This work session covered routine approvals, financial reports, and a series of zoning and development items set for a regular meeting on June 11, 2025. The council also handled budget discussions, tourism grant scheduling, and multiple consent items.
The following items were presented for public hearings on June 11, 2025:
The council entered executive session to discuss legal matters, real estate acquisitions, and potential litigation. An update was provided on a pending acquisition, noting that the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is reviewing final documents. The council also noted that Mapleton and Cobb County are exploring a longer-term agreement.
How do I call the city council agenda work session order, please? First item of business is the May 12th, 2025 agenda work session minutes. Any additions, leasions, corrections, or motion? Make a motion to approve. Second. Motion carries 6-0. Mr. Shelf's not on the phone or anything. It should be. We just started the meeting. All right, I'm putting on speaker. Thank you. Hi, Griff. The vote on the approval of the May 12th minutes is 6-0. Do you want to make it seven? Yeah. Motion carries 7-0. Councilmember Cheryl Richardson to update us on the board lights and water, please, ma'am. All right, thank you, Mayor. Shall we had a uh really quick meeting today? Umce the mayor and Mr. Mull swam in from next door. Um the first item of business after the pledge and the prayer or the prayer of the pledge, uh, we had um Eric Patton get up and talk about a mutual aid agreement that we're entering into with Georgia EMCs. So as you as most people know, we already have mutual aid agreements where we go out to other places if they need help, or we bring in people to us if we need help. So this is in the line with that. Um but what this did is it set the rate for reimbursement. So we don't have to kind of I won't say haggle, but discuss that or negotiate that ahead of time. It's already in the agreement now, and that motion passed 6-0. Um, and then we had Kim Holland who talked about an intergovernmental agreement with Cobb County Marietta Water Authority. If you've seen today's paper, Cobb County is about to start doing some work on their water pipes in Stilesboro old um old 41 area. So we have a water meter that is out there, and they're gonna move the water meter for us. It's a wholesale water meter. They're gonna move that for us, relocate it, and then we'll pick up that extra bit of um water line at that point. But this is all being done by Cobb County. This intergovernmental agreement really was about the fact that they're going to move the the um water meter and where it's going to be relocated to and our ability to take it over after everything's done. We don't expect the work to start until the fall, even though the Stylesboro work probably is starting quicker than that. Um and that passed 6-0. We also got a water quality report, and this report is going to be available in print. It's also available online on the BLW web page, but it talks about um the quality of Marietta water with things that are either in it or not in it, and we got a very good rating on our test results. So we got a great rating. So if anybody wants to see this, again, BLW is going to do this in print, but also you can get it digitally. Uh next we have our new um head of the finance department to talk about finance. Good evening. So I am going to provide a um abbreviated version of the financial report that was given this um afternoon. And um, if there's an additional follow-up questions, please feel free and I can elaborate. Um you can go to the next slide for me, please. Thank you. So um just taking a look at the budget comparison for the month of April. This is me AG's budget compared to the Marietta actuals. We are up um in our cost, um, approximately three and a third um percent overall.