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

So first item is 415 2026 regular meeting minutes.

Motion to approve.

Second.

In favor, please raise your right hand.

Motion carries 5-0.

City council agenda review.

Where are I found in here?

I don't have that news.

Invocation, Mr.

Kent, you're gonna give that.

Yes, sir.

I'm ready.

The next two items.

Is anybody having objection that we approve these two awards after the on the consent agenda afterwards?

No objections.

In other words, if we pass any.

I think we can bet on the cum every now and then.

Just as long as they do pass, because we'll forgive out the award, we have to somehow either retroactively or proactively get uh pass the motion.

Mr.

Chair makes Mr.

Ghost and the sergeant of barns to retrieve them if it doesn't pass.

We'll call you Mr.

Sergeant at order.

If you want to add it to if you're going to add it to consent, no objection to consent.

Right.

It is on consent.

The consent's gonna be afterwards over.

Yeah.

So are we doing the awards before the consent?

Yeah, that's that was my point.

We're gambling a little bit.

That's the reason why that's the reason why I said it's probably better.

If you're if we're going to do that, they need to be on consent.

If they're going to be off consent, we need to have to vote proper.

Any objection to amend reaffirmed is still on consent.

No objection.

No objection.

You'll ram rod it through, right?

Yes, sir.

I just want to see Joseph Bill get the words back.

Let's not do that.

I don't know if the vendor would take them back, though.

Let's feel down.

Any comments, citizen government come?

They all gonna graduate.

Oh, that's fine.

Looks like they all are.

Um a lot of them are next door right now with their reception.

And uh seem to be excited about it.

Is that one group?

Should they call up individually or does they all come up at one time?

Um yeah, they'll um we'll they'll all be sitting here up front, and then uh we'll call up one by one because we'll have the certificate for the graduation.

They'll come up, do handshakes, we'll get a picture individually of each one of them, and then they'll form back here behind us, and then uh once we get all of them up.

Uh, we've got two of them that would like to speak for the class and make some statements about their experience, and uh then after they do that, then Kelly will get a picture of everybody together, all up here.

Okay in the Bill of Safety Month that next approximation I'm looking at, Stephanie.

I guess Daniel and Mark will present the proclamation.

Yeah, three people on schedule appearance.

Uh the minutes in the two appointments on page four on consent.

Any reason to take those off?

No, sir.

Do we need to suspend the rules and add a another denown?

Yes, sir.

There's a red cover sheet at your place that came in Monday after the agenda went out, and uh, I would request that you suspend the rule.

That's an item and then add the item and put it on consent for denial.

It has to be at the 7 o'clock.

Yes, sir.

You can't.

I just want to let you know now.

I can make the motion at the appropriate time, Mr.

Mayor, when you like.

At the 7 o'clock.

Comes out.

You can add to the agenda now, though, can't we?

No, sir, have to wait to seven.

I thought it had to be unanimous tonight.

It it does, but but you can't do it until it has to be unanimous at the 7 o'clock.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, yes, sir.

I know it's a good question.

It's the charter is a charter on that one.

Mr.

Mayor, let me stop there.

They're alleging something that occurred outside the city on I 75, which the city has no jurisdiction over.

And we get so many so many of these letters that have no basis for, but it still has to be denied, no matter how defective.

So I don't want to mention that at 7 o'clock.

Okay.

The next three items on consent.

I want to leave those on consent.

No objection.

No objection.

Yeah, no objection.

Another because the first reading, you know, it's not a public hearing, it's not on consent.

The public hearing for may have reserve.

Any comments for right now.

Take both of them.

Yes, sir.

There's nothing new with either one of those items.

More TV, you got any comments.

Consent is out.

Is that all right?

No objection.

Oh great.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um last at the work session, council requested that we um that we have them update the plan to show an additional or additional uh connections to the trail that they have on site.

So they have provided an updated detail plan um as of this morning.

Um and so it includes one additional connection to the trail from the neighborhood.

So we now have two of those.

Shelby's putting it uh up on the screen now, but she'll have it shown in green.

Uh any questions about that's not a public hearing, is it?

No, it's not a public hearing.

Um question.

I know staff have been asking about one or two uh additional uh connections to the trail.

Uh is staff okay with this with the one additional one, or is there another one that needs to be talked about?

If city council's good with it, then staff is good with it.

Okay.

And is the applicant here right now, or is I don't believe so.

No, sir.

Um do have one applicable question for the applicant, so because of that I'll ask for non-consent for right now.

I'll ask them at the seven o'clock.

So it says as is.

Give me one second, Mark.

I'll catch up.

The six items on page seven are on consent.

