Good morning, everybody.

Excuse me, and welcome to the committee of the whole meeting.

Today is April 21st, 2026.

I am your presiding officer in District 4, Commissioner Shaira Johnson, so we will call this meeting to order.

Um I do want to take a point of privilege and congratulate Dr.

Ladina Bolton and Lavisa Sanders Johnson on their amazing second place finish at Dancing with the Cab Stars on Saturday night.

If you guys did not see it, it was an amazing performance.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Madam P.O.

All right.

You're welcome.

We will move right into the agenda.

We'll start with committee reports.

Um, Commissioner Robert Patrick, are you ready?

Uh yes, ready to go.

Thank you.

Hey, I'm uh Commissioner Robert Patrick, uh serve as the chair of public works and infrastructure, effectually known as the greatest show on earth.

Uh we had a total of seven items last at our last meeting.

Um, and we covered uh some other topics as well.

Um of the things that we discussed was uh a contract that unclogs sewer uh manholes and residential sewer lines throughout the county.

Of course, that's something that people find very important, making sure that the sewer system works.

Uh, we also had an opportunity to talk a little bit about uh our CIP update.

Um, and um this afternoon we have a very interesting conversation coming up, including um ways to fund uh bus rapid transit and other transit um obligations for the county.

We also have some very large ticket items, so I hope you'll tune in and we'll uh see you then.

Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

Commissioner Marita Davis Johnson with Ops.

Uh good morning everyone.

I am Marita Davis Johnson and I chair the county operations committee, also known as the ops committee.

My colleagues who sat on that committee with me are Commissioner Robert Patrick and Commissioner Ladina Bolton, the greatest dancer ever.

The ops committee met on Tuesday, uh April the 14th, where committee members were joined by Commissioner Ted Terry and Commissioner Long Spears.

During that meeting, uh we continued our discussion on the Board of Commission standing procedure rules, starting with um commissioner speaking time.

Yeah, starting with the commissioner's speaking time.

The committee supported the amendment to reduce commissioner speaking time at the BOC and committee of the whole meetings to a total of eight minutes uh per commission discussion.

The committee uh discussed the ability of the committee chair to hold an item from a content uh committee agenda, and it was suggested that there be a special call meeting to discuss the items that are held from agenda.

However, there was no concrete recommendation made during that discussion.

We moved on to discuss unanimous consent in regard to members of the board and an items to the agenda when necessary rather than urgent, needing a two to three majority vote.

The ops committee met for a special call meeting again on third, well, not again, but a special call meeting on Thursday, April the 16th, where all committee members were present and virtually joined by Commissioner Ted Terry.

The committee continued the discussion of the charter review committee uh continuing with section two, which led which lists voters districts from the care um the CAP voter registration and elections director Keisha Smith uh joined us and advised us that the precinct boundaries and locations are handled at the state level.

The uh committee members agreed to leave this section as is already written as a local referendum at the as a local reference as the count at the county level.

Age requirement to run for office is also mentioned in section two.

The law department is looking into the reasoning why state law requires no less than 21 years of age and how to cab county initially decided on 25 years of age, but a discussion with um since this meeting with Keisha stated that uh the cab county requirement was also 21 years of age.

The committee did agree that an individual running for office in the CAB County should be a registered voter to qualify.

This conversation was held to be discussed with section two portion of age eligibility.

We briefly discussed section six of the charter.

The ops committee will be held again this afternoon at 1 p.m.

Be sure to turn in.

Tune in live or on DC TV.

Thank you, and I yield back.

Thank you.

Commissioner Lendina Bolton for ERPS.

Good morning, everyone.

I am Ladina Bolton.

I am your Super District 7 Commissioner as well as Deputy Presiding Officer and Chair of Employee Relations and Public Safety.

Serving on that committee with me are also District 3 Commissioner Nicole Messiah, District 5 Commissioner Marita Davis Johnson.

Our last meeting was March 26th.

At that time, we did go ahead and approve of the minutes for the March 17th meeting that was held in committee.

Item 20260563.

This was approved, and it was um the fire rescue fire rescue training at 3211 Glenwood Road and 1816 Kenler Road.

For those of you that didn't catch that meeting, this was an opportunity to make some upgrades to the training campus or a study to determine an upgrades to a training campus.

2026 0572.

This item was also approved, but these were first responder kits for the kids program.

Also approved item 2026 0580.

This also impacted all commission districts, and these were kitty smoke alarm donations.

And I talked about how the fire department did an amazing job installing some into my home recently.

So make sure you guys sign up to get them in yours.

Item 20260596 out of district two.

This was an ordinance to regulate the restraint and transportation of animals and for other purposes.

We hadn't had an opportunity to thoroughly discuss this, so it was deferred until uh the today's uh BLC excuse me ERPS meeting.

We didn't get a chance to get to our committee goals either, so we're gonna discuss those today as well.

And with that, I yield back.

Thank you, Madam PO.

Thank you.

Commissioner Nicole Masaya for PECS.

Thank you so much, Madam PO.

Uh, good morning to all.

I am Commissioner Colmesia, the honor to serve as the chair of PECS alongside committee members.

Commissioner Robert Patrick from District 1, Commissioner Long Spears from District 2.

Our last regularly scheduled meeting was held on April 14th.

Those in attendance were myself, Commissioner Patrick, Commissioner Long Spears, as well as we were joined by Commissioner Terry.

We had a brief um agenda based on the printed items, but a very engaging and robust dialogue.

There were six items that were printed on the agenda.

Three of those items are recommended for approval, three of which were deferred all due back to the board of commissioners on 428-2026.

As shared in our last PECS meeting, we will continue the discussion in uh and even more my understanding is this morning around data centers and the text amendments.

We further acknowledge all of the work and um diligence that our planning sustainability department has put in in addressing um this agenda item, an important issue that spans not just throughout the CAB, but throughout the state and throughout the nation.

