Our night cow.

Um, today is the committee of the whole.

For those who are not aware what the committee of the whole is, we will have committee reports, agenda setting.

Um, we also have public comments scheduled at 6 30 as advertised, and that will go for 30 minutes.

And then after that, we'll have presentation and a discussion on the data center text amendment.

That that is discussion only.

This is not one of our voting meetings, so we'll have discussion with the hope being that out of that discussion from the commissioners tonight, we will give staff time and enough information to bring back another revision of the text amendment.

It is slated to come back to us on June 23rd for a public hearing.

So we're hoping to have that revision on June 23rd.

And then the um the moratorium is still in place, and that is voted to be or slated to be extended hopefully on June 9th, but it does not expire till June 23rd.

So just wanted to help set some ground rules and expectations for tonight's meeting, so it will be productive.

So if we will start with committee reports, um, Commissioner Patrick, are you good to go for your committee report?

Uh yes, madam.

Uh and we do have some of the largest spending priorities within the county uh as it relates to public works and infrastructure.

Um today we actually had a fairly productive meeting.

I think we went through nine pages of agenda items.

Um of the things that we're working on are very specific to DeCab, obviously, South DeCab in particular.

Uh, we recently approved about 50 million dollars worth of water and sewer improvements as they relate to sewer spills within DeCab County.

Uh, there are about 14 areas that are well known for frequent sewer spills.

Money is going in to fix those.

Not only is it going in to fix the spills, it's also going into enhancing or enlarging the capacity to handle those uh sewer spills, that new flow that's coming down.

Um, another item worth talking about is today in committee.

We discussed a project of worth uh 325 million dollars, again with uh sewer improvements for the community that are going to be important for all of us to make sure that we have good drinking water as well as have sewage that flows away where it needs to be and not back at our properties.

With that, madam presiding officer, thank you very much.

Serving on that committee with me as well are commissioners Marita Davis Johnson and Commissioner Nicole Messiah.

Just a few items uh to update you guys on that previous meeting, what we were able to discuss and some things we were able to get accomplished.

There was item 2026 0903, which is a fire rescue item, and it was to discuss street lighting lease agreement for fire station 16 and 27.

I know some of you are looking forward to this.

At that meeting, that item was deferred, however, this morning it was approved.

Uh, again, that street lighting lease agreement for the fire station 16 and 27.

There were some contracts as well, including maintenance and cleaning of PPE personal protective equipment, also for our fire safety, and today we approved item 0303, which was an item uh for fire safety that had to do with their self-contained breathing apparatuses, and this was to purchase and repair maintenance.

And this is equipment that they need to better serve you.

We approved 0840.

This was an agreement of mutual aid and assistance between DeCab County and the city of Atlanta.

Of course, you know periodically there is support for law enforcement services.

Also recommended for approval 0842.

This is a grant, and uh for our police department, they've got quite a few grants this year.

This one is the Urban Area Security Initiative, which is also referred to as URC.

There were several items that had to be held in committee.

We just did not get an opportunity to get to those previously, but we did discuss some of them today.

That's 0683.

That's to approve a resolution to address egregious littering and the illegal dumping of scrap tires.

I know some of you are looking forward to that.

Item 0596, which is an ordinance to regulate the restraint and transportation of animals.

We didn't have a great conversation on that today, but it was held previously.

And there was also held in committee item 0769, which was a resolution requesting the administration to establish oversight and auditing for one of our committees and or excuse me.

And with that, I yield back.

Thank you, Madam Earpse Chair.

I will now move over to the FAB committee.

Commissioner Terry.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just a couple quick reports here.

We will have a meeting next Tuesday for the Finance Audit and Budget Committee.

We'll be discussing the DeCap County Water Customer Bill of Rights, as well as we do have an agenda item that we'll mention today for the uh award of the request for proposal for the financial advisory services for the finance department as well as uh DeCAP County government.

And we also will be having uh a report on the audit of the DeCap County Tree Bank, and then uh the last thing that we did approve out of FAB was an extension of the existing PFM contract to the end of the year to finish up any bonding uh work that we will need as well as uh putting together a banking services RFP uh with the goal of having that completed by the end of the year so the county can entertain uh new opportunities for banking services for um the county government.

With that, I'll yield back.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Terry, and now we'll have um an ops committee report from Commissioner Marita Davis Johnson.

Thank you, madam presiding officer, and good evening.

I am Marita Davis Johnson, and I'd like to welcome everyone here to District 5 this evening.

I'm the chair of the county operations committee, also known known as ops committee.

My colleagues who set on that committee set on this committee with me are Commissioner Robert Patrick and Commissioner Ludina Bolton.

The ops committee met on uh Thursday, May the 21st.

Um committee members was joined by Commissioner Ted Terry.

During that meeting, uh, we approved the minute meetings for the May the 5th ops meeting, and there were 12 new agenda items, innovation and technology uh facility management.

Um those items were approved.

There were one that was one previously approved um herd item, innovation and technology item 0634, a change order to Tyler Cloud Hosting was recommended approval also.

The committee held discussions on the standing procedure rules and came to a consensus on section one B and C.

Requesting additional clarifying language.

The apps committee met again on today on um today uh June the second, or we approved the uh minutes of May the 21st.

We also uh heard items and innovation and technology as well as uh facility management.

Um committee members, we were drawn today by Commissioner uh Ted Terry and Commissioner no, just by Commissioner Ted Terry.

We also discussed uh our standing procedure rules and our charter review uh recommendations, and so with that um the ops committee will meet again on next Tuesday, June the 9th for a special call ops meeting at 1 p.m.

here um at Sam Street.

So you can join us live on via DC TV and thank you, Madam Presiding Officer, and I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

I'm not seeing the PECS chair.

Does the PECS committee members have an update they'd like to share?

Uh yes, ma'am.

Uh okay, thank you.

Uh at the PECS committee, we had a total of nine items.

Uh five were voted for approval, and four were voted for deferral and due back to the board of commissioners uh June 9th.

That's gonna be uh in the next week or so.

We also had an update from Tiffany Wills with decide to cab regarding the TADS or tax allocations that are active within DeCab County.

Uh thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Thank you so much.

So with that, we will now move in to the review of the proposed executive agenda for June 9th, 2026.

Good evening, Mr.

Williams.

Good evening, madam presiding officer.

I'd like to begin the review of the proposed executive agenda for June 9th, with the very first item uh under proposed public hearing items, item number 2026 0941.

Uh this was presented in ERPS uh this afternoon, but it's a home rule ordinance to amend the pension code of DeCab County, Georgia, 1962, Georgia Laws 3088, as amended to add a death benefit for beneficiaries of certain planned participants who die in the line of duty as officers, employees, or deputies of DeCab County on or after September 1st, 2026, and to provide for compliance with certain updates to federal tax law.

And this was approved to move forward today in uh in ERPS.

But it is a public hearing item.

It is as a public hearing item, yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Next next item under planning and sustainability.

Uh this is an application of the director of planning and sustainability for the CAB County Board of Commissioners to hold public hearing to consider and review whether to extend a moratorium on data centers in DeCab County.

That's a public hearing item.

Thank you.

Next under proposed uh appointments.

The first item 0975 is uh to appoint Miss Deborah Jackson to post three of the CAB County Community Service Board.

Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Uh next item uh for the airport under proposed preliminary items hold on one second, Mr.

Williams.

Yes, Commissioner Davis Johnson, your microphone, please.

Okay, I'm sorry, I thought that was uh something in the fifth district.

Okay, we're good.

Okay, thank you.

Continue, please.

Thank you.

The next item under proposed preliminary items for the airport, item 2026 0947, standardized T Hanger Space Lease Agreement with Marvin Royster consent.

Next item uh under medical examiner.

Um this is an item uh 2026 0929, acceptance of grant funds in the amount of 44,840 dollars from the centers of disease control through the Georgia Department of Public Health for the De Cab County Medical Examiner's Office.

Can we have that consent or you want consent or ERPS?

That can go on consent, consent consent.

Thank you.

The next item is item 2026 0957, acceptance of federal forfeiture property.

Uh which like that in ERPS, madam chair.

ERPS.

ERPS.

The next item, 2026 0956.

I believe this one is time sensitive related to uh FIFA to amend the previously approved grant year 2023 Urban Area Security Initiative grant in amounts not to exceed 382,606 and 81 cents.

If we could have that on consent.

Consent.

Thank you.

Next under purchasing and contracting, each of the items has been um sent to its designated committee.

Um beginning with ERPS.

We're good with ERPS.

We're good with ERPS, uh followed by Fab.

Good on Fab.

We're good on Fab, followed by OPS.

We're good on OPS, followed by PECS.

We're good on PECs.

Now we're at the um top of page nine or mid-top of page nine.

Well, is PWIE or good with yours?

We're we're good on PWI2.

Thank you.

Okay, and all the committees.

Thank you.

And hundreds of millions of dollars at that.

And the greatest show on earth.

Absolutely.

And the greatest show.

Absolutely.

Next we have um the recreation parks and cultural affairs in the on page nine, uh 0940 approval of park pride inc contract 2026.

That'd be in PECS.

Yes.

Yes, sir, please.

Thank you.

City of Atlanta CIP payment, various quarters 2021 through 2023, fourth quarter 2025.

Cost of 29,800,000 800,874 and 87 cents.

And I believe that's been sent to it's been to PWI, and I think it's going under audit as well, correct?

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you.

And I believe that those are all of the items that we have, Madam Presiding Officer.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

So now we have review of the Board of Commissioners preliminary agenda.

With Chief of Staff Lee May.

Good evening, sir.

Good evening.

Long time no see.

It's been what two hours?

Two hours, yes, yes.

All right.

So again, just a quick review of the um the executive branch.

Uh public hearing for uh item 20260941.

Public hearing for item 20260857, the moratorium on the data centers.

Um, from the CEO's office, item 20260975, appointing uh Miss Deborah Jackson, attorney Jackson to post three of the DeCab Community Service Board.

That's to PECS.

Um proposed preliminary agenda, uh airport, uh item 20260947, Commission Districts 1 and 6, standardized T Hanger Space Lease Agreement with Marvin Royster.

That's consent.

Um also uh medical examiner office 20260929, uh, all commission districts, acceptance of grant funds for 44,840 dollars from the CDC through the Georgia Department of Public Health and the DeCab County Medical Examiner's Office.

That is consent as well.

Under police services 20260957, uh, all commission districts acceptance of federal forfeiture property, police services.

That's to ERPS, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

Uh item 20260956, um, the UASC grant in the amount of 382,606 dollars and eighty-one cent.

Um that's for consent.

Correct.

Okay.

All right.

Now let's go uh over to uh purchasing and contracting.

All of these items will be going to the ERPS committee, item 20260823, a cooperative agreement for bus and other transportation vehicle parts for 156,000 dollars.

Um item 20260829, a cooperative agreement for technology solutions, product services for the amount not to exceed $636,000.

Again, these are all ERPs.

Um item 20260897, um change order number four to contract number one three four nine zero seven five for cloud solutions and services that will be used by police services and animal enforcement services for an amount not to exceed $384,161.62 cents.

And last uh item for purchasing and contracting under ERPS is item 2026 0898, uh change order number one, the contract number 2000 three, the Cab County E91 call handling system for an amount not to exceed 1,219,732.

Again, all of those items are going to the ERPS committee to be heard.

Next, one item for the Fab Committee, uh item 2026 0839, request for proposal number 2025048, RFP for financial advisor services.

This is a multi-year contract for an amount not to exceed one million one hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars.

All right, now we're moving to purchasing the contracting to the ops committee.

Uh all of these items, five items it looks like.

Uh first item 2026, 0689, all commission districts, uh, invitation number 2025 073, card access installation, maintenance and repair services for use for by facilities management, uh for an amount not to exceed $158,000.

Um item 2026 0791, all commission districts change order number one to contract numbers 1330298 and 1330301 on call electrical services for use by facilities management uh and uh to obtain inspections, maintenance repairs, and installation of electrical systems.

Don't know why I just read all that.

430,000, the amount not to exceed that.

Um for management consulting services for use by the Department of Innovation and Technology.

This is for an amount not to exceed 183,000.

I thought you were gonna read that whole contract.

Yeah, well, I was the numbers just got started blurring.

Item 20260869, change order number two to contract number one two five five eight zero five of all software corporation, SAAS, project dots, electronic plan and review.