No objection.

No objection.

No objection.

No objection.

Now we're to propose solid voice.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh so yes, this will be the first reading for this ordinance update for section five-eight-030 concerning the placement of uh row carts on residential property.

And again, we would ask for consideration for waiving the second reading if possible to allow code enforcement to speed up enforcement actions.

That was probably why part of the reason why is probably left off consent, so we would remind ourselves to do that.

So do we approve it and what's the procedure?

We approve it and then in the approval.

We've done the there are two ways it could be done.

In practice, most of the time we've usually done a separate motion whenever we've done suspending the rules rather than make it part of the original motion.

Um that's why we gotta not have it on consent, because we gotta have it on the agenda.

But do we have to take the second vote?

It's a remote it's a reminder for us to take the vote and then take a second vote.

Rather than theoretically, it could be on consent.

It's just we didn't have to remember to then take the second vote.

So this do you have to suspend the rules and add the motion to the suspension of the suspension of the rules isn't adding an item in this case, the suspending the rules is actually to waive the reading, the second reading itself.

With that unless suspended suspended by unanimous consent.

Um that sound correct?

Yes, sir.

Correct.

Well, the thing is if it's all on the table.

Right.

We have the option to make the second rule under that one motion.

Just for for procedure.

Yeah, if nobody makes a motion, it's fine.

But if somebody does, it's already on the agenda.

Okay.

2028 SPLOS.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, this will be a public hearing as well.

Um be a public hearing uh to go over the um the proposed list for the 2028 SPLOSS and allow any public input on that list.

Uh this will be the first of two public hearings.

Next public hearing then will be in June with the final vote for mayor and council as well as the adoption of the intergovernmental agreement.

Um that'll finalize everything, and then we'll proceed giving all that back to Cobb County at that point.

Mr.

Mayor may ask a quick procedural question.

Sure.

Um for the for this one since it has the two public hearings.

I apologize, don't remember from the previous from when we did the 22 uh 22 splast.

Do we vote after each public hearing or yes, sir?

You do.

Okay.

After each one.

Now you can change it on the second vote.

But you need to vote after each public hearing.

Okay.

Thank you.

Uh no new information on this case, Mr.

Mayor.

And Mr.

Moore will be here to present this for the seven.

Did trade and agree to put a cross won't?

Yes, sir.

Is that part of the motion?

Well, this was for the other approval they agreed to do it.

And so I think they've already had correspondence and um have already been working with public works.

So that's already done, it's not part of this.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

The the one note that staff noted was that for that development, the uh provision, the the development standards for the infill residential overlay were applied, and so I think staff would recommend that that be done in this case as well.

Um Mr.

Mayor, I may ask a question following that up.

Um that condition we added as part of the part of the original the rezoning a few months ago.

The uh do we have the language on that?

So that if we were to if we if we were to ask for the condition, we have the same mirroring language on that.

That it be possible if if council is going for it to be subject to the invil overlay district development standards, but I think subject to the infill residential development overlay standards is a perfect way to say it.

Okay, Carl asked about now the road is you know that's a closed road.

That's just gonna say a closed road, right?

Croft Street.

Yes, I believe Mr.

Rice is currently working on the disposition of that road.

Is that correct, Mr.

Rice?

But it's independent of this anyway.

That is correct, independent of this, and neither one of these two properties is adjacent to that road.

Yeah, that's correct.

Okay.

The next item is Mr.

Martin, who is just in the process of retiring from the civil service board.

Any objection to that being on consent?

No objection.

No objection.

Thank you.

What page is that on?

Bottom of page eight.

Oh, okay.

I'm already on.

So mayor, uh I have a question about page nine.

On the on the one the BOW.

Sure.

It's it says with A-line item vetoed, there were three things that so did that A line cover all three of the line item veto on the agenda items.

Actually, that meant to cover the three.

And it does list the three thereafter as well.

Well, it would be line item vetoes, basically.

Yeah, but it would be more plural, I would think, versus a veto.

If you if you're willing to go if you're going for that, but with or without it, it probably can still be read.

Yeah.

Grammatically, vetoes probably reads a little bit better.

Mr.

Mary, are you okay with that?

Yeah.

You get to use your line item veto power.

The best part in this case is finance team can do their thing and finish the budget without waiting a month.

Exactly.

They knew that it could come.

Maybe not in its form, but that's very helpful.

And I got one other question to say it.

How do come in answers today?

The girls.

Second.

Congratulations.

The girls came in second in the state and try.

One last year.

The one last year, yeah.

We were voting for.

Yes.

The second is not bad.

In fact, it's pretty dang good.

