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Page 4B - The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, September 27,2001 To Subscribe to The Lee County Ledger Call 759-2413 LEE COUNTY INVITATION TO BID PARTIAL RENOVATION OF THE HISTORIC LEE COUNTY COURTHOUSE The Lee County Board of Commissioners is accepting sealed written bids from profes sional and qualified contractors to par tially renovate the historic lee County Courthouse in accordance with the con struction plans and specifications pre pared by Stantec Architecture Inc. This partial renovation project generally con sists of the following: Building a ramp on the north side of the building for handicap accessibility. Converting the existing public restrooms on the first floor into handicap acces sible. Building new public handicap acces sible restrooms in the Magistrate Court area. Repointing the exterior bricks to avoid water penetration. Reglazing all windows. Repainting the entire interior and exterior paintable surfaces. Removing the entire old jail area and constructing anew first floor courtroom in its place. Upgrading the building to current life/ safety and fire codes. Construction plans and specifications are available at the lee County Clerk's Office, 104 leslie Highway, leesburg, Georgia 31 763 or by calling (229) 759-6000 Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for a deposit of $75.00 per set. The deposit is fully refundable to each responsive bidder if returned in good condition. In addition, the plans and specifications for this project are also available in the Dodge Room located at 1216 Dawson Road in Albany (436-2458). If you choose to submit a written bid on this project, your sealed bid must be marked, "Sealed Bid - Courthouse Renova tions" and delivered to the lee County Clerk's Office at 104 leslie Highway, leesburg, Georgia 31 763 no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9, 2001. All bids will be opened during a public bid open ing at 4:05 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9, 2001 in the County Clerk's Office. You are invited to attend this bid opening. No bids shall be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the bid opening. There will be a pre-bid conference held on Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 2:00 p.m. in the second floor courtroom of the Lee County Courthouse. Attendance at this conference is MANDATORY for any General Contractor intending to bid on this project. Other interested parties may attend if they so desire. The Owner and Architect will be present to answer ques tions that the bidders may have regarding the contract documents, plans, and specifications. Bids will not be accepted from those General Contractors not repre sented at the pre-bid conference. Each bidder must include in their sealed bid, a bid security in the amount of 5% of the bid amount payable to the lee County Board of Commissioners from a company authorized to do business in the state of Georgia. In addition, the success ful bidder must submit a 100% perfor mance bond and 100% payment bond. The Board of Commissioners will consider awarding the bid to the lowest responsible bidder during the commission meeting of Monday, October 15,2001 beginning at 6:00 p.m. The successful bidder will have until March 31,2002 to complete this project or face $100 per calendar day in liquidated damages. The terms and time of payment will be monthly. The Lee County Board of Commissioners reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids received and/or disregard informalities or irregularities in the bids received. 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, and 10/4 Twin Oaks Students Of The Week are Parker McPherson, Alex Rathel and Nicholas Barry. Parker McPherson is an eight year old third grader. She is the daughter of Mike and Tracy McPherson. Alex Rathel is a nine year old fourth grader. Her parents are Lisa and Joe Rathel. Nicholas Barry is a ten year old fifth grader. Nicholas’s parents are Kathryn and Tony Hanson and Karl and Deloris Barry. Lee County Middle School Seventh Grade Students of the Week for the Week of September 10-14 pictured on the front row are Patrick Kimbrough and Courtney Crawford. Pictured on the back row are Alex Russell and Briana Whitting 5im pfy Discontinues (SAs) Breakfast We will no longer be able to serve breakfast but we want to thank so many of our customers who supported us. We appreciate your patronage and sincerely hope this causes no inconvenience. 1588-B Highway 19S 446-0655 City of Smithville City of Smithville is accepting applications for full time police officer. Must be P.O.S.T. certified. Contact Chief Causey at 846-2101 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ATTENTION LEE COUNTY CITIZENS The gate across the road that used to go to Burke’s Ferry has been removed by temporary restraining order. This road has been abandoned by the county for almost 40 years. This is known by the people who live in the area. Anyone that is concerned about the treatment of Lee County citizens and taxpayers in this situation should contact their commissioner and voice their opin ion. What is happening to the landowner in this situation can and may happen to you!!! Wake up Lee County and know the truth. Paid for by Lee County citizens who know that this has not been handled fairly by our local government. Lee County Elementary School Students of the Week are Chelsea Miliner, Kaylon Allan, Jonathan Braxton and Robert Sumners. Chelsea Miliner is an eight year old third grader. Her parents are Kathy Boyett and Raddie Miliner. Kaylon Allan is a nine year old fourth grader. Kaylon’s mother is Marie Allan. Jonathan Braxton is an 11 year old fifth grader. His parents are Ed and Wanda Braxton. Robert Sumners is an eleven year old sixth grader. He is the son of Mary and Timothy Sumners. Lee County Participates in Human Services Task Force The Southwest Georgia Re gional Development Center has established a Human Services Task Force. Human Service Agencies from fourteen counties in Region 10 (Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Tho mas, Worth) have assembled to address and evaluate successful human service programs. The Task Force was designed to evaluate and replicate success ful human services initiatives throughout the region. The RDC has played a pivotal role in es tablishing the committee, gather ing information, and facilitating the meetings. Many social ser vice agencies, business leaders, and faith-based organizations within the region have partici pated in this project. The Task Force will make rec ommendations to the Regional Agenda. The final product will be used in future planning for the Southwest Georgia region. This is a six-month project. The first phase of the project began in June 2001, with surveys being distributed throughout the re gion. It is important that agencies providing human services be rep resented. If your organization, group or church has not received a survey, please call the RDC to day at (229) 522-3552 or Email us at: swgrdc@surfsouth.com or contact Lee County's represen tative: Julie Barnette, LeeFocus @ (229) 759-3286. LEE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING JERRY MELTON, APPLICANT (Z01-020) has sub mitted a petition to the Lee County/Leesburg/ Smithville Planning Commission requesting a Conditional Use of property to allow a one time split of property to allow a single family residence, Property is located on highway 32 West, Leesburg, Georgia. JERRY SEYMOUR, APPLICANT (Z01-021) has submitted a petition to the Lee County/Lees- burg/Smithville Planning Commission request ing a Conditional Use of property to construct mini-warehouses. Property is located at the corner of Cookville Road and Hwy 82, Lees burg, Georgia. Exact legal descriptions of the above amend ments are on file at the Lee County Planning Commission Office, 108 Leslie Highway, and may be reviewed along with any other infor mation regarding these requests between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lee County/ Leesburg/Smithville Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on these requests at its regular meeting on Tuesday September 25 at 7:00 PM in the Administration Building as sembly room in Leesburg, Georgia. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lee County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on these cases, at its workshop meet ing on Monday October 1, 2001 at 6:00 P.M. in the Administration Building assembly room in Leesburg, Georgia, Meetings of the Planning Commission and the County Commission are open to the public. NOTE: Georgia Law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to any member of the Board of Commissioners/City Council in excess of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) within two (2) years immediately preceding the filing of this request, who desire to appear at the public hearing in opposition or support of the application, shall, at least five (5) days prior to the public hearing, file a campaign contribution report with the Lee County/Leesburg/Smithville Planning Commis sion. As set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992, the Lee County/City of Leesburg/ City of Smithville Governments do not discrimi nate on the basis of disability, and will assist citizens with special needs given proper notice of seven (7) working days. The meeting rooms and buildings are handicap accessible. For information, please call (229) 759-6037. Sept. 20 and 27