The Marietta City Council convened a series of committee meetings on March 27, 2025, covering Finance/Investments, Parks/Recreation/Tourism, Judicial/Legislative, Economic/Community Development, and Public Works, followed by a Special Called Council Work Session. Key discussions included hotel-motels tax collections, park bond project updates, zoning amendments for Marietta Crossing, legislative updates on tort reform and other bills, CDBG allocations, SPLOST projects, utility variances, and traffic calming.
Finance committee meeting to order the first item on the agenda is approved the minutes for February 2025. Do I hear most make a motion to approve? Second. Motion has been made in second. All our favorite, raise your right hand. All right. Next, we have a I guess taking order the hotel motel tax, auto rental tax, and the finance update. Good evening, Chairman. And council. So I'll take all three of those items together. Starting with the hotel motel. Our collections are running in line with the prior years. February's collections of 269,000 is the most collected in the month of February that we've seen over the last decade. So that that was a positive uptick for us this month. Year to date, the collections are tracking with the fit um fiscal year 2023, running at approximately 2.5 million year to date and full year. Um 2023 collections totaled 3.85 million for the year, and we have a budget of 3.85 million. We have a budget of 2.3.84 million for the year. Okay. And if you take a look on page two, the fiscal year collections thus far have exceeded the distributions, and that'll potentially add to the reserves at uh fiscal year end. Ideally, we would like for those distributions and collections to match at the year end so that we are utilizing all of our uh revenue collected for the um throughout the year. For our finance update, our revenues continue to come in strong despite some areas of volatility, such as um motor vehicles. Um that um particular area has struggled all year, so we're running um behind on that. Um that is has a lot to do with um the economy and and the purchasing of new vehicles. So um we'll continue to monitor that as we can um go throughout the rest of this fiscal year and next year. Uh commercial permits um have rebounded this quarter. Um, so we've seen some positivity there. Uh business license, which is a significant contributor to the general fund, has their um deadline on Monday the 31st, so we'll see how they um come in as far as revenues, and then we'll start with uh collections for um uh delinquent um licenses for the for the remainder of the fiscal year. Um also um to mention successful hiring uh measures have resulted in a um fewer vacant positions than we anticipated or budgeted, and so that has accelerated the use of our salary savings, so we'll continue to monitor that. Um but we're still in good standing for our year-in capital. Any questions? Any questions? Do we need a motion to receive and just receive and file, yes, sir? Make a motion to receive and file. Second motion has been made and second. All in favor, raise the right hand. Is there any other business to come before the finance hearing none? The finance committee is concerned. I'd like I'd like to uh Mr. Sims is uh traveling, I believe, today. Uh and he asked if we would all speak up to where he could hear. But I'd like to call the parks and recreation and tourism committee meeting to order the first item on the agenda or the regular meeting minutes for February 25th. Make a motion to approve those February 25th meeting. Make a motion to approve. All in favor. Is that an eye good aye? Minutes are approved. Uh Rich 2009 Park Bond report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening, everyone.