Better than thirds.

Um that's great.

That is impressive.

Yeah, that's awesome.

It's a bigger school, so it's uh quite an honor.

Someday I'll be able to pronounce the coach's name.

Yeah.

That's what I that's what I was gonna say.

That's H.

Who's the lucky?

Spill that.

Bill, you got a shorter time, it's only 40 minutes, you know.

Yes, sir.

I appreciate that.

Um, if uh yeah, if y'all didn't mind, we wanted to let Ronnie uh take the lead on this to start off with uh to give an overview of what the governor has signed, what he has not signed at this point, kind of where we are with uh the legislative session.

There's a lot of moving parts right now.

Um before Ronnie starts off once again, congratulations on the 250th last night of Philadelphia.

Appreciate that very much.

Yeah, so yesterday was the deadline for the governor to either sign, not sign, or veto uh the proposed legislative the approved legislation that came through the uh Georgia assembly.

Um the governor signed 242 bills, um, and he vetoed 12 bills, and then he also issued two signing statements on two particular bills where he approved them, but then he made a statement on why.

Um the bills that I think were of most interest to us that he ended up signing was um first and foremost Senate Bill 33, which is related to property tax relief, um and how that happens.

And I think you have heard a lot about it, but what we believe to be true is that the exemption that this council has put in place will maintain in effect as long as we are better than what uh the state offers.

So that'll be determined year by year.

Um it'll be calculated out, and then the decision will be made.

Um another bill that is of concern for us is House Bill 1567, and that is the bill that's gonna call for a referendum in South Georgia uh for the voters to decide whether they want to consolidate the city of Quitman, which is also a Miag City, um, into the county of Brooks as a consolidated city-county government.

Um so he did sign that.

Um he also signed a couple other bills.

He assigned um House Bill 651, which is related to speed zones.

Um if cities want to put speed cameras in school zones.

Uh it just changes when they can operate and signage specifications for what we have to put up if if the city ever decided to do that.

Um he also signed uh it was big news today was House Bill 369, does not affect this body, but um it makes local elections nonpartisan in Metro Atlanta uh in the five county metro Atlanta area.

So it affects DAs, county commissioners, tax commissioners, clerks of superior courts, solicitor generals, school boards, um, but it does not affect uh the sheriff and a couple of others.

Um another bill that is interesting and had have had some email exchanges with Mark Rice about this bill, some discussions with GMA is Senate Bill 447.

It's listed as a soil erosion and sedimentation bill, uh, but there were also provisions in there related to permitting.

Um there is a carve out in that bill, and it is very odd language, so I thought maybe I would read it to you and then we could talk about it.

Um so it is, like I said, Senate Bill 447, and on the bill itself, at the bottom of page five, lines 111 through 119, there is a clause, and it says, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, in any county in which an airport is owned or operated, either by such county or local authority, and such airport is adjacent to 9,000 acres or more of property currently or formerly owned by municipality that has no incorporated territory within such county and any county adjacent to such county, the review time frames imposed in this subsection C of this code shall not apply unless a local act is adopted making such time frames applicable to such county, provided, however, that the effectiveness of such local acts shall be contingent upon such act being approved by majority of the voters of such county voting in a referendum thereof.

The airport in question is an airport in Paulding County, and since our county is adjacent to Paulding County, we do not believe that we are subject to uh this bill as proposed because of that carve out.

So that's something that we will continue to look into.

But having that email exchange with Mark, discussions with Bill, I think Bill's discussions with GMA, our discussions with GMA, we believe that is a carve out for the counties around Paulding.

So and our consultant has also concurred with our assessment of that.

So House Bill 463 provides an additional homestead exemption for seniors who volunteer with local governments.

Um there's some other bills like House Bill 244, um, where local governments may request additional or deadline extensions for audit filings.

Um then there are some interesting bills like the City of Austell will be moving to a city manager form of government.

The governor signed that the other day.

Um then lastly is there's a House resolution that will show up on the ballot, which is House Resolution 1243, and that is to fund next generation 911 funding.

So that will be a referendum for the voters as well.

So there are a few other bills on here that we could talk about, but I didn't want to go into too too much more detail unless council wanted to, or if there are any particular bills, whether the bills I've discussed or bills I haven't discussed that you'd like to talk about.

Yes.

Um what is next generation 911 funding?

So next generation 911, and the police chief may have a little bit better understanding of this than me, but it's just the way that 911 will be operated.

So instead of just placing a phone call to 911, you'll have multiple avenues, and Cobb County has really enacted a lot of this now.

So if you call 911, they're utilizing technology to provide support to the callers.

