The Mayor and Commission of Athens-Clarke County convened on July 15, 2025, for a special called session followed by the regularly scheduled agenda setting session. The special called session addressed the school resource officer agreement, appointment of temporary acting clerks of commission, the Sanford Stadium Sanitary Sewer Interceptor Improvement Project, and the appointment of a new county manager. The agenda setting session featured a presentation from the TSPLOST 2026 advisory committee, numerous planning and zoning items, and discussion of consent agenda items.
Several items were removed for discussion:
Good to see everyone. So members of the public. Welcome to fiscal year 2026 here from the unified government of Athens Clark County. We are gathered for a couple of meetings this evening. We'll have a special called session with just a few items. And then following that, we'll have our regularly scheduled agenda setting session. And it'll include a very brief presentation, much like our work sessions often comprise from the SPLOSS 2026 advisory committee. Davenport? Here. Link here. Taylor. Here. Right. President Fisher. Here. Johnson here. Paul Pepper? Here. Myers. Here. Thornton. Here. And these. Here. We have a quorum. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. We'll begin with our civility pledge provided to us by the Georgia Municipal Association. And that indicates that the way we govern ourselves is often as important as the positions that we take, that our collective decisions will be better when differing views have had the opportunity to be fully vetted and considered. That all people have the right to be treated with respect, courtesy, and openness, that we value all input and we commit to conduct ourselves at all times with civility and courtesy to each other. So we have several items that are on the special called session tonight. So moved. Second. All right, I've got a motion from Commissioner Taylor and a second from Commissioner Fisher. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, motion carries. All right. Now we do have an opportunity for public input on the special called session. Public input will be primarily in the same form throughout the evening. Members of the public have a three-minute opportunity to address the mayor and commission on items that are specifically on the agenda. If you would like to provide public input, you'll see a light in front of the clerk. It will turn green when you begin speaking, yellow when you have 30 seconds remaining, and red when your three minutes is concluded. And I'll thank you for your time with us tonight. So uh at this point, is there any member of the public who would like to speak to uh any of the uh four items on the special called session agenda? All right, seeing none, we'll come to commission action. Uh first item is an old business item, and this was previously discussed in spring, and this is the school resource officer agreement for 2025-2026 between the Athens Clark County Police Department and the Clark County School District. And so at this time I'd entertain a motion from a member of the body.