I'm not called the city council meeting in order, please.

I think we can see anything.

Where is that one?

You guys got the agenda work session agenda?

Agenda review session.

Yes, we're first page.

On the minutes, Mr.

Mayor.

Yeah, let's do that.

Well then I'm caught up.

Yes, please.

I make a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes from March 11th, 2026.

Second.

All those in favor, please like your right hand.

Motion carries 70.

Now the city council agenda review.

Got a good short prayer?

I'm I'm ready.

I did shortly.

Schedule have one schedule appears, Mr.

Barr.

Well, the regular meeting minutes from March 11th to March 19th.

There are no objections to the remaining.

Thank you.

Zon in 5B for 890 Camp Road.

Thank you, Mayor.

No new information to share related to this case.

No new information to share.

I had a question on that regarding the number of parking spaces, their X and for a variance.

Yes, sir.

So it's tip is typically what two cars per what is the Yeah, the the ordinance is it would be two spaces per units, and they are requesting 1.25 spaces per unit because of the fact that it's a senior-related housing, and they their typical occupant is let has less vehicles associated with their units.

Yes, sir.

That was kind of my question too.

On on each of their other developments, they have requested and received the lower parking count unit.

And the expect it's expected to be developed for and restrict uh restriction for FHA for 55 plus.

That's right.

So okay.

But in each of the other developments, if I might, wasn't it because they were near bus stops?

There's a factor that goes along with that.

So there's a calculation that comes to the numbers that actually reduces the total that they're required to have.

Okay.

Um, but I think the decision wasn't necessarily predicated upon that, correct.

Is there a bus stop anywhere over there?

It says it's walkable.

It's down the street more toward the intersection with Cherokee.

I think it's on the side over there.

I'm not sure.

I can look before the 7 p.m.

though.

That'd be great.

Thank you.

Right across from me and I accommodate.

Okay.

Yeah, right near industrial boulevard just comes off 41.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any other questions on 890?

It looks like it's a great area for us.

Okay.

I said it looks like a great area for a 554.

Close to the hospital.

Get your eyes checked.

Yeah.

Okay.

I doctors right across the street.

I can walk too.

Um that was all the questions I had.

Um so they will come back to you guys with permits for they have to turn down that house uh that's right.

1033 Franklin.

Thank you, Mayor.

We do have some updated information out at your um your uh seats that shall be handed out before this meeting.

Um among that information is a um draft ordinance um which outlines the requested variances of what this approval would be.

There's also a memo that lists those variances, um, some other um factors related to uh stipulations related to the development and other considerations as well that's included in your packet.

Um also to update you, this was heard by the planning commission yesterday evening at their 6 o'clock PM meeting, and it was um unanimously passed forward with a recommendation of approval by the planning commission uh with a vote of 5-0 is this a non-public hearing?

This will be a public hearing.

It is we'll put that at the bottom just for the minutes will be a public hearing.

Yes, sir.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

The only new piece of information um I alluded at the work session that the county may be taking a vote yesterday, sending forward um what would be their um I guess retraction of their objection to the project with some stipulations.

Um they have provided that based upon a vote that they took yesterday.

Um so that letter is at your is at your seats as well with some uh um suggestions of things that the city could consider to include.

Uh I will note that it is the letter is backdated to March, but my understanding is that the vote took place and we did not receive the letter until until today.

I must have missed that meeting.

When did we agree to these stipulations?

We didn't we did not.

We've not seen them until this letter.

I have a question for Doug, if I might.

Yes, ma'am.

Um I don't see that the chairwoman signed.

There's no signature from her, not even an auto pad.

Do you have three signatures?

Yes, there's three signatures, which is all is that's all we need.

Yes, ma'am.

The chair is not required to sign as long as you have three.

Okay.

And there are four attacks.

Yeah, we've got we've got the other commissioners.

We just don't have the chair one.

Okay, thank you.

But these separate we've already met on this.

I mean, you know, just to form where this consists with everything that we talked about previously in it, these conditions.

From it from a density standpoint, it does.

Um, there's some other restrictions um that they're requesting, and including a reversionary clause, which I know we've not taken a position that we can do reversionary clauses as a city, and so there's some elements to it that that would be more restrictive than what we approved.