So they're asking a lot more questions, they're communicating to you through text, they can locate you.

Um they're collecting information through computer systems to speed up response and improve response time.

And I don't know, Chief, if you want to add anything to that.

It's also to try to spread it out more across the state as opposed to just sub jurisdictions.

Yeah, so this would be a state fund.

So when the fee that is collected on your mobile bill right now for 911, it would end up going to a state collection agency and they would disperse it to make sure that all of that technology was available to every county, like the chief mentioned.

But it has to go to referendum, so the voters will have to pass it for this to happen.

It also allows when uh and we're doing this in cob right now, but it allows them to actually basically FaceTime you.

Um if you have an accident or something goes on and they give you that out.

I hate to say it, but somebody ran into my family recently, and uh they did that in cob and said, Do you want to uh FaceTime us right now?

You know, and show us what's going on.

Um so that that's great technology, and like say they can sync in exactly where you are and know where you are, even if you don't know yourself.

Um, but there's been this big push all across the state to get it everywhere.

Um because uh with 911, the the municipalities and this counties that have a lot of money have been able to do a lot with it, and so we've got more towers, we've got more interoperability with everything else that we've got.

I mean, here every jurisdiction can talk together, but in a lot of places they can't do that.

Um and so uh there's been a huge push statewide to go ahead and make it so everybody's equal, and that uh they all have the same technology, but the smaller places don't have the money for it.

So the one thing that some of the Metro folks are a little bit worried about is if this does pass and we have to send all of our money to the state.

Is the state gonna give us the same amount of money that we've been sending them, or are they gonna take part of that to supplement the other parts of the camp the state that do not have that money?

Yeah, I mean, it seems like there's no way to not reduce the money.

Right.

I mean, under this plan.

So that means we've got to find more money somewhere else to keep what we have.

Right.

And they they've talked about statewide, they've talked about the ability to you know allow you to raise the amount that you charge on cell phones uh in order to uh bring in that extra money.

So that may end up being a part of it if it passes and goes forward.

But no data, if it goes to Atlanta, it don't come back.

Yes, sir.

Well, as much.

Right.

Right.

House bill 463, you said discount to seniors who volunteer with government.

Yeah, so I don't I have not read all the details of that bill.

Um I'm sure you have questions.

Um it's something that I can definitely look at and then get back with you.

I just wanted to mention that that that's a new homestead exemption for seniors who have volunteered with local governments.

This is considered okay.

If they don't pass the referendum in Broach County for equipment, is equipment dissolved.

I do that is not the way that I read the bill.

It would be kind of either equipment stands as its own city or it becomes consolidated.

So if everyone votes yes, then it will consolidate or does I at that point it would dissolve and become part of the county.

If it does not pass, then equipment would still stand the way that I read the language.

Um during the session, language got added to that bill to try and work the work the uh part uh the part of the jurisdiction that's still subject to the bonds and stuff from MIAG.

That it's still they're still subject to those bonds, even if it's that is correct, yes.

Even if equipment is dissolved uh combined into the county.

Yes, because I think that went back to the mayor's question about the full faith and credit.

But yes, that that language is big deal.

I mean, yeah.

149th of me egg.

Right.

Brooks County wouldn't I'd be nobody owning it.

And it has to be a city according to the me.

That's the territory, the transmission.

I can't imagine Broach County wanting to give up having a utility bid or something.

Uh they have all those assets.

Why wouldn't you know it wouldn't seem to make sense that they would want to give that up?

We already have Chris County.

It's not core deal with Chris County, so networks.

Yes, sir.

So I'll get you information on that one.

Any other questions or I know you're you're also making uh progress with uh our pension and trying to use AI as far as easier for our employees.

Um so a while back we bought some technology uh to build an AI agent or a chat bot if you want to think of it as that.

Um we worked with HR on the front end.

I think they probably wondered why it took so long, but building an AI agent is far more complicated than we realize, much different than just building an application program.

Um so it took some time.

We worked with Keisha and her staff.

Keisha was very easy to work with to give us a full list of the most common questions that employees ask about pension.

And they HR gets a lot of questions about about pension, when am I eligible?

You know, what is a magic 80, all of those normal questions.

And so we've built an agent.

Um we released it to HR last week for them to try.

So we were IT, we were the alpha testers, if you will.

They're the beta testers, so we're reviewing that to open that up to the employees if it performs the way that they would expect.

Um so we'll do a slow rollout to employees, and so it'll be our first AI agent where employees can go on there and ask questions.

And we will try to direct the employees that it's really just about pension.

Um there are some benefits questions that we've tied some knowledge into about that as well.

