Macon-Bibb commission approves consent agenda, budget amendment, contracts and Rosa Parks Square mural resolution
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Summary
On Feb. 3 the Macon-Bibb County Commission approved a multi-item consent agenda: license actions including a denial for Kitchen Bridal, appropriations and a midyear budget amendment totaling $5.54 million, vendor contracts for IT and aerial imagery, a code update to adopt state fire codes, support for a Rosa Parks Square mural, and acceptance of an airport grant; the body recessed to executive session on legal matters.
The Macon-Bibb County Commission on Tuesday moved a slate of routine and policy actions during its Feb. 3 pre-commission and regular meetings, approving a consent agenda that included liquor-license rulings, budget adjustments, several vendor contracts and a resolution backing a mural at Rosa Parks Square.
Presiding Official opened the pre-commission meeting and said legal recommended denying a liquor license application for Newstart Food Mart doing business as Kitchen Bridal at 3101 Columbus Road after prior denials and a recent settlement. A motion to deny, moved by Commissioner Winns and seconded by Commissioner Howell, carried; the commission instructed county attorneys to pursue the next steps. "That could be prohibited from ever having a license at that location and in Bibb County completely," the presiding official said when describing potential consequences for the business.
Other license actions approved for the consent agenda included a license for Quick Fuel 2025 doing business as 1 Stop at 1193 Wesleyan Drive and an individual license for the Capitol Theater following a transfer of ownership to a local university.
On finance items, commissioners approved an appropriation of $195,652 from the SPLOST 2018 fund for parks and recreation projects and allocated $546,059 for sidewalk improvements on Cotton Avenue. The commission also adopted a midyear budget amendment to recognize $4,986,021 in increased revenue and to authorize interdepartmental transfers totaling $557,902, for combined adjustments of $5,543,923.
The commission authorized several purchases and contract renewals. It approved a purchase order to Dell Marketing for computers and hardware totaling $171,806.50 from SPLOST 2018 public-safety funds. Commissioners approved a renewal with Pictometry International Corp., doing business as EagleView, for oblique aerial flyover mapping for the tax assessor's office at a not-to-exceed $137,600 per year; staff noted the term changed from five to six years and the county manager said he would "verify that." The body also approved a $427,116.60 renewal for server and infrastructure support from CDW-G, payable from the IT budget.
The commission voted to amend the Bibb County code to adopt state-updated versions of the International Fire Code and the Life Safety Code. A staff member explained the language change would allow the county to place into effect whatever version the state adopts without returning for repeated local amendments; the speaker said the state had adopted the 2024 edition.
In cultural and capital projects, commissioners accepted a Friends of Rosa Parks Square board recommendation to modify the square's design to include a mural by artist Gwendolyn M. Peyton. Officials said the Friends group will raise funds for the mural and will return with a drawing for formal approval; a ribbon cutting for Rosa Parks Square was announced for Feb. 4 at 10 a.m.
The commission approved a federal grant of $270,811.32 with a local match of $13,548.68 from the airport fund for a drainage study and airfield electrical work at Macon Downtown Airport.
Before adjourning to executive session, the presiding official said the county would go into closed session "for consultation with the county attorney or other legal counsel to discuss pending or potential litigation, settlement claims, administrative proceedings, or other judicial matters." A motion to enter executive session was moved by Commissioner Howard and seconded by Commissioner Wilder and carried. The body reconvened for the 6:00 p.m. regular meeting, which included a proclamation recognizing February 2026 as Black History Month; the proclamation text noted, "I, Lester M. Miller, do hereby proclaim February 2026 as Black History Month in Macon-Bibb County," read into the record and placed with the minutes.
Actions taken were passed largely by voice vote and were submitted to the formal consent agenda for the regular meeting record. Several items were described by staff as routine renewals or previously authorized projects for which the meeting was formalizing appropriation or contract authority.