The city could not agree, no governmental entity can agree to a versionary clause because it violates kind of 36.

So could you explain what I would read?

Oh, reversionary clause is if they don't do these one through four or whatever the city requires, the proper the zoning reverts back to the previous condition.

Nobody said notice nobody's uh it has not been published, so a versionary clauses in Georgia are not valid.

I can't believe they asked for one, but that's up to them.

Is there I guess agreed to withdraw based on this or that's what they indicate, but you're free to read on it as you deem appropriate tonight.

I will just note and Mr.

Haney, uh, feel free to speak to this that the time for the arbitration ran out uh without having an arbitration, and that was quite some time ago.

So the objection is now gone for that reason as well.

Yes.

Yeah, I mean, this is actually I mean the panel did not come up with these conditions.

They would do it and then should that's what they were thinking.

Okay.

I mean, I'm not forgiven city, I would just tell you file an objection, they find a new way to make it interesting.

Uh any questions for tonight, but not a qu I guess we're gonna have to go through this Doug again.

This is for you.

Um, it goes back to the age old question of what's adjacent.

Yeah.

Are the people across the street adjacent?

Good question.

Uh I don't think it's ever been defined.

And again, the only reason I ask is that we got that one letter asking for us to put in a fence.

Um, and this would say enhance screening to adjacent homeowners.

And I don't want anything that makes it appear that we're gonna agree to something ahead of time that we haven't even discussed.

Good point.

Yeah.

If it's across the street, you would think that would not be adjacent, but you get to define what is adjacent.

Okay.

That definition changes.

Yeah, we we've had many a discussion on it.

Uh yep.

Yes.

If you want to stay until midnight and see if we can beat Mabelson's record, we can just public comment.

There's nothing bad about this.

We will not be in breach.

You can consider it or not.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, we have to receive their comments.

I made a promise I was gonna argue too much.

And we're not we're just discussing Ward TV.

Uh okay, the next two items are annexation.

Welcome, 1912 and 1920, Lil Rosal.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh, we do have a new piece of information that we've also handed out at your seats as well.

And this is just a updated stipulation letter from uh the representative of the applicant, Mr.

Parkshoff.

Um it doesn't change anything about the nature of the plans that you've seen and looked at.

Um it's committing to um certain uh conditions related to the operation of the of the facility that they have and emphasizing and highlighting some other points as well.

Um in the letter it says it's going down to 80 umpervious surface is going down to 80 percent versus a requested variance for 80.5 percent.

So would that remove that variance based off that condition?

Uh I'll need to ask Mr.

Huff.

My understanding is that he was rounding down, but I could be wrong.

No, no, we want to remove.

Oh, you want to remove it?

Okay.

So yes, that is a commitment to do that.

Okay.

Thank you.

Anything else for now?

Next two were annexation.

Yes, sir.

I thought they were on consent.

I see them as on the other.

Yeah.

I think I think it's reading from the Monday one.

Or uh six.

So the next four items are on consent starting with red kids.

Any objections, those four?

Page eight.

No objection.

Thank you.

Um for oaths uh five.

Five.

Five.

I got six.

So I got a different page.

It does.

I got the mystery agenda.

Yeah, we just give you different things to see if you're with us.

Um for 0310 of the street closure requests.

I think I'd asked to show us abstaining on that one and realize it wasn't showing up.

So that's on here.

It's on here, then I'm a it's got my disclosure.

It doesn't have my disc the uh I see what you're saying.

Yeah, we're just request to be shown as abstanding on that's a zero three ten.

Yes.

Which one is off?

No, no, no, it's still on consent, just show me abstain.

The uh no one's gonna world cap.

Huh?

Yeah, uh oh, the street closure request.

Street closure.

Thanks for copying.

And that's all.

No, no, no, no.

It's on it's on consent.

Just show me abstaining.

My issue I got six, and everybody else has got five.

Right.

Okay, so here's the correct one.

Next thing that's that.

Oh, this is much more fun.

You guys are ruining it.

Here's a real one.

Sand part is not the first time I've been confused.

I don't think that one was your fault though.

We just had you random stuff, Mayor don't worry about it.

