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Chattahoochee County approves GDOT maintenance agreement tied to planned Wells Street roundabout
Summary
The county commission unanimously approved a Georgia Department of Transportation Right‑of‑Way Mowing & Maintenance Agreement for P.I. No. 0015687, a planned single‑lane roundabout at SR 1/SR 520 and County Road 109/Wells Street; the agreement assigns long‑term maintenance responsibilities to the county and requires insurance and indemnity provisions.
Chattahoochee County commissioners on March 4 unanimously approved a Georgia Department of Transportation Right‑of‑Way Mowing & Maintenance Agreement tied to P.I. No. 0015687, the planned single‑lane roundabout at State Route 1/State Route 520 and County Road 109 (Wells Street).
The motion to approve the agreement was made by Commissioner Damon Hoyte and seconded by Commissioner Gerald Douglas. Chairman Charles Coffey presided over the meeting.
Under terms included in the agreement submitted by GDOT, the local government is authorized to perform maintenance activities in the department's right‑of‑way between mileposts referenced in the project documents and is responsible for the costs, liability and insurance associated with that maintenance. The document describes a Detailed Maintenance Work Plan that lists routine duties such as watering, pruning, mowing and weeding; requirements for temporary traffic control that comply with the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD); and procedures for notifying GDOT before major work or any activity that may interfere with traffic.
The GDOT cover letter and the agreement (submitted in the record) identify the project as installing a single‑lane roundabout at SR 1/SR 520 and CR 109/Wells Street and ask the county to execute the agreement through GDOT's Contract Authorization Tracking System (CATS). The agreement sets an execution workflow in which GDOT routs the county's signed copy for department signatures and then returns a fully executed copy to Chattahoochee County for the project file.
The agreement also contains indemnity and insurance provisions: the local government must either be self‑insured or carry commercial general liability and other coverage at stated minimums and must hold GDOT harmless for claims arising from local maintenance activities. The maintenance exhibit requires compliance with industry standards (for example, ANSI A300 pruning standards) and specifies that major repairs or work that could impede traffic require at least 48 hours' notice for coordination and approval by the department.
The approval clears a routine procedural step needed before the county returns the executed agreement to GDOT and moves the project forward in the preconstruction and right‑of‑way maintenance phases. GDOT listed a departmental project manager (Tahirah Slaughter) and district staff for contract routing in the attached materials.