This is a sole source for an amount not to exceed 268,704.

And then the final item uh for the ops committee is commission districts, all commission districts, change order number one to contract 138 5069 for the DeCab County Juvenile Justice Courtroom 2 build out.

Uh says for 270 days for an amount not to exceed $75,000.

All right, those are all ops um purchasing and items going to ops uh committee.

Next we have the PECS committee purchasing and contractor for the PECS committee.

Looks like we have six items.

First item is two zero two six zero four nine commission districts, all districts, change order number one to contract number CPA 1349718 for in-home services for seniors and their caregivers.

This is for an amount not to exceed 1,200,000.

Next item 2026 059.

This is a request for proposals, number 2025 050.

This is for on call services for small area planning for five-year multi-year contract for use by the department of planning and sustainability.

This is for total not uh amount not to exceed one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Next item two zero two six zero seven seven seven.

This is invitation number two zero two five one six five, uh ITB for Memorial Drive Corridor, branding sign fabrication and gateway feature implementation.

This is for an amount not to exceed one hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-eight cents.

All right, we have three more items for um for this committee.

Item two zero two six zero eight four three, change order number two to contract number two zero zero zero four six four for court construction and maintenance.

Um this is you for use by the department of recreation, parks, and cultural affairs.

This is for an amount not to exceed one hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred dollars.

Item two zero two six zero eight four four, all commission districts, uh change order number one to contracts numbers uh two zero zero zero three eight two zero zero zero zero three nine and four zero and four five and change order number two to contract number two zero zero zero zero four one and uh or change order number three to contract number two zero zero zero zero three seven.

This is all um for architectural and engineering services for recreation parks and cultural affairs.

That is for an amount not to exceed three million two hundred ninety-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Then the final uh item out of this committee is uh in commission districts three and six.

This is a change order number two to contract number two zero zero zero zero one one for pool renovations at NH Scott Park.

This is a multi-year contract, um, and this is for uh term increase only.

All right, and then we have the PWI committee.

Uh and uh we have these items one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven items that we are all sending to PWI committee.

I'm not gonna read all those for us today.

We all got them.

We're okay.

We all got them.

All right, there we go.

There we go.

There we go.

Thank you.

All right, so now we have um in um recreation parks and cultural affairs.

Let's see.

Am I there we go?

Um recreation parks and cultural affairs, uh, commission districts all approval of park pride, contract number two zero two six, that's going to PECS committee.

Yes, please.

Watershed um department.

We have uh City of Atlanta CIP payment for 29,800,874 and 87 cents.

That will be going to PWI.

All right.

So now let's go to the review of the Board of Commissioners preliminary agenda.

Item 2026 for Board of Commissioners 0969.

Approval of minutes for the June 2nd, 2026 committee of the whole meeting.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 2026 0984.

All commission districts, the board of commissioners nominates and elects voting delegates to represent DeCab County in external association and organizational matters.

So we will need to have a discussion on this item to pick a delegate and then vote on it.

So not consent, but I don't think it needs to go to a committee.

No, you think maybe just the next cow?

Preliminary.

Okay.

We'll leave it in preliminary.

Okay.

And so commissioners on this item, if you have made let us know if you are attending the NACO conference in New Orleans so that we can have that discussion and know who's available to be a voting delegate.

Thank you.

All right.

All right, Board of Commissioners District 2, item 20260946.

Commission district number two, allocation of $50,000 of ARPI funding to Atlanta Humane Society to support mobile vet services in DeCab County.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

Item 2026 again in Commission District 2.

096 67, uh allocation of 3,885 dollars from District 2 Capital Reserves for due diligence for potential park property acquisition.

Consent.

Consent.

All right, now district 4, item 2026-0920.

Transfer of 40,000 from District 4, 2026 reserved for appropriation, discretionary funds to the community development for the lived experience training academy, an exclusive professional development program for individuals integrating into the day center placement.

Consent.

Consent.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 2026, still in Super District 6.

Um 0982, a resolution urging the administration implement the specific recommendations outlined in the DeCav County Racial Equity Study as adopted in 2025.

Is that Ops or PECS?

Thank you.

All right, that will be going to PECS.

All right.

Now for the clerk to the Board of Commissioners and CEO, three items 2026-0698.

Approval of the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting of May 26, 2026.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 20260730.

Approval of the minutes of the Board of Commissioners.

Zoning meeting of May 28th, 2026.

Consent.

Consent.

Item 20260963.

Approval of minutes of the special call meeting of May 21st, 2026.

Consent.

Consent.

All right.

Okay.

Now we have looks like three items or four items from the district attorney's office.

Item number one, two zero two six zero nine seven zero, acceptance of additional sexual assault kit initiative grant funding to the DA's office for 373,291 and no matches required.

If there's no objection, consent.

Yes, and madam chair, for this and the next three items.

If there are is no objection, we can take all of those for consent.

The district attorney is said these are time-sensitive grants.

Thank you.

Awesome.

So those are items 0971, 0972, and 0973.

All of those for consent.

No objection.

Okay.

Bucket this is not.

Yes.

Can we go back to your uh the district six item 0981?

It doesn't specify the funding source, so you might need to um amend that item, Commissioner Terry.

Okay, well do thank you.

Thank you.

All right, madam presenting officer.

That ends the recap for uh the BLC's agenda.

All right, thank you so much.

So we I'm doing a time check.

It is 604, so we do have time for comments from the board, and I will start with Commissioner Terry.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, in the interest of time, I'll hold on my comments and um save them for the uh public comment and data center discussion.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Commissioner Michelle Long Spears.

Thank you very much.

Madam Presiding Officer, good evening, everyone.

It's nice to see so many folks attending our first night cow of the year, and certainly thank you to Blue Walker for hosting us tonight.

Um, I do have Commissioner comments, but I will be as brief as I can be.

So, first, um, some of the events that I have participated in in the past couple of weeks.

I was so proud and honored to be invited to the public works all-star ceremony where we gave awards to the stellar employees of our transportation, sanitation, fleet, and roads and drainage.

It was delightful to be there and to chat with so many of the folks from those four different divisions of the overall public works department.

And so the purpose of that ceremony is really just honoring these employees that go above and beyond every day, and to thank them for all that they do.

We found out over the pandemic that these are the positions that are essential to our quality of life.

So thank you, thank you, thank you to all of our public works personnel here in DeCap County.

Second, is I wanted to congratulate the human resources team and Larry Jacobs and all of his folks for a successful open enrollment again this year.

I heard things went swimmingly well.

I think you're here, sir, somewhere.

There you are.

Um, yes, so thank you very much.

It's it's nice when things go smoothly and as planned.

Um, my next update relates to attending the Latino Community Fund appreciation event a couple weeks ago in Atlanta.

The Latino Community Fund is a um nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights and quality of life of our Latino neighbors.

Big shout out to their executive director, Gigi.

She is a fantastic leader, and I'm always proud to partner with her.

Moving on, a few weeks ago, I attended the Best Friends Animal Society conference.

I have already reported this in my commissioner comments.

However, I did want to elevate that we have started to have follow-up meetings with our legislative and policy team to learn more about best practices, um, example legislation related to animal welfare and animal well-being.

So you will certainly see more coming from my office on that.

Next, the women's commission.

Um, we met a few weeks ago, had a successful first meeting.

Thank you again to uh Mr.

May, uh, Miss McGraw, the district two team, and all of our brand new women's commissioners for attending and really just having a um deep dive into what matters to women in DeCab County, and I'm very thrilled to be a part of that.

And I want to do want to thank my colleagues that have nominated someone to serve on the women's commission.

If you haven't done so, I hope you will consider doing so soon.

Moving on to legislation.

Um today um, and thank you to Commissioner Bolton.

We had a lengthy presentation from the animal advisory board and our red shirts, Did Cap County Animals Advocates, around updating and strengthening the tethering ordinance.

The core of this update is to prohibit unsupervised tethering on any device.

So that could be a trolley system or even something as old rudimentary as tying a dog to a tree.

Um, I want to appreciate all of the folks that went into writing that law department.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Peggy McCarthy, um, Miss Lisa Milett, formerly with UGA's law school, now she's up in Vermont leading the state's engagement and activities and legislation around animal welfare, and certainly to Miss Beth Genga and my office for keeping that ship moving in the right direction.

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

Um, next up is um the planning department has recommended a series of new and amended ordinances to combat the party house issue.

Um, that has been a consistent ongoing problem in district two for quite some time now.

I appreciate your efforts, and I really do hope that we can get to the bottom of how to solve these party house issues, especially going into the World Cup.

And then lastly, um, while this is not a piece of legislation that I sponsored, the sponsor for the urban camping ordinance graciously invited me to provide feedback to the initial version of the urban camping ordinance.

I've been working with both housing and unhoused advocates to make significant recommendations to that ordinance, and we look forward to sharing with all of you and submitting to the PECS committee after we are done with that.

So thank you all so very much, and I yield.

Thank you so much.

Commissioner Masaya.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Great evening, Madam PO, and to all of the constituents who are present at our meeting here today.

Let me begin by thanking everyone who is able to join us for the kickoff of the second annual Live Laugh Love Concert and Art Series.

Despite the weather, we did not allow the rain to stop us from coming together and sharing a great community experience.

As I always say, we're going to fellowship together and we're gonna fight together.

We successfully pivoted from Rainbow Park Amphitheater to the Port of Sanford Performing Arts Center to host the event.

I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to my staff, the Department of Recreation Parks, Cultural Affairs, Port of Sanford, our director Cynthia Venefields, our staff, the Arts Council, Stephanie Rains, the of course the DeCab County Police Department, E.

Period, and a lot of others that helped to make that a reality and ensure that the event was seamless.

We look forward to seeing everyone at our second event of the year on February.

I'm sorry, on Friday, July 24th.

Also, I would like to thank and appreciate attending the CEO's first quarter town hall.

It was very informative.

A number of directors from the departments to talk to the constituents, and the feedback was positive in terms of the information received.

I also want to thank a big thanks to Pastor Jerry Black and the Bueller Missionary Baptist Church family, as well as the Clifton Springs community for coming together to connect and to discuss additional ways that we continue to move our district together, move forward together.

I was honored to attend the 100 Black Men Gala and celebrate the tremendous impact of the organization as it continues to make in our community and for our youth.

The commitment to uplifting and empowering youth, men, women, and helping shape future generation of leaders.

Our office also attended the Allanna Roller Derby Town Hall, now located at the Golden Glide Skating Rink.

The event provided an opportunity for residents to come together, learn more about the organization, build connections, and support the local community initiatives.

Additionally, we joined the administration and the Department of Parks and REC for a community walkthrough and safe tour of NH Scott Swimming Pool.

The pool opened over the Memorial Day weekend, and we look forward to celebrating this appointment community asset with residents during the official ribbon cutting, which is going to take place Saturday, June 6th at 10 a.m.

I will also say as the author of the legislation for urban camping, I look forward to welcome and I welcome any feedback ensuring that as the sponsor I keep in keep in line and in order the purpose of the ordinance.

So I welcome anyone that would like to have a conversation with me as the sponsor of that specific legislation.

I thank you for your continued engagement and support as we work together and strengthen our community together and with unity.

With that, I yield back to you, Madam P.

O.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Masaya.

Commissioner Bolton.

Thank you, Madam PO.

And I'll just talk through about three items.

I'm not going to take too much time.

The first thing that I did want to reiterate to the community that I've shared in several other meetings is that District 7 is launching our community beautification grants.

We've sent out several emails and text notices, and so you will be able to begin completing those applications in the coming days.

And so if your community needs a facelift with respect to signage, maybe fencing, some landscaping, and you're in District 7.

We would love to support that initiative.

So look forward to another communication so you guys can start completing those applications.

And that's the home rule ordinance that we considered in the ERPS Committee, which allows for an added death benefit for the pension plan.

And this is specifically for employees who died or was killed in the line of duty.

This is an opportunity for their families to feel that the county support them by allowing them to receive the full pension of the employee that essentially gave their lives to serve and support us.

And I just want to make sure that the administration and our pension team and all the folks that work on that know that we appreciate uh you guys putting in the effort to make sure that this would be able to come to fruition in the coming weeks.

This is a major accomplishment for the county to be able to support our employees in this way.

And then the last thing, the last thing that I wanted to mention.

Um, I also do thank everyone for coming out today.