Oh this is on two sides of the page.

Oh my god, when you just keep guessing.

I'll help you through it.

So we got you.

Number two.

Page 10.

Well, page 10.

The first read are on consent.

Any objection to those three?

No objection to any of the any of the ones for fourth steward circle.

No objection to anyone before the suit circle.

Stewart circle.

Mr.

Mayor, we don't have any new information for that item.

What we prepared for public hearing at seven o'clock.

Okay.

Then we pass that.

We made that clerical mistake to the five pay world cup.

Oh, it's as far as the timing, yes, sir.

Let there be on consent now.

No objection.

The light post banners.

Which is uh the other five, I mean the World Cup.

World Cup grant.

There was an there was a there was a typo on the d on the start date.

It was twenty is July 24th, July 4th, 2025, not 2026 for the start date of the grant.

It was on our desk.

Okay, now I'm confused.

I am all right.

Chief.

Spreading.

So on 394, you saying I left a uh correction on everybody's desk in front of you.

Okay.

Just a two-sheet page, it is whole punch.

It's 389.

Okay.

All right.

Okay, I see that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Next one is the light post manners.

We're gonna have a specific number.

Well, no, we were hoping we wouldn't have a specific number on that because we're just looking for additional areas to be able to put them all over town.

Uh we do have uh a decent amount on the North Loop that we were able to identify.

But there are other areas we think we can get them all.

So we had a meeting today about that, and we're gonna try to do as many as possible uh with it.

So just the uh motion reason we need really a motion to approve the installation is because there is a specific uh section of the code that deals with the downtown and uh talks about the installation of banners and it has to have council approval.

So uh we were requesting that approval, and then uh on some of those other streets we really don't need uh any other approvals.

We can just go do it, but we'll identify the locations and get as many of them up as we can.

That we were actually even talking today about uh the gateway and uh trying to figure out how to do uh different World Cup banners and all that we could get out there.

So had a meeting with the CID that went well on that nice to have one in Ward Six Make all recommendations, yeah.

Oh and when y'all put them up, you you'll leave the brackets up where we could use them over and over and over.

That was the thought, yes, sir.

Yeah, after the discussion that we had among the group.

I think they're good.

I mean, I like the banners.

Yeah, yeah.

Be more festive and get our word out.

Can we put that on consent?

No objection.

No objection, no objection.

Thank you.

No objection.

Next up, year in settlement.

Yes, this was the item that came from uh the border lights and water.

And I came over to council.

Was a motion that was added on Monday, uh, which would have the 722,000 uh go into this year's budget and be expended over the next three months.

Uh and so this would allow that budget amendment to take place.

No way for consent.

Consent.

No objection.

No objection.

And me I've already been contacted about that, and they said that was fine as long as they got an email from us saying that's what we were doing, then they would take care of it on their end.

Next two items are on consent.

Okay.

Next re items on page.

All three of those on page twelve in consent.

Any objection?

No, discussion.

We don't have to.

You could, but we're we're still moving forward as discussed Monday night.

Uh I'm still Bill and I are still negotiating some documents.

And uh the closing is scheduled for Friday at one.

But otherwise it's proceeding as uh discussed on Monday night.

So uh we're we're working there were as late as an hour ago.

Yes.

There were documents going back and forth, and everything we're gonna Doug's gonna be on a phone call in the morning.

I have a nine thirty meeting with all of them to go through all the documents tomorrow morning.

So which is what the motion authorizes.

Yeah, I was gonna say the motion says that.

Right.

We're approving the conscientious into verbal agreement.

Yes, sir.

Right, kind of memorializing what was discussed in the MOU.

And so this would be the purchase sale agreement uh for it, which contains all of those items that were in the MOU.

And then there are other documents as far as the transfer of properties and all the rest that uh and assurances and all that that have to go into the actual closing, and so that's what's being worked on now.

Yes, sir.

And that also includes any deeds and or easements that we put uh filed as part of the public record public deed record.

Right, that's part of it.

They're easement documents, uh substantial easement documents that have to go in also.

And as you can imagine, with that public parking lot that we'll have, there are a lot of easements that go back and forth between our property and what will be theirs uh to allow vehicular and also pedestrian traffic to be able to use those sites.

