‘”This is a total waste of taxpayers’ money,” Commissioner Ken Smith said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “This is foolish.”
Assistant County Manager Tod Tentler said he agrees “it’s a little bit crazy, but that’s the law nowadays.”
In 2002 before construction started on the Government Center, six monitoring wells indicated contamination that was attributed to a former service station. Subsequent monitoring has shown the same level of contamination on the Ridley Avenue side, while levels in other areas of the property have gone down.
The board voted to delay a proposed contract with Geo-technical & Environmental Consultants in Columbus to install six additional monitoring wells. The company would have the water tested and send reports to the EPD.
Commission Chairman Ricky Wolfe suggested a meeting with the EPD to “get a better understanding about the end result of this. … We just need some education.”
In other business Tuesday, the commission:
n Awarded a contract of $243,907 to Jones, Etheridge and Tomlinson in LaGrange for renovations to the Georgia State Patrol barracks on Hamilton Road, pending the state’s approval of a maintenance contract. The county is required to provide facilities for the State Patrol, which will expand now that the driver’s license bureau has moved to the former county administration building at 900 Dallis St.
The State Patrol will work out of a modular unit during the four-month project.
n Awarded a contract of $87,000 to JET for press box renovations at Callaway Stadium. The work is scheduled to be finished before football season.
The cost will be paid from a Callaway Foundation grant of $2.6 million, which also will finance a new concession stand and restrooms; a new locker room, training room and officials’ suite on the visitors side; and conversion of the home side’s two locker rooms into one large locker room. The facade of the stadium will be spruced up as well.
Joel Martin can be reached at jmartin@lagrangenews. com or (706) 884-7311, Ext. 235.
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