We will make certain that our concerns that are shared by our constituents are reflected and that we have the necessary protections in place first and foremost before we do anything else.

With that, my um committee report uh concludes.

Um the next PEX meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 28th at 3 30.

Thank you so much, Madam P.

I'll yield back to you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Terry for our um fab committee report.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you, madam chair.

Good morning, everyone.

The FAB committee met on Tuesday, April 14th.

Uh joined by myself, Commissioner Johnson, Mr.

Long Spears, Commissioner Patrick.

Um, we did uh spend most of our time on updates.

Uh Director Siegler uh presented the updates on the CIP, uh which um is planned to be a five-year plan uh uh process.

And there uh were some questions uh regarding the who makes up the CIP committee as well as just um the next steps before narrowing down um the plan.

Um so we'll look forward to uh receiving that Zach once um it's ready for committee discussion.

Uh we did we did discuss the uh possibility of each committee of jurisdiction reviewing the various departments under their uh purview um and those relevant CIP proposals.

Um so just a heads up on that for each committee chair.

Um we uh did ask for the administration to um share back um all of the priorities that the board of commissioners put forward and just to make sure that they're completely up up to date.

And so um if there were commissioner requests uh and there may have been some you know updates or some changes since the the fall, uh please make sure that Zach and TJ have those um so they can factor them into their um the recommendations.

Um Director McNabb did go over the water billing status updates.

Um so there were some um spreadsheets that I won't get into on the report, but um did provide some very relevant information for anyone following the water bills um current uh bills that are due, as well as uh bills that are no longer on our books, um or they're not they're still in our books, but they're not being um uh banked on, if you will, uh for collection.

Uh we did discuss the condo complexes um as well as the inactive Emory accounts, um which we hope will be a resolution on soon, and um and some other uh updates from the Urban League of Greater Atlanta, and so we'll continue to have them uh come before the committee for regular updates as they they roll out more of the programs.

I believe the next one, Zach, they're looking at is the the debt amnesty program.

Um so we'll hopefully get a report back uh the next um available committee meeting on that um particular issue.

And then we didn't have time to discuss uh deeper into the condominium complexes, water billing debt, or the um the resolution for the water customer bill of rights um or the uh de cab for the people AI Tech Dividend Fund and Fiscal Stability Policy, but we will get to that at the next committee.

I yield back.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Terry.

Um, Commissioner Long Spears is not chair any committees, but if she would like to add some context to her committees, that would be welcome at this time.

Thank you very much.

Uh good morning, everyone.

Hope y'all are enjoying this lovely spring weather.

I have a few updates.

The first pertains to our newly constituted women's commission.

I'm excited to announce that our first meeting is scheduled for May 20th here.

Fantastic.

So the newest update is that um we'll be hosting the meeting here at Sam Street.

I am super excited about it.

Uh thank you, Commissioners, for unanimously supporting it and also making your appointments to the women's commission.

Shout out to our new chief of staff uh for the BOC, Mr.

Lee May, for helping in the background with the appointments and securing the location and just overall preparing to lift up the newly constituted women's commission.

Thank you, Ms.

McKenzie, as always, for helping me last year with organizing it and getting us to where we're at today.

Um you will all receive a formal invitation to attend this event.

We are working on the agenda.

I will certainly share that agenda with my colleagues prior to May 20th, in case you do have any suggestions for it.

Next, I wanted to just make an announcement that we learned last week, and thank you very much to our chief information officer Scott.

Um we learned from our NACO Chief Information Officer, former CIIO for DeCab County, John Metelski, that the federal government has given us an all government, local government, an extension of one year for ADA compliance on our website.

So I hope that gives you guys a little bit more wiggle room to make the changes to your own website.

And I can only imagine that the CABS IT team is super happy to have some flexibility with that.

Um my third comment relates to a suggestion that I sent to my colleagues.

Um at the last meeting, we did have uh several three, in fact, call call to questions.

And what that basically means is that when you call the question, it terminates debate.

And that's okay.

That's a uh Roberts rule, and we do comply with Robert's rules unless our procedural rules trump Robert's rules.

But right now, the um what we have been using, and I started this last year when I was PO was 10 minutes for your first time to talk and 10 minutes for your second time to talk, and that's it.

So you have two bites at the apple, 10 minutes each, total of 20 minutes.

Well, as my colleagues have acknowledged, I feel strongly and deeply myself, and I'm sure everybody who has to show up in this room and sit here with us every single Tuesday acknowledges is that our meetings have gone incredibly long.

And as Commissioner Davis Johnson mentioned earlier in her presentation, is that we have been considering new rules that once we vote on will be now part of our procedural rules, where your first time to talk or to debate or ask questions or comment or whatever is five minutes.

And then if you request a second time to speak, that is three minutes, totaling eight minutes.

So 20 minutes down to eight minutes.

So commissioners, I suggest that we consider making this change effective immediately and not waiting on the blue book, the changes to the blue book to be finalized and then voted on by this board.

I think that will one help us get through the meetings quicker, two, I believe it will also help us, myself included, get to our point faster and not surround it with all the fluff, say what you need to say and then move on.

And three, just for our own decorum up here.

I think all of us might be a little less aggravated if we don't go on for 20 minutes.

So if y'all want to consider that, I think it might be a good option for our business meeting next Tuesday.

Um it could be something that we could piggyback of the active item right now that's in the ops committee if we defer it.

Okay, I figured you would.

Um or it could be something as simple as I can make a motion at our next business meeting when we start that we uh limit debate to five minutes for your first time and three minutes for your second time, and just have that those rules permeate our entire meeting.

So that's we can it obviously requires I think attorneys, does that require five votes or four votes?

Since it's a change to our procedural rules.

It's five, right?

Okay, it normally requires five, but given the status of the position right now.

Uh huh.

I'm listening carefully to the discussion, and we'll prepare what's appropriate should you elect to do it next week.

We'll make sure you have the right mechanism to consider it.

Okay, fantastic.

