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Board hears multiple facilities and easement recommendations including major fire-alarm and roofing projects
Summary
Staff presented a slate of facilities projects and easement recommendations: a driveway maintenance easement with Big Power Developments LLC, a Georgia Power distribution easement at central office, roof replacements at Sims Elementary and a 954 Main Street project, and fire-alarm/lighting renovation bids for several high schools; board asked to remove at least one item from the consent agenda for further review.
The Rockdale County Board of Education received a series of facilities, easement and renovation recommendations from the superintendent's operational-services team.
Key items presented for placement on next week's consent agenda included: a Rockdale Career Academy driveway maintenance agreement to grant Big Power Developments LLC an easement and require contribution toward maintenance costs (no district financial impact reported); a Georgia Power distribution-line easement and conversion from overhead to underground feed to support the central office backup power source (no financial impact reported); and multiple construction contract recommendations drawn from recent bids.
Facilities contract recommendations and bid amounts listed in the meeting included: Sims Elementary roof replacement (Tea America, $77,146); a 954 Main Street roof replacement project (~$465,479 from bids received March 3, 2026); Heritage High School fire alarm and lighting renovations (Electrical Contractor Inc., bid cited in the transcript of roughly $1.77 million from March 5, 2026); Rockdale County High School fire alarm and lighting renovations (Electrical Contractor Inc., about $2.16 million); and a Salem High School renovations contract (transcript amounts contain transcription errors; staff will provide corrected figures).
One board member asked that at least one facilities item be pulled from the consent agenda for additional review prior to the board's formal vote. All facilities contracts were presented as contingent on superintendent and general-counsel approval and funded from the district's capital fund referenced in the transcript as East Blast.
No final contract awards were voted on at the meeting; the board moved to place the action items on the consent agenda for next week.
