Decatur Commission To Vote on $38 Million Contract

The Decatur City Commission is scheduled to vote Monday night on a budget for renovation of the Beacon Hill Municipal Complex.

The building on West Trinity used to be the black school before integration.

The project will have a total budget of $38.3 million. The contract manager would be Potts Construction of Conyers, with a $30.4 million project.

The biggest unexpected cost, Deputy City Manager Hugh Saxon said in a memo, is a $10 million, two-acre stormwater management vault under Ebster Field. It will prevent flooding at the Beacon Hill site and at downstream properties.

Also on the agenda: a vote on annexing five residential properties on Midway Road into the city.

The commisison meets at 5:30 p.m. for a dinner meeting, 6:30 p.m. for a dinner session and 7:30 p.m. for the regular meeting. All meetings are open to the public.

To see the full agenda for the meeting, go to the City of Decatur website.

Residents can watch the meeting on live streaming video on their home computers by going to the city website.

The commission meetings will be shown live on Comcast channel 25 and rebroadcast at 2 p.m. Saturday.