We do have a lot of people in the room, so there is an overflow room.

If there were not enough agendas, there should be a QR code that you can scan right outside the door here where you pick up the agenda so you can look at the agenda on your phone.

So we will get right into it.

First, we have our inspirational speaker, Pastor Micah Dial.

If you would like to start making your way to the front podium, sir.

It is my honor to introduce a dynamic community leader, devoted servant of faith, and champion for ethical and transformational leadership, Pastor Micah Dial.

Pastor Dial serves as a senior pastor of Rainbow Park Baptist Church in Decatur, faithfully continuing the extraordinary legacy of his father, the late Reverend Dr.

Stephen Endles Sr.

With a vision grounded in integrity, transparency, and bridging generations through ministry.

Pastor Dial has led one of the Cab County's historic congregations into a new era of service and community engagement.

A graduate of Miles College with a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration and a scholar pursuing a Master of Arts and Christian Leadership from Liberty University.

Pastor Dahl combines faith, leadership, and strategic vision in all that he does.

Beyond the pulpit, he is deeply committed to the public service as a second vice president of the NAACP DeCap County branch and as a member of the DeCab County Board of Ethics.

His dedication to uplifting communities and fostering accountability reflects his lifelong commitment to servant leadership.

Please join me in warmly welcoming Pastor Micah Dial.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'd like to thank uh presiding officer Commissioner Johnson for the invitation today.

It's an honor to be here with all of you.

Um I not only have the privilege of serving as the pastor of Rainbow Park Baptist Church here in Decatur, not in Decatur, it isn't Decatur, but in DeCav County.

But also I'm a proud resident of DeCab County of South DeCab.

Uh so shout out to my commissioners, District 3 Commissioner Nicole Messiah and Super District 7, Commissioner Ladina Bolton.

Dr.

Martin Luther King once said, the time is always right to do right.

We are all making waves.

We're making waves.

I want you to think about the last time that you threw a rock into still water.

You didn't have to throw it hard, you didn't have to throw it far.

The moment that the rock hit the surface, the water responded.

Rings went out, one after another, farther than the rock ever traveled.

Y'all, that's impact.

And the water never asked if the rock was ready.

It just responded to the weight of it.

Here's what I've come to understand about impact.

It's never one directional.

We talk a lot about what leaders do for communities and that matters.

The policies, the funding, the decisions made in rooms just like this one.

They ripple out into neighborhoods.

They ripple out into schools, ripple out into families, most importantly, ripple out into the futures of our children.

A commissioner votes yes and a rec center gets built.

A commissioner votes yes and a road gets repaired that a mother had been navigating for three years with a stroller.

A commissioner votes yes, and a small business gets the infrastructure that it needed to survive.

That's real.

That's the weight of hitting water.

But it what we often don't talk about is that the community also makes waves too.

The grandmother who shows up to every town hall, even when nobody's listening, she's throwing a rock.

The teenager who picks up trash on his block every Saturday morning without being asked, he's throwing a rock.

The small business owner who hires from his neighborhood and mentors the kid that nobody believed in, throwing a rock.

The parent who shows up to every school board meeting, exhausted after a double shift because she refuses to let her child's future be decided without her voice in the room.

She's throwing a rock.

Impact doesn't require a title.

Impact doesn't require a podium.

It just requires presence and intention.

In the Bible, Micah 6.8 says, He has shown you, O mortal, what is good and what does the Lord require of you to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.

Notice it doesn't say legislate justly, it doesn't say vote justly, it says to act.

That's for everybody in this room.

The ones with the gavels and the ones without them.

1986, a young man named Stevie grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago.

His school was underfunded.

His block was dangerous.

Most people who looked at his zip code had already written his story for him.

But there was a county parks employee, not an elected official, just a man named Mr.

Harrell.

Mr.

Harrell ran the local after school program.

He didn't have much, but he showed up every single day.

He taught Stevie how to play chess.

He stayed late when Stevie didn't want to go home.

He called Stevie's teachers.

He went to his games.

And 30 years later, Stevie is a federal judge.

In his investor speech, Judge Steve Watkins said this I am not the product of my circumstances.

I'm the product of a man who decided that my zip code wasn't my destiny.

One parks employee, one recreation center, one decision to show up.

Y'all, it was the waves.

Commissioners, everyone who's serving DeCab County, and to every member whose name will never end up on a ballot.

You are all making waves.

The question isn't whether your actions matter, because they do.

The question is, are you throwing your rock on purpose?

Are you leading with intention?

Are you serving with urgency?

Are you showing up like somebody's future depends on it?

Because somebody's does.

Keep throwing rocks, keep making impact.

God bless you and God bless DeCab County.

Thank you.

Thank you, Pastor Dowell.

If you'll hang around after our proclamations, we'd love to give you a pen.

Excuse me, at this time, we will have the Pledge of Allegiance.

Excuse me.

Um, Commissioner Terry is not with us today, so Commissioner Nicole Masar will lead us in pledge, and then we will go down to the podium for our presentations.

I pledge of 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.

Today we celebrate the dedicated professionals who work every day, often behind the scenes to keep our county moving forward, from maintaining our roads and water systems to protecting health, managing infrastructure, keeping our streets clean, and supporting quality of life for our residents.

Our public works professionals play a critical role in building a stronger, safer, and more resilient DeCab County.

They are the front line.

And often they are the first first responders.

We're proud to recognize the DeCab County Public Works Department for achieving accredited agency status with the American Public Works Association, a significant accomplishment that reflects excellence, professionalism, and commitment to service.

At this time, on behalf of CEO Lorraine Cochran Johnson and the Board of Commissioners, I would like to have this proclamation read, um, followed by a brief remarks from the Director of Public Works and a group picture.

So, Ms.

Barbara?

Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of DeCap County.

And whereas these infrastructures, facilities, and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government and the private sector, who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems, public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens.

And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children in DeCab County to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective community.

And whereas we are pleased to announce that the DeCab County Public Works Department has achieved accredited agency status with the American Public Works Association, and whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th Annual National Public Works Week, sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

And whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th Annual National Public Works Week, sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

And now therefore I, Lorraine Cochrane Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of DeCab County, Georgia, together with the DeCab County Board of Commissioners, do hereby designate the week of May 17th through 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week.

I urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies and activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety, and advancing quality of life for all.

But I'm thinking public works uh folks first.

Everybody works at public works, please stand and start working your way to the front.

We're gonna make some pictures.

But you know what?

These guys have to do their job every day.

And police do as well.

But every day the police doesn't come to your house.

These guys got to come to your house and pick up your trash and keep your roads going and uh keep the stormwater working.

And these people work all kind of hours, they work hard, and they're absolutely great folks, and we appreciate them.

Um I first got in this business, I came from the transportation world and I dealt with a lot of customers that had food.

Food has a shelf life.

Well, something I learned when I come to the Cab County, garbage don't got no shelf life.

It's already done.

When you put the cur when you put your garbage on the corner, if it ain't picked up in a couple hours, somebody's raising cane.

So these people really do a great job.

They do a lot of hard work.

The uh sanitation department, along with beautification.

A lot of the public doesn't realize beautification is under sanitation.

They're the ones that keep the roadways clean, keeps the grass cut.

It's hard work.

We'd really appreciate the public's help by picking up litter.

Don't throw it out the window.

We got folks right here that's got to do that if you do.

Uh the stormwater people that does the stormwater is part of roads and drainage, keeps the ditches clean, keeps the storm drained so your yard don't flood.

The red lights repaired, transportation department is part of public works, they're the engineers, they're really unseen.

But if we didn't have the engineers, we wouldn't have safe intersections, and of course, fleet management.

Everybody kind of forgets those folks, but everybody in this room that drives a vehicle for the Cab County's got to have fleet take care of it.

So thank you very much.

We appreciate it, and let's get some pictures.

Good morning, everybody.

I have to say also, as an engineer, it's exciting to be up there with all our public works team.

I feel right at home with them.

So now we have um letters of appreciation and accommodations for two amazing individuals.

Um we've gathered to honor two exceptional public servants whose leadership, dedication, and unwavering commitment to the people of the Cab County have left a lasting and meaningful legacy.

Former tax commissioner Irvin J.

Johnson and former Sheriff Thomas E.

Brown.

Through decades of distinguished service, these honorees have demonstrated the very best of public leadership, integrity, professionalism, innovation, and a steadfast commitment to proving the lives of others.

Their contributions have strengthened our institutions, advanced public trust, and positively impacted countless residents throughout our community.

These recognition recognitions reflect not only remarkable re professionalism, professional accomplishments, but also lives devoted to service above self.

Their leadership and example will continue to inspire future generations of public servants and community leaders for years to come.

At this time, I will present and read the official letters of recognition on behalf of the governing authority and more than seven hundred and eighty thousand residents of DeCap County.

So we will start with Mr.

Thomas Brown.

Dear Honorable Thomas Edison Brown Jr.

On behalf of the presiding officer of the Governing Authority and more than seven hundred and eighty thousand residents of DeCap County, Georgia, we extend our sincere appreciation and deepest gratitude and recognition of your distinguished career in public service and your dedicated leadership, your unwavering commitment, professionalism, and service have made a meaningful and lasting impact on the citizens and communities of DeCap County.

This recognition reflects a lifetime of distinguished leadership, integrity, and innovation and public safety and community service.

From your early service as a firefighter in the city of Atlanta to your historic appointment as the first African American fire chief of DeCap County, and later as public safety director, you have consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to excellence and the well-being of the communities you have served.

Your tenure as sheriff of DeCab County serving four distinguished terms stands as a testament to your visionary leadership under your guidance, community-oriented policing was strengthened, national accreditation standards were achieved, and impactful fire safety education programs were established that help save lives and improve public trust.

Well, Commissioner Johnson, thank you very much.

And members of the Board of Commissioners and the CAB County employees, many of you that I have worked with and uh parted with from a time or two.

And and others had it not been for a Lebanese immigrant by the name of Manuel Maloof, uh my star time started in the Cab County, and and and look what God did.

Uh so um, you know, it's been a good ride for me.

It was a blessing to say I work for one president and fire by another one.

Uh so with that being said, thank you so much to Cab County.

I love you all.

I gave them both of them.

So now we have the Honorable Irvin J.

Johnson.

On behalf of the presiding officer and the governing authority and the more than 780,000 residents of DeCap County, Georgia, we extend our sincere appreciation and deepest gratitude and recognition of your distinguished career in public service and your dedicated leadership as tax commissioner.

Your tenure reflected a sustained commitment to excellence, accountability, and service to the residents of DeCap County.

Through your leadership, that the tax commissioner's office strengthened its operational effectiveness while maintaining a steadfast focus on customer service, fiscal responsibility, transparency, and employee satisfaction.

You champion modernization efforts that expanded digital service delivery and improved efficiency.

These advancements have significantly improved accessibility for residents while supporting the essential funding needs of county and school district operations.

Your contributions to professional organizations, local initiatives, and faith-based service reflect a deep and enduring commitment to the well-being of the community you serve.

Additionally, your recognition as tax commissioner of the year by the Georgia Association of Black County officials in 2024 stands as a testament to your professional excellence and the highest theme in which you are held by your peers.

With sincere gratitude and the highest respect, we thank you and congratulate congratulate you on this well-deserved recognition, and we wish you continued health, happiness, and fulfillment in the years ahead.

Congratulations.

Yes.

Thank you, Commissioner, Presiding Officer Johnson, the Johnson's in the House.

Johnson's in the house again.

Again, Board of Commissioners, thank thank you.

Citizens of DeCab.

When I started with the tax commissioner's office back in 2000, no one would ever tell me that I would be standing here in front of you today.

And if you know anything about Augusta and anything about Georgia over the last 50 years, you can think about my life as a kid coming from Augusta and wondering what his life was going to be like in the future.

As Pastor Dow referred to zip codes, the Augusta zip code would not be one that you would think a young man would end up being the tax commissioner in the fourth largest county in Georgia.

All I wanted to do was drive a train when I was growing up.

So I'm driving a bigger train and it handles when I left 1.6 billion dollars.

And uh and I give all that money to Zach every year.

So I'm thank you for my former staff for coming out and uh supporting me.

Uh thank you guys for allowing me to be the tax commissioner, those who supported me and those who did not vote for me.

I was the same tax commissioner for all of you.

Um of my proudest moments in the tax office uh comes from having service uh any number of the senior citizens uh as they have been challenged with the property taxes.

And uh over the years, nothing brings you more joy than to see that uh a lot of people benefit from what we have done at the tax office.

And uh, and we are grateful for that opportunity, and we will continue to do that under the new tax commissioner, Mr.

Cole Gold.

So once again, thank you, and I love you guys.

Let's take some photos.

Sure.

Hey, uh, everyone, before uh before Thomas Brown leaves, before Mr.

Urban Johnson leaves, I just want to say thank you personally to both of you gentlemen.

Uh, way back as a Doorville councilman.

Uh Irvin Johnson was kind enough to sort of read the rules and the road to me and let me know that even a big idea from the north side of the county still has to survive the rest of the county.

So I always appreciated that insight.

Um, when you're elected, you like to hear things that say yes.

You need people that say this is the real world kid.

And so I want to say thank you very much for that.

I am truly always been grateful for that.

Uh Mr.

Brown, again, as a commissioner, uh pardon me, as a city councilman from the city of Dorville.

When nobody wanted to take a chance on me, I want to acknowledge that you put your name beside me, and I am so grateful for that, and thank you very much for your service, not just to DeCab County, but to the United States of America, being United States Marshal.

Even if you were hired by the best president ever and let go by the other one.

We appreciate you.

I personally appreciate you all.

Thank you.

Thank you both, gentlemen.

Pastor Dial, if you'd like to come up, Commissioner Massai would love to give you a pen.

All right, thank you, everybody.

Now we will move into comments from the public.

Madam Klerk, if you'll read in the instructions.

The purpose of public comment is to allow the public to voice county-related requests, concerns, or opinions during the commission meeting.

Speakers will only have the opportunity for one public comment per meeting.