All right.

Well, if y'all want to consider that, uh I think it might be a nice compromise for our board, and hopefully we will have more harmonious meetings throughout the year.

Thank you so much.

I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Long Spears.

And to that point, I personally do think we need to have it in the blue book.

And I also personally think we can just govern our own time.

We can talk shorter time without it actually being in an actual rule.

Um it wasn't uh rule until last year, and so prior to that not having actual limits, people were able to govern how much time they spoke and be more succinct in their time.

So I'm open to either, but I do think we need to make it an official um item in the blue book blue book that um the ops committee has been working diligently on.

Go ahead, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Of course, absolutely.

I'm just saying that the blue book right now is still going to the ops committee, and there's a lot more to review.

And I don't know how long that'll take.

Oh, absolutely.

I'm just suggesting we make it immediate by next meeting, and then certainly include it in the blue book moving forward.

Fantastic.

All righty.

Thank you for that.

So now we'll move on to um the review of the proposed executive agenda.

Good morning, Mr.

Williams.

Good morning, Madam Presiding Officer, members of the board.

I'd like to begin the review of the proposed executive agenda for April 28th with um public hearing items.

Um actually singular.

We're gonna have one public hearing item, uh, item 0522, traffic calming petition, post-road pass between Martin Road and Lost Creek Circle East, cost of the county of $15,100.

And then the next item I believe is not a public hearing item, but should go to PWI.

Uh, okay, thank you.

Yes, and this is renewal of master agreement with PATH Foundation Inc.

So get that moved.

Yes, if we can move that.

Next, under proposed appointments.

There are a total of four proposed appointments.

The first item is 0756 to appoint Dr.

Jeremy Cole, PhD to post nine of the Fulton the CAB Hospital Authority.

I believe these are these PEC items.

Yes.

Yes, I believe so.

Yes.

Appoint Mr.

Jerome Edmondson to post three of DeCab County Housing Authority.

PEX.

PECS as well.

PECS as well, please.

Next is 0758, appoint Ms.

Rhonda F.

Briggins, uh jurisdoctorate to post one of the development authority of DeCab County, post one of the residential care facilities for the elderly authority and post one of the private hospital authority.

PECS.

PECS as well.

And the next 0759 appoint Bruce McMillan to post one of the DeCab County Housing Authority.

Absolutely, PECS, yes.

Thank you.

So those items are going to PECS, the four appointments.

Next, under proposed preliminary items.

There are three under the airport.

No cost to the county.

Consent.

Next item is 0663, termination of standardized tea hangar space lease agreement.

With John D.

Mullins, no cost to the county.

Consent.

The next is termination of standardized tea hangar space lease agreement with Rice Angel, no cost to the county.

And so those three items will be on the consent agenda.

Next, under uh CEO's office, uh item 0706, acceptance of $3,259.50 in grant funds from the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, ACCG, Civic Affairs Foundation to fund one executive intern, economic development position through the 26th Georgia County internship programs.

Consent.

Consent.

Next item, um item 0668.

Uh this is uh a fab item, I believe, uh resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of tax anticipation notes for 2026 due sept due December 15, 2026, in the aggregate principal amount of 142 million three hundred thousand dollars.

Bank is unknown at this time for the purpose of attaining and a temporary loan to pay current expenses through the 2026 calendar.

And we'll just take that at the regular meeting right.

This will not be going to Fab.

We will be that's right.

Yeah, we'll be able to do that.

This is the one that's going directly to the regular meeting.

We'll be here with the FA to give you the great link.

Because when does it open again?

Next week.

Next week.

That's that's good good catch.

Uh Mr.

Atkins.

Madam Presiding Officer, just for clarity, the 28th is what we're talking about.

Yes, yes.

Yes, next next regular schedule meeting.

And at that time, you'll also be able to identify whatever the banks are that the bank and terms will be identified during that meeting, and then you will vote on the issuance of the TAN through that bank.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um next item under human services, transfer of funds in the amount of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the general fund to the senior citizens services grant fund.

Uh the PECS items.

So that's PECS.

Next under police services, um five nine two, amend the fiscal year 2026, Metro Atlanta multi-jurisdictional GUI task force heat grant to include county match of $30,194.84 cents.

Next, um 0635, collection and analyzation of pawn secondhand scrap metal recycler offer up and eBay transaction data, multi-year purchasing policy exemption for use by the Department of Police Services to obtain a subscription to Leeds Online Power Plus Investigation System to search for and identify stolen items, potential suspects, and criminal activity patterns awarded to Leeds Online LLC in an amount not to exceed 239,484.96 cents.

Like that in ERPS.

Yes, sir.

Um next under planning and sustainability, item 0633, an application of director of planning and sustainability to modify the 2026-27 zoning slop and land use amendment calendar to reflect the public hearing date change for the board for the July Board of Commissioners zoning meeting from July 23rd to August 13.

You want in PECS PECS?

PECS.

Next under next we have the purchasing and contracting items.

Each of the items have been placed in the appropriate committee.

The first item is ERPS.

Are you good with your item now?

Yes, we're the first is good.

Ops is good.

PECS.

PWI is good.

PWI is good.

PEX, are you good with your contract?

Thank you.

Thank you.

The last item on the bottom of page uh six, item 0602, um, is uh 2026 summer food services program.

This would like this on PECS, or would you like PECS?

Okay.