You might recall in April, my office sent out an email around April 21st, letting you guys know we were going to be having the data center discussion today.

We also sent out a survey to give the broader community an opportunity to share those interests or your concerns.

So for the folks who don't normally get a chance to come to the meetings and speak during public comment or public hearing, that survey was an opportunity for you to share what your concerns are.

Thank you to the over 100 folks who the hundreds of folks, excuse me, who were able to complete the survey.

Some even sent back emails sharing what your concerns are.

That was extremely helpful.

Our office did share that with the planning department so they could also look into what the broader community is saying about data centers, what your issues are, what your concerns are, what your interests are.

And many folks communicated that having that email in April allow ample time for them to prepare comments and statements for today, and that you would like to see more of that advanced preparation.

So thank you all for participating in this survey and showing us that this is something that we can and should continue to do out of District 7.

And with that, I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Bolton.

Commissioner Marina Davis Johnson.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

I hope that everyone had a good safe weekend.

On Friday, May the 22nd, my staff attended the champions for health, Pep Rally at Bruce Street Senior Center.

There were games, music, and plenty of dancing as they celebrated health and wellness doing Ola American Mont.

That same afternoon, my chief of staff, Demetrius McCoy was the guest speaker at Lou Walker Senior Center's Memorial Day program hosted by the Lou Walker Veterans to celebrate the lives of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

I'm glad to have been a broad sponsor this year, giving 2500 to the NCNW to provide scholarships, mentorship, leadership development, and programming to uplift the care of youth and communities in need.

On next Saturday, June the 13th at Rainbow Park Amphitheater, I'm proud to once again partner with the Cab County CEO, Lorraine Cochrane Johnson and the entire Board of Commissioners to bring the 2026 Juneteenth, Juneteenth festival featuring Morris Day and the Time with a special performance by Climax.

And of this past Friday, the Juneteenth Festival is officially sold out.

But we're looking forward to embracing unity as we celebrate Juneteenth here in DeCab County.

And before I close, I would like everyone to wish my communications director, a specialist Jackson Gamble a happy belated birthday when you see him.

I am grateful to have Jackson on my district staff, and I'm glad to see him continue to evolve as we move to Cab County's 5th district forward.

As a reminder, your district fifth, your district five staff and commissioners are available to you.

So please feel free to call us at 404 371 2159.

And with that, uh I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Commissioner Patrick.

Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Uh first, I'd like to recognize the police athletic league PALS.

Thank you very much for partnering with District One for the five-week summer program that brings about 40 kids from District 1 out to for soccer, mentorship, transportation, and meals and equipment at no cost.

Thank you very much for supporting District One for residents in District 1 as well as anyone who drives around the Mercer University area.

The Mercer University Bridge will be closed for a few months as uh they work on replacing it.

Approximately 90 days, uh, the existing bridge was built in 1967 and is being replaced to meet modern design and safety standards.

Uh the new bridge will include wider travel lanes, sidewalks, and shoulders uh for the residents.

So in the meantime, motors, please understand there will be some delays as we uh get the new bridge installed.

Uh next, I want to invite everyone to the DeCab County uh town hall for proposed utility rate changes.

Uh the town hall is scheduled for June 10 at 6 30 p.m.

at the Shirley A.

Trussell Building.

That's 178 Sam Street.

Uh residents can learn about the proposed stormwater and sanitation rate increases.

Public comment opportunities will follow each presentation.

Uh the meeting is intended to promote more transparency and gather community feedback before final decisions are made.

Uh wanna also let everybody know that uh CEO Cochrane Johnson recently had appointed me to the DeCAB Board of Public Health, and I had an opportunity to attend one of their meetings where we adopted their budget.

Uh, their budget is about uh 46 million dollars.

Of that, approximately 14 million, uh pardon me, approximately 14% or about six million dollars comes from DeCab County.

So that's they get their state funding, and then DeCab goes the extra level to make sure that public health for everyone, our community is being addressed.

Also, want to say thank you very much to the NAACP for the invitation to the Unity Breakfast back on May 16th.

Uh, we attended uh the Unity Breakfast and it was focused on mobilizing for justice and hope is still alive.

Uh also want to recognize some of the community leaders that were in attendance, uh and also wanted to recognize the legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson.

And finally, uh come to the Board of Commissioners around 6 o'clock on June 9th as we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month and honoring a gentleman by the name of Sam Cock.

Uh, it was supposed to happen in May, and we've had to reschedule it to June just because we had a busy calendar.

Uh, but again, this celebration for the 2026 District 1 AAPI Heritage Month's Trailblazer uh will be happening and again from 6 to 7, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Madam Presiding Officer, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

And so I will pull up the rear, and we're just about right on time.

It is 6:23.

So I just have some brief comments as well.

First, I wanted to take the time, excuse me, to thank the community for showing up tonight for our nighttime cow meeting.

It is important for us to be able to get in front of the community as much as possible, and it was strategic to have the data center discussion at this meeting so that the public could be here to witness and participate because we know we always get a large crowd at this meeting.

So again, I do thank y'all for being here.

It is crucial for the work that we do.

Um, I was recently appointed as a board member for Decide DeCab by Madam CEO.

So I participated in my orientation the other week, and I'm looking forward to my first meeting as a board member that's coming up in the next couple of weeks.

Um, I'm working closely with the city of Stone Mountain as they are planning their annual Juneteenth celebration.

Um that will be on June 19th, the actual um June 1th holiday from 5 to 7 p.m.

at the gazebo, we'll have a lineup of speakers.

Um plans are still in the works.

We'll have some exhibits in the old train depot, which we're working to actively make into a museum.

Uh-huh.

And then we'll have some food and some it will end with the tunes by the tracks later that evening.

I do want to take the time.

Uh, can thank you, Commissioner Bolton, to recognize Representative Viola Davis, who is in the room with us this evening, ma'am.

Thank you for always being present in the community.

Are there any other elected officials in the audience to be recognized?

Okay, seeing no one, thank you again, Representative Davis.

Um, I was scheduled to speak at the MARTA event um VIP first ride event this Thursday, but it is now been postponed.

So if you were planning to attend that um this Thursday, please know it has been postponed, and I have not heard when they will reschedule that.

I am also speaking as a keynote speaker for the second annual dancing with dementia event this Saturday, right here back at Lew Walker Senior Center.

This event celebrates caregivers, participants, and families impacted by dementia while raising community awareness about Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Looking forward to participating in that amazing event.

Our latest District 4 podcast featuring um director Thomza Clark from Community Code Compliance, excuse me, has been released, and our next guest um will be Mr.

Zach Williams, Mr.

COO.

He is scheduled as our next guest.

We are recording that podcast on Monday, correct, Zach?

Okay.

So I think that'll be an interesting conversation for the maybe you don't know what the COO does and how that ties into everything that we do as a board of commissioners and the work we do to move the county forward.

And then lastly, I need to plug my full steam ahead, Chicago's cookout event.

That is my signature back to school event that will take place on Saturday, June 27th.

Big thank you to all the sponsors, vendors, county departments, and community stakeholders who have partnered with us to provide this valuable opportunity for DeCav's youth.

Also, a special thank you to Commissioner Dr.

Bolton for sponsoring pollinator kits for participants.

And I would also, we could not do this work.

Um District 4 is doing a lot of the work, but we cannot do it without the heavy lift of some of our departments.

Um so I want to thank um for the outstanding planning team from Recreation Parks and Cultural Affairs as well as human services.

So thank you, Director Bass and Director Scott for allowing your team to participate with us in this planning, and they're always so supportive and a huge help for the district four office.

Um again, we cannot do this without the partnership of community members and department heads alike.

So thank you again.

And so that brings us to 628 p.m.

So, madam clerk, if you would read in the rules for the public comment section.

By the time we read in those rules, we should be ready to open public comment.

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 turned into the clerk from the time the general meeting is convened and by the beginning of public comment portion, generally following presentations on the agenda.

The clerk will accept cards on the first come first year basis.

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

Once the public comment portion of the meeting begins, speaker cards will no longer be accepted.

Speakers will be allowed to speak for three minutes each, and public comment shall 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 our next regularly scheduled commission meeting.

Speakers should always talk directly into the microphone and begin by stating their name, full address in 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 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 opposition to a speaker's position.

Thank you, ma'am.

That brings us directly to 6 30.

Do we have our speaker cards?

Please bear with us a moment.

Here they come.

Thank you.

First speaker is Rosalind McIntyre.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'm so used to saying good morning.

Good evening, ma'am.

Good evening, commissioners, and thank you.

So I've been reading the different versions of the text amendment, but I focused just recently on the January 22nd, 2026 version.

And in the preamble, it states whereas it is necessary to establish design and development standards to ensure no discernible impact on adjacent properties and residential areas.

Well, one of the things that is required in this text amendment draft is a major feature that you have really talked about is the closed loop system, which will I agree it will reduce the amount of water on the back end, but it still uses a lot of water, but most importantly, it uses a lot more energy.

So you're trading one thing for another.

When it uses more energy, that means it's going to use more motors and more turbines, which means that it will be an increase in noise.

And if you look, if anyone has looked at the videos that are online about these data campuses, not data centers, but the data campuses emit a lot of noise.

And it talked about how the vibrations really are detrimental to people's health.

And I and it dawned on me.

This this is the same kind of thing that they talked about in Cuba when the embassy people had to leave because they were being so impacted by the sounds from some place that was near their uh building.

So I looked to see the difference between what's the difference between infra sound coming from a data center and noise that is used as a torture technique.

So this is what I found.

Data centers and torture noises are similar, low frequency infrasound with chronic and inescapable droning.

While data centers are designed are not designed as weapons, as some of these are when it's used as torture, they're very similar in the way that they affect people.

Their continuous hum causes similar psychological and physical distress.

Some of the um the health effects of this constant noise, which is not heard, it's not even the hum that people find annoying.

It's the vibrations that can be felt up to five miles.

And there's no shield that you can use.

You can't use the floor, the floor, you can't use the shields that you see on the highway because it goes beyond that.

So some of the uh infrastructure infra sounds um problems, health problems include uh heightened irritability, reduced concentration, physiological stress, ear pain, chest wall, and represent and respiratory impairment, increased blood pressure, increased heart attack risk.

Um it's very similar.

Thank you, ma'am.

And so with the um alarm did sound, I wanted to make sure people could hear that when they spoke.

And as a rule status, holding a science is prohibited.

Thank you so much.

Next speaker, please.

Our next speaker is Jan Dunaway.

Ms.

Dunaway, good evening.

Good evening.

Jam Dunaway, District 4, and the DeCown Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor.

The current data center text amendment does not address or cover in detail the water plan.

It is not specific.

It does not allow public access to information regarding water use or the discharge plan for contaminated water or immersion cooling products from the closed loop system.

The drought plan does not address who gets the water during the drought conditions, and if a data center will be considered critical infrastructure that will get the water before the citizens.

How much drinking water is also known as potable water with uh a data will the data centers require?

An industrial wastewater permit does not list glycol or dielectric fluids as chemicals.

Fluids from immersion cooling are considered oils, so they recommend use of a licensed waste management or recycling contractor.

This is the safest and best route.

There is no requirement to remove the chemicals, biocides, heavy and metals, nitrates or forever chemicals before releasing the wastewater into our treatment plants.

The DeCab Industrial Wastewater Permit allow companies to go a whole year without review.

Then, if found out of compliance, allows another six months, then another six months review before anything is done to ensure compliance.

We will not have this much time to protect our water resources.

Citizens are downstream laborers.

The state EPD does not have regulations in place for data center wastewater, and we cannot depend upon them or EPA to protect us.

Closed loop systems continue to use water daily after the initial load.

A recent WSB uh story on the 27th of May regarding the Meta data center in Monroe County revealed they continue to use 102,000 gallons per day of drinking water, even with a closed loop system.

The average three-bedroom house uses 300 gallons of water per day.

DeCAB has a permit to withdraw only 140 million gallons per day from the Chattahoochee River, our single source of drinking water for all of DeCab.

We cannot afford large-scale data center water use.

We are unique in DeCab because we are under the consent decree due to our broken water and sewer system.

These items have not been resolved by the data center text amendment, so we need a moratorium until the consent decree requirements are met.

The citizens of DeCAB must be reassured that we can build into the future without breaking the present.

Thank you, ma'am.

Next speaker.

Gina Mangum.

Good evening, Ms.

Mangum.

