And uh is the meeting minutes from August the 26th, 2025.

Um September 30th right there.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um what am I looking at?

I think you might be looking at the minutes.

Okay.

September 30th.

Yeah, I got it.

Okay.

At the wrong one.

Um make a motion to approve the minutes from September 30th, 2025.

All those in favor.

Three three zero.

The next items we'll take, I guess, in uh sequence, the hotel motel auto rental tax and a quarterly financial report.

Yes, sir.

Thank you so much, Chairman.

Um the first item is the hotel motel.

The hotel collections um continue to fall below the um monthly collections um for prior years.

This is the lowest September that we've seen since um fiscal year 2022.

The fiscal year-to-date collections um uh are in line um with the budget, so we are above our budget, but it is lower than prior years.

So our budgeted we're budgeted at um year to date at 1.24 million um through period three, and our actual collections is 1.34 million, so we are above budget um year to date.

Taking a look at our 3% auto rental, our auto rental is again at its second lowest fiscal year to date um in the past four years.

The month of September totaled 93.6,000, while the fiscal year to date is 426,000.

Um the actual exceeded the budget by about 26,000 for um fiscal year to date.

Um the hotel motel collections fell just shy of their distribution requirements, but again, we are ahead year to date, so we have not had to um fall into our reserves and in order to meet our distribution requirements.

Moving ahead to our quarterly financial report, our financials look really good for Q1.

Um at the end of Q1, we are 20%, 21%, I'm sorry, of our fiscal year budget for our revenue, and that um equates to about 1.2 million ahead of last year's Q1.

And the primary areas for those increases include property taxes, insurance premiums, and intergovernmental transfers.

So those were um the most impactful areas for our revenue so far.

Um we are closing out period four, which is October, and the revenue drivers for Q2 will be our tax equity uh reimbursement or the SDS.

So that is coming in a little bit higher than we projected, and our property tax um deadline is also approaching, and so we are um anticip we are in line with our budget for that thus far, and so we'll have the deadline for that at the end of this week.

From an extended expenditure standpoint, our expenses and encumbrances are at 25 percent of the full year budget, which you would anticipate one-fourth of the way through the year.

Our operating services are ahead of schedule.

That's primarily because of the contractual maintenance.

Normally those um uh contracts are renewed on an annual basis, so that put our expenses a little bit higher in Q1, but it'll level out as we go out through the um the remainder of the year.

Um but collectively between the operating and the capital, we are on par yet a date.

Um if you take a look at the golf course fund, which is the last page of the packet.

The first quarter revenue is 35 percent of the budget, which is just two thousand thirty-two thousand short of last use last year's revenue to date.

Um, and the operating expenses are also 35 percent of the budget.

Although our revenues exceed our expenses, the profitability is down by 146,000, but that includes 25% of the um transfer of the general fund for an annual basis, and it also includes 161,000 of unbudgeted emergency facility improvements that we had to do, and that had to do with the pipes that we um put in for the um golf course.

So that was not included in the budget, but it was something that we had to make immediate repairs for this year.

So that's included in that overage.

And that concludes my um financial report, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Are there any questions?

Yes, sir.

Absolutely.

So my banks paid now.

Are there any areas that you are concerned or watching closer?

Um we are um hotel motel is um one that we're looking at, even though we made some adjustments for that from a budgetary standpoint.

Um we are looking at um areas related to discretionary income.

Um as the economy is changing, there's some um expense um routines that are altering, and so making sure that we're keeping a close eye on areas such as um parks and rec.

Um there may be, you know, people may if um their pocketbooks are tightening, they may not go to the call course as much or things like that.

Any area that has discretionary income, we're monitoring very closely as um economic conditions change.

Yeah, so I was at Cobb Tourism today.

I had that board meeting on the same day, and they said that across the board hotel motel is down.

And we already kind of sit low because when looking at all the hotel motel, our annual daily rate is lower than every other area in Cobb County except for I think it's Ostell Powder Springs.

We're just low.

Um, but everybody across the board was low, even Cumberland District, which has the you know the Waverly and all those people, they were even low.

Well, and I will say to piggyback off of that, our fees across the board tend to um tend to be um competitive if not even uh more so lower than most of the surrounding areas, and not just you know um a hotel fee, but um parks and rec.

Um uh pretty much any area you can think of, um business license, uh the whole nine yards, we tend to um provide the um best benefit to our um residents that we can by keeping our prices low.

Uh um and so we do work on a very tight budget, so anytime there are changes in the spending patterns, it does make a difference.

I I would also say the health insurance costs we are constantly monitoring.

Um we don't have as much control over that as we would like, but uh we definitely have to monitor it.

And this year we're actually balancing the budget by using our reserve on our health care uh cost.

We built that reserve up to a pretty good amount uh over time, but we're using that to balance there again, trying to not raise fees and taxes on individuals uh with how we do it.

So we'll be monitoring that as we go forward.

They did give us some good news this year and said that they thought some of our costs were gonna actually gonna go down.

Um so we're gonna hopefully see that by year end with what we're doing.

Is that Airbnb affected because they're not subject to the hotel motel tax?

No, they are.

They are now, yeah.

Yes, so they are um considered marketplaces.

Um if they are individuals, they are not, but if they are part of a marketplace and um advertising on the marketplace, they do pay into the hotel multilateral taxes.

Thank you.

It's just the ones that individually advertise uh and go out there and do it, that we don't have any ability to get them.

Uh but the ones that are on Airbnb and BBRO, um, they do an accounting and send that to us during the year.

I mean, the health of conference center is important to us.

We're talking about their rate, but do they have competitive room rates so they could get more for the ballroom and dinners and I've they make more money, I think once you get in the door.

They do, definitely, yes, sir.

And that's not subject to the fee.

No.

Um we we've looked at their room rates over time, and they have seemed to be competitive, and they they did go up a decent amount once they had the renovations, uh, but they were competitive with the other hotels of similar like.

We really don't have much that is uh of that caliber inside the city.

And that's to back to you the problem you were mentioning about the average daily room rate.

Yeah, our average daily rate, I think, sits right now at I think it was 58 for last month, and usually it's about 61.

But they're just it's just across the board everyone's low.

And when we already start out low, it just really did not have a good look this time.

So I was in a training class this week, specifically for Airbnb.

And it's interesting how everybody is geared up just like the city and everybody else in Metro Atlanta about uh World Cup.

And so in this training, and I guess it might be something for us to kind of look at or look into.

A lot of these guys are going to be charging 10 percent, 20 percent higher in fees for Airbnb.

So I I guess that's I bring it up to say that might be something that we need to monitor and kind of take a look at as well, uh, because those numbers would you know go up.

So we do anticipate getting um an increase um from the World Cup because of our proximity and um the hotels ability to um get additional income during that time and um and still stay competitive.

So we do anticipate that there will be some pickup there.

Um how much we don't know.

Um it is uh kind of a once and a hundred years type of a deal that we will have it um right here in Atlanta and um be able to have facilities that will be utilized during that time.

So we'll have to um monitor that, but that is something that we anticipate across the board that they're from a tourism standpoint that we would have pickup from.

And and dry day is December 5th.

And that's the day we'll find out which teams you're going where, which that's another impact depending on which team you get.

Definitely.

We've got another item that y'all probably have seen, but it's uh in one of the other committees where we're talking about money out of the tourism fund to try to promote Marietta and try to get more people in here during the World Cup uh to be able to take advantage of that.

If y'all remember when uh when the city built the uh conference center, now the Hilton, um that was right before night you know, before the 96 Olympics.

And uh the top two floors were actually uh reserved at that point by one of the Sultans uh that wanted to be here for the Olympics.

So we'll probably see some of that going on, like you're talking about with the individual residences and and also a lot of the hotels where you'll have folks coming in and staying a while.

And um, yeah.

He gave us a good weight room, didn't he?

Gave us a lot of stuff, yes, sir.

He left that and he left uh actual uh take it with the left all these advanced stereo systems in all the rooms too and just didn't take it, left it for us.

So thank you.

You need a motion to just to approve um I'm sorry, to um file.

Motion to receive and file.

Second.

The motion has been made to receive and file.

All those in favor, raise the right hand.

Passes 3-0.

Thanks.

The budget reconciliation.

Are you gonna do that?

We'll be up here for a minute, probably.

Um so yes, sir.

The next item is our annual budget reconciliation.

And um what it does is addresses um year-in items that um we have to um move around from a financial standpoint and to close out our books, and it addresses any areas um for salary savings, operating savings, additional equipment that we need to purchase for a general fund.

Um you may um remember that we are able to purchase our capital based off of what's left over from our budget.

Um so this year we were able to um work in 2.58 million dollars for our capital for our general fund.

And all of those items are listed in the increase in expenditure portion of it, um, along with other areas that we had um to make slight adjustments in order to um clean up for our year end.

And I will um be more than happy to answer any specific questions that you may have for any of the items.

Yeah, the the way we do the capital, that was a result of 08 uh when we had huge budget problems.

And then we reversed it instead of putting money in at the beginning of the year and saying we'll just go ahead and spend that on capital and hope that the budget goes well during the year.

So we're not in a jam with those commitments.

We hold that money until year end, budget year end, and then that way we know how we're doing, and we're able to go ahead and buy the capital at that point or hold back on capital if we find out that our revenues didn't come in as we anticipated.

Exactly.

Any questions on the motion, Mr.

Chair?

Yes.

Make a motion to approve.

Second.

Motion has been made and second.

All those in favor, raise the right hand.

Motion passes.

Is there no objection to consent?

No objection to consent.

No objection.

No objection.

No objection.

Got it.

Are you back?

I am.

So the next item on the agenda is the PR Harvest Festival donations.

Yes.

So the parks and recreation department were pleased to be able to accept donations that came in from the public in order to contribute to the Harvest Fest.

And they received multiple donations and total.

They had $2,000 worth of sponsorships.

And so what they would like to do is increase their budget and receive those donations in order to utilize those funds throughout the FY26 fiscal year.

So we would like to council to approve the amendment for the increase in funds to receive those sponsorships.

Motion to approve the amendment to receive the funds.

Second.

Motion is moved and seconded.

All those in favor, raise your right hand.

Motion passes.

All right.

Next on the agenda, we have Mary.

Consent objection.

Yes.

No objection.

The next item on agenda is the Marietta History Center budget amendment.

So yes, so this is another generous donation that the History Center received.

This is actually going to be an annual donation that was received by a donor, Mr.

Hadah.

And it is for the exhibit rentals that they have at the history museum, and then it's in the amount of $20,000.

And they would like to receive that donation and increase their budget for this fiscal year and be able to utilize that in their upcoming updates to their exhibits.

Good question.

Yes.

We're able to take in the uh donation with the restrictions on there and just it can only be used for the restricted uses, correct?

Yes, we are.

And uh the budget amendments I didn't see as part of the uh packet that'll be ready for the council meeting.

We would drop draw it up for the Monday meeting.

Yes, sir.

Those are my questions.

Make a motion to approve.

Second.

Motion has been made and second.

All those in favor.

Thank you.

Let's just say I said, are you sure you're done?

I have another item.

No objection to consent.

Any problems with consent on that?

No objection.

No objection.

All right.

There's no further items to come before the finance committee.

All right.

I call to order the that's so yeah.

Sorry.

I call to order the personal insurance committee.

First item or the meeting minutes of September 30th.

Johnny, it's just a motion to approve.

And I'm gonna second any comments, concerns, changes.

Hearing none, all in favor, so signify.

That carries 201.

Um the next item is the motion to approve the certified election results for the Civil Service Board Post 4 vacancy.

Um the clerk's office uh conducted this, uh, and so uh would like to go ahead and uh hand off if she wants to say anything, but if you don't, okay.

I'll be happy to.

No, it's okay.

Um, you know, we have uh election by uh different individual groups of the city.

This is for the uh civil service board of vacancy that you see post four that's elected by the public service public safety members of our departments, and so you have police and fire, and so there were two candidates that ran.

Um this uh shows that Don B.

Barth uh was the winning candidate and would be a term of three years effective, January of 26, January 1st, 26, and expiring December 31st of 28.

So you have two different items there.

One is the motion to certify the election results, and then the next one is to actually approve the appointment.

I'll make a motion to approve uh first certify.

Uh yeah, approved and certify the vote.

Second is this refers to a vacancy.

