The Cobb County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 12 approved multiple Department of Transportation items including drainage repairs, design task orders and rankings for engineering services.

Drew Esler, county DOT manager, presented eight items on the DOT tab including contracts for Ling Drive drainage repairs, Coventry Point drainage, Venice replacement repairs, preliminary engineering for Barrett Parkway corridor signal improvements, ranking and negotiations for Noonday Creek Trail Extension design, and sidewalk engineering for Spring Hill Parkway. Motions to approve the contracts and task orders carried by recorded voice votes, typically 4–0 with Chair Cupid absent.

One agenda line drew attention because of an anomalous dollar figure printed in the packet: a contract with Backbone Infrastructure LLC for East West Connector at Fontaine Road / Cooper Lake Road (project B2308) was listed with an "amount not to exceed $100,006,063,693 dollars" in the agenda text. That figure was approved on the motion record as carried 4–0; staff indicated the packet would be corrected as necessary. The number is recorded here as stated in the meeting packet; the board did not resolve the discrepancy on the record during the Nov. 12 meeting.

Commissioners noted that projects like the Barrett Parkway signal work and the Noonday Creek Trail design will proceed to negotiation and subsequent contract approval with final scopes and budgets to be returned to the board.

Next steps: DOT will proceed with contract execution for items already negotiated, and staff will correct any typographical errors in the published agenda packet and return with negotiated contracts where required.