Um final two items are uh for PWI under watershed management item 0661 agreement for construction and financing of sewer upgrades with Wesley Woods Senior Living Inc.

with a contribution of 591,500 PWI for both and then the last 0662 to PWI is an agreement for the construction and financing of sewer upgrades with related development LLC with a contribution of 922500 dollars PWI and those are my final items and I have nothing further nothing further no it's on here okay good thank you um can we go back to bottom of page three item ending zero six three yes this is um this was changing the calendar date for the um zoning meeting I believe yes and we had discussed that when we were changing our BLC calendar so if everyone's good we'll just go to consent if everyone's okay with that I could just flag something please yes ma'am thank you but can I get an answer on that before we go yes as PET if everyone's fine there's no opposition then I'm consent okay is on consent yes please thank you very much for making that change um I just wanted to point out that the ACCG summer session uh runs from Wednesday to Friday that week so I don't know if you all attend that I've attended it once to support something that Commissioner Davis Johnson did in my first year but those are the polis summer policy meetings that they have so just wanted to point that out to all of you yield back I appreciate that thank you commissioner Davis Johnson and on the consent agenda are you see your mic on and on the consent agenda page uh effectively officer the acceptance of three two five nine five oh fine with consent but if someone could just give us a little detail sure we'll send you something absolutely absolutely appreciate that okay Commissioner Bolton and uh COO I just wanted to confirm for on page seven for item zero six six two is that the name of the company related development yes ma'am yes ma'am I believe so related development LLC it's a district two development off of North Truewood Hills near children's health care all right I yield back yes ma'am any other questions from commissioners all right thank you thank you COO Williams so now we are ready to do the review of the agenda good morning Mr.

May good morning good morning good morning how's everyone doing doing well good good all right here's the review uh we have item 2026 052 public hearing item um 2026 0588 will actually go to PWI it's listed under public hearing but it will go under PWI we have items 2026 0756 0757 0758 0759 these are all appointments but they will go to PEX under the proposed preliminary items we have three items that will go to consent under the airport zero item 2026 0593 0663 and 0664 under the uh CEO's office item 2026 0706 uh under consent but you all will be looking for more information on that item two zero two six zero six six eight um that is the excuse me y'all the uh tax anticipation note uh notes will go to the BLC agenda item under preliminary um item two zero two six zero six three six uh will be uh going to PECS under 20260592 and 0635 both of those will go to ERPS item 2026 0633 um that is the um the planning and sustainability calendar will go to consent now yes okay all right uh moving over to purchasing and contracting items these items uh um this item will go to earps item 2026 uh 0532 um going to ops uh committee we have items 2026 0278 0279 and 0761 purchasing and contracting uh items going to PEX committee zero uh two zero two six zero four zero eight and then we have zero four three two and zero four seven five again those three items going to PETS committee then we have purchasing and contract and going to PWI 2026 0510 0579 0604 0606 0613 067

Those three items going to PETS committee.

Then we have purchasing and contracting going to PWI 2026 0510 0579 0604 0606 0613 0617 and 0627.

All those items will be going to the PWI committee.

Mr.

May.

Yes.

We did have one item um going back to the PECS items.

Okay.

Zero four seven five, kind of top of page five, Madam PEX chair.

Yes.

Um, and so we're gonna ask for that to come um out of PECS to be voted directly on the board.

Gotcha.

And by the board on the 28th.

It is um top of page five is agenda item and again 0475.

Because there's some time sensitivity.

Yes.

So you want to put that under consent?

Do you want consent or you want an individual vote?

If the board, if it's okay with the board, then I'm fine with consent.

Or we can have it at a separate item and have a brief conversation.

We can have a brief convert brief conversation, but uh consent.

Gotcha.

All right.

Well, not consent, but well, under preliminary.

We'll vote on it.

We'll vote on it.

We'll get information.

Yes, we'll get uh and uh let's see, where did I leave off?

I think that was those were PWI um items that I left off of.

Um item uh going to PECS under uh parks rec and culture uh affairs 2026 0602 that will go to the PECS committee.

Okay, uh items uh 2026 0661 and 0662, both of those items will go to PWI.

Correct.

All right, and that is the review.

Okay, all right.

So now we only wanted to do a brief discussion on data centers.

I know in your PECS committee last week, the item came up for discussion.

Um, I'm sorry.

My apologies, y'all.

Second time at this you just wanted to come back.

I just wanted to come back.

I missed you all so much.

Uh then we're gonna go to the uh review of the board of commissioners preliminary agenda.

Okay.

Um we have under uh board of commissioners item 2026 0719.

Uh that is item to record the appointment of Joyce McKibben uh to the DeCab Women's Commission.

Yeah, and that should be all commissioned district.

It is under board of commissioners, but they just have district five consensus stone crest, but it's under the heading of board of commissioners, and listed in the agenda item will be my uh under my point of contact as for the board as well.

Because I had the same thought when I saw it too, ma'am.

We didn't want to go down that route again.

Nope.

All right, board of commissioners, district four.

Uh district four items two zero two six zero six two four zero six two five zero six five seven.

Um these are uh recording the appointments of Stephanie Fleming, uh Melanie Hammett, and Tess Snipes.

Correct.

All right, uh under District 5 Board of Commissioners, item 2026 0717.

Um this is the appointment of Demetrius McCoy as a standing member with voting privileges to the DeCab United Sports Commission as the District 5 representative Demetrius McCoy, all right.

And then we have uh under um super district six board of commissioners, we have uh item 2026 0745 of the appointment of McKenzie Parkins as a commission district six appointee to the DeCab County Environmental Justice and Sustainability Resident Review Group.

All right.

Under preliminary, we have Board of Commissioners, um 2026 0729.

Uh Commissioners, these are some adjustments to the committee areas.

I don't know if we want them to go to the ops committee or under consent.

We are moving two items, two areas uh out of uh the ops committee to one where animal services we're moving to ERPS and then fleet management.

We're moving to PWI.

Uh if you want that to go to committee, that will be fine, and we can discuss that further.

Yeah, just uh bring the first one to the committee.

Okay, 2026 0729 will go to the ops committee.

2026 0729 will go to the ops committee.

2026 0763, uh commission districts all approval of minutes for the April 21st, 2026, Committee of the Whole Meeting.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

Um Board of Commissioners, District 1, 2026, 0746, Commission Districts, District 1 to approve the appropriations for an amount not to exceed 125,000 to the mind of a winner for district one's 2026 management and program support.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

District 2, 2026, 0658.