Each speaker must please complete a speaker card and present it to the clerk before the beginning of the public comment portion of the meeting.

Cards turn into the clerk from the time the general meeting is convened, generally 9 a.m.

And by the beginning of public comment portion, generally following presentations on the agenda.

The clerk will accept cards on a first come first serve basis.

Basis.

Prior to the clerk's call for public comment, speakers who are residents of DeCap County shall be allowed to speak before residents of other counties are allowed to speak.

Speakers will only be allowed to speak for three minutes each, and public comment should not exceed 30 minutes in length.

When the buzzer sounds to indicate that time has run out, the speaker will be expected to immediately cease speaking and to yield the podium.

Those who submitted speaker cards but did not speak because of the time allotment will be allowed to speak first at the next regularly scheduled commission meeting without regard to residents.

Speakers should always talk directly into the microphone and begin by stating their name, full address, and the name of any organization they represent.

Abusive, profane, or derogatory language, holding up signs, clapping, yelling, standing or laying in the aisles to show support for or opposition to a speaker will not be permitted.

But a show of hands or quietly standing in place will be permitted to show support for or opposition to a speaker's position.

And our first speaker.

Okay, we have some people left over from our last meeting.

Kay Walsh.

Kay Walsh, are you present today?

Okay.

Angela Brooks.

Miss Angela Brooks.

Kelly Alexander.

Kelly Alexander.

Princess Walton.

Princess Walton.

Gregory White.

Gregory White.

Mr.

Tinney.

Mr.

Tinney.

Stephen Conner.

Stephen.

Yes.

Come on up, sir.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioners.

Thank you for your time.

My name is Stephen Conover at 2775 Augusta Way.

I'm a resident of DeCap County in District 3.

I am an animal lover.

I'm a volunteer at a local shelter while I foster large dogs generally.

And I'm here with 31 signatures and myself asking for help on dog attack issues in our area.

I'm sorry for sort of the distasteful nature of this.

But my neighbor Yvonne, my friend, was mutilated on the road between our houses.

Sometime back attacked her on the road, and after I was with her during her recovery, she said, Steve, I'm not long for this road, this world, because the dogs had eaten into the nerves on the bottom of her feet, and she couldn't walk.

And the fall had knocked apart part of her eyeball.

And she said she's grateful that she's blank spot in her memory.

When the dog she says started eating at her.

Literally around the corner.

Gary was walking, had a chunk bitten out of his leg by another different dog, was hospitalized.

All of this within a thousand feet of an elementary school where we live.

All close together.

And on our tiny little T call de sac, we've had an issue with an ongoing dog that has pinned my neighbor to the ground.

We reported it.

Later, months later, attacked us shoulder to shoulder in his driveway.

It was sighted.

He was fined.

And then on April 14th, after a multiple other observations, uh, it attacked five children in various places on our road chasing an infant in a stroller into another house, chasing children screaming.

They were reported and fined.

But it is this incident alone that I have 31 signatures for in my voice, but I bring this sort of horror of our community.

Because despite being a large breed dog in a hot zone of dog activity, being a repeat offender on video with children and infants involved in a school zone, the owners received a fine, a warning, and the dog remains at the house today.

So I'm asking for help with this dog.

And I don't know what to do.

I don't know what laws to bring to play.

But I would bring your attention and ask you to bend your will to addressing this issue on a broader scale because whatever policies, whatever priority we put on this, we have a serious issue widespread in our community, and we need your help.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Lafayette Nelson the third.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning.

My name is Lafayette Nelson III.

I represent Skyview Park LLC.

Um, and I appreciate this opportunity to speak regarding the located uh our property address 3840 Austin Walk Decatur, Georgia.

Scarview owns significant property interests connected to this development, including common areas and related access and property rights that have remained disputed for years.

We previously came before this board.

We believe we have serious concerns as this involving ownership rights easements, subdivision compliance, permitting approvals, and the issuance of certificate or accuracy is connected to this development.

Since this time, we have got records from the CAB County that raises serious concerns regarding approval of the significant accuracy process.

Those records reflect to land disturbance project 6041 remaining listings open during portions of permitting of certificate occupancy process.

Records also reflect multiple entries state and milestone progression occurred due to supervisor override connected to the certificate of accuracy progression process, along with the internal permitting communications involving supervisory direction during portions of the review process.

At this time, we continue to have serious regarding serious issues regarding the absence of a final recorded platform that's developed, the lack of properly established HOA structure and covenants governing the common areas and private roadway infrastructures, unresolved easement and access issues and the issues of permits and certificates of accuracy despite these unresolved matters.

When Skyview initially attempted to move forward the development years ago, we informed the county personnel that because Austin Walker is involved in one interrogated townhouse development with shared roads and common areas and infrastructure.

Both ownership groups will need to work with one architect and establish unified HOA and covenant structures before development could properly proceed.

That is guidance appears consistent with the CAB County's Code 14189.3 and related subdivision regulation requiring legal mechanism, governor private streets, homeowners, association, structures, easement, subdivisions, compliance obligations.

Therefore, we respectfully ask how or permits and certificate obviously allowed to proceed for 24 townhouse units when there was no final recorded plat, no property established HOA or recorded covenants of resolved ownership and easement issues and continue reliance on an outdated 2007 LDP.

They are not minor technical concerns.

These issues directly affect property owner rights, subdivision compliance, easement and access rights, title certainty, failed closings, and public confidence and integrity of the county permitting process.

We are not here today to this to ask this board to resolve our proper dispute between parties.

We are respectfully asking for transparency, accountability, and a full public review of how permits of certificate occurs were issued despite these unresolved subdivisions at the HOA and easement and ownership concerns.

According to we respectfully request one of the commission's commissioners or several committees to consider sponsoring this matter for a formal agenda review, so these unresolved permitting subdivision ownership and easement, HOA and certificate of accuracy concerns may receive proper public discussion oversight and transparency moving forward.

We further respectfully requested assistance of the board and ensure full independent review of the permit and approval process connected to Austin Walk.

Given this significance of these issues and their impact on property rights, we permitting integrity, title certainty, and public confidence.

We believe formal agenda review is wanted.

We also respectfully request that the relevant records, communications, permitting files, and inspecting records, um, certificate occasions, LDP, and record plac easement documents.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll begin with today's speakers.

Jackie Malcolm.

Mr.

Malcolm.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioners.

I'm Jackie Malcolm.

And good morning, CEO.

I live off the Balticress in District 3, where they're posing to try to put a two million square foot data campus.

What is going on?

Our community has been fighting the Ellenwood Data Campus for more than a year now.

Now we find out that Shadow Box is going to build a data center not far from there.

At least that's what Jeff Weber said.

As the Metro South CID 10th anniversary celebration on April the 8th.

Now, it seems Black Hall Studios is working with Shadow Box.

Which means we could end up with a data campus center at least three times the size of Ellenwood Project.

We do not want none of this.

Pollution has no boundaries for hyper-skilled data center campuses will put a strain on our water system and hurt our environment, our health, and our quality of life.

Is this what y'all was claiming the whole while?

Is this the reason why you have not updated the text amendment since January?

Is this the reason for a sudden announcement to finally restore entrenchment park?

Where is the transparency?

We need answers now.

And since I have like a minute or so left, um, two weeks ago, um, Mr.

Patrick, this is for you.

A young man came up here telling you something about the airport situation, and he said he never called anyone out, but he called you out.

And once he called you out, you were very disrespectful.

And I want everyone here to know that because this man is old enough to be your father.

And for you to do all this right here, it's so disrespectful.

As long as I've been coming, I have not seen one commissioner do that.

And you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

You need to be sanctioned, and when the young man was talking, you doing this, he starts shaking.

That man is old enough to be your father, and he's the same color as you.

So if you don't have no respect for somebody old enough to be your dad and your color, then that means me being a black woman, you do not have respect for me.

Don't do it again, please.

Thanks, Speaker.

Gina Mangum, Miss Mingum.

Good morning, commissioners.

Here we are again.

Martin Luther King said you cannot legislate morality.

He was right, but you can legislate ethically.

How you vote on the data center text amendment will reflect your moral and ethical character.

Only 17% of District 1, Robert Patrick's district, is in unincorporated.

District 2 is largely cities as well.

Black people in unincorporated South and East DeCAB, districts three, four, and five are the most affected by your decisions, and that includes District 7 with Commissioner Bolton.

Data centers raise issues of social and economic justice.

Last week, the voting rights act was all but wiped out.

Conservatives say we don't need it anymore.

Progressives are in turmoil.

Next month we'll celebrate the Juneteenth holiday.

But we have to ask ourselves: what's the purpose of being represented by people like us if they are not for us?

A coalition of DeCAB citizens, residents from districts two, three, four, and five, have offered a comprehensive alternative to the county's proposed text amendment.

Our version essentially prevents the development of major, large-scale, hyperscale data centers and campuses in unincorporated the CAB.

It's meant to protect all of us, regardless of race or where we live.

Our CEO told us it was reasonable.

Our presiding officer offered no comment.

So right now, a two-year moratorium is the only other acceptable option.

The CAB is in a water crisis.

Allowing data centers under these circumstances is not a risk worth taking for any amount of money.

It's downright reckless.

Why now?

What has she been doing, or all of you have been doing for the last six months during the moratorium?

And what is an call messiah up to?

She could have voted against the Ellenwood project months ago.

Like the CAB, communities all over the country are opposing data center projects.

Some are being canceled.

Our nation is in crisis because too many politicians just do whatever they want to do.

It's called corruption.

Your vote should reflect the will of the people.

What will your legacy be?

Thank you, next speaker.

Jan Dunaway.

Jam Dunaway.

The planning director held up the water department response to the concern of discharge of chemically infused water into our sewer system, saying she would send the document, but we haven't received it yet.

The concern for sending this hazardous waste into our broken sewer system still exists.

Today you will vote on three items, emergency items totaling around 47 million dollars to hopefully handle some of the stormwater and sewer issues at the Snapfinger Creek water treatment plant.

Additionally, you will vote to raise our stormwater utility fee using an annual increase for 10 years, just like the water.

Our government has wasted millions of dollars over the years, so the citizens are not trusting these things will be different now.

Commissioner Bolton stated at a committee meeting that we are in a state of emergency related to our broken water and sewer system.

We still are.

Enough sometimes to power entire cities, threatening to overwhelm our already compromised water and sewer systems.

Environment.

Rowan is an open, walkable campus.

The cab sites will be restricted, high security bunkers shrouded in secrecy.

The takeaway, Rowan builds legacy wealth and quality of life for Gwinnett.

Meanwhile, the CAB leaders chase a gold rush to pay off millions in environmental fines and debts.

This isn't economic development.

It is an environmental and health injustice that sacrifices our communities' vitality for corporate gain.

This is how the elected Board of Commissioners and decide to cab have represented us.

We deserve better.

No hyperscale data campuses.

The citizens don't want them.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Donna Priest Brown.

Ms.

Brown.

Good morning, commissioners.

My name is Donna Priest Brown, and I live in South DeCab.

Today I want to focus on one word, compliance.

The planning and sustainability department has provided what they characterize as an overarching guarantee that every data center applicant will be required to obtain a special land use permit.

A slup.

And on its face, that sounds like a protective measure.

It sounds like accountability.

But here is the problem.

No one is talking about.

A slut with an out, a slump without an audit plan, it's not accountability, accountability, it's paperwork.

Right now, there is no mechanism in this text amendment, none, to annually audit data center applicants after a slump has been granted.

Not one.

Once that permit is issued, there is no structured follow-up, no scheduled review, no performance benchmarks, no process to verify that what was promised at the time of the application is actually being delivered to our communities, basically in South Decad.

Commissioners, we have seen this pattern before.

Developers make commitments during the approval process on jobs, on community benefits, on environmental standards.

And once the permit is in the hand and the facility is built, those commitments quietly fade.

And our communities are left in South DeCab with consequences.

The noise, the energy load, the water consumption, the traffic, and none of the benefits.

A slut must be the beginning of an ongoing relationship between the applicant and this county, not the end of the conversation.

We are asking the board to require that any data center text amendment include a mandatory annual clients compliance audit with teeth.

Applicants should be required to submit annual performance reports.

The county should have clear authority to revoke or modify permits for non-compliance.

And South DeCab residents should have a seat at the table during the reviews, doing those reviews.

If this amendment moves forward without a compliance and audit framework, we are not protecting our communities.

We are simply processing permits.

Do not let the don't do not let the existence of a slump substitute for accountability in our communities that our communities deserve.

They do not.

Thank you.

Chris Landgrove.

Chris, good morning.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm a resident of DeCab County for over 13 years now.

I've been working professionally in IT for 23 years and cybersecurity for 20, and I want to discuss data centers and some of the regulatory components that are marked here, specifically components around noise and water usage.

The environmental and energy study institutes reports that infrasound, which is a low frequency sound that cannot be heard by the human ear but can be felt by the human body, can causing dizziness, nausea, and vertigo 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, caused by the diesel generators and cooling systems by these giant AI hyperscaler data centers.

Many communities are not prepared to deal with this.

Noise ordinances were written to address noisy parties and neighbors, not colossal businesses that just so happen to destroy the quality of life for the community around it and its block for blocks.

For water usage, you can drive an hour from here in Fayetteville, Georgia, literally just two counties over.

A QTS data center used 29 million gallons of unauthorized water usage, destroying water pressure for the surrounding communities impacting the lives of citizens and businesses.

They were billed 147,000 in retroactive charges with no penalties.

Why no penalties?

Because quote unquote, they need to maintain partnership with their largest customer.

The one that lied to them and stole from them with friends like this, who needs enemies?

Most importantly, there is no criminal liability, right?

So if there is no fine, even if there was, if you find someone a dollar and they made a hundred, you've effectively legalized their criminality.

And all of this is for what?

Let's say DeCab County wins the business of this these massive data center campuses for AI.

Here are some fun facts these fundamentally broken business models aren't telling you about.

They promise jobs, and yes, these jobs uh there are jobs during the initial construction.