Is there a clock by chance?

I'm sorry.

A clock.

There is one up here.

And the buzzer will sound.

Where's the clock?

It's up here at the front, ma'am.

Oh, very front.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I'm Gina Mangum.

I live in Southeast DeCab.

Um and I live in districts five and seven.

Quoting from a July 31st, 2025 article in Decaturish, just before the first version of the Data Center text amendment was presented to the public in late August.

A representative of DeCab County's own Department of Planning and Sustainability stated, large data centers above 100,000 square feet have a massive economic impact on the community.

But they can also have negative impacts in terms of power supply, water usage, and things like that.

Referencing the two small data centers already existing in North DeCab, she added that both centers have experienced some impacts from generators and their water systems.

She later added, when it comes to water, that's where it gets a little bit trickier.

That's what we're hoping to address with these regulations.

However, these issues have not been addressed.

Using the 1.7 million square foot Meta Data Center in Walton County as an example, she went on to say through our discussions with Georgia Power and Decide DeCab, we do not feel that we would have the capacity to accommodate one of these large units in the county given our land and other infrastructure.

So what happened?

Previously, DeCab County sent two zoning certification letters to developers, letters of intent, which indicate that a data center would be allowed, but that the letters are not binding.

The first letter, dated February 21st, 2024, is addressed to Hickory Real Estate Partners.

Black hall.

The second letter, dated February 24, 2025, is addressed to Shadow Box Studios.

It appears that the BOC is willing to allow development of these unsafe major large-scale hyperscale data centers and data center campuses in DeCAB at the risk of our well-being.

For what?

For money.

Have you?

A lot of new information has come out.

Yet the text amendment has remained virtually the same.

Many of the same issues raised have not been adequately addressed, especially concerns about our water system.

People in Georgia, all over the country, and even the globe are seeing the light.

These large-scale data centers or campuses are a threat to our citizens and our rights.

We were previously told by one of our own county attorneys that a moratorium of over a year is illegal in Georgia under state law, which we found out later is not true.

A moratorium on data centers was introduced by a state rep and approved by legislative council.

Now several jurisdictions have followed suit imposing local moratoriums.

Thank you, Miss Mayor.

We should do the same.

Say that name again, ma'am.

Glenda Jordan.

Glenda Jordan.

We're not allowed to do that, ma'am.

We're not allowed.

We can go to the next speaker, but we're not allowed to do that.

Would you like to speak?

Would you like to speak, ma'am?

Okay, so we'll go to the next one.

Jackie Malcolm.

Miss Malcolm.

Just read the last paragraph.

That's all.

Hello, Commissioners.

My name is Jackie Malcolm.

I live in District 3 in the Cedar Grove community off of Bodacrest.

If this ordinance is truly being written to protect us, as you claim, then the only reason solutions is to accept the DeCab County Citizen Coalition, propose limitations and requirements.

The only other same alternative is to impose a moratorium on the development of data centers until the repairs to our water and sewer system required under the federal consent decree have been met.

As our own county planning department has recommended.

If you are going to do this, health studies for all of the DeCab County have identified many different health issues.

The results noted that South DeCab and Lithonia have more health problems than anywhere else in DeCAB.

This has a lot to do with high levels of pollution and other everyday effects in industrial development.

The results show higher blood pressure, more cardiac arrests from death, breathing issues, stroke, birth mortality, and more.

These health issues already exist without a data campus.

So just imagine.

Large data campus require Lau diesel backup generators that emits chemical pollution.

There is no way to monitor how often or how long it will run.

If these types of data campuses come to South DeCAB, East of CAP, the health issues will be even more worse.

Just worse.

Data campus centers and campuses will bring devastating effects on us.

The Cedar Grove community is currently working on a small area.

Thank you, ma'am.

Gerald DeVito.

Gerald De Dito.

Gail Levito.

Can you say that name one more time?

Oh, there's a lot of the case.

Gerald DeVito.

Thank you, sir.

You're welcome.

And thank you for whoever did the marketing to give the time and uh place of this uh public hearing.

Uh I appreciate it.

Um sometimes I don't get out of the house for three or four days and never see another human and only talk to AI.

And um that being said, uh I'm probably going to offer a perspective that you're not going to hear the rest of the night.

I support data centers, but not unconditionally.

Um, and the conditions are gonna have to be set by government leaders.

The um data centers themselves are not the problem.

It's poorly cited, fossil fueled, grid dependent data centers are the problem.

And they gobble up water, they um you're giving them tax breaks, so that you know the tax money is like flowing out.

Uh all this has got to be changed.

Um the AI revolution, it's probably about six months ago.

I uh when I moved to Atlanta, I moved here because my wife's got Alzheimer's.

We've been married 43 years, and she doesn't know me.

So I started um studying AI, and it's an achievement and a tool that human, the greatest tool that humans ever developed, and it will continue to develop, and it's it's probably gonna save the planet.

The uh I'm a um I'm a Vietnam veteran, and I'm when I moved to Decatur, I started a solar company at Solar DC power, that DC is like direct current power.

And that's um, and uh I offer solutions for uh siting data centers in rural areas.

Uh noise can be mitigated.

Um I offer all the solutions for data centers, and um the it'll be all agro voltaics to be able to pay farmers a thousand dollars an acre, the national average is 150 dollars an acre.

So far and farmers could continue to farm the land below the solar panel arrays.

Um not only you you offer the farmers another stream of revenue, the uh local community will have um access to internet that they don't have right now, and they you know some of them are still using phone modems.

Uh and there's solutions, but those um the conditions have to come from you all.

Um, they can't come from the people.

And you know, obviously, yeah, I started studying AI because you know I started reading next door, and everybody's opposed to data centers and data centers are required for AI.

Um, we can't just let this greatest invention ever.

Um thank you, sir.

Regina Martin.

Regina Martin.

Regina Barton.

Regina, are you here?

Okay, not seeing her.

Continue.

Austin Carl.

Austin Carl, good evening.

Um, Austin Carl.

I live in Candler McAfee.

Uh, despite being under consent decree for failing water infrastructure.

To Calb continues to try and clear the way for data center development, one of the most water-intensive industries.

On the one hand, you claim that you need to burden residential ratepayers with 10% increases to cover costs for sewer improvements.

On the other hand, you waste nearly 20 million on real-time crime center infrastructure, which feeds data to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, partly funded by the Urban Area Security Initiative, where it's accessible to federal agencies like ICE.

Not to mention that the vendors chosen like Flock depend on indiscriminate data sharing for their large valuations and are increasingly powered by AI.

It's also worth repeating that data center investment is highly speculative and will take far more from our communities than we will gain.

Data centers put tremendous strain on both power and water grids and produce audible and inaudible noise pollution, the latter of which is called infra sound.

Despite falling below the range of human hearing, infrasound has nevertheless been found to cause physiological symptoms like nausea and seizures.

Also, just last month, research revealed that data centers produce miles wide heat islands, raising the temperature of surrounding communities by an average of four degrees Fahrenheit.

This comes amidst already catastrophic and worsening climate change.

If it were not for the people on this side of the room, you all would have rubber stamped data center development months ago before concerns about infersound and heat islands had emerged, harms which are not even acknowledged in the current text amendment.

Yet you all continue to act as though these developments are known quantities, despite our knowledge of them being continually proved incomplete.

Finally, usage of large language models is highly subsidized.

Take anthropic, the maker of Claude, for instance.

Users expend $8 worth of compute for every dollar of their subscription.

A huge number of derivative AI startups depend on the four major AI players for their services to function, as they are essentially just rappers for API calls.

Yet these companies have not demonstrated that AI is or can be profitable.

Even so, they are attempting to leverage market hype and overvaluation to buy our land and water out from under us while riddling all levels of government with infrastructure and platform dependencies.

Their strategy is to insert AI technologies into corporate and municipal workflows so thoroughly that when the bubble does pop, they are all but guaranteed a taxpayer bailout.

Just today, 404 Media reported on an internal Microsoft memo, which stated that their strategy for driving AI AI adoption was to quote, make users addicted and to quote pilot the UX, grow the user base, and build the scale and tool ecosystem that makes people depend on it daily.

All we're offered in return is too few temporary construction jobs and tax revenue that won't even cover the cost of the damages we stand to incur from data centers.

Extend the moratorium.

Thank you.

Amy Fields Taylor.

And if you guys please keep it down so we can hear.

Can you say that name again, please?

Amy Fields Taylor.

Good evening, ma'am.

I'm not that tall.

Good evening, commissioners.

Um Amy Fields Taylor.

I live on Key Road, less than half a mile from both of the proposed data centers that were mentioned earlier.

I don't have to repeat all of the reasons why data centers should be highly regulated, if not outright banned in the CAB.

You already know.

However, the only caution I have heard from the CAB against a permanent moratorium is from fear of being sued by the tech companies.

But my question to you all is why are you not afraid of us?

Why do you think we are gonna do when we get sick, or we can't sell our homes and we're unable to move away from these monsters?

Where in the ordinance does it provide for us in regards to health care or financial ruin?

I can tell you if I get sick, lose my home's value, and get stuck next to a data center, you can bet your bitcoins I am going to call a lawyer.

So be afraid of us, not them.

Please, please stop spending all this time, all this effort, and wasting our time being here all the time on an ordinance that barely protects us.

Just simply say no data centers allowed in DeCAB.

Other communities are doing it across the country.

Why can't we?

Because all these data centers do, and I've seen it, I've it happened in West Georgia.

They started out in Villarica and they said no.

So they moved over to Buck Cannon, and they said no.

And so they move somewhere else and they keep moving until they get a yes.

Why are you gonna let them just run us over for a yes?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Jordan Moses.

Jordan Moses.

And please, snapping but not clapping and not vocal.

Thank you.

Good evening, sir.

Hello, uh, Jordan.

Uh I am a district three resident.

Um, and at one point I had a completely different uh message to give to our county commissioners, but that was until I read a recent Decaturish article where uh my commissioner was emailing back and forth with a known racist anti-Semite um known uh Ryan Millsap.

Uh he called black people stinky, he called uh he hates Jewish people.

Um, and you want to give him land to put a data center in our neighborhood.

I'm sure this is probably the best day of his life when he gets to ruin the neighborhoods of black people and take our homes from us and ruin the land value of the only thing we pass down to our children.

Um, so uh I just really want you to understand that this needs to be put on pause until we can figure out a way to make sure that we are safe and that people who don't care about a community aren't benefiting from its destruction.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Hey Salter.

Paige Salter.

Thank you.

Good evening, ma'am.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Uh, my name is Paige Salter.

I live and own my home in District 3 off of Bouldercrest, and I'm here to beg you, like genuinely beg you to permanently ban uh data centers in DeCab County.

South DeCab has already absorbed the punches of repeated poor land use decisions, including the 2021 and entrenchment creek land swap involving Ryan Millsap and Blackhawk, where public land was transferred out of public ownership.

I'm sorry, I'm really I'm an introvert.

I hate being, y'all got me out here.

It's this bad.

Um so uh but the entrenchment creek land swap involving Ryan Millsap and Black Hall, where public land was transferred out of public ownership, and key obligation obligations tied to that swap are still not enforced five years later.

Five years later.

Now we're being asked to accept data centers, the two in in our area specifically, um, including one proposed at 2235 Bouldercrest Road.

The same 40 acres DeCab County gave up in the entrenchment creek land swap.

A park like used to be there.

We used to, my husband used to skate there.

It was great, wonderful.

Um that land was once public, and now it's being positioned for data center development.

This is the same developer tied to that land swap, and the same county that is not enforced full accountability for the commitments made in that deal.

How can we like how can you ask us to trust the cab county to regulate and hold developers accountable for massive, massive industrial projects like data centers, when we have a documented history and this exact case of those obligations not being enforced.

I am begging you, draw a clear line now.

You have the opportunity to get this right.

Get it right.

It's an option.

Um, you have the opportunity to begin to write some of the wrongs you have chosen to make in specifically district three.

South decab is not an expendable industrial zone.

Shit, I'm gonna cry.

Oh, sorry, that means curse.

It's my home.

This is our home that you're making decisions on.

You're sitting here staring at me, making decisions on my home.

Care.

Do the right thing.

You have the it's still on the table.

Do the right thing.

Show Georgia what you are.

Show Georgia what the Cap County is.

We're better than this.

Be better.

Thank you, ma'am.

Keanu Jones Moore.

