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The Sandy Springs City Council held its regular meeting on December 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM in the Studio Theatre at City Hall. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Rusty Paul. All council members were present except Councilmember Jody Reichel. The meeting included a public comment, a clean FY 2025 audit presentation, a public hearing, and approval of several major contracts and grants. The council unanimously approved all voting items. The meeting adjourned at 7:12 PM following an executive session on litigation.
Has arrived, so we will start this evening's meeting. I'd like to call this meeting of the Sandy Springs City Council to order for Tuesday, December the 2nd, 2025. Will the city clerk please make the announcements and call the roll? Good evening, Mayor and Council. First, I would like to remind everybody in attendance to please silence all cell phones and other electronic devices at this time. Individuals who would like to provide a public comment at a city council meeting are required to complete and submit those public comment cards in advance of the meeting. Public common cards are available online, neck the chamber entrance. Those providing public comment may be allotted up to three minutes to speak on their single chosen topic. As I call roll, please confirm your attendance. Mayor Rusty Paul. Present. Councilmember John Paulson. Councilmember Melody Kelly. Councilmember Melissa Mueller. Here. Councilmember Jody Rochelle, absent. Councilmember Tibby de Giulio. Councilmember Andy Bauman. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all. Madam Clerk, have we received any public comment cards? Yes, we've received one public comment card this evening from Miss Leisha Stokes. All right, Miss Stokes. Good evening. Council members and Mayor Paul. And good luck tonight. Thank you. My name is Leisha Stokes, and I live in the Meadowgate neighborhood off of Nesbitt Ferry at 4105 Meadow Gate Drive in District One. I'm a Sandy Springs native growing up on Brandon Mill across from what is now Lost Corner Preserve, but what we know as Mr. Ed's property, with he lived there with his sister Peggy, which she bequeathed to the city once she passed. Rest in peace. And we measured the trees and got the park to be what it is. So enough about me. I'm here tonight to bring to the council's attention to a historic part of Sydney Springs, the Woodall House, that is imminently at risk of being destroyed, with permits being requested by the new owners for complete demolition. So if you've driven down Nesbitt Ferry in our far part of Sandy Springs, surely you have seen the historic Woodall House located about halfway down the street on the right. For over 40 years, the previous owners lovingly restored, maintained, and updated the original 12-room farmhouse built in 1854, as well as several other historic additions on the property that they had relocated from other sites in the southeast. But the property was sold over the summer, and it recently became to our attention that the new owners had filed permit requests for full demolition of the property and buildings. This is obviously alarming to us and many of our neighbors in the area because we all love this beautiful home for the historic value and the origins of our area. According to what I've read, it is the oldest existing maintained home in Sandy Springs. For a quick history on the Woodall House, in 19 in 1854, Charles Newton Woodall built the farmhouse for his wife, Martha Caroline Humphreys Woodall and their children on their 500-acre land that spanned from the Chattahoochee River to Happy Hollow Road, which is now Happy Hollow Road in