Um but the hope is that we can kind of offload that workload from HR because it's the same repetitive questions over and over again, might be different employees.

Um so we're doing our best to provide that.

Um and then once we're satisfied with that, we have a couple other ideas.

Um we have an idea to take that agent and build it out for citizens who want to ask questions about city code and things of that nature, you know, how do I get a permit, how to get a business license, anything that's in the city code.

So that that'll be one of the next big projects that we do.

But we'll be meeting with HR tomorrow to get their impression, unless Keisha wants to give us her impression this evening.

So we're trying to work with them to make sure that that workload, which takes up a lot of time, um, maybe we can move that away from HR and get and give them some time to do some of the other tasks that they need to do.

So in essence, it's streamlined streamlining the process.

Is that it would.

Um we have to work on making sure the employees adopt it.

You know, a lot of people still like to call and talk to a person, so we'd you know, like to give them confidence in that agent that it can answer effectively and give additional information, ask clarifying questions.

So for those of you who've been using things like law, chat GPT, Gemini, we want it to work like that, so it's very conversational.

Um but to get that experience is it's it's been very complicated.

But Jeremy Waite and his staff have done a really good job.

So we're hoping that this pension/slash benefits agent will work effectively.

Um so yes, it would streamline things, maybe take workload away from HR is the hope.

Yeah, so there are a couple of things that we built into the bot.

So if it doesn't understand, it goes into something called like a fallback routine.

Um it it's not quite as sophisticated as like Chat GPT or Gemini, but it will give an answer, and if it cannot get one, it says please contact HR, you know, because it can't answer this or it will ask in a can uh in certain instances for clarifying information.

So if you just don't put in enough, then it knows to ask.

Um but so far the response has been pretty good.

She I think Keisha gave us somewhere between like 13 and 17 common questions that she gets.

So we focused on those because that was really what we our starting point.

So it's something that we would we'll continue to evolve.

The other thing is we'll be able to collect what is being asked, and then we'll be able to work on incorporating that into the agent going forward.

So I feel probably have other questions, but I'm I think it probably goes into the underlying part of the agent.

I'm not sure how much you want to discuss that in an open session versus just one-on-one.

If it's a security, if it becomes a security thing or anything like that.

Yeah, we could probably save that either if you want it to go into executive or we could get together later.

Okay.

So will I.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

Uh next, Mr.

Mayor, uh, if we could have Keisha register come down and talk about some of the things going on in the HR department.

Good evening.

And yeah, I have to say thank you so much to Ronnie.

His team does an incredible job with our pension calculation, and his people are just constantly looking at those um calculators and making sure that they're accurate and making sure that they're as efficient as possible.

Um the the biggest challenge, people like to call, they like to come in and they like to talk.

So just getting them used to a touch point and then the technology that's available.

Um because of course we have over 800 employees and over 1,500 people on our health plans.

Um but this week we're super excited because Friday is our city picnic or the lawn luau, and the mayor is so excited, and he already has a shirt, so he's hoping that everybody else is gonna wear their Hawaiian shirt as well.

We will have a contest.

I know it's your first time coming, but we like to have fun.

We have uh a band that is actually our employees, one employee and one retiree.

It's very loud.

Um the food is very good.

It's cooked by our staff.

We have cake, we have ice cream, and we have prizes for everyone.

So if you are available, we do ask that you come out just to say hi for a little bit uh and have some fun with us.

And other than that, um we are going through an RFP process for our insurance broker.

Uh very excited about that.

So hopefully we can bring that information to you soon.

Um and we had a pension board uh this morning, which is always exciting.

We welcome you to come anytime you want.

And tomorrow we will be having a tea party to talk about menopause.

So I will record it and we can give it to all the wives and anyone else that you'd like to share that with.

I have a question.

What what time is the picnic?

The picnic starts at eleven and it's over at two.

And the new AI agent.

Is it a male voice or female voice?

It's actually on teams, so it right now it doesn't have a voice.

It's just a little a little bot that pops up.

Oh, okay.

So if it's a male calling in, it'll be a female voice, and if it's a female voice calling in, it'll be a male voice.

That would be interesting if we could customize it.

We'll have to talk to Ronnie about that.

Put Ronnie to work.

Yeah.

Just pick up the phone, right?

Yeah, any other questions about anything.

Thanks for all your support, and we will see you on Friday.

Board and Friday.

Thank you.

And next be Chief Bean.

Yes, sir.

Got a few things.

Uh in the hiring front, we have two openings.

We're picking one up on June 1st, so we'll knock that down to one, and we'll have another one shortly thereafter.

