The Clayton County Board of Commissioners held a work session on July 14, 2026, at 5:30 PM to discuss multiple agenda items, including a five-year strategic plan for Develop Clayton, a MARTA BRT update, code enforcement improvements, building and maintenance department assessment, a renaming policy, and the county pension fund. The meeting lasted until approximately 8:15 PM. Agenda item #7 (Update on Crisis Behavioral Center) was removed pending further clarification on partnership and funding.
It's not on good evening, everyone. The Clayton County, or this afternoon, the Clayton County Board of Commissioners work session is now called to order. The time is 5 30 p.m. And the date is July 14, 2026. Board members, are there any preliminary items from the July 21st, 2026 uh regular business meeting that you'd like to discuss um at this time today? All right, well, moving right along, we'll move on to our agenda items. But I didn't see the director here to address it. Which item would you like to um pull on uh Commissioner Reeves? Oh, I'm not pulling anything, I just had a I just had a time to pull to discuss at this time. Well, this is just the first time I'm getting a chance to look at this. So uh so far I have a question about 15 and 17 and director GK is not present. Can you um can um CO can you come up for 15 in regards to more to the moratorium? What were your questions, Commissioner? So are the these look like these are two separate resolutions for extensions of the gas station moratorium, but when I introduced the uh original moratorium on gas stations, it was gas stations, laundromats, uh, vape shops, but I only see gas stations listed here, uh, or gas stations and convenience stores, but also it's two separate agenda items. So, Commissioner, I don't know if this is just a typo that it should be only one. Um both are dealing with moratoriums. And I'm trying to recall our discussion in in our um in our operational review. But what we can do because we have an agenda meeting tomorrow at at two o'clock, um, what are the clarifying questions that we have? We can certainly address that at the work session if that's appropriate. Can you repeat that again? If you want us to address one of the questions you have at the works at the agenda meeting tomorrow before we put it on the adoption for next Tuesday, we certainly can address those questions at that time. Sounds good, thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Any other questions at this time, board members and on or any of the preliminary items from the July 21st board meeting? All right, seeing none, we'll move on to our agenda items. Um also I just wanted to uh make everybody aware that item number seven board members, the update on the crisis behavior center is going to be taken off for this meeting. And uh COO Stanford will direct us on. Are you gonna add it back in a later time? Yes, ma'am. Uh Madam Chair, so the reason why that was being pulled, two things that the board asks us to get clarity on as pertains to uh potentially partnering with the state is to one to figure out who we're entering into the agreement with. Is it viewpoint health or is it with the state? And more importantly, uh, what is the exact balance that we have on SPLOS now that the county is willing to allocate to that, and more importantly, what's the state to give us a return on investment if we get that seven million dollars? Okay, okay. All right, thank you. All right, next um we will move to item number one, and that will be for the five-year strategic plan from uh develop Clayton. And so come come on up, Mr. Mandela Jones, and let's get ready to hear about this five-year strategic plan. Thank you. All right, good afternoon, board. Thank you for your time. Thank you. First off, uh, I requested this opportunity for a couple of reasons. One, and primarily I want you to understand develop Clayton, where we're going, how we're supporting Clayton County from a housing perspective, and how we know we will be able to advance Clayton County from a housing perspective. Um I'll start by saying my board is here, at least three of the five members, three three of the four members of my board is here, so I want to thank them for their support. Um I want you all to know my board has invested quite a bit of time in understanding Clayton County from a housing perspective, understanding where the gaps are and how we can contribute to filling those gaps. Gotcha. So I I want you all to understand that. Uh I know the name change, develop Clayton. You will formally update the uh public analysis.