On November 25, 2025, the Kennesaw City Council convened for a work session to review administrative updates, discuss legislative priorities, approve consent items, and deliberate on capital improvement projects and future SPLOST proposals. The meeting included updates on financial collections, park construction progress, and the organization of the new council term, concluding with a special call for executive sessions regarding property and legal matters.
I'd like to be called committed to order. The first item on the agenda are the meeting minutes for October the 28th, 2025. Is there a motion? Motion I'll second your motion. Motion to approve. The motion has been made in a second. All of you in favor, raise your hand. Right hand. Whatever hand you can. Three. Oh, okay. The next items on the agenda are the hotel motel tax, auto rental tax, and finance update. We'll take those from this. Thank you, Chairman. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. So the first item that I have is the hotel motel. I am happy to announce that there is a very large uptick in collections this month, as you probably have noticed. This is a one-time increase. This is a result. In this particular instance, it was a marketplace that started reporting later. And they were able to determine, reach out to them and determine that they had not submitted collections for uh from 2021 to 2023. And so uh we were able to speak with the company and they voluntarily um provided the information as well as the payment, and so that amounts to approximately 174,000 this month. That is a one time that will not be you see repeated. They have been um paying consistently since that time, but they um did not start and report the time that they were um that they should have, so that was a one-time collections, and we also had another um two payments that were for prior months that totaled 10,000. So it's 184,000 that are um outside of the monthly collections. So if you normalize those collections for the month, it equals around 264,000, 65,000, which is the lowest that we've seen in the last four years. So the pattern that we have seen previously is continuing. Um we will um continue to make adjustments. Um looking at our hotel, I'm sorry, auto rental, which is actually the highest October that we received. So they've kind of done a flip-flop there. Um, and so the increase in reserve for the conference um center uh increase by 35,000. The increase for reserves for auto rental increase year to date by 39,000. So the total year to date um over our distributions is 74,000 for the year, and so we'll continue to monitor that. Other than that, for our finance update, there were no major changes in our finance department. Um we did issue um business license renewals, they will go out. Um you should start seeing them in the mail next week. Uh we are um finalizing our annual audit, so those um presentations should be or will be scheduled in January for the committee meetings I'm sorry for the um January finance. No, that will be the January council meeting. I'm sorry, January council meeting. We should have those prepared for that, not the committee meetings in January. So we should be good to go for that, and those um are the reports that I have for this month. I just have a question on the amount to be reserved for the three percent on the second page of the combined. Um why is that a negative one second? Negative uh 13K. Okay, um, because for um we had an extra 31,000 that came out and that came out of um the reserves, and so the 31,000 for the month plus the normal distribution took it negative, so we pulled it into the res out of the reserves, but year to date we're still up. Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir. Ms.