The special call meeting for the Clayton County Board of Commissioners.

Our SPLOSS meeting is now called to order.

The date is August 8th, 2025, and the time is 9 o'clock AM.

We will next move into our roll call, District 1, District 3, District 2 and District 4.

Thank you.

All right.

Next, we will go into our uh we don't have an invocation, but we will go into the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag.

Will you please stand for the pledge?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

All right.

At this time I need a motion to adopt the agenda.

So move.

Alright, can I get a second?

Second.

All right.

Is there any discussion at this time, board members?

All right.

Are you ready for the vote?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Any abstentions?

The ayes have it.

And the motion passes.

I also want to thank as we go into before we start public comment today.

Um Tahijah, can we get the sheet for public comment?

Um I just want to thank our mayors for coming out.

I have Mayor Flew Allen from Lovejoy.

You could just wave and um and give her a round of applause.

And Mayor Dotson from Lake City.

Let's give them a round of applause.

Are any of our other mayors here?

I just want to thank the mayors too.

Um they have been a part of this SPLOS process, and we are all working together.

Um we're not only just dealing with SLOS, but moving Clayton County from tier one to tier two with our tier two task force, which we we're gonna probably be doing some um talking on that, and everybody also we have our GDOT summit that's gonna be coming up too.

So please come out.

We're gonna be talking about transportation in our community and things of that nature.

So thank you all.

All right.

Next will be public comment, and I'll get to heal.

You can go um with the public comment.

Citizens will be given a three-minute uh maximum time limit to speak before the board of commissioners.

Please note that all public comments must be limited to the matters on the agenda or over matters which the governing body has jurisdiction.

Speakers must maintain the course of demeanor and refrain from personal attacks upon board members shouting and up using obscene language.

Following 30 minutes of hearing from the public, the board of commissioners will allow the remainder of citizens who have signed up to be heard at the next Tuesday business meeting.

Citizens, please speak clearly when stating your name and residence.

Thank you.

All right.

Next for public comment, our first person is Orlando Gooden.

Orlando Gooden District 3.

I'm gonna be brief.

As far as the splosh is concerned, I've heard several presentations over the last two months about priorities, what you want to do with it.

But my question is, what input do you take into consideration from the public?

This is stuff that you decide is important, but that may not be the public's priorities.

So I know during public comments, you're not required to respond.

But what fascinates me, you're elected with officials, so you should respond to the public's requests, needs, opinions, or desires.

So when you do this vote for splosh, is anybody taking consideration what we consider a priority?

I mean, funding million dollar sports complexes, it's not a priority for tier one county.

I know it's not part of the splosh, but I just heard some idiotic things being presented during the last two months on splash projects.