-David Crowder, WRGA News-
The Floyd County Commission has approved a bid for roadway-design engineering for the Mango Road improvement project to Southern Engineering and Surveying, Inc.
The contract is for $110,000.
“We did have seven bids on the project, and that price was a very low price when you compare it to the next bidder,” said Floyd County Finance Director Susie Gass. “The next bidder was $289,000. The reason that the pricing was so much lower was that this company had already done control work for the school, and so a lot of the fieldwork was already done for this.”
Approximately 1,850 feet of Mango Road is paved, and the remaining 7,100 feet of the road is unpaved.
This project would include making improvements to the paved section of the roadway and its intersection with Calhoun Road, as well as upgrading and paving the gravel portion of the road.
The 2023 special-purpose, local option sales tax project is budgeted at $2.5 million.
