Habersham airport grading services remain without a documented board outcome

Habersham County commissioners’ latest documented consideration of services for airport ROFA grading improvements came April 15, 2024, when a Board of Commissioners agenda listed Task Order #10 with Lead Edge Design Group for Phase 1 and Phase 2 construction services. The agenda establishes that the proposal was before commissioners, but it does not record whether they approved it, changed it or declined it.

That unresolved outcome matters because the orders concern the work needed to move an airport grading project through construction: oversight, land-disturbance permitting and independent geotechnical quality-assurance testing. Without a recorded decision on those services, residents cannot determine from these materials whether the county authorized the steps needed to carry the ROFA grading improvements beyond consideration.

The matter first appears in the cited record on Sept. 18, 2023, when commissioners considered two Lead Edge task orders tied to the airport’s ROFA grading improvements. Task Order #6 covered construction-phase services and land-disturbance permitting, while Task Order #7 concerned geotechnical quality-assurance testing. The later April 2024 agenda’s separate Task Order #10 for Phase 1 and Phase 2 construction services indicates the project continued to generate proposed work, but neither item supplies a documented bridge from proposal to completed work.

County commissioners were the public body considering the task orders, and Lead Edge Design Group was the firm named for the services. The September 2023 agenda and minutes frame the two earlier orders as matters for consideration, while the April 2024 agenda places the later construction-services order before the board. The cited materials do not include commissioners’ stated positions, public comment, a recommendation from staff or a recorded position from Lead Edge beyond its identification as the proposed service provider.

The record supports that Task Orders #6 and #7 were considered in September 2023 and that Task Order #10 was proposed for consideration in April 2024. It does not support a claim that any of the orders was approved, denied, amended or carried out, nor that permitting, construction oversight or testing was completed. The cited materials also do not provide a dollar amount, airport address or detailed grading scope for the September 2023 orders.

The next meaningful public step would be a later Board of Commissioners agenda or minutes that records a vote, amendment, authorization, implementation milestone or completion connected to the airport ROFA grading work. Until that appears, the disposition of the two 2023 task orders, the outcome of the 2024 construction-services proposal and the extent of any work performed remain undecided in the cited public record.