Public Works committee approves equipment purchases, contracts and $8.9M Uchee Creek change order

Columbia County’s Public Works and Engineering Services Committee approved a broad set of purchases, engineering agreements and change orders at its Oct. 28 meeting, moving the items into consent and advancing them without recorded roll-call vote tallies in the transcript.

Resolution 25-37: Commissioner Schachter (speaker 3) introduced Resolution 25-37, which would transfer a former State Patrol post to full state ownership but adds a reversionary clause returning the land and building to the county if the property is not used as a State Patrol post. Schachter moved the item and it was seconded and advanced procedurally.

Major contracts and procurements approved or advanced by consent included: - Grasshopper mowers for Rosen Bridges: staff recommended purchase of three mowers for $52,396.23. - Stormwater vehicles: staff recommended approval of two replacement vehicles and one new vehicle for stormwater operations; the transcript’s numeric total for these three vehicles was unclear and is recorded as not specified in the transcript. - Skid steer for recreation: budgeted purchase of a skid steer at $88,900 to reduce rentals and meet increasing parks workloads. - Vermeer mini excavators: a mini excavator for special projects with a low quote recorded as…