Is it vacant right at this moment for the remainder of the year?

Um, Mr.

Paul Southern, his term in December 31st.

And he is moving out of the city.

So he's on the but it's not it's filled right now.

Right, yes.

So this is just in January, yes.

It's really for later when you turn up for filling the vacancy.

It's kind of my point.

Right.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Yeah, okay.

It they come up for election every three years, and you exactly you have to run again.

If I was gonna suggest if there was a vacancy, go ahead and let him start serving, but there's no vacancy.

Yeah, okay.

Um see me ask a question of Doug.

Does this motion need to state it as right now?

It says to fill a vacancy.

I mean on that day it would be vacant that it becomes effective.

I would say um civil service board post four term ending, although it says when the term is in it, but it's not a vacancy.

It would be the term ending December.

Yeah, so I would just take it out, yeah.

Motion to amend to remove the word vacancy.

Second.

All right.

So we got a motion to amend to remove the word vacancy.

All in favor?

And that's two.

And now on the main motion, we've got a motion to approve the certified election results as amended.

Second.

All right.

Oh, wait, we already did that.

We have to vote.

So in favor?

All right.

So that's a two-o on the main motion.

No objection to consent.

No objection consent.

All right, consent.

All right.

So next is the civil service board post-4, and that is the actual appointment based on the election results.

Johnny, can I have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve the appointment of Donald B.

Barr to the Civil Service Board post-4.

All right, and I second that.

Any discussion?

Hearing none.

All in favor.

That's two.

Oh.

And is that good for consent?

No objection.

No objection.

All right.

The next item is a council appointment, and that's a consideration of the appointment to post three.

Um is this really confusingly written.

Um Mr.

Tarvin's term expires, but he is looking to still serve.

Yes, he would have to be reappoint it.

Um so I'm gonna make a motion to reappoint Mr.

Tarvin for the next term beginning on January 1st, 2026 until December 31st, 2028.

I'll second your motion.

And Doug, that's fine.

Second, this is okay.

Any discussion, comments, concerns?

Hearing none, all in favor, so signify.

And that's a 2-0.

Is that good for consent?

No objection, no problem.

All right, consent.

Um, the next item is just a discussion item.

Um I don't know that we've received any um names or we have not at this point.

No, we've not received any interest at this point from any particular individual.

Okay.

And this was just a discussion item, so no vote is necessary.

Just keep looking, guys.

We've got a position we need to get filled.

The next item is funding for the police co-responder program.

Good evening.

Yep.

This item is a request for funding for the police department's co-responder program.

The police department's co-responder program operated in partnership with Highland Rivers.

It's currently funded with our ORPA funds, and it's set to expire December 31st of this year.

So staff is recommending the use of our opioid settlement funds to continue this program through 2026.

Yes.

Yes.

I think I would ask this back when we approved this part of the ARPA.

With the way the program is going, I'm going to guess that this is eventually want to become a permanent program, correct?

Assuming that it remains effective, yes, sir, that would be the recommendation.

Okay.

This is another one-time fund.

So again, the settlement funds.

This is something we only got one time.

We're not going to consistently get it probably.

If that is if it's going if it's an effective program and stuff, I would suggest that come next year.

We are seriously looking for a permanent source of funding rather than these one-time sources.

Okay.

So just please I'd ask that that be looked into as part of this.

Okay.

Sure, absolutely.

I will say this, I was glad that it was suggested that it come out of the opioid opioid, I think say it right, opioid settlement funds, because uh that is a large amount of money that we need to use for things like this that we can't really dedicate to all of our normal operations.

It has to go to drug dependency and other issues like that.

And that's one of the things that this team of two individuals does.

Okay.

Of course.

So how much is it?

All of the opioids, what was 50,000 or much is the program itself runs about $8,900 per month.

Um and the fund is well over that amount.

We got hundreds of thousands of dollars in that fund.

Oh, yeah.

And then this is just this would be somewhere around the 100,000 dollar mark from the year.

I think we've got additional money that's coming in to that fund.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Uh any other comments, concerns, questions?

Right.

Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to approve utilizing the opioid settlement funds.

And I'll second that.

Having already been discussed, all in favor.

And that's 2-0.

Um, budget-wise, we supplement the general budget.

Should we amend the budget and then show this as income to the general fund?

We would need to do that, yes, sir.

And that we'd have to prepare that for y'all for Monday.

So that you would have it.

Because it would.

It could it would go into the police budget.

Um then they expend it, which makes it budget.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um, since that's gonna have to happen.

Uh not on consent.

Not on consent.

All right.

Uh the next item, thank you, Ms.

Register.

Next item is the code amendment related to fire scheduling change.

Good evening, uh, Madam Chair, and thank you.

Uh, we are here to present this evening a potential change within the fire department with our suppression team.

Something that we've been working on for quite some time and that we're quite excited about.

Uh, with Ms.

Evening is one of our assistant chiefs, one of our shift commanders, Brian Rillidge, and he's gonna go through the details uh of everything and talk to you about the schedule change.

Good evening.

I appreciate this opportunity to uh speak on behalf of uh the members of our department in the situation.

So uh currently our department operates on the 2448 schedule.

What that means is we work for 24 hours and then we're off for 48 hours.

It's just a repeating uh three-day cycle.

Over the past several years, our personnel have expressed an interest to explore uh alternative schedules that uh better support our physical and mental wellness, um, our family time, and creates a little more sustainability for our department moving forward in the modern fire service.

After reviewing several modern uh fire service scheduling models, um our department identified an alternative structure currently used by departments such as Portland, uh Charleston, uh Banks County, um a lot of departments across the United States that use this model.

Uh this model has been proven to uh provide several key benefits to personnel.

Uh first and foremost is an improved rest and recovery.

Uh it provides um well, let me step back.

I'm using some different notes than I put together.

Um with this schedule, we'll move from a 2448 to what we call a 1323.

What that is is we'll work for 24 hours, we'll be off for 72 hours, we'll work for 48 hours, and then we're off for 72 hours again.

That 72 hours is key and really providing enough time to recover from a shift at work.

Some of these benefits uh um with that improved rest and recovery.

Our firefighters really faced high call volumes and disrupt disruptive sleep patterns.

Uh that additional third day off really provides critical recovery time, uh, reducing our fatigue and burnout while uh supporting uh sound decision making the next time they come back to work.

I mean it enhances work life balance.

Uh the schedule provides full weekends.

Uh currently we work a Friday.

We actually work 16 hours on Friday and eight hours on Saturday.

Um so by having those three days in a row off, we have full weekends to spend with our families, small trips, things like that.

Uh we'll wake up at home 42 more times a year.

Uh, those mornings at home with our kids uh with our family are are more important than getting home after they're already gone to school at times.

Um we have fewer commutes to work.

Um currently we commute into work uh 10 times a month, which doesn't seem like that much to somebody who works uh Monday through Friday.

Uh but we'll reduce that down to six and a half times uh per month, which obviously that reduces uh fuel load uh work maintenance on our vehicles, as well as just sitting in traffic and having to deal with with the stress of of that, as we all know.

Uh retention and commute uh recruitment.

Um this really puts us in the forefront as a forward-thinking uh employee-centered department, um, something that uh will attract um uh high-level employees and also retain the ones that we already have or some going somewhere else.

And then probably the most important thing is it's cost neutral uh in the annually.

We'll work the same number of hours that we currently do, it's just divided up a little bit different.

Um so how that process looked is um once we identified the schedule that we liked.

Uh we put out a survey to our department, and we had 100% uh participation in the survey.

Uh 90% of the department voted yes that they wanted to move um to this schedule.

Uh once this overwhelming support was obtained, uh we made the decision, at least the leadership within the department to just to move forward and start making those steps.

Uh, we reached out to other departments uh getting policies, how they did things under the new schedule.

Uh once we obtained that, we developed our own policies and marrying up ours with theirs and what would work best operationally for our department.

We then reached out to uh finance.

Um this transition, which is why we're here today, uh requires a movement of a from a 21-day cycle to a 28-day cycle.

Uh finance was really awesome and able to work out those calculations as far as um how we're paid weekly within a new cycle.

Um they're ready to go.

Obviously, we're ready to go.

Um so to implement this proposed schedule, um, a change in city code is required.

Uh, currently, our employees under a 21-day cycle as authorized by the Fair Labor Uh Standard Act.

Um this act allows us to work anywhere from seven to twenty-eight days as far as a pay cycle goes.

Um, the current code, uh, firefighters earn overtime hours work in excess of 159 hours and 21 days.

So that's where we're at now.

We're on the 21-day cycle.

Uh, once we get above 159 hours, we earn time and a half.

Uh to accommodate the new schedule, City Code must be amended to establish a 28-day work cycle.

Um, with that new work cycle, that same time and a half compensation will happen over 212 hours.

Um, the uh the code amendment uh as we supplied would be to just change that wording from uh 21 days and 159 hours.

All that does is get replaced with 28 days and 212 hours.

Uh this proposed amendment aligns city code with FLSA provisions and supports our implementation of the new schedule.

Uh this language also has been approved by the city attorney.

Um, so it's all um ready to go.

Um, in summary, uh this proposal really represents an important step forward for our department.

Um it's a proven cost neutral model.

Um it enhances our firefighters' mental and physical wellness and supports their work life balance with their families at home.

It really also uh strengthens our ability to not only recruit um firefighters in the metro area and beyond, um, but also retain our firefighters that are maybe looking for a uh a schedule that more fits their work life balance button.

Uh with council's approval of the code amendment, we can move forward uh to a more sustainable and healthy work model for our personnel, um ensuring obviously excellent excellence and service to our community.

So will you all implement this or move it start?

So our targeted date is January 4th.

Um we have a backup date in case that doesn't work, but that is our targeted date.

Just out of curiosity about being on call or is this a thick all of you on call or just a certain amount at a certain time?

Uh this new schedule change just uh affects everybody who is on suppression level, so the ones that work on the fire trucks and and responding to 911 calls every day.

Thank you.

Any other oh go ahead.

And if I did my calculations correct, it's going to basically kind of go an A B C team is still three different cycles basically, where A's on like A's on one, B's on two, C's on one, then A's on two, B's on one, C is on two, basically.

So that covers the entire nine-day cycle.

It's gonna take me a while to figure it out.

But yeah, I believe that's correct.

Yeah, we still maintain the same three shifts.

Um same personnel, nobody moves between shifts or anything like that.

All that happens is January 4th uh comes around, and um one shift to work one day, another shift works two days.

The third shift works one day, and then just starts this like crazy rotation.

Um it's took me 22 years to learn my current schedule, so it's gonna take me a little bit of time to learn the new one.

And that's what I got just trying to jot it down.

You need to know when you work, just call Jess if he'll tell you.

He'll have it figured out before we will, yeah.

Any other questions, comments, concerns?

And Doug, this language is good for what we need.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Johnny, you want to make the amendment?

I'll make a motion uh to move this forward to the agenda work session, the change in the current code language regarding compensation policies and procedures related to the scheduling at the fire department.

Um not all the way to council.

Yeah, we could just skip to council just make it the same.

I'll sec I'll second go into council.

Um we show it as a first reading and we could discuss.

Is this required to?

It does.

It would require two.

So we'll show it as one and we'll wait the second one when we do it.

But I think we have to show it as a first ready on the agenda.

Correct.

Yeah, if if amenable, we would appreciate uh waiving of the second that will just help us get it done.

Get it get this across the finish line.

We're pretty much locked and loaded, but there's a few other things we just need to finalize once it's approved.

Who makes the coffee in the morning?

Yeah, absolutely.

We've got a we've got a motion to approve this to council.

All in favor.

Passes 3-0 on consent.

Yeah, on consent.

First reading.

First reading.

First reading on consent.

Um we can't do that.

Yeah, we can require hearing.

And then we can make another motion possibly later.

Correct.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

All right.

Having nothing else coming before personnel insurance, we stand adjourned.

All righty.

Um I call to order the parks, recreation, and tourism committee.

Uh, first order businesses to approve um minutes from September 30th.

Do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve the September 30th meeting minutes.

Correct.

Thank you.

Okay, it's been uh moved and property second.

Second it, uh, all in favor?

Motion passes 3-0.

Thank you.

Uh first up is gonna be the parks bond report.

Rich.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh we'll start off with our interest uh that we earned uh this past month as we usually do $76.74 to add to our parks pond balance.

