Good afternoon.

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

First item of business is agenda work session minutes from August the 10th.

Motion to approve.

Okay.

That's always the 12th.

Okay.

All those in favor, please raise your right in.

Motion carries.

6-0.

DOW report, Mr.

Kim.

Mr.

Moore.

I'm going to start and Ron's gonna go over because a couple of things that we went that we um discussed and approved were uh involving contracts.

One was the large load, and the other was uh non-emergency use of our uh staff.

So if I can find the right papers, the employee recognition was um the first thing, and it it always amazed me and and congrats to the staff and Bill and everybody that um that supports our staff, and and we have a tremendous the uh well we have a staff that has a long history and that says something about the city and working for the city and all those who are involved, and I'm wanting to thank uh uh Bill and the staff for it for those, and uh the first thing that we've started doing is to recognize those employees, uh some of the employees at each meet each meeting.

And the list of if I can find employees were in the customer service department this this time, and so we had and I'm gonna some of these names I may not be able to pronounce correctly, but you can help me, Ron.

Amanda Kosaparoski, I was close customer service coordinator with 23 years of service.

Kim Coosey, a data specialist, 31 years of service.

Arthur Comer is the AMR field technician with 24 years of service.

Tom Costello, AMR field technician with 27 years of service, and Edgar White, lead meter reader, 26 years of service.

And I forgot which one of these uh was the one that cuts off your meter.

Uh I mean if you don't pay your bill.

Tom Costello used to.

Right.

That was brought up.

Uh I think Terry.

Yes, we can.

So uh yes, they do.

That's all always nice to see that you know our employees like working here and been here for a long time.

So that says a lot about the city.

All right, all right.

Well, thank you.

Um the uh the employees that Sherry introduced all had 20 plus years with the city, so they probably averaged about 25 years as a group.

Yeah, it's about 125 years ago.

We also had our new uh newest board member participate today in the board meeting.

Dr.

Stephanie Meyer says she uh uh thinks she'll be a great addition to to the board that we already have.

Uh just moving through the agenda.

We had a really good meeting today.

Sherry Rashad went over the a couple of strategic plan items.

The first one was the uh technology that we use in customer service.

She went through the uh to the all the technology that we use in billing, mailroom meter reading, and how all that works and ties and interfaces with other uh other systems within the city, and then the uh she didn't really go over it, but we had our policies and procedures that we compare ourselves to to other utilities, Georgia Power, Cobb MC, Graystone, and all that remains uh very competitive, and there wasn't a lot of movement in in any of those policies.

Then we moved on into the electrical department, and the first item was our non-emergency mutual aid agreement.

And what this is is a uh contract for us if we want to is to do some work for other cities when we have the time that it's not an emergency.

So we you know, for storm comes through and they call for mutual aid, we go and help.

But sometimes cities uh just get behind.

I know uh there's a couple close by that that need some assistance that we may help if we if we have the time, but this contract will give us the uh opportunity to do that.

Pays for the uh salaries, uh all the equipment, any material that we use, and it'll all be closely, it won't be any overnight stays, so we don't have to pay the per diem or anything like that.

So the board approved that.

storm comes through and they call for mutual aid we go and help but sometimes cities uh just get behind uh no uh there's a couple close by that that need some assistance that we may help if we if we have the time but this contract will give us the uh opportunity to do that pays for the uh salaries uh all the equipment any material that we use and it'll all be closely it won't be any overnight stays so we don't have to pay the per diem or anything like that so um the board approved that actually will be uh opportunity for us to do some training learn some new techniques potentially and um just uh offset some of our costs in a differ uh an additional revenue stream uh moved it from that into the large load contract so uh eric went over that and explained it uh and the I think the the it's been reviewed by the board, council, the attorneys, everybody and I just uh would probably point out the one thing is that the uh part of the contract that has not been part of the contract before is all the um stipulations that council and the uh uh zoning commission put in place and that's part of the contract and that's in there for uh I think uh Mr.

Bruton had uh one change kind of a grammatical type change but other than that that was uh that was all that was changed on that and it was approved and moved to go forward and uh then griff uh I don't know he's I don't know if he's here tonight but he gave the water authority report financials were not available since we've been meeting uh on the third they didn't have time to finalize the numbers for the BLW and then it was um I'll skip over the chairperson's report because you know I can do mine and then turn it over to the mayor to to close out but the uh we have a uh Liebert unit that's out of uh one of the cylinders in it has quit working there's two per unit we've got two units down there so we've got four cylinders one's out it's about two hundred thousand dollars to replace that unit so we're gonna opt to repair it so we did a budget amendment for thirty five thousand to uh take care of that and then announce the public power clean water week is October fourth through the tenth with the luncheon being on October the eighth starting at eleven thirty so we did uh invite all you guys would like for you to be there and enjoy some catfish and uh kind of mingle with some of the employees so with that said with that budget amendment bill does there have to be an adjustment okay so that's um and I would like to say I'll turn it over to the mayor unless there's any questions on the what I've covered so far and if not questions on a contract or no okay anybody all right Mayor Mayor the report from um Miag is one of the focus right now is our transmission budget double which is a lot of money that even though the data centers aren't going to cause any increases they are that to be more efficient had to be more lines to cities that don't have 'em and then but the big picture is w when it's a whole country I mean Josh dealing with uh Georgia power and Oglethorpe and Cob MC is it they're gonna go up a ten mils Georgia power ten mils and seven mils and gigawatts 17 gigawatts per seven gigawatts for George Power 10 of the 17 we can Georgia we have a social share in the of expenses on transmission lines and Georgia power rather do it based share on the ratio today than seven years from now.

I mean that I mean that's gonna be 17 gigawatts and we'll have one probably so that that's gonna be the you know part of it.

They'll want us to share but just little things like that.

That you know it's just like we are with them with the clean up on coal dust on that other so that's that's just part of it but that's to have this great increase in electricity flowing it's it's got to have a high efficient transmission not from Georgia to Alabama to South Carolina to Florida.

So we're gonna see quite a bit of that and then I s second we made a motion and Kevin Moore's just like the city attorney said you gotta have a reason for moratorium you just can't kinda say it we said yes and basically it was to come a line in the city and second y over a enter normal business decision enterprise funds like can we would we have to go out and buy more you know would we have to go you know take more risk so we you know just part of it 'cause and that would include both and the moratorium is basically not just for Mirietta.

The parts of Marietta that are not covered by MIA.

You know, we're hoping did we have influence if Ford Six wanted uh one and one in and cob energy came in.

So I just close enough on territory that we all ought to work together.