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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCalled Commission Meeting April 12, 2016 CALLED MEETING COMMISSION CHAMBER April 12, 2016 Augusta Richmond County Commission convened at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the Honorable Hardie Davis, Jr., Mayor, presiding. PRESENT: Hons. Lockett, Guilfoyle, Sias, Frantom, M. Williams, Smith, Fennoy, D. Williams, Hasan and Davis, members of Augusta Richmond County Commission. Mr. Mayor: I’ll call this meeting to order. The Chair will recognize the attorney. 1.LEGAL MEETING A.Pending and potential litigation B.Real estate C.Personnel Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to go into an executive session to discuss pending and potential litigation, real estate and personnel. Mr. Hasan: So move. Mr. Sias: Second. Mr. Mayor: Voting. Mr. Fennoy, Ms. Davis, Mr. M. Williams and Mr. Smith out. Motion carries 6-0. [EXECUTIVE SESSION] Mr. Mayor: We’ll call this meeting back to order. The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. 2.Motion to authorize execution by the Mayor of the affidavit of compliance with Georgia’s Open Meeting Act. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to execute the closed meeting affidavit. Mr. Lockett: So move. Mr. Sias: Second. Mr. Mayor: Voting. Motion carries 10-0. 1 Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to approve a transfer of home owner rehabilitation lien of approximately $11,000 on the property located at 1422 McCauley Street. Mr. Fennoy: So move. Mr. D. Williams: Second. Mr. Mayor: Voting. Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: Thank you, Madam Clerk. The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the th 5 for a motion. Mr. Lockett: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move to authorize the payment of $25,000 per awarded site GPC 22010 and GPC 22431 under the Georgia Power Advanced Solar Initiative Prime Distributed Generation Program from Account #542044110- 5212999, to authorize the execution of the Interconnection Agreement per awarded site, to authorize the Mayor and Clerk of Commission to execute leases and assignments in accordance with the Georgia Power Advanced Solar Initiative Prime Distributed Generation Program for the awarded sites and to authorize the granting and execution of easements to Georgia Power for the locations of the interconnection facilities and transmission lines as provided in the Interconnection Agreements. Mr. Guilfoyle: Second. Mr. Mayor: All right, I’ve got a motion and a second. Voting. Mr. Sias and Mr. Hasan vote No. Motion carries 8-2. Mr. Mayor: Thank you, Madam Clerk. The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the th 8. Mr. Guilfoyle: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, I’d like to make a motion to approve the modification of the order creating a private probation system to create a hiring panel for the Chief Probation Officer. Mr. Smith: Second. Mr. Mayor: A motion and a second. Voting. Mr. Sias votes No. 2 Motion carries 9-1. Mr. Mayor: Thank you, Madam Clerk. The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the th 8 for a motion. Mr. Guilfoyle: Mr. Mayor, I’d like to make a motion to approve the transfer of $333,500 from the 2000 (sic) contingency fund to the State Court for the purpose of establishing an in-house probation office. Mr. Lockett: Second. Mr. Mayor: A motion and a second. We have a second from the commissioner from the th 5, Madam Clerk. Mr. Hasan: Question, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor: All right, just hold on just a moment. The Chair recognizes the th commissioner from the 6. State your inquiry. Mr. Hasan: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, based on the motion we just made and to give us some clarity and also to the presentation that we heard around the issue of getting ready to hire the staff, I thought maybe that if the Administrator is going to need those resources to do that so I mean I could stand corrected on that but I’m trying to get some clarity around that issue. Mr. Mayor: I think the motion as stated is sufficient. I think the distribution of those dollars is clear and – Mr. Hasan: Can you ask the Administrator for clarity if you don’t mind? Mr. Mayor: I’d be happy to do that. Madam Administrator, do you want to add anything to this? Ms. Jackson: I think to make my comments clear what I said earlier was that if the Commission is not prepared to pass the order in the form in which it was presented to you, you have the option of releasing those funds to the Administrator so that I myself can proceed with advertising those positions. Mr. Hasan: Thank you, thank you, ma’am. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor: All right, we’ve got a motion and a second. Voting. Mr. Sias votes No. Motion carries 9-1. Mr. Mayor: All right. We’ve got before us an addition to the agenda. Madam Clerk. 3 The Clerk: The request to add approve Amendment 2 to contract with Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure in the amount of $972,670. st Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the 1 Engineering Services Chair. Mr. Fennoy: Mr. Mayor, there have been some additional, some changes made to the contract and I think Mr. Ladson would be in a position to address this before the full Commission and answer any questions that anybody might have. Mr. Mayor: I didn’t think there were any questions. I thought they were ready to approve it. Mr. Fennoy: Well, I’d like to make a motion to approve. Mr. Lockett: Second. Mr. Mayor: Okay. Madam Administrator, is there anything you’d like to add? Ms. Jackson: Yeah, just one thing I want to point out. Even though the amendment is in the amount of $972,670 I just wanted to make sure that everybody understands that this is on an as-needed basis. It may be that our Engineering Department does not need all of those services and our total expenditure could be less than that amount. That amount is the maximum number based upon the proposal that we received. Mr. Mayor: In fact it’s a not-to-exceed 972. Ms. Jackson: That’s correct. Mr. Mayor: All right. Got a motion and a second. Voting. Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: All right, Madam Clerk, thank you. Commissioners, thank you. Committee meeting. [MEETING ADJOURNED] Lena J. Bonner Clerk of Commission 4 CERTIFICATION: I, Lena J. Bonner, Clerk of Commission, hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Called Meeting of the Augusta Richmond County Commission held on April 12, 2016. ________________________ Clerk of Commission 5