The Cumming City Council unanimously approved two purchases for the municipal wastewater treatment plant: replacement gearboxes and three Innovair MD-30 blowers.

For the aeration-basin gearboxes, the presenter said the city received two bids: Applied Industrial Technologies at $87,698.48 and R.H.N. Mechanical Solutions Lehi at $128,243.40, and recommended accepting the Applied Industrial Technologies bid as the lower, responsive offer. (The spoken record later includes a slightly different figure, $87,006.98, for the recommended low bid; the transcript therefore shows two closely different amounts for the same award.)

On the blower purchase, the presenter said the city advertised on the State of Georgia procurement website and received one responsive bid from EcoTech of Canton, Georgia, for a total of $399,037.00 for three blowers. The presenter described the plant as nearing the end of the equipment's useful life and said newer blowers with variable-frequency drives would be more efficient and could be expected to provide roughly 20 years of service. Council members asked whether the purchase was a replacement or an emergency and about lead time; the presenter said the units would have to be built and could take a couple of months to arrive.

Both purchases were moved, seconded and approved on recorded votes of 4-0.