Here's a gist of Tuesday's commission meeting.
The warehouse. The county would buy a 15,000 square foot building on about 1.83 acres from Jamerson, LLC and convert it into a multiuse police facility. No purchase price appears anywhere in the agenda extract.
On-demand transit is expanding in two directions. One item extends CobbLinc Microtransit into South Cobb. Another launches a new pilot connecting Acworth and Kennesaw. Microtransit is the request-a-ride kind, where you book inside a zone instead of standing at a fixed stop. If you're in any of those areas, that's a genuine change. Both up the same night. (Items 11, 12)
Cobb is objecting to an annexation at Ernest Barrett Parkway and Macedonia Road. Someone petitioned to pull roughly 10 acres at that corner into a city. The county's objection isn't a veto. It sends the thing to a state arbitration panel that can't approve or reject the annexation, but can attach conditions on zoning, land use, or density that stick for two years. So the fight is over what gets built there, not over where the line goes. (Item 21)
Part of Old Horseshoe Bend Road may be abandoned for good. Public hearing Tuesday. Once a right-of-way is given up, getting it back isn't a thing that normally happens. (Item 2)
Roads and bridges: Concord Road Covered Bridge goes to a contractor (Item 29). The engineering scope for the Oakdale Road bridge replacement gets expanded (Item 31). Drainage repairs on Old Powder Springs Road (Item 30). Two contracts for 2027 resurfacing and ADA ramps (Items 27, 28). None of those five have published dollar amounts.
The one number on the agenda: $450,000 for playground equipment at Riverlands Gateway Park, through an amended agreement with the Trust for Public Land (Item 16). That's the only spending item Tuesday with a figure attached. Nine others don't have one.
Also on it: new lights on all four fields at the Hubert Soccer Complex (Item 33), two boilers at the Administration Building (Item 34), taxiway work at McCollum Field (Items 9, 10), Kennesaw State sharing the Busbee Park and Ride lot for three years (Item 13), a lobbying contract for the state legislature (Item 24), and money shifted from waste department salaries to pay for Adopt-A-Mile litter pickup (Item 15).
Small one that's kind of nice: the county is handing a sewer easement back to private landowners because the sewer line it was reserved for never got built. Somebody gets their title cleared. (Item 5)
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