County to consider soccer field lease
♦ Commissioners are also expected to award contracts for vet services at PAWS and rehabilitation of an airport runway.
A contract to lease out the North Floyd Park soccer fields is slated to go before the Floyd County Commission tonight.
Southern Soccer Academy and the Rome-Floyd YMCA both submitted proposals for use of the fields. Representatives from both entities are slated to address the board at its pre-meeting caucus.
Commissioners caucus at 4:30 p.m. and start their regular meeting at 6 p.m. in the County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. Both sessions are public.
Also on the agenda is a plan to improve the traffic flow on Park Avenue in Lindale and several other proposed contracts — including state grants for the county’s mental health and drug courts, resurfacing an airport runway and veterinary oversight at PAWS, the public animal welfare services facility at 99 North Ave.
County Manager Jamie McCord is expected to recommend a $1.4 million contract with C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. to rehabilitate the secondary runway at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport. The project will be funded with a grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation and a 25 percent local match.
Veterinarian Daniel Nepp also is expected to get the contract to oversee the administration of medicines and controlled substances at PAWS. The board signed a contract in March with National Spay Alliance Foundation to sterilize all adoptable animals but the program has not yet started.
An application for $400,000 in state road money for Park Avenue, between Dragon Drive and the Pepperell Primary parking lot, is on the board’s consent agenda. That means it is expected to be approved without debate.
The project would require a local match of $120,000, which would be met through purchase of right-of-ways, utility relocation, in-kind labor and equipment.
John Spranza IV, son of John and Deana Spranza of Silver Creek, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester at Lees-McRae College to complete his sophomore year. Spranza was a 2016 graduate of Pepperell High School, plays on the men’s soccer team for the Bobcats and was additionally named to the Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll for his academic performance. Lees-McRae College is a NCAA Division II institution located in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Rome News-Tribune’s Hometown is looking for some good news. Send submissions to Managing Editor John Bailey at romenewstribune@RN-T.com or call 706-290-2282.