A few weeks after county officials approved a similar measure, the McDonough City Council agreed officially to step up with its share of the cost for a permanent traffic signal at McDonough Parkway and Highway 20/81.
The signal was intended to be temporary, installed by the Georgia Department of Transportation as part of its McDonough Parkway expansion project, but the state agency agreed to leave it if the county and city agreed to pay the costs of the installation. The Henry County Board of Commissioners officially approved its end of the bargain last month. The intergovernmental agreement approved at the City Council’s Sept. 6 workshop meeting calls for the city to contribute $50,000 toward the cost of the signal, and that money will come from the city’s SPLOST funds.
The vote was 6-0 with one council member absent from the meeting.
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