But once these data centers are built, they are minimally staffed.

We're talking about 500,000 square foot data centers that will generate a few dozen jobs for general maintenance staff, not the high paying jobs that they promise.

The GPUs that power these AI data centers have a burnout rate of two to three years.

Meaning the most expensive component of the entire business and everything inside that dentist center is effectively thrown in the trash.

Would you invest your 401ks into that kind of a business model?

Most importantly, none of them are actually profitable, right?

They are burning hundreds of billions of dollars in venture capital, subsidizing these business models, announcing their revenue, but never their profits because there aren't any.

But Chris, if all of this is true, how are they worth so much money?

This is the wave of the future.

I'm just gonna close by saying this.

The same people selling you this false bill of goods told you the future of human interaction was putting on a headset all day so you're gonna interact with cartoon avatars with no legs.

It was called the metaverse.

The same people selling you this false bill of goods told you, sir.

Thank you.

Vanessa, just a reminder, you guys can snap, you can raise your hands, you can stand, but when you're audible, we can't hear what they're saying.

So thank you.

Vanessa Far.

Hi, good morning.

Um my name is Vanessa Farage.

I am a lifelong resident of DeCab County.

Um, and um I'm here today as a concerned resident, um, as a community organizer with Southerners on New Ground, um, as a family caregiver to my two elderly parents who also live in DeCab County, and as a mother to my five-year-old son.

Um, first and foremost, um I am here to urge you all, of course, to vote no on the current data center text amendment.

Um, as every single person who's spoken before me has said it is inadequate and does hasn't been updated since January.

Um, I believe that all of our children uh deserve a future filled with humans, not with robots.

Um, that we all deserve affordable utilities and clean air and water, and to live in a county that you all do not sell to the highest billionaire bidder.

Um there is a recent New York Times article that came out that said that data centers um are the most bipartisan issue since beer.

Um which is a very clever title and headline.

And what that what they're saying is that um people across the political spectrum in the country and here in our state of Georgia are rising up to say no to data centers.

So folks in deep red counties in our state are organizing and mobilizing and winning against data centers coming to their towns.

And I would like to think that one of the most democratic counties in our state would lead that charge.

Um the last thing I'll say is that we know as evidenced by last year's historic public service commission election that data centers are a winning electoral issue.

Um, and what I mean when I say that is that opposition to data centers is a winning electoral issue.

And so we know that we have midterm elections coming up, and I mean there is a crowd of people behind behind me and in front of you all, here to say no to data centers, and we will most certainly remember when it's time to vote your action or your inaction on this issue.

Um, and so we are here today to say yes to a future that we all deserve, and no to data centers.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This will be our last speaker.

Thank you.

And it's Carl Lynn Sanderson.

Carl, good morning.

Good morning, commissioners.

I live at 655 El Prado Court, Stone Mountain.

Please vote no on the data center text amendment.

It isn't sufficient.

It was just a little over a year ago that we watched a strung out billionaire tech broade around with a chainsaw, cutting social services to make room for his vision of enterprise in America.

Today I am one of 50% of black women who are unemployed in this country.

I suffer from food and housing insecurity.

And paying five dollars a gallon for gas limits my mobility and ability to find work, and this is by design.

As Americans are pushed out of jobs, students pushed out of schools, and tax dollars diverted to beautification projects, ballrooms, tourism, detention, and deportation, little is left to meet the basic needs of Americans whose lives have been uprooted by the current administration.

We watched on inauguration day the embrace of tech CEOs and the subsequent mass marketing of the idea that AI is the future or be left behind.

We need now more than ever investments in humans, not robots, human intelligence, not artificial intelligence, clean energy, air, water, and programs that support environmental sustainability and the preservation of our planet, not the destruction of it.

You are our checks and balances, and we need our county commissioners to say no to this agenda.

Not a dime of our tax dollars will be spent to experiment with algorithms that replace jobs while the economic hardships of suffering of real people goes ignored.

I'm hopeful that our fate is not sealed by the promises of billionaire tech bros.

There is no dollar amount that or return on investment that justifies contaminating our water supply.

There is no proposed cleanup plan that warrants the risk of our ecosystems.

There is no excuse for uprooting people's lives and livelihoods or disrupting the peace and quiet of communities, subject to the constant roar of data centers running 24 hours a day.

No one should be forced to live near data centers or be forced to move away from their homes in order to safeguard their hearing health and sanity.

We're being forced into an AI future.

And if given the choice between humans and automation, I prefer dealing with humans as we all know the frustration of dealing with automated systems.

AI is invasive and needs to be further developed, understood, and regulated before it is brought to the public.

AI is unpredictable and threatens to make human labor obsolete, yet we are told that it is the only pathway forward.

But just because you repeat something repeatedly doesn't make it true.

You are gambling in a high stakes arena that is uncharted and potentially irreversible.

I'm here to ask you to say no.

Thank you, ma'am.

So before you read in the instructions for public hearing, we do have a motion.

Um Madam Deputy Presiding Officer will make real quick.

Thank you, Madam P.

O.

At this time I move to limit the time for discussion on each of the matters.

This is for the commissioners.

We're limiting our time.

I move to limit the time for discussion on each of the matters in today's meeting, only to allow five minutes the first time to a commissioner, the first time a commissioner speaks, and three minutes the second time for a total of eight minutes on any individual item to improve efficiency of our meetings.

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

Do we need to hit the machines for this one?

And again, this is to limit the amount of time we speak.

The same rules will be fine.

We'll be the same for the public hearing for the public.

Well, third, nine or ten public.

Did you run out of cars?

No, we got out of time.

We did it.

So okay, the machines are open on this motion.

Thank you.

We're machine.

If we don't do it, it doesn't go effect for two hours.

All right, thank you.

That is approved.

So for this meeting today, we we do have an agenda item on this later, but we have a process before it goes into effect.

So first time speaking will be five minutes, second time will be three.

Three minutes.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, if you'll read in the instructions.

Citizens may speak for or against an item that is considered by law to be a zoning ordinance.

And each side will have 10 minutes to present its case.

Citizens may also speak for or against an item that is placed on the public hearing agenda, but it's not a zoning ordinance.

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Seven copies are for the commissioners and the remaining copies are for the planning director, the county attorney, and the clerk.

In all zoning ordinance and traffic common cases, staff shall make their recommendation for action to the commission first, followed by applicants or citizens speaking in favor of the item.

Applicants in zoning ordinance cases shall have the right to reserve time for rebuttal.

Opponents of a zoning ordinance item shall have no right of rebuttal.

For all other items placed on the public hearing agenda, applicants of citizens speaking in favor of the item shall speak first, followed by opponents of the item.

Once the citizens have finished speaking, staff shall make a recommendation for action to the commission.

At this point, citizens are no longer allowed to speak unless called to the podium by an individual commissioner to answer questions or provide information.

Speakers should always talk directly to the microphone and begin by stating their name, address, and the name of any organization they represent.

Abusive, profane or derogatory language will not be permitted.

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But a show of hands or quietly standing in place will be permitted to show support for or opposition to a speaker's position.

Thank you, ma'am.

We do have two items under our public hearing.

First is from planning and planning and sustainability item 2025-0972.

All commission districts.

Application of the director of planning and sustainability to amend chapter 27 to establish a definition, regulatory guidelines, and development standards for data centers and M industrial, M2 Heavy Industrial, OI office institutional, and OD office distribution zoning district.

This text amendment is countywide.

Good morning, Miss Bragg.

Good morning, Commissioner's Rachel Bragg, Deputy Director for Planning and Sustainability.

Staff recommends approval of this text amendment.

This comprehensive land use regulation leaves the regulatory foundation for data centers.

It limits the potential locations for most data centers to industrial zoning districts, requires a slot for anything over 100,000 square feet, requires minimum distance requirements from residential zoning districts as well as parks and trails, and requires numerous support studies as part of the application process, as well as requires annual reports on noise impact, water consumption and sustainability, energy consumption, lighting, a decommissioning plan, a transmission line impact assessment, tree preservation and reforestation plan, stormwater management plan, and sewer plan, as well as requiring any additional information as requested by any of the reviewing departments.

This text amendment is only one part of the regulatory landscape.

That includes not only the planning and sustainability department but and our zoning regulations, but also includes our land disturbance permitting process, building permitting process, as well as other departments such as the Department of Watershed, which have their own requirements.

Other organizations and regulatory authorities also review data centers and their potential impacts, including the EPA, EPD, Department of Energy, Regulatory Energy, Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and other federal and state departments.

So the staff does recommend approval of this text amendment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy Director Bragg.

Anyone wishing to speak in favor of the text amendment, please come to the podium in the back.

Anyone wishing to speak in favor of the text amendment, please come to the podium.

Next, we'll have anyone in opposition, please step to the podium in the back.

It is a collective 10 minutes.

Thank you.

And I will not take up much time.

Early voting began.

These political games are really bad.

Then we were told there's a meeting on June 2nd on this issue at the Committee of the Whole, which will be held at night.

So I said, I thought we were voting on it on May 12th.

Then I hear the items going to be deferred, as if you can guarantee a vote before it's taken.

As if you can guarantee a vote before it's taken.

People are confused.

Should we go?

They're calling me up.

Hey, I heard it was gonna be put off.

Now look at the timing.

A week before we get this uh voting begins, we get this announcement.

On June 2nd, after the initial election day, we can test the temperature of how the voters are feeling.

Then the runoff is on June 16th.

And then presumably, this vote will be deferred to June 23rd when the moratorium expires.

And all I've got to say is this is just more political games, and we are tired of it.

You need to be accountable for your position on data centers and every other issue, so we can vote as informed citizens.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Tina, and I came here tonight as a parent, not as a politician.

My children always tell me that I'm their hero, but lately I don't feel like one.

Because I look at what's happening across this country, and I feel like we're failing future generations in real time while calling it development.

This issue is being presented as a zoning issue, an economic opportunity, and a technological necessity.

But I need everyone in this room to understand this is not just about buildings.

This is about what kind of world we're handing to our children and our grandchildren.

And the truth is this moment feels like we're standing in the middle of the Lorax.

Not at the beginning where the warnings were ignored because everything still looked so beautiful, and not at the end where people finally understood what had been destroyed.

We're in the middle.

The middle.

Do more research.

Good morning, Renee Care with Citizens Who Are Healthy and Safe Environment.

You have heard the community over and over and over and over.

I don't even know what it's going to take for us to keep these data centers out of our communities.

Loudoun, Virginia, the county there, they have over 200 data centers that buzz all day, all night, light coming from everywhere, pollution, high electricity bills.

What do we have to do to keep the data centers out of our communities?

Definitely the overburden and underserved communities.

Please look at listen to your conscience.

We don't want them.

You might have a few that want them, but they probably haven't done their research.

Keep the data centers out of our communities, please, because we're not gonna go anywhere.

Thank you.

I'm gonna try and keep this pretty simple and direct.

I deal with these AI technologies, AI, which I personally think is BS, right?

This is not there's there's no artificial intelligence as a probable deterministic probability engine.

That's it, right?

Um in 2036, if you guys approve this, all you're gonna be looking at, all these data centers that don't exist right now will be empty corporate molloseums of DeCab's corruption and these billionaires just continuously, endlessly lying to us, right?

It was it was the metaverse, it was crypto, crypto was how everyone was gonna be moving our money.

Have any of you ever used crypto?

Right?

It was NFTs.

It was oh, this is gonna replace art.

People are no longer gonna collect art.

Do any of you own any NFTs?

These people are lying, not to us, not to just us, they're lying to you, right?

So you have an opportunity.

It's real simple.

All you have to do is say no, right?

Just say no, and you can start ending this the corruption that DeCab County has had for decades.

How many CEOs, how many people, how many DeCab executives have been arrested by the federal government, right?

This is this is really not that hard.

Don't trust people who constantly lie to you.

Yeah, right.

Um, hi, I'm Jin Dragonzaga.

I'm an actor.

I moved here when all the actors were moving here, and I'm actually using my final vote as a Georgia resident during uh you know in a couple months.

Um, and then I'm actually leaving, but I actually care because of all the data centers that are coming up in Georgia, but because I care about my community and decab, I still wanted to be here today.

Um when I first read about this, I saw that this was postponed, and the reason was that you guys were gonna do more research, right?

So that you could get it right.

And fortunately, all the people here today have done the research for you and given you all of the information that you could need to make an appropriate decision.

Data centers, it's so obvious.

They only represent stupidity and death.

Death of a community, death of our finances as you caught as you force people to pay for the water bills, death of the environment.

Coeta County just voted to redistrict like land that was meant for conservation and animals, death of our water supplies, and truly death of people.

I know the emissions are invisible, and you can't see that it's affecting people's lungs, and that it's known to create problems with people's hearts, and most likely cancer in the future.

So I just want you to remember the power of this invisibility.

Your decision could actually send people to their death.

And that sounds extreme, but the truth is traumatic.

So we'll remember everyone.

Your vote is that's crazy powerful.

I wish you didn't have that much power.

But it really will what you do today in five years could mean the death of an elderly person, the death of a child.

So and the death of fucking humanity in our environment.

I don't care that he sweared.

Okay.

Hi, Hannah Davis.

I am a uh district two resident.

Um, I'm also a data and IT professional, and my entire day is fixing things that uh AI breaks.

Anyone who thinks that this is the future has never actually had to work with it.

Um, I also want to bring up that although the PSC has said that they will protect customers until 2031 for rate increases, they are not going to be able to protect us when the SMR technology does not pan out, and these data centers create huge energy draws that are going to cause the additional coal power that is going to be built in areas of disenfranchised communities.

They are going to be harmed not only from the data centers from themselves, but the long-term sustainability failures that they will present.

Um, this county is being targeted by tech companies because they think that you will trade your citizens' lives in favor for promised tax dollars.

I ask you to please preserve our land and our lives by restricting large data centers and data campuses and preventing them from building in our communities.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Heidi Lopez.

I live off of Plunket Road in Lithonia.

This is my first time attending any meeting like this.

I haven't really been involved, but this has been the issue that's activated me.

