2024-05-13 · City Council · Transcript · Regular Council Meetings

--- title: Regular Council Meetings date: 2024-05-13 source: 2024-05-13_Regular_Council_Meetings.wav --- [0:00:42, 0:00:43]: So [0:01:05, 0:01:11]: So she said it does so uh the things are valuable my desk who things are my desk? [0:01:31, 0:01:47]: Okay, I've been told we're in live. Okay. All right, good deal. All right, ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate you being here. And sorry about my delay, but uh obviously the ceremonial part of our meeting. And uh we have several proclamations uh to read today. [0:01:47, 0:01:52]: And I've been giving my orders so um so we'll start with the public service recognition week. [0:01:52, 0:01:53]: Now um [0:01:54, 0:01:58]: Public service recognition disinvolve our police officers? No. [0:01:58, 0:02:09]: Excuse me? All city workers. Well, all the city workers are here. Come forward please. Every anybody anybody works for the city, come on. Come on up. Come on up. [0:02:20, 0:02:29]: See, that's it's a whole lot of y'all. That's good. That's what makes that's what really makes the city run. All the all the all the employees. They do the all the heavy lifting. [0:02:29, 0:02:30]: All right. [0:02:31, 0:02:51]: Come on, Lisa. Come on, Lisa. Double time. Who? Yes. Dimitri. Superman. All right. Check this out. Good stuff. All right. Public Service Recognition Week, May 5th to May 11th, 2024. Whereas Public Service Recognition Week takes place in [0:02:51, 0:02:55]: in the first week of May and will be held from May fifth to May eleventh this year. [0:02:55, 0:03:00]: Верезев сі єври є снайфа, де ферсвикмей газ бин сетасай. [0:03:00, 0:03:02]: The public service recognition we [0:03:02, 0:03:08]: A time to thank dedicated public servants for federal from the federal, state, local, and governments across the country. [0:03:09, 0:03:27]: Whereas initially public service was considered joining the military to provide security for our people. As cities sit as cities and states formed and grew into empires, the Congress and those who work in education and public service careers. Civil servants ensure government works for the American people. [0:03:27, 0:03:37]: Whereas each day, millions of government employees serve their fellow citizens, and we as a nation recognize a value valuable role they play in the community. [0:03:37, 0:03:48]: It takes thanks to the efforts of public service employees that we are able to go about our daily lives. Now therefore I Anthony S. Ford by Virtual Authority Vested in me as a mayor city of Stockbridge, Georgia. [0:03:48, 0:04:08]: And on behalf of City Council members Elton Alexander, Alana Barber, Cowberry, Lakesa Gantt and Afonso Thomas to hereby recognize May 5th to the 11th, 2024, as Public Service Recognition Week, the great city of Stockbridge. And thank you for your service unto the citizens and the businesses in Stockbridge. Witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand. [0:04:08, 0:04:24]: hand in the great seal of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia, on the 13th day of May, year of our Lord, 2024. And I signed a proclamation along with the click Vanessa Holliday. And ladies and gentlemen says Vanessa Holiday is standing right next to me. I'm going to issue this to you, man. Thank you, man. [0:04:25, 0:04:26]: A [0:04:29, 0:04:49]: Now now I normally we open it up stores so I anybody and words of wisdom, I mean a whole lot of y'all so I mean hey, conversation, comments, whatever. For me, I just love what I do. I I appreciate everybody here and I thank you, Mayor, for for this, but I love what I do. All right. Anybody else? Sarah? I mean [0:04:48, 0:05:03]: Please help you. Yeah, exactly. I d I just want to say that it's a great organization to work for. Um and we really do love the citizens and as staffers we work for the citizens. So thank you for allowing us to serve you. Okay. Fantastic. Anybody else? [0:05:04, 0:05:24]: I would just like to take the time to say thank you for the work that you do that makes things well. We do the legislative part, but certainly you make it the execution part uh is excellent. So continue to do what you're doing, uh making the city shine. That's right. You do all the heavy lifting. Heavy lifting. [0:05:24, 0:05:32]: Community connects. Okay, absolutely. All right. So we need to take a roof photo there. Okay. All right. Come on over here, ladies. Come on down. Come on down. [0:05:33, 0:05:34]: [334.8, 343.9]: Well, well yeah yeah that is right. Ladies on one s come on, mix come on, come on ladies, come on in here. Come on. Next to these fellas here. [0:05:44, 0:05:45]: All right. [0:05:46, 0:06:00]: Come on, come on, come on. Just foot on down. Yeah, let's sit out. On this side? Okay. Come on. Alright, you good? Come on, come on. Right here. Alright. You got it? [0:06:01, 0:06:02]: Yeah, we stripped it out. [0:06:04, 0:06:08]: Yeah, but I need the getting fired. [0:06:13, 0:06:16]: Easy. Um three one, two, snap. [0:06:20, 0:06:34]: Demetrius, come in. It's for all employees. Okay. Is somebody else coming? No, no, no. It's for all employees. Rosma? Come on. Exactly. [0:06:35, 0:06:44]: Juwan hiding back here too. I see him. He's not going black hair. Okay. Okay. [0:06:45, 0:06:47]: And I like that. [0:06:49, 0:06:49]: Yeah. [0:06:54, 0:06:57]: All right, thank you very much. Appreciate you. [0:06:57, 0:07:00]: Thank you, thank you, thank you. [0:07:05, 0:07:07]: Those those building pump to the south of this. [0:07:10, 0:07:15]: Well I I did that and and actually what's up next is Professional Municipal Clerks Week. [0:07:16, 0:07:19]: So clerk's office, come on back up. [0:07:21, 0:07:22]: Nothing. Okay. [0:07:26, 0:07:29]: You're missing. [0:07:32, 0:07:40]: This next proclamation is a professional municipal clerk's re week, May fifth to May eleventh, twenty twenty four. [0:07:40, 0:07:51]: Whereas the Office of Professional Municipal Clerk is a time honored by a vital part of the local government that exists throughout the world. Whereas the Office of Professional Municipal Clerk is the oldest among public servants. [0:07:51, 0:08:05]: Whereas the Office of Professional Municipal Clerks provides a professional link between the citizens, the local governing bodies, and the agencies of the government at other levels. And whereas professional municipal clerks have pledged to be the ever mindful of their neutrality. [0:08:05, 0:08:08]: and impartiality rendering equal service to all. [0:08:08, 0:08:28]: Whereas the professional municipal clerk serves as an information center on functions of local government and community. Whereas professional municipal clerks continue to strive to improve the administration and law affairs of the Office of Professional Municipal Clerk through participation in educational programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meeting of their state provisional contract. [0:08:28, 0:08:48]: country and international professional organizations and whereas it is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the office of professional municipal clerk. Now therefore I Anthony S. Ford by virtual authority vessel in me as the mayor of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia. On behalf of City Council members and Lana Barber, Kyle, Berry, Lakisha Gantt and Fonsel Thomas who hereby recognize a week [0:08:48, 0:09:01]: on May fifty eleventh, twenty twenty-four as Professional Municipal Clerks Week, and further extend the appreciation to our professional municipal clerk and members of the clerk's office team for the vital services to perform their experimentary dedication and to the Stockbridge community. [0:09:02, 0:09:08]: And witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and great seal the city of Stockbridge, Georgia, on the thirteenth day of May, year of our Lord. [0:09:08, 0:09:15]: Twenty twenty four and I signed this along with a clerk Vanessa Holiday once again. Okay. [0:09:17, 0:09:18]: Yeah. [0:09:18, 0:09:30]: Again, I love what I do. I appreciate this mayor, but I want to extend this to the newest member of our team. We have an amazing team. We it's a lot of work, but we love we love it. [0:09:30, 0:09:31]: And I want to [0:09:32, 0:09:35]: Give this to you, Cassandra. She's the newest member of our team. [0:09:37, 0:09:57]: Speech, speech, speech. Speech speech. I think Shana summed it up better. It's just my privilege to be able to serve and to extend my talents to the uh service of this of the city. Thank you all so much. We're taking another picture. Yes, sir. Okay. Ladies, would you come on over, please? [0:09:57, 0:10:08]: Uh you gotta move a little bit down that way in a minute. No, I'm I'm fine, I'm fine right here. I need to do it on a balance it out. Come up sound please thank you. [0:10:21, 0:10:23]: Thank you. Thank you. All righty. [0:10:29, 0:10:32]: Thank you. [0:10:33, 0:10:37]: Mr Aaron, sir, come on up please. [0:10:43, 0:10:50]: Oh I'm sorry. I should have mentioned your name. Come on gentlemen, come on this side. What on this side please. [0:10:52, 0:10:57]: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna honor National Public Works Week and um [0:10:57, 0:11:00]: We have the public works director and his uh assistant. [0:11:02, 0:11:03]: Yeah. Fucking [0:11:04, 0:11:08]: God takes care of all the business. All right. [0:11:08, 0:11:28]: Whereas public service, excuse me, public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality of life, well-being of the people of the city of Stockbridge. And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals, [0:11:28, 0:11:43]: engineers, managers, employees at all levels of government and the private sector, who are responsible for rebuilding, improving, protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential to our s for our citizens. [0:11:43, 0:12:03]: Whereas in the public interest of the citizens, civic leaders, and children in the city of Stockbridge to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest in understanding the importance of public works and public works programs, their respective communities. And whereas in the year 2024, Mars the 64th Annual National Public Works sponsored, well, Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works [0:12:03, 0:12:08]: Public Works Association, Canada Public Works Association be in now. [0:12:09, 0:12:17]: Therefore, I Anthony Sword, by virtue of authority, vested in me as the mayor of City of Stockbridge, Georgia, and on behalf of City Council members Elton Alexander, Ilano, Barber Cowberry. [0:12:17, 0:12:37]: Lakeisa Gann and Fonzo Thomas do hereby designate the week of May 19th to 25th, 2024 as National Public Works Week. I urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association, government agencies in activities, events, ceremonies designated to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, employees, and to recognize the sustainable. [0:12:37, 0:12:43]: sustainable contributions they make in protecting our national health, safety, and advancing quality of life for all. [0:12:43, 0:12:57]: In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand the great seal of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia, on the thirteenth day of May of our year year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty-four. And once again I signed the proclamation along with a clerk with us all day. Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate you. [0:13:02, 0:13:13]: Words? Any words? Uh thank you, Mayor Ford. I just say it's great to have a great team that allows you to do things. So I'm really proud of the guys that serve in the public works department. [0:13:15, 0:13:15]: Yeah. [0:13:19, 0:13:27]: On behalf of Public Works, we like to thank the city for acknowledging us and we like to just continue doing a good job for the citizens. Thank you. All right. [0:13:30, 0:13:50]: We can do all the heavy lifting. I would like to say that these gentlemen have done an amazing job in the city. They really have come up and stepped up for us. They've allowed us to raise the bar in the city. The work that you see out here along East Atlanta Road and the roadways. They do [0:13:50, 0:13:55]: that they do that work. Not the so sexy work, but they get it done to make us look good. [0:13:55, 0:13:56]: Appreciate you. Absolutely. [0:14:00, 0:14:05]: When what we haven't taken for that's right. [0:14:09, 0:14:13]: Congrats. [0:14:15, 0:14:22]: All right. We got National Police Week. So our chief and your your officers please. [0:14:22, 0:14:25]: Sabris finus, the serve and protect. [0:14:26, 0:14:27]: At all times. [0:14:29, 0:14:33]: Ladies and gentlemen, we have our two year anniversary coming one July twenty twenty four. [0:14:34, 0:14:37]: So very proud days. Come on, come on aside, please. [0:14:40, 0:14:46]: Ladies and gentlemen, Chief. Yes sir. All right, right here. Yeah, just sir be fine. Absolutely. [0:14:47, 0:14:51]: All right. National Police Week, May twelfth to May eighteenth, twenty twenty four. [0:14:52, 0:15:00]: Whereas in na during national police week, we take time to honor the men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line every day to keep community safe. [0:15:00, 0:15:05]: And whereas the week long recognition coincides with National Peace Officers Memorial Day, which is May fifteenth. [0:15:06, 0:15:07]: That is Wednesday. [0:15:07, 0:15:12]: And serves as a solemn occasion to pay tribute to the memory of law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. [0:15:13, 0:15:33]: And to honor their enduring legacy, and courage, valor, and service. Whereas the city of Stockbridge recognizes the invaluable contributions of law enforcement officers to our community and acknowledge their integral role in fostering a safe, just, and inclusive society for all residents. Whereas each year during this week, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers travel to Washington D.C. to remember those who lost their lives. [0:15:33, 0:15:34]: Yeah. [0:15:34, 0:15:54]: Now therefore our Anthony S. Ford, Mayor of City Stopbury by Virtual Authority, Vester and Me, Georgia, Stopbury's Georgia, on behalf of City Council members Hilton, Alexander, Nilanda, Barber, Cowberry, LakeshaGantt, and Fonzo Thomas, who hereby recognize the week of May 12th to 18th, 2024, as National Police Week in our city. We call upon our residents to join in honoring the law enforcement officers. [0:15:54, 0:15:58]: expressing gratitude for their dedication and recognizing their sacrifices. [0:15:58, 0:15:59]: A witness hereof. [0:16:00, 0:16:12]: Excuse me, and witness whereof, I here I have hereunto set my hand of Grace Seal City, Stockbridge, Georgia, on the thirteenth day of May, year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty-four. And I signed a proclamation along with our cliff for that's a holiday. [0:16:15, 0:16:15]: Yeah. [0:16:19, 0:16:33]: This is a uh rather solemn uh proclamation. Um it honors the officers who've uh paid the ultimate sacrifice in serving our community. The work that these men and women do uh each and every day. Um [0:16:33, 0:16:37]: I think at times can often be uh thankless and underappreciated. Um [0:16:38, 0:16:58]: And we have to understand and realize that um our our brave men and women who are out there serving our community, that every time they leave their homes, uh they and their families don't necessarily know whether or not they're gonna return home at the end of the day. Uh we all have lost loved ones in the line of