The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission held their monthly voting meeting on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, beginning in the evening. The meeting covered a consent calendar, four planning and zoning items, and a lengthy old and new business agenda. Public input was extensive on several topics, including the proposed rezoning of Old Elberton Road, relocation of Fire Station 5, and a water crisis at the Pinewoods community. Key decisions included unanimous denial of the Old Elberton Road rezoning, approval of a conditional purchase for Fire Station 5 after a substitute motion, and advancement of multiple affordable housing projects.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. It's good to have you here. The date is Tuesday, October seventh, twenty twenty-five, and we're gathered for the monthly voting meeting of the Athens Clark County Mayor and Commission. We're going to go ahead and begin with a roll call. All in favor, please say aye. Are there any opposed? All right, hearing none motion carries, and those are now in the record. We'll have an opportunity on the consent agenda. We'll have an opportunity on old and new business. We'll have an opportunity on each of the planning and zoning items separately, and then an opportunity at the conclusion of the meeting. That opportunity at the conclusion of the meeting is for any item that's not on tonight's agenda. So that's our open mic night here for you in City Hall. Um, public input is limited to three minutes, and there is a clock in front of the clerk. You are gonna see it turn green when you begin speaking, yellow when you have 30 seconds remaining, and red when your three minutes has concluded, and we will thank you for your time with us tonight because we got to move on to somebody else. The only exception to the three-minute opportunity is that there is a 10-minute opportunity that individuals could sign up for in advance on each of the planning and zoning items, and we do have one individual regarding old Alberton Road who signed up for that 10-minute slot. Before we move to any public input on the consent agenda, I do need to turn to the commission. Would any commissioner like to remove an item from consent to discussion? Did a great job building out the consent agenda when Commissioner Fisher was here in my stead. I appreciate that work. All right. Um I do need to ask the attorney are there any ordinances that we need to read as part of the consent agenda. There are ordinances for items one, two, and three. Item one, an ordinance to amend the FY 2026 operating capital budget for Athens Clark County, Georgia, so as to provide grant funding if awarded from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, recreational trails program for expenses related to recreational trails at Southeast Clark Park and for other purposes. Item number two in ordinance to amend the FY 2026 operating capital budget for Athens Park County, Georgia, so as to provide funding for operating expenses related to a leaf and limb frequency increase and for other purposes. Item number three, in order to amend the FY 2026 operating capital budget for Athens Clark County, Georgia, so as to provide grant funding if awarded from the George Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program Grant for expenses related to the implementation of the Memorial Park Master Plan and for other purposes. Would anybody like to speak to any of the consent agenda items? Those are items one through 17. Is anybody moved by any of those items one through 17? Gonna give you a couple of seconds for the spirit to rise up. If you would like to speak to any of those items one through 17, step on up to the mic, provide to us your name, place of residence, and the item to which you're speaking. Good evening. I'm doing the right thing here. Hey, Linda and Sean Wood with SNJ Roadside Service. We were talking on item number eight. Okay. Am I doing the right thing now? Okay. We are um we're actually appealing the heavy the heavy wrecker part of it. Um we have applied for the contract. We've we were approved with everything, and they put us as second in line. And um we're asking that we could be put on a true rotation. Um we have heavy equipment, we have rescue trucks, we have everything we need to actually to do the job and get it done. We have a lot that's seven acres. We have enough room to do to put the tractor trailers. We don't have to use outside sources to do so. Um, and we're just asking, and all of our guys are recmaster certified. We've done all the training, we've got everything we need to to get it. We're just asking if if you guys would approve it. For us to be on a true rotation. Thank you, Miss Wood.