And I feel like a lot of people feel like me.

I only went to one meeting organized by folks who cared, and I learned so much about how destructive data centers are.

And I don't think y'all are being asked for anything unreasonable.

People are saying give the amendment more teeth so that there's actual oversight if it's going to go through.

Nobody wants it, but if it's gonna be here, make sure that people can have some oversight because you already have the research for how destructive these data centers are.

That's my belief.

Thank you.

Time has expended.

I would need a motion to extend.

So second.

For how long?

Uh an additional five additional five.

My second still stands.

Okay.

Raise a hand.

Raise your hands all in favor of extending five minutes.

That's unanimous.

If we can put five more minutes on the clock, thank you.

Hold on, one second.

Okay, go ahead, ma'am.

Thank you.

My name's Emily D.

Can I finish what I was saying before?

Um, because my time got cut off.

Just two more seconds.

I will say this.

I echo what everybody says.

This is my first meeting, it's not gonna be my last.

And I'm gonna make sure that I organize for commissioners to be there that actually want what the people want, and I'm gonna do that in English and Spanish until it reflects what the people want.

I don't want it won't be my last.

I'll say that.

Thank you.

My name's Emily Diffenderfer.

I live in District 7.

I've lived in DeCap County for three quarters of my life only because I left for college and some other stuff.

But I wanted to say, as others have said, I also work in tech.

I've been working in tech for over 20 years.

And the whole AI thing is a bubble, okay?

We've experienced this thing where when we shift to cloud computing, everybody was like, yay, yeah, yay, it's an amazing innovation.

It's a new industrial revolution.

But now it was just like now we're living in this always online, subscription-based, 24-hour delivery world that hurts more than it helps.

And we can see that sometimes the next big thing is actually not a good thing.

My most important fact that I want to pull out is just the fact that your documentation on the website talks about how the main reason for doing this is to grow our tax base.

The reality is that you have zero information in this amendment about how you're going to actually make these organizations earn any kind of credits.

Meanwhile, we know that companies like Coinbase, the crypto people, like Tesla, like PayPal, paid zero federal taxes last year.

We also know that we've just come out with this report that we lost 433 million dollars in the state of Georgia because we gave it away to data center companies.

If you're talking about growing our tax base, then let's talk about how to actually earn taxes.

Another thing is if you put all of these things in our communities and we have to leave, who's gonna buy that property?

Nobody.

You've devalued our property and your tax base shrinks even more.

So if we're talking about this is about money, then let's actually make some smart choices.

And if it's not about money, then we need to decide what it is about.

And I don't think we like what that looks like.

So we can either be honest or we can, you know.

Okay, sorry, I forgot.

Good morning.

I'm Melanie Bascom.

I live in Lythonia.

I'm a healthcare provider, and the potential risk to health is really of concern to me.

But my question two questions I have for you now.

Data centers use approximately five million gallons of water a day.

The Cab County does not have the backup capacity if something were to happen, and the water supply will cut off, you know, for the rest of the population.

Who is gonna pay for this at the end of the day?

I know they say the data centers say they will pay for it.

We you we all know that's a lie.

They will pay in the beginning and then you let them under the table.

It it um goes off to the to us, the taxpayers.

And then the electrical grid.

Does the Cab County have the electrical capacity to um come in, you know, to be able to do all of this?

I don't think so.

Please, for the sake of uh the taxpayers here, vote no.

Thank you.

Good morning, Kiana Jones Moore.

I'm a resident of district three.

What I want to say about the current text amendment is that the provisions within the current text amendment that allow for data centers to come to light industrial and industrial zoned areas, as well as the provision that they can't be near high density transit areas, basically leaves district three open as the only place that they can come.

Because while y'all have sat by and allowed MARTA to cut transportation routes, we have no transportation in district three.

We have no heavy rail in district three.

You have the Boulder Crest small area plan community that is fighting against people trying to change the overlay district, and the best you can do is give us this flimsy piece of paper that you've thrown together without real consideration from the community.

If the CEO even agrees with what we've proposed to be added, why is it that you don't find it within yourself to simply represent the people?

How dare you ask somebody for a vote, but then you don't even want to listen to them.

That is not governance, that is not advocacy, and it just ain't right.

I'm Claire Sheck Snyder.

I've lived here 40 years, and I'm gonna quote our CEO.

We only have three to five hours of water if there is any interruption.

Fulton County has 30 days worth.

We can't supply the water that this thing will need.

It is an irrational and irresponsible decision.

Thank you.

Deputy Director Bragg, if you'd like to restate staff's position the staff recommendation is for approval.

Thank you.

Is there a motion on this item?

Or yes, motion.

Motion to defer until June 23rd.

Second.

Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Any request to speak on this item?

To clarify, was that for decision only or for public hearing?

The deferral.

Public hearing.

Thank you.

All right.

See no requests.

We have one request to speak.

Commissioner Balton, you have the four.

Yeah, and I just want to clarify why the decision was made.

And it was um alluded to earlier.

So I did send out a survey, and that was a direct response from a conversation that we'd had where you said you wanted to be more informed.

You wanted to make sure that your concerns were addressed.

So throughout this time, we've had several town halls, we've attended community meetings, we've read white papers, but we understand that it just isn't enough.

And you've said no to the text amendment, and we hear you when you say no.

So we want to make sure we take the time to not only get what you've said in writing, but at the evening Cal meeting will be an opportunity for you to speak as well as we go through the text amendment, which is the goal.

And so the following BLC or BLC after that meeting would be the next opportunity to vote on that item.

But what this will allow us to do is make sure that we are taking the concerns that you have, the recent suggestions that you guys have provided and incorporate those things into the text amendment because we've all agreed that it just isn't ready yet.

I yield back.

Thank you.

Commissioner Masaya, you are next.

Thank you, Madam P.

O.

Um, I just want to say that I appreciate seeing um some of the proposed requirements, some of which I've been wanting to add as well and having conversations along those lines.

We do finally have, and it is the credit of the planning for that.

We've fought for and now have a decommission.

I would also like to see a bond.

Those are things that I have remained consistent about in my communication.

Also, the impact as it relates to noise, water, and air usage.

It's sort of challenging to be quite frank for the expectation for us to give more teeth, and I completely agree with the fact that we need more teeth, but also penalizing us for wanting the capacity to do so.

My position's always been before, because I'm not dealing with any applications, before there's any application, we need to deal with the text amendment and make sure the proper protections are in place, and that's working with the community.

I appreciate the advocacy, particularly those that are having the conversations, so that we can get the best that we can get to protect the folks before we even consider whether there's any applications that's processed, particularly those who have worked, who are calling themselves advocates, who have worked here at the BOC.

There's an opportunity to work together to make this the best that we can.

That is my position, and it will remain and has been from the onset.

With that, I yield back to you, Madame P.O.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Messiah.

Please be respectful.

I do not want to have to put anybody out.

Please respect the rules.

Thank you.

Please open the machines for the vote.

Motion to defer passes.

We have one more item for a public hearing.

Public works and transportation item 2026-0795, Commission Districts 3 and 6.

This is resolution order and declaration of taking required temporary easement for Constitution Road Freight Corridor Improvement.

Cost to the county $2,205 at the address of 3316 Fayetteville Road.

Warren E.

Pope Jr.

et al.

Good morning, Miss Keater.

Good morning, Commissioners.

Um, this is a property um required for uh roundabout and at the um at the location.

And unfortunately, there are six property owners of which multiple are deceased.

So we just need to go through the courts so they can decide how the funding is distributed to each party.

So our recommendations for approval.

Thank you.

And now this is public hearing.

So if anyone is here to speak in favor of this item, please come to the back podium.

Anyone else in favor of this item?

I see someone raising their hand.

Would you like to speak, ma'am?

Hello, good morning.

Good morning, ma'am.

Hi.

My name is Tina Holloman.

Tina Gay Holliman.

I am one of the owners of this property.

Three of my family members have passed.

And I was informed that this decision was necessary because of the complicated air.

So my mother is here.

We've agreed that if this is the proper avenue to which this needs to happen, then we're in agreement with it.

Thank you, ma'am.

Anyone else wishing to speak in favor?

Seeing no one else.

Is there anyone here to speak in opposition of this item?

Final call.

Anyone here to speak in opposition of this item?

Ms.

Keeter, if you can come back and give staff recommendation.

I I failed to mention that the um deceased property owners were without a will.

So that's why there's not a clear um determination of distribution of funds.

Our recommendations for approval.

Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a motion on this item?

Motion to approve.

Oh this is not mystery.

I'm sorry.

It's three and six.

Actually, um, my motion is to deny.

Is there a second for the motion to deny?

If we can get a second for discussion.

Second for discussion only.

Commissioner Masai has requested a speaker.

Thank you so much.

Uh I just have a couple of quick questions.

And so are we talking um in terms of the entire property located at 3316 Fayette Road, or is it just for a portion of it for easement purposes specifically?

Oh, it's a small strip take.

Um the values $225.

So it's not the whole property.

No, ma'am.

All right, thank you.

Um, and then just another um very quick question.

Um, so I understand you sharing that um the properties, it should be in test state.

There's not a will to the air, is there two individuals that may have a uh property interest in the back.

Um had there been notice to the other three people.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, and uh they just not decided to respond, participate.

Can you give me some update of what's going on there?

Um we've had conversations um with uh Mr.

Pope, I believe, and um Miss Holliman that was in the back, and um it's it's just that I mean even if all the people who are alive agreed because of the deceased without uh a will in place, it would still have to go to the courts to decide.

I completely agree, and that is my next question.

So why are we not going through the courts?

I am very mindful to stay within the realm of the scope of my authority, and that's why we have courts to determine um any ownership interests and what specifically any individual to take under any distribution.

So um is had they not gone to the court, we've not gone to the court, what's going on there?

We need this action to take it to the courts to start that process.

Okay, so this is specifically just to take it to the court, not to make a final determination as to the taking of this specific property.

This is just the court action itself.

Well, to start the court action, we would need the condemnation and then it would go to courts and they could talk about the the funding amount as well as the distribution.

So it gives us that opportunity um to start those discussions that are beyond staff's, you know, and even our capabilities at this point.

Okay, and so I just wanted to make sure that we were clear and that it was for just a piece of the property, it's not and the county's not taking anyone's or just condemning a whole property in its entirety and meant not making the final arbitration as to what the distribution is that we are the next step to go to the courts for them to make that determination.

That's correct.

All right, fantastic.

Then I will uh Madam P.O.

I'll amend my motion to approve and not sure uh commissioner Belton's um second, but just wanting to make sure, as I'm always mindful in notice and pro people property and what we do specifically here in the county.

Thank you so much, um, Ms.

Geter, for answering those questions.

Is your circumstance, Commissioner Bolton?

Second stance.

So the she did amend her motion to make it for approval and not denial.

And the Commissioner Davis Johnson has no longer requested to speak, so please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to approve.

Thank you.

Um we I have one point I need actually need to go back.

I was made aware that the comments from the public was not a quite full 30 minutes.

So if it is okay with the um we've had if it's can I complete my sentence and then we can discuss this.

Thank you.

So it was brought to my attention, it may not have been a full 30 minutes.

So if it if it is the pleasure of this board to do an additional five minutes for public comment so moved.

So moved.

We have a motion.

Is there a second?

I have a question on Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Uh the clerk keeps the time.

Now I always time mine when it starts from my phone.

It's not the official time.

But the clerk is the official one that keeps the time.

I had 30 minutes.

Um yeah, 30 minutes.

So can the clerk verify officially how much what the time was.

We started at 9 33 and 903.

Yeah, I mean, it was done.

Oh, hit the mic.

It started at 9 33, it ended at 1003.

And that includes 30 minutes.

That includes the instructions.

No, I usually give two minutes for instructions.

Okay.

So again, I was asked to reconsider.

I'm at I'm asking for that.

We had a motion.

If there's a no second and it fails, then I did what I was requested.

I'd like to finish my comment.

You know, if for any reason that you want to extend it, although I am not in favor of it because those are the rules.

You know, but don't put it on the fact that there was not sufficient time.

I can only provide what was given to me.

I'm saying the clerk has just stated officially that it was 30 minutes.

I say that it was 30 minutes here.

So if there's a motion to extend the time based on for whatever reason, that should be the motion, but not that it was not that the official time of 30 minutes were not was not permitted because that's false.

I made the motion to extend for five minutes.

There still needs to be a second if you guys would like to do that for what reason for just to extend public comments.

Just to extend it for five minutes.

Why five rather than three?

I think that we need to follow the rules.

So I'm calling a point of order.

A motion was made.

We need a second, and then you open for discussion.

So if we don't have a second, it fails, and we can move on to our agenda.

So it seems to have failed lack of a second.

Okay, let's move on.

If you appreciate the discussion, I was just doing what was requested of nine as presiding office.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

We are now at the bottom of page three.

Appointments not requiring board action for information only.

This is from Board of Commissioners.

Item 2026-0841.

All commission districts record the appointment of Cheryl.

Court of Meyer.

I think I got it.

To the Cab County Women's Commission as the City of Decatur appointee.

May I make a quick comment on that, please?

Sure.

Thank you.

Um and I appreciate that.

So uh Commissioner Cheryl Quartermeyer is a new commissioner on the Decatur Commission.

And I am very excited that she was appointed to the DeCab County Women's Commission by the new mayor of the City of Decatur to Mayor Powers.

And I think she will be a great addition to the women's commission.

Thank you so much.

Now you'll back.

Thank you.

Continuing to read into the record, top of page four.

This is a district four appointment.

Item 2026-0831.

Record the appointment of Dennis Allen to the DeCab United Sports Commission as a standing member with a voting with voting privileges to the DeCab United Sports Commission as a district four representative.

From District 6, item 2026-0807.

Super District 6 record the appointment of Eric Carlton to the DeCab United Sports Commission as a standing member with voting privileges to the DeCab United Sports Commission as a district six representative.

From District 7, item 2026-0789.

Um record the appointment of Amaryllessander to the District 4 Community Council.