duty, close friends, and um this is a uh solemn reminder. [0:16:57, 0:16:59]: [1019.9, 1028.1]: uh important work but very perilous work that our law enforcement professionals do. Just this year alone we've lost fifty eight law enforcement officers in the line of duty. [0:17:08, 0:17:26]: for here in our uh state of Georgia. And uh so this is in uh remembrance of all those who have served. There's scripture that says there's no love greater than this, uh, that one man lay down a knife their life for another. And I believe that um that's what these brave men and women do each and every day and we're thankful for them and their service. So thank you for this honor. [0:17:26, 0:17:27]: No problem. No problem. [0:17:32, 0:17:34]: Okay. [0:17:35, 0:17:38]: We might have to double up a little bit. [0:17:40, 0:17:41]: Okay. [0:17:45, 0:17:48]: Chief said that oh I appreciate everything they do. [0:17:53, 0:18:04]: Okay, thank you. All right. Fantastic. Thanks, thanks. Appreciate the one. [0:18:05, 0:18:08]: I can tell you all right. [0:18:13, 0:18:15]: Excuse me, Vanessa, could you come in please? [0:18:19, 0:18:22]: Stand by for a second. Let me re good do something here. [0:18:51, 0:18:51]: No problem. [0:18:52, 0:19:12]: We do. All right. This one, uh, this next proclamation deals with uh national cities, towns, and villages month. And so this will involve uh myself alone our council members, and I believe this is all of us are here at this point. This is whereas the National League of Cities was founded in 1924 in Lawrence, Kansas, as an American Municipal Association. [0:19:12, 0:19:19]: By the state municipal leads seeking more contribution and national representation as cities, towns, and villages expand rapidly. [0:19:20, 0:19:31]: Whereas the nonpartisan National League of Cities is the oldest and largest organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States, representing the interests of more than 19,000 cities, towns, villages across our nation. [0:19:31, 0:19:32]: I'm country. [0:19:32, 0:19:46]: Whereas today the National Leader Cities works in partnership with 90 state municipal leads across the country and strengthen local leadership, drive innovation, and influence with federal policies and impact local programs and operations. [0:19:47, 0:20:07]: And whereas the voice of cities, towns, and villages in Washington D.C., the National League of Cities has successfully championed federal legislative solutions that support municipalities and has worked closely with Congress and executive branches to educate policymakers on the realities of local implementation. And whereas the City of Stockbridge is a proud member of the National Leader Cities. [0:20:07, 0:20:27]: And has benefited from the organizational research, technical expertise, federal advocacy, opportunities to learn from other local governments. Local governments, whereas local governments are the bedrock of American democracy, providing 360, excuse me, 336 million residents with most accountable, representative, responsible, inclusive, ethical, and transparent government. [0:20:27, 0:20:28]: government in the world. [0:20:28, 0:20:38]: And whereas uh from the nation's smallest villages to the largest cities, America's local governments have been essential in transforming the United States of America into the greatest, most influential nation in the world. [0:20:38, 0:20:58]: And world history, whereas the city of Starbase was first incorporated in 1920 and probably served today by Mayor Anthony S. Ford, Council Members Elton Alexander, Ilana Barber, Kyle Berry, Nokisha Gantt, Fonzo Thomas, and the municipal workforce of 100 plus dedicated public service. Now, therefore, I let it be resolved that the city of Starbase hereby proclaims May 2024 as a national. [0:20:58, 0:21:18]: cities, towns, villages of month, uh in celebration of America's local governments and the National League of Cities Historical Centennial Anniversary. And witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand in the great seal of the city, Stockbridge, Georgia, the 13th day of the year of our Lord, 2024, and I signed a course a proclamation along with our Clear Vanessa Holiday, ladies and gentlemen. [0:21:18, 0:21:20]: [1282.4, 1284.1]: Yes. [0:21:26, 0:21:30]: Yeah, you got the buying guys. [0:21:34, 0:21:54]: Congratulations. Just really excited about uh being a part of such a great city and the National League of Cities and all the work that we've done over the last uh few years to be a part of that organization. Uh the things that I've learned in my first term uh going [0:21:54, 0:22:10]: going out to the uh the conferences and things of that nature really have opened my mind and my insight to uh see all the great works that is still yet to do. I'm excited about it. So thank you. Thank you sir. No problem. Thank you for sharing anytime. [0:22:11, 0:22:15]: Which one is that? This is mental health awareness month. [0:22:16, 0:22:17]: Okay. [0:22:18, 0:22:24]: How you doing? All right. All righty. Why don't you want you we want to come on this side, please? Yes, sir. [0:22:28, 0:22:32]: Thank you very much. Okay, proclamation City Stockbridge Recognition Mental Health Awareness Month. [0:22:33, 0:22:53]: Whereas May is Mental Health Awareness Month, the National Observance, started in 1949 by the Mental Health America to bring attention to the importance of mental health and mental well-being. And whereas it's a month of well-worth acknowledging mental illness impacts the lives of millions of individuals every day, we can use this time to have open mental health discussions to better. [0:22:53, 0:22:57]: our education and understanding of mental health in all these forms. [0:22:57, 0:23:17]: And whereas across the country, individuals and organizations step up to rise awareness raise awareness of and help address the challenges faced by people living with mental health conditions. And whereas the area of excuse me, whereas the area that someone lives in plays a significant role in their overall health and well-being, having safe, stable, and healthy home conditions. [0:23:17, 0:23:37]: Set the foundation for achieving a main and achieving and maintaining good mental health. Whereas with early and effective interventions, those individuals with mental health conditions can recover and lead full productive lives. Whereas each business, school, government, agency, health care provider, organization, cities, and citizens share the burden of mental health problems as a responsibility. [0:23:37, 0:23:57]: promote mental wellness and support prevention efforts. Now therefore I Anthony Sforber, Virtual Authority, Vesting Means and Mayor City of Stockbridge, Georgia, on behalf of City Council members Elton, Alexander Lana, Barber Cowberry, Lakeisha Gannon and Afonso Thomas to proclaim May 2024 as May uh excuse me, Mental Health Awareness Month. Call upon assistance [0:23:57, 0:24:01]: business, government agencies, public and private institutions, businesses and schools and stockridges, [0:24:01, 0:24:05]: To recommit our community to increase awareness, understanding, mental health. [0:24:05, 0:24:09]: The steps our citizens can take to provide excuse me to protect their mental [0:24:09, 0:24:29]: Health and need the need for appropriate and s and accessible services for all people with mental health conditions. A witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand the great seal of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia, on thirteenth day of May year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty-four. And of course I myself and our Cliff Vanessa holiday signed the proclamation. [0:24:29, 0:24:30]: Yeah. [0:24:32, 0:24:33]: In the comments, please. [0:24:35, 0:24:53]: I just wanna say thank you and mental health is a growing issue in our country, um, and in our cities all around, and it's very important that we start recognizing the issues at hand. Thank you again. [0:24:55, 0:24:58]: I don't know if it's not a good one. [0:25:05, 0:25:10]: Thank you. [0:25:13, 0:25:18]: This next proclamation, National Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month. [0:25:20, 0:25:28]: And I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, we're I think we set a record tonight, the amount of proclamations and the and and things that we've done in one city. [0:25:28, 0:25:29]: So [0:25:30, 0:25:32]: [1532.9, 1552.9]: Come on over here, please. Right. Okay. Whereas the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a month to celebrate and pay tribute to the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to American history, society, and culture. And whereas in 1978, Congress passed a joint congressional resolution to commemorate Asian American [0:25:52, 0:26:12]: Here this week during the first week of May, because of two important anniversaries the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants in America on May 7th, 1843, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad by many Chinese laborers on May 10th, 1869. In 1990, this week was later expanded into a month long celebration Asian American and Pacific. [0:26:12, 0:26:32]: Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a celebration of culture, traditions, history, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Whereas more than 24 million people in the United States identify as Asian, and with 1.8 million identifying as native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, or a combination. These diverse communities have enriched this country in generations to come. Whereas during the month, [0:26:32, 0:26:52]: Month of May, we encourage everyone to reflect on Asian American resilience, particularly against the alarming rise of hate crimes that we have seen in recent years. Now the now, therefore, I am Anthony Sfor, by Versus Authority Vested in me, as the mayor of City Stockbridge, Georgia. And on behalf of City Council members Elvin Alexander Alonda, Barber Cowberry, Lake Sagan, Afonso Thomas, to hereby proclaim May 2024 as [0:26:52, 0:27:12]: Asian American and Islander Heritage Month. We call upon the people of the Stockbridge Community to learn more about the local artists, expand their playlists and find inspirations, inspiration to celebrate Asian Pacific American heritage throughout the month of May and beyond. And witness thereof, I have here hereunto set my hand the great seal of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia. On this it's on the second [0:27:12, 0:27:18]: Sunday in May, year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty-four, and I signed this along with uh our clerk Vanessa Holiday. So [0:27:20, 0:27:22]: And do you agree? [0:27:23, 0:27:43]: I really thank the city of Stockbridge for this uh appreciation. I'm practicing in uh Stockbridge for the past twenty years as a physician. I'm proud to do so. I would like to continue that and this is uh not only for me, for the entire people who came this country with a big dreams. [0:27:43, 0:27:48]: and uh how proud we are to achieve all those dreams. Thank you very much. [0:27:49, 0:28:09]: Yes, you don't. Yeah, I'd like to thank Dr. Chetty and his team. They invited me out to speak at uh their event, Gothic Georgia Association, the Physicians of Indian Heritage. They are a magnificent organization giving back charitable giving and medical care for the community. So thank you so much for that. [0:28:09, 0:28:19]: Yeah, thanks for coming. [0:28:24, 0:28:35]: Absolutely. Thank you, sir. Because appreciate thank you sir. We're gonna work on that medical care right here. They got a free clinic in everything. [0:28:45, 0:29:05]: Since uh since most gracious ladies Alpha Cap Sword Incorporated been in my life ever since I've been in college. Swept me on my feet. So much so I I married in the UK, right? Check it out. I couldn't I'm gonna help it, right? You ladies and dumb mean. Hey so it's great. Love you all. Fantastic. Sorry to know. [0:29:05, 0:29:12]: No, you ready for us to come up? Yeah, but yes I am. I'm sorry, running my mom. Come on up, bud. Come on up, ladies. So we uh [0:29:12, 0:29:17]: This special dedication here, Adoptor Row program. Okay, so um [0:29:17, 0:29:37]: Okay, so I'm not sure exactly where is this gonna I have to admit, I'm not sure exactly where is this gonna go. So we're gonna well we'll we'll we'll go down here so we can hold it and we can take some great pictures and we have it unveil them outside. It's already oh okay. Mr. Aaron works over. Yeah he he over there. You you've gotta come he's the middle place. [0:29:37, 0:29:52]: Oh should we get on here so we can side right here? I mean it's so if we hold it. Okay, if you want to hold it. Yeah, we can hold it. Okay, you wanna hold it? Yeah, that way it's fine. Okay, okay. Okay. Ladies, come on in. I don't know which side. Okay, we got where's [0:30:43, 0:30:53]: Okay, that's on glad to have y'all tonight. This is amazing. [0:31:05, 0:31:06]: Okay. [0:31:09, 0:31:19]: Yeah, we'll need to talk about it. Okay, but that's that we're going to be able to do it. [0:31:22, 0:31:25]: I have another remote. [0:31:55, 0:31:58]: [1936.7, 1940.2]: But I'm gonna say [0:32:30, 0:32:40]: That's awesome. [0:32:42, 0:32:45]: No, I said. [0:32:46, 0:32:55]: Oh yeah, you do that, do that, tell me about it. You should have been here, don't you? [0:33:55, 0:33:56]: Yeah, yeah. [0:33:58, 0:33:59]: Yeah. [0:34:04, 0:34:05]: Yeah, yeah. [0:34:25, 0:34:26]: Yeah, it's just weird. [0:34:27, 0:34:30]: I won't uh scared my own. [0:34:55, 0:34:57]: But attach this everything grab it. [0:35:05, 0:35:05]: Okay. [0:35:08, 0:35:10]: You're really seeing the detail. [0:35:33, 0:35:34]: Yeah, that's it. [0:35:35, 0:35:48]: I've heard nails about it. Fingers. Sure, sure. I'm more confident that's so fingers crossed as well. [0:35:50, 0:35:52]: That's our [0:35:57, 0:36:03]: Yeah, it's not. [0:36:11, 0:36:16]: Otherwise, this is your photo and [0:36:17, 0:36:22]: I have my buttons. [0:36:24, 0:36:26]: Oh no. [0:36:27, 0:36:30]: Oh yeah, I don't feel funny. [0:36:31, 0:36:34]: [2200.0, 2201.2]: Well, [0:36:41, 0:36:43]: Rapids right. [0:36:51, 0:36:54]: [2225.4, 2229.5]: [0:37:43, 0:37:45]: Thank you, Mr. [0:37:55, 0:38:02]: Yeah, she has to look as well. [0:38:45, 0:38:47]: [2329.0, 2330.6]: [0:38:51, 0:38:52]: Yeah. [0:40:14, 0:40:15]: How water you want. [0:41:09, 0:41:10]: Yeah. [0:41:28, 0:41:29]: Test test it. [0:42:07, 0:42:09]: But now. [0:42:11, 0:42:15]: That's fine. [0:42:26, 0:42:27]: Yeah. [0:42:30, 0:42:30]: Yeah, yeah. [0:42:45, 0:42:47]: [2568.2, 2573.9]: Thank you. [0:44:24, 0:44:25]: Yeah. [0:44:33, 0:44:35]: No, it isn't. [0:44:35, 0:44:37]: [2685.1, 2688.4]: [0:45:15, 0:45:17]: All right, Council, we need to get started with our meeting, please. [0:45:20, 0:45:26]: Mr. Garden. Clark is out. [0:45:26, 0:45:31]: Yeah, we we we have time to do that right now. Okay. [0:45:40, 0:45:50]: We are mad of it, we are we're all on we're on? Okay. All right. Uh that uh okay. I don't know, she's kinda noise here. [0:45:55, 0:46:15]: All right, ladies and gentlemen, get started with our council meeting. Um it is now 6 05 and I'd like to call our council uh meeting uh to order. Um May 13th, um 2024. The invocation, um Miss Kedra Jackson, please come forward to the mic. Everybody stand if you're able to stand. [0:46:18, 0:46:18]: Mm-hmm. [0:46:24, 0:46:44]: I pray for this council meeting tonight, give the council members wisdom and guidance as they deliberate on the items before them. May every decision be righteous in your sight, for our benefit and for your glory. