The Marietta City Council held an agenda work session on September 8, 2025, at 5:15 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting covered routine approvals, reports from the Board of Lights and Water (BLW), multiple proposed ordinances and resolutions, and discussions on funding, naming, and intergovernmental agreements. The council voted on several items to move them forward to the regular meeting on September 10, 2025, and entered executive session for legal and property matters.
No public comments were recorded during the work session. Several public hearings were scheduled for the regular meeting on September 10, including for the rezoning of 92 and 96 Whitlock Avenue (First United Methodist Church properties) and the variance request for 31 Rock Street. The applicant for 1880 Scuffle Grit requested a one-month tabling, which was granted.
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.