Um as I've been pointing out for the last few months, we've anticipated a little bit of overrun on Wildwood Park.

So that's noted here.

Um $33,746 and 82 cents.

Um it was about 2.1 percent of the budget that you had given us for that particular project.

And uh I'm happy to say that my recollection, it's the first project that we've done since we started in 2010 that exceeded our estimated cost that we brought to you.

So this one had to do with some uh building of some additional stairs at Wildwood because we redesigned the course from our you know our concept and then also we did quite a bit of additional uh camera work as well out there just for security.

So um I have a separate item right after this for you to approve the unallocated balance moving to cover that, but uh just a description on that.

And so once we get all that done, we'll have uh $75,000 still that's unallocated to move to additional projects, and we can discuss that on the next item as well.

Uh as far as Thurry Siminski Park goes, uh as I indicated before, we were kind of waiting uh for uh some water quality uh and stormwater structures to arrive.

We anticipated that to be October 30th, and we did get it confront confirmation today that we are expecting it Thursday.

Umce that gets in, uh the contractor will actually come back on site on Monday, November 3rd.

He'll do the installation of that structure.

He'll be able to do all the additional drainage work that needs to tie into that, and then we can start with uh other flat work and concrete work that we need to do as we uh and final grading is and finished grading as we wait on the restroom building and the playground to arrive.

Um Stephanie's got a couple pictures, I think, if your updates are still waiting on those, Stephanie.

Can't you get to them?

Okay.

Uh this is the park as it exists right now.

Um at the very top of the picture, you see sidewalk coming down.

That's East Dixie.

So we have all the sidewalk uh poured along the park uh property on East Dixie, and that transition and ramping that comes down into the park itself.

So this is work that's outside of the other major construction that was done and that they were able to accomplish while the weather was good.

Unfortunately, we did miss some good weather here the last few weeks.

But um you can see that they did the concrete there, they've done a good bit of the uh sidewalk also along uh West Dixie as well.

We couldn't do all of that because we need room for the trucks to get in for playground restroom and the other things, so that will come a little bit later.

Um kind of in the middle, you see uh some rock laying there and some orange fence.

Yeah, thank you, Stephanie.

And that's where we have uh some drainage that ties in from the stream bank, so it comes underneath uh the sidewalk just above that.

The stream is open to that point, then pipe to there.

That's where we did all the French drain work to take care of our property.

So you can think of a spider web going out from that rock.

We have five different uh French drain pipes that come out and then lead into that uh dog house, so to speak, and from there flows out of the park.

Um go to the next one, Stephanie.

Uh well too too quick.

There we go.

Uh so this is just to kind of show you what it'll look like when we get finished off.

You can see where we're gonna put the uh restroom building, the playground, and the pavilion.

And then the brown kind of indicates how the uh walking trail will be done when uh we get to be able to complete that.

Um so they'll be able to do some of that flat work after they get this uh crystal stream structure in, which is kind of in that other gray area just down near the the uh sidewalk uh to the left of the yellow.

Um then uh that will done, and then we just want to show our hard working crew that's been out there.

Uh they did such a great job that um one our neighbors above us there in that photo on the other side, one of which is a city employee actually employed them to clean out Kudzu on their side of the property, and then uh hedges uh subdivision did the same over on theirs, and they hired them to clean theirs out as well.

So it only took them a little over a week to do all of our stuff and all of the other properties at the same time.

So it might be a good business to get into, but uh they do good job.

Uh so that's kind of where we are with West Dixie Park.

We should be ramped back up, weather providing on Monday.

That tan looks like he ate a lot.

He looks kind of healthy.

There's definitely some leaders out there for sure.

So we'll oh Kenneth please.

Yes, ma'am.

So I saw that we were able to get um just a percentage of of all the the trash and stuff that's been dumped there.

Are we getting that all completely cleared out?

Yes, we have.

In fact, this hill right here, you can see a tire in the picture there.

We found bed frames, we found tires, we found a lot of stuff.

So my crews went in and actually cleaned all that out.

And then uh this past weekend, they actually worked one additional day.

We had a lot of soil brought in on site.

So that area was obliterated of all the vegetation by the goats.

Uh we came in and kind of cleared it with some equipment uh to not get too deep and penetrate uh root zones, but to scrape that off.

And then we brought in some soil that we actually got from the uh new fire state um 56 up there, hauled it into this site, so that's all smooth and clean right now.

And then the guys uh seated it and strawed it yesterday so we can get some vegetation growing back there.

Outstanding, thank you.

Those things noisy at night.

No, no, no, they're just pretty happy.

If you only keep one, it'll be noisy.

They they don't like to be alone.

As I can attest to as a child when my grandmother decided she would give my mother one.

Help clean her garden out.

And she brought one and it just bleeded for days, and uh we learned that they have to have a partner.

So it went back to its partner.

We did not bring a partner in.

All right.

Any other questions for uh Rich?

Okay.

Move on to the recreation facilities quarterly report.

Okay, was that the next one?

Um is the rebalancing?

Rebalancing.

Yeah.

Allocation of the allocation of the uh 2009 Parks Bond projects funds to balance project budget.

Yeah.

So this goes back to the comment I was just making about the over spending uh expenditure over budget that had been approved for Wildwood Park.

And all this is is a motion to approve allocating previously undesignated parks bond funds toward Wildwood Park, thereby increasing that budget, and it's just really a a paper maneuver.

It doesn't require a budget amendment, it's just internal bookkeeping in order to do that.

So we recommend you uh approve a motion um allocating the $33,746.

From the committee, do we have any questions, additional questions or anything?

We're good.

I make that motion.

Okay.

Motion passes 3 0.

Thank you, guys.

Consent.

Yeah.

Perfect.

All right.

Next up is going to be now the recreation facilities quarterly report.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

I just would bring your attention to the last pages with the tables on them.

That's probably the easiest way to look at this than uh do all that.

You can see that um as far as Custer Spark Park Sports and Fitness Center.

Um we had a little bit higher number of participants.

Uh revenue was down just slightly.

It just depends on which programs the kids are and the people are signing up for in terms of more expensive, less expensive.

Um it did show 69 at the youth camps.

That's misleading.

Uh the month of July and with our fall camp, there's really 190 some people that were there participating.

Some of them are duplicate.

They come more than one week in the summer.

What this report really reflects is what who paid in that first quarter.

So we take 40 some, 40 roughly in the uh camp, so you had 40, and then you had another 29 that might have paid for a July attendance in July.

A lot of them pre-pay uh for the summer camp.

So of that 190 participants, a lot of it was paid for in May or June when they sign up.

So uh that's not to indicate that's all we had there.

We had 40 some every week.

Uh let's see.

Um as far as uh Elizabeth Porter uh playground goes.

You can see we had over 2200 more attendees in July, August, September until we closed than we did in the prior summer.

Uh obviously the dry weather that we had uh certainly contributed to that, and uh and warm weather as well.

So we had about 70, a little over 7200 dollars more revenue.

And then as far as Franklin Gateway goes, um you can see our participants in attendance are way up.

You'll notice that revenue looks smaller, and this goes back to the comments Eric's been making in other months where we had some people with past due balances and we were in collection of people to pay.

So in that same quarter last year, we had close to $30,000 that we had collected for some people that owed us some money.

So that's where the difference in the revenue is.

Um as far as uh total uses, I believe I think the memo says we were within 50 hours of the same amount of rental time as we had last year there.

So it's a that that number is not a number of concern right now.

It's just the way the accounting worked and uh where the money was collected.

Um questions on those?

Okay.

And then just there on your memo on the second page of the memo just talks about some of the uh program highlights that we have.

Our youth basketball league is geared up to go.

We have uh about 20 some fewer participants than we had last year.

Um we've talked to our neighbors.

I know uh we call Kennesaw, they had a hundred fewer than uh what they did last year.

I think there's just other opportunities, more kids playing AAU, church programs that are you know having their own programs that they didn't used to have in the past.

Uh we have a wait list of a few kids, but we actually have eight fewer coaches than last year.

We've had a little trouble getting coaches, so um, but we uh hold our team rosters to 10 so that they all get their prescribed amount of playing time.

Um so if we can get you know one more team, we will if we can get another coach.

Um we've had our events.

Uh next big event that'll be coming up will be the Trish Christmas tree lighting um December 4th and 4 to 8 p.m.

And we'll have our annual ugly sweater parade again this year, which has been growing each year.

So hopefully that will continue to grow this year, and they march from down here uh at the fire station area up to City Hall just prior to the tree lighting ceremony.

All right.

Questions?

What do you what do you like you said?

You if you had an expert team and you you'd have to find an extra coach.

Where do you go to find these coaches?

Just well, you know, we we put it out, and uh a lot of times you're just trying to recruit them from parents that are of kids that are registered, uh to be quite honest with you.

That's where most of them are gonna come from.

In the past, we've had coaches that had kids go through the program and they continue to coach there like Mr.

Rutin in the soccer league.

You know, they they love to do it and they stay out there, and uh some of those have now uh not continued.

But we had uh I know coaches that when mine was this tall that was coaching and he coached up till three years ago, and he didn't have a I think his kids were on the program when he started coaching mine.

So some of those stay dedicated and do that, but most of them are parents.

Any other questions?

I have a question.

It's do we still have funds for the skate park?

Uh is uh where is that?

There's money in the uh SPOSS fund for the skate park, yeah.

There's money uh that in the city allocation and there's money that the county allocates toward us, but we have to agree to build it in order to get their money.

And we don't have a location, is that uh uh no that's been bandered about and we just haven't settled on one.

So uh I've been seeing some parents bringing their kids to the square and just with their skateboards and just dropping them off on the square.

And uh I'd hate to see somebody get hurt, not the that would prevent it, but uh just think about and that that's where most of them come when I talk to kids that are up there, they don't even live in the city.

They've ridden there with their parents who've come in to do business or have somebody eat and they drop their kids off.

I'm uh I can say that probably 95% of the skateboarders I talked to in the square don't live in the city limits.

Yeah, so it's got a nice one.

Yeah, but it's got a nice one.

Yeah, they do powder springs does as well.

They have a very nice one.

Um, before the next item, I do have a disclosure.

Okay.

Um any other questions for Rich.

All right, Rich, we're good.

Alrighty, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Um allocation of tourism funds.

Um just gonna disclose all the disclosures are listed on page two of the agenda also apply to item 2025 allocation of tourism funds.

Okay.

All right, thank you, sir.

Um next up is gonna be uh our allocation of tourism funds.

Um I'll be handling that one.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, we uh we talked about this previously that we've got two uh very large events going on this coming year in 26, uh, one of them being the 250th anniversary of the country.

And uh that's being celebrated all across the United States, and we would be doing things here also uh and trying to get uh visitors to come in and see the things that we have and talk about the history that we have.

Um also though, we also have the World Cup, which we talked about a little bit earlier, which is gonna be one of the largest events that Atlanta Metro has ever had.

Uh we've got eight different games that will be taking place over about a month and a half.

Uh we will have one of the teams headquartered at our site on Franklin Gateway with Atlanta United, and they will be here for as long as they continue to win.

Uh and then if they uh end up losing, uh, then they'll have some other teams that would be coming in and using uh the site for two or three days before they played their game in the bends and doing that.

Uh but there will be a lot of things going on uh throughout the metro.

Uh there is an organization that has been formed uh through the state to try to encourage activities all in in the Atlanta area uh for that time period.

Uh we've met with uh various folks within the city.

We've got a lot of different resources, uh, everything from uh visit Marietta in the Welcome Center to our history museum, History Center, uh, the art museum, uh a lot of different things that we have here, plus a lot of organizations that focus in on history and also the ones that focus in on sport.

And so what we're planning to do is the same thing that we did for the city's 175th anniversary year, and also what we did for the commemoration of the Civil War.

And so we would have two different committees that would be operating and they would be planning events associated with those two time periods, and they would be coming that each of those committees with the need resources, need money in order to market, uh, but also to put forward events uh that would bring in individuals and spend money in our city.

So uh what we were asking, instead of uh having two different funds and two different asks, um, we were gonna request that we have just one amount of money uh that would be put in the fund and we'd allocate it accordingly to two the two.

Uh but that would be 175,000 from the existing reserve that we have.

Now the reserve itself is a million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and as y'all are aware, we've got to spend that uh fairly soon uh with different projects uh because of the carryover issue.

