You want me to cut this off?

Prove the minutes as revised.

Your second to me.

Thank you.

What did we just did?

Yes.

Okay.

So we did as revised for the August 11th.

Got it.

Thank you.

So of course the meeting this afternoon called to order at twelve oh three by the mayor.

One of the first things that we did after passing the minutes, um, Sherry Rashad came up and gave us a presentation, and what they're looking at is how BLW is accomplishing the parts of their strategic business plan.

So she reviewed two different sections.

Well, she reviewed one objective, and the other one was in our book.

And the objective that she reviewed was new technology applications for all customer service deliveries.

The fact that we'd received a grant, uh, it's the federal reimbursable lighting grant, which will enable Marietta Power to change over non-LED lights to LED lights.

With the money, and I believe, and I don't have it with me, but I think it was 132,000.

With that money, that will go to purchasing the light, and we will do the work in-house, so we're able to spend all of the grant money to purchase the supplies, not for any other reason.

Um I do believe that that will need to be a separate motion if I am not correct to change their budget.

I think they passed it as a budget.

They passed it as their budget.

Do we need to do anything with that here?

We would need to do the same here, so we could add that along with the other item.

Okay, so we'll come back to that as separate.

Um Mr.

Shalfant on the water authority, please.

Yes.

I've got the water authority report here for um the time for July 1st, ending in July 1st, 2025.

Water sales for the month averaged 86 million gallons a day compared with the budget of 90 million gallons a day.

Water sales revenue totaled 9.9 million dollars, which fell short of the budget by about $30,000, which they did a good job pretty close on that one.

Um net income for the month was $5.3 million.

Year-to-day net income exceeded the budget by $3.7 million.

Uh year-to-date spending on capital projects totaled $32.6 million as the date of the financial report with a remaining annual uh CIP budget commitment of $59.6 million.

Cash reserved for CIP spending totaled $52 million at the end of July.

Year-to-date operating costs per thousand gallon sold averaged uh $22.28 at the end of July, compared with an average of $2.14 for the same period.

Compared to last year, the date to date, operating expenses were two percent higher than um and water sales in gallons was 4.3 percent lower.

Um bring the through the uh general manager's report.

We had um listed in your in your book was um three.

We we started out in the year, and this we ended up completed one of the projects just recently, so we've only got we've got three linear or pipe projects going.

We completed the one on the Cedartown uh connector.

We've got three facilities projects going, four active design projects, and nine EPA type um uh unfunded initiatives that we're working on.

So that's about it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Uh the next item, Ms.

Brown is going to cover the BLW finance report for August.

Good evening.

So the report that I am going to cover will be for the month of July.

Um actuals.

The um if you're following along in your book, um, looking at page one, and this will only be the supplementals this month because due to the holiday, we were short a day for our month end close, so we were unable to complete the financials in advance of this meeting, but we will have those financials available by Wednesday this week.

So looking on page one, um, we will take a look at the MIAG budget versus um the actuals for the month of July.

Um we were under um over budget uh for charges by 7.4 percent.

Uh year to date, it was under 2.45 percent or just under um a million dollars for year to date.

Looking at page slide, I'm sorry, page two.

We'll take a look at the BLW um expenditures versus the budget.

And that would um take a look at our surplus energy sales, which is inclusive of our SIBA.

The MiAG budget does not include that.

Um we were under budget for the month by 8.14 percent for our charges for surplus sales, but in total we were over budget for our actuals by 19 percent.

Um year to date will be the same as we are in our first month of our um fiscal year to date.

Looking over at um at your gas price comparison.

This is a good illustration of the gas decline for pricing that we've seen throughout the calendar year.

Um June to July had a slight increase.

Looking forward into August, there will be a um a decrease as we dipped below the three dollar mark for um we were at $2.91 mmBTU for the uh August close as of as of Friday for the spot market close on the next page.

We were at $2.70 and Friday for the close, so we are seeing a decline in our gas price sales, and that will affect our overall um uh financials, primarily in the supplemental, but we will see a decrease in our expenditures as well because of the cost that we um for us to generate uh energy will go down as well as a result of those pricings.

Looking forward on pages five and six, if you're following in your book, there wasn't any major events for the year for the month.

Shearer was committed for a three-day period, and that was August 8th through August 11th, and that was respon in response to the um combined cycle operations.

It was scheduled to be out.

There was some complications that um required it to be out a little bit longer, so they um employed uh the shear plants in order to cover those additional demands.

Looking on page nine at our off-system sales, the off-system sales revenue has increased for July, looking year over year.

Um current month it uh year to date is at 1.147 million last year.

Year to date, um, it was at 434,000.

So that was a substantial increase as we're looking at off-system sales, and that has a lot to do with the demand that we are seeing for um crypto and data mining centers uh throughout the Metro Atlanta area as well as the Southeast.

We also saw on page 10 that we reached a new five-year high for the second time this year for the NCP as well as the energy requirements.