Uh the PD training building, I believe you've all received invites to the ribbon cutting on May 28th at 1 p.m.

Um, saw your road, of course.

Uh if it rains that day, we're gonna move that to June 2nd.

I think you've also received that date.

It'd be the same date and time location.

Uh not the same date, but same time and location on the 2nd.

Um little bit more work to do out there, and then we're gonna start working on the inside.

We've already got some plans in place to uh start that up right after July 1st.

So we'll we'll get to work on that real soon.

Uh the Powell in the year party was last night.

Uh it's fantastic.

I encourage everyone, I know some of you are there, but I encourage everyone to come out if you've not been to one to come out and take a look at it, because those those kids really are energized and they do a great job with their show.

Ran a little bit long last night, but it was uh a lot of fun.

Um I know we got the Citizens Government Academy graduation tonight, and next month on June 10th, we'll have the Citizens Police Academy here, and they'll be graduating as well.

Um legislation.

I wanted to talk about one piece just to let you know about it, that it affects law enforcement in a good way.

Uh the current law that was on the books prior to this one, if a local or state police jurisdiction in the state of Georgia hired an officer from another department who had not served up to two years after the end of their training.

There was a um way that that jurisdiction that lost the officer could pursue uh legal reimbursement of uh anywhere from 100 percent of the training cost to 50 percent of the training cost is prorated.

Um I think it was one month to 18 months after the end of formalized training, you got a hundred percent of your um training costs back.

18 to 24, you got 50 percent back, and we did that.

We had an officer leave us for another city in Douglas County a few months back, and we uh we reimbursed we got a reimbursement from them with 20,000.

Well, that law is now changed from 24 months and being prorated to 36 months at the end of training.

So the last day of their field training, that's when the clock starts, and if they're hired by another jurisdiction within three years of that date, uh we can receive 100 percent of uh training during salary during the academy and during their field training and the cost of any equipment uh that would be expended and couldn't be reused again, uniforms and that kind of thing.

Uniforms and that kind of thing.

So that's a plus.

It adds an additional year and it keeps people from hiring from each other as much as they have in the past.

And the officer doesn't pay it back.

The jurisdiction has to pay it.

The one doing the hiring has to pay the other jurisdiction, it's not the officer.

People get confused about that.

But it's a good piece of legislation.

The mayor signed it on May, uh, mayor.

The uh governor signed it on May 6th.

It's so it's a done deal.

It's all good.

Correct.

Make a comment about last night at the um the PAL graduation program.

The a representative from what is it, Boost was there.

They got a hundred and seventy-two thousand dollar grant uh for I guess is it for next year or I'm not sure.

Um I'm not sure when it expires, but it's it's to expand programs, expand programs.

They hired teachers, they had six teachers there during the school year, and they have summer teachers there during the summer, and they test those kids and they report back on uh their improvement over that period of time that they're in uh in session for lack of a better term.

So they they do a phenomenal job with those those kids, and that's obvious uh by uh the parents and uh kids who um who really support that and love being there.

I mean, some of the parents saying the kids can't wait to get there and don't and and really don't want to leave because it's a lot of love in that building with uh uh Danae and her uh staff.

So didn't she also say that um there was a hundred and five percent pass rate?

Yeah, graduation rate graduation rate of a hundred and five percent.

I don't know how to get 105, but I don't know.

Yeah, 100% graduation rate of people of the kids that go through PAL actually go on and graduate from high school.

Some graduate twice, apparently.

Yeah, she also mentioned that the uh they have a PAL boxer that's uh up for national competition right now.

He's already already won locally and one regionally in multiple states, and now he's in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I think she said uh competing nationally, and he's already knocked one person out in Tulsa.

So that's probably before you got to the competition.

Yeah.

Thank you, Chief.

Um Acting Chief Pachico.

I've been here 27 years, and uh we had a very unique call up on Lacey Street last week during the storms.

We had an individual unfortunately got struck by lightning.

And um, with you know, our level of care, uh, our guys were on the scene very, very fast.

Umfortunately, um, they went into cardiac arrest, but our crews got them back.

Um, so they are still um we're being very guarded with their uh condition rather still ICU, they're responding to commands.

Um, but our medical director is just giving us all kind of praise because of our quick actions.

Our crews rode in and gave them the absolute best chance of survival.

So that's something that it just uh for our crews is I guess very unique.

Um, it's a very difficult situation to analyze because it's not normal cardiac arrest, it's not from a medical event.

Um, so I just want to brag on them.

And this person is still in the ICU at Kennestone right now uh with fighting chance.

So and it wouldn't have happened without our crews.

Um on the hiring front, uh, we do have three openings right now.