And then you have the utilities that we have to deal with also on the site too.

So same thing.

And we have existing easements on that property right now uh for uh water and sewer.

Okay, no consent.

We'll wait.

Yeah, no consent.

Okay.

BLW's on consent.

No objection.

No objections.

I guess I'm gonna keep this.

Yeah.

You got some wisdom for us?

Well, we have something we do have a very short executive session that uh we could do um dealing with uh a legal matter.

Um we could do it now, or we could do it at the end of the meeting tonight, whichever you prefer.

This is coming out of HR.

We got seven public hearings.

I like to do it now personally.

I'm with the mayor.

We can we can do that.

I don't know if you want to go back into the back room and is there a motion to go in executive session for what's it be for for legal matters for so legal matters.

I make a motion to go in executive session for legal matters.

All those in favor, please raise your hand.

Motion carries six oh went out of the room.

So we're down executive motion carries, we're now in executive session.

We're gonna go hang with us, we'll be back a couple minutes four seven.

I don't know about that.

I don't see you too much lately.

She turned around.

I heard Maria.

Well Cogillion.

Joanne.

New kind of applause.

Yes, Mayor.

We do have uh we have some videos actually that we'd like to show, and then we do have some updates from staff.

The first, uh well, one thing I'd like to say, you might have seen the 250th celebration uh logo right there on the table.

That's what we'll be putting out all over the place, um, including a lot of the banners that'll be going up all over uh the city uh as we do that.

Um wanna do a shout out to Bruce Bishop, he's the one that drew that for us.

So great to have that talent in house, so we don't have to go outside to pay for that.

Um first one we want to do is married a train technology, and before this one starts, uh just want to bring everybody back a little bit.

We had talked about previously trying to come up with a system to deal with the fact that we had trains that would block the tracks in the downtown and really cause traffic nightmares for folks, especially when you're coming off of the loop and you're going into the heart of the downtown, and all of a sudden you get stuck because there's a train sitting on the tracks and you don't know where to go.

Um and so uh we've been working for a while on trying to get a technology uh that would be appropriate to us uh to be able to do this.

Um we we have been experimenting with something that is working now, and uh we're gonna go ahead and implement it.

Um we actually uh had um a lot of work done by Public Works and IT on this.

So I want to thank both of the departments uh for the work that they put on this.

And uh we are one of the first to uh have this uh to the point where the national administrator of railroads for the U.S.

actually came to see our technology uh that we're using, and uh he was here last week, and uh so we had a TV spot on that, and uh the mayor was able to come and speak to folks uh when we got them all together, which is great.

Um and they were very complimentary about what we're trying to accomplish and want to use that as a model as they go forward.

So uh this is an actual video that um channel two did, um, and they're interviewing the administrator and the other individuals involved that we brought in as consultants, icon to show if there's a train.

This new technology is now in the city of Marietta to help drivers and first responders.

That's our technology that's monitoring the rail crossing.

This technology determines when a train is approaching a rail crossing, and it shares that information in real time with drivers.

Drivers get the information on Google maps or ways well before they even approach a blocked railroad crossing.

They also give this information to first responders, which has helped them reduce their uh response times by 90% when there's a train.

The train detection sensors are installed at four railroad crossings in Marietta.

There's been seven accidents in Marietta at rail crossings in the last five years.

Every three or four hours, a car and train collided in the United States.

So it's a number that's way too high.

David Fink is the administrator for the U.S.

Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

Working with train fo, which was a um was invented and researched by the Federal Railroad Administration's research department.

We can get people around when a crossings blocked for ambulances for other first responders to help them reduce their uh response times by nine.

And the city of Marietta will also install install signs at this railroad crossing and three others to alert drivers that a train is ahead, and it will actually those signs tell drivers where to go to avoid it.

Train though uses artificial intelligence to pull all of this off.

Live from Cobb County, Michelle Channel 2, Action News.

And I don't know if uh either Mark or Ronnie want to uh add anything to this for other first responders.

I believe we have a question on the city of Marietta will be able to do that.

Yes, yes, sir.

I have a question.

Yeah, is that on the app or not Marietta app?

Well, what we're doing is we it's actually uh like they said it's on the driving apps.