Um the month of July, we showed um NCP at its highest as well as the energy requirements for NCP.

The last time that we reached a five-year high was in April, and our energy requirement last time we reached a five-year high was in January.

So we are seeing um an increase in the demand in our requirements for peak.

Lastly, we'll have our wholesale purchases on page 10.

And this actually was a five-year low.

So we've due to the amount of um volume of rain that we've seen throughout this um calendar year, particularly over the summer months.

Um we've had a lot of water, and um the temperatures have been fairly mild, so that has contributed greatly to the reduction in the water purchases.

Going back to the coal really quickly.

There's no more anticipated commitments for the coal plant at the moment.

Not currently, no.

Um the demand um, like I said, was primarily due to the um combined cycle, but we haven't seen an increase in demand that has warranted for this year plant to um be committed as of yet.

Okay, thank you.

Next is the chair prices report.

Is it last month's board meeting?

It was very exciting.

They showed a clip.

We got out of the COVID, was it three years ago, Ron?

Closed it, but they demolished it in the last four weeks, and that was a major sight to see, but it also shows a commitment.

And that was amazing sight to see, but it also shows a commitment that BA and Georgia Power and Oglethorpe are looking to go and cleaner energy and in the gas.

And at the same time that when they shell that going down, BAG is dealing with Ogre Thorpe and Georgia Power, and they worked out agreement where each one of them is going to get two sites for 600 megawatts.

But it is uh very good agreement.

But they also Georgia Power wants to build one before both Miag and Oglethorpe, and they agreed to pay all the initial funding to bring the pipes up where Miyag's ready, then they they won't have to fork out any money until they're ready to build.

So just that cooperation between three people with three different excuse me, three entities with three different points of view is a great step in the right direction, and and is also kind of our pocketbook which we would have to start paying.

But uh that's you know, and as we look to just so many from the data centers and natural growth, you know, listen to how the month numbers vary this month, just how many things are going into this, but you know, we can't do anything until we buy some more, and we're still a long way from doing that, so there's no probably big projects coming for a long time anyway.

So but but the fact that it committed and made the decision and the these three big users have agreed to go forward to looking at building gas plants, and you don't pay for it the building of it until you start to get into it.

And that that was just good news for basically a casual report.

I enjoyed it very much.

But you know, listen to the ground as they look up how to finance it over the years.

If it would probably be a MIA will probably be a one, and then a second later.

So that's that's it's years out, and you know, a lot of things are hinging on it because there's a lot of potential demand out there, which could probably even change them all.

So MIAG won't start it until it's perfectly safe from a financial and EPA will also make sure it's safe from environmental, so it's a lot of hoops to go through before it gets started, which is well, it's good news that we're not able to pay much money too soon.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

All right.

Um Mr.

Mole, would you like to give the general manager's report, please?

Good evening, council.

The uh the one item I have is the annual supplemental power subscription.

I brought it to you last month for the board recommended the city council to approve Mi AG taking care of our supplemental sales or excess capacity.

They have since changed the form, so we've got to change the selection that we picked.

So last on the last form it was section, it was item four.

This is the same form with that's been modified.

We need to check section five.

So the board has approved uh recommending the council to approve this uh document, have it executed.

So that was uh what the board approved, so it's come forward through the recommendation of council.

Thank you.

So let me ask two questions or one question, I guess, of um Mr.

Haney.

We've got two items, one being the um accepting the addition to the budget, and then the other one being the supplemental, two separate motions, yes, on top of having to move the minutes for it.

Yes, all right.

Um so I will make um a motion to accept the grant from the federal reimbursable lighting grant um to be added to the MIAG budget or no to the PLW budget as recommended by the board this afternoon is there a second, second any discussion.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries, and then the second motion would be a motion to approve the revised supplemental power supply nomination as received from me ag with a recommendation for the mayor to appropriately sign select five on behalf of the board and the council.

Second any further discussion, all those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Any objections that was being on consent?

No objections either.

Thank you.

The minutes are already on there.

Can they be on consent as well?

No objection to consent.

Thank you.

I guess that concludes the report that.

That concludes my report, sir.

Next item is the consideration of a I don't know if that's a double word memorial commit commemorative.

That might be a double word, but from Roswell Street, beginning at the square all the way to Highway 41 across from the Big Chicken.

Reverend Nelson L price Memorial Parkway just had a profound influence on the city.

Was known all over the world.

He had one of the biggest TV ministries is around.

And I just like for us to consider whatever it takes to name this won't change the name of the road.

It's just like we done for two or three elders.

Yeah.

It's just uh think we just add signage along the road along the road, correct?

Right.

We we've done that a few times, and oh I've already looked what we would make the signs in-house, and uh we could attach them at either end.

And we did it for Brumby, Lockhart, Travis, and uh Bill Kennedy.

And then the pandemic Heroes Highway too on tower we did, yeah.

Yes, thank you.

Yes, okay.

Okay.

Do you need a motion or yes?

