisco Road (Project B2310); resolution adoption authorized — approved 4–0.
- DOT/City of Smyrna: Amendment No. 1 to IGA for slope stabilization design and construction under Camp Highland Road Bridal (Project B2116) — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Contract with C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., Inc., not to exceed $4,443,107.77 for slope stabilization on Camp Highland Road Bridal (Project B2116); change order No. 1 in the deductive amount of $1,298,000 — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Final change orders on multiple completed projects resulting in total savings of $743,871.23, to be closed out and the budget adjusted — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Contract with Advanced Road Construction LLC not to exceed $430,931.19 for West Atlanta Road sidewalk (Project B2721) — approved 4–0.
- DOT: Contract with Advanced Road Construction LLC not to exceed $280,880 for drainage repairs on Mountain Trace (Project B22147) — approved 4–0.
- Support Services: Five-year contract with UKG Kronos Systems LLC to migrate Kronos and Telestaff to cloud-based solutions and expand Telestaff licensing, total not to exceed $3,322,378; contingency $10,000; partial funding from 2022 SPLOST Project B0010 — approved 4–0.
- Support Services/Technology: Reinstatement and extension of contract amendment with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (Esri) for ArcGIS Indoor through December 2036 (SPLOST Project X0020) — approved 4–0.
- Property Management: Use of sourcewell contract and two purchase orders with Tissencrump Elevator, Inc. totaling $1,220,000 (POs of $420,770 and $799,230) for elevator modernization at the Cobb County Judicial Building; contingencies $21,038 and $39,961 — approved 4–0.
Several motions were procedural (call the question, seconded) and carried by unanimous vote unless otherwise noted in the record. Where staff sought authorization, the board also authorized the chairwoman to execute the necessary documents and approved corresponding budget transactions. No debate or roll-call vote detail identifying individual commissioner votes was recorded in the public transcript for most items.
