The Marietta City Council held an agenda work session on April 7, 2025, at 5:15 PM (agenda time) to review and advance items for the upcoming regular council meeting on April 9, 2025. The session covered the Board of Lights and Water (BLW) report, CDBG action plan, zoning amendments for the Marietta Crossing development, a legislative update, and a solid waste management proposal. Several items were moved forward to the consent agenda or regular agenda with votes.
Call the city council agenda review session order, please. First item was approval of the March 12, 2025 minutes of the regular meeting. Any additions, reletions, corrections or updates? I'll make a motion to reprove. The revisions for the uh city council meeting from March 12th. The review session was was good. Motion to approve. Second. Motion carries. Motion should have been for March. The motions for the work session minutes, not for the March 12th one. March 12th is city council. Okay. Yeah. Now we should stop us. So the March chief from fixed. Yeah, March. We'll get to March 12th. Okay. Exactly. Okay. I'm back with you. So we have we started off the morning with a um short meeting with the rates committee. I'll come back to that. In the regular meeting, we we went with right after uh Terry Lee gave us a very nice invocation. You did the pledge. We recognize some of our linemen for the 2025 public power lineman appreciation month. Um and there's also they have a special day. So if you see a lineman, thank him. Um the next thing is we went over the BLW policy and procedure about working hours. So one of the things with linemen, they have kind of set hours in the in the event of an emergency. So what this what this did was it bought the linemen in line with other entities, but it also on that first day of an emergency gives them 24 hours where they can work or permit it 24 hours straight, then they're off for eight or nine, and then they come back at 16 hours. But really, what it does is it allows us to ramp up in the beginning when things are crazy and not have to worry about how we bring in you know a second crew or whatever, so they get 24 hours. So that passed. Um we got a nice legislative wrap-up from uh Ronnie. Um separately in our meeting here. Yeah, I could just do it all at the same time. Okay. That's fine. Uh and then we we talked about the policies and procedures for disconnecting service of people who aren't paying their water and sewer bill. And and again, really it's not something where they just go in the first minute, you don't pay it, they disconnect you. There is a policy and procedure, and we just made sure that we had that correct, and that also passed 7-0. And then we had a presentation by Mr. Schalfont. All right. Um this um report, I'm gonna give a finance report first for the um for closing February 28th. And the water sales for the month averaged 68 gallon uh million gallons a day compared with the budget of 67.5. Water sales revenue totaled seven million dollars, which fell so the short of the budget expectation by 20,000, which is pretty much right on the money. Uh net income for the month of um 3.3 million dollars exceeded the budget expectation by 771,000. Uh year-to-date spending on capital projects totaled $3.5 million on the uh date of the financial report with the remaining CIP budget commitment of $88 million.