I'd like to make a motion to move this forward to for approval for Wednesday night.

I'll second any discussion.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

No objection.

No objection.

Can I ask a quick question?

If we can when we do this, will we do a unveiling with a ribbon cutting?

Oh, absolutely.

Yes.

Yeah.

Do it like we did uh the last one with uh Mr.

Kenny.

Okay, thank you.

Share we ask that quick.

You know, I guess we all hear rumors, but I understand it's gonna be this is gonna be considered the second location of Woodstock church.

Oh yes.

And there's still gonna be an icon for yes.

Okay.

The gateway to Virginia.

I mean a victory subdivision, huh?

Yes.

Thank you.

Next item is devise MOU for the SR.

And all the good news there too.

Yes, sir.

Actually, there is.

Um, before I get started, I would like to um pass around um additional information that was just received this afternoon from the school board, um, in addition to the contract revisions that you have in front of you, and I'll pass that around.

Oh, wait a minute.

I think uh in front of that.

Okay.

Okay, so the primary uh revisions that you'll see that changed um for this time frame is in section seven, where there was um insert um midway through pertaining to this um verbiage for the school's uh safety officers, what they can administer and what they will not in regards to so it was a um SROs will not administer but may utilize school safety technologies such as metal detector surveillance equipment and other like items, and that was outlining some of the restraints that the SROs have as pertains to the metal detectors that were implemented for the school systems as of this school year.

The other primary um change was under section 11, where um there was some concerns with the school board in regards to the pricing.

We were able to um negotiate some hopefully um good terms that they will be able to the board will be able to agree with.

The only change that I did from last the last revision to now is I included the vehicles under the 70 30 70 and 30% split between the school board and the city.

So those were the primary changes, and if you look at attachment B, that will give a breakdown of the pricing for all of the equipment that's included, the uniforms and the vehicles, and then a payment schedule for the five year period included in this contract.

Yes.

For the uh two things on the just as a note on page on page six of the red line.

I think the defined term got uncapitalized in two one and two on that page, salary and benefits.

It went from schools being capitalized, meaning the city school system to just being a lowercase schools.

Okay, I see that.

Okay.

And then over on attachment C, there's a highlight in here that includes a bracket.

It says title of state or local official from law from local law enforcement, Georgia Mineral Emergency Management, Homeland Security Agency, or local juvenile court system.

Is that supposed to be filled in or the new thing, attachment C.

So let me get to I'll address attachment C.

So attachment C is sample verbiage, is not the final.

Literally, we I just received it about 30 minutes before the meeting.

It was verbiage that the school board wanted to include as a result of the HB 268 bill that was passed in April, and it has to do with the privacy and uh for student information and how it is housed and handled by both the law enforcement as well as the school board, and it has certain provisions that we would need to include in our MOU prior to the October October 25th, which is the deadline that's outlined in the code in the code section code section 218 and Section B.

So we wanted to we haven't had I have not had an opportunity to run this past um our legal team, Doug Doug Haney and his team.

Um but I was able to get the verbiage that the school board wishes to include in the MOU.

Um they are scheduled to go have a meeting tomorrow.

This was um will be included for them to review, but they will not vote on it until the 17th, but I want it to include it tonight so that it uh the council will be able to review it and if there is any major changes that you all would like to have added, we can have the opportunity to make those changes prior to the school board voting on the 17th next week.

And then it would once they vote, it would also come back to council before um for the final vote uh before you all for the September committee meetings and then go into the October board meeting for final vote on the MOU.

Ms.

Mayor.

Make sure I understand.

So we're not gonna be voting on this on Wednesday.

We're still it's still a working document, so this needs to be referred back to committees at this point or refer to the or does it need to go to a special call council meeting on those days?

Probably work.

Or we can we're either way.

Um currently we are not we do not have a contract.

Um the prior contract expired June 30th.

We bill on a quarterly basis, so the first billing would be at the beginning of October.

So we would need to have some understanding as to what the terms will be prior to the billing in October.

In that case, would you be okay with the motion to move this forward to a special call at the committee at the committees?

Mr.

Mayor.

That would be my motion then.

Which committee?

It's not a committee, it's a special call council meeting.

Okay.

Second.

They bought new equipment from vape to metal detectors and guns.

Is that on their dime?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

The um they receive grants um that has permitted them to do that um previously.

Some of the um SRO costs that they uh were incurring were under grants as well, and those grants have the gr that grant for the SRO has expired, so that is part of the reason for what they consider to be additional cost to them.

Um but the metal detectors that is um not under our expense at all.

That sweetens it for want of a better word, it sweetens the deal.

Yes, it makes it more so the motion was to move forward to a special call on September 30th with the other committees.

I second.

Oh, you already second.

Sorry.

All those in favor, please age run in.

Motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Good evening.

Um for this item, we were asked to um change the con contract with the help of Mr.

Haney to include the terms of uh council.

So I've included that in your packet.