So what we would request is that council, as you can see at that uh recommendation, uh request to appropriate funds in the amount of 175,000 from existing tourism reserve funds to support the marketing promotion and events related to Marietta's celebration of the United States uh 250th and FIFA World Cup 26 and authorizing the city manager direct such funds for those purposes.

In the event that all this appropriation is not spent, the remaining dollars would go back into the tourism reserve with that.

But our terrorism Yes, sir.

For you to allocate again.

If we're gonna have to come up to come back to you on the rest of it, or the rest of the money.

We're gonna have to do that fairly soon, I would imagine, uh first of the year.

So one of the teams is using our facilities or any any of the organizations booked our conference center yet, or well, the the problem is it was mentioned by the council member earlier, uh nobody knows where they're gonna be yet.

Um so the first week of December, they're actually gonna have a draw where they'll select which teams are gonna be playing in which cities.

And so once they do that, then everybody's gonna be scurrying to uh reserve hotel rooms and uh book uh meeting sites and practice sites, all the rest.

Now they have uh FIFA's gone through and allowed uh different teams to go in and view different locations.

Uh so we've had a lot of teams that have looked at Franklin Gateway with Atlanta United and have seen what they would be able to provide.

Uh and so uh it may be one of those teams, you never know.

But I will say that um it there are different facilities all over the United States that people could use that are nearby the different uh sites that they'll be playing, and ours is ranked up at the absolute top level as far as Atlanta United site with the um facilities that they have.

So I think basically that the teams have to, the countries have to pay for those locations.

So uh I would imagine that there would be a very large team as far as large country that would probably end up here doing their training here, and they would move their whole organization.

So uh it wouldn't just be the players, it'd be all the trainers, it would be all the coaches, it'd be all the back room staff that support the team, they'd all move.

And it'll be it'll be awesome for the city, you know, because of Atlanta United's facilities, they'll be using those to kind of practice and all of that, right?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, they'll be doing that.

And uh we did talk with Atlanta United about the possibility of doing a joint event during this time period that would promote soccer and uh talk about uh all the national teams that we have, but also you know talk about their team too, and they seem very excited about that.

So we've got a tentative weekend that we've planned uh to do that, but we need to see what the schedule is once that's done the first part of December.

Uh and we're we're looking at the possibility of a viewing party also that would be on the square.

Um and there are two dates that have multiple games going on on those days.

Um we would have to pay for the rights through FIFA to be able to do that, but uh we might be able to work that out and have some kind of soccer festival um with that uh to hopefully bring in some of the individuals that are in town, and also individuals that are just in the metro that would come by.

It's a big event.

I mean, people are talking about it and getting fired up and talking about friends that live in France, and some of my guys I'm talking to is they're fired up.

So it's gonna be great for the city.

So um any other questions?

They just look at those through uh drones, right?

The other teams when they look at our facilities.

Um they actually sent people here.

Oh, really?

They've actually sent delegations to come uh take a look at at the facilities of what they have internal, and from uh what everybody knows.

I mean, Atlantic United went out and spent another 25 million on their building and added a whole nother wing to their building and did some other improvements at the site.

Uh and they wanted to get that done before the World Cup uh because they would be uh having some of that a new addition would be used by uh the club that would be coming in or the clubs that would be coming in for that.

It was amazing.

I mean, it's it's not only a facility, it's medical, and it's also got a great it looks like an MBC studio.

They do have a really advanced studio in there now.

They put in the best of the best.

Yeah, and that there again, that would be used by the country, whoever has the team there, all of their media will be coming in too, and so then they would be able to use that studio to broadcast back to whatever country they're from.

Wow.

All right, so um, do we have a motion?

Yeah, I'll make a motion.

I'd like to uh make a motion to allocate 175,000 dollars from the tourism funds to support activities and marketed marketing associated with the upcoming World Cup and the nation's 250th birthday.

Second okay.

Uh it's been moved to property second.

All in favor, there's your hand.

Motion passes 30.

Um objections.

No objection to consent.

Thank you.

All right.

Um next up is um the NAACP.

Um, as you guys know, I sit down and talk to you know, pretty much everybody that is asking for funds, and um we had a conversation with uh the NAACP and based on their projections for next year.

Um I mean, everything is just more expensive.

So what they're asking for is an additional 20,000 dollars uh one time that um would help them to you know kind of take care of all those additional fees and everything else that's coming in front of them.

So I wanted to bring that to uh council and if there's any discussion or anything, um let's uh talk about it.

But that's what the request is.

Well, what do we give them?

What do we give them about 20,000 at the beginning?

What was it?

25.

25.

They want additional 20.

Yes.

This is just for marketing and please to hold on to the absolute.

That's uh and and the key is every time I'm speaking to everybody, I'm letting them know that this is a one-time thing, right?

Um so um, yeah, that everything has gone up.

I mean, I think believe you.

I think how we're doing this, it's working out.

You know, people are coming back to us for a second time, you know, because we've realized they crunch their numbers and see that you know they're gonna need a little more help.

Exactly.

Yeah, Carl?

I have a question for Doug.

I'm a member of the NAACP, so uh I need to disclose that.

If you want to disclose it to Ms.

Guy, you can, but it would not prohibit you from voting.

Yeah.

We done it for three others.

I think it'd be a good deal.

Yeah.

And they, you know, they they put on a a good show in the bring a lot of people to the absolutely.

Yeah.

So um plus we have the money, that makes it even me.

Yeah, it hasn't hurt them, has it?

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't do any good in the bike.

It should go to him.

Absolutely.

Promote our city and organizations.

I'll make a motion to approve the granting them 20,000 extra dollars out of the tourism fund.

I second.

It's been moved and properly second.

All in favor.

Motion passes 3-0.

Thank you.

And I and consent's good.

That's good.

That's good.

Okay.

Thank you.

And asked the proverbial question.

One shot or spread out over the contract.

Here lately we've been doing it as one for the one the two that you've already approved.

So we could do the same thing.

What goes with this past motion is going to pay us.

Okay.

Okay.

Is that good?

Yeah.

A lot of budget amendments.

All right.

That um concludes our parks and tourism recreation uh committee.

All right.

I call to order the judicial legislative committee.

First item of business is the meeting minutes of September 30th.

Make a motion to approve.

Second.

Got a motion and second.

Any changes, comments, concerns?

Hearing none.

All in favor, so signify.

It passes three.

Oh, thank you.

All right.

So the next item up is the public gathering expression ordinance.

And I would like to make a motion initially, you know, we can go discuss after that.

My motion would be that this is tabled and that this document is and that we hire a constitutional law attorney or firm to draft this agreement, this ordinance, as opposed to kind of what we're doing is taking Franklin, Tennessee, and trying to manipulate it.

I've spoken to Doug about this already, but I think this needs to go back to the drawing board, the whole thing to look at it, and we do it with a firm that specializes or main focus is constitutional law.

So that's my motion.

I second it.

This is a discussion and addendum.

We're not expression, is that what we're after is volume.

Yeah.

We want to make sure it's there are several things in this, and I know that we're trying to figure out the right sizing, but I personally don't feel like five is the size.

Um, you know the seven of us go stand on a corner and wave at people and we'd have to get a permit.

Um I I just don't think that we're at the right size.

I'm not sure that we want the word expression, because we're not trying to limit or censor expression.

And so just a couple of things about this.

I feel like we need to have somebody who does this kind of law take a look and look at Georgia Law and Mary Ata.

I'm good with that.

Yeah, I agree with that.

Is there a lawyers like that in Atlanta?

Oh yeah.

Yeah, and you'll take your retainer.

Yeah, they there are people just sitting around waiting for us to call.

Yeah, and I know I know I've heard from some people as well.

They're talking they were concerned about the number and some other stuff too with this ordinance I've already heard from as well.

Yeah.

All right.

So the motion is that we're gonna table this and we're gonna find a constitutional law attorney or end or firm to handle this as opposed to us doing it ourselves.

All in favor from the committee.

So signify one, two, three, that's three-o.

And tabling on consent.

No objection.

No objection because it's a test.

Oh, we don't have to do anything else.

Okay, well, we're we're done.

This is tabled.

Well, it's tabled.

It's a weird thing because it's also higher, it's also asking to hire a firm though, and that does.

I think that does require the motion to go to the code.

On consent, then consent to everybody.

Okay.

All right.

Next item.

Alcohol code section revision.

Um take a I can't even see what that's I'm sorry.

I'm you know, the timeline is literally going to be the city manager, the city manager will have to take a look at finding a firm, and then from there we'll work with that firm.

So definitely nothing quickly.

Um, but just as with all the all of the things around this, when it comes back, it will be apparent when it comes back.

Okay.

So we got a little while, but we need to take a real look at it.

And thank you for all the people who came because I know a lot of people are here for this.

So thank you.

Okay, so our next item is the alcohol code section revision.

Thank you, Councilwoman Richardson.

So this is to just give a little bit of um background.

Last year in June, we um visited this code and um made some revisions implementing the ancillary wine and uh as well as the malt beverage consumption on premise.

And that was at the request or behest of one of the um businesses on the square.

Um at that time, um the provisions for the code section um stated that they had to have 80 percent of their gross sales derived from either wine or malt beverage in order um they they are packaged location, but in order to um qualify the for the consumption on premise, they had to either be um 80 percent wine or 80 percent um malt beverage um in order to get the ancillary portion added to it.

At this time, um we had an additional um business that is coming um to Marietta um last month, they um commented at the um council meeting, or earlier this month they commented at the um council meeting.

And um as a request um and through with uh council woman's uh Richardson's permission, we have gone in and did um some revisions taking look at um other cities um and the county um and how they are implementing the code.

The request was to be able to not only if you are a um wine package location um with an ancillary wine consumption on premise, not only to be able to do um wine, but also to be able to do malt beverage and vice versa.

So what we have done is take a look at some of our um neighboring cities, how they um and I have um provided examples of the code sections um for those um jurisdictions as in included in the packet.

But what we uh staff is recommending is that um we do a slight adjustment to the code section um is the verbiage that would allow for both malt beverage um consumption on premise if uh ancillary malt beverage, ancillary malt beverage consumption on premise if you are a packaged um beer location, and you would have to purchase an additional ancillary wine consumption on premise in order to be able to um do both.

You will still have to meet the 80 percent one or the other.

Um that would um be your gross annual sales that would have to comprise that 80 percent, but it would allow you to have consumption on premise for both um either um wine or malt beverage.

You cannot do liquor in either instance.

And so the code revisions um are included as well as the examples.

We also um there is a um as part of the code change, there is a pricing that is included in that code section.

We um opted to take that out because um as part of the changes last year, we moved all of our pricing aspects to our um uh fee chart on our um and and removed it out of the code.

So we just wanted to make that consistent with the rest of the code sections.

Okay.

All right, uh Councilman Goldstein.

Just on the uh first on the pricing.

Yes, sir.

Um with regard to the other the fees and whatnot for the license, do we still need to at least make a reference to the fee chart um as part of the code?

Um uh saying that the fee that there is still a fee is just listed in the fee chart instead.

We can include that, yes.

That's not a problem.

Um I can add that in um where the section is omitted, I can say um please see uh a reference the fee chart there.

Okay, that's why.

Yeah, because uh otherwise I don't want people thinking it's just uh a permit that can get it without having to do anything on that because I know there's staff time that goes into processing these.

Certainly.

Um the uh the wine and malt beverages, and this is going to be kind of an interpretation question, uh Doug.

Um the uh with this change of saying that it has to sell malt beverages and wine or wine and malt beverages.

Does that mean that if they sold just wine they could meet the thing or just malt beverages they can meet the thing, or do they have to sell both and that make up the 80 percent?

Or should this be an and or?

I think either would be correct, or they have to sell do both.

So we left the verbiage and that requires them to be a single line um uh to make up the 80 percent.

So you would have to do what in order for wine, you would have to do um 80 percent of your sales would be wine.

Um as um a package store, and you could do um consumption on premise for wine and beer, or vice versa.

If you do 80 percent of the beer, you can have ancillary malt beverage as well as an ancillary wine, but you do have to choose a um pathway, either 80 percent wine or 80 percent malt beverage is the way that it's listed currently.

Does the intent match the language, I guess?

That's my question.

Right now I could read that fairly restrictively, is it's it means it means that you have to sell both wine and malt, and that and those two combined make eighty percent.

