Business View Magazine | November 2019

328 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 www.tcgeng.com Engineering | Management | Constructors 1305 Mall of Georgia Blvd., Suite 160, Buford, GA 30519 678-214-4070 Proudly serving the city of Warner Robins Utilities Department since 2010 economic stability for Warner Robins that has benefited the entire Middle Georgia community. The City of Warner Robins has a population of approximately 75,000 and is growing rapidly. According to Mayor Randy Toms, some of that growth is organic as investments in commercial entities such as retail establishments and restaurants continue to follow state and local investments into the area’s road and highway infrastructure. “A four-lane state highway runs through our town and with that comes huge amounts of growth,” says Toms. Growth also comes from the continuing operations at the Air Force Base. “We have a big civilian population that works there,” he adds. “And they recently launched an initiative to hire 1,200 new jobs in 12 months. So, we’re building more houses than at any other time in our existence.” More growth comes from annexation of areas just outside the city limits - places where Warner Robins provides water, sewer, and natural gas services. “As we grow, we provide services outside of our city so that when they become contiguous, there are contracts where they annex in,” Toms explains. “That provides a lot of growth for us, as well. For example, we’re looking at a bond project to increase our infrastructure out around Highway 96 to provide for the growth that’s coming into that area. The infrastructure there is not sufficient to handle the growth that we’re seeing, right now. We own natural gas here and we also own part of another natural gas company, so we make money off of our natural gas, and we always encourage the use of that with people coming in. They need our services and we want to include them into our city structure.” Warner Robins is also working to redevelop certain areas of town that have suffered from neglect, with an infusion of over $34 million into Parks and Recreation Department projects - both to provide amenities for its citizens, as well as to attract new families and businesses to town. The city’s Parks and Recreation Director, Jarred Reneau, remarks, “With Robins Air Force Base, we have a lot of families coming into the area and one of the things they always ask is, ‘What’s going on