And that was the only change that we were expecting.

And I ask since I was going to ask initially.

The change the changes in that first paragraph can uh conform with term of counsel rule at this point now.

Yes, sir.

Ms.

Register and I have gone through that together.

Would you like a motion, Mr.

Mayor?

Would you like a motion?

Yes, please, sir.

I'd like to move I would like to move this forward to the Wednesday agenda.

Recommend approval.

Okay.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.

No objection to consent.

No objection.

Thank you.

No objection.

Rose Lane Street.

Thank you, Mayor, and good evening.

Um what's before you tonight is a request for final plat approval for a 22 town home subdivision development off of Rose Lane, which is um north of of uh Tower Road.

Uh the property was rezoned back in 2017, and the preliminary plat was approved in 2023.

And so they've done all of their site work related to the property um and staff has reviewed uh reviewed this final plat and has not identified any issues related to it.

Is this one where there driveway interfere with the mountain to trail?

We've had a bunch of them over the years, but this is in a different area that's not next to the trail.

Oh, that's right.

This is north of that towards Cogburn Avenue.

Is it on the other side of town road?

Yes, sir, on the north side.

Yes, sir.

A long time.

What is it?

2017 when it was rezoned.

Yes, sir.

Four more than that, before we're more than half the council rooms on.

COVID had a little bit to do with it.

This ward five, then I guess.

Is it four or five?

Oh four.

He said four.

They said.

Is it on Ward 4?

North the Tower Road, it might be four.

Is North of Qatar Road?

I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.

Any objective to consent?

No objection.

No objection.

Step down.

This is the Marriott Cobb's Museum Art Museum.

Yes, uh everyone.

So just wanted to have a discussion.

Um met with Sally, and you know, she's having some challenges with uh some different things with you know what's going on there with the county and everything else.

So um just wanted to you know bring this forward for additional funding.

Um, out of our pot that we have.

Um she's looking at somewhere well, right at 31,500.

Um so I just wanted to bring it to council and and just have you know some discussion about it and just see you know kind of the pulse of what we wanted to do with that.

This is a one-off thing, yes, sir.

Not an additional one every year.

No, okay, not at all.

Well, I mean, I don't I mean, I think she's always gonna be struggling now if we don't do something about buy getting the city to buy that building or because they've jacked everything up on her what what is we have a large amount or somewhat large amount left in that for extras?

Do you know what it's I think Bill?

We we spoke about it, and Bill, you can kind of touch on it.

Yes, sir.

Uh it I haven't looked at the exact amount today, but uh it was north of 1.1 million.

It was between 1.1 and 1.2 last time I looked at it.

That's the reserve amount that we um have accumulated that we talked about previously and uh uh doing a process where we uh do allocate that money over time.

I'd like to my discussion is short and sweet.

I'd like to just fund it, and I think it's one of the most important raises a lot of good PR.

I agree.

I think she can help the change.

I mean the county underwrote it for years.

What a shot.

Make a motion to to move it forward.

It's a mount of 31,000.

I'll second your motion.

Okay.

Um so yeah, she she's gonna come in on on Wednesday and kind of talk a little bit about it.

Uh but I just wanted to kind of bring it to council and you know we have the funds and and in the done.

Looks like it's done.

I think it's a good one.

Well, yeah, it would be done, yeah.

I mean, with this, I think you got the votes.

Yeah, and also can we make sure brought up earlier go ahead and include a budget amendment to I guess to the welcome center contract?

Right, yes, sir.

And then the other issue that comes up, Mr.

Haight.

Uh can we go ahead and give it a 315 now, or do we have to spit it?

Spit it out until June 30th.

What's the budget year?

Um, the budget year for where the money was accumulated, yes.

It's some of it is uh a few years ago.

So you you could do the entire thing.

Yeah, firstly, I'd I'd love to show that we are getting it out of funds that we should already distribute it.

Just to be on compliance with the law, nothing.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

I agree.

Yeah, so the motion will be a one-shot one.

You don't have to go through the well the welcome center contract.

Correct.

Well, we we'd still have to do it through the welcome center contract.

We'd have to amend it, but it could be it could just stay in there as a lump sum immediately payable.

We can do it that way.

Pay it on or before the event itself.

Yes, sir.

We can we can have it done in 30 days, yeah.

Get them the payment.

The motion is second.

Everybody understand the motion.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

All those in favor, please age write in.

Motion carries.

I would say at this point, then just putting on.

Better come and smile.

Yeah.

Any objection to consent?

No objection.

For clarification, Mayor, there was a statement about 315, and then I heard 31.

Are we at 315?

315 based on the numbers that I received.

Yeah.

Thank you, sir.

I I got a question.

Uh is this a function of the DMDA raising our rent on the Museum of Art?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

No county owns old.

Oh, post.

Okay.

I was thinking of the other building over by the uh radio track.

With the tenant.

Yeah.

Okay.

We need to condemn it in my Sunday we'll have access to money and strike a good deal with the county.

