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The Norcross City Council held its Regular Meeting on Monday, August 10, 2026, at 6:33 PM in the Council Chambers. Councilmembers present were Mayor Craig Newton, Councilmember Andrew Hixson, Councilmember Josh Bare, and Councilmember Matt Myers. Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Gaynor was absent. The meeting featured a special proclamation honoring the late Councilmember Marshall Cheek, the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2027 budget and property tax millage rate, and several policy debates regarding a demolition moratorium, data analytics, and audio/video equipment.
The following items were approved unanimously under the consent agenda:
appreciate that every three years that doesn't make any sense to have that you can tell us to skip that yeah I mean I I was like if we're gonna pass a sixty million dollar budget because skip over thirty five hundred well only reason I I agree with you if if it's our break fix and we have to do we have to yeah well it's on it's it's an itemized yeah and so it's like 13 13 1350 for one for one year and two thousand four hundred two thousand forty dollars for year two and three and I was like it comes with one year maybe approved yeah I'll probably just condition to prove it on the upside you can always button as a ceiling which I do you know I uh lobby hard for Josh to uh lower the military you want to do that this this would be there's last minute you'd never see someone march so fast out the back I think we I think we can get to to below six in the next two years with the homestead and then the occupational business yeah with that type of stuff of course we make the charge right size I mean we always talk about too much of our tax value is coming from residential none of we have when I first got on office like seventy percent was from taxes from like home from like yeah uh no from business from all taxes but we've diversified that a little better now yeah but but you can diversify within taxes and more business taxes so for for a business it might seem less impactful there'll be some impact but less impactful while the residency had a major impact my favorite example works with the we could charge them after 100 we could charge them extra 20 they won't like it they wouldn't even know the difference I retract that statement I don't I they still wouldn't know the difference just make sure we provide adequate services to meet that we're gonna tour you do it okay okay it's good to see your face okay good afternoon everyone thank you all for being here with us tonight we're about to get started with our council meeting um our regular council meeting today is Monday August 10th and the time is six thirty three and we will begin with uh our