The Marietta City Council held a work session on Monday, October 6, 2025, at 5:15 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting covered a range of items including a Board of Lights and Water (BLW) report, fee structure revisions for road races, a proposed public gathering ordinance, and a downtown solid waste management district service plan. Several items were moved forward to the regular council meeting on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, and one item was referred back to committee.
I'd like to call the city council junior work session to order. First item of business is a consideration of the September the late agenda work session minutes. Is there a motion or all second? You just be quiet back there. Present Andre. Andre just yelled second. What do you got a second? I told you just to stay quiet back there. Thank you, sir. All those in favor, please use your right hand. Andre Barbori. Andre. Oh, the amendment. Yes. Okay. That's an aye. Motion carries seven. Oh. Councilmember Cheryl Richardson will give our BLW report. Okay. So of course we had a BLW meeting today. The first item, as always, is our regular minutes, and that is no change from what we had last month. The next item of business was we had a presentation about a contract that we are seeking approval for. And the contract was for the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority. So basically, what this contract does is it improves on our ability to detect and isolate outages. So it helps to make that faster. And we've already cut down with the number of systems we currently have, but this is a contract that goes in effect. And it will cut down on out, not the outages, but the impact that an outage may have. So one example was for anybody that lives over by Marietta Middle School. There was an outage on Sunday, which I got immediately notified. And instead of it being 200 people, it turned into 65. So it was able to detect it and minimize the impact. So this is a bigger grant that will allow us to do that in more places. So that's a good thing. So the resurfacing is going to be on US 41, so on Cobb Parkway. Impact for us monetarily will be three manhole covers that'll need to be adjusted and also some valve work. So we have three that we need to look at. We expect the cost to be approximately $5,400. We'll know exact cost when they actually let the contract with the contractor, but the work will go from Terrell Mill all the way down to the Fulton County line, our impact being Terrell Mill to Windy Hill. So financial impact small, but just kind of beware when GDOT starts this, it's going to go down 41 tarrell to Fulton County. Um separately because the way the contract was written was City of Marietta and the Board of Lights and Water. So the Board of Lights and Water has already approved it. We will need City of Marietta approval. Yes, sir. And just looking at the uh motion, it did say um it says that this the motion from the BLW is a motion to approve recommendation of the city council to approve the GDOT. Uh was there also as part of that motion uh a separate authorization from BLW too? It was it was so we'll we'll get that language cleaned up. So we because we did discuss, as you know, we discussed the fact that it's gonna take the two signatures, though it should have just been one, but that was fine. So if we can get that cleaned up, that'd be great. Um we'll come back for a motion on that.