Coweta County commissioners approve alcohol licenses, road work supplements and new ordinance on indigent remains

Coweta County Board of Commissioners on March 4 approved multiple business and infrastructure actions, including three alcohol licenses, a supplemental resurfacing addition to the Sullivan Road project, a five-year lease for radio-tower space with Coweta-Fayette EMC and an ordinance adding a new Chapter 27 to the county Code of Ordinances to govern indigent and unclaimed remains.

The board voted unanimously on routine and contractual items that county staff described as necessary to complete ongoing road work, clarify county meeting procedures and codify long-standing coroner practices. Several applicants for alcohol licenses attended the public hearings and the board approved those licenses with the conditions recommended by staff.

Staff business-license associate Joy Thompson told the board that applicants must obtain final approvals from the Georgia Department of Revenue, the Coweta County Fire Marshal, Coweta County Environmental Health and Coweta County Community Development and must open within six months. The board approved: a consumption (distilled spirits, beer and wine) license for Habee's Mexican Restaurants LLC at 34 Cheslehurst Road in the Senoia area; a packaged beer-and-wine license for Publix Super Market #1890 at 4957 E. Highway 34 in Sharpsburg; and a packaged beer-and-wine application for Raymond Express at 2388 E. Highway 16 in Newnan (an ownership change). Each approval carried the staff-recommended conditions and the requirement that final agency signoffs be obtained.

Public works staff said the Sullivan Road project near Oak Hill Boulevard currently leaves an approximately 1,150-foot gap to State Route 34. Public Works Director Mr. Hanley described a supplemental agreement to mill and resurface that gap so the entire corridor would have new pavement at once rather than returning later to rehabilitate a short section. Hanley said the contractor submitted a lower price for thinner milling ($7–$7.35 per square yard) than the contract’s variable-depth milling line item, and that the project is running about $100,000 under budget; adding the work will bring total contract value close to the…