The City of Marietta held its final council meeting of the year on December 18, 2025, focusing on budget amendments, departmental appointments, fiscal planning for the 2028 SPLOST, and special recognition ceremonies for departing council members.
Um in over the next few months. Business license renewals. The general business license renewals were sent out last month. They we receive majority of our revenue in the third quarter because our tax deadline for our business license is March 31st without any penalty or interest. So you'll see that revenue increase over the next few months. The commercial permits are up. Typically, we'll see the permits increase a lot in the first half of the fiscal year, and then the second half of the year to go into spring, they'll go um many of those will start construction. So the permits will slow down. Sometimes we do see a balancing of those from uh first half of the year to second half of the year, um, depending on how much um construction is taking place over the summer. Uh charges for services are in line as well. They're in their typical cycle. Um we'll see that revenue increase in the spring as well as the um outdoor sports come into come into play. And so those are the major um areas, and if anyone has any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer those as well. I have a question, yes, sir. On the front, for example, the franchise taxes due to the cycle that we're quite a bit below the budget. No, sir, that has to do a lot with our electric fees, um, our electric revenue because um with electric companies we get franchise tax at a four percent. So whenever the revenues may be lower, um we receive less franchise because it's a percentage. So with our electric and natural gas and natural gas prices have um been lower, and that would reflect be um have a reflection on some of the natural uh heating and natural gas, so those collections are lower, and then you also have um the electric companies that we have. Um with the warmer months currently we're experiencing a lot of cold days, so we'll see those um franchise fees creep up a little bit as we go through the winter months, but we've had a very mild fall, so those revenues are not as high as we would have liked. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. And um if double questions amendment um motion to receive and file then is what you'd probably ask. Yes, that's all I was gonna say. And Mr. Chairman may make a motion to receive and file seconds. Make a motion to receive and file. Second. All right, pass Q. The next item on our agenda. The amendment to the griff races. Physical year 2026 parts by department. So, yes, sir. This item is a budget amendment. Um the parks um division applied for a uh grant a while back, and they were um the recipients of the grant. It is a um with a maximum half million dollar match, and these um with construction going for Sabinsky Park, they wanted to request half of that grant fund amount, and they will be utilizing those funds for the construction of the park. There is still the other um half that will be received at a later date once the construction uh moves further along. So the total amount that they're um asking to receive is 220,507 cents. You said that was in part of the grant is not the full grant, then correct. They have up to half a million, so they are requesting a portion of that currently, and okay. And this is our match of it is already using the money that was set aside. This is an additional, this is correct. Okay, yeah. To approve the amendment to the FY2026 parks bond to receive um the federal land and water conservation grant funds. Second. We moved and second. Any questions? Discussion? All those in favor? With consent.