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Columbia County commissioners move multiple infrastructure contracts and emergency repair to consent agenda
Summary
County staff presented and recommended approval of a multi-item consent agenda that included an emergency pump repair estimate of $71,395, utility and construction contracts (including a $95,659 stormwater lining award and an $88,413.95 striping contract), several GDOT/GDOP indemnifications and an agreement to use Jefferson Electric infrastructure at 50¢ per customer.
Columbia County staff presented a multi-item consent agenda during the commission meeting, asking the board to approve routine maintenance contracts, an emergency pump repair and several road- and utility-related agreements.
A staff member told commissioners the annual contract to maintain the county's hydraulic distribution-model costs $18,000 and is performed by Goodwin Mills and Kaywood; staff recommended continuing that work and paying from the distribution department line item. The same staff member described an emergency repair for a failed vertical turbine backwash pump that left the plant without a backup to clean filters and estimated the repair at $71,395 to be paid from the treatment-plant line item.
County staff also presented an encroachment agreement with Atlanta Gas and Light needed to cross an existing gas line for the Gucci Creek'Harlem interceptor sewer project and said legal staff had reviewed the agreement. On metering, staff described a follow-up agreement with Jefferson Electric to use the company's…
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