Keanu Jones Moore.

Good evening, ma'am.

Good evening.

My name is Kiana Jones Moore, and I reside in District 3.

And as many of you may know, I am a candidate for DeCab County Commission District 3.

That is only relevant because someone or some people from DeCab County cult compliance or maybe sanitation, I don't know.

But somebody in the DeCab County truck is riding around to private property taking my campaign signs up.

I've gotten calls from people, including my very own mother-in-law.

You've taken signs from people's yards.

And I don't know if it's at the behest of sitting commissioners, or maybe it's Tommy Travis because he's pissy because he only got 5% of the votes, and he's been known to take signs before.

But I guess when you buddy up with the person who is the sitting commissioner, and I am public enemy number one, then you join forces, but that's okay because you got your squad and I got mine too.

And the thing about my squad is that my squad is the people who I represent already because I've been in the streets.

I'm from these streets.

I'm from East Atlanta in South Decab.

My neighborhood is the one where you sold the land and put Cop City where you're trying to allow someone to put data centers right now.

You have the facts about data centers, and you want to ignore them because for some reason you're upset because people understand what environmental racism is.

People understand when we are being disenfranchised simply because we look a certain way, and because you think our education level is one that is not tantamount to yours.

But your ordinance that you are proposing to approve is just like many of the tactics I see up here.

Petty, asinine, and sophomoric.

It does not protect us at all.

The last thing that I will say, and maybe not the last thing, because I don't see Commissioner Masaya taking pictures of us like she did at the last commission meeting.

She came back and did that after she left today, is because she didn't like what was being said about her.

What we need in DeCab County is what I always say I will bring.

Honesty, transparency, and accountability.

The fact that you have rules that govern public comment that prevent somebody from holding a sign.

What in the world is holding a sign gonna do to somebody?

You don't like to see that you're wrong.

You don't like to see that people don't agree with you.

Well, that's the job that you took.

If your skin wasn't tough enough, you shouldn't have asked somebody for a vote.

And how dare you act somebody for a vote and want us to be able to do that.

And do much or nothing for us for hours on end, and then you give a half hour for public comment, and you don't even allow the option for someone to see their time.

This is the reason why people are sick of some of y'all, and this is the reason why we do need a new vision for the cab, because the cab can be better once we take out the trash.

You have a good night.

Please don't make me clear the room.

Thank you.

Do we have time for one more speaker?

We have please keep it down so we can have the last speaker.

Jocelyn O'Neal.

Miss O'Neal.

But I want to say this.

I want to say this.

Uh, I just want to thank Dr.

uh Mr.

Zach Williams and Mr.

Robert Gordon for assisting me with a couple of projects that were going on recently.

I want to thank them.

And I want to say we talk about artificial intelligence AI.

Anyone have ever had an artificial cup of water?

Is water anything?

Anyone ever we we we avoid anything that says artificial that we have to consume, right?

Okay.

So one of no no data center campuses with less than a mile from our communities.

You know, people we need to live.

We need to live, we need to have children, we need to have our children come in in this world normal because we've had normal pregnancies and all the other stuff that goes along with that.

Um, another thing I'm having problems with in my community.

I've had two people make the comment.

We got coyotes running in Greater Towers.

Count ODs.

Some cats are missing and all that other stuff.

Okay, we got trees on Glenwood Parkway that need to be trimmed back.

We've had several accidents right at Hollyhawk and Glenwood that have been deadly.

Uh my husband has gone around there and taken cut some of the limbs down so that people can see from the eastbound going westbound.

We need some help with that.

Um, rodent drainage.

I don't know how we can do it, but we need to get a resolution or policy or something.

We have yard debris, we have people that rake their yarns, cut their yards, and put all that debris at the curb and it's running down the drains.

It needs to be some type of a policy against us doing that.

Okay, and so, and I also have sample ballots for those who need sample ballots for the runoff.

And I just want to say that um need an update on Glenwood Road uh sidewalk, eastbound lane from La Mesa to Glenmar.

I hear that there's been something put out there, but I have not received anything yet.

I need some information.

I need to know when we're gonna stop killing our people on Glenwood Road.

Thank you, Miss O'Neill.

Fellow commissioners, the time is 703.

We have three speaker cards left.

So would you like to let those three here um speak and then we'll go into the presentation?

Motion to expand public comment for the three remaining speakers.

Second.

I have a motion and a second by show of hands.

All in favor.

Aye, thank you.

Read the last three, thank you.

Dwayne Cole.

Dwayne Cole.

Good evening, sir.

Good evening, honorable commissioners of DeCab County.

A special thank you to Madam CEO Lorraine Johnson for your leadership and commitment to transparency.

And your two splots, two appointees, my neighbor, Dr.

Gerald Austin Sr.

And Mr.

Stephen Benny, who facilitated a well-attended community awareness meeting in the Deer Creek community.

If you're from Deer Creek, please stand.

So my name is Dwayne Cole.

I'm a proud 27-year resident of the 349 home community known as Deer Creek, which is a longtime member of the Rock Bridge Coalition.

I'm here today with several of my neighbors who I'm who I consider friends and family to voice our concerns about the deplorable conditions of the roads within our community.

My home rests at the bottom of a very steep hill on Blandyre Boulevard.

I have pictures to leave with you all, by the way.

For nearly 30 years, this road has carried tens of thousands of school buses, trash trucks, delivery and construction vehicles, and as well as daily car traffic.

The toll has been severe.

Right in front of my home, there's a giant fissure that every time it rains, orange clay streams out of the ground.

I worry that water has built up underneath the road and weakened the very foundation of my home.

Thank you.

I'm not a geoengineer, but there is, but if there is even a one percent chance of that happening, I want to prevent it.

This intersection is very dangerous and has been the site of serious incidents.

We are asking on the record tonight for an immediate safety assessment.

We should not wait for a tragedy to be the reason we act.

We respectfully ask this committee for one Blantyre Boulevard to have immediate evaluation and resurfacing priority.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for your time.

Terry Mary.

Terry Mary.

Terry Mary.

Good evening, ma'am.

Thank you.

I too and a grateful resident of DeCab County and grateful to our leadership, Cochrane Johnson and my beloved person, Ted Terry, for being here tonight.

Let me say first and foremost, I am an honor guard chaplain who is grateful for the gentleman that spoke today and every single veteran in this room that gave up or risked their lives and put them in danger for us to have this meeting tonight.

I just happen to be a Lincoln Reagan Sass Republican, and I actually do not live in this neighborhood.

But you are all my neighbors.

And this is a start.

It's a floor, not a ceiling.

It's just the beginning.

And as a small business owner, I'm happy to pay for anything I use.

And I am cautiously optimistic.

And as an Anglican priest, I'm even hopeful that we'll make the right decision and we'll be on the leading edge, not the bleeding edge.

So thanks to all of you for hearing this tonight, and I hope you make the right decision moving forward.

Thank you, ma'am.

And the last speaker, Dr.

Lisa Taylor.

Dr.

Lisa Taylor.

Good evening, ma'am.

Good evening.

After everything I just heard, I would like to say three things.

Number one, as Pharaoh and Moses, he said, let my people go.

What the people have spoken to you concerning the data center, nobody that's for it will you would not sleep until it is settled.

Okay?

That's number one.

Number two, that non-lynching sign that's in front of DeCab County Courthouse.

How can it be removed?

And it's been there for years of the lynchings that was done here in the state of Georgia, especially in DeCab County.

And it sits right in the front of the courthouse.

How can it be removed?

How can that plaque be removed?

Because everybody that walks by there is a reminder of the lynchings that took place not only in DeCab County, but at that courthouse.

How can that happen?

And if you haven't seen it, you need to go by DeCab County Courthouse and see it.

And number two, nobody is going to sleep until that issue with that data center is settled.

You know it's wrong.

And what you sow is what you're going to reap.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right, that exceeds our completes our public comments section.

Excuse me.

Next, we will start our data center discussion with a brief presentation from our planning and sustainability team.

And we will hold comments until after the presentation.

Good evening, Director Andrew Pooh.

Good to see you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

It's great to see you too.

I would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight and to provide you with the presentation on the current DeCab County Data Center Ordinance.

As data centers continue to emerge as a growing land use category throughout Metro Atlanta and across the country.

It is important that the DeCab County regulation regulate that DeCab County's regulatory framework provides clear guidelines on where these facilities may be located, how they should be reviewed, and what standards should apply to protect surrounding communities, public infrastructure, and the county's long-term development goals.

The current data set of ordinance establishes the county's initial framework for regulating data centers as a land use and represents the extensive research done by the planning and sustainability staff to include input from community and other subject matter experts from around the state and the country.

The goal of this evening's presentation is not only to review the existing ordinance, but also to gather feedback to ensure that DeCab County has a clear, enforceable and forward-looking regulatory framework for data centers.

With that, I would like to introduce my staff.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Good evening, Deputy Director.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Before we begin our presentation, I want to acknowledge that we have heard the concerns expressed by residents throughout the past year of this process.

We have read the comments, listened to the public during community councils, planning commissions, board of commissioners' meetings, public testimony, and we understand that there are significant and well-founded concerns about data centers and what they could potentially mean for the community.

The text amendment before you that we'll be discussing tonight is not for an approval of a data center.

By itself, this text amendment would not permit a single data center.

Instead, it establishes a framework and standards that any future data center that wanted to be located in DeCab County would be required to meet.

Tonight, we're discussing the rules, the questions about specific projects, what it is, where it is, how much water or power it uses, when it would be built, and what impacts it may have can only be answered when and if a specific application is submitted.

At that time, at the time an application would be submitted in the future, that proposed data center would come back through the public hearing process.

It would come to community council, planning commission, and ultimately the board of commissioners.

All of those would be additional opportunities for public input and review.

Staff would be asking many of the same questions as the public has asked.

And would be evaluating the proposals against the standards that are proposed to be established in this ordinance.

Many communities throughout Metro Atlanta and Georgia are seeing applications currently for data centers, and many have no data center regulations at all.

Without a framework in place, we're we are vulnerable.

It is our position as staff that without this framework as proposed in this ordinance, there are not sufficient safeguards to protect against adverse impacts.

And that's why we continue to advocate for approval of this ordinance.

This amendment is intended to provide clear expectations, meaningful protections, and a process for evaluating future proposals.

We recognize that there are fears and uncertainties surrounding this topic, and these concerns are real and they deserve to be heard.

Our goal is to ensure that these facilities are considered, and if these facilities are considered in the future, they are subject to thoughtful regulations that protect residents, neighborhoods, infrastructure, and the long-term interest of DeCap County.

Ultimately, this amendment is about putting safeguards in place.

It gives the county the tools to ask hard questions, require standards, and evaluate proposals through a public process.

We can do hard things together, and this framework is intended to help us do so in a way that protects the community.

Thank you, and I will now hand it over to senior planner Tricia Prevost to walk us through the details of the ordinance.

Thank you.

Good evening, Tricia.

Hello, good evening, commissioners.

My name is Tricia Prevos.

I'm the senior planner for the long-range planning team, and I will be talking through the ordinance with you tonight.

So first I'd just like to pause on this slide.

The QR code seen here is a link to the slides that I'll be presenting tonight for anyone watching.

We also have flyers throughout the room with the QR code as well.

So as was mentioned earlier, the current moratorium is only extended through June 23rd and will be on the June 9th agenda for a further extension.

And the text amendment will be heard on the agenda on June 23rd as well.

So since this ordinance, this version of the ordinance was presented on or and posted online on January 22nd, no changes have been made.

So those watching can go to Engage to CAB, which is our public engagement platform to find the full ordinance and read through it.

And again, this is version three and a half with some minor changes.

And again, no changes have been made since January 21st, so all of this information is exactly what you'll find online.

So using feedback from the public, community council, board of commissioners, and industry experts, staff has addressed the following topics in this ordinance.

We've uh established data center classifications, gone through the permitted locations, both zoning and future land use, architectural requirements, noise and maintenance requirements, which includes things like power and water, and application and special land use permit requirements that would be required for all data centers.

So quickly just a review of our classifications.

We have minor data centers.

These are uh have an area of less than 20,000 square feet, and they do not have a substation.

Uh, these are meant to operate on an enterprise level, smaller scale facilities, maybe a research facility.

We wanted to provide flexibility in this ordinance, and these classifications allow for that as the technology develops.

