FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — At Wednesday’s Fulton County Commission meeting, a five-month extension to a contract for maintaining jail facilities at its three jail locations.
Those jail facilities, the Fulton County Jail, Jail South Annex in Union City, and the Fulton County North Annex Jail in Alpharetta, all have the same contracted company for work on their HVAC systems and other needs.
According to the agenda item from the commissioners’ meeting, had they not approved nearly $3 million to extend the contract through the end of June, “the County does not have the internal resource capacity, or the expertise, to perform” the work on its own.
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“The contract requires preventive and corrective services for all building systems including, but not limited to, all HVAC, door & locking controls, plumbing, electrical, generators, building envelope, kitchen equipment, laundry equipment, and perimeter fencing/gates. laundry equipment,” the county reported. “On average, 1,600 corrective maintenance work requests are submitted and completed each month across all three (3) jail facilities.”
Those numbers would put the overall number of repairs for Fulton County jail facilities at more than 19,000 per year.
At the commission meeting, the vote to approve the extension for Atlanta-based Johnson Controls, Inc. was approved without discussion or any votes against it, with a 5-0 vote in favor.
That means the county will pay Johnson Controls $2.81 million to continue its maintenance activities at all three jails while the county works on a longer-term maintenance contract to begin July 1.
It’s also the third such extension to the contract with Johnson Controls, according to county records.
The company previously received a 60-day extension on Jan. 1, 2024 and a 30-day extension on Jan. 1, 2025.
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