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The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners held a Committee of the Whole meeting on October 20, 2026, to review the proposed executive agenda for the October 27 business meeting, receive committee reports, and hear a presentation from the Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs. The meeting also included a special call meeting to authorize the purchase of a property.
Our project partners, all our county staff, and everyone that's brought us here today again, I thank you for that. Most importantly, to our citizens of the Cab County, your sus your support in our splash projects made this project possible. We recognize that it is this is your investment, and we will accept the responsibility of ensuring it serves the community well. Today we want to honor everyone who has served at that station and help make and help build its legacy. On behalf of the Cab County Fire Rescue, I'd like to thank everyone for joining us today and for sharing in this special occasion. And I also see that we have Miss Janice who's arrived to report out, as well as all of our elected officials who brought along flowers. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the committee of the whole meeting for October twentieth, twenty twenty-six. My apologies for the delayed start. I am your presiding officer in District Four Commissioner Shakira Johnson. So we will get into our meeting. We'll start with our committee reports. Yes, thank you, Madam Presiding Officer. So the last meeting we had was the special call meeting on October twelfth, uh, where we did go over the mid-year operating budget capital improvement fund uh project funding. And so we did approve that and then, of course, voted the next day for the full board. And then at the same meeting, we did approve the Periscope Holdings contract with the National Institute of Government purchasing, and then the seventy-two thousand dollars for funding for vehicle replacement for the solicitor's office. Um, and then we did not have a VAT meeting last week because we're out of time. So we will pick up the schedule as normal next Tuesday, and then probably have another special call meeting in November. Yield back, thank you. But I did just want to reiterate a few of the exciting things that we approved in the following um business meeting for the Board of Commissioners, and that was the twenty twenty-seven Medicaid Medicare retiree rates that was approved as well as one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the evidence stores facility that was requested by police services, and we finally were able to move the blasting ordinance for it. That's something that our community members, especially in the Stone Crest, Lathonia areas were looking forward to. So that did move forward at the last business meeting. And we do have the ERPS committee meeting this afternoon at 2 15. So we will see you shortly. I yield back. Thank you, Commissioner Bolton. Commissioner Patrick. Good morning, um, everybody. I'm Commissioner Robert Patrick, uh, chair of the public works and infrastructure committee. Uh we had a specially called meeting last Monday uh to discuss a variety of items. Uh there were a total of uh 10 items that we heard, two of them were deferred, which means alternatively eight of them were approved. Uh we approved things such as uh contracts for 12 trash haulers so that our sanitation can ship solid waste from one facility to the next. Uh we also extended and put some additional money into the residential single stream recycling services. Uh we also had um some original manufactured parts for um sledge removal from the uh Scott Candler treatment facility uh to ensure that we have clean drinking water. Uh we also had contracts where we approved construction management services. We also went into things like uh manhole replacements and adjustment services. Uh we included also, which I think something everyone else uh finds important is um pavement markings. So if you've seen any roads recently that have had new stripes added to it, that's part of the contract. Uh county staff is going to be sort of have being focused on local roads, and then we're gonna have a contract that focuses on larger roads uh that'll be handled by contractors. Uh and finally, we had some on-call contract and retaining wall services that were uh added for a variety of departments within the county. We will continue to have the greatest show on earth this afternoon at 3:30, and we look forward to seeing you then. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President Officer. Thank you, Commissioner Patrick. Commissioner Marita Davis Johnson with the ops report, please. Okay. Good morning. Um Arita Davis Johnson, and I'm the chair of the county operations committee, also known as ops.