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County directs attorney to notify Otis of contract termination amid elevator maintenance dispute

DeKalb County Board of Commissioners · November 10, 2025
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DeKalb County commissioners voted to have the county attorney notify Otis that their elevator maintenance contract is to be terminated, after commissioners discussed unclear contract dates and compared Otis’s proposed costs with a cheaper Executive alternative.

DeKalb County commissioners directed the county attorney Nov. 10 to notify Otis that the county will terminate its elevator maintenance contract and to confirm the contract’s effective termination date.

The board discussed a series of historic and draft contracts for courthouse and jail elevator maintenance; staff could not find an unambiguous signed maintenance agreement covering the jail and said Otis had submitted a proposal. Commissioners also…

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