Um for us, it's not really effective for us to recruit class, just three.

So if you have approval for one hiring right now, um we're gonna target some laterals.

Uh unfortunately, right now, there's the Massy conference going on in Metro Atlanta, and we're fortunate to host one of the classes over our training grounds.

Um, we get a lot of people, we get a lot of exposure, and we've actually hired from that, so we may actually end up getting some some response from that.

So it's good for us.

And Massie, um, it's a Metro Atlanta conference.

Uh we've been teaching it about three or four years now, and we host one of the classes at our training ground, and it's nice to see when we first started the class, it was just a couple connex boxes, um, and we did a truck class, and now we're showcasing a five-story tower.

Um, and the class is still the same.

Um, but our our facility is growing, and people are really beginning to recognize uh what we we what we put out there.

Um it's nice for us too because we get to teach it, uh it doesn't cost anything to teach it.

The the conference supplies all the the funds and everything to support it, but we get vouchers for our members to go take other classes uh here and there.

Um also um this is also time of year for us, it's not really really hot, but all our members do what we call the blitz.

So we um everyone puts all their gear on, we breathe air, and we do like a functional fire fire ground stuff.

So all our members are running through that right now, except for me.

I was on vacation last week, I missed it, but I've got to do the makeup and uh we uh basically evaluate everybody's fitness, and it's a good competition slash just to get everybody's in there in their gear and stuff like that.

So just to brag on our folks a little bit, and uh I know I talk fast, but that's it.

Any questions for me?

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Right.

Next would be uh Mr.

Rice.

Any updates that he may have the month of May is always busy for public works with uh health approximation tonight, but next week is Public Works Week.

Uh and we'll have our annual employee appreciation luncheon and departmental awards presentation.

That'll be Friday the 22nd at noon over at Operations Facility down next to the BLW.

All of you have been invited, and so we hope all of you can swing by and be with us during that that event.

Um we've also set a groundbreaking date and time for Rottenwood Creek Trail for June the 4th at 2 p.m.

Um if you've seen the calendar invite, I'll put a little snippet of where that's going to be at uh over off alumni uh drive.

So uh picking a spot along Rottenwood Creek Trail is was a little picky.

Um little choosy there, trying to figure out the best plot to have that groundbreaking, but we we figured out the best spot for parking and accessibility for everybody.

So I hope hope to see everybody there too.

Uh a couple other things real quick.

Um we're finishing up the stormwater repair over on McDonald's Street.

That should be finished up Friday.

Paving should be finished Friday.

Um Friday evening, Friday afternoon at the latest.

That's the good news.

Bad news we found another stormwater pipe that is failing that we're gonna have to repair over on Fairground Street.

So that one will be coming up, and we'll have a uh somewhat of a lane closure on that on that street, and that is be between Morningside and um Bernie coming up.

So some of our stormwater infrastructure is continuing to fail uh on occasion, so we'll continue working on it as we have time.

Um three other um mid-block crossing updates.

So we've had an existing mid block crossing over at Victorian Park, and we've ordered a uh rapid flashing beacon to go there.

The other two the council has recently approved over on uh Polk Street and Chestnut Hill, all that equipment has been ordered, and as soon as it comes in in the next few weeks, we'll get get those PO's cut and contractor be starting to work on that.

So that's all I have.

Anyone's got any questions?

Okay, thank you all.

Thank you, Mr.

Rice.

Very good.

Mr.

Deckman, did you have anything from Parks and Rec or Yeah, yeah.

Just wanted to uh bring everybody up to speed if you're not aware of all the events.

This is quite a season for uh Parks and Rec from an event standpoint.

Um this month, uh and actually our first two events went well are May Retta days and uh the the taste went well.

Um right now in the in this month we're in the middle of brown bag lunch, where every Thursday at noon we have a small one two-person band that comes up to Glover Park, plays for a small crowd down there.

Um the May concert, last Friday of the month, the 29th.

It is A1A, a Jimmy Buffett uh tribute band.

It's very popular.

Moving through to one kind of a one-off that we don't have all the time is our Marietta Soccer Fest uh events, which are is going to be at a two-part event starting it's going from the 12th to the 16th, 14th.

Um it is a viewing party on the square and a small festival on the 12th and 13th, and then on the 14th, we're having uh activities for kids, um interactive activity, soccer activities down at uh Franklin Gateway, all part of the FIFA you know, uh celebration that we've got going on.

Um something that we've got every year, Juneteenth.

Uh the celebration of Juneteenth will start on the 19th.

Um that's a three-day festival on a Friday, a concert, Saturday, a festival that they close downtown, and then uh I'm sorry, Friday, Saturday they close down.

