(2026) 11-10 City Council Meeting

The City of Monroe City Council meeting was held November 10, 2026. Council approved several major procurement and capital items. It awarded the Jack’s Creek wastewater treatment plant construction contract to Lakeshore Engineering for $59,997,863.28 and related construction oversight services to Weideman and Singleton for $2,422,820. Council also approved a $278,200 engineering and construction management award to Southern Cathodic for the federally funded natural-gas main replacement project, supported by a grant of more than $1.9 million with no city match. Other approved spending included two police Mustangs for $144,867, funded through $145,000 received from HSI, and acceptance of $37,300 from GDOT for right-of-way and easement acquisition near the Highway 138 bridge. The city reported closing wastewater-treatment-plant bonds that morning; an upcoming traffic-signal project at Highways 11 and 78 is out to bid, and bids for Alcovy River Park construction are expected in about a month to six weeks.

Council approved the health-insurance renewal recommendation, retaining Cisco as third-party administrator and selecting Sun Life for stop-loss coverage, with an estimated next-year outlay of $4,613,492. The city also chose to retain Delta Dental rather than switch to Guardian, citing provider-network and transition concerns despite approximately $8,000 in potential savings. In other project updates, the city described ongoing street, park, stormwater, and downtown improvements, including a new solid-waste side-loader and planned electric-vehicle charging stations. The city administrator said negotiations with the hotel group selected after an RFQ had stalled and that the city would set a deadline before considering reissuing the process. Motions approving the listed awards and renewals passed; the environmental-variance hearing for 432 Springdale Road was tabled until the next month.