So we've got that, uh which is great.

We're also gonna have signage that's gonna be put as she was saying out further from the downtown.

So you'll know that as you're driving in.

So maybe if you're on the loop, you're driving in, you're thinking you're gonna come down church or whatever, you'll know to say don't do that.

You know, there's a train, you need to keep going on the loop and go around.

Um, and then there's some other ways we'll be able to get it to your phone, but um the main thing is gonna be the signage to let people know as they're coming in, and then the ways and uh Google Maps as they do it.

To answer your question, so right now it is built into the ways and Google Maps because that's part of their system.

It will be built into our apps.

Um that that will be coming.

Um we will have blank out what we call blank out signs, so it'll be the notification signs uh as you're coming in on church, um Roswell, Whitlock, Kennasol, coming down church before you cross the loop.

Um the main thing is gonna be on down, and we we're still finalizing some of the locations, but the whole point here is to give people give the drivers enough notification, advanced notification so they can make the decision do I continue that way or do I find an alternative route to go?

That is the next phase.

Uh I'm finalizing that phase now with train folk.

And then the next phase after that, um we will and part of the signage we'll still be working with uh through our preemption system with the fire department.

Um they're actually will have a blank out sign here at station 51.

So if their engine pulls out, they will know here is if the crossings are blocked.

So the driver can make the decision unless they've got a call on the square and they've got to go there.

They can start avoiding traffic now, getting cleared out.

Then the final phase of all this once we get done will be phase now.

We will tie in our traffic signals similar to what we've done with our preemption.

So when those signs are active, we're going to be flushing traffic off the square.

So fire department.

Uh the point of it is we won't have traffic sitting out on the square at that point when those when all that gets active.

But that's the final phase.

They once we get to all that.

That's not being done through our vendor.

That's being done through our other traffic engineers and through our preemption folks.

But uh that'll be the final phase.

It'll make all this work and work.

In the final phase of all this, we'd be asking too far.

Anyway to connect, what we don't want to stop training when those signs are active, that is, federal railroads.

So if a trade ends up there for longer than I think it's 20 minutes, you're supposed to record it so that they can keep an idea of why the train would be stopping long periods of time.

Yeah, I actually talked to the administrator about that, and uh he said that this is just the beginning.

So that they're time they're actually right now, they're monitoring a lot of different uh intersections and trains, and uh there's a lot they're gonna do with it themselves.

Um yeah, that's exactly where they're headed.

This this company has a technology already in place, so we we're already seeing that data built.

Um so they have that capability, they just have to make that tie-in.

Um I know it'll see they've had these rail uh railroad round tables at the at their conferences as they're trying to get information on somewhere to help uh proper uh probably interact with the railroads as well as dealing with these uh crossings.

Have you um could you um anyway you can get something type done up and get that over to the both NLC and GMA people so they know they're at least aware of what we're doing on this technology?

Yeah, that'll be great.

Um we did have so y'all know um you saw a couple of the individuals.

We had about 20 people here, and it was not only the administrator himself, he had his head of safety for the whole country, he was here.

Um, and then they had the regional administrator here.

Uh all of the railroad folks with the state of Georgia were here.

Um so it was a we even had the folks from Florida.

Uh so it was a good group uh that we were able to show off what we're doing in Marietta too.

They came engage, yeah.

I mean, like they cared.

I mean, you know, not just for a resume, they were here to learn.

And and I'll say that the administrator also we were able to talk to him during the during the time that we had with him.

And uh he was asking how things were going with the different railroads and all this kind of stuff.

We expressed you know a need to have better contacts and all that um within a day.

Uh we were contacted by CSX.

Um so uh he didn't just uh say some things in front of us, he actually made some things happen.

So we really appreciate that.

Ronnie, anything else you want to add to it?

I know, and uh the next um we actually had a um what we call a city staff Excel cohort service project.

Uh we have management development classes that we do within our organization to try to develop those future managers that we're gonna have are the folks that are gonna step up even to be department heads in the future, and so we're constantly doing uh sessions uh to give everybody that experience and that background.

Uh the latest group that we've got uh was put together by our HR director, and I'll let her say a word or two if she would like about the group before we watch the video.

