Finance Committee Meeting Minutes

Glynn County Board of Commissioners

4:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Third Floor Conference Room

W. Harold Pate Courthouse Annex

Brunswick, Georgia

 

Present:

                        Committee Members:  H. Lynn and U. Keller

Other Commissioners: 

Staff:  J. Crichton, J. Johnson, P. McNicoll, B. Rowell, W. Worley

Press:   M. Donley, L. Nobles, M. Permar, B. Terman

Others:   M. Davis, Ms. L. Nobles, J. Tuten

 

1.      Consider approval of the Consent Agenda.

 

a)      Approve the June 28, 2005 Finance Committee Minutes. 

 

b)      Approve the real property corrections to the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Digests as recommended by the Board of Assessors and/or the Chief Appraiser at their June 29, 2005 meeting. 

 

c)      Authorize bidding of those materials, goods, projects, or services whose funding has been approved in the FY 2005/2006 budget. 

 

The following motion made by Commissioner Keller and seconded by Commissioner Lynn passed unanimously.

 

Recommend approval of the consent agenda.  (Vote:  2-0-0)

 

2.      Consider awarding a contract to R.J.’s Underground Utilities in the amount of $144,550.00 to perform all work associated with the construction of a sanitary sewer extension per IFB No. 00518. 

 

Mr. Marshall Davis, Carter Goble Lee, presented this item and stated that the generator had been deleted from the Golden Isles #2 Well/Tank project in order to fund the sewer line.  He stated that the generator had been estimated at $100 thousand.  The following motion made by Commissioner Keller and seconded by Commissioner Lynn passed unanimously.

 

Recommend awarding a contract to R.J.’s Underground Utilities in the amount of $144,550.00 to perform all work associated with the construction of a sanitary sewer extension per IFB No. 00518.  (Vote:  2-0-0)

 

3.      Consider rejecting all bids and re-bid the paver renovation project. 

 

Mr. Marshall Davis informed the Committee that the County had received only one bid for this project.  He said that two other bidders had been late with their bids and were therefore not considered.  Mr. Davis stated that the project would be funded by the Splost 4 Historic Courthouse budget.  Commissioner Lynn questioned whether any of the Historic Courthouse budget had been moved to other projects and Mr. Davis stated that it had not.  The following motion made by Commissioner Keller and seconded by Commissioner Lynn passed unanimously.

 

Recommend rejecting all bids and re-bid the paver renovation project.  (Vote:  2-0-0)

 

4.      Consider

a)      awarding a contract for the Old Red Brick Casino Renovation Project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Massee Builders in the amount of $2,838,300.00.  (M. Davis) pages 16-20 ; and

b)      reducing the lowest priority Splost 4 Tier 2 project which could be funded by $335,236 and transfer the funds to the Casino Renovation Splost 4 Tier 1 project budget. 

 

Mr. Marshall Davis presented this request and both Commissioners agreed that the project should be awarded according to the specifications as bid.  The following motions made by Commissioner and seconded by Commissioner passed unanimously.

 

Recommend

a)   awarding a contract for the Old Red Brick Casino Renovation Project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Massee Builders in the amount of $2,838,300.00.  (Vote 2-0-0)

b)   reducing the lowest priority Splost 4 Tier 2 project which could be funded by $335,236 and transfer the funds to the Casino Renovation Splost 4 Tier 1 project budget.  (Vote:  2-0-0)

 

5.      Consider advertising and holding a public hearing to increase the wireless surcharge from $1.00 to $1.50.

 

Mr. Jim Crichton, Glynn-Brunswick 911 Director, explained that the increase in the wireless surcharge would fund the implementation of Phase 2 technology.  Phase 2 technology would enhance the 911 system so that the exact geographic location of calls received from cellular phones would be available to the 911 Center employees.  Currently, the Center has Phase 1 technology which give the region that the call originates from but not the exact location.  Mr. Crichton gave examples of recent incidents related to cell phone calls in which the 911 Center was unable to identify the exact location of the call and the caller was not able to get emergency medical service as quickly as needed.  After discussion, Commissioner Keller recommended that this item be forwarded to the full Board of Commissioners for a decision.

 

No action was taken by the Finance Committee.

 

1.      Request that Chairman Lynn identify the Finance Committee items which should be included as consent items in the Commission’s Meeting Agenda.

 

Chairman Lynn identified items except #5 as consent agenda items.  Item #5 was forwarded to the full Board of Commissioners with not recommendation from the Finance Committee.