The appointment will continue at the pleasure of Commissioner Bolton.

And now we are on to appointments that need action.

Also from District 7, item 2026-0754.

All commission districts appoint David Garcia to point post seven of the recreation parks and cultural affairs board.

This is under the Skoda PES.

Yes.

Thank you.

Give a motion.

I'm sorry.

Uh motion to this needs to go to the facts.

Motion to defer um to the next BLC meeting with a stop in PECS.

Let me see if we're gonna hear it today.

Can we today?

No.

All right.

All right.

Then a motion to defer to the June 2nd.

I'm sorry.

Uh June 9th, BOC with a stop in PECS on May 26.

Second.

Second.

Go ahead.

Is it Bolton's?

Seeing no request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer the carries.

We're now on top of page five, which is the start of our consent agenda.

If you're ready.

Ready.

Let's go.

Item 2026-0846.

Approval of minutes for the May 5th, 2026 committee of the whole meeting.

Move for action.

Under District 2, item 2026-0828.

Um, allocation of $9,000 from District 2 reserve for appropriation to Carl Vinson Institute to conduct a survey on residents' views on spay neuter policies.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0830.

Allocation of 10,000 from District 2 reserved for appropriation to support Globe Academy Summer Camp.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0836.

Allocation of 176,050 from District 2 Park Bond Accounts and D2 Capital Reserves for Improvements at Pinegrass Park.

Move for action.

District 3 items.

Item 2026-0849 to appropriate amount not to exceed $30,000 to Superior Court for the Law Clinic from the District 3 Reserve for Appropriation.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0850 to allocate an amount not to exceed 10,000 dollars to DeCAB Pro Bono from the District 3 Reserved for Appropriation.

Move for action.

Top of page 6.

Item 2026-0851 to allocate an amount not to exceed 10,000 dollars to start me program e-solate coalition from district three reserved for appropriation.

Move for action.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0855 to allocate an amount not to exceed 10,000 dollars to Atlanta Master Sisters United and Human Services Rights of UNTA program from the District 3 Reserve for Appropriation.

Move for action.

District 7 items, item 2026-0772, an item to allocate an amount not to exceed $3,000 for the reserve for appropriation contributed towards the Hank Stewart Foundation and Southwest DeCab Alumni 16th Annual Career Day Programming.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0780.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed $35,000 of District 7 Reserve for Appropriation contributed to Flat Rock Archive for Historical TA Bryant Senior House and Grounds Preservation.

Move for action.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed $2,100 of the District 7 Reserve for Appropriation Funds to our Johnson community for the 29th annual county line.

Ellenwood community date and parade.

Move for action.

Top of page seven.

Item 2026-0785.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed $3,500 to the Women's Resource Center and $3,500 to the International Women's House for Domestic Violence Survivors and Awareness.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0786.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed $15,000 of the District 7 Reserve for Appropriation Funds.

To how big is your dream foundation for youth summer programming?

Move for action.

Item 2026 dash 0787.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed $5,000 of the District 7 Reserve for Appropriation Funds to Rainbow Park Baptist Church.

Harvest sponsorship for the R Food Pantry and Closed Closet Ministry.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0788.

An item to allocate an amount not to exceed 1,000 dollars of district seven reserved for appropriation to planning and sustainability for World Planning Day 2026.

Move for action.

Under clerk to the Board of Commissioners and CEO.

Item 2026-0696.

Approval of the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting of April 28, 2026.

Move for action.

Top of page eight.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0797, districts five and seven.

Lighting agreement, SR12, Covington Highway from Belmont Place to the east of Strathmore Manor Drive.

The financial impact on the transportation division budget will be $1,582.56 yearly.

Move for action.

And item 2026-0798 districts three and seven.43 between Beach Drive and Northeast of Covington Drive.

Move for action.

And with that, Madam Presiding Officers.

Second.

Seeing no request to speak.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion carries.

So for the first read of item 2026-0801, all commission districts to amend section two of the Board of Commissioners standing procedural rules to establish limits on commissioners speaking time.

So this is in conjunction to the individual action we took today for this meeting only.

We will do a second read at the next voting meeting and then we can vote.

And then it will be a change, official change.

So yes, ma'am.

I make a motion to defer.

No, no action.

Oh, it was just the further first read.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So now we're on top of page nine, a district six item, item 2026-0769.

All commission districts, a resolution requesting the administration to establish independent civilian oversight and auditing for the CAP County's digital field initiatives and surveillance infrastructure.

And this is an ERPS item.

Yes, ma'am.

We haven't had an opportunity to discuss this item.

So at this time, I move to defer the item for two weeks.

And that should be the May 26th BLC with a prior stop in second.

We have a motion and a second to defer.

No request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries under Chief Executive Office item 2026-0860 to amend the fiscal year 2026 annual budget and appropriate capital funding for various items.

This is a FAB item.

Thank you very much.

Um recommend deferral to the June 9th business meeting will be heard in FAB on May 26th.

And is there a second?

Thank you.

If you hit the button, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

See no request to speak, please open the machine.

Motion to defer carries.

An amendment to agenda item 2026-0396, changing the DeCab County Day Center venue from Peace Baptist Church to New Life Community Alliance Incorporated at 3592 Flat Shoals Road, Decatur, Georgia, 30034, and reduction in overall costs at 23,077.

Motion to defer to the May 26 BLC with the staff and pegs today, May 12th.

Second see no requests to speak, please open the machines.

Hit it again.

Motion to defer carries under public safety item 2026-0808.

All commission districts FY 2026 FIFA World Cup grant program and amount not to exceed 1,487,037.

On behalf of the ERPS committee, on behalf of the ERPS committee, I move to approve item 20260808.

Second have a motion to approve.

Seeing no request to speak, please open the machines.

Motion to approve carries.

Public works roads and drainage item 2026-0587.

All districts proposed stonewater utility fee increase.

So my motion is going to be to defer for two weeks to the May 22nd BOC meeting with a prior stop at PWI.

Um, and I'll have additional comment.

Is there a second?

Thank you.

Second.

Commissioner Long Spears has requested a speaking then, Commissioner Patrick.

Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

My question, I believe, is for Commissioner Patrick.

Um it appears, just looking at the agenda, that it was initially brought on to the agenda on March 26th of this year, withdrawn and then reintroduced on May 5th of this year.

I'm just curious what happened there.

I think we'd have to defer to staff on that.

Okay, thank you.

Go ahead, Mr.

Williams.

Yes, ma'am.

My recollection is we simply needed to refine uh some of the numbers and uh update the proposal.

Update the proposal from the initial one that the initial one.

Okay, all right, very good.

That's all I need to know.

Thank you so much.

I yield back, madam P.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

Uh thank you, Madam PO.

Um, obviously, this is going to be a topic that I think the rest of the board of commissioners will want to have some information on, and so I believe our conversation was was we wanted to have this come back where all commissioners could be in attendance, hear some conversation, the possibility of even a town hall, uh, so that we can one uh explain everything to the other commissioners as well as let the residents know what is being asked of us uh from the administration and and what's the ask and then what's the return.

What do what do the residents get in in return for this request?

So um that's why we're not voting on this today.

We're asking it for to be deferred a little bit so that we can come back and sort of have a a strategy on how to talk with the residents as well as the other commissioners who do not serve on PWI.

Thank you.

And before I uh go back to Commissioner Long Spears, Commissioner Patrick, if I remember our conversation in PWI, I think the thought was to have it as a discussion item during a cow meeting.

That is correct.

Commissioner Long Spears.

Thank you very much, Madam PO.

It's think you just threw the softball to me.

Um my question was are we going to address it in a cow meeting?

My second question is um, are y'all looking to address it during the night cow meeting on June 18 June 2nd, excuse me.

We were still working with the administration on the exactual rollout of that.

We hadn't really come up with a you think you'll be ready.

If there is, of course, um room on the agenda.

And I but that to that point, I think there is gonna be a lot on the June 2nd.

So I think we were trying to see if we could do a standalone um town hall town hall for that.

As well as the count as well as the count.

Okay, so during a daytime cow at some point, plus a standalone evening town hall.

Yeah.

Okay, as soon as that gets set, if you would please let us know.

I try really hard to give advanced notice to my constituents.

Thank you.

Yield back.

Thank you.

Thank you.

See no other request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

And the motion was to defer.

Motion to defer carries.

We're now on page 10, public works and transportation.

Item 2026-0589, districts two and six allocate eight million dollars of SLOSS 2 funding line item B point three for South Peace Vie Creek Trail Extension from Medlock Park to Louva Hills Development.

Uh move for action.

Actually, I was just handed substitutes for the next two, so if we can take this one separate.

Uh I apologize.

Yes.

Um, I will go ahead and uh motion to approve.

Second.

With comment, please.

Okay.

The motion is to approve, seconded by Commissioner Long Spears, who has requested a speaker you have the floor.

Thank you, ma'am.

I just um again to the PWI chair and committee members.

Thank you all so much for recommending approval.

This is a project that has been discussed since even before I joined the board.

It is the trailhead over at the Lula Hills project and district two, right there, actually on the border of district four.

So thank you all so much.

I am so excited about this project, and so are my constituents, and certainly shout out to our parks folks for all of your efforts behind the scenes.

Thank you so much.

Yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

Yeah, um, just following up with what Commissioner Spears uh mentioned.

Um very happy to support this.

I do think trails is a countywide priority, uh, certainly for district one, but further out the rest of the county, that connectivity I think will be important uh in the future for our residents.

Um also note that I was on decide to cab when when uh this came up and was happy to support it as well.

Um and then finally uh and perhaps the most important thing, the eight million dollars of SPLOST funding.

Uh we approve that directly out of uh committee.

This is simply setting that money as I understand from the SPLOS from SPLOSS dollars into a special fund for the trail that is using SPOSS dollars as the spend comes along, contracts will be provided, and then we'll get into the audit with Mr.

Lavois Campbell's team to verify dollars are being spent appropriately.

And with that, thank you, madam.

Thank you, Commissioner Bolton.

Um I was not able to attend the PWI meeting where you guys discuss this, but will Lula Hills development be contributing toward the extension of the trail.

Are they matching any funds?

So um this idea and uh is that uh Ms.

Keeter coming up as I recall, this is all a reimbursement.

Most ads are the money comes up front and the development activity happens.

This is they're going to build it, and as I understand, they're gonna re reimburse the county for it.

Is that up to four and a half million dollars?

Four and a half million.

So I will submit monthly reimbursements and they will reimburse up to four and a half million dollars to the SPLOS fund for the Pedbike SPLOSS fund um so that we can do other projects.

Okay, and and just for clarity, so the upfront cost is eight million, but Lula Hills will pay back essentially four and a half million.

That's correct.

Okay.

And that's an engineer's estimate rounded.

So understood.

It has not been bid yet.

I just wanted to make sure that we clarify it because this is a fairly new project, and I'm sure other communities will be wondering how they were able to get their trail extension much more quickly than other areas.

So it it helps with understanding to know they are contributing to the project.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Long Spears, for your second opportunity.

Uh yes, ma'am, thank you so much.

Um I would be remiss if I did not thank our transportation department, Director Keter, and also our SPLOST, Mr.

Kingsbury, who's raising his hands for all of your efforts as well.

Um Commissioner Bolton, just to give you a little bit of background on it.

This was actually a project that decide to cab took on when Commissioner Patrick was on the board, and it's part of a 70 million dollar um partnership with Eden's, and so a portion of that partnership with who now?

Eden's oh Eden's, yes.

Eden's was for them to contribute the four and a half million dollars for that trailhead.

So it's really not a new project.

It was voted on in 2023, the first year that I was on this board, and there was considerable dialogue and public comment with the decide the cab board on this project.

Thank you very much.

I yield back.

But so it is relatively new with respect to what I was referring to.

2023 wasn't that long ago, but I understand what it's new on our agenda.

So yes, point point taken.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

See no further request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to approve carries, and we do have a substitute for the next item.

So item 2026 dash 0813, all commission districts acceptance of funds from Atlanta Regional Transit Link Authority, the ATL for the DeCab County Transit Master Plan.

Uh move fraction.

Oh, we gotta do the I'm sorry, we gotta do these individually.

Um I believe this was the one for 550,000.

Pardon me, 625,000.

Yeah, substitute says 625,000.

Yep.

So um based on the recommendation of PWI, motion to approve.

Can I get a second?

Thank you, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Are you still requesting to speak, Commissioner Longspears?

Commissioners, if you could approve the substitute, and I will note the the subs the only change between the uh original agenda item and the substitute is we just put some background materials in the attachment.

But if you would approve the sub motion for the substitute, motion to approve the substitute.

Your second stance, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

I'm sorry.

You're he approved the substitute, your second stance, yes, ma'am.

My second stance, and that's someone from PWI.

Well, the other member of PWI is not present, and so it's me.

I appreciate you.

Commissioner Long Spears.

Thank you.

Um, that was ultimately my question because um you had mentioned six hundred and twenty-five thousand, so it's the same on the sub and the original.

So, Director Keter, it's just providing a little bit more context on this item.

Is that correct?

We just attach the award or the report email, just ma'am.

Just to have that documentation memorialized in the agenda item.

Understood.

All right, thank you so much.

I yield back.

Thank you.

Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Just wanted to make note that someone should note from microphone, please.

Just wanted to make note that someone should note that the presiding officer is now.

Uh Chicago Johnson.

Oh, don't to the ARC board.

I mean, to that uh Atlanta Regional Transit Line Authority because the letter was they still has your name on there, Commissioner Longspeace.

Yes, gotcha.

So they just need to make note that we have a new presiding office.

Thank you for pointing that out.

Oh, okay.

If there is nothing else, we can open the machines for the vote.

Motion to approve the substitute carries, and this next item again has a substitute as well.

Item 2026 0814, all commission districts acceptance and appropriation of 500,000 dollars of funds for the Lana Regional Commission ARC for the DeCab County Transit Master Plan update.

Uh, as the recommendation of PWI motion to approve the substitute.

He said the substitute.

And is the second please.

Thank you.