The median data center is between 20,000 square feet and 900 or 99,999 square feet, so under 100,000 square feet, and may include a substation.

Major data centers are between 100,000 square feet and below 500,000 square feet.

And campus data centers, also known as hyperscale facilities.

You may see that uh word used as well.

Uh we classified them as campus data centers because they often contain more than one building, and so we wanted our regulations to reflect that standards are applied equally across the full development, the full campus, and these have an area of at least 500,000 square feet, and typically will have a substation and because of their power usage requirements.

So here's the use table.

Um again, we added the medium data center feedback after medium data center classification after feedback from the public that felt the difference between minor and major was too great, and so we added that medium data center.

Um requires a special land use permit in OI and OD, but then is permitted outright in the industrial land uses.

Same with minor data centers that are again under 20,000 square feet.

Major data centers and campus data centers require a special land use permit in any zoning district where in OIOD, light industrial and heavy industrial, and no data centers are permitted in character areas such as our activity centers, residential, mixed use, anything like that.

And then our parking standards as well, these have remained largely unchanged.

But that's just a quick refresher on the use table as it stands.

So I wanted to provide a little bit more justification of these size categories and give people an understanding of how these would look in an urban framework and give us some size comparison with buildings that are existing in DeCab and you know people may be familiar with.

So again, just to give an idea of the scale of these buildings of these square footage, because it can be difficult to conceptualize.

So again, for minor data centers, these are under 20,000 square feet, and I found this example of the ACE hardware on Scott Boulevard.

It is right around 20,000 square feet.

And so you can see how these this would be considered a minor impact and why it would be allowed in you know an office institutional or office distribution zoning district.

So I'll just leave that up for a moment.

Next uh size comparison is the suburban plaza on North Decatur Road.

Um, this is where you know the Walmart is the half price books, it's that smaller building off to the side.

Um it's around 100,000 square feet.

This one I think is around 80,000 to 90,000 square feet.

So this is again, we feel fits within the urban framework of something like an OI office distribution, um, and is also permitted in M and M2.

So these buildings are getting bigger but are still seen throughout the county in strip malls and things of that scale.

Next for a major data center, this uh admittedly is on the smaller end.

This uh is a Walmart on Memorial Drive.

It's around 180,000 square feet.

So on the lower end of the major data center size, but if you picture maybe multiples of these Walmarts, you can get a picture of what would be within that range of 500,000 square feet.

And so for that reason, as these get bigger, they have greater energy and water demands, may have generate greater noise, and so we feel that they are um you know would require a special land use permit based on those impacts of the community in all zoning districts or in the uh shown zoning districts.

And then finally uh for a campus size comparison.

This is a distribution center in Tucker, and it's around 800,000 square feet.

Um, and so this would be an idea of the campus sized facilities.

So again, these we are requiring a special land use permit in both light industrial and heavy industrial because at this point they are um you know they're requiring substations to uh generate their power, and they um have greater site impacts as well as um potential noise impacts as well, and so impacts outside of their site as well.

Okay, so that's just uh to give a good visualization of uh these size comparisons.

So, next I want to go into some of the different um requirements throughout this ordinance, and then I will also talk through our justifications and how staff reach these conclusions.

So, briefly for developments in light industrial and heavy industrial M and M2.

Uh, the the distance requirement for those is 500 feet from any residentially zoned parcel.

So this is from the edge of that parcel to the edge of development, not to the parcel, not parcel line to parcel line, but from parcel line to development of the data center that includes any roads, any improvements whatsoever.

So road internal roads, parking, um, external equipment, things like that.

Uh properties boarding on an interstate roadway on the you know property line where that it border that it maybe touches an interstate roadway, state highway, or major arterial road, that buffer is reduced to 300 feet from residential.

Uh we included this uh next point.

The developments in M and M2 shall maintain a minimum distance of 500 feet from any county parts or trails.

We included that with our last update based on community feedback.

Um touch on that in a moment.

No data center shall be permitted in any activity center, no data centers shall be located within half a mile of a high capacity transit stop, and then all major and campus data centers shall provide a 20-foot landscape buffer along property lines and shall include a minimum eight-foot high wall.

So a little bit more about these requirements specifically.

So the 500 feet from residential buffer.

The standard has been seen nationally across many different jurisdictions when we were doing our research.

And staff conducted GIS analysis, which determined that greater buffer distances would significantly impact the amount of available parcels for development.

The 500 feet from DeCab Parts and Trails.

This, like I said, was requested by the community and was included in our most recent draft.

This protects environment, the environment surrounding DeCab's natural resources and recreational spaces.

No data centers in activity centers or near high capacity transit stops.

So our activity centers are intended to promote high density walkable development.

The scale of data centers, their single use development model, and lack of public accessibility do not support the goals of activity centers.

And additionally, the same goes for high capacity transit stops.

And in our ordinance, we defined this to also include things like the future South DeCab Mall transit hub that has been proposed by Marta.

And so this isn't just our heavy rail stations, but the ordinance was intentionally written to include that location as well.

And then the 20-foot landscape buffer and wall.

This is intended to assist in sound attenuation and screening.

This also speaks to the tree preservation and reforestation plan as part of the supplemental requirements, which I will touch on later.

So our noise and operational requirements, the maximum permissible sound level shall not exceed 65 decibels during the daytime and 55 decibels during the nighttime.

This currently only addresses DBA, which is that high frequency noise.

And we've heard this evening about infrasound, which is also known as DBC.

This does not specifically address that.

This only addresses DBA, which we would like to include that infrasound requirement as well in a future iteration.

All generators must meet at least tier four emission standards.

This is regulated by the federal EPA and shall not operate for more than 72 hours consecutively.

All cooling and ventilation systems shall operate on a closed loop system.

And so again, this directly addresses water concerns.

And the lighting plan shall show compliance with dark sky design principles, demonstrating where there will be no spillover onto surrounding properties.

So again, going through some of the justifications of the noise and operation requirements.

So noise level and timing.

This was originally higher, but we lowered the decibel amount based on community feedback, understanding that the current industrial zoning noise standard of 80 decibels is significantly is far too high, and we have lowered that, but like I said, this does not address the low frequency DBC.

And so again, that is something we would like to address in a future amendment.

It does require different monitoring and noise measurement, but that's a later discussion.

So tier four generators that has been recommended, been recommended by Loudoun County, Virginia, where as we know is the uh has the highest frequency of data centers in the country.

And this is the highest level of regulation currently available by the EPA.

And we not only that, but we also included a continuous limit of 72 hours was implemented after community feedback.

The generators on site are only meant to be used in emergency circumstances where the power may have gone out and they need to continue to operate because data centers do provide critical infrastructure for things like health care, banking, and so on.

And so, but however, we did want to place a limit on that, that they cannot continually operate and pollute the air through these generators, but we did place a limit of 72 hours of consecutive consecutive use.

So again, in the case of power uh power outage, they were only allowed up to 72 hours.

That is significantly restricted from the federal standard.

So we did increase that that requirement.

And again, um, this is uh referenced in our energy and sustainability plan and the transmission line impact assessment.

So, next, the closed loop system, our own department of watershed management requested that we require this for all data centers that none shall operate on an open loop or evaporative cooling methods, and they must receive permit approval and cover any required infrastructure improvements.

So before a data center may even begin operating, they must receive that permit approval from our watershed department and cover any required infrastructure improvements that may come as a necessity from that development.

And again, this is addressed in our water consumption and sustainability plan and our sewer update plan that is required.

And finally, dark sky lighting.

This is required to minimize impacts on wildlife and reduce light pollution as required in our lighting plan.

Next, the architectural requirements.

So building height shall not exceed 75 feet, which does not include any roof additional rooftop equipment.

For this, we allowed an additional 30 feet.

And then also in this, we included the solar panels, on-site solar farms, small-scale wind turn turbines or waste heat recovery.

That all goes towards that 45%.

Any rooftop equipment shall be 100% screened for noise and pollution control, as well as a visual barrier from that equipment.

However, no screening is required for renewable energy and green infrastructure.

And then all decorative windows, architecturally glazed windows, and murals shall count towards finestration requirements.

So next, don't going into the why and the justification behind some of these.

For the building height, currently there are no height restrictions in industrial zoning districts.

And so we wanted to make sure that these data centers could not be, you know, grow continuously and be massive ISOs.

And so we included the 75 feet height restriction, which is about two to three stories.

Data centers typically require more space between floors for cooling systems.

We also want to encourage rooftop equipment for more efficient land use, and so that was the reason for the additional equipment height.

Solar does require a lot of extra land, and so any additional height may provide additional space for all alternative energy on site.

So again, that's just a trade-off there where they get a little bit more height, that way they can use their land for renewable energy if needed.

No screening for green infrastructure.

Oftentimes renewable energy infrastructure requires sunlight or water or wind needed to generate power, and so screening could block those that block that power generation from those.

And so we also want to encourage that and be able to have that work efficiently.

And then finally, the architectural features.

This helps to avoid the blank box design that is seen in a lot of data centers.

They can be ISORs and with no windows or any architectural enhancements.

And so this helps ensure that you know, in the case of closure, that these buildings are reusable, and that is addressed in our decommissioning plan requirement.

So next, uh, this is just a brief overview.

I am going to go into each of these individually.

So these are the various uh plans uh that are required with every single data center application.

So this is not just for special land use permits, this is for even the permitted locations, they would have to submit this as part of their permitting process or land development process.

So we want transparency provided at the application stage.

And when these are provided as part of the special land use permit process, they are available to the public and posted online.

And so the purpose of requiring these plans is we are requiring this information up front from developers because we know that we as we've seen maybe in the news or have had concerns from the community that people may come in with speculative rezoning applications and have no end user in sight, and it creates lots of consternation within the community.

And so, with by requiring these plans, we're ensuring that there's an end user in mind that these parcels will be developed and reduce the amount of speculative rezonings and speculative development, which uh often harms the community and harms you know development prospects in the county.

And so by requiring all of these, it really just ensures that the submitting applications are legitimate operators, and uh this again, this information is open to the public for public scrutiny for public comment throughout the application and special land use permit process.

So, first the noise impact assessment.

Um, again, this is where the developer would be required to measure ambient noise and uh before prior to development in order to ensure that they remain below the 65 decibel limit during the day and 55 decibel limit during the night.

So this is uh would require a pre-development measurement as well as post-development measurement.

Thank you, appreciate it.

Next, the water consumption and sustainability plan.

Uh, this will address water conservation and scarcity, outlining total water requirement of the data center.

Again, this is an advance of their operating, they must provide uh the amount of water that they will be using, um, and so that will be available to the public to see.

It also ensures that uh in the event of water scarcity that they have a plan in place for accountability in those instances, and uh identify drought monitoring and a drought plant drought management measure, pardon me.

And this will also require the adoption of a um low uh water closed loop system.

And again, these requirements um we mostly uh gathered from the city of Atlanta and our own uh watershed management department.

Uh next, the energy consumption and sustainability plan.

Uh we've we've heard a lot about the amount of power that these uh data centers use, and we want to ensure that that is transparently provided to the community.

As part of this plan, we also require a renewable sustainable alternative power generation of at least 10% of their total power usage.

So earlier I mentioned the 45% uh height incentive, but at bare minimum, um, all of these data centers will be required to have at least 10% of renewable power generation.

Uh this also the energy consumption plan also requires the decommissioning plan, so in recycling of any unsold or surplus data infrastructure, that way you know it doesn't end up in the landfill and leaching into the environment, and uh addresses other uh sustainable practices required for data centers.

Next, I grouped these three together since they were all pretty short.

But the lighting plan uh must show compliance with dark sky design, the tree preservation plan uh must uh outline the um plans to minimize tree removal uh and enhance urban forestry efforts, and then the stormwater management plan uh will address how any site runoff shall be mitigated the negative impacts on local water systems.

Next, the transmission line impact assessment.

Um as we know, data centers require lots of power.

This often means that additional infrastructure is needed, such as a substation, but also including transmission lines.

These can have significant impacts on the community on public land and private land.

And so this would require that this information be provided up front prior to development, so that uh the community can see any uh transmission line impacts that that could be generated by a data center.

And then finally, a sewer plan.

This we receive from our Department of Watershed Management.

So they would be required to show any uh daily expected sewer flow, um, provide any updates to the sewer system that may be required and disclose uh lots of other information.

I'm not a uh watershed expert, but anyway, um, like I said, we got this directly from our watershed department, um, and they've uh been very helpful in providing this information.