Um Commission District 2, allocation of $10,000 for District 2 reserved for appropriation to Tucker First United Methodist Church to support their cult, weather shelter, and shower ministry.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

Item 2026 0721.

Uh allocation of $10,000 of District 2 reserved for appropriations to Compassionate Atlanta to support the creature corner at the 2026 Compassion Con.

Is that conference or I think CompassionCon is the name of the name Conference?

Compassion Con.

Okay.

It is, yes.

Consent.

Yes.

Consent.

All right, 2026 0728.

Um an ordinance to amend the code of DeCab County, Georgia, Chapter 5, to regulate the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet shops.

ERPS.

All right, that will go to ERPS.

Okay.

Um District 5.

Item 2026 0718.

An item to appropriate $25,000 from the District 5 Reserve for appropriation account to provide legal aid assistance support to the DeCab Lawyers Association and for other purposes.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 2026 0727 and an item to allocate $100,000 from District 5.

ARP interest account to Decatur Legacy Project for the express purpose of assisting and financing the creation, dedication, and placement of phase two of the memorial to the late John Lewis on county owned property.

Consent.

Consent.

And item 0749, an item to appropriate $50,000 of the District 5 ARP interest accounts to the District 5 beautification mini grant program and for other purposes.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

Super District 6.

Items 2026-0685 to allocate 5,000 from dollars from the 2026 district six reserve for appropriation account to super support NIA's place supervised visitation and exchange center.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 0686 to allocate $5,000 from the 2026 District 6 Reserve for Appropriation Account to support 38 participants in the Amani Women's Sewing Academy initiative.

And Commissioner Terry, you have a sub on this one?

Yes, I thank you, Madam Chair.

I passed out a substitute updating the number, the dollar amount to 10,000 dollars.

To 10,000 dollars.

All right.

Consent.

And still under consent.

Okay.

Item 0743 to appropriate, and this is out of district four and super district six funds to appropriate an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars from the 2026 district six reserve for appropriation to divine Georgia for removal of invasive species at Anderson Family Cemetery.

So point of clarification: the cemeteries in districts four and six, but the funds are only district six.

But consent.

Consent.

All right.

And item 0744, uh, all commission districts, a resolution adjusting all DeCab County tire tip fees to one dollar.

PWI.

That will go to PWI.

Okay.

Clerk to the Board of Commissioner and CE Commissioners and CEO.

Uh items 2026-0643, approval of minutes of the special call meeting of March 26, 2026.

Consent.

Yes, consent.

Item 2026 0688.

Approval of the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting of April 14th, 2026.

Consent.

Consent.

All right, juvenile court.

Uh item 2026-0645.

Approval of the criminal justice coordinating council for $6,159.

An emergency subgrant award accountability court grant.

Consent.

Yeah, and those can be in consent.

Okay.

There's any questions before then we can get those answered.

Okay.

For both of those?

Yes.

For both items.

So the second item is 0648.

Approval of the criminal justice coordinating council for 28,008, another emergency subgrant award accountability court grant.

Both of those items will be under consent.

And we know you can explain.

Okay.

Waiting for more information as well, though.

Yeah, there's at this point, these are I think standard grants.

Um so if there's any questions from commissioners, um please reach out.

Um but if it's no objection, we'll add those sounds good.

Other items to consent as well.

Okay.

Um solicitor state court, uh, item 2026-0695, commission districts, all districts seeking approval to accept the victims of crime act of fiscal year 26 grant award from the prosecuting attorney council of Georgia in the amount of 122,528 dollars.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

And superior court item 2026 0660, commission districts all districts, criminal justice coordinated counsel grant to the DeCab County Adult Felony Drug Court supplemental fundings uh for the amount of sixteen thousand two hundred dollars.

Consent.

All right, and that commissioners really is the end of the review.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

May.

So item E was a discussion on data centers.

Um out of the discussion that was held in the last PECS committee, there was a desire to have a more in-depth conversation.

So today was kind of just to tee up when that in-depth conversation would happen and how it would happen.

I think the thought would be that we would have it at our nighttime cow uh instead of having presentations, we would have a time-limited discussion for each so the commissioners could have more in-depth go item by item and bring up everything that we want to talk about on that item.

Um, Miss Bragg or Miss Njuku, did you want to add to that right now?

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um I don't have anything specifically to add.

Um we would be available to do that.

Um we can prepare some an overview slide and even have the text of the amendment to go through.

Um, and then we can do a vote of Rama if that's the board's desire.

Yes.

Um, and so Commissioner Long Spears, while you were um off the stage briefly, the thought would be to have a more in-depth discussion at the nighttime cow.

So today was just kind of to tee that up.

Um plus I think that will be a well-attended meeting, and then so the public will hear us actually debating and discussing that those items as well.

What is the location for the nighttime meeting?

Is it Lou Walker?

Lou Walker.

And it's June 2nd.

Second.

Yes, it will be well attended.

Yes, ma'am.

Um I think I saw Commissioner Masaya and then Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Thank you so much.

Um, Madam PO, and I do appreciate us being able to really have this conversation, uh, give more time to delve into this issue, as I mentioned earlier, that's affecting the county, that's affecting the state, that's affecting the nation.

Um my axe in this discussion is that we have an opportunity um similar to what we've done when we've had a number of agenda items related to an issue that requires really um extensive conversation that we're able to address all of those agenda items and speak on them.

And presently, for my count, keep me honest here, is that there are four.

There's one um that's ending in 0158, and that is the for the people AI Tech Dividend Fund Fiscal Stability Policy.

There is an agenda item ending in 0244, which is a baseline assessment of DeCab County's unhealthy socioeconomic environmental status.

It continues.

There's 045, an allocation not to exceed 15,000 to the um of the DeCap County General Fund to be considered um to the 2026 budget to the science uh Georgia, and then lastly, there's a 0341, which is a resolution of DeCap County BOC requesting the admin um administration planning department to update the substitute for the text amendment.