Commissioner Lock Spears, you have requested a speaker floor.

Yes, ma'am.

To um the PWI chair.

What is the difference between the original and the sub?

Um I believe Director Keeter can speak to it.

I think she also edited the letter.

The agenda items are exactly the same.

We just attached the award email just to memorialize that record keeping.

So we want to see it.

Fantastic.

Thank you, ma'am.

I yield back.

Commissioner Messiah.

Thank you so much, Madam P.

L.

So essentially, we um we just voted and we accepting of those um regional transit funds for 625, and then reappropriating 500,000 to ACIP, leaving a residual of 125, and then local matches 125.

So we are appropriating minus the amount that we're supposed to match.

Actually, just the opposite.

Okay.

We're accepting 625.

We're accepting 500,000.

The 500,000 has a 125 match.

Okay.

The Atlanta, the ATL link, um has approved us to use 125,000 dollars of their money.

Okay.

To be the local match for the 500,000 for the ARC.

Nice.

So um we're actually getting both funding.

Thank you.

I I appreciate that.

And so um here you said the sub is just memorializing in the award letter.

Um in the award letter, that it does share that there was a Fulton County document um to give like best direct examples as to you know um the work that can be used.

Did you see the examples?

Have you gotten to absolutely we've been we're we're very close to having a contract with ARC and ATLink.

Okay.

Um so we've been working on those um since for for a while now.

Fantastic.

Well, great to uh I'm great that um we know we're trying to move on with transportation options has been an ongoing concern, you know, particularly in certain areas, and I'm interested to see um you know the direct examples as well.

Um always curious as to the things that we can do better or what others uh may be doing that we can borrow from.

So if you could share that with myself and the other uh commissioners, that'd be fantastic.

Okay, you would like the example scope mentioned in the email.

Correct from Flint County, that'd be great.

All right, thank you so much.

I yield back to you, Madame PL.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no further request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to approve the substitute carries.

We're now on the top of page 11.

These are purchasing and contracting items for the ERPS committee.

Item 2026-0438, all commission districts, surveillance detection equipment, purchasing policy exemption for use by the department of police services, consists of purchasing detection mapping devices and training for equipment awarded to research electronics international LLC amount not to exceed 122,395 dollars.

Move for action.

Yes, ma'am.

Item 2026-0476, all commission districts contract, renewal for contract number 1377595, medical exam services for use by the department of fire rescue.

This contract consists of medical and mental health screening and evaluations of fire rescue personnel.

This request is to exercise the second renewal option through May 31st, 2027, awarded to site mid North America LLC amount not to exceed 350,000 dollars.

Move for action.

Item 2026 that's 0525, change order number one to contract number 1342927, decals for county vehicles for use by the Department of Police Services, Animal Enforcement Services, Fire Rescue, Fleet Management, and the Marshall's Office.

This contract consists of providing the production and installation of vinyl decals for county vehicles.

This request seeks to increase the contract term and funds through March 31st, 2027, awarded to AKO Signs Incorporated Amount not to exceed 137,500.

Move for action.

Okay, top of page 12.

Item 2026-0650, renewal contract number 1379950, biohazardous police car cleaning service for use by police services.

This contract consists of the cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting of police vehicles as needed.

This request seeks to exercise the second renewal option through June 30th, 2027, awarded to DuCon Technologies LLC, amount not to exceed 45,000.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0673.

Change order number one to contract numbers 2000, 485, and 486.

Guns, ammunition, and accessories for use by the departments of police services and the marshal's office.

This contract consists of purchasing through the competitively let statewide contracts for guns, ammunition and accessories.

This request seeks to increase contract funds for police services awarded to Gulf States Distributors Inc., Dana Safety Supply Inc.

and Precision Delta Corporation.

Total amount not to exceed 265,000 dollars.

Move for action.

Item 2026-0674.

Change order number three to contract number one two five eight three three four.

This contract consists of providing geotechnical and geo-environmental evaluations for the engineering constructability and or potential environmental risk of multiple sites throughout the county.

This request seeks to increase contract funds to add to add the department of police services awarded to accurate engineering and consulting services inc amount not to exceed 37,360.

Move for action.

Papa Page 13, item 2026-0682, renewal of contract number 2000 274, aviation fuel for police helicopters for use by the Department of Police Services.

This contract consists of the purchase of aviation fuel for the county's police helicopters on a as needed basis.

This request seeks to ratify a previously provided contract term increase.

This request further seeks to exercise the first renewal option through May 13th, 2027, awarded to Perry Brothers Aviation Fuels LLC, amount not to exceed $75,000.

Move for action.

And with that, Madam Presiding Officer, on behalf of the ERPS Committee, I move to approve items 2026-0438, 0476-0525, 0650, 0673, 0674, and 0682.

Thank you.

Second.

I see no request to speak.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to approve those items carries.

We are now on one purchasing and contracting item for the ops committee.

Bottom of page 13.

Item 2026-0634.

Change order number two.

The contract number 1192609.

Tyler Cloud Hosting Services Migration for the IAS World Software Soleil Source for use by the Department of Innovation and Technology to obtain three-year cloud SAAS hosting services to assess and collect property taxes.

Seeking increase in contract funds and term through December 31st, 2029, awarded to Tyler Technologies Inc.

Amount not to exceed 4 million nine 4 million 94,807 cents.

Is it still an audit?

Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Bottom of page 13.

We had one contracting item.

Still an audit.

So I make a I'm sorry, it's still an audit, so I'll make a motion to defer this item to the May the 26th meeting with the stop in uh a stop bag in ops.

Thank you.

If you hit your button, and is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

So you know request to speak for deferring this item.

Please open machine for the vote.

That motion to defer carries.

We're now on top of page 14.

These are PEX item, one PEX item.

Item 2020.

Item 2026-0614.

Commission districts 356 and 7.

Change order number 2 to contract number 137363.

Restoration and maintenance of athletic fields for use by the Department of Recreation Parks and Cultural Affairs.

This contract consists of site restoration and maintenance of athletic fields.

This request seeks to increase contract funds and extend the contract term through August 31st, 2026, awarded to JMB landscaping inc.

Amount not to exceed 200,000 dollars.

I have a motion to defer this agenda item to the May 26th BOC meeting with the stop in PECS May 12th.

Second.

Thank you.

Motion and a second.

No request to speak.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer that item carries.

We read that um as a regular agenda item as though it's going to and it was a motion to for it to go into PECS.

Um, but normally the uh appointments don't usually go into the committee as you are aware of, and so we can take that as a direct uh appointment of vote as aboard.

It's on page four.

Bottom of page four.

So we we can't just read it in, but we can go ahead and vote on it and doesn't require interview.

Understood.

Let's take that a little later since District 7 has stepped off the stage.

We'll come back to that.

Please remind me.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you for that.

Um we are now on PWI items, uh, middle of page 14.

Item 2026-0232.

Um, invitation number two zero two five zero six six ITB, chemicals for odor control, three-year multi-year contract for use by the department of watershed management to obtain chemicals for odor control, recommend award to the lowest responsive and responsible bidders, acuity specialty products inc doing business as ZEP Cells and Service Breakthrough Solutions Janitorial Supply, Ferguson Waterworks, People's Janitorial Supplies, Inc.

and State Industrial Products Corp.

Total Amount Not to Exceed 494,049.

Uh move fraction.

Yes, sir.

Item 2026-0477, invitation number 2025-123, ITB, right-of-way mowing and maintenance services for use by public works, sanitation, and beautification to obtain mowing and lawn maintenance services at various right-of-way locations.

Seeks to reserve the right to transfer funds between contracts based on the needs of the county.

Recommend awards to the lowest responsive and responsible bidders, re-image general contractors, and Russell Landscape LLC, total amount not to exceed 719,650 dollars.

Move fraction.

Top of page 15.

Item 2026-0655.

Renewal of contract numbers 1381670 and 1381672.

Little rem litter removal services for use by the Department of Public Works, Sanitation and Beautification to obtain year-round litter removal services on various roadways, exit ramps, and medians.

Exercising second renewal option through June 30th, 2027, and adding Department of Watershed to contract awarded to American Eagle LLC and Russell Landscape.

Total amount not to exceed 1,435,487 and 32 cents.

Move fraction.

Item 2026-0677.

Change order number one to contract number 1337545.

Design and engineering services during construction for Snapfinger Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility.

Expansion Phase 3A project for use by the Department of Watershed Management.

Seeking increase in contract scope of work funds and term through December 31st, 2031, awarded to CDM Smith Inc.

Amount not to exceed $658,789.35 cents.

Move fraction.

Item 2026-0678.

Change order number one to contract number two zero zero zero three three one.

Snap finger vault assessment and cleaning for use by the Department of Watershed Management to obtain continued assessment and cleaning of sanitary sewer pipes and contract term extension.

Seeking to ratify a previously issued contract term increase and obtain increase in contract funds and term through March 31st, 2027.

Awarded to compliance and viral systems LLC amount not to exceed 3,043.

Awarded to compliance and viral systems LLC amount not to exceed 3,014, 358 dollars.

Uh move fraction, uh Madam Presiding Officer.

I make a motion to defer the following agenda items for two weeks to the May 26 BOC meeting with a prior stop at PWI.

Those uh items are 2026-0232 047 0655 067 0678.

Thank you.

Second, if you hit your button again, Commissioner Packett.

There we go.

Thank you, Commissioner Massiah.

See no request to speak.

Please open the machines.

Motion to defer carries.

We are now top of page 16.

Well, let's go back one second.

Commissioner Bolton, while you were away, it was brought to our attention that your appointment.

Um David Garcia for Parks and Recs actually did not need to go to PEX, and we can take a direct vote on it if you we would like to re-hear that right now.

Absolutely.

Okay, can I get a motion to reconsider that item?

Motion to reconsider agenda item ending in 0754.

Second.

If you'll hit your button.

Bottom of page four.

No.

Last minute.

That's what I thought.

Motion to reconsider carries.

So I will reread the item.

Item 2026 0754.

All commission districts to appoint David Garcia to post seven of the recreation parks and cultural affairs board.

Motion to approve.

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

No request to speak.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Commissioner Luxberg.

Motion to approve carries.

Thank you for that.

All right.

Now we are on top of page 16.

This is a district one item, item 2024-1237.

All commission districts.

A request of for the director of planning and sustainability to amend the Cab County nuisance ordinance to add a closure of chronic nuisance properties ordinance chapter.

This is a PECS item.

Motion to defer to the June 9th BOC with the stop in PECS, May 26th.

Second.

Second.

If we hit your buttons, please.

There we go.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Now we are in the bottom of page 17.

Item 2024-1239.

All commission districts.

An ordinance to amend the code of DeCap County, Georgia, as revised 1988, Chapter 18, Article 3, property maintenance to establish minimum standards for vacant property, require property owners to apply for a border permit and for other purposes.

Also a PECS item.

Motion to defer as it was agreed to by commit in committee, excuse me, to defer to the June 9th BOC with the stop and picks in May 26.

Second.

Thank you.

Seeing no request to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Yes.

Item 2025-06A3.

All commission districts to approve a resolution to address egregious littering and the illegal dumping of scrap tires.

We're almost there, but on behalf of the ERPS committee, we're going to defer it for another two weeks.

And that's the May 26th meeting with a prior stop in the Earth's.

Second.

If you'll hit your button, Commissioner Bolton.

And Commissioner Patrick has requested to speak.

Go ahead, sir.

Uh yes, thank you, Madam President Officer.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um we have uh I should say uh central staff.

Um Mr.

Marcus Allen was able to forward um a red line version and a more updated version of the code, and that's been sent to everybody.

So the idea is is uh when it comes back to ERPS the next time, um, hopefully you get a pass and then come back to the BOC and then put this into place.

Uh there's been a lot of progress uh made within the county.

Uh you know, obviously the work we're doing here at the Board of Commissioners, CEO's office has also done a considerable amount of work as well, and um we are pushing this from two different angles to get success.

So uh thank you very much to the commissioners, central staff, Mr.

Marcus Allen.

Thank you, as well as the CEO's office.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

Commissioner Masaya.

I I have uh constituents who have referenced this um agenda item, and I'll be excited when we get it past the threshold.

Thank you for spearheading it and um having the insight to know that it's something that the county needs to jump on and the CEO's office administration for playing the enrollment central staff, just making sure that we get this down to finality.

Thank you.

If if I may respond to that, um it was actually a district one dog walker who is walking her dog in the neighborhood uh that uh reported this.

Um not everyone calls 911.

Oftentimes they report incidents on Facebook and next door, and so that's where it got reported out, but it did make it to me, and uh um this has been the results of really one resident standing up and complaining and saying there's an issue.

So um thank you much to the residents, and uh again, thank you, Commissioners, for your time.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So no further requests to speak.

Let's open the machine for the vote to defer this item.

Uh scrap text motion to defer carries.

We are now top of page 21, I just for two item.

Item 2026-0596, all commission districts and ordinance to regulate the restraint and transportation of animals and for other purposes, and this is an ERPS.

And we have not had an opportunity yet to discuss this item.

The right I'm out of ERPS, I move to defer this item for 60 days.

And this is item 2026 0596.

Second.

So one more time.

Commissioner Long Spears has requested a speak.

Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

I would like to make a substitute motion to defer this item for 30 days.

This just for everybody's background context and knowledge.

Oh, I do need to excuse me about that.

Second.

Oh, thank you.

I appreciate that.

So, Madam ERPS chair, just to give everybody some context and background on this.

We've been working on this behind the scenes with state national experts now for well over a year.

And we're very excited to bring it forward.

It was introduced on the agenda in excuse me, March of 2026.

So this year, a couple of months ago.

The reason there is some time sensitivity to this is that if you really go back and read about tethering and the negative impacts that tethering has on dogs specifically, is during extreme temperature.

So when it's very hot and very cold, is when we do see the uh physical damage or death of dogs being tethered.

So we do currently have a tethering ordinance.

The effort here is to strengthen that tethering ordinance.

And to point out, if we do 60 days, that takes us into the second, no, the first meeting of July.