But if you sold just wine for 80 percent, you couldn't get it, sold just malt for 20 percent you couldn't get it.

Which seems to be what the intent was.

So would you eliminate and and put a slash no?

It's uh kind of becomes an either-or kind of deal.

Either you say it's constant 8% or more gross revenues.

Okay, okay, on premises to sell it.

Yeah, see, I don't have to have that problem.

The holder of a retail package license for wine whose sales from such constitutes 80 percent or more of the gross revenue.

That's maybe there should be some commons or something, shall be eligible for an ancillary wine consumption on premise to sell wine and malt beverages by the glass.

Okay, so that's how it's reading.

Sorry.

So maybe there's like so it's just in this actually guess isn't an ancillary wine consumption on premise license, then it's technically an ancillary wine and malt beverage consumption on uh on the wine package retail premise, and then the other one is instead of an ancillary malt beverage, it's an ancillary wine and malt beverage consumption on a malt beverage package consumption is what it's turning into.

Yes.

So it doesn't fully match the titles or anything at this point.

It's okay with the titles too.

Uh Anthony wine consumption on premises, but that only covers for wine wine people.

I see what you're saying.

So the titles don't match what they're trying to do.

So uh the language matches the titles, don't might need to at some point change the title to match up since this is dealing with basically they're both anti-say wine and malt beverage uh consumption licenses, but it's for on different types of premises.

One being the wine premises, one being the malt premises.

Does that make sense?

So I guess I'd like to defer to Doug and see what.

What are your thoughts?

Let Ms.

Brown and I work on the changes to that.

And uh clarify it before the uh agenda work session.

But yes.

If I can ask a question, refresh my mirror.

Are they there's so many overlays like delivery of are these traders the same for like you know, you you're not supposed to buy it from another district and have it shipped in.

Are the laws the same for uh for the malt beverage and the wine?

That seems like a lawyer question.

I'm only talking about 700 regulations, Doug.

Yeah.

Um, both of these are already in our in our code book is forward being defined.

Yes.

Yes.

We will there's some additional code sections that we will want to bring forth probably next year for the alcohol section to kind of better clarify some of the definitions as they've changed over the years.

But they both are identified in our current code section, yes, sir.

No motion.

1934 was going after Hale Capone, and I don't think we have those problems.

I think he's long gone.

Okay.

Can I get a motion on this?

So I make a motion to pass it to our city attorney and our finance director to kind of put their heads together and come back with the recommendation.

To the agenda work session.

To the agenda work session.

And move it to that.

Yes.

All right.

So we've got a motion that's going to move this to agenda work session with the review prior to that from the city attorney and finance director.

Yes, ma'am.

Quick question.

The change that you're looking to make or um titling.

Just the titling.

Okay, perfect.

The words make sense, but now the title is inconsistent.

Perfect.

And then also the fee chart.

ID to be impressed.

Yes.

All right.

So we've got a motion and a second.

Yes, sir.

I'm I'm voting.

Oh.

All right.

Andy's ready to vote, so all in favor, so signify.

All right.

Agenda work session.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay.

So the next item.

Next item has to do with booting or vehicle immobilization service.

Good evening.

I'm back.

Nice to have you back.

Ms.

Richardson requested that Premier Parking contact me for assistance on getting this on the agenda.

So I've been trying to help Luke Pope from Premier Parking with getting the verbiage together and all the document you know packet that you guys need.

This is not something that the court handles, so I don't have a lot of knowledge regarding booting on private property.

So I have asked Mr.

Pope to come in tonight.

If you have any questions, he's here and he can discuss and answer any questions that you might have regarding this.

There are several changes that he's requested to our or our current ordinance.

And even though that fee that he's requested, the 100 fee is less than the state maximum rate, it is a little bit higher than our neighbor our neighboring jurisdictions.

So we have a recommendation for that.

And it's numbers 7 through 14.

I'm sorry, 7 through 13.

If you're a lot manager, then you can't go in and immobilize vehicles that are on your own property.

So a not a consumer protection, but a pro a business protection.

I'm not arguing that point.

That one concerned us.

Um section like eight, nine, ten, those are requiring the immobilization operators.

Uh like when you can pay someone that there's no kickbacks involved.

They want to make sure he wants to make sure that you have on a uniform and an ID badge to identify yourself as working for the immobilizing company.

Um that they have to maintain the vehicle immobilization company has to maintain a 24-hour day, 365-day phone line so that you can call in the middle of the night to get the mobilization device removed from your vehicle.

Um there is also one here that uh line 12 that says that they have to provide a sticker on the driver's side window that gives minimum information, such as moving this vehicle may result in damage, um, you know, how much is the fee that's required to remove the boot, the name of the service that placed the device on your car, and how to call and talk to them about getting that device removed.

Um3 is uh a time limit on how long it takes the a mobilization company to actually get to you to remove that device.

So um, and he's put on here that he would like a 60 minute time limit.

Um so if you contact them, they have 60 minutes from that con that point of contact to come to you and get to your car to remove the device.

As a court administrator, I don't specifically have a recommendation on these things, but as a whole uh with the city manager's office, we would like to recommend that on the removal fee that we do one of two things either leave it at fifty dollars or put it at 75 dollars as our maximum removal fee.

We would not recommend going to the full hundred dollars simply because our jurisdictions surrounding us don't go that high.

So we want to you know, at most maintain kind of status quo with them.

Um we do not have an issue with lines eight through thirteen as far as having a phone number, having a uniform, having an ID badge, a time limit on how long it takes them to get to you to remove the device.

The line number seven, item number seven, which requires a separate company to do the booting.

That may be a problem because it seems like that's gonna require a property owner.

If you own a parking lot, it's gonna require you to have a second party do the booting and removal of the boot.

And I don't necessarily know if we can do that.

I question that one.

Well, if you're worried about police powers, you really ought to just had the police do it.

I mean I don't agree with that.

I mean I do not have an opinion on having the police do it, mainly because I I don't know.

But you're talking about an independent person has authority to do police work when they're not police.

I mean there are some jurisdictions very close to us that don't allow booting for that very same reason.

They think it's disruptive and chaotic and that it does not serve any real purpose.

So let me just thank you, Kim.

Thank you.

Um what are your thoughts, Mr.

Bruton?

We've had problems in the past, obviously, with uh with booting situations, and we've had folks complain that you know they'll never come to the city again because of booting and all of that type of thing.

Um that's calmed down.

And once the city put the ordinance in place, um we really haven't had I haven't heard any complaints.

I don't know.

If the police department evidently has not either, so uh we don't see a real issue at this point with any of this, but um as far as need of need to change.

But uh individual had the right to approach and ask for changes, so that's why it's here.

That's what other people felt.

Yeah.

We have much booting going on on the square.

I hadn't heard of any lately.

I mean I mean there's there's a little bit, but uh it's not anything like it used to be.

Right.

And uh it's we used to have people that were doing it in our own uh I mean out near the hospital and other places.

Uh that was causing problems, and we had some lots that people couldn't read the signage on, and they were getting booted there because they didn't realize they couldn't park there.

Uh so there were a lot of issues that we used to have, but we really don't hear of any at this point.

And Mr.

Pope did bring some other information.

Uh, don't know if MSkay has passed it out.

There is some additional information that was provided tonight, so that's an addition to the packets that I put together for you.

Um and Mr.

Pope would like to give you some information on what's in that packet uh or the addition to that packet, along with maybe answering some of your concerns with what he has proposed.

You know, I feel like um if somebody needs additional on this, I mean I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

Um my one and only question would be about the number seven.

Um why in your opinion do you think that's a necessary element?

In several municipalities is an industry standard.

In several municipalities as an industry standard, it is honestly it's kind of a little bit of protection because in the end, a parking operator could stand to make more money by having people not pay to park.

So it's my view of parking operators.

I mean, their goal should be to do everything possible, good signage, etc.

Pay stations, so people to encourage people to pay, right?

However, if they weren't allowed to do the booting themselves, then they couldn't they could choose not to take any of those steps, right?

And take advantage of people uh paying to park.

So it kind of separates the two functions.

But uh as of today, I had several properties owners reach out to me.

Um management companies, private property owners concerned about losing some of their rights to do that.

So that so that time I I suggest that be that that portion of B be payled until that could be discussed further upon among the stakeholders.

Yeah, um I definitely think that that I think that's just going too far.

I think if you've got a private parking lot, and since it isn't specifically a police power, and it can be hired out.

Um why can't the the parking lot owner do it themselves?

Why why would we force that upon them?

I mean they they would have obviously the option if they don't want to have to deal with it that they can hire a company, but to make it to must be a company would bother me.

Um let me just check on the people on the committee, and DeAndre.

Uh do you have any questions, concerns?

So I do have a question, a couple questions.

So we talked about on the um 10,000 pounds or less.

Um, you know, what the recommendation is.

So looking at the 10,001 to 20,000 pounds, how I see this 390 price point.

That's the one we did before.

We did this one about what two months ago, three months ago.

Because we did talk about that, and that ordinance was recently changed.

Okay.

And that's just as a reference point for you to see what the prices are for the other two portions of the section.

Got it.

Okay.

Yeah, because I it looked familiar, so I'm like, okay, let's do that.

We're not asking to change those two things.

I got it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, because the only thing we didn't do before was just the passenger vehicles.

And so this is just looking at that.

We did everything larger than that.

Right.

And because we had so much come before you, I really wanted to provide you with the whole ordinance, not just parts and pieces here and there as a manner of making sure that you saw the entire ordinance in its entirety for that section so that you would have everything that you needed to try to make a decision.

Got it.

Okay.

And did you have anything?

Does anybody else have any comments, questions?

Is there a motion?

So yeah, please.

He said hold off on B, right?

No, he said hold off on seven.

All of B.

I said you have to hold.

I suggest to hold off on all of B.

All right.

So then I'm sorry, I misunderstood you.

I I circled just seven.

So then literally what we're looking at then is a discussion on the fee.

That's correct.

Um well right now it's 50, and he's requesting a hundred.

Um the court, Ms.

Odom is recommending 75 or no more than 75.

So the motion again can be whatever you think would be appropriate.

So regarding the um 10,000 pounds and less.

Uh my recommendation is for us to be competitive with other jurisdictions and go with the 75 dollars.

Councilmember, might speak on that.

Um the last time 75 dollars was used was in the City of Atlanta said it in 2009.

So as we heard tonight to do several of the topics, increased cost, increased cost has been, you know, on the tongue of everyone today.

The last county that they increase was actually wasn't increased as a set.

DeCamp County put an ordinance in place in 2023, and it was $85.

And when you're looking at the the cost of these different weights of vehicles, like y'all, y'all said it at $390 for vehicles, 10,000 and one pounds or not.

Those those vehicles cost no more money to boot than a car that's 10,000 pounds and less.

There's no increased costs for any vehicle.

It doesn't matter if it's a passenger car or an 18-wheeler.

The cost is the same to boot a vehicle.

Okay.

Thank you for your comment.

Thank you.

My recommendation stays the same.

Do we have a second?

Okay.

So we've got a motion and a second.

And I'll just let this go to a vote.

All in favor of 75.

That's 3.0.

Um, no other stipulations.

No, the stipulation.

Only thing we're changing is the fee.

Just the fee.

And that's the fee to $75 from the 50.

Um consent or off consent.

I would say consent.

No objection.

Consent around the table on consent, please.

So it's gonna go to 75 on consent.

Thank you, counsel.

Thank you.

And we'll we'll look at this other stuff.

Try to set something up and kind of look at stakeholders.

Uh Mr.

Richardson, I'm sorry, just a question on how to do that.

Would you like for me to bring this back next month or just wait until we hear back from Mr.

Pope that we're ready to proceed after talking to stakeholders?

Let's hold off.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What did we just say?

We're gonna if this wasn't a final vote, then I want it not to be on consent.

Okay, it's a final vote just on the fee.

Yes.

Separate out from continued on something else to follow.

No, we're we're we've totally separated.

It's off the table.

He's gonna go talk to stakeholders.

They may come back and ask for something, but right now it's just stakeholders.

We are stakeholders.

They're voting our folks.

I mean I'm gonna tell I have no problem.

If we're not making decisions, I have no problem with any of this except for that number seven.

I don't think that we should limit.

I have no problem going for it with the rest of it.

Um with the manager.