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Father. [0:46:44, 0:46:46]: Amen. [0:46:47, 0:47:00]: For a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic for which stands one nation, one to God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [0:47:02, 0:47:03]: Madam Clerk, roll call, please. [0:47:08, 0:47:09]: Present. [0:47:13, 0:47:13]: President. [0:47:16, 0:47:17]: Present. [0:47:20, 0:47:22]: Mayor Ford, you have a court. [0:47:22, 0:47:24]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. I appreciate that. [0:47:24, 0:47:35]: Um, Mr. Berry, if you can do this as well as this, sir, if you don't mind. Thank you. I need for you, Mr. Berry, if you don't, to make the amendment to the agenda for this evening, please. [0:47:37, 0:47:37]: Yeah. [0:47:38, 0:47:52]: Uh we have on the floor item number seven, rezoning RZ-2023-05 on the agenda will not be heard tonight. The applicant has requested a deferral. [0:47:52, 0:47:55]: To have the item heard at the june tenth. [0:47:56, 0:48:03]: Two thousand twenty four council meeting, June tenth. Is there a second to that motion? I second. Is there all all in favor, please indicate? [0:48:04, 0:48:24]: Announced decision. Thank you very much. Go ahead, Mr. Berry, please. Second one, we would like to uh make note that item number six on tonight's agenda, CP-2023-04 would not be heard tonight because the applicant no longer requires a comprehensive plan amendment due to the recent 2024. [0:48:24, 0:48:33]: City of Stockbridge Comprehensive Plan Update where the density rates were amended. As a request, the applicant's project now meets the required density rate. [0:48:34, 0:48:35]: Is there a second to that motion? [0:48:37, 0:48:39]: Is there a second to that motion? Sir. Yes, sir. [0:48:41, 0:48:43]: [2923.6, 2931.7]: We don't need discussion right now because we get into it, but but uh l looking for a second to the motion, please. That's it, second. Okay, I'm sorry, excuse me. So sorry, excuse me. All in favor, please indicate. [0:48:52, 0:48:53]: Opposed. [0:48:53, 0:49:02]: I'm gonna abstain because I need staff to explain. Okay. Zero four zero one motion passes. Thank you very much. But staff didn't explain this. [0:49:03, 0:49:04]: Okay. [0:49:05, 0:49:12]: We the motion's passed. We're gonna we're gonna move on at this point. Thank you. All right. Now any motion to adopt the rest of the agenda for this evening. [0:49:14, 0:49:20]: Some over Mr. Berry, is there a second? I second. Mayor Ford. Uh uh Miss Gantt, uh second that. Okay. [0:49:21, 0:49:22]: All in favor of the motion, please indicate. [0:49:23, 0:49:43]: Okay, we are moving on. We've uh we're moving on with the agenda. Rest of the agenda has been passed unanimously. What we have before us are the adoption of the minutes. I mean, she got it. Okay, got enough? Okay. Adoption of the minutes for uh April 8th, 2024, the council meeting minutes, April 25th. [0:49:43, 0:49:50]: Special call meeting minutes, April 30th, the work session meeting minutes, April 13th, Joint Council DDA Main Street meeting minutes. [0:49:51, 0:50:03]: Uh I need a motion to adopt those uh minutes into the record, please. Mayor Ford, I'd like to make a motion to approve all the meeting minutes with an amendment to the April 8th council meeting. [0:50:03, 0:50:08]: To include an amendment to add the installation of free parking signs. [0:50:10, 0:50:11]: The installation of parking signs? [0:50:13, 0:50:14]: Is that what you're saying? [0:50:17, 0:50:19]: I want to make a motion. [0:50:19, 0:50:24]: to adopt all of the meeting minutes with the exception of April eighth. [0:50:25, 0:50:27]: I'm only asking that an amendment be made. [0:50:28, 0:50:29]: To those minutes. [0:50:30, 0:50:32]: to include the discussion in directives. [0:50:34, 0:50:36]: To install free parking signs. [0:50:37, 0:50:39]: Is the free part and starts involving the amphitheater? [0:50:42, 0:50:55]: Mayor Ford. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Um stand by Mr. Thomas. Uh the attorney. Uh can we do that amendment on this on this particular uh item at this point? Can we legally do that? [0:50:58, 0:51:05]: All right. G so peaks. All right, mister Mr. Thomas Quinn. Um I'm am I understanding that the motion [0:51:06, 0:51:15]: is to include the language because it is omitted in the minutes. Is is that the understanding? That is correct. Okay. [0:51:16, 0:51:20]: На фінат бесед, і вас дискус. [0:51:21, 0:51:22]: And omit it. [0:51:22, 0:51:28]: uh in the minutes from my understanding that the motion is indicating that [0:51:28, 0:51:35]: Um councilwoman, I don't want to speak for her, but she is approving the minutes, but this is an omission. [0:51:35, 0:51:55]: Okay. Something we already proved. Correction. Okay. I got it. She she's indicating it doesn't need to be a correction. Okay, okay. I got that. Understand that now. Appreciate it. Yes, Ms. Gantt. Thank you. Um on the Monday, April eighth meeting, um, if I could it says executive session that I wasn't present. I actually was present in the executive session, but I um [0:51:55, 0:52:08]: recuse myself excuse myself so I w want that in there. Oftentimes it looks like I'm just not present, but I have a reason for not being present. So I want that listed in there as well. [0:52:09, 0:52:17]: All right. So but you you mentioned that but I but the motion with original motions with Miss uh Miss Barber. Miss Barber you all right with that particular addition to that motion? [0:52:18, 0:52:34]: It's another correction. It's another well it is another correction. That's true, but that's true. But I just wanna she made it. Okay, thank you very much. You're right. Okay. Uh Madam Clerk, you have both of those? Okay. That's been the motion's been made and and and seconded. Was who seconded that motion? Anybody second the motion? [0:52:35, 0:52:37]: I need a second to the motion, please. [0:52:38, 0:52:40]: I second. Okay, Ms. Gantt second. All in favor, please indicate. [0:52:41, 0:52:46]: Uh okay, thank you very much. All right. Um, Madam Clerk, we have any public comments at all? [0:52:48, 0:52:49]: Okay. [0:52:51, 0:52:53]: Who is that and we she needs to come forward? [0:52:59, 0:53:05]: Ma'am, right here at the mic, the mic should be on. Give your name and address and and go ahead with your comments. We'll give you three minutes for your comments, okay? [0:53:06, 0:53:06]: Yes, yeah. [0:53:13, 0:53:14]: Thank you very much. [0:53:15, 0:53:35]: I have a my question is, um, we received a letter from Keller and Williams about uh tax allocation district. I need a little bit of clarity on that body. The city's talk reboxed and go into like multiple, you know, the area I know how to split apitheater and that area back there. And I'm [0:53:35, 0:53:40]: concern my husband and I but we recently uh moved to start reaching [0:53:43, 0:54:03]: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was on. We received I talk a lot. We received this letter and w I just need a little bit of clarity about it. About are they planning to do multi they say our s our area has been um looking at our area for multi use purposes. Okay, we're talking about tax allocation distance. Tax allocation. [0:54:03, 0:54:08]: District for the uh Sarissa Drive up in that area. [0:54:08, 0:54:11]: A y okay, you gonna take care of this, sir? [0:54:11, 0:54:15]: Okay. Ma'am, if you don't mind, Mr. Gardner, city manager will take care of this answer this question for you. [0:54:21, 0:54:41]: Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. All right. On that note, uh we ladies and gentlemen, we had a uh ceremonial um process uh that occurred prior to uh the meeting this evening. There were several different proclamations. I'd like to go through those uh in this aspect. We we went through a proclamation for national cities. Um [0:54:40, 0:55:00]: City of Stockbridge is a member of the National Cities uh National League of Cities, Towns and Villages Month, May of Month and is celebrating one hundred years of the establishment of the National League of Cities. So we had a proclamation for that as well. Georgia Municipal uh Georgia's Professional Municipal Clerk Week. We honored our clerk uh Vanessa Holliday and her staff in reference to all the [0:55:00, 0:55:20]: things that they do for the city. You also had a public service recognition week proclamation and I believe Wednesday is Peace Officers Day. This is also to recognize and and honor our police officers and our police staff here in the city of Stockbridge and police officers and people public service in that aspect around the nation, around the state, around the nation there. [0:55:20, 0:55:40]: We also had a proclamation dealing with National Public Works Week and allowing uh in this aspect in an honoring, I'm so say, our Public Works Department. And uh our director, Dash Aaron and his staff, and all the great work that they do uh in the city itself and all the heavy lifting they do. We also had a proclamation for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage. [0:55:40, 0:56:00]: month and for that we had a a local doctor uh Ryo S. Uh Chia, if I gotta pronounce right, who has a who has a practice here in the city of Stopbury's been around for twenty years and he was able to receive that proclamation for yes sir. Yeah doc uh Dr. Chetty. Chetty Chetty Chetty. Okay, Chetty. Thank you very much for that um uh [0:56:00, 0:56:20]: Annunciation there. And um so and we also had a um a mental health aw uh mental health awareness month and that uh also awareness in that aspect. And we had uh uh Miss Kiana Norman that will receive that proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month and she gave a words of wisdom about the aspect that we need to be aware of this and [0:56:20, 0:56:37]: assist and and help uh mental health folks and and and work together to try to make it a better for those individuals that they live in this community. Um National Police Week proclamation, once again for our police department, we honor them as well. And Chief Tramor received that proclamation along with his staff. [0:56:37, 0:56:57]: They were present. And then we had a presentation of Dr. Road sign, which is East Atlanta Road. It comes right in front of um Star City Hall. And that was Alpha Cap Alpha Sawardi Incorporated, Psi Alpha Omega chapter. And as you approach uh City Hall and you're going uh north on on on East Atlanta, you'll see that particular uh document of of Dr. Road. [0:56:57, 0:57:17]: uh process so thank those ladies of uh cy Alpha Omega Alpha Calf Alp Sorority Incorporated for being here and uh for that as well. And on that note I don't know if if Ms. Gantt do you want any additional comments since you are a member of that s wonderful sorority. Do you have any other comments? Um no I I just want to thank uh Sci Alpha Omega that's a Henry Clayton County chapter local [0:57:17, 0:57:20]: [3440.4, 3445.0]: In the city of Stockbridge and in Henry and Clayton County, they've done a lot of things. [0:57:25, 0:57:28]: And um they've added this to the list, uh, adopting a road. [0:57:29, 0:57:49]: Uh we commend them for doing my sorority for commend uh I'm commending them for doing such. So yes, thank you. Thank you. On that note we'll go to unfinished business, council consideration to approve the city of Stockbridge twenty twenty-four to twenty twenty short-term work program, capital improvements uh element, STWP dash uh slash [0:57:49, 0:58:09]: C I amendment required and due to state uh mandate ver revision. Mr. Ryan Anderson, sir, please. Good evening, Mayor Council. Back in um November, Council approved for us to transmit the short-term work program CIP to ARC. The ARC uh submitted [0:58:09, 0:58:26]: our short-term work program to other state agencies and um local municipalities and we've got final approval uh in April of this year and uh staff is just coming back to you to ask you to reapprove uh the the short-term work program CIE. [0:58:26, 0:58:46]: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Ryan. Questions, Council? Mr. Azam, you got a question? Please, sir. I think it's so important for folks to understand that the city is operating under a plan. So to talk about some of the the programs that uh or projects that are included in the work program, so folks know that we're operating systems. [0:58:46, 0:59:06]: systematically on approved projects that the city is working on to take off a list to to complete like downtown our LCI program and throughout the city. So be a little bit specific about some of the projects like the Youth Senior Center and the Cultural Arts Center, that kind of thing. Yes, sir. We got uh one of the um this is kind of like I was [0:59:06, 0:59:26]: Dream list. Um all the projects may or not may not may or may not be fully funded, but we want to have a splash pad. Um we are well we approved the Stockbridge electric vehicle stations at the amphitheater. That would that was that was once on the list that it's been approved. Monument sign for City Hall Fountain, multi-purpose. [0:59:26, 0:59:41]: facility for youths and seniors, a cultural arts center, water s supply source development, GIS infrastructure infant inventory and detail imagery, sewer infiltration and inflow study. [0:59:41, 0:59:45]: All that totals twenty nine million one hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars. [0:59:46, 0:59:58]: Uh as far as economic development, we want we want to create a citywide marketing plan, establish the Stockbridge Association of Business, create a economic development market plan, which we've done, Opportunity Zone Designation Study. [0:59:59, 1:00:19]: Far as land use, we got a trail implementation. It runs from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty five. We updated the comprehensive plan. The overlay district designation, we've done that, but it need to but we need to continue working on it. Uh LCI impl implementation and uh update supplemental study. It's ongoing. Uh estimated costs a hundred and fifty thousand. Uh [1:00:19, 1:00:23]: A park plan which we've done and update of the sign ordinance. [1:00:25, 1:00:26]: Uh some are uh I I'll [1:00:27, 1:00:29]: Identifiable um [1:00:30, 1:00:46]: Transportation project, roadway construction, engineering and right-of-way acquisition, sidewalk repair and reconstruction, road improvements and city projects and streets, infrastructure improvement for city projects and uh the downtown pit and bike study, which we completed this past fall. [1:00:47, 1:00:50]: So that's just an example of some of the projects we have. [1:00:50, 1:00:54]: Um and here's a list of our completed projects on this page right here. [1:00:56, 1:01:16]: So it's basically a um a dream list of some of our most needed projects. Some of them are funded and some of them aren't. But these are the projects that we will prioritize going forward. And they've been identified in this short-term work program. So to understand how this works, the amphitheater was one of these projects that was completed, right? Yes, sir. The public works facility was one of these projects. [1:01:16, 1:01:30]: of these projects that were completed. So we're working off of this list. So if citizens want to refer to what's coming in the city and what the plan is, they can refer to this list, correct? Exactly. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you. All right. Questions for Mr. Go ahead, Miss Barber. [1:01:31, 1:01:50]: The electric charging stations. I thought that project was already completed. Yes, we still list the projects. I mean they're put on a list like uh this runs to twenty twenty eight and it was completed uh last year, but it was is is it'll still shows up on the list and it goes under our completed projects. But it's showing as in progress. [1:01:54, 1:01:56]: On page two, number two. [1:01:59, 1:02:13]: Yeah, we'll just have to move it uh when we do the up since we started on this last year, uh we just now getting the approval. So when we update it in the fall, we'll move it to completed projects. When we update when we do the f uh the update this fall, it will be moved to completed projects. [1:02:15, 1:02:16]: You don't need to change it now. [1:02:17, 1:02:20]: Change it now. You don't need to change it now. [1:02:20, 1:02:21]: Uh [1:02:23, 1:02:34]: Not not right now, not really, Councilmember Barber. We can we can proceed as is since we just got approval for it. And when we do the update in August, when we start in August, we'll remove it and put it on the uh completed project list. [1:02:36, 1:02:36]: So [1:02:38, 1:02:42]: Thank you, sir. All right. Any other comments from Mr. Ryan? Anybody? We're good? [1:02:42, 1:02:48]: All right, so on that note I need a motion to accept this uh process. Mr. Alexander, sir, a second. [1:02:49, 1:03:09]: That's it. Okay. All in favor, please indicate. It's the unanimous decision. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. All right. Appreciate it. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna go into our public hearing. We have several public hearing items. And on that note, I I need to read the public hearing rules. First of all, please mute all cell phones, electronic and other electronic devices. If anybody [1:03:09, 1:03:29]: Wishing to speak tonight on a public hearing item, please fill out the form available on the table and hand it to the city clerk before approaching the podium. After each case is called, the council will hear from the city staff, followed by the applicant and the representative regarding proposal plans for property along any with any other relevant uh information. The council will be free to speak excuse me. [1:03:29, 1:03:49]: The council will be free to ask questions at any time before the vote. Following the applicant, anyone who wishes to speak in favor or opposed to the case will have the opportunity to do so. Each side will be allotted ten minutes total. Uh additional time may be extended by the discretion of the council. Please keep comments and presentations professional referring only to the country. [1:03:49, 1:04:09]: To the facts that are pertinent to the case. We will not allow comments or personal attacks toward any individual group. Please refrain from applause or comments from the audience during the public hearing. After the presiding officer recognizes the speaker, which is me, he and she shall direct all comments to the presiding officer and never to the members of the council, staff, or audience. [1:04:09, 1:04:29]: All comments will be made from the podium where you'll be required to state your name and address for the record. Please note that these hearings are not a debate. Failure to comply will cause you to be removed from the chamber and the building by law enforcement if you deviate from these proceedings. Other than the applicant, no person may speak more than once. [1:04:29, 1:04:49]: The applicant may rever uh reverse reserve part of his or her speaking time as rebuttal or may speak next and last and may use the entire 10 minutes allowed for the pro side of the application. If questions are raised, the council may ask the applicant to address questions and/or concerns. The presiding officer will call for a motion and the second. [1:04:49, 1:05:09]: Under the motion to have the necessary discussion. If the matter is not tabled, the presiding officer will call for the vote and recommend approval or denial of the request. On that note, I will uh this is a public hearing, and so I open uh open the public hearing up in that aspect. And so we're first going to let me do this, I'm sorry. [1:05:09, 1:05:29]: Text amendment to case uh TX dash 2024-02 Council consideration of text amendment to amend title twelve of the Stockbridge Unified Development Code UDC to amend section nine point three point four which contains regulations for mail notices the purpose of uh [1:05:29, 1:05:49]: Uh proposed uh changes include one requiring mail notices to be sent to owners of properties within five hundred feet of a subject property instead of just sending them to owners of adjacent properties. Number two, requiring mail notices to be mailed at least thirty days prior to the public hearing instead of fifteen days. Mr. Orion Anderson, please. Okay. Um [1:05:49, 1:06:09]: This project was um initiated by request from Councilmember Barber. Uh staff came before the the the council at the May 26th um work session and we presented our findings um on moving the um mail notice requirement from the current adjacent property owners. [1:06:09, 1:06:26]: to five hundred feet. Uh doing our research, we found that most uh municipalities have a five hundred feet radius. And at that May 26th um work session meeting, City Council um gave the recommendation to approve, voted for the recommendations for us for staff to take this [1:06:26, 1:06:29]: uh uh information to the planning commission. [1:06:30, 1:06:32]: And the the planning commission unanimously approved it. [1:06:33, 1:06:40]: Uh that we adopt a five hundred feet um distance requirement for mail notices for zoning ordinance for zoning items. [1:06:41, 1:06:46]: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. All right. Uh Ms. Barber, since you originally started this, do you have any comments at this point? [1:06:47, 1:06:56]: Yes, I don't understand why it's coming back to the council. Is it coming to us for a vote? We've already voted. Uh yes, you vote we voted to Senate because this is a a public [1:06:56, 1:07:01]: uh hearing item. When anytime you amend the UDC it has to go to the planning commission. [1:07:02, 1:07:04]: So at that bout in o meч om march твоє сікс. [1:07:05, 1:07:14]: Council gave us permission to take it to the city council I mean to the planning commission. And we took it to the planning commission on April eighteenth and they recommended uh unanimous approval. So we have to bring it back. [1:07:14, 1:07:19]: to have a public hearing to get a public opportunity to speak on it and then council has a final vote. [1:07:19, 1:07:20]: Thank you, Sarah. [1:07:21, 1:07:23]: Any other questions for Mr. Emerson? [1:07:23, 1:07:27]: No, I motion to approve. Well no, I gotta I gotta open it up, I gotta at least ask. [1:07:28, 1:07:38]: Thank you. All right. Any other questions from this thing? No? Okay. I will open up the public hearing for comments from the community. So any comments uh for positivity for this and the far my far left side. [1:07:39, 1:07:40]: I fly in the middle. [1:07:41, 1:07:42]: The far right side. [1:07:42, 1:07:48]: Okay, no comments uh for any comments against, once again, a far left side. [1:07:48, 1:07:49]: The middle. [1:07:50, 1:07:57]: For our right side, no comments there, so I'll close that particular f portion of public hearing. Now I need a motion um for this uh to adopt this new concept. [1:07:58, 1:08:18]: So move. Is there a second? Mr. Berry, second there. All in favor, please indicate. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I'm counsel. Appreciate it. Text amendment case TX uh two zero two four four four four four four zero three. Consideration of text amendment to amend title twelve Unified Development Code or Stabridge Code ordinances for the purpose of providing various [1:08:17, 1:08:37]: Changes to section two point five point two, which contains regulations for the parkway mixed use PMU overlay district. Mr. Ryan, please. Okay, this is part of ongoing process by staff to um to amend our unif unified development code to make it more applicable to the um city of Stockbridge and some of the development trends and pattern. [1:08:37, 1:08:42]: that are currently on the way in the city. To sum it up, um [1:08:43, 1:09:03]: This text amendment basically allows the uses that are permitted in in the bridges of Johto Code to allow those on our major arterials and collector streaks. Because currently now the um this parkway mixed use overlay district as as as it is currently written, it restricts a lot of development opportunities for the city over the past. [1:09:02, 1:09:05]: [4146.8, 4160.1]: It's we had to turn away a lot of projects because of our parkway mixed use overlay district. And basically what what we want to do is amend it. For example, um the parkway mixed use overlay district currently prohibits drive-through restaurants. [1:09:20, 1:09:24]: And you know, after the pandemic, most uh restaurants and companies changed their business model. [1:09:24, 1:09:26]: To incor to incorporate [1:09:26, 1:09:35]: The drive-thru restaurant as a as a large aspect of their business operations. So we just want to amend this and uh also we made some substance changes to uh [1:09:35, 1:09:54]: designs for sea stores, some different uh requirements for them. For instance, now a sea store would have to be four-sided brick and have the same number of uh of electric charging stations as gas pumps. So we're basically trying to improve our parkway mixed use overlay district to make it more applicable to the city of Stockbridge. [1:09:54, 1:10:14]: Thank you, sir. Council, any questions? Yes. Go right ahead, please. Now there was uh was this the one that had the various items including the car wash? Yes, sir. Okay, uh that's the issue that I have right there is the car wash. It seems like there's a prominent thing where they're just throwing up these self-serve car washes and uh right and left. [1:10:14, 1:10:34]: I guess it's a very profitable business model, but it does not leave a a a pleasant appearance. There's a facility that I won't tall out right now in my district, uh that uh they just basically they open the door and pretty much they don't maintain the property and you just see a lot of absentee owners on that. [1:10:34, 1:10:54]: I have a problem with the car washes being included. I don't I want I would certainly like to uh continue that trend of just a lot of uh of um approval for them. So if they needed if they wanted to come to us, then they would come to us. There may be some applicable conditions like there would need to be somebody on that site that would do certain certain things. [1:10:53, 1:11:13]: things to it, but I don't want them to be able to just bypass us because they're putting these car washes up everywhere. No, sir. They wouldn't be able to bypass council. They would still be required to have a special use permit. So they would have to come before council to get you guys blessing before they could open up a car wash. Yeah, but I what but again this here what it does it is allows the car wash in the first place. [1:11:13, 1:11:33]: Like on my district right now, we got a car wash uh on the Eagles Landing side. We got another car wash under construction right at the city limits uh by Kroger, and then there's another car wash uh on Hudson Bridge as well. So there's three already there. So certainly uh that's not something that uh maybe we should go back and kind of look at. [1:11:33, 1:11:53]: that and maybe establish a number for it versus having uh it open along these parkways because right now we're we got a bunch of car washes uh that uh currently council member alexander um car washes are permitted in the PMU mm-hmm so right now we're making it more restrictive for car washes do in this ordinance in this ordinance. [1:11:53, 1:11:56]: Tell me how it's making it more restrictive on Tim. [1:11:56, 1:12:16]: Um because they would have to come before council to get a special use permit instead of just going through zoning. If they had a zoning, then they wouldn't have to come before council. I thought I thought I thought they were they weren't allowed along the perk the parkway. That's I thought they were not allowed. And they were trying you trying to make it. [1:12:16, 1:12:20]: Highway one hundred thirty eight wanting to have a car wash there. [1:12:20, 1:12:21]: Yeah. [1:12:21, 1:12:23]: Yeah. Well currently um [1:12:25, 1:12:45]: Now they would have to come before counsel to get a special use permit to open up a car wash. Right, but I I like that I like their prohibition where they can't go along the car wash along the corridors and if they would like to, then then they have to come and ask for a variance. That's the la that's what I would like to see apply to them. Yeah. Because there's so many of them and again they're that's a they're [1:12:45, 1:12:53]: We're saying the same thing just in different terms. I mean, uh exactly what you're saying is is represented in this uh text amendment. What you're saying is represent [1:12:55, 1:13:03]: I have a question. I don't see that. Okay. Uh if you go to um one second to list of special uses under C on the page what I have on the screen. [1:13:06, 1:13:10]: They would have to come before council to get a special use permit to to have those type of business. [1:13:11, 1:13:21]: And currently um it restricts those type of development activities along uh residential streets instead of um instead of collectors and arterials. [1:13:22, 1:13:23]: It's a typo. [1:13:24, 1:13:24]: Where? [1:13:25, 1:13:30]: And so our books don't re say special use, it says select uses. [1:13:31, 1:13:43]: Oh and it should say special use. Yes, it should say special uses. Okay. I'll make sure the um the clerk get the correct um version. This is this version right here has been uh vetted by our our zoning attorney. [1:13:44, 1:13:44]: Okay. [1:13:46, 1:13:53]: In order for somebody to establish a car wash along these corridors, they have to come to us. Yes, sir. Okay. [1:13:55, 1:14:15]: All right, uh thank you, sir. Uh Ms. Gantt, your question's already been answered then. Well, uh I was gonna say on all of them, it says select instead of special. So that special use as if we're allowing the use when it should be special use. So we wanna make sure that we are going by his version that he has here on the presentation screen and not that that we have in this. [1:14:15, 1:14:16]: Okay. [1:14:16, 1:14:28]: Okay. Uh the clo clerk might yeah, I I will forward you the correct version. We will upload it. Th the version that you have probably was uploaded before we went to planning commission. So I will send you the correct document in the morning or tonight. [1:14:29, 1:14:46]: Okay. Maybe. Thank you, sir. Yes, ma'am. Go ahead, please. Oh, we we gotta do a never mind. I'm good. Good, we gotta do a public cryout. Right, so true. Okay, stand by sir. Stand by all right. All right, so I will open this up for any type of comment. Four from the citizenry. My left side, four. [1:14:47, 1:14:48]: In the middle, four. [1:14:49, 1:14:54]: The right side for seeing uh anybody that gets from my very left side. [1:14:55, 1:14:55]: The middle. [1:14:56, 1:14:57]: On the right side. [1:14:57, 1:15:07]: Yes, sir, no comments there. All right, they'll close that piece in that aspect. Go ahead. Council, I need a motion, please. Mayor. Yes, ma'am. I move that we approve the um [1:15:08, 1:15:22]: uh Title Twelve Amended Title Twelve Unified Unified Development Code of Stoppridge Code Ordinance for the purpose of providing various changes to section two point five two which contains