So um before I talk about this class, I just want to give a shout out to my class because we uh created the Shamrock Shuffle, and myself, Betina, Mark, um, and several other leaders uh are very excited about that project.

So as you can see, the project the it works having this development course.

It works.

We are all leaders of the um city now.

So it's very exciting.

So this team um got together and they had to do a class project, and uh they decided to do a sensory um playground at one of our local schools, and they just put a lot of heart and soul into it, put a lot of sweat hours, so they're very proud of this project, and and there's some amazing people in that class, we're proud of that class as well.

So this is Hickory Hills.

So you'll see a video uh of that.

So Excel E X C E L stands for excellence in leadership, and that's really the purpose is to try and take current leaders or emerging leaders, manager supervisors, they're leading the department and enhance the skills that they have.

Also includes a group project, a community project.

And that's designed really for two reasons.

One is to give something back to the community so that the team, the 23 members of this particular team, get together and work as a team and understand sometimes the dysfunctions of a team where they're having differences of opinion, which they work through, but it's to give something back to the community.

And so they've chosen a particular recipient for this particular project, and they solicit gently solicit some donations and put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into the project in this particular case.

It's going to be building something for a school.

Our course two project tasked the class with coming up with a project that would benefit the community in some way.

So our ultimate goal was just to have a project that left a lasting impact on the population that we chose.

Course two overall focused on teamwork and conflict management, motivation, and this project really allowed the class to see these course principles put to work.

So as a class, we went from ground zero in January to total completion of the project on March 31st.

And we're here today to celebrate the completion of the outdoor sensory classroom at Hickory Hills Elementary School.

So we've created and implemented a classroom which will be used primarily by the special education department here at Hickory Hills Elementary School.

It has a communication board and some playground elements that can be used by non-verbal students, which we found out was a need for the special education department here.

Great job.

And uh also uh the way that they're gonna be our future leaders as we move in to the next decade.

So I want to thank them very much and congratulations.

Um the next one that we have is our Merriad of Power Lineman Rodeo, uh, which just concluded recently.

Uh this was the American Public Power Association alignment rodeo, which is the largest in the country.

So I have a video about that.

And we were able to host uh the individuals that were part of that at the BLW meeting that we had this month.

So very proud of them and what they've done.

Then the last video that we do have is uh something that I am happy to say is about finished basically.

Um and that's the downtown drainage project uh that we had to do uh in the square.

And so uh you'll see uh what was going on on uh the construction we were doing in the parking spaces along the square um for the uh storm water project, and that moved a whole lot quicker than way in downtown Marietta with a critical stormwater infrastructure project.

Let's take a closer look at what's happening and why it matters.

If you've driven down through the square lately on South Park, you'll see that we're doing some new stormwater infrastructure upgrades.

This project is being done because of some utility issues.

What we're doing is moving the water from one side to the other with these new storm systems.

We have a couple phases.

Phase one is complete, we're into phase two right now.

Now phase three will be over on West Park on the square side.

That will also bring us putting in new warm stormwater infrastructure that will run the water up to the north part into the new system that we put in a two years ago.

And this is hopefully gonna create a better path for the water to flow.

This project should only last up to about two months.

We're hoping to be done completely before the taste.

That's our always our goal when we work up here.

So if you see us out here working, please slow down and please watch out for us.

This project supports long-term reliability in our downtown.

The square remains open and vibrant with businesses ready to welcome you.

As we said, you noticed that they're not up there right now doing it because they moved extremely fast on that.

Um there is some paving that uh we've been asked about on that, but their final paving that'll be done.

But uh they did it extremely well, and the weather really helped us.

Uh I know uh would have been better if we'd had a little bit of rain for all the pollen we had, but uh sure helped the crew out that was out there working.

Um so that's all the videos we have, but uh we do have a few more minutes.

Uh let me go around real quick and see if anybody has any updates we need to give Chief.

I don't have a lot of updates.

We um as far as hiring, we have two current openings.

We're filling one of those on Monday, so we'll be down to one as of next Monday.

And we have about 12 candidates that we're pouring through to decide which one will take that last position.

So we'll be at full staff probably within three, four weeks at the at the most, once we get that last one hired.

