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A $3.1 million plan to replace airport roadway lights
The proposed addition would bring an existing electrical-services contract to as much as $7.11 million. Committee consideration is scheduled for Nov. 9.
A roadway-lighting replacement project at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport would receive up to $3,124,346 under a proposal before Atlanta’s Transportation Committee. The Department of Aviation says the work would span multiple fiscal years.[1]
The proposed ordinance would add the money to Brooks-Berry-Haynie & Associates’ existing landside electrical on-call agreement through a second amendment. Payment would come from the Airport Renewal and Extension Fund.[1]
The request is larger than the original $2.73 million, three-year contract awarded in 2024. A separate $1.26 million capital addition for special lighting projects followed in 2025, according to the ordinance. Together, those amounts and the proposed amendment would put authorized funding at up to $7,114,346—not a measure of actual spending.[1]
Which roads would receive replacement lights, and when, are not specified in the three-page ordinance. It describes a multiyear project without a construction timetable.[1]
Ordinance 26-O-1658 is listed for first reading at the committee’s Nov. 9 meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. in City Hall’s Larry M. Dingle Committee Room, 55 Trinity Avenue. The meeting agenda allows three minutes for public comment. The packet lists both committee and full-council consideration as pending; it does not establish approval of the funding.[1][2]
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