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Dooly County to manage new DFCS project, selects architect and agrees to purchase Vienna parcels
Summary
After deciding the county would manage a new DFCS building, commissioners selected Jones & Gauthreaux as architect, later authorized purchase contracts for three Vienna parcels and ordered a Phase II environmental assessment before closing.
Dooly County moved through planning and property steps in 2000 to secure a site and professional services for a new Department of Family & Children Services (DFCS) building.
In early February Clerk Stephen C. Sanders told the Board that funds allocated in the Georgia Department of Human Resources 1999 budget for a new DFCS building had been temporarily frozen but were again available. The Board voted (motion Hudson, second Daniels) that the County would manage the project rather than hire a developer (vote: Daniels, Hudson, West yes; Anderson and Ward no).
On April 6 the Board unanimously selected Jones & Gauthreaux, Architects P.C. of Rome as the architectural firm for the DFCS building. Later, in October, the Board returned to the real estate question: on Oct. 19 the commissioners authorized Chairman Wayne J. West to execute Contracts of Sale to purchase three parcels on North Third Street in Vienna (Whitman and Woodward properties) for the proposed DFCS site. Contract prices recorded in the minutes were $80,000 for the Whitman parcel and $75,000 for the Woodward property. The Board also accepted a proposal from Advanced Environmental Management, Inc. to perform a Phase II environmental assessment on the sites at a maximum cost of $4,315, to be completed within about four weeks.
Minutes record the Board’s repeated use of executive sessions to negotiate real estate. The sequence shows the county avoided outsourcing the project manager role, instead selecting local professional services and moving to secure property under contract while requiring environmental due diligence before closing.
