I'd like to call the city council agenda work session to order, please.

First item is approval of the November the 10th, 2025 agenda work session minutes.

Motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries.

Okay, so we had the BLW meeting this morning.

First item that we actually presented was there was a presentation of an award, and I kind of had to step out, but I think that what I heard was this was the sixth time we've received this award.

Is that correct?

Ron.

Okay, so we've received it over five times.

And so it's a platinum award, but it's the um the Georgia Association of Water Professionals Distribution System of Excellence Award.

So our water department is continuing to kill it in all things that they do.

Um the next item has to do with a big client, and I think that it's in our book.

So I'm gonna basically what happened is we have a data center that is going up in South Fulton.

Yes, and the requirement of that data center is that they have to pay for the construction cost for any construction power centers, so to bring the power load down to them.

And it's one point if I've got correctly, it's 1.4 million.

Um, and they've already actually paid it, so we've got it.

And what this motion was was for us to both receive it and then expense against it for the cost of construction.

All right, so again, this is to do with the data center that's in South Fulton that we will be supplying power to through Marietta Power, but they're having to build their own station to bring the power down to them.

May I right please they paid 28 million in advance for the substation?

Right.

So this is this will be ongoing and very unusual, but very good.

Yeah, so basically, this is they're paying cost, which is exactly what we want.

It's not coming from our either capital improvements or operating fund, none of that.

It's coming from them, and they're paying that, and so that's what this item was from electrical today.

Um the next item was Cobb Marietta Water Authority, and I'll turn it over to Councilman Shalfont for the last time.

Okay.

Um this is a report of uh uh ending October 31st this year.

Uh water sales for the month averaged 79 million gallons a day compared with the budget of 78.

The water sales revenue totaled 8.8 million dollars, and um uh exceeded the budget expectations by 246,000, which is pretty close with any of those things.

Uh net income is 4.1 million.

Then you've got spending on capital projects totaled 61 million dollars at the end of October, with a remaining annual CIP budget commitment of 30 point five million, which we probably won't make, and that'll be held over till next year, a lot of it.

Um rainfall uh totaled 36 inches last year.

It was 44.

It's about a 13 percent decrease in uh water.

I'll tell you a little bit about the planning that the water authority did with their uh planning committee.

Um of the projects they've got for next year.

They've got uh the uh 26 budget.

There are 48 planned um replacements for uh water uh lines.

That's linear water lines, so that's um eight of those projects are carrying over from 2025.

Uh that was 1.5 million of those 48 projects.

Uh seven of them constitute sixty-six percent of the budget.

Um the CIP budget cost has changed um 2026 decreased by 14 million dollars, um, which will probably be rolled into the next year on some of that stuff.

Um the planning committee, the um the committee made a motion uh to approve and recommend to finance committee a five percent increase for fiscal year 2026, um, and to continue planning the planning estimate of five percent per year through 2029, and um six percent in 2030.

These planning estimates will be reviewed annually and uh revised revised as more uh information is available.

Um of the things that we got involved with the finance committee was the um total number of positions for 2025 remains the same.

There's 120 full-time positions at the uh water authority.

Um hundred percent of the 2026 net income along with 2.2 million of bond proceeds and 11.7 million of capital reserves will fund the 2026 capital improvement budget.

Can you say that again?

I'm sorry.

Okay, 100% of the net income along with 2.2 of some of the bond proceeds, and 11.7 million of capital reserves will fund the 2026 capital program budget without having to borrow more money to do that.

So um with the adoption of the 2026 budget, the water authority, the uh Cobb County Marietta Water Authority is committing um to only the 26th improvement plan number and the approving next four years for planning purposes only.

Future cost estimates will be updated annually as more information is available.

That's it.

Okay, thank you.

Um the next item was a couple of committee reports.

Uh the audit committee is setting up a meeting for January 12th.

Nope, I'm sorry, I'm in state.

I just saw Ms.