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The Sandy Springs City Council convened at 5:00 PM on August 4, 2026, in the Studio Theatre at City Hall for a work session followed immediately by a regular meeting. The work session focused exclusively on design development pricing for the replacement of Fire Station No. 1 and construction of Fire Station No. 4. The regular meeting included a Purple Heart Day proclamation, two public hearings for alcohol beverage licenses, and seven new business items, including the adoption of the 2026 Transportation Master Plan. All items except the Transportation Master Plan were approved unanimously; that plan passed 6–1.
Time for convening has arrived, so we'll start this uh evening's uh meetings starting an hour earlier, so we can hopefully get out for national night outside. Uh we'll start with our work session, the uh design development pricing for the fire station by Dave Wells. Council, uh, tonight we want to bring you the uh tonight. We want to bring you the uh DD pricing, the design development pricing. I got Reeves Young here, uh Adam Scott, and he's gonna go over the uh DD pricing real quick for you. Good afternoon, everyone. So wrapping up our latest uh DD pricing effort on fire stations one four um in the logistics building, you'll see up here on the screen broken out between the fire stations one for logistics buildings, the sites, um, and then the value management efforts to date, um, as well as all of the indirect cost um uh brings our design development estimate estimated total to 38.205074. So some of these um high value items throughout the value management process. What you'll see up here, um some of these are pending to be uh taken into GMP uh for deductive alternates, but these are some of the high values over 2.6 million of uh current accepted value management, some of the big ticket items. Uh remove the BRIC Waynesco at the logistics building, reducing the generators back to the 250 KW that we had at SD, um, and then to shell out the uh the the training classroom facility at the logistics building as well as uh the removal of the fire pump. Yes. I notice you're you're changing out the copper for aluminum conductors. This is the fire department. I assume they know uh about uh the difference between uh aluminum and copper. Does that create any real safety issues for the building? That is only where it's required by or where it's allowable by code. Okay, thank you. So the available budget we have in the uh budget is 38 million, four hundred-seven three oh five. Uh fire station four right now with the building and the site uh uh amount comes in at 21 21 million seven sixty-eight seven hundred four. Fire station one comes in at sixteen million four thirty-six three sixty-nine, and that leaves us with two hundred and seventy-two thousand two thirty-two for fire station three's uh additions and uh renovations. Uh leaves the delta on fire station three about two point three million dollars. Uh we brought you schematic design pricing back in May. Uh, this is the design development pricing. Uh we will be bringing you the uh the 100% construction document pricing, which is called guaranteed maximum price uh in November, mid-November, and we uh plan to begin construction on the two fire stations in January. Also uh in December, we will be finished with the temporary fire station up on Roswell Road for Fire Station One. We'll be moving the crews out of that fire station into the new fire station. Any questions on the pricing? Not right now. Is that Dave's that it that is it? All right, if I may, Mayor. So two questions. Uh removing the fueling station, it seems to me having a fueling station at the south end of town, like we have at the north end of the town is a good idea. So we're not eliminating the refueling station at the south end, are we? That is actually a pending thing, and uh city manager's giving us guidance to go ahead and uh try to get that back into the project. It's a good idea, it seems to me rather than everybody driving up north just to fill their thing. Okay. And then uh right now the the design development pricing we're talking about.