So if there's any additional that I'm missing, um please planning let me know.

But my understanding is there is four that the board is currently considering in and around the issue of data centers presently.

Thank you for that point of clarification.

Um, and I think the intent was to really keen in and focus on 0341, but we can figure out how to structure enough time to try and get to at least a brief discussion on all of the items that evening as well.

But I think the bulk of it will be 0341.

Thank you so much, my NPO.

Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Yeah, when you uh speak of the uh special call committee the hall at a different location we are this time frames on how long we can be at that location.

And that will remain.

Yes, we could be here all night.

No.

But we only may be at Luaco for a couple of hours.

Yes.

So you are discussing you putting on an agenda.

Uh Holly Discuss.

Well, I'm not gonna say controversial, but uh discuss the item.

Yes, agreed.

And uh we not only have an agenda, but you will be talking about this within the framework that Lu Walker will have us at that building.

Yes, please consider that.

Yes, all commissioners, that is a very valid point, and you said it better than I was alluding to that we will be very time limited on the amount of time we can be there, which to Commissioner Massai's very valid point that there's a total of the four.

We need to just decide.

I don't think we have time to discuss all four in depth.

Yeah, and that time limit.

So valid point it just uh briefly if if I can well Commissioner Terry was next, and then I'll come to you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um couple thoughts.

Um so uh director back Bragg, when is the um amendment or the ordinance back on our agenda?

Yes, so um it'll be back on your amended uh agenda on May 12th.

Um and then the moratorium does expire um in June.

So we will proactively re-advertise a moratorium in case it needs to be extended, and um we can be prepared to defer on May 12th if the discussion won't occur until June 2nd.

Okay.

Um and I think um, you know, the only concern I have about pushing it into June is that you know, then we're we'll be at almost a year of the moratorium.

And you know, honestly, I mean I think the planning department did most of the work in the first three months.

I mean, there was some like tweaks, but for the most part, what is we're you know, voting on in May is in essence what y'all presented to us you know about yet about really was like the fall, I think was the final kind of um sort of fine-tuned details.

Um and I think from that point, you know, y'all sort of kind of left it up to us to kind of finish the debate.

And um we've had a couple of those debates in the PECS committee, um I guess zoning maybe.

Um yeah, I guess we had the zone feedback.

Yeah.

Um so personally, I'd like to go ahead and get this thing done.

And I mean, I've I don't know about all y'all, but I've spent a lot of time researching data centers.

And um, you know, we've had a lot of public comment and hearings about it.

So you know, the those other agenda items I meant that were mentioned by Commissioner Messiah, you know.

Basically, are just reflecting what we've heard from the public about things that they would like considered in the the final you know, data center draft uh ordinance uh agenda item itself.

Um I guess we're going with the nighttime cow because it's just the next meeting that isn't a day meeting, it's just the next nighttime meeting, really.

Um I guess that's okay.

Um I feel like we can feel like we're like right at the finish line.

We just have to kind of do a couple tweaks.

Um but if if the desire is to just extend this debate longer and you know, I guess get more you know feedback, I mean that's not a problem to me.

Um I might suggest that because I believe the three data centers that are being considered, one has an active application, and two um, you know, are sort of in theory applying once the moratoriums over with um are happening in district three, district six.

Um I'd like to request that that nighttime cowl take place in district three and six.

Uh to my knowledge, there are no data centers being proposed in district five.

I could be wrong.

Uh it's mostly Stone Crest, but you know that's possible.

Um but because I think district three and six are being the impact impacted the most.

And I guess district seven as well, really.

So it's three, six, and seven.

Um if it's possible to do the nighttime cowl at a location that would be a little more convenient for um district three residents.

Okay.

So any thoughts on that?

I think it would be hard at this point to move the nighttime cow will get with staff, but we've already reserved it and made the res made the arrangements.

Um that's not always just an easy lift to do.

And it is in district five.

Lou Walker's in District Five.

So it would still be fairly convenient to south, it is in South DeCav.

So we can consider that, but I think it it would be a very heavy lift to try and get that location changed at this point.

Okay.

And are we looking, um, I guess because the nighttime cowl is not an official voting meeting, really, it doesn't really matter we have it, right?

We can have we had it at Mercer University one time.

Yes, we try to move them throughout the county, and so we had been working to get this location secured before the idea of this topic came up.

Okay.

Um I would I would suggest we look at some uh different locations.

Um, you know, new life actually has been very accommodating in the past.

They've hosted several events that a lot of us have done, and they have a very big space and good, you know, sort of presentation and AV.

So I feel like there's other options out there that we can explore.

And you know, I mean, like I know district five in the South DeCab, but like going down I-20 uh in the afternoon and the evening is you know a lot of traffic.

So you know, it's it is more convenient, I guess, but it's still I mean to cab is a big county, so going from Candler Road to Stone Crest is still kind of a hike.

Um so I I would just uh suggest that we try to have the location closer to where uh the largest number of constituents are being impacted by these decisions.

Thank you for that, Commissioner Masaya.

You were next.

Thank you so much, Madam PO.

I'll keep it brief.

And so um, and I understand we can't have an expansive conversation, um, particularly as we now have four agenda items related to data centers.

We'll continue obviously having discussions in PECS as robust as possible.

Um, since you know it will be in the evening, which is something I do support because there are some constituents who have expressed their concern to be able to be made aware of what's pending and what's going on with the data centers, that um those agenda items are you know, at least you know, that we have a chance to mention them.

There's um still uh a large number of constituents and obviously having to be out there and have conversations that are just not aware of all of the issues and surrounding them and some of the agenda items that we're dealing with, so to the extent we could be as respectful as time as possible and ensure that you know the constituents are aware of them, even if they're on our agenda and we just limit what the discussions are or length of time.

I think that you know, at least make the constituents aware of what the county is uh addressing as it relates to this particular topic.