Uh we have one graduating from the police academy in Rome Friday um next Friday, and we'll get him back and he will start the field training process.

So we're doing good with hiring.

Um the training center is basically complete.

We got a few small things we want to do before ribbon cutting.

So we'll be reaching out to everybody fairly soon to uh check schedule so that we can get a ribbon cutting uh scheduled uh probably probably in May, is probably what we're looking at.

Um that's been quiet.

Thank you.

Chief Milligan, anything else?

No, okay, very good.

Yes, yes, absolutely.

You know, the last couple weeks we've been watching the news.

We've had 78 degree weather in Fulton and a couple of places that have been a lot of fires.

Why are we so lucky?

I know we don't make jinxes.

No, yeah.

I was being facetious.

I mean, that's it's amazing.

I mean it's not called my first the number of fires you see on five and eleven.

Uh you're talking about structure fires or um, yeah, or let's knock on some wood real quick.

Um we've been lucky, uh you know uh it's um there's one coming eventually for sure, but I will say our prevention team and our suppression team, they get out there and do as much prevention as they can, get into those residents, talk about fire safety.

Um we're very uh involved with our apartment complexes to ensure that they're following the state laws uh to a T.

So that's a credit to Jason Gardner and his team.

They're getting out there to make sure we can do everything you can to keep them safe.

So yeah, but when you put that many people in building, it's I mean it's gonna happen.

So let's take out of it.

Yeah, I think it shows.

Yeah, yeah, they do a good lot of work out there.

Thank you, D.

We're gonna do those uh smoke detectors and some of the neighborhoods uh yeah.

I'm sure we've got we're looking at scheduling.

They'll they'll certainly reach out when they do.

Um the weather's starting to warm up, so they'll probably wait until it starts cooling off again.

But um, they'll they'll be knocking on some doors.

Sure.

They'll let you guys know when they do.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Keith.

All right.

Um, Keisha, anything else?

Yep.

Yeah, I just want to remind everybody we're having um our social security webinar on Tuesday at 11 with uh um Alicia.

She is the actual person from the Social Security Administration.

She does a very good job answering any questions that you have.

And then also on Thursday, we have skincare specialists coming to City Hall at uh one o'clock, and they also do a really good job finding.

We found so many cancers on so many employees.

And the biggest thing that we have coming up is our lawn luau, which is our city picnic on May 15th, which is a Friday, so you can still get your Hawaiian shirt on Amazon, and we probably will have a contest.

That's it.

Right, excellent.

Uh Eric, anything with parks that you'd like to bring up.

Make you stepped out for a few minutes.

Um Ronnie, uh, you're next.

Uh anything else with the legislature or any other IT issues.

Uh nothing, I mean, outside of the railroad project, Mark did a good job.

Um, on the legislature, we did have a call today with consultant and are going over things, and then just to remind you on the 24th, which is not this Friday, but next Friday, we're heading down to a GMA round table to for them to kind of talk about the end of the legislature.

Um there is a lot to unpack with that Senate Bill 33 on the property tax.

So as soon as we know more information, we will pass that along.

So all right, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Uh, we're still trying to get a handle on the property tax bill on exactly what that means for us.

There's a question out there uh that we hope we can get answered at the meeting we're gonna go to next Friday as far as what that means about the uh freeze that we have in place because that language could be interpreted to mean that the freeze does not apply our freeze does not apply, and we have to go into the state freeze uh with that.

So we're uh we're trying to get clarity there.

It wouldn't it wouldn't take place for over a year, but um it hopefully we'll get some clarity there, like I said, and then we're trying to figure out also uh if um if this governor's gonna sign that bill, and uh if he does, then is there a challenge to it?

So we will keep you updated after we know more.

Um and having said all of that, um Mark, is there anything else that you would like to bring up?

I have no idea.

It never is we have our last SPLOSS public input meeting tomorrow night, five to seven out here in the lobby.

So uh that'll wrap up our public input meetings on the SPLOS, and then we'll be coming back before you with the comments that we've received and for further discussion on the project list at the April committee meetings and then May Council meetings.

So thank you.

Appreciate it.

And that's all, Mayor.

Thank you, Bill.

I'd like to adjur and dish.