Wednesday, April 4, 2001
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Wednesday, April 4, 2001 |
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Main Street seeks parking space for Hollingsworth House
By DAVE
HAMRICK
Now that they have land for the Hollingsworth House and have placed the house on the land, Main Street Fayetteville officials today will ask the Fayette County commissioners for the parking lot behind it as well. Commissioners meet at 3:30 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex. In April 1998, commissioners agreed to allow Main Street to move the historic house to a small site owned by the county, between the Board of Education building and the Administrative Complex on Stonewall Avenue, leasing the site for a dollar a year. In March 2000, the group voted to go ahead and give Main Street the property, up to five feet behind the footprint of the house, along with the land on the sides and front up to the streets. But the group decided to hang onto the parking lot, which was built several years ago to handle overflow parking for both the Board of Education and the county complex. Commissioners said they might need the land if they ever have to enlarge the complex. Today, they'll discuss going ahead and giving away the parking lot. Long range plans now are to build a new county complex next to the jail and courthouse complex (soon to be under construction), rather than expand the current complex. Approval of a construction bid for the jail and courthouse is not on the agenda, but may be brought up as a staff discussion item. Bids were opened last week, and the apparent low bidder was Bell Construction at $31.98 million for the first phase of the project, construction of new pods for the jail and construction of the new courthouse. Renovation of the existing jail and the existing courthouse (the courthouse will be used for sheriff's offices) will be bid later, to be done after the first phase is finished. Also on the agenda, the Protocol Task Force and Child Fatality Review Committee will go over revised procedures for handling child abuse cases. Those procedures, mandated by the state, recently were changed by the state, and the local task force must revise its own procedures to match the state's. The task force meets monthly and is composed of representatives from local law enforcement agencies, courts, the Health Department and other agencies that deal with children. April is Child Abuse Month in Georgia. The commission also will consider renewing its employee insurance contributions and benefits.
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