And so, like I mentioned, we'll continue to have robust conversations in PECS, and of course, willing to have um constant dialogue.

There's some things that I am I'm looking on, but I just want to make sure that in my responsibility that I do what I can to make it as robust as possible to protect the folks.

With that, I yield back to you, Madam PO, and I thank you.

Thank you.

Um Deputy Director Bragg, maybe um to Masaya's point on that one.

Maybe in the introduction, we can briefly touch on all of the the um other ordinances in relation to data centers, and then go deeper into our discussion on the actual text amendment director.

Good morning, commissioners.

Thank you for the morning.

Um, out of respect for your desires to make sure that the information is covered.

Uh, would you be amenable to um providing either additional questions that we can have available beforehand, something that the staff can put together is maybe some summary flyers that can be available for individuals that would be there, and would you be amenable for us to structure the meeting that might provide a 15-minute block in the beginning or 15-minute block at the end to address any things that may not come up?

I think that if we if you're amenable, staff and I can work towards creating something more structured and to be able to provide additional information for your attendees so that they can have that moving forward.

Um, engage the cab obviously is a place that we promote to be able to continue to get comments um and input from the community, uh, but to your desire wants that there are other things.

Might I recommend that to you guys for your consideration?

Um, and whatever is not covered, of course, staff is more than ready to answer those questions offline and provide that to you.

Something you can add to your newsletters per se, if there's a specific hot button topic that might go out there.

So just putting a couple of ideas to say that we are committed to making sure that the community gets the information, um, and we are committed to trying to make sure that this ordinance is clear to everybody as far as what we're doing here with land use, but also its impacts environmentally and all the other places that people can have access information to as well, even if it's beyond our purview.

So I I just want to leave that to the commission board to think about.

And if you're amenable to any of those thoughts or processes, then we can have that prepared beforehand.

Yes, we would I personally would welcome that help and making sure it's structured in the best way possible to get could the information and discussion needed and done in the way that we want it want to do.

So we'll work with you and I appreciate any input on the structure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Can I make it commission Mr.

May?

And then I'll go to you, Commissioner.

I wanted to see if he needed to add into this before we well, I was gonna add that I'll work with um with uh planning to uh to make sure that it reflects kind of what you all will hope for it to be as well.

I know they have a uh robust amount of information and knowledge, and I just want to make sure it does reflect what you will hope for it to be because I think that would be great for the uh com uh for the community to see for them to even respond to and get a greater understanding of what is truly truly um what the conversation is really all about.

So yeah.

Thank you.

Okay.

Commissioner Bolton for her first time and then Commissioner Terry, thank you.

With the request to have the meeting moved in districts three and seven, I just want us to be cognizant that this discussion isn't about those specific projects that were mentioned, and we don't want to mislead the community into thinking we're gonna talk about those specific proposals, and this is about the text amendment, which impacts the entire county.

So we do want accessibility, consider accessibility for everyone.

Um and we don't want folks to misunderstand the subject or the reason for the meeting.

So just be cognizant.

Thank you.

Commissioner Terry.

Uh yes, I was gonna um respond back to um the discussion on the um questions for the the meeting.

Um I think Commissioner Bolton does make a good point.

So if we were going to take the approach of not trying to bias it with any one region and just make it something that is about the county, then I'd suggest we stick to this location that is centrally located.

Um that way everyone in the county um has an opportunity.

So either we're trying to center the people that are gonna be impacted the most by data centers and giving them sort of you know the the gener the most immediate access, which will be district three, six, and seven, southwest of CAV where the data centers are being proposed, um, or we take the approach that we just want this to be open to everyone, then we should uh pick someplace centrally located.

So I would suggest that we do it um in the county seat um or something that's easily accessible by Marta.

Um I think the Maloof auditorium isn't ready yet, so uh it's supposed to be ready by now, but might be after, might be after the June date, Zach.

I think you owe us like 10 bucks on that one, Zach.

Um and then just on the preparation uh director and joku.

Um so at the PECS meeting we did have discussion, Director Bragg, you know, basically presented that a lot of the sort of the land use and zoning um you know questions have really been answered.

And the things that are lingering uh might actually be uh a little bit outside the purview of land use and zoning.

So um the things that have come up um commissioners is water usage uh as for one example.

So uh would it make sense for the uh watershed department uh to be available to speak about the impacts of uh water usage.

Um we have received uh a letter from the council for quality growth um that actually is recommending and encouraging us to uh do away with the closed loop uh HVAC requirements, um which you know certainly has uh a lot of implications.

So whether it's watershed department or the metropolitan water planning district, um, because I believe the concerns around water are with what do we do in a drought.

And um, so um uh so those two entities talk about water consumption, water usage, I think.

I mean, those would probably be two to the experts, our own water system experts, and then the larger metropolitan water um uh commission.

I can't remember the name of it is, um, but you know I'm talking about right the water planning, uh how we deal with droughts.

Um also uh quality of life has come up.

So um we it was recommended again in that letter from the council for quality growth uh that we do that we up the decimal limits.

Um but we did talk at the um the last um uh PECS committee about the fact that the um we currently do have we have no decibel meters, and so we are considering uh an ordinance that would regulate on decibels, but we have no way to actually enforce that uh ordinance.

And so that's something that planning department I think put in effect based on other ordinances around the country, um, but again, the planning department doesn't enforce the noise ordinance.

So we really do need to understand Zach, you know, if we do have decibels, you know, what are we doing um you know with the um I believe they call it the um what is it called?

It's the type A, there's the the high frequency and then the low frequency, and so the other issue that's come up with data centers is their 24-75 noise as opposed to other uses that actually might be intermittent, like a truck or construction or something, and so the plainly audible at night and the decibel during the day become conflicting um issues in terms of quality of life.

Um and then Director Bragg, I believe that y'all had reached out and talked with like I think it was like Science for Georgia, the Southern Environmental Law Center uh when you were drafting your ordinance last year.

