Stockbridge city employees are getting paid to get the shot.
The City Council approved a vaccine incentive plan using a portion of funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a federal program that allocated $350 million for state and local governments to be used for initiatives related to COVID-19.
The vote at the council’s February 14 regular meeting approved a multi-tiered program that will pay $1,000 to employees who were fully vaccinated with a booster by the start of 2022. Payments of $500 will go to those who have two vaccine shots or have them by April 1, and $250 per employee is set aside for anyone with one shot.
In other business, the council approved $3 million from a police bond along with $852,437 in SPLOST money and $99,088 in ARPA funds for the renovation of the first floor and buildout of the unoccupied second floor of the building that most recently housed the Henry County Police Department’s north precinct and was formerly Stockbridge City Hall.
The building will need to be fully furnished, for which the council approved a separate action regarding the purchase of $227,004 in furniture under a state contract. Also approved was the $102,355 acquisition of software and service for a comprehensive records/report management and computer-automated dispatch system.
The council voted to approve a $1,738,673 contract for the city’s annual road and resurfacing program. According to a city staff report, the work consists of leveling, milling, patching and resurfacing portions of more than a dozen streets totaling approximately 5.05 miles of road, as well as the wastewater treatment plant parking lot.
The council also approved the allocation of $66,100 for a capacity review of the wastewater treatment plan.
Several appointments were confirmed and announced at the meeting. DeRitha Barber is the city’s representative on the Council on Aging, and Calandra Dallas was named to the Ethics Board.
Roger Custin and Robert Swygert have been tapped for the board of the Downtown Development Authority.
The council liaison to the Main Street Advisory Board is Mayor Pro Tem Alphonso Thomas. Council member Elton Alexander will fill that role with the Downtown Development Authority.