They evidently they they got a higher amount, I guess, initially, and I guess she'll say that when she's here, but um then they tried to get it down.

Uh that came down some, but it's still a good bit higher than what they're paying currently.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Grant to the city council.

Mr.

Morris is gonna be the invitation.

A presentation for public power and clean water week.

And while we're here, they're gonna be celebrating the proclamation for Miss Moner.

We're not gonna hook up with them, will we?

Uh no, sir.

No, they would just actually Kelly's gonna make the video and he's gonna deliver it to them and then they'll show it during their award that they do for her.

And then we'll have some of them over here uh to receive the proclamation for the strand for the 90th.

Oh, for the their 90th.

Yes, sir.

So yeah.

We ought to have a cake somewhere.

There should be some cake.

We may come this way, tell them bring cake.

I think Andy's gonna come over here with I don't think Sheriff was asking.

Very strong suggestion.

And then we're gonna we're acknowledging that Miss Monter.

Okay, I understand that.

Mr.

Barr's gonna be have a schedule appearance.

And then the we already approved the minutes already in this meeting.

Yeah, and there's a there's a revision to the 13th, yeah.

So these are as revised.

No objection to consent.

No objection to consent.

No objection.

No objection.

First United Methodist Church.

Thank you again, Mayor.

So the next two items, 92 Whitlock Avenue and 96 Whitlock Avenue are very similar in that they're both owned by um the first United Methodist Church, and they're seeking to rezone the properties from OI, and they've been zoned OI since the late 90s.

Uh they're looking to rezone them to R3 for the prospective purposes of um of selling them off for uh residential ownership.

Um while the the the facts of each case are largely similar, 92 Whitlock Avenue.

Um there is a need for a request for a variance um related to the lot width, um which um would be by one foot.

So the required lot width is 85 feet, and that parcels lot width is 84 feet.

And uh Miss Angie Smith will be here on Wednesday to present both items of the hearing.

And I guess member that church ought to show I'm just be visiting during that time.

But everybody should that we're selling two houses that have been used for parsonage, and they're gonna be for become residential again.

But not for use by your church.

One of them might be used, but it by youth director, but right now it's really I only have one for technically for sale, the White House.

Maybe just show me his having to abstain.

Um in that case, I guess the items were from your mayor pro tem, so you run the meeting for that one, Johnny.

It would be more appropriate.

In that case, Mr.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I ask a question?

Yes, sir.

Sorry.

Um for the with the two on these two, I know that there was a note in staff by sanitary sanitary sewer easing that needs to be shown on the thing.

That's or even passed along to the uh to the applicant to make sure that that's corrected at all.

We're good?

That's correct.

Good.

Thank you.

Any other question on these two tonight?

This is a public hearing.

Yes.

1880 shuffle grit.

Thank you again.

Um so as you'll recall, these uh next three items are all associated with your proposed uh annexation and rezoning of 1880 scuffle grit.

Um once again, this was tabled back in June.

Uh the applicant contacted staff earlier today within the 48 hour time period and has requested that it be tabled again for one month to October.

And that's by right since it was more than 48 in advance.

That's correct.

Okay.

Um the motion or is it by if it's by right, do we need a motion?

You do.

The record needs to reflect.

So moved.

Yeah.

Okay.

So table all three.

Table all three.

All second.

All those in favor, please judge your writing.

You know, hope as we set precedent.

But table it now, we don't have to add the public hearing and then table it.

That's correct.

If you go on consent to table Wednesday night.

No objection to consent.

So it's no longer a public hearing item.

Right.

Yeah.

Which means we couldn't reverse it.

We could vote down the table.

No.

Um be a bit of an issue.

No.

The four items for denial claim, Mr.

Any is 32.

If you would leave those on consultant.

Oh, five.

That might have been was that another one.

You can place all four on consent, please for denial, please.

No objection.

Any objections?

No objection, but I have a question for Doug that I don't know if you can answer.

Emmett Burton.

No.

You don't have to say anything else.

Okay.

You can abstain.

I'll abstain on that one.

Abstain on that.

Second rating for the vehicle mobilization ordinance.

No power.

Any objection to put on consent?

No objection.

No objection.

Very good.

That's its closed on consent.

Any objection to that?

For table, excuse me.

Yeah, motion to table.

The city club may have a fees.

Yes, sir.

There's a um update on that that Rich would like to give.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I don't know if I was writing on cloud nine the night we uh had this discussion after Councilman Walker's good remarks about the golf course and the uh and the cart uh new carts.

But this motion was actually a two-part motion.

One was to raise the fees on the carts, and there was also in the memo a recommendation to raise the price on range balls by a dollar.

And I realized after I looked at the memo that the motion that was made was to raise the cart fees.

And the way it had been titled was to raise the fees as shown in exhibit A.

So the exhibit A you have actually shows the cart fees and a range uh increase on the range balls.

So the way it's written right now on your agenda would accomplish both of those tasks.

