The Johns Creek City Council met in a work session at 5:00 p.m. on July 14, 2025, at 11360 Lakefield Drive, Johns Creek, Georgia. No minutes were available, and the raw transcript opens after a break, so the FY2026 Budget initial presentation listed on the agenda is not covered in this summary. During the recorded discussion, council members addressed tourism product development funding, a Performing Arts Center voter education campaign, and a USPS ZIP code lookup issue; no formal votes were taken.
No, sir, you were just in recess. All right. So let's go back to our next topic. We're going. Thank you. The next item is the fiscal year 26 tourism product development project recommendations. We have City Manager Greer for presentation. All right. I'm going to keep my presentation on this item very brief because the urgency is not necessarily there with this topic. It's an important topic. The CVB has given you four recommendations for projects they think might be a great use of tourism product development funds in fiscal year 26. That's a visitor center, bicycle access points or rental facilities, public art, or performing art center multi-purpose room funding. The agenda in your memo has more details both from staff on the history, the official code of Georgia allowable uses, as well as in an attachment with details from them. The requirement is that based on our intergovernmental our agreement with them, not intergovernmental, we need to have picked what project or projects you'd like to do before the start of the fiscal year. So that can be wrapped into your fiscal year 26 budget deliberations. You don't necessarily have to take this one up tonight unless you very much want to discuss and debate it. Well, how are we doing on time? Well, you have 30 minutes to cover three items and the next one on the agenda. Is there by any chance, is there any chance that we're in consensus that maybe we do foresee? And if in case the voters decide that that's what they would like. Ooh. So I had avoided making a recommendation on this one since you had a recommendation from the convention and visitors bureau. You could certainly do any of the projects listed, or you could deviate and go to the list. So something like investments in the parks or wayfinding signages. I don't know that I can give you a solid recommendation off the So basically like a 25, you already spent uh that towards the public cars and other So this is we are talking more specific to 2026. Specifically to fiscal year 2026 revenues you won't start collecting until October 1st. So again, like the bicycle access points and the wayfinding, those are the good ones, but we don't really have the infrastructure for those yet, so probably we could do that next year, but probably for now just leave that for the number four or performance arts, PSE construction documents or the multi-purpose. I would rather leave that that way. Uh mine would be number two to support the health and wellness, um the bicycle access points and rental facilities. I don't think that 178K is gonna go very far towards um what you all are trying to do with the performing arts center. So most likely once the park and everything is opening in. Next summer, so I'm gonna I'm I'm sticking with that one. Thank you. So um d number four, just a quick question there. Is uh we had allocated, I think in a CIP five thousand five million dollars for construction documents. Is that part is the five billion dollars include the multi-purpose room? It does. The longer description in the CVB's document goes into how they would be very excited to see the opportunity of potentially allocating the lobby for the multi-purpose room to them as a visitor center. Okay. Uh I thought or I thought that's how I read it. So I would rather put the money into bicycles, public art for sure, bicycles, and then just put it in the visitor center bucket. And if the if the public says we want to go ahead with the pack, then go ahead and take that that visitor center and embed it within the pack. And bury it in the got that. So those are your top three priorities. I just want to clarify that the C based on the our agreement as set up. They give you recommendations, you as a council get to make the choice. So they how you how you nuance the funding of does it go specifically towards multi-purpose room and are you allowing that multi-purpose room lobby to function as a visitor center is not a decision you would make as part of this because the funding has to be spent in the fiscal year it's received for tourism product development funds. So you won't be able to, even if all the stars aligned, you won't be opening a visitor center last next year if it's in a performing art center that you don't start construction documents until Christmas. Does that make sense? So sorry.