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Peachtree City hires KB Advisory Group for $65,000 annexation study
Summary
Council approved a $65,000 budget amendment to fund an annexation/municipal-boundary study and staff recommended KB Advisory Group; consultant Jeff Koski said the deliverable would be a 4-month fiscal and land-use analysis with maps and an executive summary.
Peachtree City Council voted to approve a FY26 budget amendment of $65,000 to fund an annexation plan update; staff recommended KB Advisory Group after a review of three proposals and a five-member scoring committee.
Shayla Reed summarized the procurement timetable, saying the RFP was sent Dec. 22 and proposals were due Jan. 14. Jeff Koski, president of KB Advisory Group, described the firm's 25 years of planning and economics work in Georgia and presented the firm's proposed approach: establish a baseline of current conditions, run fiscal cost-benefit scenarios for candidate areas, assess property-tax and other revenue implications, estimate service costs, and produce a roughly 40–50 page report with maps and an executive summary. Koski said the study could be completed in about four months and include milestones and opportunities for interim briefings to the council.
"At its simplest explanation, that's the way to kind of think about it," Koski said, describing the project as a numbers-driven fiscal analysis that also includes qualitative considerations and public engagement once staff and stakeholders identify areas of interest.
Council voted to approve the budget amendment and the contract award; the motion passed by voice vote.
Next steps: the contract start date was discussed as beginning in February (staff said the start date is 'tomorrow' during the meeting), and staff will work with KB Advisory on a project schedule and stakeholder outreach plan. The study is explicitly advisory: it will not authorize annexation or rezoning decisions but will provide analysis and recommendations for future council consideration.
Provenance: staff report, the KB Advisory presentation, and the council motion and vote occurred during the meeting's agenda item for the annexation plan RFP.
Authorities and legal triggers for annexation, notice and ultimate action will remain subject to state statute and local code; the study itself is a planning and fiscal analysis only.
