New Cobb Medical Examiner’s lab receives first funding

Cobb County will build a new Medical Examiner’s laboratory facility.

For the first phase of funding, a contract for professional design services was approved 5-0 Tuesday by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.

Pieper O’Brien Herr Architects Inc. will be paid $156,427.

This project was approved by Cobb voters as a 2016 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax project.

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