the regulations for the parkway mixed use overlay district. [1:15:23, 1:15:28]: Mayor. Yes, yes, you second that sir? Second. Okay, Mr. second that all favorites please indicate. [1:15:29, 1:15:32]: Okay. Yes ma'am. [1:15:32, 1:15:39]: The correct version, we don't have a copy of it. So I don't know what else. Yes, I just I just sent it to the clerk, so [1:15:39, 1:15:45]: But we don't have it in front of us. So I don't know what else other than the special use. [1:15:45, 1:15:49]: permit that Councilwoman Gantt pointed out, I don't know what else. [1:15:50, 1:15:57]: we may need to take a look at before we vote on this. So I'll abstain because I don't know Motion Place four zero one. [1:15:57, 1:16:11]: I will abstain because I do not have the correct version. I'll make sure you get it. Okay. Zero one. You're abstention. And I'm giving a reason as to why I'm abstaining. I'm being you will allow me to finish so that the clerk can document it. [1:16:11, 1:16:18]: Please, sir. Go right ahead, please. I'm abstaining because I do not have a copy of the correct version. [1:16:18, 1:16:28]: in which the council is currently voting on. I understand mister Anderson just forwarded the copy to the clerk. Yes. But the council doesn't have the copy. Yeah, that was that's my fault. I'll take [1:16:28, 1:16:48]: Thank you, sir. All right. Motion one once again, four zero one motion passed. We'll move on. Number six item number six uh was taken off the agenda this evening. And that aspect earlier, the comprehensive plan amendment uh was actually the now the applicant now uh meets the requirement, required destiny rate. Item number seven was also taken off the agenda and that [1:16:48, 1:16:52]: will be seen by the heard by the council on june tenth. [1:16:52, 1:16:58]: And so we'll go on move on to uh could at least ask a question about that number six. [1:16:59, 1:17:17]: Okay. Now uh in that uh schematic of things, uh that that was asked we had asked that there'll be a commercial piece resolved and uh for this particular um development along that corridor. So there's there's a still a commercial, we had asked for some mixed use. [1:17:17, 1:17:29]: That's correct, Councilmember Alexander. However, the um the applicant is still working on that. That's part of the reason why they deferred. Okay. So they'll be back June 10th with their final per with their final version. [1:17:29, 1:17:39]: Okay, but the d the housing level density now actually complies, so Yes, sir. When we updated the uh the comprehensive plan for twenty four twenty twenty four to twenty twenty eight. [1:17:39, 1:17:59]: the density over in that area was changed the density table in that document was changed. Uh increasing um the current low density was one to three units per acre. It then it increased to one to to um four point nine nine. And the medium density went from five to seven point nine nine. And the high density went from eight [1:17:59, 1:18:06]: To sixteen units, right. Okay, so but instead they still gotta come back to us. Mayor forward. Yes, sir. Point point of order, please, sir. Yes, sir. Push your point of order. [1:18:06, 1:18:22]: Uh this is an item that has been removed. Right. Therefore no discussion. Um it's in district two. I've had conversation with the developers and Mr. Anderson, but uh it has been removed from the agenda. Therefore no discussion. [1:18:22, 1:18:38]: All right, understand your point. Understand. We'll move on to new business. All right. New business is council consideration to approve twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five liability insurance policy an amount of uh seven hundred eighteen thousand eighty eight dollars. Uh Miss Wheeler, please. And it says Matt Simmons also as well. [1:18:42, 1:18:51]: E um Mr. Ryan, Ms. Anderson, you may want to take this presentation off or somehow we take Oh that's okay, that's it. Okay, got it. Good point. Thank you very much. [1:18:53, 1:18:54]: Thank you, that's fine. [1:18:59, 1:19:01]: All right, uh there we go. [1:19:01, 1:19:21]: Okay. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh what we're presenting to you this evening is the city's insurance liability for 2024-2025. I have Matt Simmons who is our broker with Gallagher. I'm going to make the presentation. [1:19:21, 1:19:22]: Point. [1:19:24, 1:19:44]: This is Daniel Duhart and Matt Simmons with Gallagher. So good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Daniel Duhart here with my business partner, Matt Simmons, and we are going to present uh the executive summary for 2024 for the city of Stockbridge. Uh we had an opportunity to meet with Ms. Willer about a week or so ago to talk through the entire [1:19:44, 1:20:04]: Your executive summary. So for the sake of time this evening, I won't talk through the entire summary, but I will highlight uh a few of the key uh points within the summary. So, first off, with the executive summary, uh it's really designed, it's something that we do for each of our clients, but it's really designed uh to provide [1:20:04, 1:20:24]: An update of everything that we've done leading up to the renewal, right? So that you have an idea of the things that we have been working on. With the executive summary, it consists of a couple different things, whether it's the uh like our core 360 approach to risk management. We look at uh just forecasting. [1:20:23, 1:20:43]: Some premiums, a market update. I think it's very important for our clients to understand what's going on in the market, some of the renewal results, and then also a stewardship report. And I'll talk to that a little bit later. But that's just a few of the things that the executive summary consists of. I'll jump right into uh the four [1:20:43, 1:21:03]: Forecasted premium part of the excess uh executive summary. So early on in the renewal process, uh, we try to talk with the client and give them an idea of just the forecasted uh premium. And so we pull that uh indication from just things that we're seeing going on in the market, and then also uh [1:21:03, 1:21:23]: just from talks that we have with the different carriers in the public entity market. And so uh early on we talked with Ms. Wheeler and we were projecting about a 40% increase based on a number of different things, whether that be uh just some of the emerging issues within the public entity space, whether it's social inflation, [1:21:23, 1:21:43]: Nuclear verdicts, even within uh just car insurance uh premiums are increasing. I think uh that's something that we can all too uh all agree to as well. So it's a lot of things that go into uh just the overall projection that we gave of 40 percent. Uh now one of the things that I will say, we are happy to say that. [1:21:43, 1:22:00]: that we were able to come in lower than that forecasted premium. So I'll turn it over to my business partner, Matt Simmons, and he'll talk through some of the actual renewal results and the actual numbers and then I'll talk a little bit more about the stewardship report as well. [1:22:00, 1:22:20]: Thank you, Daniel. And uh thank you. Excuse me. Thank you, Mayor and Council, for having us uh back and the opportunity to present. Um as Daniel was discussing, uh about January we we did we did budget forecasting as we do every year uh with Miss Wheeler. Um the next page that you have in front of you, uh we look at what were our results. Um so we went out. [1:22:20, 1:22:26]: out if you recall last year we came in pr we Gallagher was came in pretty close to renewal time last year. [1:22:26, 1:22:46]: Um, so we kind of had a constricted time frame. And so this year we went out and we wanted to look at the marketplace, see what was available out there. So presenting in front of you is the actual results um from the marketing travelers, your incumbent carrier provided a renewal option. This is and these are just based on the to the top pat the the uh total package uh program. This doesn't include your cyber. [1:22:46, 1:22:47]: Or terrorism. [1:22:48, 1:23:01]: Uh Liberty Mutual only provided a casualty quote. They could not look at the property based on uh weather modeling um that that they have. Um Tokyo Marine uh declined based on uh they're taking an approach of [1:23:02, 1:23:08]: Um, basically won't look at anything within twenty five miles of what they consider major metro municipality. [1:23:08, 1:23:26]: Um Trident uh declined based on loss history and uh the the that should say five, not six. The fifth one went to uh Gladfelt or just wasn't able to meet the uh carried uh timeline. So just a brief overview of of the of where of who to whom we went this year. Any questions about the marketing efforts? [1:23:27, 1:23:44]: I have none. I don't know if you're council member seven at all at this point. I guess not. Go ahead, sir. All right. Great. Thank you. And uh if you go to the last page, as Daniel uh alluded to, luckily, um we were able to actually uh like we said we forecast the premiums because we wanna make sure that there's budgeting um [1:23:44, 1:23:49]: So everybody kinda knows what's coming. But we always try to make sure hopefully make sure that we're a little bit higher. [1:23:49, 1:23:55]: On the forecast and what comes in and on this one, the renewal results were actually significantly better than our um [1:23:56, 1:24:16]: than our forecast and I noticed that the agenda item actually lists the forecasted number. Um the actual renewals votes can't came in about eighty thousand dollars lower than what is listed as the um as uh on the agenda item because that was the forecasted number. Um what we do with this is we like to show kind of show the work and show [1:24:15, 1:24:35]: Show the results. Um, one thing I can tell you is after we met with Ms. Wheeler, the number came down about$30,000 about a few days later, after we did some benchmarking against similar entities, um, um, both Henry County and Metro, based on renewals that we'd already had that year, to look at, hey, what's the market doing? And you'll see over to the right. [1:24:35, 1:24:55]: Right where we see those net rate changes. Um, a couple of things that will stick out to you: uh auto liability is continuing to go up. If anybody has renewed their car insurance, uh their personal auto insurance uh recently. Not a huge surprise there. Um so we're seeing that there's increased litigiousness in our state. [1:24:55, 1:25:15]: State. Um, again, that's not a should not be a big surprise to this body. Um, so we're seeing a lot of that going. That's really where we're seeing a lot of the drivers basically on all those liability coverages. We're seeing increases in um in in so there's social inflation, um, nuclear vertex loom. [1:25:15, 1:25:23]: Nuclear verdicts mean anything over$5 million, we're seeing more of those in the state of Georgia than we have really ever. [1:25:23, 1:25:43]: So that's where we're seeing a lot of those drivers. Property this year actually was great. It was it was a flat renewal, just went up based on exposures. Um our cyber uh came in. Um actually we got a reduction on the cyber. There is an option in here to increase your cyber coverage. Um so you'll see that we put optional coverage down at the bottom. [1:25:43, 1:26:03]: But all in all, on the grand total in the first section of your current program, we came in at just under a 20% net rate increase, which is in line with a lot of what we're seeing in the marketplace, especially in the met the in the major metro area for renewal net rate changes. [1:26:03, 1:26:05]: Um [1:26:07, 1:26:09]: Any questions there before I go to optional things? [1:26:10, 1:26:11]: Okay, council any questions. [1:26:12, 1:26:32]: Uh seeing none. Go ahead, sir. All right. Um two options we have on here. Uh during our conversation uh with Ms. Wheeler, there was concern there had been an incident at one point regarding mold. And we have Daniel referenced our core three sixty process. We sit and we don't just look at and let's renew like for like every year. [1:26:32, 1:26:39]: want to talk through, hey, what what isn't currently covered and one thing was pollution liability and the pollution exposure. [1:26:39, 1:26:48]: There um there was a concern from Ms. uh Wheeler about I think that there was um there was a building a number of years ago that had uh mold. [1:26:48, 1:26:52]: Um and so we had that discussion. So we brought out an option of [1:26:53, 1:27:05]: Coverage that can help with remediation, um, cleanup, um, liability costs in the event of any form of exposure there. Um, and then we also have an option uh to um [1:27:05, 1:27:18]: And the premium number on the cyber three million limit is to add is additional premium to um what is for what is the like for like renewal proposed to increase your limits from two million dollars to three million dollars. [1:27:20, 1:27:21]: Okay. [1:27:23, 1:27:24]: Any other questions thus far? Council. [1:27:26, 1:27:27]: Go write it, please. [1:27:27, 1:27:40]: The in regards to uh I'm looking here under the renewal results, I believe we have and I'm looking at the percentage of increase. I mean, there's some pretty big numbers, jumps, right? We went from [1:27:41, 1:27:48]: W what what is the increase amount? Like eighty s uh it was fifty like for auto liability, fifty two percent. [1:27:49, 1:27:53]: And then auto physical damage, we went up eighty six percent. [1:27:53, 1:27:59]: Oh uh I think you have the version from before we did our final negotiation. [1:27:59, 1:28:19]: Um forgive me, I think that you have the uh the prior version, the the one that I I'm not sure if you're able to see what's up on the screen. It's here. I think you probably have because we prov we provided our executive summary that we reviewed with Miss Wheeler um before the submission deadline for this council meeting. And so that would have been that Monday, Tuesday Monday. [1:28:19, 1:28:27]: Morning, that number came down thirty, that autophysical damage came down thirty thousand dollars. Okay. So that came down to a net rate increase of thirty-four and a half percent. [1:28:27, 1:28:45]: Um so my apologize. We get here's our results, but we keep going, you know, we we go until the whistle's blown. Okay. Um so we had additional discussions. Once I was kind of looking at it, was able to benchmark it against some other municipalities. Um we were able to make a pretty strong case that [1:28:45, 1:28:58]: That was far too significant of an increase. Okay. Um so that the the actual premium number uh on that line item for auto physical damage is actually seventy seven thousand three hundred eight. You're looking at about one oh eight, right? [1:28:58, 1:29:13]: I was, yes. Yep. Okay. So I see the bottom line has gone down a little bit. Yes, th the the the over yeah, the what it what you're looking at, the bottom line number came down roughly thirty thousand dollars. Okay. So we have here I c can I all the other numbers are accurate that you're looking at. [1:29:13, 1:29:26]: The grand total is around six forty four, is that it? So that comes down to uh excuse me, six that at the bottom with the options, but right above the optional coverages, that first grand total should be six thirty, zero three, six. [1:29:27, 1:29:35]: Six thirty zero three six and then the with the options is six forty six six forty six five seven two. [1:29:36, 1:29:46]: Okay. And up top it says auto liability. It incre it still increased at fifty seven per fifty two percent. So why is there such a large increase there? [1:29:46, 1:30:00]: So um there's a lot of factors that