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Council green-lights parking garage amendment, several appropriations and sewer payment; suspends rules to speed work over winter
Summary
Council amended and adopted changes to the municipal parking garage project to add a gate system and prepay subscription services, approved multiple appropriation ordinances and a then-and-now payment of $667,350.89 for a sewer undercrossing, and took action to move several infrastructure projects forward.
Athens City Council approved a package of transportation and capital actions at its Nov. 17 meeting, including an amended appropriation for Phase 3 of the municipal parking facility and several routine and project-specific appropriation measures.
Member Spillanes summarized the parking garage changes: the project will transition meters to a gate pay system, add a second exit lane, provide kiosks to pay on site, implement a plate-reader option that ties plates to accounts, and add electrical work to support EV chargers and future rooftop solar. He told council they request an additional $75,000 to prepay five years of cloud backhaul subscription and sought suspension of rules to allow completion over…
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