But I needed to bring it to your attention because that wasn't the actual motion that was made at the committee meeting.

So if you chose not to raise the prices on the range balls, if that's not your desire, um I can change exhibit A and take those off, so it's just the cart fees, or if you want to change and recognize uh that we wanted to range the rate uh raise the price on the range balls as well.

Um you need to know that that's what's on that motion right now.

So it would be up to your pleasure as to which direction we would want to go with that.

So I would make a motion to um increase the range ball price by a dollar.

Okay.

Or to add it in to that uh to it.

Yes.

Okay, good.

And so that would be sort of amending the motion from the committee.

The motion as stated on your agenda right now does do that.

To the mo just basically amending it to be the motion as stated.

So that's what you're looking for.

Yeah, so we're you would be approving the uh motion as stated in your agenda right now, uh approving the increases as on exhibit A, and the resolution would do that.

So then we can just move ahead with the motion as stated right now on the agenda.

All right.

Apologize for that.

I didn't didn't even catch it when we did it.

We just kind of moved on and away we went.

So is there a second?

Yeah, I second.

Okay, all is in favor, please go right in.

Motion carry all right to put on consent.

No, no objection.

Thank you.

Faith hope and debonair on consent.

Yeah.

I thought that was a religious thing there for me.

I like what's nice.

Uh next two items are on consent.

Yep.

Yes.

31 Rock Street, VC properties.

Public hearing.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

This will be a public hearing on Wednesday night for variances related to the use of automobile storage on 31 Rock Street.

As you'll all remember back in 2023, this item came before you uh because of um business license compliance activity, uh, which revealed that the underlying zoning was not compatible with the storage use.

And so the remedy at the time uh was to approve a uh temporary operational permit, uh, which you all uh approved through the end of 2024.

And so now that has obviously expired, and so it's back before you for consideration.

So the applicant is requesting a variance which would continue the auto storage in perpetuity.

Um and then, of course, City Council also has the option to extend the operational permit as well.

Um I believe the applicant, Miss Jane Hawkins, will be here on Wednesday to present.

Yes, sir.

Um for this one, does it technically if we're doing the variance just to do the variance?

I know that that would clear it up.

If we're doing anything with the license, though, is that technically a separate public hearing then?

Since it's technically a different area of the code, a business license issue rather than just a zoning issue.

That was not how it was handled in 2023.

But I would have to look to Mr.

Haney for that.

This is only dealing with the zoning, and uh see Ms.

Brown wanting to get up or not.

I can address from the business license standpoint.

Um because they are the owner.

The owner is leasing out the property.

There is we are doing a business license for the lease of um for the rental, but it is not a license for auto sales.

So that's why the variance would be needed in order to continue that aspect of it from a business license standpoint.

We give um the business owner a lease in order to lease out the property.

Okay, so the this thing is only whatever you can even use the term permit is technically just basically a temporary variance that expires a certain day date certain, basically then.

This would be permanent.

Well, the current one.

The current one was basically a temporary variance then.

That ended at a date certain so it could be properly tied.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you.

All the fences and the parking on the street, all that is being re-upped.

There were a lot of little variances.

So you had two different owners of the IQ property, and then that's correct.

There were a number of different you know variances going back even uh first.

Conversations about this property were from 2005 and then 2013.

Part of the temporary operational permit conditions, um, one was that they do no sales or maintenance on site, and the other is that they would stripe and repave the area east of that fence, which is the right-of-way facing piece there that you see in front of you.

And so to staff's knowledge, they are in compliance with the stipulations of that permit.

Was that still legal?

Yes.

It's legal per the permit that was approved.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

I mean it was fairly cut, but isn't that a different entity that has the automobiles?

Uh correct.

There was a um auto um business to the north that was using that for overflow storage as well.

Everything behind the fence went to the IQ autos, which faces Roswell Street.

I'd like it off of clear what variances were granting, because it that was not easy.

Yeah.

Because they were seemed like they were even in our right of way.

Yeah.

For another reason.

Yeah.

I guess kind of what what is being asked for?

I guess is the big thing on that end.

Right now it just says the yeah.

So the variances that are being requested.

Let me pull out the specific language.

If it was the permanent variances, there were a lot more variances than just one.

Uh if I remember the uh thing in the packet.

That's correct.

Not not the one that passed in 23, but in the packet, if there was going to be permanent variances, there's one, two, three, four, five variances.

That's correct.

They'd be asking for the business.

It's under other business, and then once you get into the council packet on the first thing, page four of the staff analysis.

That's yes, I'll be happy to read those off.

So variants to continue using the property for outdoor storage, including inventory associated with automobile sales, variants to allow outside storage areas to be located beyond the side or rear yard, variants to allow outdoor storage outside of a solid wall or fence no less than six feet in height, variants to waive the 25% limit on land area used for outdoor storage, and then variants to allow outdoor storage as a primary use in CRC zoning, and then variants to allow outdoor storage within 50 feet of residentially zoned property and within 25 feet of city right-of-way.