So it's this is just a foot in the door, then please take it off consent.

Okay.

So next item.

Next item is the final plot for the greenhouse.

That's different page.

Final plot for greenhouse phase two.

All right, uh, thank you, Chair, and good evening, uh, Mayor and Council.

Um, as you'll recall last month, um, we had the final plat approval for greenhouse phase one, which was um 80 units.

Uh, this before you tonight um is for an additional 140 units uh for greenhouse phase two.

Staff has evaluated the plat um and finds no issues with it.

Okay.

Um I'll start with questions on committee.

Andy or Andre, do you have either of you have questions?

Um no, I'm good.

Okay.

Off committee, Mr.

Goldstein, you took a deep breath.

He said no issues, right?

So everything seems to be complying with all the zoning stipulations?

That's correct.

All right.

Anybody mayor, do you have a good looking project?

It is a good looking project.

I don't see are they are they doing any start moving a house yet?

I've got I've seen them.

They've got a couple sample houses, but no houses for sale.

Last time I was over there, I I saw what you saw.

Yeah.

Models.

They have some homes in for permitting as we speak.

They do.

Okay.

I'd like to see that.

That's good.

Okay, so no issue on the final plat for phase two.

Do I have a motion?

Um I make a motion to um give our department authority to move forward with uh the changes.

Second.

All right.

We've got a motion approving the final plot and a second.

All in favor.

Um objection.

No objection.

Consent across the board.

Consent.

Thank you.

Seeing nothing further coming before JL, we stand adjourned.

Economic community development committee meetings hereby called to order.

First item of business is the meeting minutes from August 26, 2025.

We have a second.

Okay.

Motion is probably made in second.

Is there any further discussion on this item?

Hearing non questions called.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries 3-0.

Item of business is 20250907, lease of Ford Depot Street.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh so for this item, as you will all recall, the city took ownership of Four Depot Street from the State of Georgia back in 2000 or 2020, sorry about that.

Um and uh shortly after that, we entered into a lease agreement with uh the welcome center, who's been a long-term tenant of that space.

Um that lease agreement was for five years and expired as of June 30th of this year.

And so we're bringing back forward with you a renewal agreement or a new agreement that reflects a new five-year term, uh picking up from where this uh lease ends, um just some points of uh interest.

Uh the first year lease amount will be 20,867.

Um, and then each year subsequent, they would have three percent um annual escalations uh through the five-year term.

And um, Mr.

Chairman, if you have any uh questions or or modifications for us to make staffs available to to answer or to receive those.

Um I do have comments, but I'm gonna throw it to the committee and committee first and council.

Um any questions from the either committee members or members of the council or mayor?

Um good.

Okay.

In that case, I guess I'll have my questions then.

Yeah, I would you like to go?

I I only had one thing, it's just kind of issue on language.

So it says that the term of the lease will continue month to month, which that is a term of art that means something completely different than a term of years.

Yes, and um I think that issue was also going to be pointed out by Chairman Goldstein as well.

So staff along with a list of other changes.

Um most of this language is from the existing lease language, so I think there are some substantial improvements we can make between now and the work session.

Yeah.

So yeah, that's just because that's just it's a term of art that comes with a whole bunch of different rules.

Um one reason the state used to own it, now we own it.

I mean we had no control.

Right.

Yeah.

We were subleasing.

Right.

Yeah.

So as we switch into a full uh as we switch into a full lease and a renewal thereof, or rather, I guess this is technically a new lease entirely, is the way it's being treated.

And I again kind of still with that language.

It will not continue for a period of five years.

Mr.

Term or Council issue.

Yeah, I I've got a uh concern with the term of council.

Page five addresses term of counseling.

And we're also backdating a lease.

I mean, this lease actually should have gone into effect one July.

Yeah.

And so we're gonna backdate the lease.

So it really five years from November 12th.

Or it's really going to be four years in a number of months.

The uh we had a previous lease, correct?

Correct.

Um possibility on that is until we get this new lease in effect, you could do a I guess an amendment to reflect what's actually happening.

Because they have been paying an increased rent during this time where the lease has been expired.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

So in order to reflect that, we could do an amendment amendment to the previous lease in addition to the the uh new lease.

You could as well.

Yes.

In order to try and make that uh actually cover up and not backdate a lease.

As for the term, what is council thinking on this one?

Do they want it to be five years?

You want to be at four years next month, or are we concerned about the fact it's going across two council periods?

I know that there's a section on page five dealing with term of council saying that the lease is still subject to appro to uh renewal by the count by each council.

Um if we're not comfortable with that, we need to amend the language or amend the term length to it's not five years and maybe four years, uh four years or less, depending on the number of months, get back to maybe a July one day.

Uh what are y'all what is the council's thoughts on that or committee's thoughts?

My thoughts are the new council would still have an opportunity to vote in that fifth year because they are already being position.

So I'm okay with um the five-year term.

Yeah, because that was basically a year's notice if the subsequent council disagreed.

Yeah.

Which is a fair that would be fair to me.

Um that would be my recommendation.

In that case, is there do as you're redoing the term?

Uh match it, if I want to be better to try and match it up so that we still have the end date being June 30th, 2020 uh 2030.

But uh we'll need to from the date of the lease forward whenever it becomes effective.

Or let's say it passes in, let's say it passes in November, maybe have it have the December 1 start date with the extension of the previous lease through end of November and uh have that term be for that period to cover up to July for uh to June 30th, 2030.

Does that make sense?

Yes.

Something like that.

With still having those increases be on July 1st to make sure that the it's clear that the increases don't happen on January 1st of the year, but July 1st of the year as well, please.

Correct.

And we can even uh input a schedule that shows the dates of those escalations that may make it more clear for the reader.

Just eliminates the gap.

Yeah.

They'll clear the gap.

It will make sure they know what rent they're paying each year.

Just make sure you still have the language about the increases in case it in case there's a holding over like there is in this one.

And making sure that I know it thing, I think it says in 4A.

It says should tenant remain after termination or expiration of the lease, tenant shall be deemed a tenant at sufferance.

Um we should probably have that be a little more robust, saying tenant sufferance under the same terms and conditions of this lease.

Um uh so that they still have to follow the mass the master key or the access key issues and everything else as they come is uh a holding over period might start.

So that we don't have an issue like we've had this time.

Um the default, just as a heads up, or subject to sub-paragraph six, uh subparagraph six six doesn't exist.

If we can figure out which paragraph that was supposed to reference, um we'll need that language fixed.

Or if it if it's referencing to a paragraph that doesn't just truly is gone, we need to get rid of the subject to language on page two.

Um page three.

Subparagraph B.

It talks about uh a tenant being able to add in locks if the um uh with with landlord's uh permission or landlord's consent.

Um it also talks about about landlord possibly having a master key to the building.

If we should probably include in language language in there that if there is any additional locks added that they be keyed to a master key if the landlord has a master key.

And on some of the issues, like uh tenant shall make no alterations or redecoration without prior written consent of the landlord.

Um landlord in this case, being the city of Marietta, it would have to come back before city council each time they might have tried to redecorating the uh welcome center.

Or in case the adding a key or a lock to the building.

I'm not sure that's something that needs to come back before council each time.

It might be better.

We still need to have consent so we know what's happening, but it might be better to say um the city manager or designee or designing or something like that of the landlord.

Again, for stuff that should be day-to-day operations, getting it back into city manager's hands.

Bill, are you good?

Are you on okay with that?

That sounds good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um page four, dealing with uh paragraph eleven A.

Landlord may enter to inspect repair the premises at reason at reasonable time after reasonable notice or at any time without notice in case of emergency.

If we're the owners of the property and the pair needs to happen, uh I'm not sure why we'd need to do the why we need to require the notice.

Yes, it would be something we probably do in practice, but I'm not sure we should be limiting ourselves within the lease on that one.

Uh everyone understand that one.

Yep, I understand it.

And just so I'm clear, Chairman, just to say at any time.

Yeah, basically may enter the and may it may enter to inspect or repair the premises at any time.

Doug, that sounds like final thing is on the term of council paragraph.

It already has a specific line about there being about it being a renewal for January 1st, 2026.

For sake of consistency, since this is term that would be going over into 2030, it should probably still have the acknowledged lease as subject language for January 1, 2030 to among other just minor uh uh referencing issues with capitalization and this lease and stuff like that.

Um those were kind of the issues I saw looking on through.

Um does everyone account yes, Mr.

Mayor.

You might have helped me with it under maintenance.

More than one year we we put that under hope under the car rental tax.

Yes, sir.

We we give them a separate contribution for the maintenance.

That's the current way we do it, yes, sir.

That we basically the amount that we're giving to them is the amount that the lease is, and so yeah.

But it's a silent condition of our contract in a sense.

Yeah.

It was to not put that maintenance burden on them, but to also get revenue from so we're actually leasing the facility since we're doing that with the Clark Library and other things.

I would like it to be part of the contract.

Um we grant them.

It beyond capital maintenance, capital maintenance in the nature of the historical value of the building.

Nature of the building.

Yeah.

I guess is that something that we can do within the contract?

Yes.

Okay.

Um we already have verbally.

And there's one other thing I think I I think would be important within the contract with regard to maintenance, now that you brought it up.

Thank you for the reminder.

Um there is no duty on the tenant to notice us whenever they see a capital improvement, a capital issue or a an issue where the city has to do the repairs.

We should probably include within it that they need to notify us, so it need to notify us of any issue within a certain certain time period so we can get the stuff fixed.

So we don't cost ourselves anymore.

Um if it's not, I'll leave it kept council what happens.

When we first we also were talking about putting a fence for the coffee shops tables that were sliding over.

Oh non-lend it.

They don't let no area, they just won't have a six or ten foot buffer and have a retractor rail fence.

Yeah, they've got the way that it was written previously, is they've got twenty feet from the side of their building that is technically theirs and goes with the building.

And then the rest of that is uh leased, but but you're right.

Yes, sir.

It blurs very much.

I'd like to say that they put that fence up.

We could we could look at that.

Some kind of attractor barrier.

Yeah, we could look at different bollards or fence or something that could go.

Okay.

Um is that something needs to be are you saying we do that or are we saying they do that?

That's one if we do it, it would be done through a grant from the hotel motel.

Right.

Got it.

That the that'll be a that'll be on a different committee because I normally have vo I normally But yes, sir, we could look at that doing it as a city to separate the two spaces we're leasing.

Um did forget the disclosure was already made, but I do serve on that on their board by virtue of being appointed by the city council.

So I do represent the city of Marietta, so I will I know when it cut whenever this con this lease comes up before the for them, I'll be abstaining on their thing since I represent um part of the other side or this side.

Um but for this one, so yeah, our side, Marietta side on that the city side.

One other thing, uh paragraph seven page um covering pages three and four.

I know I said that uh some decisions were should be with the uh city manager on day-to-day operation stuff.

This one deals with uh placing those signs, placards, or advertisement of any character attachment awning lights or markings on the exterior of the premises.

Should that keep within the council body or should that be put over to bill?

Um, I don't think they'd be subject to HBR since it's a city owned property, for example.

Redecorating is usually on the inside, that's day-to-day on the outside.

I know other property owners have to go through the HBR and then up to council, possibly, depending on the thing.

For this one, do we need should we keep this with the council instead of putting it over to staff?

I I'm of the preference, I think that for that for this one we should be keeping it in the council side would everyone agree on that one for seven, keep it keep the language as it is and has to come back to count so that has to come to council.

I'm okay with it.

Um those would be some suggested changes that might be appropriately encouraged as part of the motion, but I got a feeling this probably won't be something to push forward deeper the either the agenda work session or another committee.

Doug, if the stuff that we've talked about and Daniel stuff we talked about, could you get this all done by the work session?

We could.

Yes.

Is everyone okay with this going over to the work session then?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I am hereby looking for a motion to move this forward to the end of the work session with direction to staff to make this changes discussed.

So we'll move.

Is there a second?

Second.

Okay.

Carlisle Andre.

Um is there any further discussion on this item?

No.

Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion to move this to the agenda work session.

Please raise your right hand.

Motion carries 3-0.

That was the last item of business with economic committee development.

Is there anything further?

Seeing none, meeting is adjourned.

I'd like to call a public works committee order.

First item is admitted since September 30th, 2025.

The motion to approve the minutes.

Second.

All in favor, is meaning.

