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Douglasville staff seek authorization to advance Fairburn Road design with AECOM
Summary
City staff recommended placing a task order with AECOM on the April 6 consent agenda to fund preliminary engineering for the Fairburn Road/Highway 92 corridor, including signals, landscaping and environmental work; council members noted roughly 80% federal reimbursement for the design phase.
City Engineer Marcus Thompson told the Douglasville City Council’s finance committee on April 2 that staff wants authorization for Task Order No. 2 under the city’s existing master design agreement with AECOM Technical Services to advance preliminary engineering for Fairburn Road and the Highway 92 corridor.
Thompson said the task order would produce preliminary design and right-of-way plans, preliminary signal and lighting plans, landscaping, categorical-exclusion environmental documentation, surface-utility engineering at QL-B, a Phase 2 environmental site assessment, and a wall-foundation investigation. "Task order number two basically authorizes our design consultants to advance this project further into the preliminary engineering phase," Thompson said.
Committee members pressed staff on cost and funding. Council Member Howard Estus observed the project is largely federally funded, and Council Member Estus later noted the design phase is "80% federally reimbursable," which staff confirmed applies to the current phase. Thompson said the task order would be executed under the master design agreement the city signed on May 29, 2024; he recommended placing the item on the consent agenda for the April 6 voting meeting.
No formal motion or vote was taken at the work session. The council scheduled the item for the consent agenda so that the full council can act during the regular voting meeting.
The city plans to use the preliminary work to support later construction phases and right-of-way acquisition; Thompson said staff would answer additional questions before Monday if council members requested more detail.