So, you know, when it comes to the environmental concerns around data centers, I mean, those are two groups, and there's probably others that you can think of that um kind of have that environmental background and can speak on uh ecological environmental issues, and then within that, probably also the clean energy.

Um, and so it might make sense to ask someone from the public service commission uh that is currently regulating the power that is powering data centers and just understand how those decisions are going to be impacting our power bills and our uh utility grid.

Commissioner Terry.

Um there was a report um that came out Commissioner Terry that said that um these questions utility bills.

Well, I mean, honestly, this is y'all's meeting, so uh just trying to raise the issues that we should discuss, and if no one's gonna object to them.

But we were also had discussed that offline we would get them that type of information so that what they could come prepared as a meeting to have a in-depth conversation.

It was not at this meeting that we were trying to have those in-depth conversations, but I think the point where we're trying to make is that it is needed to have more in-depth conversations with about five minutes of conversations and questions you just had.

Right.

Well, I'm it's just this is the spirit of transparency.

I don't really want to have behind the scenes discussions and then we just come out at the nighttime cow with you know a program that um that someone saw for the first time, um, which usually is how it happens.

The public will read our agenda and understand who's gonna be there when we publish it.

So I would like just to raise these issues while we're talking about it.

Um Director Bragg, uh, Director Njoku, is there do any of any of those suggestions make sense, any concerns about those expertise?

Because again, you you'd stated that a lot of the I think a lot of the agreement actually is already set.

Um we're just talking about these other quality of life, water, sustainability issues that are outside land use and zoning program.

Yes, I I do think that there would be some value in including other county partners in this this discussion.

So while we have um from the planning perspective, we have the land use ordinance and the land use regulations.

Obviously, we will we're not the only county department involved.

So um, if we do get those um questions or ideas beforehand, then I think that we can um work with the administration to make sure that there are representatives from other departments available too.

Thank you, Mr.

May, you had some.

Well, and just to just to clarify, Madam Chair, the you've expended your time.

I know we didn't have the time on the clock, but we are trying to do that.

Okay, well, just to clarify that she um I asked about the outside partners.

So I mean, I don't know if any we have any authority on renewable energy or public service commission or or drought.

If I could just jump in yes, I think really to the commissioner's point, um uh the COM Williams um just whispered in my ear, I think a good um suggestion that we send out a survey to you all to kind of get your input that can be included, uh some of those thoughts that you have, even suggestions.

So we'll have driving questions uh for that survey, but also an opportunity for you to kind of the open-ended where you can kind of uh write in kind of some of your thoughts as well, so that we can digest and utilize that for whatever we put out.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Commissioner Davis Johnston, did you still wish to speak?

Yeah, I would like to speak about the location.

This is the committee of the whole meeting.

Now, if it's the desire of the committee to have a robust discussion that's that is going to exceed the time that we would have at Lewalker, then let's have a separate meeting for that.

But this is a committee of the whole meeting, not a data center meeting.

And even if it was data centers affect everyone in the county, no matter where they're located, it's going to affect everyone in the county.

So just like I've had to drive at night by myself to Doorville, which is the traffic is not that convenient in the evening.

Chamley, Duntwoody.

I've had to drive at night by myself.

And my people from South Dak, Fifth District had to drive there if they had a concern.

If you have a concern of something that is at a at our meetings, you'll drive.

But the meeting is scheduled for Lu Walker.

And every time, and we've been talking about that for one year, and some people tend to go with the flow.

So whatever is discussed at one meeting, the discussion get changed at a meeting.

And that's the reason it has taken so long, because some people use this as a platform.

It's nothing personal with me.

I don't need a platform.

My platform of my constituents.

But every time we have a meeting on a data center, depending on which way to win is flowing at that data center meeting is dependent on what is added to the planning department's agenda as what needs to be changed.

So this is a committee of the whole.

So if anybody anywhere in the county want to come, KAPU a drive or take public transportation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So did you have something else out of that?

C O O Williams.

No, ma'am, but uh we stand ready to work with uh the chief of staff to gather information.

I think the survey instrument makes sense.

Uh that way we can capture all of your thoughts and uh ensure to the best of our ability that when we do have this meeting, we're prepared to have the discussion that you're looking for.

I appreciate that.

So that is we did not have another presentation today.

Um commissioners look forward to additional information coming out about the survey.

I think the survey is a great idea, and making sure we have all the questions and information needed to present and have that discussion.

Um at this time, we do not have executive session.

So if I can get a motion to motion to adjourn, second.

I'm sorry, uh second we're gonna have comments, right?

It's not on the agenda this time.

That's okay.

We have time.

Okay.

We have a motion and a second to adjourn.

I have a I have a question.

All right.

It's not on the agenda, and we have a motion on the floor.

All those in favor.

I have a I have a question.

I'm okay.

Report date.

You have to have to recognize me.

For one minute.

Okay, well, that's not the rules, so you're breaking your own rules.

Well, we decided we can change rules, so we're not getting 10 minutes.

Well, you can't just change the rules on the case.

Okay, um, well, I honestly was gonna make a comment about y'all calling the question when I wanted to say something.

So, do I have one minute?

Okay, very good.

Um, so um, commissioners, I do want to address the issue that happened last week.

Um I was um interrupted three times during the meeting uh with a call to question.

And um long story short, because we're being I'm being um uh censured here again uh to um you know quite quite frankly I don't even understand it.

Um it's it's kind of hard to figure out what's going on up here.

Um but I I do want to call attention to the fact that the presiding officer did say that the committee of the whole would be time for commissioner comments.

Um I had a couple announcements here uh because that was what you told us and then you didn't do it.

So I would like to request that the committee of the whole have commissioner comments added to the agenda.

Thank you for that.

Now if we can have the vote on the motion to adjourn.

All in favor?

Aye.

Thank you.

Any opposed?

Y'all have a good day.

Anyone opposed to adjourning the meeting?

If one opposed, thank you.

No one abstained.