Um and then Sunday is a smaller um quieter gathering in the park itself with music and a little bit of celebration.

Um going back to the concert series last week, uh last Friday in June.

Uh we've got um that is guardians of the jute box.

I don't know their exact uh there you go.

So that's the June concert, and then we roll into once again uh for this year's 250th anniversary of the United States.

Um we're doing a uh concert on July 4th Eve, July 3rd, which is a Friday.

Uh the band is driving and crying, uh which is uh some people know it, some people don't.

It's just yeah.

And then our uh typical uh um our annual um uh July 4th celebration that starts off with our parade in the morning, the festival during the day downtown, fireworks um uh at night, which are going to be fortified this year.

We've got um a little bit, we're putting a little bit more money into the fireworks, and so they're gonna be, I believe, longer and just a lot more exciting.

And then after that, the the for a little while, the parks and rec staff gets to kind of like take it easy a little bit and get ready for the fall.

So that's all I got.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Rich.

And we've got a through a couple videos we could show real quick, but Sculpting, do you have some a question you're gonna ask on that?

No, just the uh and I know the Kwanas usually does the flags out, and the public will be doing that for a lot longer period this this time for the 250th, but also the city having the Betsy Ross flags.

Absolutely, yeah.

We're as the decorations for the square go.

I mean, you've seen a lot of them already, the lights that have been put up and the different uh bunting and all the rest.

And here's some examples of of what we've been doing.

Um you will see uh flags that Kwantis is going to be doing in conjunction with us going up this month, and it'll go through uh the mid part of July, and that'll be uh in association with a bunch of original flags of the United States that will be going up also.

So you'll see those all around the downtown area.

And like I say, that'll be happening in the next uh week uh starting that.

Um we do have uh a couple videos.

One is the uh we did have AL Burris here um for a visit to City Hall.

So uh they came to four different departments, so we wanted to kind of show you that the water and uh their favorite part was uh pretending like they were all of you.

Um and then we also have one in conjunction with the Switzer Library, which is promoting America 250 challenge for reading.

So I want to show you that special reading program celebrating America's 250th with the Georgia Reeves Beamstack Challenge found here at Sweitzer Library.

Tell us more about the statewide reading challenge program.

The Georgia Reeves America 250 challenge is a statewide initiative to promote civil literacy, literacy, and historical inquiry.

You can track your reading, the Georgia Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Also has an America 250 reading challenge.

So, what type of genre will people find on this curated list?

So it they are historical in nature, they celebrate America 250 by just taking a look at all of the diverse voices that make our country what it is.

To learn more about this BeanSat Challenge and the hours at Switzer Library, where you, Marietta, can come find these books, especially curated for the challenge.

That's just one of the many collaborations that we have going on with all types of groups without within the city and outside the city, actually, for the 250th.

Um want to uh talk about that real quick, and then we'll have one last little video.

Um we've got different items that we've already got in this lobby of City Hall.

Uh we are gonna have on loan from KSU, We the People, which is an exhibit uh that has 12 large panels that's gonna arrive on June the 6th, and we'll be on display in the lobby until June 26th.

We uh have additional poll banners that will be going up on the North Merida Parkway, uh, which will be installed Friday.

Um and those are talking about the two hundred uh and fiftyth, and then we um will actually be on the cover of the May issue of the May June issue of Cobb and Focus magazine.

Uh and that will be the two hundred and fiftyth celebration in Marietta will be the cover story on that one.

Uh we've got a website which is two hundred and fifty inmarietta.com, which has all of the events from all the different groups.

Uh we're selling shirts, we'll have hats and other things that we sold also in all of our locations, including the museums, and we're selling them at the concerts.

Um and then the Quantas flag installation and the uh original flags will be scheduled uh for May twenty-third, and those are gonna be left up until around July 11th, uh going on with that.

So real excited about all the different activities uh that you're gonna hear about going on with the 250th.

And lastly, would like to uh show a short video that is uh an aerial view of what is going on now at the National Women's Soccer League site uh that we have on Franklin Gateway now that they are under construction.

That's our facility across the top of it, which you can see from that.

There's they got a lot of equipment down there and they're starting to really do a lot of work from the road.

You really can't see that much of it.

And everything that you see where that tree line is, that is all part of the site.

So there's that tree line will go.

It will go all the way back to where uh you see the next tree line, which is in the back uh near I-75.

So, I think that's a good thing.

Thank you, we appreciate it.

And we just finished at 6.59.

That's it.

If we can hold her bear for one minute, we'll start.

I think it's officially I'm adjourning the city council agenda review.