So we're in the first meeting of May right now.

That takes us to the first meeting of July.

The challenge there is we are not having any committee of the holes in July.

So the first two weeks of July, we have a business meeting, week one, a business meeting week two.

So if it's deferred to the business meeting in week one, it doesn't really give us a lot of time if there happens to be a deferral.

You don't have the general two weeks to work on whatever concerns it might be.

So my suggestion and purpose of my substitute is to defer it for 45 days, and what that will do will take us to the second meeting in May.

If this board does have any concerns or issues with that with that um updating and strengthening of the current ordinance, then that will give my team, our lawyers, our national and state experts, time to huddle to work through whatever those concerns are, so we're able to bring it back before it gets to the super hot time in Georgia.

Commissioner Longspears, just to clarify, I thought when you originally made your substitute motion 30 days.

Oh, excuse me, 30 days, which would be oh, I apologize.

Okay.

30 days, which would take us to the first meeting in May.

Forgive me, thank you.

Do you yield?

June.

Oh my goodness, yes.

I need to have my calendar here, sorry.

Handy dandy calendar in front of me.

So just to summarize uh for clarity.

I'm just my substitute motion was for 30 days, not 60 days.

That would take us to the first meeting in June before we start spiking the super hot high heat, and that would give us the opportunity to work through it and huddle with all of the experts and the folks involved to make sure that the ordinance we hopefully do pass is as strong and protective as it can be to protect our animals.

Thank you.

Yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Bolton.

Okay.

Um I did want to draw attention to some of the comments that were made this morning by the community during public comment time, and I got the impression that folks were concerned about non-tethered and non-leashed dogs because of the bites, um, the attacks, some of the issues that were brought to our attention this morning.

And though it wasn't explicitly stated, I did again get the impression that they wanted us to have the conversation sooner rather than later.

But I thought 45 days might be a better compromise.

My second stance on that.

Okay.

With for the substitute.

Are you offering a second substitute of 45 days?

A friendly amendment to your substitute.

Oh, okay.

We can um I will accept that friendly amendment for 45 days, which would take us then, and y'all correct me if I'm wrong here, to the second business meeting in June, which is the 18th.

The 23rd.

June 23rd.

Okay.

So my substitute motion is a deferral of this item to June 23rd, which is in effect about 45 days.

Will they stop in ERPS on May 21st?

Does that work, Commissioner Bolton for the ERPS agenda?

Okay.

And Commissioner Masay, you said your second.

Fantastic.

All righty, thank you.

So, Clerk Team, do we what do we need to do to update the machine?

Because they had a substitute motion.

It's to defer for 45 days, but it was made by oh, I see it now.

Thank you.

Well, I made the second.

You made a friendly amendment, but then Commissioner Messiah said her second stood.

She seconded my original motion.

Okay.

Okay.

Commissioner Longspears made uh a substitute motion for 30 days.

There was a friendly amendment to 45 days with sold.

And then Commissioner Massai said her second stood.

Madam President.

Second it my original motion.

Correct.

Second it commissioner.

I believe that's exactly the problem.

And the county attorney could confirm that for us, but I think that there has to be a second to a substitute motion.

If I followed accurately, where we are is Commissioner Long Spears made a substitute, had a friendly amendment to her substitute.

Dr.

Bolton seconded the substitute.

Okay.

And we are prepared for a vote on the substitute.

If that fails, we go back to the original.

And then there'll be a question of whether or not Commissioner Messir's second stands on the original.

Okay.

Not confusing at all.

Thank you.

Always a learning journey.

Thank you.

Please open the machine screen up.

Thank you.

The motion to defer for 45 days.

Carries.

Middle of page 21.

Yes.

Item 2026-0728.

All commission districts an ordinance to amend the coda to Cap County, Georgia, Chapter 5 to regulate the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet shops.

Also an ERPS item.

Yes, ma'am, and neither have we had an opportunity to discuss this item.

Um on behalf of the ERPS committee, I move to defer item 2026, 0728 for 60 days.

Second.

Motion and a second one more time.

Motion and the second.

Commissioner Long Spears has requested a speak.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you so much.

And again, commissioners on the previous vote, I appreciate your support very much on that.

Um for this item, this is in effect to ban retail sales of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet shops.

There's not quite the time sensitivity to this one as the previous relating to tethering.

Um I did want to ask the ERPS chair though, what date do you plan to hear this item in ERPS?

I know it's in June.

I'm just not sure which June meeting it is.

The 18th, June 18th.

June 18th.

All right.

And um to Miss Ganga, we are all set with our national speakers coming.

Okay, fantastic.

Thank you so much.

You'll back.

Thank you.

Seeing no further requests to speak, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer 60 days carries, bottom of page 21, a district three item, item 2026 0550 to adopt an ordinance to mend the code of the Cab County to address public safety vagrancy, unauthorized camping, and certain public nuisance behaviors.

This is PECS.

Thank you so much.

My motion is to defer to the June 9th BOC with a stop in PECS on May 26.

Yeah, it's been uh discussed, it was discussed initially.

We had worked with um with legal June second.

There you go.

Now you have the floor to speak.

Thank you so much.

My apologies, Madam PO.

And so um there was some questions.

Commissioner Longspear, um, we had sent out my office the digital copy of the proposed um ordinance.

Um ready for any additional questions that you may have related to this um particular agenda item.

I yield back to you, Madame P.O.

Thank you, Commissioner Messiah.

See no further requests to speak.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries, thank you.

Um item 0728.

Is that a 60-day deferral?

Yes, ma'am.

Would that be July rather than June 18th?

Yes.

To clarify, there was some requests to have guests come and speak.

And um, I believe that's what she was referring to.

When will we hear our experts or guests come speak on that item in June versus in coming back to the agenda in July?

So make and title discussion essentially.

She was asking about discussion on ERPS, not the agenda item.

So it's 60 days.

60 days.

I didn't catch that.

You would like to bring it back to the board the first week of July.

July 7th is the date of that meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

An ordinance to amend the code of DeCab County, Georgia, chapter 16 pertaining to the regulation of sound and for other purposes, and this is PECS.

Thank you so much, Madam P.O.

Motion to defer to the June 9th VOC with a stop in PECS on May 26.

We're still trying to work through the weeds in this along with the sponsor.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Second, with request to speak, please.

Second, um, I appreciate the second.

You have the floor, Commissioner Longspears.

Thank you, ma'am.

Um we were discussing this item.

Um, the there was certainly um, I think a lot of debate related to how to proceed and gauging the sound, right?

The loudness or why a constituent would call or music or a party or whatever it might be.

One of the suggestions was for you to explore the purchase of decibel meters.

Have you had an opportunity to pursue that?

I did send you some information about the cost of them.

And I have an idea.

Okay, let's hear the idea.

And look, I'll need to get with the PD to see where we are on the announcement.

Fantastic.

So um one of the concerns that you expressed is the cost.

And we found that the cost for uh decibel meters, also I've read noise meters, three thousand to roughly five thousand dollars.

And when we were initially looking at it, I think that the math that we applied was to purchase a decibel meter for each vehicle, each police vehicle.

I I've been thinking about that.

And I think that um perhaps there's another option.

Maybe we could get the data from police and ask GIS to do like uh a heat map on where we're getting a lot of those complaints, and then instead of giving each officer a decibel meter, instead issue decibel meters to the precincts, and the officers that are going to be patrolling the the hotspot area could take the decibel meter with them.

So that would significantly reduce the investment, and we could pilot it for a year or so, two years, and see if it works.

And if it's really working, then perhaps we could pursue buying more of them.

But I think we have to give ourselves a chance to see if it works.

I know that I have party houses in my district.

We do.

We know exactly where they're at.

We've had extensive conversation on party houses and district two, and so particularly the weekends, Friday and Saturday, sometimes Thursday, sometimes Sunday, is the officer or officers that will be patrolling in that area would carry the decibel meter.

So if you please consider that um in your research, that that might be a better option, and then to kind of pilot this program.

Yes, ma'am.

What do you think?

Yes.

Um I think we've done something similar where each precinct may have had one or two, but what what you've just described is kind of our strategy with targeted policing.

So yeah, let's take a look.

Please do.

Because your concern was the cost.

Right.

One one of the yes, cost and then keeping them calibrated.

And yes, calibrated and maintenance on them as well.

Right.

All right.

So if you'll please explore that, that might be just an option to pursue.

Thank you, sir.

I yield back.

Ms.

Mayor.

Thank you.

Commissioner Masaya, you are next.

I I think um COO just mentioned it because uh just my recollection in the discussion, it was um, you know, even at 600 officers um at $5,000, then we were looking at three million, and then you just mentioned there's still the training, the maintenance, the calibration, those um expenses, and um just yeah, just briefly put a benefit of the board and the the public if this came out of um trying to uh address excuse me some of the noise considerations for leaf blowers and lawnmowers, and so um it has uh more just into address um specifically port party houses and some of the noise that comes out of there and whether or not we were gonna use the um plainly audible standard when it comes to um whether someone's in violation or whether or not we were gonna actually use decibel meters, and at such time just recognizing um some of the trepidation and trying to just use a standard uh and concerns plainly audible then considering um the decibel meters, so not that they have been decided definitively that we would go that specifically specific a route.

Um also just recollecting that legal um had um several iterations of this same um item several times and specifically has access to um particularly the um the drafter supporter um our colleague in putting this forth be specific as to the what went and how before having to go through another um iteration and I'm not sure that we're exactly um there yet.

But I'm seeing that this is in pecs and just wanting to make sure that I gave a accurate summation of um what's been going on and essentially what's taking place place during our last meeting, and with that I yield back as a support um us trying to understand which specific direction we're gonna go in, give details as to what we're actually the purpose of what we're looking to do, and that there's an ordinance um that will address that specifically and even considering a withdrawal if uh need be to achieve that aim.

Um with that I yield back to you, madam Bia.

Thank you, Commissioner Facher.

Uh thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Um, since my good colleagues on the committee expressed their opinion, I feel sort of obliged.

I ought to put my two cents in as well.

Um, you know, as I've said several times at committee and and at the at the dias here in the past, um my main concern is is really effective administration of a noise ordinance.

And so if it's if it's additional uh sound meters, I'm probably gonna go for it.

If it's hiring additional officers, I'm gonna go for it.

Um but at the end of the day, you know, my concern is always we can write any kind of ordinance that appears to do something, but it's the functionality in the ground where it actually addresses the concerns of the of the residents and uh between code enforcement and the police department.

I know they have sort of clear guidelines on who would be engaged, um, but I also just want to make sure that at the end of the day, if someone calls, regardless of the time of day, that there is actually an officer that can respond within a reasonable time frame, and and that is uh always going to be a primary concern, an effective ordinance over just something that we change the words on the paper.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Fulton.

Is this something that our non-sworn officers or community service aides could be responsible for that way we take the responsibility of additional training off of our officers since it isn't something threatening?

May not be right to and that's to manage or regulate, but not manage, but to go in and test and regulate the noise, not necessarily going and approaching anyone or arresting anybody.

But if the community service aides could take on that responsibility, I think that would help lift the load or carry the load for our officers.

Right.

So let us come back to you on that, Commissioner.

I you know, at first blush, I don't know that the uh community service aides have the authority to cite people, and there may be inherent risk associated with uh you know with them doing that.

That's where you know you really do want the sworn law enforcement post-certified person.

Um but we'll we'll take a look.

There may be some nuance, but uh on its surface, I don't know that the the CSAs, and then we'd have to see at what point can uh code enforcement they're you know sworn a little differently, um, but they're still not a police officer.

And the reason that I suggest this, and this may be me telling too much of my business, I have been in an incident where I got a call about a week or two later from an officer that said, come in and sign this citation.

So the way I'm considering or looking at this is if the aide comes in, detects the noise, records it, documents all the information, reports it back, you can have an officer come back later and give the citation.

Yeah, so let's let's take a look.

I mean, so that is kind of a you know nuanced uh approach.

Uh when you first mentioned it, I'm picturing a CSA going in and attempting to close down something, and we don't think that that's that's not gonna happen.

Um but uh witnessing is is kind of different.

Yeah, just reporting out.

That's it.

Attorney.

Commissioner, we're getting into the nuances of how we enforce the code, and I would ask that we have that discussion offline.

Okay, thank you.

I yield back.

Thank you.

Commissioner Longspears for your second opportunity.

Thank you.

And I have to admit, I like our new rule.

We're certainly running more efficiently.

Okay, to respond to Commissioner Patrick, I agree with I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Enforcement matters.

So we can do an ordinance, and then it's not worth the paper it's written on, unless there is strong enforcement.

So I agree with that.

The um decibel meters, when you start to research them, you'll find out that there's multiple tiers.

So tier one is probably like a decibel meter that I would buy.

It's a couple hundred dollars, and if I have a neighbor that's really loud, I'll pull it out and read it and then call my county commissioner or my city council member.

Say this is what my personal meter read.

Um, however, as you continue to go up the tiers, um, you will find out that what's important for county and municipal government is to have a decibel meter that will hold up in court.

So the ones that I sent to CO Williams will hold up in court.

So that's point one.

Point two to Commissioner Bolton.

I love that idea.

It's kind of like sending a scout out, where maybe to you guys, they don't go into the home.

They have no interaction whatsoever with the person that's making all noise, the all the noise, whether it's a leaf blower, a party, or whatever, they're a scout.

They're a scout.

They go out, they've got, and they maybe wouldn't even need a decibel meter that would hold up in court because they would have no interaction.

They're not issuing a citation.

They're just going to confirm the complaint.

You know, is this um noisy to the point where it's plainly audible or is it not?

And if you find if the scout, the CSA decides that it is, then you could trigger a sworn officer with a good decibel meter, a higher tier that will hold up in court.

And so I think this has been a really healthy discussion about how to deal with this.

Um, and I'm in support of all of the above.

Thank you so much.

Yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Masaya.

Thank you so much.

Um, just uh out of caution.

I'm gonna share that I'm concerned about sending a scout to what could arguably be a crime scene, right?

