The City of Roswell held a committee meeting on March 10, 2026, chaired by City Administrator Randy Knighton. The committee discussed and moved forward several agenda items, including a drone first responder trial, multiple code enforcement ordinance initiations, a horse stable zoning amendment, transportation agreements, and a discussion on public records policies. No public comments were taken as this was a committee meeting.
So the climate looking good. All right, if we can assemble we will begin our committee meetings in exactly one minute. One minute we will begin our committee meetings. Just a moment. I'm Randy Knighton, the city administrator, along with the Deputy City Administrator, Mr. Joe Q Sack, and along with Michelle Miller. The executive assistant to the council. And also the deputy city clerk. And we certainly welcome everybody to our meeting this evening. The purpose of committee meetings are for the city departments to convey information to mayor and city council and discuss initiatives listed on the published agenda as well as provide updates of vital information essential for the operation of city government. By ordinance, the committee consists of the mayor and members of the city council as well as the city administrator. And this is a public meeting, but not a public hearing. Therefore, while we certainly welcome members of the public who are in attendance this evening, uh we do not generally take public comments or questions during committee meetings. Public comments and questions are of course received on the second and fourth Monday of each month in our city council meetings, as well as the fifth Monday in open form. And we do encourage residents to reach out to our city staff for any questions or needs, concerns that you may have. We also encourage you to view Roswell365.com for a calendar of events. And we certainly welcome those questions and comments from the residents of Roswell and businesses at Roswell. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the committee meeting minutes for February 24th, 2026. Do we have a motion? Motion by Mayor Robichot. We have a second on the minute, second by Councilmember Brumley. Any further discussion? All right. Seeing none all in favor? All right, that passes unanimously. Thank you very much. The first item on the regular agenda, item number two, consideration to enter into a new agreement with Brink B R I and C Brink and Motorola Solutions for a trial drone as first responder. Initiative takeoff program, and that will be presented by our police chief, uh Mr. James Conroy and our 911 director, John Potrabowski. Outstanding. That's perfect. Got it. All right. Good evening. All right, thank you. So this is a consideration to enter into agreement with Brink and Motorola Solutions for a trial program for a drone as a first responder program. What it would be is a six-month implementation and then one year at no charge to the city. After that, the approximate cost would be about 249,000. And that's an estimate. It would be based upon what we discovered during that first year trial, if it is a solution that we want to proceed with. Gives us an opportunity for one year to try this program. What is a drone as a first responder? What it is is when we get a 911 call, we would have right now three drones stationed throughout the city, one on each end, and then one towards the center of the city, and it would be dispatched automatically to certain calls for service. Um vehicle accidents, crimes in progress, missing persons, situations, uh fires, uh, any fire call and a fire alarm call. It would be automatically dispatched, and that's something we could adjust that list as well. Some of our neighbors, uh City of Brookhaven police has been doing this for a number of years. They're one of the leaders in this industry. And Sandy Springs started a very similar drone program uh two weeks ago to where this program is. And what it is, the drone launches immediately goes to that incident location and gives us video imagery of what's going on. Uh, I use an example that I've told many of you when we had um the youth day parade, we were testing our drones in the parking lot showing them to the kids, and we got a call of a house fire in the area.