Six variances, not five.

Correct.

To park outside the fence.

Which to me says it's not part of the lease, but I mean that that's what I'm thinking.

Because remember the owner was here too.

Right, you have three parties involved.

It was the IQ, the owner of the building.

And they didn't build a fence through the line, they built it, and then the owner retained the right to put overflow for the builder that was next door.

Yes, sir.

It didn't really go to IQ, it goes to the third business.

Some of the variances do, yes, sir.

Don't all the variances go to the property owner.

Correct, they go to the property.

The property.

The property, yes, ma'am.

Not how she uses it to the property.

Correct.

But IQ owns from Rosal Street back parallel with Rock Street.

And then this other owner owned.

From IQ's property down to Rock Street.

Well, they've they've got it up on the board now.

Yep, so the subject property is right there in the dead center of the screen.

Right.

And then IQ is uh immediately south.

So if you're looking at that property from Rock Street, it would be to the left.

And then the property that has been leasing the frontage in front of the fence is to the north.

And so it is that um slim building just north on Rock Street.

Do we have a pointer right now?

I have one, it's not being very successful.

Oh well.

And then the share sports, that might be a permit problem.

This property right here IQ owns.

Right behind it.

IQ rents.

And then when outside the fence, somebody else uses.

Users.

And then that's still a point, it might all come under one zone, but it might be a permit issue for somebody operate a business on that property.

Yeah.

That the detail shop or something.

Yeah.

That's in the building there.

That north of the up top there.

Yeah.

Yeah, the one north of it.

Yeah.

I have a question.

Do you remember why we gave them the one year?

Were they supposed to do anything any different or they had the two stipulations?

Um one was to do the striping and repaving, and the other was to not do any maintenance.

But um I think it was well, I it would be presumptuous of me to say, but I think it was to not have that use in perpetuity, but to move the field goalpost a little bit.

But you may recall.

I thought it was because we didn't really have a anything to call this.

We did we don't have just plain storage areas unattached to businesses.

So we had to come up with that, which we did.

And Ms.

Brown, you can tell me if I'm I'm off here, but I thought the issue was you couldn't get a business license to operate a vehicle storage area unrelated to a business, so we needed to fix that first.

And until we decided what we wanted to do with that, I thought we couldn't improve.

This is why we gave them the short timeline.

That's correct.

So as it stands, or at the time, um having autos on a separate lot that were for sale was not permitted.

And so we could not, because it isn't a standalone business operation, we could not give them a business license.

Um because they did not own the property, it was uh they could not combine the property for it to go alongside their used auto that they already had um for IQ auto sales.

So we came up with something now that allows for this kind of situation.

Correct.

That was temporary.

Umce why they come in before you again, ma'am.

And and the carlis, plus they've been doing it for years.

Right.

There was that.

I mean it was it was a workout.

Yeah.

The current stipulations to store vehicles, they have to be uh on a certain portion of the property.

And so the current stipulation did not necessarily limit where the vehicles could go, but it said that all of those east of that fence line that you could be seen from Rock Street directly without the fence, those had to be striped and put in in an orderly fashion.

So that was that stipulation.

They were just it had to be an opaque fence too, didn't it?

Didn't they have to add to that?

Wasn't it just chain link at the time?

It's up in some places.

So that's been fixed.

Right.

Neither one of them wanted to pay for the fence.

No one ever does.

I remember it was an interesting conversation.

It was a long time.

I think it was two months, I think, that we had a conversation and then we had Ms.

Hawkins come back another month.

I don't think we even did it quickly.

I think it was a couple conversations.

Just make sure I was following that.

Have they complied with the two stipulations so far to repaint it?

They've done done the stuff to repay if they repaved, repaved, religned, and fix the fence and all that stuff.

Correct.

Anything else for a night?

You got two days of solid calling.

Thank you once again.

Um so this was an item that was tabled for last month, and it's a very plan, who's the developer of Accent Marietta, uh, the development on the former Harry Crossing site.

So they would like to reuse um the existing large signs, as you can see, one of them on the screen right now, or at least the foundational pieces of those, so they would strip down those signs and then rebuild around them.

Um but because that is a significant modification of the sign, it triggers the uh sign ordinance and requires that the signs be brought up to code.

And so last month they had um additional variances uh for you to consider, and they've made some tweaks to reduce that.

And so they have um tried to limit those, reducing the height, the square footage, and then also converting the signs to monument signage.

However, the proposed signs are still three feet above the maximum, which the maximum is twenty feet, so they're 23 feet, and then they exceed the square footage of the the face by 18 square feet.

Um and so I know that representatives from the project are here tonight, and they'll be here Wednesday as well.

I think Parks Huff is representing them uh for this variance request.

I'll have to say we hold everybody else's feet to the fire on those sign on these signs making uh racetrack and all those guys that come in with small monument signs.

