Building commissioning contract up for BOE
The Floyd Board of Education will be presented with a $300,000 contract for Armuchee High.
The Floyd County Board of Education is looking to approve a $300,000 con- tract with an Atlanta-based building commissioning com-pany for the Armuchee High School modernization project.
The board meeting starts at 6 p.m. tonight in the board room at 600 Riverside Parkway. The board will caucus at 5 p.m. in Superintendent Jeff Wilson’s office.
Total Systems Commissioning will be tasked with reviewing the three phases of the modernization project and making sure works meets code and design requirements among other duties.
The company will be involved in the conVWUXFWLRQ RI QHZ J\P DQG ¿HOG KRXVH UHQRvations — Phase I and II, for $62,300 — as well as Phase II which will be the modernization of the school, for a cost not to exceed $237,700. The modernization project is one of two marquee projects for the school system to be funded by an extension of the 1-cent education local option sales tax.
Also on tonight’s agenda for board approval is an $189,447.18 pur-chase for bus cameras. The total price of the purchase is $242.881.08, but the school system is using a $53,433.90 credit for the purchase to knock the price down.
The board will also be updated on child nutrition, WHFKQRORJ\ DQG ¿ QDQFHV Also among the updates is discussion on the RICO case, which involved the decadelong thefts from the school system totaling $6.3 million. Over the last several months more than $3 million in recovered funds have been returned to the school system, both from the liquida-tion of seized and forfeited items and a settlement with Johnson Controls Inc.
There have been 13 arrests in the case, including former system maintenance director Derry Richardson. Floyd County police have said more arrests are probable. Those arrested are each charged with inflat-ing and falsifying invoices paid by the school system and violating WKH *HRUJLD 5DFNHWHHU ,QÀXenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and other crimes.
During last month’s meeting, board members Chip Hood and Jay Shell said they have been asked by some constituents when any of the criminal cases will proceed.
“We have nothing to do with that,” board attorney King Askew told board members.
No indictments of those arrested have been handed down since the Floyd County District Attorney’s Office received the massive case ¿OH IURP )OR\G &RXQW\ SROLFH investigators late last year. 7KH FDVH ¿OH LV PDGH XS RI QXPHURXV EDQNHU ER[HV ¿OOHG ZLWK ¿QGLQJV IURP DQ DOPRVW three year police investigation.
The statute of limitations for most felonies is four years — so Novem-ber for felony charges in this case ² DQG LW LV ¿YH \HDUV IRU RICO charges, according to District Attorney Leigh Patterson.