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University system working on
for facilities
Regents unsure of total savings
By Ashley Fielding
FCN regional staff
How much will a pro
posed merger of eight
Georgia colleges save?
It’s hard to tell.
During a recent visit to
Gainesville, Executive
Vice Chancellor to the
Drain work to close Concord Road
By Alyssa LaRenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews com
A section of north Forsyth road
will be closed to through traffic
starting Monday.
Concord Road, between Corn
Drive and Pirkle Place near the
Dawson County line, is expected to
reopen no later than Feb. 10.
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Above, smoke
blankets the
area at Little
Mill Park. Left,
Lt. Lance
Lieulette and
Sowers check
an area.
University System of
Georgia Steve Wrigley
said financial savings are
certainly a goal of the
planned merger, but decid
ing how much is a “com¬
plex” calculation.
Some of the institutions
involved in the merger.
which includes combining
Forsyth County will be replacing
an existing stormwater cross drain
under the road that has failed, said
Tim Allen, assistant director of
engineering,
Maintenance work, really, is
what it is.” Allen said. “It’s some
thing that we’ve got to do.”
The road caved in slightly a few
weeks ago, he said, and the coun-
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Photos by Jim Dean Forsyth County News
Park rangers with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers participated in a controlled burn
Tuesday along Lake Lanier. According to Ranger
Craig Sowers, about 35 acres at Little Ridge Park
were being cleared of brush, along with another
20 acres on a nearby island. Above, Ranger Mark
Jennings uses a drip torch to light fires. Below,
Sowers clears the area around a tree.
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Gainesville Slate College
with North Georgia
College & State
University, don't have a
way to conduct an internal
audit.
“It really is difficult at
this stage to do a calcula¬
tion,” said Wrigley, adding
that a number of the costs
will come from adminis¬
tration and eliminating
duplication at the adminis-
ty temporarily patched it in prepa
ration for replacing the cross
drain.
The work will be paid for through
the county’s general fund, he said,
and a county crew will complete the
project.
“It’s just materials and labor, so
it’s not very expensive,” Allen
said.
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trative level.
Whatever money is
saved, Wrigley said, will
be reinvested in academ
tcs.
Officials have said the
merger won’t affect the
University Center, a blend¬
ed campus of North
Georgia and Gainesville
State in Cumming.
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Copper wire
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Relief
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DOT project boasts
complicated design
By Crystal Ledford
cledford@forsythnews.com
Roadwork at a busy Cumming intersection is
moving along.
Several buildings have been torn down on
Atlanta Highway near where it meets Meadow
Drive and Bald Ridge and Mary Alice Patk
roads.
The intersection improvements are part of a
federal road project being handled by the state
Department of Transportation.
Jill Goldberg with the DOT said the project is
listed as officially under construction.
• • It was let [for bid] on Dec. 16,” she said.
The project involves 13 land parcels, which
Goldberg said have all been purchased.
‘ • All the land would have been acquired before
we were able to let the project,” she said.
The estimated cost of the project is about $6.4
million, which will come from the DOT’s safety
funding. The city of Cumming also paid $1.5
million of the cost.
Steve Bennett, assistant city administrator,
said city leaders received word last week that a
pre-construction meeting would be held “some¬
time in the next two to three weeks. "
>> At that time, we’ll have a full construction
schedule,” he said.
Until then leaders didn't want to speculate on
how long the process may take.
DOT representatives have previously said it
will be lengthy, citing the project’s “complicated
design” and need to allow traffic to flow through
the area during construction.
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Juan Ramirez, left, and Leno Ramirez help
equipment operator Rick Jeffries lower a
steel plate at the corner of Mary Alice Park
Road and Atlanta Road. The extensive proj¬
ect will rework the intersection, where sev¬
eral roads meet.
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