Um, and again, I just want to reiterate that these plans and requirements are really significant because we don't require them for any other type of development, and a lot of this information is required at the land development uh process, but that's not a public hearing process, and we want to ensure that there is transparency with the community about these developments and that this information is open to the public and available for public comment and scrutiny and ensure that all of these different plans are up to the standards of the community.

And then finally, I want to go through some of the different uh regulatory regulatory parties involved in this, apart from zoning.

So this ordinance will be presented is really just zoning and land use, um, but there are many, many other uh parties involved in this process.

So, first that data centers are accountable to.

So, first is the Atlanta Regional Commission and the development of regional impact, also DRI reviews, um, and they must uh submit to the Atlanta Regional Commission, which provides comments and recommendations for the applicant uh for any development of regional impact, which data centers do fall under that and they have their own process through ARC.

So that happens in addition to zoning.

They have their own separate permitting process.

So for example, they they could get a zoning approval and then not receive the necessary watershed permits and not and not be able to operate.

So that is another regulatory party.

The land development process development department, they uh review any land development permits, any impacts or any um I apologize.

Any land development applications uh go through this department as well, and that is comes after the zoning process.

Uh decide to cab.

All developments must be in compliance with any zoning conditions or zoning approvals prior to receiving uh any developers agreements.

So if they're not in compliance, they don't get an agreement.

Georgia Power as well, and and this applies to any utility provider, not just Georgia Power, we do have several um EMCs in the area as well.

Uh but they have their own permitting and review process, and so again, after zoning approval, they then have to go to Georgia Power as well and ensure that you know this is a several months-long permitting process from the utility provider, and they they must get approval for their energy consumption.

And then finally, the uh environmental protection agency.

Um, this uh they must comply with any federal, state, and uh local pre-treatment standards for um any discharge, and then uh this also applies to generator monitoring as well.

So again, the zoning and land use component is is just kind of a fraction of what these developers have to go through and the approval processes involved throughout the development of a data center.

And so while we aim to make our ordinance as comprehensive as possible, uh we do rely on these other partners for accountability and for the their own permitting approvals in order to have these developments uh completed.

So, with that, um that is my portion, and I will now pass the mic over to Rachel Bragg to talk about the development process.

Thank you, Tricia.

Thank you, Tricia.

And Trisha came up with a phrase during this.

That's one of my favorite phrases.

Layers of accountability, layers and layers of accountability.

I try not to use my catchphrase too much, but yeah, it's a good one.

Um very very briefly, um, just to re-emphasize what Tricia said about these this application process being part of an overall development process.

Here are other phases that any development in DeCab County has to go through.

So for this, they start with a special land use permit, um, which is a minimum of a three to four month process, then they proceed to sketch plat, which is where they define their property lines, their land development permit and review, their site work, which includes um continuous inspections, a final PAP process, a building permit review process, a building construction process before getting to the certificate of occupancy.

Um that is all we have for you.

I think Director Njoku has some final words for us, and then we're excited to discuss with you.

Thank you, Deputy Director.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Commissioners, for giving us this opportunity and for the community to come out to see the data center's presentation that we were able to go through some details.

Um there's only a couple of things I want to add, and I want to thank my staff.

Um, is that the fact that we do know and we are paying attention to a lot of the concerns?

Um, we've expressed over and over again that there are layers of accountability where we are trying to deal with land use, but we're also trying to stay connected to all the environmental and all the other issues that may even be be outside of our purview.

But in addition to that, the data center conversation continues to grow as there are new technologies that are also paying close attention to the environmental needs that are out there.

We're staying on top of that too as a research body, trying to make sure that the CAB County has the very best information, whether renewable power data centers, immersive cooling data centers, locations in optimized areas, whether water or even grid support.

Each and every one of those things have come into play where we have questioned or asked ourselves about this ordinance to make sure that it's the very best at this time.

I always want to reiterate to this board and body that setting a strong foundation doesn't mean that that's our end game.

We are hopeful that if DeCAP County does move forward to looking at data centers that it'll also give us the opportunity to continue to amend and modify our situations to continue to provide the very best.

Data centers are regulated right now throughout the United States by seven distinct bodies that are all concerned with regulatory matters to ensure life safety along the line.

And we want to be able to make sure that our standards are to that level.

With that, I want to thank you for your time and open it up for any questions or comments that you might have so we can continue to perfect our data center ordinance in the hopes that we continue to serve DeCab County residents to the best of our abilities.

Thank you.

Thank you, Director Njuku.

And so again, commissioners, um, we are getting towards closer to the end of the time, but we do need to make sure we have time for us to discuss.

I would really like to try and have an intention of being able to provide planning staff with some guidance on what the next iteration might look like so they can bring us an amendment on the June 23rd public hearing.

So I've had at least three commissioners mention that they'd like to speak.

Well, I'll go in the order in which I receive that that note.

Um, Commissioner Long Spears and Commissioner Marita Marita Davis Johnson and the Commissioner Messiah.

And we do have the clock if we can turn it towards us.

Thank you very much.

Um before I get started, I want to make it clear that my comments do not imply support of this ordinance.

I'm simply asking questions and learning more.

I planning staff, my questions and comments are directly from the ordinance itself, so not aligned with the presentation.

The ordinance that my I'm reviewing, just to be clear with everybody, ordinance to amend Chapter 27, Articles 4, 6, 7, and 9, dated 122 2026 to add regulations for data centers into CAB County.

My first comment is on page three, or actually, yes, my first comment is on page two of this 12-page document and planning folks.

Um, I'm limited on time to five minutes, so noted is good.

Or if you have something that you do need to advise on, please do.

Um, the first thing that caught my attention is that under data center campus, you have phases totaling at least 500,000 square feet, but substation dropped off.

So that needs to be added back into the ordinance.

Y'all have caught it already.

Okay, good deal.

All right.

Um my second point is on page three under permitted locations.

No data centers shall be allowed in any activity center.

Um, my comment to you is I think you need to state how far away from those activity centers.

Next comment is on page four.

Um, you're talking about uh data centers permitted within 500 feet of the property line, any mixed use of residentially zoned parcel.

Uh number two, 500 feet of the property line of any county parks and or trails.

Uh, I would like to see those numbers doubled, so up to a thousand.

Um, point three, we have residentially zoned property is reduced to 300 feet along the property line.

Um, at another point in time, if you would just state why you're recommending 300 feet there.

Thank you.

Um the next point that I have is the bottom of the ordinance, page four under architectural and design requirements.

Um, there is a note here that a mural shall be a large image, such as a painting applied directly to a wall.

Murals are public art and shall not be used for commercial advertising.

I don't believe that DeCab County has a public art ordinance.

So that's something please note if you're going to use that within here, we need to tie it to an actual ordinance that helps um at least um regulate design size, content, approval, that kind of thing.

Um, the next question I have for you, um, director, is page five, number five.

It has the 75 feet um height at where you can't exceed 75 feet, and then you have the rooftop of 30 feet.

Does that mean a total of 105 feet into the air or 75 feet?

Okay, 105 feet.

Okay, that's high.

All right.

Um, moving on, and again, if you could follow up, please, um, with a rationale for this, or at least your perspective or opinion.

Um, I participated in the Loudoun County um NACO workshops that a supervisors like a commissioner there is doing.

One thing he stated is that solar and wind don't work due to capacity factors.

If you could please just define what exactly that means.

He did not go into an explanation on the call at least I was on.

So to be clear, Commissioner, solar and wind capacity.

You want clarification research on that.

Yeah, uh why you think, and I know that your team is familiar, is they talked about it that solar and wind would not be um good energy uses due to capacity factors.

Y'all don't have to answer it now.

Just if you could follow up just so um land use.

So the the short the short answer is it takes a lot of land either from wind or from solar to produce the amount of energy you need for a data center.

Okay.

That's what I kind of figured that you need four times the amount of land to do the solar, for example, to power the one data center.

All right.

Um I know I'm getting low here.

I have more questions.

I'll email the ones I don't get to.

Middle of page six, noise and maintenance requirements.

Loudoin County, from what I read, has 50 decibels.

Yet you guys are recommending maximum permissible sound levels should not exceed 65 decibels during the daytime and 55 decibels during the night time.

I think that um I would think we need to just take a deeper dive into that.

So briefly, um, our industrial areas currently allow a maximum of up to 80 decibel.

So um this was an attempt to reduce it down, but not to um treat them that differently than other uses in the industrial areas.

Thank you for that follow-up.

Noise has been something we have heard the concerns by the public um over and over again.

If I was next door, I would be incredibly concerned about that.

So note that, and if there is opportunity for a second follow-up, I'll continue on with my questions and comments, yield back to you, Madam PO.

Thank you.

And there may not be time for the second follow-up because we we can't be here all night, um, unfortunately.

So before we move on to Commissioner Davis Johnson, I think what I'm gonna ask is I like the way Commissioner Long Spears kind of got the questions out there.

We're taking notes, they can come back to us with a response.

We may even be able to put those responses on, engage the cab website so everyone can see those responses.

Absolutely.

Commissioner Davis Johnson.

Thank you.

First of all, I would like to thank you all for that in-depth uh presentation.

Um I have a question, a couple of um items and concerns.

One of them is that I was reading where many of the uh data centers across the country.

Well, I won't say many, but some are uh building their own power source, you know.

I think that that should be something that we should look at and that we should consider, because if they build if they're building their own power source, the cost would be to them, not us, and we wouldn't have to worry about um costs going to our districts our constituents.

Uh another thing, I really don't feel that we should have incentives to um attract data centers.

You know, I think if they're gonna come, and if we have regulations, they need to go strictly by a regulations, but I don't feel that we should have incentives, any type of incentives for them to come here.

Um just to clarify, the ordinance doesn't include any incentives to try to address.

Yeah, I just said we should prohibit.

Got it.

Prohibit incentives.

Um and the third one is we should I think that we should require them to recycle their water in addition to anything else that we're doing with the water is to recycle it, sorry.

And so, yeah, and so I I would just like to say I hear the concerns of the constituents.

I have many other concerns, and the more and more I dig into it, um I I you know, sort of get additional concerns, but I am aware that data centers are needed because without data centers we won't have AI, and and I know that that's needed, but we have to safeguard, so it has to be a balance where we're safeguarding our constituents and ourselves and the community, because I don't want to pay higher electric calls because they come here and I don't want them to contaminate my water.

So I think that uh those are very valid concerns.

I think it's something that we are focusing on as a whole, and so uh those are the points that I want to bring, especially the um especially for them to build their own power source.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you.

Next is Commissioner Messiah.

Thank you so much, Madam PO.

Um, I just want to get a quick understanding.

So I know that we've um utilize a lot of the community input that we got, uh, but have the community have an opportunity to see the new regulations as proposed presently.

Yes, it's on the decide to cow website.

So yeah, this this ordinance has been posted and promoted since January 22nd of this year.

So, and that's any modifications, because I know we have like the decommission, that's now part of it.

It's all updated on the website.

Just wanted to make sure.

Yes, just want to make sure we're clear.

And then um I heard some additional concerns in terms of the uh effectiveness of the closed loop system.

Have we um done any specific research or what have we done to ensure about that effectiveness?

So we've looked into, as I was saying earlier, um, and I believe we heard from um the council for quality growth.

Okay, we've looked into the resource that as data centers continue to be in use, their technology continue to change.

So the closed loose system is the way that we understand it to be to get renewable energy in a place, but we can expand the language to say and any other environmentally safe uh method, maybe even to include what Commissioner Johnson is speaking about, would be something that would be preferred.

Okay, fantastic.

And just for the interest of time, I also want to um just to take a quick note.

We heard um the infra sounds and that being a concern, the water discharge and the concerns and around the water discharge, fossil fuel um slash grid dependent data centers versus others, and that being more of the challenge, and what we didn't really get into uh a lot of was um one a bond, and that's something I've been wanting us to definitely look into is that if they come, then we have some type of a bond system in place, but then also in terms of the reporting, um making sure we have, and I know that there's like an annual, but making sure that you know there's something more frequent in terms of uh reporting, and then also um, and if you could get me back to me with those, um, and then also just to give uh a quick note to our uh constituents that are in that are left now in uh the back there.

I just wanted to make sure I'm sharing my position because others have tried to share my position, and that is that I don't support the large data centers in our neighborhoods in district three.