You have a question tonight, Mr.

Gilson.

No, I don't have any, I don't have any at the moment.

I'm just thinking on through.

I'm gonna take a wild guess on what happens if it's approved and what happens if it's denied.

But that's just a guess.

That's all it was the current sign.

35 feet, I think.

I think they're they may even be a little taller than 25 feet.

Um that one was 35, almost 25.

Yep.

Our member from the staff analysis.

35 that's one with Harry's Aries on it.

Yeah, we we could keep that and just replace the panels, and it's 35 feet tall.

We want to modernize it, that screens 1990s.

I don't know how, but it looks like 1990s architecture.

Rather than just replacing the panels, which is the cheapest thing we could do, and it's in as your staff analysis compliant with your code.

We want to modernize it, but we're just slightly over the height, three feet.

I guarantee you you it's not a height difference you're gonna discern driving by an 18 feet, and it's because we got the studio, we want to have uh enough signage for them to be successful.

Mixed use, so we got retail and and then our uh residential in it.

So it it's right now 35, so we are bringing it down quite a bit.

Okay.

I have a question.

So um do you have a rendering of that of the yeah?

That that would be the one that would be in front of the multifamily building.

So the brick matches the brick on the multi-family building.

And again, we got the movie theater and multifamily tenant, and then the retail spaces below.

And then that's the one that would be down at the entrance where the movie theater entrance is closer to the interstate, and again, it's the same location, but it's brought down quite a bit.

We're just asking for a little bit of a little bit more height, and again, it's for design to have decent size placards for the retail that be seen.

And it is gonna be significantly lower than what's there now, which is what we could we could just keep what it is and just replace the panels, but this looks a lot better.

And so are is the consideration for this one only, or are we looking at a smaller one on the property in the future or what?

No, one one of the things the staff mentioned was if I can get to the site plan is well, if you look at the circle on the northern side, the staff mentioned the possibility of rather than doing all the retail on that sign, splitting it where we keep some on our side and then put a smaller uh sign on the northern part of there, that grass right there, and put it right there.

We would agree that we would only do one sign, and it would be this one so that you're not you know, we think having it on one sign, yes, it's three feet taller than allowed, but again, it it would be less mass than if you had it on two separate parcels, but we just are a lot more comfortable with it being a mixed use, having everything on one sign at our entrance than splitting it up into two monument signs on that northern part.

Got it.

Thank you.

Anything else, Rank?

I have a moment.

I'd like to uh bring before the council uh talks.

Okay, the chair recognize you for uh talk to the mayor about it about joining the GMAC mayor's reading club.

You can assign a program coordinator, uh which I volunteered for.

I've been doing that for the last couple years.

Um and so the literacy is just not a um let's see.

The mayor's reading club program launched in August 2022.

The goal of the program is to improve literacy skills and overall success with early reading of children and youth in Georgia cities through encouragement, support, and leadership from city mayors.

The reading club is a simple concept designed to serve as a building block to a f to a future literacy improvement strategy cohort to assist communities and developing and implementing a locally based literacy improving strategy.

Uh as each participant, the city will receive a mayor's reading club starter kit with program implementation and resource guides, suggested book lists, and copies of each of the Georgia Caroline books and a copy of the companion coloring book as a part of the program.

We convene all participating mayors during the GMAC annual convention or his representative to share ideas, share best practices for successful reading programs, and report on the impact of the program on their community.

We also host periodic webinars.

So with the mayor's permission, I'd like to suspend the rules and add an item to the agenda for tonight.

Second, please run.

Okay, and uh again, I'd like to add that uh Marietta will become a part of the Georgia municipal municipal association readings reading club, and there's there's no you know fees or monthly uh cost uh associated with it, but we would be recognized as part of the GMAC's uh reading club, one of the cities.

So my motion would be to approve us uh being a part of the GMAC reading club, second mayor's reading club, second favorite page right now.

So do we need to move this to Yes, sir?

Yeah, no objection to consent.

Yeah, no objection to consent.

No objection.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Carl's gonna be the chairman.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

Representing the city and the mayor.

Okay.

That's good work.

Thank you.

And uh you were out of town, but if you haven't had a chance to see the mirror, it is uh phenomenal.

Pretty okay.

Brightens up that corner for sure.

Do we have a re executive session name?

Yes, sir.

Uh we've got some property matters, acquisition and disposition.

And two legal issues uh relating to one relating to real estate, the other relating to a voting issue, both under potential litigation and the advice of city attorney.

Make a motion to go into executive session for a property um property acquisition and disposition or just acquisition bill.

It's both, yes, sir.

Acquisition and disp and uh disposition.

Second.

And uh no actually here Cheryl, you make a motion on that one.

Just make it okay.

And why don't we should I like to talk to counsel, right?

Uh in pending potential litigation illitigation advice of counsel vice counsel.

Yes.

Yes, sir.

Say second.

Second motion to second.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.

We're on the way to executive session.

Thank you all.