I mean, the whole point is is in violation of an ordinance.

So we're gonna send uh essentially send a witness there to go be a witness of a violation, and then um are do they become a witness in court?

You know, how do we identify and determine that?

Um are we talking to the courts and getting a better understanding as to again that enforcement piece?

I think some of that is necessary.

I know at one point it had been requested that we get data, and I've yet to see um the data that we had asked for in terms of where specifically um some of the um violations of the present ordinance um is uh taking place and trying to decipher what's needed at one and how so those are just um some of my concerns related to that again.

I think practicality is an important aspect of anything that we put forth, and there is obviously the need to assess um the practicality of any of um even the options or even in our efforts to be as creative as possible, just you know, how are we gonna enforce it from a practical standpoint and making sure that we have public safe or public safety's input, our chief's input and our court's input in this, I think is important.

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

Thank you very much.

Seeing no further request to speak, please open the machine for the vote motion to defer carries.

So now we are moving to middle of page 24.

I'm also doing a time check.

Yes, 1154.

Let's try and get through a couple more items and then we'll do a working lunch because we do have executive sessions.

So middle of page 24, item 2025-0017, all commission districts, a resolution.

Excuse me.

A resolution to create an electric landscape maintenance device rebate program to encourage switching from gas-powered landscape maintenance devices and for other lawful purposes.

Madam Peck's chair.

Again, similar to the other uh agenda items to more work and um based on the sponsor.

My understanding, these are companion items.

So uh my motion is to defer to the June 9th BOC with the stop in PECS in May 26th.

Second.

Thank you.

Motion and a second, seeing no request to speak.

Let's open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Middle of page 26 item 2025-1525, all commission districts, a resolution by the DeCab County Board of Commissioners establishing a DeCab County Water Customer Bill of Rights, and this is in Fab.

All righty, thank you very much.

Um, Madam Chair.

So motion for 2025 1525 is to defer to the June 9th meeting with a stop on in the May 26th FAB.

Second.

If I think you need to clear your, I think you hit your button too soon, Commissioner Messiah.

Thank you.

And now hit your second.

There we go.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries, thank you.

Middle of page 27, item 2026-0244.

All commission districts, a resolution requiring a baseline assessment of the CAREP County's health, social, economic, and environmental status, and a third-party analysis of the CAVS proposed data center regulations before issuance of a land disturbance permit for data centers.

This is in PECS.

Motion to defer to the June 23rd BOC with a stop in PECS on June 9th.

Thank you, sir.

Second.

Second.

Thank you.

No request to speak.

Please open the machines.

Motion to defer carries.

We are now page 28.

Item 2026-0245.

All commission districts and allocation not to exceed 15,000 dollars of the DeCab County General Fund to be considered for the 2026 budget to science for Georgia to conduct a baseline assessment of the CAB County's current health, socioeconomic, and environmental status, and provide a third-party analysis of the CAB County's proposed data center regulations contextualized by the county's current health, social economic, and environmental status.

Madam Pex chair.

Similar to the the uh previous item, the drafter is not present.

So my motion is to defer to the June 23rd BLC with the stop and pegs in June 9th.

Second motion and a second to defer, please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Okay.

So let's take two more and then we'll break.

Item 2026-0341, all commission districts on page 29, a resolution of the DeCab County Board of Commissioners requesting the administration and planning department to update the recommended substitute for text amendment 2025-0972 regarding data center regulations.

Second.

Motion and a second, please open machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Bottom of page 29, item 2026-0744.

All commission districts, a resolution adjusting all decab county tired tip fees to one dollar.

And this is in PWI.

Uh yes, madam presiding officer, uh, based on the recommendation of PWI defer for two weeks to the May 26th PW, uh, pardon me.

B uh you start again.

Uh defer two weeks to the May 26 BOC meeting with a prior stop for the PWI.

Second.

See no request to speak, please open the machine.

You want to keep going a little bit?

We have 11.

We're moving pretty quickly.

If we can just see how far we can get we can get this done.

Um page 30.

This is a district seven item, item 2026-0218, all commission districts to establish regulatory oversight of blasting operations in DeCab County through through the adoption of a control blasting and safety ordinance to promote public safety, environmental protection, and community stability, and for other purposes.

Madam Earpse Chair.

Well, in March, it was recommended for approval out of committee.

Do we have an update from the law department?

May I make my motion?

This item is heavily impacted by the noise item that you deferred previously.

So while we have I think completed our initial work until decisions are made on the noise ordinance.

I don't know that it would be healthy to or to move forward on this one.

It may be premature.

You'd just be asking to come back and adjust it.

I gotcha.

June 23rd, you'll see.

Okay.

Um, I think the chair said we're just gonna use drones to monitor noise.

So we can go ahead and move on this item.

All right.

What what was it?

It was deferred to the June 3rd 23rd meeting.

All right.

Well I move to defer this item, item 0218 to the June 23rd meeting.

Second.

If you hit your button, please one more time.

It came off the screen.

Thank you.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Top of page, wait, where am I at?

Yes.

Top of page 31.

Item 2025-1577, all commission districts, resolution of the DeCab County Governing Authority regarding the Charter Review Commission's report and recommended changes to the organizational act.

Resolution of the DeCab County Governing Authority regarding the Charter Review Commission's report and recommended changes to the organizational act.

And this is an ops item.

I don't.

I move.

Go ahead.

I move to defer item 2025 1577 for two weeks.

Second.

I'm sorry.

You got your option.

No, no, no, no.

If you're an option, I'll I move my second then.

Oh, there we go.

Excuse me, Madam President Officer.

Maybe maybe we have a confirmed date.

Is it two weeks?

Is it 26?

Yeah, the next BOC would be the 26th with a prior stop at OPS.

May 26.

May 26.

26.

Please open the machine for the vote.

Motion to defer carries.

Page 32.

Under human services, item 2026-0636 transfer funds and the amount of $850,000 from the general fund to the senior citizen services grant fund.

And this is a PEC item.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Motion to approve, seconded by Commissioner Long Spears.

Please open the machine for the vote.

See I love it when a commissioner's got my back and trying to get through this agenda.

Yes.

We are middle of page that motion carries middle of page 32.

These are ERPS purchasing contracting item, item 2026 dash 0532, Commissioner 6135 and 7.

Request for proposal number 2025 142, fire station 516 and 27 for use by the Department of Fire Rescue to complete the construction of a new fire station in Tucker Decatur and Lithonia.

Recommend award to the highest scoring proposer, Cooper and Company, General Contract, General Constructors Inc.

Amount not to exceed 26 million five hundred eighty-eight thousand dollars.

This item was supported by audit, and the recommendation out of the ERPS committee is to I'm sorry, I move to approve item 20260532.

Second.

Motion to approve carries.

Congratulations.

That's awesome.

A substitute, okay.

Thank you.

For the last the one we just voted on.

Oh, just voted on.

No, 0532.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

That is what we just voted on.

Okay, so I will move on.

So motion to reconsider.

Yes, thank you.

Second.

Motion to put it on.

Substitute.

I gotta read it again.

I think.

Motion should be considered hit your buttons again.

Yep.

Commissioner Patrick.

Thank you.

Yes.

So we are reconsidering item 2026-0532.

Request for proposals for number 2025-142, fire stations 516 and 27 billed for use by the Department of Fire Rescue to complete the construction of a new fire station in Tucker, Decatur, and Lithonia.

Recommend award to the highest scoring proposer, Cooper and Company General Constructors Inc.

Amount not to exceed 26 million five hundred eighty-eight thousand dollars.

So this is the substitute.

If we can get a motion to approve the substitute, thank you.

Motion to approve the substitute.

Second.

Thank you.

Hit your buttons.

Commissioner Bolton had a question.

Yes.

What what is the difference in the substitute?

I don't see one.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

Um, as a reminder, um, I know we did a lot of agenda items at the last uh meeting, but um we were turning in this revised packet to correct and provide a bit more clarity on the supporting documentation for the award.

Did not change the recommended awardee or the highest score proposal.

Thank you.

All right, Commissioner Patrick.

Uh yes, and I just want to note that this is uh part of this request is for 4329 and 4345 Cowan Road Tucker, uh, the new fire station that had been under consideration for some time.

Thank you.

Very exciting.

Please open machines for the oh and there was another thing too.

Yes.

We wanted 4242 East Side Drive to be updated to 4242 off of cleaning.

Yes.

That's something I asked last time.

We need to make sure it gets that.

So the approval of the substitute will also include that amendment.

Okay, please open the machines for the vote.

Motion to approve the substitute carries.

Item top of page 33, item 2026-0408.

There's a substitute for this item as well.

Statewide contract number, really long number, integrated security and surveillance products and services for use by the Department of Recreation Parks and Cultural Affairs to obtain cameras for security.

Security surveillance awarded to convergent technology technologies, LLC amount not to exceed 201,952 and 18 cents.

Motion to uh approve the substitute.

Second motion to approve the substitute and have seconded by Commissioner Long Spears.

No request to speak.

Please open the machine.

Motion to approve carries.

Middle of page 33.

Item 2026-0432.

Um renewal of contracts 138-2471-138-2499, 138-2509.

Plumbing services for the community development to cab cares seeking to exercise the first renewal option through June 30th, 2027, awarded to J2 Connect Inc.

Facility Maintenance and Services Group and Raw Plumbing NHVAC Services LLC.

Total amount not to exceed 1 million 926,356 and 50 cents.

Motion to approve as it was approved of the PECS committee.

Thank you.

Second motion Anis.

I got that one.

Commissioner Patrick got it.

Okay, motion and a second.

Please open machine for the vote.

Motion to approve carries.

Bottom of page 33, item 2026-0604.

Snap finger advanced wastewater treatment facility, wet weather pumping storage emergency for use by the Department of Watershed Management to attain design and implementation of wet weather pumping storage seeking to ratify an emergency purchase awarded to Ruby Collins Inc.

Amount not to exceed 10 million nine hundred eighty-nine thousand dollars.

Move fraction.

Thank you, sir.

Page 34, item 2026-0606.

Um construction of the Snapfinger Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility Phase 3C emergency by the Department of Watershed Management to build out and upgrade the facility membrane capacity in clusters one through four seeking to ratify an emergency purchase awarded to Ruby Collins Inc.

amount not to exceed 32 million 371,087 dollars.

Move fraction.

Excuse me.

Item 2026-0613, Snapfinger Advanced White Wastewater Treatment Facility, Phase 3C, influent lift station, pumping system upgrades, emergency for use by the Department of Watershed Management to assess upgrade and maintain the pumping capabilities of ILS seeking to ratify an emergency awarded to whole technology in amount not to exceed 4,277,957.

Move for action.

And I do have a comment.

Second.

Thank you, Commissioner Masay.

Commissioner Patrick has requested to speak.

Oh, you could have done that next time.

I think the other one's being deferred.

So I just want to acknowledge this is a large ticket item altogether.

I believe about uh 48 million dollars, as was uh mentioned earlier today during public comment.

Uh this is the direct byproduct of the 10 by 10 that was approved last year.

Um essentially, there are about 14 spill areas as we mentioned uh in PWI uh consistent sewer spill areas.

This addresses those sewer spill areas.

Once the pipes are fixed, they have to be trended, all of that effluent has to be transferred somewhere.

This handles where it gets transferred to as well as what's necessary to help clean up the water before it moves back downstream.

So I just want residents to realize that although this is handled as an emergency basis, there's some other requirements that we have to be responsive for time scheduled to be on.

Um, this is fixing the Cab County.

This is actually making progress.

And so um, we should be commended for the efforts on this, and hopefully we'll have uh four votes on that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Please open machine for the vote.

Motion to approve carries.

Good job.

I know that's big.

That's a lot of money, but that is big.

Two more items, we almost there.

Item 2026, we're on page 35, 2026-0627, Snapfinger Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility, membrane bioreactor, also an emergency for use by the department of watershed management to obtain the membranes to upgrade phase two equipment to reliably treat plant design flow seeking to ratify an emergency purchase.

A contract will be developed in a form acceptable to the county attorney or water to covalent separation solutions LLC, amount not to exceed five million three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

All right, based on the recommendation of PWI.

Motion to defer two weeks to the May 26th BOC meeting with a prior stop at PWI.

Second.

And I have a comment.

Commissioner Patrick.

Uh yeah, uh, so this item had gone through audit uh as the others had.

Mr.

Campbell's department came back and found uh some savings of about just over half a million dollars.

Staff also recommended taking an extra monument to double check some things on their side, and so that's what's happening right now.

Again, this all uh this project also feeds within the notion of fixing the sewer system and then being able to handle it and process it before it goes back into the streams again.

So again, motion to defer for the uh time frame already mentioned.

Thank you.

All commission districts.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Second.

Oh, nope, you've got it.

Motion to approve by Commissioner Masaya.

Looks like Commissioner Patrick got the second.

Please open the machine.

Thank you.

That was our final voting item.

We do need to adjourn into executive sessions to discuss potential litigation.

So moved.

Second.

Uh I have a comment.

Commissioner Umspears.

Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Um, I am recusing myself from executive session due to the opinion of the DeCab County ethics officer that I have a conflict of interest.

The opinion was shared with all members of the governing authority yesterday.

I yield back.

Thank you.

So you're choosing even from voting to go to executive session.

Just want to clarify.

I don't know.

What do I need to do here?

Great question.

I don't think you want to take action on what we will discuss.

I but I can vote for executive session.

Voting on executive session is just whether or not you agree to have an executive session.

There you go.

We will adjourn for executive session for and this will be lunch break, so for at least one hour.

We'll take a full lunch break.

Thank you.

Try to make a call.

Everybody, if I can get a motion to reconvene.

So move.

Second.

Somebody hit a button, please.

Thank you.

Motion to reconvene carries.

There was no action to be taken out of the discussion that was held during executive session.

So if I can get a motion to adjourn.

So move.

Second.

She adjusted meeting is adjourned at this time.

Um I think the PECS committee meeting was moved up to two PM.

And the fab meeting was cancelled.

Thank you so much.