What I do support is getting the information so that I can gather the facts, hear from the residents, and understand the long-term impacts that are not manipulated um by other folks' uh specific intents here.

Also, that I'm not against technology, I just really want to make a smart decision for the people that live here and that I represent.

Um I'm supporting a framework, and I will always support and make sure that we have a framework because right now data centers don't exist, those words don't exist presently in our inner ordinances, but without the framework, it leaves us vulnerable.

And the fears of the folks, I understand they are real, real, and unfortunately you have folks that are preying on them, and I am voting for more information to make sure that we are making the right decision.

That um this is some of these some folks have seen this as an opportunity for three minutes of fame and for misinformation, and that also includes some folks in the media, and so as uh a matter of the function of the commission, I also want to share that we don't actually govern then direct the operations um for departments such as code compliance, just so that we are abundantly clear for um the residents to make sure that is made evident.

With that being said, I'm always gonna do the right thing for my constituents because that's my responsibility.

I yield back to you, Madam PL.

Thank you, Commissioner Messiah.

Next up, Commissioner Bolton.

An audience, if you could tone down your voices, aren't making it to us.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm gonna try to use the model that uh Commissioner Long Spears just created for us, and just go through a few of these things that I wanted to communicate.

Um, and number one, I want to say I do agree with her with increasing that to 1,000 feet.

Essentially, she did indicate doubling when it comes to proximity from those parcels that were mentioned, rather residential parks, trails, and all the things.

So I am a supporter of the 1,000 feet.

Also, I am a supporter of maximizing at 500,000 square feet for data centers, so that would be um just up to the major, excluding the campus size.

However, if it is the consensus of the board to do larger, what I think we should incorporate is um when it comes to uh distance between data centers, if they are smaller, uh, for example, they are just 250,000 square feet or smaller.

Um, clustering should only be permitted up to 500,000 square feet, so we can reduce campus size.

Um, also the smaller, the larger data centers, uh, we should consider those to be hold on, give me just a sec, let me read through this.

Oh, that this is what I wanted to indicate.

Um, for undeveloped land in particular, for undeveloped land that's being looked at for data centers, we should um the max for undeveloped land should be 500,000 square feet.

However, if there is uh say, for instance, a distribution center that's being redeveloped, and maybe it has a footprint of two million square feet, we should cap the supercomputers and storage devices to only one million square feet of that facility, and that's for developed.

If it's already something there, we should put a maximum on, and when I say supercomputers and storage devices, I'm talking about the equipment that's actually being used by the data centers, not office spaces or anything like that.

And um, and I already indicated the other two things, which is distance between the data center development and neighborhoods should be 1,000 uh square feet.

And with that, I oh, and the environmental impact study.

Um, that I believe should be based on size.

So if it's an accessory use, something smaller under 250,000 square feet of the environmental impact is minimal, but when we're looking at 500,000 or greater, that's where we should um implement the environment environmental impact study for those larger facilities that we have heard from other jurisdictions that have had an impact on communities now.

I yield back.

Thank you, Commissioner Bolton.

Commissioner Terry, you are next.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight.

Um I I do want to say that I appreciate everyone being here and coming out and providing those comments.

I am going to uh take issue with how we did this agenda tonight, though, because we're only getting five minutes to say something.

The public spoke, and then we got a 30-minute filibuster on a presentation that we've all seen three months ago, six months ago, nine months ago with some changes.

So we're we're literally going through the same presentation for nine months, and we still have questions.

Like, how have we not answered the questions already?

I keep hearing the same questions over and over again from some of my colleagues.

We've talked about it for nine months, and I was ready to move forward on this amendment, this ordinance six months ago because I had done my research.

But I'm actually glad that we're taking a really long time to do this, because a survey of Americans back in September said that 43% of Americans would support a data center, 42% were opposed, 15% they weren't sure.

So back in September, most people didn't even know about data centers or even weren't even sure.

In February, it went up to 51%.

Now, just a month ago, 55% of Americans strongly oppose a data center.

16% say somewhat, and 21% say they would support it.

So the longer we wait, good.

Because the more people wake up and they'll realize that this bubble is about to burst.

This development is not wanted.

It doesn't matter how many regulations we put forward, because if we have loopholes which are in the ordinance, which I have pointed out for nine months now, that you can build a six million square foot data center without a public hearing, that right there should be grounds for no.

Because can you imagine in the same context?

We had a four-hour debate over three meetings about lowering the minimum square footage for a house by 200 square feet.

And some folks up here saying, oh, you know, we can't have that by rights.

We need to have a public hearing for a 200 square foot less smaller house, but a six million square foot data center, no public hearing, that's not right.

I will take issue with the the notion that we will ask, we will provide questions to the planning department for particular amendments.

I have proposed those for six months.

They have not shown up in these amendments.

So I don't trust this process right now because I have literally put on the agenda because we've had no opportunity debate any amendments to this ordinance.

Zero opportunity.

The ordinance came to us, it was deferred.

No up, no opportunity to put a motion up for amendments at all.

So this is why we're dealing with the same ordinance from six months ago.

So either we just need to just keep working on this data center ordinance, which I'll be in support of, because as long as we're working on this data center ordinance, that moratorium should continue.

And maybe we ought to cons maybe we gotta study it for another three months, another six months.

I'll point out that the small box discount moratorium was in place for almost two years.

And it was in place because we were doing a lot of study.

So we need more community feedback, we need more community input, we need our public health assessment.

Every month, there's something learned new we learn about data centers.

The newest thing should scare every single one of us.

A report came out, it was on CNN, but it's um out of the UK.

The neighborhoods, the microclimates around massive data centers are four to ten degrees hotter.

Okay, so we're going into the summer.

And brace yourself because Georgia Power is raising our power bills, and so we'll be paying more for power thanks to data centers.

And by the way, they're building more fossil fuel plants to power these data centers, which will be our demise.

If AI is not our demise, it'll be climate change with all these fossil fuel plants, which is why I've been pushing for the renewable energy, but it still is not showing up in this ordinance.

So the longer we wait, good.

Let's keep studying this, let's keep studying this.

We don't want massive data centers.

I have proposed four different levels of regulations to add to this amendment that would protect the community because I'm worried that we're on track to approve this thing real soon.

And I would like to slow it down, I would like to stop it.

But if the commission is going to approve this, we need to have hard and fast regulations.

And the number one regulation that has to be in this ordinance that is not in here right now is a special land use permit, a public hearing for every single application.

Thank you, Commissioner Terry.

Um, next, and we have Commissioner Patrick.

All right, uh, thank you, Madam Presiding Officer.

Um I'm gonna have to present to you guys sort of a different perspective.

Um I don't see the urgency to rush through this, and simply because uh we had the state legislature that was not able to come up with a decision on this, sort of brought it back down to here to the county commission and municipal level.

I think we have another opportunity with the PSC.

So in my mind, we should consider another year-long moratorium.

We will not be able to hear, so please thank you.

Yep, y'all are I appreciate y'all, but you're eating my time up.

Uh but I do consider, I think we should consider another year-long moratorium.

Let the PSC elections happen.

We'll figure out what direction they're gonna go, and then we bring it back to the Board of Commissioners at that point.

Essentially, what we're having happen right now is we have our residents up in arms, uh sort of frustrated with even the considerations that we have right now, and we don't know the clear strategy on the back end.

At the end of the day, it concerns for me myself, and I think I shared the these are shared by my colleagues.

The price of power.

I I hear there's no rate increases for the next three years, but year four will be here very quickly.

And so I would love to hear from the PSC and have them weigh in, or perhaps even get our colleagues at the legislature to weigh in on this topic one more time as well.

Um that's my overall strategy.

Getting into some of the details.

Um I appreciate the idea of doubling the buffers, but I'd want to see some type of a visualization or or representation of that.

Um, and I do understand from the residents that at the end of the day, y'all don't want it, but there are some economic reasons why we the county would benefit from it.

Well, I I hear you saying no, but at the end of the year we all have to pay our taxes, and that ends up being a concern that everybody gets upset about.

So y'all are eating my time again.

So uh with that being said, I do have some other questions and concerns, but I think we can talk with staff about this.

Uh and just for the just so it's aware uh concerns about the infra sound that y'all have mentioned.

Hadn't heard that before.

Uh I haven't seen any science on that, so I am interested if staff could look into that.

Um, and I know we have uh our water projects manager here, and we're running out of time, but I would love to hear some conversation about what are the processes of cleaning up water uh once it's been through an industrial cycle, um, so that the residents can know directly from the professionals.

This is what happens with water, and as you recall, whatever water we're using is someone north of us, they've already used it, and any water south of us, people are using our water, and so we want to make sure that it is clean uh and healthy for the folks downstream.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner Patrick.

So I will bring up the rear with a couple of items um that I had, and I will note that you know, having this discussion tonight was a request of the PECS committee and the members that were committed commissioners that were present during that committee, so that is why we brought this here tonight and always open to continue this at another cow.

I think the plan is definitely to extend the moratorium.

How long we extend it, I think is what is up for debate.

Um, but I think that is what is expected to happen next Tuesday is that the moratorium will be extended because we do need to work through this.

Um and to Commissioner Patrick's point, if we wait for PSC, I still personally would like to see us get some regulations.

You can extend the moratorium, but we could put regulations and complete a text amendment and then revise it if PSC does take an action that would help us clear up our regulation.

So some of the items, um, a lot of them have already been brought up.

I am in favor of removing the slut for all.

Um removing requiring the slut for all, excuse me, I said that wrong.

Requiring the slut for all.

Um, I think we had a couple where slop was not required, so I'm in favor of removing that.

Um I also in favor of expanding the buffer.

I was thinking 750 feet.

I know the thousand feet has been mentioned.

One something that's not been brought up by any of my commissioners that I've heard so far.

Um, last year we, as a board of commissioners, passed a CIP monitor position that would um be uh responsible to the board of commissioners.

Would like to float the idea, and that position has not been filled, whether that be an individual or a contracted firm, but I would like to float the idea that that person or that scope could be extended to help with the monitoring and compliance of any potential data centers if we are actually ever get any into CAB County.

Um I did I do support expanding that language on the recycled water that you mentioned, Director and Juku.

Yes, we want it to be the recycled water, but we want to leave it open to if there is an even better, more economic, more environmentally friendly system that gets developed later that that will be allowed as well.

So I think that's also something we got from um council for quality growth.

So leaving definitely want the recycled water, but making it clear that you can as technology improves, we wouldn't have to come back to the drawing board on that.

Um it comes to the large data campuses.

I it's the max, it's what over 500,000 with no limit.

I think there should definitely be a limit, um, potentially a million square feet.

I don't think there's I don't think we'll actually will get that, but I think we should put a cap on that.

And then the um conversations about the low frequency um volumes that was brought up tonight.

I want to make sure we're including that language, as you guys had mentioned, um, have that in there as well.

So I we are listening and we are trying to hear and take note and see how we can incorporate all of this information.

I've stated earlier that my hope would be that from all these information provided tonight, and these either questions or requests for amendments will be brought forward to us.

This is scheduled to come back for a public hearing on June 23rd.

Um I think it would be appropriate to bring forward if staff can do it.

Uh a revision to the text amendment.

I think at that point it would then be appropriate for another deferral to make sure everyone has time to digest that language and then go from there.

So I think um we're looking, I expect us to increase uh moratorium, bring back in another amendment, and then defer that to make sure that all we're incorporating as much as we're hearing from the public as we can.

So with that, I will yield my time and being aware it is 816 and we have to be out here by 8 30.

So I will not be able to do another round of comments, but I will let staff have brief response.

Very briefly, because it has come up a number of times regarding the um infrared low frequency sound.

Um that is something that we also identified in our research.

The issue is that we currently have no way of enforcing any limits on that.

We have no way of measuring that as a county or enforcing that.

So that's why it's not in this current version of the ordinance.

And um I would say we really appreciate your time and um allowing us to do a deep dive into this ordinance because uh we do continue to hear um a lot of comments um from the public and questions generally that are addressed in this ordinance.

So we just wanted to ensure that we were starting the discussion from uh a level field where everybody understood what's in this current ordinance.

So we appreciate all these comments and we will get to work on a substitute.

Thank you.

I appreciate you.

Commissioners, again, it is 817.

I don't have time for another round, unfortunately.

So if I could get a motion to adjourn, so moved.

Second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Thank you, everybody.