Next item is 2016 squash.

Uh Mr.

Chairman Four could before we get started.

I do want to remind everyone, uh, we have a retirement uh celebration on Friday of uh Kenny Thomason of our street supervisor uh at noon over at operations facility.

He's been normally we don't publicize too much of our retirement uh folks, but he's been with us for 33 and a half years working here at the city, so uh we're gonna miss him, but uh we we want to send him off on a great retirement uh on Friday.

So if you got a chance, come by and see us uh beginning at noon on Friday over to operations.

Um 2016, I don't have any real updates.

We're still trying to get our contract worked out with GDOT for the Rottenwood Creek uh project.

So as soon as we get their final blessing and uh sign off, then we'll get that project kicked off and be ready to go.

So I don't have anything else on the 2016 unless anyone has any questions.

Next item is uh 2022 squash.

A few updates on the 2022 uh projects.

Um Roswell Street, the four-lane gap uh landscaping is being completed now.

Uh looks good.

Uh if you've not been by there, it looks real good.

Wide Avenue sidewalks.

Um I did not get by there today.

Uh my understanding is we were in punch list uh with the contractor, so I haven't been by to verify all of that.

But uh we're we're getting near completion, if not.

Uh Waverly Atlanta intersection improvement.

That project is continuing forward.

Um we're continuing moving that one forward.

And that's all the updates unless anyone has any specific questions on the 2022 projects.

Any questions from the committee?

Next item uh October 2025 public works performance.

You have our uh performance report for uh I'm sorry.

Committee.

Yes, ma'am.

I I do have a question, I'm so sorry.

Um what's going on with the East Dixie trail?

Trail.

I've not had a recent update from Marriott Water, so I don't I'll have to get one and I'll get back with you uh on that.

The last time I was out there last week, they're still there.

Yeah, so I I've not had a recent update, so I'll I'll I'll get an update and get to you.

All right, thank you.

Sorry about that.

No problem.

Any other questions?

Next item to donation right away.

The um well, with the update of the activity report, you have that um everything is still status quo.

Um nothing unusual for our activities, so I'm happy to answer any questions if anybody has any questions for us.

Um actually do have a quick question.

Next, uh Mr.

Chair.

Yes, on the on the performance report.

The uh August valuation of the building.

Uh uh not August, September.

Uh was that an unusually high number?

We do to the uh commercial over 250k.

Yeah, we we had a couple of projects come in that ran that number up.

Okay.

Thank you.

Donation of right away.

So um this is for 105 Ayers Avenue.

So during the plan review process for the proposed development at 105 Ayers Avenue.

Um we requested right away to be donated for future sidewalk expansion.

Um shown in the attached documents.

We have received a quick claim D for the donation of the right-of-way at this location.

Quick claim D is from MRP Old Post Austell LLC, consists of 626 square feet of ride of way for the parcel at 105 Ayers Avenue.

This is located in Ward 1A.

The proposal is to split this lot and or split this current address into three lots for future development.

Uh actually ward five.

Yeah.

Okay, I apologize.

If money's coming with it, I'll take it, but other than that, it's ward five.

Sorry, no money at this point.

Any questions?

No.

Um I think we need a motion, correct?

Yes, you have a motion to accept.

And my else asked one more quick question to the uh council McKenna.

Are you okay with it?

Well, I didn't think it was in my ward, so they're just donating right away.

Okay.

Make a motion to approve.

Second.

All in favor, agreeing.

Okay, 12 cent.

No objection.

No objection.

Where are we?

So we're on the heather speed study last year.

Yes, speed study for Heatherset.

Uh we've received a request for traffic calming on Heatherset Drive from Chestnut Hill Road to Fairgate Road.

Uh, we're proposing conduct a speed study to see if uh traffic calming is warranted.

Heatherset drive from Chestnut Hill Road to Fairgate Road is approximately 2,249 feet in length with a 50-foot right-of-way, does have a posted current speed limit of 25 miles an hour, and it is considered a residential street.

Just as a point of note, uh, we did conduct a speed study for this road in November of 2022, and at that time it did not meet the policy requirements for volume or speed.

Um but we've had another subsequent request, so it didn't meet the two-year requirement for time lapse.

So um we asked for another speed study and let us look at it again.

Um definitely cut through the sun's speaking.

Make a motion to approve.

There's second.

All in favor, adjourn.

2-0.

Oh, okay.

I have trouble seeing his hand.

It passes through them, so no objection to consent.

Mr.

Chair.

Consent.

Yeah.

Yes.

At Wood Drive.

Wood drive, okay.

I apologize.

I get less at Wood Drive.

We received a request for traffic calming on that wood drive from Kennesaw Avenue to Stewart Avenue.

Again, we propose conduct a speed study in this area to see if traffic calming is warranted at Wood Drive from Kennesaw Avenue to Stewart Avenue is approximately 3,271 feet in length with a 50-foot right of way.

Does have a current post-speed limit of 30 miles an hour.

So we will need to set the speed limit at 25 miles an hour for a period of two years prior to any traffic calming devices being considered.

There is a four-way stop intersection at Wood Drive and Talcott Circle and a three-way stop intersection at Wood Drive and St.

Ann Drive, St.

Ann's Drive.

This is a residential street.

Make a motion to approve.

All in favor.

Consent.

Oh consent.

No objection.

No objection.

Objection.

Roswell Road.

This is a request by Marietta Power for consideration of a motion authorizing a variance from the underground utility ordinance allowing the installation of a new support pole at 1335 Roswell Road.

This request consists of installing one new 55-foot support pole behind the building at 1355 Roswell Road.

This new support poll is required to provide support for the existing electrical service at this location.

Everything in that area is overhead.

No.

I'll second.

All in favor, raise your hand.

Okay.

Consent.

No objection.

Everybody else?

Yeah.

Yep.

Motion.

The motion read move forward.

Oh, it says request by Marietta Power.

So it's basically the first time.

Okay.

I think approval becomes an automatic recommendation to council the Wednesday agenda.

So is there a new motion?

Well, no, just the motion should be moved forward to the agenda.

You can say it's all right for consent.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Just being semi-difficult.

Okay.

I think we I think we agree.

We okay with Roswell Road utility.

Uh this Title Six program documents.

Title Six.

We just did Roswell Road.

Yeah.

Oh eight eight two.

Um Mr.

Chairman.

We already moved the other one.

Yeah, we've already done Roswell.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Okay.

Uh Title Six program documents.

Um, this is our um annual update to GDOT for our Title VI non-discrimination agreement and assurances uh that we have to provide them uh in order for us to remain eligible to receive uh state and federal money uh for our uh Ilmeg money and as well as our other uh money that we receive from the state.

So uh all of the paperwork has all been updated.

We just need council approval to move this update this before it all expires.

We we try to stay ahead of this a few months so we don't get in a bind with GDOT, so we have plenty of time to move it forward and get everybody's signatures on everything.

Yes, sir.

And uh these are required documents.

GDOT always has us do they're just required.

Yes, yes, sir, they are and they provide all the forms.

We don't have any language options in this.

Ready for a motion.

Uh make a motion to move this forward to the Wednesday agenda of recommending approval.

Oh, in favor, raise your hand.

All right, my consent.

No objection.

Downtown solid waste.

We've got going on consent.

No objection.

No.

The um downtown solid waste is coming back.

We had it um it was tabled from the council agenda uh a couple weeks ago.

This is our continued discussion about the dumpster enclosure on uh root and handsell.

Um sent me a letter today that he had received from the church that uh from First Baptist Church that was addressed to the mayor and city councils.

I'm gonna pass out a copy of that.

If you've not already received it, you'll you can read it and I'll go over a couple sections of that.

Give you a little bit history.

I know you you're very very well aware of this.

We have been trying to get this enclosures built in the downtown area since approximately 2018 when council first approved all of the uh enclosures.

We've been dealing with this specific location since 2021-2022, so approximately five years uh for this specific location.

Uh the letter that you receiving or passing around that we received today.

I'm not going to read the whole thing to you.

I would direct your attention to the third paragraph that uh again came from the first Baptist Church from the members of the property committee of the church.

Um the paragraph states we desire to let the council know the unanimous position of the property committee and trustees that any final agreement for our church to provide a location for the private use of dumpsters not available to the general public must include a simultaneous approval by the city council to close all of Dobbs Street between Cherokee Street and Church Street and to close all of Root Street from Dobbs Street to Hansel Street.

These closures are essential for our church campus to be secure and provide safety to our members, guests, and the children who attend our weekday education program.

Our paramount consider our paramount consideration is for both pedestrian and vehicular safety on our church campus.

Um after the council meeting um a couple weeks ago, I and my staff went back to look at the original approved um council that allowed the dumpster low or dumpster enclosure to go on the street at the corner of Root and Hansel.

My original where the dumpster is currently set now.

My original uh concern with that was that it would encroach too far out into the lane of traffic on Hansel Street.

With us taking over the downtown um solid waste in-house.

We're ordering new dumpsters.

We've got a little better handle on what we can what we will need for the size of the enclosure.

We're actually able to reduce the size of what our original thought was for the size of that enclosure.

We will not be encroaching out into the lane of traffic as much as what we thought we would need to to begin with.

We can put it at that location as originally approved.

We will not need to be on any church property at this local at this time.

We can proceed with the original approved council location, unless council wishes to change their mind and want us to continue trying to negotiate with the church.

Um again, we've been trying to go negotiate this out with the church for four or five years at this point.

Um I'm reminding council, as I have stated several times.

I am out of capacity at this location with dumpsters.

I either need to build the enclosure to put more dumpsters inside, or I'm gonna have to add more dumpsters on the street at this location in order to handle the capacity for this area of town.

Um I'm out of I'm out of time.

That may be too.

Yes, sir.

So the original proposal was to put the dumpster on, I guess half of Root Street, like it is on a it would not the you should have a little sketch uh in your packet.

I don't know where it's at exactly in there, but uh I did lay it out.

Um it would not take up a half of route, so we would be taking up basically the same area where you see the dumpsters are at right now.

Um it would encroach a little bit out, but not near as much as what we originally thought using uh the current dumpsters.

So we don't have to close the case.

I'm sorry.

We don't have to close any streets.

No, ma'am.

We don't change the direction of any streets.

No, ma'am.

No, sir.

Oh, thank you.

How many dump would it be three?

Three.

If we build that oh, you'll see it up on there.

So uh we'll be able to get up to six dumpsters in that enclosure.

That's back to back kind of what what would be the time of day do you think that this is going to be in-house when these will be serviced?

I mean, we we plan on servicing the downtown these specific uh three enclosures, the one behind Starbucks, the one on Winter Street, and this one uh around 6 a.m.

So we we're going to get in early, empty them, service them and get out before traffic and businesses start coming in.

So we should have no sustainable traffic impacts to when when we're in their service now.

And it would be the same architecture.

You see the picture there in the right-hand corner, uh be the same architecture as what we built on uh winter street.

Yes.

And this is all and all in the right-of-way, the sidewalk is still a sidewalk and stuff.

That's correct.

Sidewalk would remain.

And actually it would become an actual sidewalk again, because right now we have row carts blocking the sidewalk.

So you cannot even access the sidewalk now.

Can I ask one more quick question?

Who's like is the church is their ultimate goal is to tighten up their campus to where it's kind of closed in to where they don't have I mean is this maybe we've got a couple of members, yeah.

I think that is that is true.

That's what the ultimate goal is.

But I I think I like the other plan better, but we just can't come to the two, but you just can't come to terms with them.

Yeah.

I mean, this is kind of a big I mean it works, but it's a big band-aid.

I think the other project that we looked at is a lot better, a lot more feasible.

But the one way down route coming up from the church and all that.

Really to me worked a lot better.

The one thing that I have when I've been talking to the church is I've been I've tried to tell them that these are two separate issues.

Um we you know we've got the dumpster enclosure that needs to be done, and then the parking in the street is a separate issue that really needs to be discussed with Mayor and Council.

As you've seen in their letter there, they continue to want to tie them two together, and again, we're at a point, or I'm at a point.

I've got to have I've got to have this thing built.

So I have a question.

So they would keep their dumpster wherever.

Yes, sir.

No, sir.

Right.

Would you still have the cardboard being?

Recycle.

They would be recycling in that, yes, sir.

It would be it would be included in that enclosure.

Included in the three.

Yes.

