Dadeville council continues to fret over courthouse square project bill

One month after it came up in executive session, the Dadeville City Council is still waiting on the final bill for the courthouse square renovation project, determining which local government pays what and whether the City of Dadeville faces litigation from the contractor.

The improvement project, which renovated the city square into a one-way roundabout bisected by State Highway 49, was ostensibly finished over a year ago but the city and contractor Gillespie Construction have yet to declare it complete due to a dispute over the final amount owed for additional works. The original contract approved in 2019 was $1.45 million, though at the time city engineers warned the price may have been too good to be true.