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Commissioners approve gig-ready broadband contractor, wastewater payment and meter upgrade study
Summary
At its Feb. 24 meeting the Greenbrier County Commission selected a low bidder for the county's gig-ready broadband project, approved a $38,250.13 payment for a White Sulphur Springs wastewater disinfection project and authorized up to $1,705,000 in TIF funding for a town meter-system upgrade pending attorney review.
The Greenbrier County Commission on Feb. 24 moved forward on three separate infrastructure items, approving a low-bid selection for the county's gig-ready broadband project, a payment on a completed wastewater disinfection project in White Sulphur Springs and a plan to advance a costly water-meter replacement after legal review.
Chair (name not specified) said commissioners opened bids at a prior meeting and that the engineer, Thompson Litton, recommended the low bidder, recorded in the transcript as Prontha Telecommunications Solutions LLC, with a bid of $6,155,157.67. The commission voted to approve the recommendation and directed staff to begin contract negotiations and procurement steps. “I'll make a motion we approve the bid from Quanta Communications,” the Chair said before the voice vote.
The commission also approved Resolution No. 10 to pay for the White Sulphur Springs wastewater treatment disinfection project. Jack Ramsey, who identified himself in the record as present for the town's contractor/engineering team, said construction is 100% complete but that contractors remain on site to resolve parasitic acid and related system troubleshooting. The commission approved a payment of $38,250.13 contingent on receiving a corrected expenditure schedule; the record shows $34,003.56 to Veritas Contracting and $3,893.44 to ERC.
On a separate matter, White Sulphur Springs officials presented a cost analysis for replacing the town's obsolete radio-read meters with a modern FM-frequency smart-meter system that includes acoustic leak detection. The presenter said about 300 meters are currently nonfunctional and the new system would reduce manual reads and detect leaks; transcript figures for the total project vary in the record, and commissioners settled on allowing up to $1,705,000 from the town's TIF funds to move forward pending review by county attorney John Stump and with a requirement that any contractor/vendor recoveries be returned to the TIF fund.
All three measures were approved by voice vote. Commissioners also tabled two related broadband budget and engineering amendments until they receive additional legal guidance. The body voted to go into executive session later in the meeting to discuss claims related to courthouse construction.
