The Roswell City Council held a committee meeting on July 28, 2026, at 8:42 PM. The meeting was led by City Administrator Randy Nighton and attended by Council Members Sarah Beeson, Jennifer Philippi, Aaron Brumley, Christopher Zack, and Christine Hall, along with City Attorney David Davidson and Deputy City Clerk Rachel Reigns. The meeting covered a range of items including transportation funding applications, park renovations, public safety improvements, and HVAC upgrades.
The elected body present, Council Member Mayor Pro Tim Sarah Beeson, Councilmember Jennifer Philippi, Councilmember Aaron Brumley, Councilmember Christopher Zack, Councilmember Christine Hall, I am Randy Nighton, the City Administrator, along with the city attorney, Mr. David Davidson, and along with the Deputy City Clerk, Rachel Reigns as well. This is a public meeting, but not a public hearing. While this meeting is open to the public, we do not generally take public comments or questions during committee meetings. Motion by Council Member Beeson, second by Council Member Zack. Further discussion. Seeing none, all in favor. All right, thank you. We do have several items on our regular agenda this evening. However, uh there are several items, especially on the second page of our agenda, which are similar in nature and for presentation purposes, we will group several of those items together for presentation for expediency. We want to be as detailed and as thorough as needed, and hopefully we will be able to adjourn by midnight. Consideration of a resolution to apply for a loan in the amount of three million dollars in a grant in the amount of 1.5 million dollars from the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank. GTIB, which is administered by the State Road and Tollway Authority, SRTA, presented by Director of Transportation, Mr. Andy Flegger. Thank you. Thank you. So we had an opportunity show up, and there's a little bit of a short fuse on this, but the opportunity to apply for the loan and a grant. It's a combination with Jeep Tib. Uh they're looking for projects that improve mobility and promote economic development. This is a statewide process that they're going through to find some places to award the money. Um it is due on August 21st, is our application. What we're looking for is uh going after considering going after phase two of Green Street. This is the northern section from Cherry Way all the way up to Warsaw. It would be conclude uh burying the utilities, putting some more sidewalks in to match up what we have on the south side. Part of why we think this is a good idea. Um they are looking for projects that have a strong local commitment. We're going to lean on the work that we have already put into the south side of this project to complete it and move forward. Um they're looking for locations that can provide some economic development benefits. We can get that if we go up this road. Uh phase two cost estimates is about 4.75 million. That's about 500,000 for design, two and a half million for construction, 900,000 for right-away, about 850 for relocation and burying of the utilities. What we're uh going to go after, if you would allow us or want us to ask for 1.5 million in a grant and up to three million dollars for a loan. This would, if we want to pursue this project, this will save money out of our own budget. The loan terms are there is a 250 dollar application fee that we would have to pay out of our existing funds to make this application for the grant and loan. They are not necessarily tied together. We could get one, we could get it the other, we could get nothing. Um, and the loan terms we can work with finance to determine which is best. We will at the time of the application, we'll tell them which of these terms we would like to do, uh, five, ten, fifteen, or twenty-year term uh for that payout. Questions? All right, Mr. Flagger, thank you very much. Um any questions or comments from uh the elected body? Yes, council member Philippi. Angry again. Um I'm sorry if I missed this, but if if we don't go for this funding, when and how we get with this project get done. It would not be funded at this point. Okay, so we would be delaying it and doing that. We would delay it until we find other funding or other ways that we want to proceed this. Okay. The question is Councilmember Zek, and then I'll come to Councilmember Hall.