Deputy Chief Operating Officer Landry Markison opened the second day of the Clayton Performance Review (CPR), an opportunity for department heads to report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025. Presentations covered transportation, parks, extension, corrections, code enforcement, property assessment, senior services, elections, procurement, building maintenance, and communications. Each department highlighted progress against goals, staffing challenges, and future initiatives. No public comments or formal votes were taken; the session was informational.
My name is Landry Markison, and I have the pleasure of serving as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer for the Clayton County Board of Commissioners. It's my pleasure today to welcome you to day two of our Clayton Performance Review presentations. The Clayton Performance Review is an opportunity for our department heads and our county leadership to come before you and talk about how they are performing against their key performance indicators. Each year during the budget process, our department heads set forth a list of goals and objectives, and quarterly we bring them forth to update not only the county but you as our Clayton County citizens on their progress, how they are performing, some of their successes, and then some of their challenges moving forward. If you have any questions for our department leadership as we go throughout these presentations, please send them to CPR questions at Clayton County GA.gov, and we will route those to the appropriate department head to get you a response. So without further ado, um we will kick this morning's presentations off with um our director of transportation and development, Jeff Metarco. Uh good morning. My name is Jeff Montarker. I'm your director of transportation and development for the county. Thank you. Who is transportation development commonly referred to as TND? We are the ones that provide a transportation system for the county. We also manage the county's fleet operation and the county's landfill. The first group of projects I'm going to speak about today are our pedestrian safety initiatives. The first one is Rex Road Sidewalk. You can see our progress. We're currently at 36%. We are on schedule. From the graph, it doesn't appear that much progress has been made over the last quarter. There has been progress made, just not on the construction side. It's the utility relocation side. We are waiting on the utilities to adjust their facilities along the road so the project can continue to construct. There's no concerns at this time that we won't be able to finish the project in the contract time frame. The next project is our Grant Road Sidewalk Project. We are slightly behind schedule on the right-of-way acquisition. It's not to, it's not really a surprise. Next project is our career road sidewalk project. And you can see on the screen the progress being made on design and moving forward to starting our right-of-way acquisition here in the near future. One of the improved uh things that happened this last quarter is our board of commissioners have approved the contract to start the Terror Boulevard project to add sidewalk and lighting along the road. So more to come on that over the next quarters of progress. Moving on to the next type of project, our roadway improvement projects. The first one is our yearly resurfacing program. On the slides, you can see two programs. One is our calendar year 2024 program, and one is our calendar year 2025 program that actually starts during calendar year 2024. The 2024 program is about 60% complete. Resurfacing in the field. At this stage, it's on schedule for completion by the end of the year. The 2025 program is actually a little ahead of schedule where we typically are at this time. It's already out the bid for construction in 2025. The next project is the biggest project in the county is the Mount Zion Boulevard Battle Creek Road Widening Project. Again, this this project kind of is turning on at a snail's pace, but it's progressing. It's at 21% complete now. And as you can see, it's it's not projected to be finished until fiscal year 27, the fourth quarter. So we still have another two and a half years on that project, but it's continuing on. Next reporting area is our professional growth management. And proud to announce we actually picked up some hiring positions this last quarter. We're now up to about 30% vacant from 33, 34 percent. Um the graph looks like it's an upward trend, and it is. Um I would like to see this continue on for the next several quarters that we are picking up more staff members. Um more progress is obviously needed.