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Dooly County moves new jail toward closeout, approves final contractor payment
Summary
County commissioners approved large interim pay requests to the jail contractor as the project neared substantial completion and later approved the final payment, with open house and inmate move dates announced.
Dooly County’s new jail project moved from construction into closeout during 2000 as the Board approved multiple pay requests and received regular contractor updates.
Architect Clemons, Rutherford & Associates and contractor Peter R. Brown Construction presented pay requests and progress reports at several meetings. On Feb. 3 the Board approved Pay Request #11 for $444,334.86. Contractor representatives reported the project should be substantially complete by Feb. 29 and requested reducing retainage from 10% to 5% pending architect approval; the Board said it would consider the change with the architect’s consent.
An open house for the new facility was scheduled for 10:00 A.M. on March 18. Contractor representatives reported administrative offices were tentatively moving March 13 with inmate transfers to follow. Over subsequent months the Board continued to approve architect and contractor invoices as work and closeout proceeded.
At the Nov. 16 meeting Clerk Stephen C. Sanders presented the contractor’s final pay request of $21,478.31 and the Board unanimously approved the final payment, completing the contract accounting recorded in the minutes.
The Board’s minutes record the amounts approved, the sequence of architect and contractor invoices, and the Board’s repeated requirement that contractor requests for reduced retainage be approved by the architect before county action.
