The City of Marietta held a series of committee meetings and a Special Called Council meeting on May 27, 2025, starting at 10:30 AM. The meetings covered a wide range of topics including the Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) agreement, the FY2026 budget, tourism grants, ethics code amendments, road race regulations, and multiple public works projects. Key actions included approval of a resolution for SDS amendments, approval of $25,000 for the Strand Theatre's 90th birthday celebration, and moving several items forward to future meetings.
The following items were placed on the consent agenda with no objections:
I'd like to call the city council special meeting to order, please. The agenda that went out was based on what could have been needed for the SDS. Meeting. So those could be items that require no action. Basically, to a subsequent event, which came Friday afternoon. Take no action. Take no action. Present it and no action. Correct. First of all. And then is you and Doug explain what judges and I thought we heard we're hearing that noise. The final SCS meeting. The city, the city attorneys basically were there in the city managers and a couple mayors, the council. But we weren't privately what was going on between the last city. So what the chat in favor, but it's still going to take a few. Right. Yes, sir. So as you were saying, uh Friday, everybody was working hard trying to get us to this point. At nine o'clock on Friday night, uh everything came together. So that was a very good thing. And uh we have had attorneys working on the documents ever since uh then and they're still working on them right now uh on the finals. Um we do have a resolution which I passed out, which would be, as the mayor said, one of the items that would be after the ones we would you know ask you to not take action on. So this would actually be the um one on the second page, which is called the service delivery strategy amendments. Um and so this would be approving that resolution. The other four items that uh come before that, the uh Animal Services Agreement, cooperative purchasing and transportation services, uh we would not be presenting an amended IGA for any of those items. Uh none of the other cities will have those either. And so those would go away. Um the uh amendment uh dealing with paragraph 11 uh wouldn't be asking for that either, and then uh the the one that comes after the service delivery amendments, which is legal action, wouldn't be asking for that either, uh, since there is an agreement uh that everybody's been able to reach. Um what uh needed to be done was uh Mapleton had to reach an agreement with Cobb in order to have our SDS agreement in total complete, and without it being complete, then uh we would have gone into or we would go into sanctions as of the first of June. Um there because of the fact that there never was an agreement between Cobb and Mapleton, we couldn't get an extension because you can't extend something that doesn't exist. So uh that was out. We usually that that would be able to be granted uh for a short period of time, but can't in this case because there is no agreement, or has not been an agreement until now. Um and so Cobb and uh Mapleton did agree. Um both parties agreed to leave our agreements alone, uh, which uh the city the six cities agreements with Cobb to leave those alone, and uh so therefore, you know, our payments come in as as they were going to uh in November. Um now the agreement that Cobb did with Mapleton is only for a year. So um that means that we're all gonna have to get back together again, and we're gonna have to uh agree on where we go past that year. Um Cobb and Mapleton have an agreement where Mapleton is gonna make a payment to Cobb and they're gonna be doing that for certain services, uh, but that'll be for that year period. Uh and then they're they're gonna try to work out everything between now and then as far as where they go beyond that, because these are supposed to be 10-year agreements, and now there are triggering uh things that can happen during that 10 years that can open it all back up again, one of those being a new comp plan uh that the county would have and have to file with DCA. Uh that will be coming up in a couple of years, so um that could be uh a triggering event which would open it back up again also. So uh we'll we'll hope that they'll work out what they um they have currently so that it goes beyond a year, and if they can get that all worked out, then we can go ahead and have another amendment and hopefully carry this a little longer uh with what we've got. Um said that, um Doug, anything else from the legal standpoint? Uh no, sir. Good summary of Mr. Bruton, but the mayor, if he desires, made declare all the agenda items on page one need no action, or you all can vote to take no action. Either way, it takes them off of the agenda. Then you would go straight to the first item, top item on page two, and Mr. Bruton has handed out the uh proper resolution, which we've all seen today agreed to, and it does give uh the mayor, city manager, and the city attorney uh the right to make minor changes, but you would need to vote to approve the resolution. And and thank you. And to tell you what else is still we're still waiting on, it's these documents, which we had from the uh the current one that we have, the service delivery. And they're basically it's a schedule.