At last week's Fulton County Board of Commissioners' meeting at the county government center in downtown Atlanta, the group again took on the renewal of a Sept. 7 contract to provide transportation for 2,000 seniors and 200 developmentally disabled residents.

Click here for Senior Staff Writer Noreen Lewis Cochran's article on the meeting, which in part states:

The contract, which received a 3-3 vote at its Jan. 18 meeting, was approved 5-1 Wednesday, with Chairman John Eaves opposed. District 4 Commissioner Tom Lowe was away from the bench.

Eaves said he wanted the $3.3 million contract with Fairfield, Calif.-based MV Transportation Inc., which buys about $570,000 in fuel from Duluth-based Banneker Energy’s Sandy Springs location, held while the county board of ethics reviewed a complaint he filed.

At issue was the employment by the contractor, formerly called California MediVan, of an employee who gave the county two weeks notice to join the contractor as a general manager.

District 5 Commissioner Emma Darnell said although county policy dictates a one-year moratorium before such action, the contractor asked the county “at least four times” if the action was acceptable.

District 2 Commissioner Robb Pitts supported extending the contract, which had been continued on a contingency basis after expiring Jan. 18, while the ethics board decides the question.

“The contract is before us,” he said.

The contractor provides transportation to facilities like the Dorothy C. Benson Senior Multipurpose Complex in Sandy Springs.

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