Okay, one more question.

So if we get this going here, would you get on this real quick?

I mean, sir.

Be like first of the year starts.

Yes, sir.

That is our plan.

We have to go through the bid process and things uh through purchasing, but as soon as we get through that process, we would we would move forward.

I think we've talked about this a long time.

I think it's time we help mark out and do something about it.

Uh but I I do have a question.

Is that okay?

Um I yield.

Well, so is it gonna look like the other modern ones that we have uh uh in place?

Yes, so it's not so is it this?

It did the the one down in that corner is the last one we built, that's over on Winter Street.

Uh huh.

So it's gonna be brick with a metal roof and and the nice doors and things like that on it.

So yes, perfect.

And no, yeah.

Yes, sir.

At this point, you already have approval for it, so do you need any action by the committee or council?

I do not.

Council again, council approved this location back in 2018.

So unless council wants to rescind that action uh and we start again, then there's no official action needed from council.

As long as everybody's okay with what I'm proceeding, go ahead and move forward with this, and I will move forward.

But no official action is needed at this point.

Main we've experimented enough, I'm for all right.

It's making happen.

I'm okay with it.

No motion needed.

No motion needed either.

We've already given them an authority, so you can execute it.

That's my understanding, correct?

Any other question from anybody?

There is a budget for it within this lost.

Yes, sir.

How long will that take?

A few months.

If the same contractor that has built the last two, which is kind of his, I hate to call it his specialty, but this is kind of what he does for jurisdictions.

If he's the one that gets the bid, and then as soon as he can get to it, then yes, we'll again we'll be operating on the same time frame and we operate under all of our downtown projects.

We will be pushing, we want it done for the taste because we don't want anything going on after that, so that'll be our time guy timeline.

Any other question?

Next item is G Dot.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

This is a uh uh resolution request for some grant funding.

Uh we've been working with Courtney and and Mr.

Barrett and IT for a couple of uh grant opportunities uh through GDOT and their congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program.

Um and we've combined these because it there's the same program, but they're asking for two different resolutions because they're two different uh requests that we're operating under.

So the first one um is something that uh Public Works and IT along with the city manager's office been working on for quite a while, and we're hoping now we can get some funding for this, is to develop a transportation digital twin network.

Uh so what this does is technology creates a virtual virtual replica of the physical infrastructure of our transportation network.

This will enlighten enable us from real-time monitoring, some analysis and uh also scenario planning for transportation projects, as well as traffic calming, anything else that I bring before you.

So once we get this network thing developed, we'll be able to show you in real time.

Well, if we put a traffic signal here, this is what it will do to the traffic type thing.

So it's this has been an ongoing thing.

We just haven't been able to come up with the funding in order to develop this.

So this grant has came up, and so we're hoping we can get this funding in order to develop this and get this going.

So that's that's first resolution to authorize uh the grant application.

Uh the next grant application has to do with the Cherokee Street widening project.

Uh showed that to you a couple months ago, and you approved the general concept for that layout.

Um so we think that uh that project would fall well in within the parameters of this particular program uh in order to reduce congestion as well as improve air quality in the in that area.

So again, we we want to apply for that grant and try to get funding uh for that program or for that project as well.

So the digital uh twin project, uh the city is requesting $320,000 in federal funds to be matched with $80,000, which is a 20% local match uh for a total project cost of $400,000 uh to cover all the implementation cost training and ongoing maintenance.

The Cherokee Street widening improvement project, again, we're requesting 400,000, 80 percent in federal funding to be matched with a 100,000 dollars, 20 percent in local funds for a total project cost of 500,000 to conduct scoping study, a scoping study that produces a concept report for this project for GDOT.

All of these funds will be funded, uh, the matching part of them will be funded out of our splost funds.

Uh we have funds available uh for both of these particular projects.

Um we just need approval of the two resolutions from mayor and council.

Yes, sir.

Um just a question on the on one of the resolution uh two resolutions.

Um the second word as in each one uh one says that the proposed project requires a local match commitment of 20 percent from the city to demonstrate financial commitment to ensure project feasibility.

The other one just says the project proposed project requires a local match commitment from the city to demonstrate financial commitment and ensure project feasibility.

Is a reason why there's two different languages for that whereas when they're both still 20%.

There's no rhyme or reason, so we'll we'll make sure we get the word incorrect.

Okay.

Um the same in both both the resolutions.

With that note, would you like a motion, Mr.

Chair?

I make a motion to move this forward to the Wednesday agenda recommending approval.

Second.

All in favor.

Next item.

Um no objection to consent.

No.

No objection.

Good.

Okay.

So consent.

Next item, Mark.

2028 SPLOS.

Last month we passed out the uh SPLOSS.

Um I don't know if you have any specific questions on the projects that we have laid out or how you would like to proceed, or if you'd like to proceed with any type of discussion at this point, but um we have we have those uh ready for discussion, however, you would like to proceed, or if you'd like more time to think up think them over, and we're going to continue this on the committee agenda for the next two or three months uh anyway.

So you've got plenty of time at this point.

Um there's no uh what we tried to do under the tier one was the projects that we've either have currently underway or we funded in the previous FLOS.

What we've shown on Tier 2 is just the new projects or projects that were not funded in previous FLOS, and we put them on what we could call the tier two right now.

Uh they're right, otherwise there's no rhyme or reason behind anything being on there.

Um the way the tier two is listed is from most expensive to least expensive.

Um so just to help you track the dollar amounts.

Uh otherwise they're not listed in any particular order or wish list as just listed by dollar amounts from most expensive to least expensive.

Um the tier one projects we're we have to get down to 58 million.

Um and we are at that number right now is at 69 million, so we've got about 11 million dollars or so we've got to cut uh at some point before we get down to the final uh number, unless the county changes their number, which they could very well do between now and the final vote mayor and council takes.

But uh right now we're operating under that assumption uh of that number 58.8 million dollars.

So much-eight point eight.

Yes.

58.8, yes.

And we're at 69.7, so right at 11 million.

Um, whatever.

So and the tier two is at 156.9 million uh requests.

So quite a I could help you reduce the tier two by moving the large street to one.

I think twenty-two million just in one one lump sum over to tier one.

I guess I shouldn't mention that how did you get station 55 needs to move.

What about a part what about when we were looking at it when I first came on council?

There was a million eight.

Because I was trying to get a million five, and I was gonna put three hundred out of my that was that was working uh trying to do it on one side of the street uh without having to do any utility movements or build any widening of the road or doing anything else.

This here is a full scale for Lawrence Street.

Uh this is a full-scale widening uh streetscape project.

So it's it's widening scope uh sidewalks on both sides of the roads, moving utilities, retaining walls, acquiring right away.

Um so it's a full-scale streetscape project, and so therefore, by the time we also factor in inflation cost, uh it's ran that cost up significantly, especially with the utility, uh, some of that utility relocation.

Um that we pay for.

We don't pay for all the utility relocations, but um let's we do have quite a bit of work in that on that street.

So the other Lawrence Street is that on the other side of fairground to the one down at the bottom that says Lawrence Street side.

Yes, that's that's just a sidewalk on the other side of fairground.

Yes.

Any questions for me, right?

Good answer.

One question or more.

This is a general question that you know, we're reading about the storm water and the problems of the counties going through it.

We've had a good run with our creeks in the last seven or eight years, haven't we?

I used to be scared when we had a rain.

We um we developed a in-house program after the flood of 2019.

Um thick scan.

Yeah.

Um that so we we developed in-house program when we started doing a very aggressive inspection program of creeks, culverts, everything.

Um not that we catch everything, but we're trying to be a lot more proactive.

Um and so with that, we've we've headed off a lot of issues.

Now, if the creeks are on again, private property, we we can't address those.

But uh, if we do see something that's on private property, we do try to go ahead and alert the property owner and say, hey, you've got an issue.

You probably won't go ahead and address that now before it becomes a problem for you later on.

So that has kind of helped head things off.

But the biggest issue that we have done, Mayor, is by identifying issues on the right-of-way under you know, culverts or bridges or whatever that case, we've been able to head those off.

And by heading those off, when things break down on our right-of-way that ends up backing things up upstream, then that causes flooding issues elsewhere.

And so we've been able to head all that off.

Knock on wood again.

I think y'all have done a great job.

Maybe I understand if it's on their property, they got to do something about it.

That's correct.

It's not city owned property.

That's correct.

And that's why I'm saying, I mean, you know, again, while we're out, if if we see something, if we see a tree down across or we see erosion or something else that's causing problems, um, then we'll we'll go knock on their door and we'll let them know hey, you need to we see a problem, you need to fix this.

That's right.

So we we try to give them heads up for that type of stuff.

So yes.

They don't like it too well.

I'm off the potential vote because of No, and there's there's a lot of misconceptions.

You know, we we we when people, and I know all of you hear that when new developments are coming in, people downstream or whatever, they start complaining.

Well, they're dumping water on on us.

I can assure you, all new developments go through a very rigorous plan review through us to make sure that they're meeting all of this, not only state, but all of our local requirements for stormwater.

Um they don't get through my engineering staff unless they've met all of those requirements.

Um sometimes that takes a while for them to get through all that, but uh they they they have to go through that process.

Um and uh is there a similar thing at the county at this point, or is that the reason why they're doing the stormwater?

Uh the the county has a whole different perspective on how they deal with their stormwater.

Um you know, the county takes responsibility for if it was platted, then they take responsibility for it to be on private property if it's not on private property.

The city's always maintained if it's on private property, it's property owner's responsibility.

Um so we only maintain what's on the right of way.

And it's a someone uh someone complained to me about something that the county was doing might be affecting within the city, so right off into the city.

So that's our only reason for the question.

Someone had asked me about that.

So uh Mark, I just wanted to commend you and your team on the landscape there at the hardware store.

Looks great.

Thank you.

That was uh joint effort with uh Rich Deckman and Parks and Rec uh working with him and his team as well as uh our guys, make sure everything got done and it was done proper.

Looks good.

Thank you.

Any other question?

Yeah, one final thing, Mr.

Chairman, before we before you adjourn.

Um couple weeks ago, some of you joined us uh when we did shot a video uh for National First Responders Day, um, which is today.

Um and so uh this this was a there's a still shot of the video.

Um we're gonna show the video uh thanks to Rachel and Kelly and and their her team for putting the video together.

Um this National First Responders Day came out or has come out of the uh American Public Works Association to help tie public works in working with the public safety uh teams.

And as someone that is very active in the state public works association and and these other jurisdictions, um we started talking about this about a year ago, and these other jurisdictions across the state, they most of them said we don't get along with our public safety folks.

Um I had several of them say, I don't even like my police chief.

You know, I I don't even talk to him.

Um about the fire chief.

You know, we don't I said, well, we don't do that here in Marietta.

Um we we we've got a team here.

So I said, if you guys don't want to do a proclamation and and do this day, I said we're gonna show you how we do this in Marietta.

Um and so they said, we don't believe you can do it.

So I said, Well, sit back and watch.

So um I got with Rachel and talking to Bill and and pulling this thing together, and so what you see there is the Marietta team.

Um it's not everybody, but it's it's the Marietta team that uh responds to our disasters, our first responders, uh consist of public works, Marion Fire, Mary to Police, BLW.

Um we didn't get everybody there as we're kind of pulling this together for the first time, but you know, we have IT there with us whenever we're responding.

We got Parson Wreck, we've got everybody, it's a true team here in Marietta that are first responders.

Um and so this is honor them.

And we are, as far as I know, I have not seen anything get publicized yet in the state.

We are the only in the first jurisdiction in the state of Georgia to honor our first responders as an entire team in the state of Georgia.

So with that, uh Stephanie, can you roll the video that uh Rachel and then put together?

This is on the Rachel show.

That's really good.

It's it's going out, so uh just wanted to show it to you to you all.

Uh thank you all for all of your support on Thank Chief Chief Beam and Chief Milligan for uh their support in order for us to pull all this together.

So thank you all.

Thank you.

Thank you and everyone involved.

We usually made two weeks from now though.

Absolutely.

I'd like to call the special call council meeting work session to order, please.

First item is September 30th, 2025, meeting minutes.

Make a motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.

I had to request going to executive session about pending litigation.

Okay.

Yep.

Is there any other nothing else?

No, sir.

That's it.

Um make a motion to go to the executive session for pending pending potential litigation.

Second.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.