are going into this. Um I mentioned, you know, we look at the increase for uh litigiousness in Georgia. Um we are um [1:30:01, 1:30:21]: the w the most litigious state in the country right now. Um so we're s you're seeing those lawsuits, you know, when you have auto accidents, people are suing more, they are getting greater awards. Um those verdicts are increasing. Okay. So that it's kind of driving as a whole the insurance market. [1:30:21, 1:30:25]: He is driving that. [1:30:25, 1:30:30]: Um I saw about twenty eight municipalities at the beginning of May. [1:30:30, 1:30:36]: pretty in line with that with what everyone's looking at. Um you see, you know, um [1:30:36, 1:30:43]: Cars are also getting more expensive to replace, to repair, because it's more technology. Um so [1:30:44, 1:30:53]: claimant vehicles, it's costing more to pay out on that. There are more claims around bodily injury. There's more claims of you know, kinda anything. [1:30:53, 1:31:10]: And is that is it also based upon our our claims? Any of the uh claims that our vehic anyone in our vehicles So that that's an experience rating factor um that that does come into account. You don't have a lot of those claims. [1:31:11, 1:31:17]: Um that's actually one of the reasons why we were able to bring down the autofiscal damage, um, which is that first party loss. So if [1:31:18, 1:31:27]: If somebody hits you, um, if you hit uh a deer, if you hit uh a pole and just you need to fix your vehicle, we we kind of ran through the metrics and said, this is [1:31:27, 1:31:30]: Too much. That eighty eight percent you were looking at. [1:31:30, 1:31:33]: Your lost history did not account for that. [1:31:33, 1:31:41]: Um however on the auto liability, that is something that is more market-driven on um [1:31:42, 1:32:02]: On the city of Stockbridge, as opposed to experience driven. You have had some. You know, if you have a police, if you have law enforcement, you're going to have auto claims. It just kind of happens. Um, if you're just working out, you know, public roads, you know, public works, there's going to be those claims. So a lot of that's taken into account. This is a result of the past several. [1:32:02, 1:32:22]: Years again of increased litigiousness, increased claims, increased verdicts throughout Georgia and really the major metro area. So we see we are seeing this across the board. It is not, you're not getting a larger increase than you know everybody else is getting on that. Um it's not a [1:32:22, 1:32:27]: great increase to be receiving, but it is something that we are seeing in the market just you know. [1:32:28, 1:32:30]: We keep hearing the term. [1:32:30, 1:32:43]: thin pricing that has been on the books for years and years. We're in a very hard market. And so that is really driving up those costs on the auto liability. Because they're also factoring what's the future going to look like. What could happen? [1:32:43, 1:32:46]: It's all based on the modeling and um but it i [1:32:47, 1:32:52]: It is in line with what we've been seeing around the metro area and other cities in Georgia. [1:32:54, 1:32:56]: Yeah, go ahead, sir. [1:32:57, 1:33:16]: Um on the same subject and we're talking about the state of Georgia, what is the impact of youth drivers, twenty five to eighteen, senior drivers, how what's the impact there that that will affect us here? [1:33:17, 1:33:17]: Mm-hmm. [1:33:18, 1:33:33]: Are we talking about city drivers? Are we talking about just dri drivers? Well, when you you you made reference to the state of Georgia as a whole and and the market there is. Um and the reason I'm asking this question, um I'm a senior driver myself. [1:33:33, 1:33:36]: And I heard some of the same language. [1:33:36, 1:33:40]: about Georgia being number one. [1:33:40, 1:33:47]: And I was just curious as to the impact of youth drivers and senior driving. [1:33:47, 1:33:55]: that affected them affecting the market, even even here at the municipality, but in reference to the state of Georgia. [1:33:58, 1:34:18]: I and you you may not have any. No, no, I was just saying I'm just a little curious. No, no, no. I I you know it it's a great question, and I can't speak to a whole on that because that brings in factors of of um personal insurance is really where we see a lot more of of those things because you don't typically see 18-year-old drivers [1:34:18, 1:34:25]: driving for you know you may see them driving for private companies. You don't have to see them driving for local governments. Um but [1:34:25, 1:34:45]: I don't have met we don't have metrics or benchmarks down that low. Um, and I'll I'll speak to one thing briefly too, um, because uh actually maybe a month or so ago now, I was actually speaking at NFBPA National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and that question came up as well. Uh I know as it pertains to the state of Georgia, like [1:34:45, 1:35:05]: Matt said it's kind of separate in a way, but it can affect the overall premium. But I know for the state of Georgia, team drivers uh is something that has really increased rates and stuff for the state of Georgia. Didn't really speak more so in terms of like senior drivers were uh a big impact, but uh I do know a lot of the team drivers. [1:35:05, 1:35:15]: So speaking to that. Yeah, and I appreciate that. And what I was trying to to to get to [1:35:16, 1:35:23]: How even though we're talking about Georgia and you have all of these municipalities within the state. [1:35:23, 1:35:25]: And I just didn't see [1:35:26, 1:35:27]: А сепарачин. [1:35:28, 1:35:30]: of municipal [1:35:30, 1:35:40]: uh government, employees and what have you, from the other society, as far as Georgia and insurance rates. [1:35:41, 1:36:00]: No, sure. And and it we're just not we don't have the information kind of s separate that granularly on it. Um but you know, an interesting thing that you bring up is um is w more teen drivers, more drivers in general. I mean [1:36:00, 1:36:06]: I mean, you know, for me, thank goodness we're on the north end of Henry County. Um, driving up and down seventy five, but um [1:36:07, 1:36:27]: There's more cars out there. So there's more drivers out there. A lot of those are youth drivers. And so we are just seeing with increased congestion, there's more opportunities for ac accidents to happen. So there are there are factors, but we just it's we it's not drilled down that far. But to Daniel's point, um there is a factor in the overall insurance. [1:36:27, 1:36:40]: marketplace but specific to municipal, we don't really have kind of the the the weighting factor on that piece. Um it's really driven by overall litigation and and claim pouch and things like that. [1:36:40, 1:36:41]: Thank you. [1:36:41, 1:36:42]: Yes, sir. Any other questions, Council? [1:36:44, 1:36:58]: Okay, so above the four, so so otherwise there are two different options. One we have to select one of the the options. There is the um there is the there's the total, which is your like for like renewal. You know, we same insurance you've got. [1:36:58, 1:37:13]: Today will be the same insurance you have on the 19th when it renews. Um you have the option of adding pollution coverage and increasing your cyber limit from two million to three million dollars. Um those are the two options you have in front of you. [1:37:14, 1:37:15]: Um [1:37:17, 1:37:25]: Pollution covers is one option, the other option? Uh yeah, th those are two options, pollution and increasing your cyber liability limit from two million to three million dollars. [1:37:27, 1:37:28]: All right. [1:37:28, 1:37:31]: Councilor, any comments in reference to those options and what we're doing here? [1:37:32, 1:37:35]: Yes, sir. Um the cyber [1:37:35, 1:37:55]: I've noticed and from hearing in the news, I know Henry County also has some issues in the past. What's the um rate of change, I guess, on municipalities and local government being affected by cyber attacks and how much has that impacted policy changes across municipalities throughout the m the uh Georgia area, the region? Have we seen that as a spike? [1:37:55, 1:38:00]: or trend in the last I guess five years. [1:38:00, 1:38:20]: Yes, sir. So actually, um, really you would uh yeah, really call it four years since basically since twenty twenty. Um twenty twenty-one was a massive market correction. Um, massive market correction for the cyber market where rates skyrocketed. Um, you know, I I was I saw some clients get five hundred percent increases. I mean [1:38:20, 1:38:35]: significant increases. In the past two years, those have started to level. As you'll see, you've got um you uh you actually um got a bit of a rate reduction on on it this year and the option to increase more coverage actually increase your underlying coverage [1:38:36, 1:38:42]: At during our renewal last year, we had conversations regarding some of your uh cybersecurity. Um [1:38:42, 1:38:45]: Discuss it with with Miss Wheeler and um IT. [1:38:45, 1:39:05]: Got a lot of stuff taken care of this year. Okay. Um, so that's where we saw we're able to actually increase coverage and reduce rate. But to about policies, procedures, controls. Um, I have that conversation every single day with our clients. Um, it it is absolutely driven up. It is a major topic of conversation. How much of that is ransomware? [1:39:05, 1:39:08]: And and and how our s how are [1:39:09, 1:39:13]: What's the trend as far as what cities are doing when they're being impacted by ransomware? [1:39:13, 1:39:33]: It varies. Um it varies and I'm I'm gonna tread lightly on the line because there are certain things I don't wanna say in public forum based about cybersecurity and things like that. Um we are seeing a shift from traditional ransomware somewhat. [1:39:33, 1:39:45]: because people are starting to get a little bit wise to it. But that is still really your primary driver. That's still kind of what you're seeing, you know, the, the, the, the. [1:39:46, 1:39:54]: day-to-day attacks, if you will, um, you know, for lack of better terminology. Um ransomware is a big is is a big driver around that. Um [1:39:56, 1:40:06]: There are some people out there that just wanna wors watch the world burn though also. Um and and just do it ju just do it just to do it. Um you recommend that we increase from three to five? [1:40:06, 1:40:10]: I would recommend that. Yes. Especially based on the premium. [1:40:11, 1:40:19]: Million dollars for five dr for fifteen hundred dollars, pretty good deal. Um I would recommend that, yes. [1:40:22, 1:40:24]: Okay, yeah. Any other questions? [1:40:25, 1:40:28]: Mr. Gardner, what's the recommendation? [1:40:44, 1:41:02]: Good evening, Council Mayor. Good evening, sir. Uh as it relates to the options, I think we should up our insurance. Obviously it's better to be safe than sorry and we don't know if we're gonna get hit. And if we do at least we go from two million to three million. You're talking about cyber, is that what you're talking about? On the cybersecurity, yes. [1:41:03, 1:41:23]: Um always air on the side of caution with that. Um because we have so many devices out here, it just makes it so easy. Um and like you said, you don't want me saying this on the public forum because the people that do it watch these meetings. Um but yes, I would go with I would go with the option for the extended the um additional option. [1:41:23, 1:41:23]: Yeah. [1:41:23, 1:41:26]: And what about the pollution? Uh [1:41:32, 1:41:52]: Better to be safe than sorry, yes. You know, we we do have a older building there, um that we still have people working out of and I don't know what's in that building. Might be stuff that's not supposed to be in there. So we might want to just keep that pollution for this year until we were able to look at that building um in more detail. [1:41:52, 1:41:54]: I think that's the building you're talking about, right? [1:41:55, 1:41:56]: Yeah. [1:41:57, 1:42:05]: So but your recommendation is to to to expand the duty optional coverage on top of for the total of six forty six [1:42:05, 1:42:08]: Five seventy two. [1:42:08, 1:42:28]: Pollution on cyber, yes sir. Okay. All right. Well may ms uh Mr. Bear Bear Pro Team Bear has some very important pointing questions about what was going on. And like I said, uh for fifteen hundred dollars it does seem very reasonable. I just wanted to make sure the the city manager was signing off on that. So certainly I'm okay with it. All right, so is there a motion? [1:42:28, 1:42:45]: So Mayor, I move that we approve the 2024-2025 liability insurance policy in the amount of$646,572. [1:42:47, 1:42:57]: Okay, you want to mention about the additional i options? Yes, yes th that th that would be included with the c correct, correct. [1:42:57, 1:43:01]: All right, is there a second emotion? Mr. Berry, second that Clarity. [1:43:01, 1:43:09]: Yes, ma'am. Go ahead, please. Was that amount six hundred and forty six thousand or six forty seven? Six forty six five seven two. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. [1:43:09, 1:43:25]: And I I'd like to add one thing. One thing that we've discussed with travelers and we've discussed with Ms. Wheeler in the past, you're off s you're off cycle with your insurance renewal. One thing that we're gonna look at doing this year is actually doing what we call a cancel rewrite. We're gonna work to see if we can do a cancel rewrite. [1:43:26, 1:43:40]: So that we can actually reset your insurance renewal date to January one. So that we can actually now start aligning this with your fiscal year. Because as you see, we do budget forecasting so that we can actually start budgeting for this in the future. So we're gonna try and do that this year. [1:43:41, 1:43:41]: Okay. [1:43:42, 1:43:56]: Thank you for that. That's just additional information for us to know at this time. No, I absolutely because it will shift kind of the the fiscal year financial impact. Because if we cancel and rewrite it, that fiscal year impact will come down because it won't go through an entire 12 months. [1:43:56, 1:44:06]: It will i if we're able to do that, it will reset and we'll have a budget number for January. Okay. So I want to make sure everyone's aware of that. All right, thank you. Motion's been made in a second. All in favor of the motion, please indicate. [1:44:07, 1:44:15]: She announced decision. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Mayor Ford. Yes, ma'am. May I also request that they provide to us this revised renewal results. Yes, ma'am. [1:44:16, 1:44:36]: Thank you very much. Yes, ma'am. Um, Mr. Mayor, uh one thing we wanted to have an opportunity, i i if if we may, um Daniel was gonna provide uh a little bit of overview of some of the actually the work that's been going on outside of just placing the insurance so you can kind of get a an idea of the risk management uh things that are being done. Okay, this is information for us, we're not voting on what you're talking about. [1:44:36, 1:44:56]: Correct. No, no vote. No, okay. All right. No vote. This is just we we just want to be able to provide you with information about the work that actually we're doing with the city. Okay, go write it, please. Got it. Okay. And uh so with the stewardship report, and I referred to that earlier, uh, when we first took over the account, so working with the city of Stockbridge, uh talking with uh Miss Renee and the team, uh she was [1:44:56, 1:45:16]: Really adamant about wanting to make sure that we establish a solid risk management culture, right? Getting some things in place to make sure that we're helping to mitigate against uh some of the risk. So with uh originally we brought in Alex Scott, which is a senior risk consultant, and Alex is great with helping. [1:45:16, 1:45:36]: Helping to establish some of those things. So and I'll speak to a couple of the things that uh we've already done. So originally uh there was a safety program survey, and so we met with each of the department heads, and it was really a way for us to get a baseline in place to understand what policies and procedures that you all have in place and how do we want to [1:45:36, 1:45:56]: approve upon those things. So that's kind of where it started. Another thing that we were looking to do in talking with Ms. Willer is to uh create or implement the safety and accident review committee. Typically I think that's going to consist of about five to seven people. It's maybe something to where we'll meet on a quarterly basis and we will review all of the claims. [1:45:56, 1:46:16]: Within that quarterly period, and then really talk about some of the safety programs or procedures that we want to put in place moving forward. So really taking a proactive approach with the safety and risk management for the city of Stockbridge. And then one of the other things that we're looking to do as well, too, or that we've done with the law enforcement, right, with the city of Stockbridge. [1:46:16, 1:46:36]: Stockbridge recently kind of picking up law enforcement on the insurance. One of the things that we've seen is that sometimes within the law enforcement department, uh there can be uh you know a spike in claims in that area. So again, Ms. Wheeler was just talking about the fact that we really want to be proactive in that area of the insurance as well too. So [1:46:36, 1:46:56]: Um, you know, including the law enforcement as a part of that safety committee, uh, and again, you know, working with them to review policies, procedures, and things like that. So all of it is really to help improve the risk profile, right? Help how the carriers view the account for the city of Stockbridge, because ultimately that helps or have [1:46:56, 1:47:16]: Has an impact on how they view or rate the account. So there's a lot of things that we have been doing, a lot of things that we're looking to do in the future. I think we may even have a kickoff meeting as early as the end of May, maybe sometime in June. But we'll have ongoing updates and reports on some of the things that we're doing around risk management. But just wanted to give a brief update. [1:47:15, 1:47:18]: update on a few of the things that we've already done to this point. [1:47:18, 1:47:38]: Okay. It's m only my simple assumption that uh this is become more prevalent that we have to really pay attention is based on the fact that we have a police department, um I would think. More employees and then uh more vehicles on the road, things of this nature. It's kinda driving this more or less. That's what I what I assume. Well and and when Mr. Gardner uh and Miss Wheeler um [1:47:38, 1:47:45]: Um and Ms. Holiday brought us uh brought us in last year. One of the things they said was they really wanted to start a risk management program. [1:47:45, 1:47:53]: a ri a true risk management program in the city of Stockbridge. And that's why I wanted to provide an update uh to the uh to the uh council today. [1:47:53, 1:47:56]: Well, you know, we've actually haven't been having some really good um [1:47:56, 1:48:14]: Really good discussion, actually starting to put some action behind it, really developing risk management as opposed to just buying insurance but managing risk in the city of Stockbridge. Um just g you know, it's I feel we feel it's always good to provide an update of, hey, what else is going on throughout the year with these guys that stand up in front of us, you know, once a year. [1:48:14, 1:48:34]: All right, thank you. Uh any other questions or comments around the last bit of this presentation, Council? Okay. If not, thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate it. Okay, thank you. Uh council consideration to approve the Georgia Power Lighting Agreement for street light uh enhancement for fifty-nine lights for Walt Stevens Road and amount of twenty four thousand two hundred fourteen. [1:48:34, 1:48:54]: Dollars per year, 46 lights on for Valley Hill Road in amount of eighteen thousand eight hundred seventy-eight dollars per year, twenty-five lights on Jodoku Road in amount of eighteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars per year. It says wooden pose here, or twenty-five uh lights for Jodoku Road in an amount of thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars a year. [1:48:54, 1:49:14]: Black aluminum poles and Davis and 22 lights for Davis Road in the amount of$9,338 per year, and 19 lights for Shields Road in amount of$8,892 per year for a total of$79,927 or$96,772. [1:49:14, 1:49:21]: Annually and this is coming from the FY twenty twenty four department budget and the funding source is for this. Mr. Aaron, please. [1:49:21, 1:49:41]: Yes, Mr. Mayor and Council. Uh Public Works staff was tasked with uh obtaining lighting proposals from Georgia Power for the lighting of major thoroughfares. And those roads were, as you read, Walt Stevens Road, Valley Hill Road, Jodico Road, Davis Road, and Shields Road. And so we had those proposals. [1:49:41, 1:50:01]: Proposals prepared by Georgia Power and Councilman Alexander asked if we'd look at having instead of the wooden poles on Jodico Road, having uh black metal poles to uh match what was inside the development at the bridges of Jodico. So we have diff two different prices. If we use the wooden poles. [1:50:01, 1:50:17]: It would be$79,927 for all of the projects. And so if we went with the black aluminum poles, then increased the cost to$96,772. So it's a$16,845 difference. [1:50:18, 1:50:38]: If you use the black aluminum pole versus the wooden poles on Johtoco, which what Georgia Powell is going to do, the wooden poles on Jodico will remain if we decide to go with the black poles. They'll just put additional poles there. Their proposal initially was to install the lights on the wooden poles that are already there on Jodico Road. [1:50:38, 1:50:58]: So whether you go with the wooden or the black, the wood poles are still gonna stay there. They're not gonna remove them because they're the infrastructure for the power that runs along Jodeco Road. So it's just whether you wanna pay the additional m amount of money to install the black aluminum poles versus the wooden poles. [1:50:58, 1:51:18]: Yes, sir. Go ahead, please. So m Mr. Aaron, is is is this going to be consistent throughout the the city in the future as far as the black poles? So th the thing with the the metal poles is you have to run the power underground. Then there's an additional cost for that. And it's always gonna be [1:51:18, 1:51:26]: The more expensive option. And typically the wooden poles are the cheaper option because poles are already there. [1:51:26, 1:51:31]: And so the black poles there are more of a decorative item than a actual [1:51:33, 1:51:52]: But the question still yeah, but the question still remains though, is this going to be consistent throughout? Because I I don't think this is gonna be the last time that we are into this discussion when it comes to other part of the city when when there are um poles and lights that are needed. [1:51:53, 1:51:54]: And I think for me now. [1:51:55, 1:52:00]: Uh that's the question for me. Uh are we gonna be consistent with this process? [1:52:01, 1:52:08]: Just in my opinion, I would say the wooden ones I would go with that because typically they're already there. [1:52:09, 1:52:11]: And so you don't have to make that investment. [1:52:12, 1:52:17]: in the additional infrastructure. You can just attach lights to poles that are already there. [1:52:17, 1:52:37]: And then you run into an expense when you put something on the ground. As you know around here, there's a lot of rock here. So there's the potential to run into rock when you put those lines on the ground. I know we're paying a premium for the iron pole, but then there's an [1:52:37, 1:52:46]: Additional costs in addition to this ninety-six thousand. Is that what you mean? So that's the total cost for the polls. So that's also including the burial of the cables. Yes, sir. [1:52:47, 1:53:07]: But then we would have wooden and iron side by side. Or what's the space like what is the space between the wood the between the wood and the iron? Are we talking like wood five feet from there, then an iron pole? Like what that that doesn't look right. Well stem stand by please. Actually, Mr. Berry was next, but stand by please. Go ahead, sir. Finish the [1:53:07, 1:53:15]: Yeah, so what is what is the gapping or the spacing between wooden and iron if we go with the iron proposal? [1:53:15, 1:53:35]: So it it depends on the right-of-way there on Jodeco Road. It would typically they would put the metal ones behind the sidewalk on Jodeco Road. And the wooden ones are further closer toward the development, the bridges at Jodeco development. And so you're probably talking ten to twenty feet in some areas. [1:53:35, 1:53:50]: But you're just gonna have two sets of poles. You're gonna have one set of poles with just lights on'em and then another set of poles with the the wires and things of that sort. And there's no way around that. That they will have to coexist. Yes, sir. [1:53:51, 1:53:55]: Uh all right, you are you you complete, sir? Yeah. I'm sorry, Mr Thomas, will you complete? [1:53:56, 1:53:57]: Well [1:53:58, 1:54:18]: I I just don't see how we can I keep hearing Jodeco Jotiko but we have to go with the whole [1:54:18, 1:54:35]: I just don't see how we can uh pick and choose when we sort of do these kind of things because other areas would need the same and that's my concern. [1:54:37, 1:54:57]: Well, if you wanna if you wanted a policy, then you would just like you're going with the Made the Thoroughfares for lighting, you can require that made the thoroughfares have those type of poles, the metal poles as an option. You could do that, but like I say, it's gonna be a more expensive option and it's not gonna replace [1:54:57, 1:54:59]: It'll be in addition to [1:55:01, 1:55:01]: All right. [1:55:02, 1:55:03]: You done, sir. [1:55:07, 1:55:27]: Okay, Mr. Alexander, go ahead, please. Mr. Alexander? Yes, this is uh District Five. And let me clarify, Mr. Aaron, the information that you're given is incorrect. The poles, the wooden poles are about fifty feet off of Jotoko. They're not they're not at the street side. They carry the main power thrower power force through [1:55:27, 1:55:34]: Uh the Jotaco development. Everything inside the development has buried wires in it. Isn't that correct? [1:55:35, 1:55:50]: Yes, but I was talking about the poles that supply the power to that area that are on the wooden poles. Right, but all the poles that are inside the development have buried wiring. They have metal poles and they're right at the street side behind the behind the ten foot pass, correct? [1:55:51, 1:55:52]: Yes, sir. [1:55:52, 1:56:12]: Right. That is the that is what we required of the developer in that development that they would do that. And let's make it very clear. There's not gonna be a ten foot separation. Those poles are about fifty feet off the roadway. So it would not be possible at this time to put lights on the existing poles, because those poles [1:56:12, 1:56:32]: are not at the roadside. They're at least forty to fifty feet off the roadside. So they would light up the development uh where the restaurants are or the property o on the property owner side versus being close to the sidewalk because there's a lot of right of way along the uh Jodico side. Now to answer Councilman Thomas's question, [1:56:32, 1:56:45]: I do think that we should make this the policy. And I was gonna make that recommendation uh f as far as uh going toward um doing that at every commercial site. [1:56:46, 1:57:06]: If we look walk go down North Henry Boulevard right now, we got poles that are like this, bending over. It looks absolutely horrible. And it you cannot minimize what the aspects look like. But the deals that we have in Jodico, we just adopted those standards uh for the parkway corridor. We need to adopt those standards. [1:57:06, 1:57:26]: citywide as was stated because we implement them citywide we get improvement. So when a uh when a poll is replaced, it certainly could be a request that the poll in the futures are replaced with metal poles. But I certainly wouldn't want us to require the developer [1:57:26, 1:57:27]: [7048.3, 7068.3]: that we're not willing to do ourselves. And in most commercial areas, as people move forward with the assessment to improve their city, they're doing these metal poles in those areas along new development. That's what we require of the developer. If we went to the parkway corridor [1:57:48, 1:58:08]: That's what Henry County requires. When they're when they along their highway corridor, when they install new lighting, those new lighting poles have to be inside the development or outside the development, which they require the developer to put them in. We should have required the developer to put them in, but we didn't do that because the code was lax at that time. [1:58:08, 1:58:28]: Time. But to be honest and to be straightforward and uh and uh accurate, there is no right at the street lighting at Johtaco. It's black dark right there. This the poles are back into development. They installed those poles to carry the maximum voltage so they can light up. [1:58:28, 1:58:35]: the entire area. But everything inside that development has a black metal pole on it and it has the wiring back buried. [1:58:37, 1:58:57]: But these are lights along Jodeco Road, not within the development. Exactly. So that these lights would be. Right. These lights would match what we have inside the development. And any div any new development, like we come in like we're doing flip and roll, right? When we do flip and roll, do we and and that development [1:58:56, 1:59:10]: developed, do we want to put flo a wooden poles in there? No, we don't. Any new development that comes along, we want to match what we require of the developer because inside that flip and roll development, they got to put up metal poles. [1:59:10, 1:59:30]: We want to be consistent with that. Now we put up wooden poles along campground. I was all for that because that's a residential area. But when you're talking about doing commercial, you don't see any wooden poles. And you do see when you go up to Carl Parkway or you go up to Sandy Springs, they have the metal poles along the street side and then the uh wooden poles set. [1:59:30, 1:59:34]: step back, but to say that the poles were at the street side, that's inaccurate. [1:59:36, 1:59:40]: Mayor Ford. Ms. Gantt. [1:59:40, 1:59:50]: Thank you. I have a couple questions. Well I have I have a couple of questions and maybe some concerns. Um in regards to [1:59:51, 1:59:55]: The black iron pole. [1:59:55, 2:00:11]: Well I have some comments too. But in g in regards to the black iron poles, are they just as tall as the the wooden poles? Are they do they look like that or are they the cosmetic, the smaller, shorter poles with the They're uh I think twenty five feet. [2:00:11, 2:00:18]: Your twenty five feet. And how many feet are the the wooden poles? I think those wooden's probably forty plus feet. Okay. [2:00:19, 2:00:20]: And then [2:00:20, 2:00:27]: Well you know when we go down flipping let's say I'm well, from here I'm going from turning into your point of order. I'm turning what's what's your point of order, sir? [2:00:28, 2:00:43]: Is that that's not accurate? The poles aren't twenty five feet. The ones inside of Jotacore are fifty feet. I'm I'm saying the ones that they're proposing in the proposal. The black ones. Okay. I have a reason I'm asking. So when you when you make a left onto flipping from here. [2:00:44, 2:00:51]: And on the and we turn right, like we're going towards Davison Parkway. There are lights, those are black pole lights. Are they not? Are they [2:00:51, 2:00:56]: Wha what kind of lights lighting is that? [2:00:57, 2:01:03]: on uh old Atlanta Road, but they also put some wooden poles there, if I'm not mistaken as well. [2:01:03, 2:01:23]: Okay. And are these the same decorative lights that are l that are on that road? That would be on Jodico. Uhhuh. No man. They won't be the same? No man. Um and I thought about that when I'm on Walk Stevens and you have a lot of kids and a lot of people. And when we start getting sidewalks that connect [2:01:23, 2:01:36]: connect and trails. Um but I didn't know whether or not they had street lights in addition to that or they just had the decorative lights and did the city put those up if they're not gonna be the same as those black aluminum poles. [2:01:37, 2:01:39]: So the ones on all Atlanta? [2:01:40, 2:01:45]: Is that Odalana? Before you get to Reese Creek Trail, um [2:01:46, 2:01:55]: So you turn y we're leaving out of here, we're going flipping to the left and you make a right. Remember they have that little sign you can't turn at certain hours. What's the name of that road? [2:01:55, 2:02:07]: Old Atlanta. Old Atlanta. So those decorative lights. Those are they're sim similar to the ones that are on ML King Senior Heritage Trail. Okay. All right. [2:02:08, 2:02:28]: Okay. And those would not be the ones that would be here over by Jodico, correct? No, ma'am. They'd have the uh there's a picture in your packet. They're they're the lights that kinda similar to the ones on uh ML King's Heritage Trail where the light is focused on a a an area. [2:02:28, 2:02:29]: Okay. [2:02:30, 2:02:31]: And um [2:02:32, 2:02:36]: I have a concern in regards to when we do community [2:02:39, 2:02:42]: spending additional funds if they're not gonna look [2:02:43, 2:02:59]: cohesive or continu i if they're not gonna be contiguous throughout the entire city. So not one community, you know, one district is not have black poles and then the rest of us don't. I don't I don't like that idea. Um and I also [2:03:00, 2:03:00]: You know [2:03:01, 2:03:08]: Don't like the idea of having a lot of polls either. A lot of signing, a lot of like multiple poles. I'm concerned with clutter. [2:03:09, 2:03:29]: Um when we look at some of this downtown development and economic development and all the classes we've taken and they try to streamline and clean up the area, um, you know, they simplify things and and reduce the amount of polls or reduce the amount of signage. Um so to me this would add if the pol the [2:03:28, 2:03:31]: the wooden poles already gonna be there anyway. [2:03:32, 2:03:32]: Um [2:03:33, 2:03:35]: So I I just have some concerns about that. [2:03:36, 2:03:46]: Um not necessarily against it, but I I'm not really for it either, considering there'd be two poles there and th and we're and we're looking at cost. [2:03:46, 2:03:52]: And we would do if we do it at one district, we would need to do it at all all the districts. It needs to be cohesive. [2:03:53, 2:03:54]: I would think. [2:03:54, 2:03:57]: That's just my opinion. Now um [2:03:57, 2:04:15]: I get what you're saying, Councilman Alexander, and I totally understand it. But if if a district or a commercial development wants um something else to enhance their particular area, then there's been talks of CIDs, there's been talks of [2:04:15, 2:04:17]: Інопи про доз тін. [2:04:18, 2:04:24]: But I I think that if the city's gonna do it, we're gonna either do it all or none. That's that's my take on it. [2:04:25, 2:04:28]: Certainly if I c Stand by please. Are you are you done now? Okay. [2:04:29, 2:04:43]: Um Mr. Thomas, go ahead please. Um, Mayor Ford, I I I wanted some clarification, um, you the presiding officer, but I wanted to direct the question to Councilman Alexander. He mentioned something about [2:04:44, 2:05:04]: in new commercial development uh it was required by the developer. Uh is that a city policy? I I don't recall. I don't recall that. Is that a question to me? Yeah, yeah, just asking you. I don't think we have a city policy. Well what has happened? Let me answer the question. [2:05:03, 2:05:23]: question. Henry County has developed that policy because initially what we did was we passed the policy that they passed, which is the parkway corridor, which was called the highway corridor. They have updated their policy that required the developer to put in the street lights uh since since we passed the original policy uh to do uh [2:05:23, 2:05:43]: Require street lighting, and certainly we need to follow suit in order to do that because you just don't see wooden poles in a brand new development. And like I said, as I said, I think I'm certainly in favor of not just doing it in the one district, I'm certainly in favor of doing it in everybody's district. So when you have [2:05:43, 2:06:03]: Have a new development, we don't have wooden bent pole poles 20 years from now or 15 years from now, or the poles started to fade, or they started to do that. You don't see that when you go in. When we went to Avalon, did you see any wooden poles? When you went to the battery, did you see any wooden poles? When we went to Peachtree City, [2:06:03, 2:06:23]: Did you see the wooden pole? You saw metal poles beside in commercial areas. And that is what is called a best practice. And certainly I think we should go down that road of putting metal poles. And there, if you go down Jodeco as I do every single day, there aren't multiple poles. [2:06:23, 2:06:43]: At the roadside. There aren't. They don't exist. They're not there. So you put the metal because when they built Jodeco, there aren't any wooden poles along the street. There aren't any. Neither side. The only poles that are in Jodoku are in the front of development. They're about 50 feet off the road. There's no [2:06:43, 2:06:45]: polls at the road, zero. [2:06:46, 2:07:04]: If you actually went over there and you looked, you would see there are no poles on either side of Jodeco right at the road. Zero. That's why there's no street lights there. Because nobody the county didn't want to take on that expense, and neither did we. But certainly what needs to happen is it would be just like [2:07:04, 2:07:24]: Uh a new development as you described, Ms. Gantt, you would have uh the sidewalk there because eventually we will have a multi-use path there if everything goes right, and then you have the the metal sidewalk beside it. But the what was described to us is not accurate. There won't be multiple poles there. There are no poles at the Zach Street. [2:07:24, 2:07:42]: street side of Jodeco. The poles are about 40 feet off the road. So if you put the light up on the existing poles, those existing poles are 40 feet off the road. That's not what we're accustomed to anywhere, putting street lights 40 feet 40 to 50 feet off the road. [2:07:43, 2:07:46]: So otherwise what it understands is that what you're talking about [2:07:46, 2:08:06]: There's a policy the county passed, but we don't have a particular policy in our city. And you're indicating we should follow suit. Is that what you're talking about? I'm indicating that we should follow suit and make that a policy in in commercial areas, not just in my district. The reason that I suggested that this be done, and certainly I consulted with Mr. Gardner as well, to to do that. [2:08:06, 2:08:09]: And Mr Garner, let me get your take. [2:08:21, 2:08:24]: Good evening once again. So [2:08:25, 2:08:32]: As an industry standard, most major shopping center developments that have street lights, they're usually decorative. They don't put up wooden poles. [2:08:32, 2:08:51]: um inside the development. Now what serves that is a different thing, um, off the major roads. Um so as it relates to that, I think that's we can control that with design standards, obviously. Um, but as it relates to your regular roadways, Jodoko Roads, um [2:08:53, 2:08:56]: Old cornyous, Eastern Ladder, you know. [2:08:57, 2:09:17]: Those roads obviously, if you put lights in, you're gonna have lights in between existing poles that are gonna be and you see that right out here to some extent. Um you'll see the decorative um acorn lights, but right next to it you see the regular pole. Um just taking your high tension and high high capacity. [2:09:17, 2:09:20]: capacity, electricity um [2:09:21, 2:09:29]: So if we're talking about doing that on streetways, uh that's gonna get expensive, especially if the city is doing that. I want the city to understand. [2:09:29, 2:09:35]: We're we're almost in the million dollar range with providing street lights. [2:09:36, 2:09:47]: Right. So the more you add, the more you add. Right? So I want that to be understood. It does not come for free. I think he already pointed out that there's a cost. [2:09:47, 2:10:07]: Right. And most of your major corridors, and we just spoke about this the other night with Miss Sherry. Um, the the county is now looking at CIDs as a means to make some of these improvements, and those improvements are being born will be borne by the commercial developments within those corridors. Right? They can [2:10:07, 2:10:10]: Can tax themselves up to two mils of tax. [2:10:10, 2:10:16]: Um and then they use that to match other monies out there to make some of these improvements happen that we typically see. [2:10:16, 2:10:21]: Um and elsewhere. So that's something that they said is steadily moving forward. [2:10:21, 2:10:41]: as they design that program, they will be getting with us at the city level. Um those CIDs are typically um private entities set up. They don't really they have boards that run them. They hire their own directors, their own staff. But definitely that's the way to go. [2:10:41, 2:10:57]: for some of our major corridors as we see development happening. Hopefully they can get that up and running. But, you know, where we can make some improvements, it makes sense. And and yes, every district is not gonna be the same unless we have a redevelopment of a project. [2:10:57, 2:10:58]: Right. [2:10:58, 2:11:01]: Um uh you know in in the case of [2:11:02, 2:11:11]: Three of our major districts, you're not gonna see major large scale commercial developments, right? Outside of this downtown area. [2:11:11, 2:11:15]: Um in Miss Uh Barbers District unless we add on more land. [2:11:16, 2:11:23]: By annexing, you're probably not gonna see it. You're not gonna see it in Mr. Berry's district. You're not gonna see it in Mr. Alfonso's district because they're literally landlocked. [2:11:24, 2:11:25]: Right. Um [2:11:25, 2:11:32]: There is some land left in Miss Gantt district for major development, but even that land is sitting there is constrained by flood. [2:11:33, 2:11:53]: Um right there at the corner of uh Spear Road and Highway 138. Right. Um if we go east on East Atlanta on East Lake Parkway and annex, there's a potential to get something out there, but that would come as part of an annexation in in Ms. Barber's district because the rest of [2:11:53, 2:11:57]: of the property in that district is pretty much either Vulcan or it's residential. [2:11:57, 2:11:58]: Or downtown. [2:11:59, 2:12:01]: Um so we're constrained. Um [2:12:02, 2:12:11]: It it's it's something that should be done city wide if it if it's implemented. I think equity was one of the words that came out. You're right. Right. Um [2:12:11, 2:12:20]: But at the same time I think you have to look at where can you get the best bang for your buck and and we could look at areas because there might be areas where we could fill in. [2:12:20, 2:12:24]: But then again there are areas where you're gonna provide clutter. And let me tell you [2:12:24, 2:12:33]: We just talked about accidents in youths and seniors, right? Imagine when you run off the road and what was once vacant space is now pole. [2:12:35, 2:12:55]: Right. So this is something I think if if it's something we're gonna do city wide, it needs to be looked at more comprehensively rather than council making a automatic decision on it. Um look at if we're gonna look at some of our most major commercial corridors, you're now gonna have the Western parallel connector. Right. [2:12:55, 2:12:57]: Right. So that's gonna come. [2:12:58, 2:13:18]: I think it's incumbent upon us to make sure that that development comes with the necessary decorative poll. Because you're gonna see development off of that road. I would tell you now. Right now it has it has decorative poles on the Western Parallel Connect. But in terms of in keeping that consistency between what you see on Chin Parkway between Mount Olive. [2:13:18, 2:13:22]: what the developers put in out to the front of Jodico as um [2:13:25, 2:13:32]: Mr. Tim Jones developed his project across the street and then the other piece gets developed moving all the way back up but behind the [2:13:33, 2:13:52]: Um McDonald's when it connects to Hudson Bridge. Yes, we need to make sure that we we put decorative lighting on there, that we don't put those crazy looking power poles along that roadway. Um that would help. Um we have some opportunities to do some of that as it relates to [2:13:52, 2:13:53]: Um [2:13:56, 2:13:57]: Not uh [2:13:57, 2:14:04]: Patrick Henry Parkway. Right. Right. Um when we discussed, remember the liens that you currently see now, those are your northbound liens. [2:14:05, 2:14:08]: So if you take where the curb is [2:14:08, 2:14:12]: When you're going south, that's actually where the median is gonna be. You're gonna have two more lanes. [2:14:13, 2:14:18]: So there's an opportunity for that corridor to have some decorative lighting in lieu of some of the poles that are already there. [2:14:19, 2:14:27]: Um that's an opportunity, especially on the side between the interstate and Patrick Henry. So there's an opportunity to do some stuff there or a Santa Median. [2:14:27, 2:14:29]: Something they should have done on East Lake Parkway. [2:14:29, 2:14:31]: Right? [2:14:32, 2:14:40]: And that road is dangerous at night. To me it is. Um but that's what I'm saying. We look at it more comprehensively rather than making a run decision. [2:14:40, 2:14:41]: Um [2:14:42, 2:14:51]: And let's bring something back to you guys where we can show and illustrate areas where there's opportunities to fill in those gaps where it makes sense and to avoid pull clutter. [2:14:52, 2:14:55]: Right. Okay, thank you. Okay, quite with your follow up. [2:14:56, 2:15:16]: For clarification, the cost is up front. Then the cost is based on the lighting, correct? I mean you there's an initial upfront cost, but based on the lighting, you're paying for the lighting cost versus in the the installation one time, correct? We always choose the the zero dollar option. [2:15:15, 2:15:35]: option and just pay the electrical cost because they're gonna recoup their money that way. Right. But there's an upfront option where you possibly spend it a hundred plus thousand dollars and I I don't think that's a good idea because Georgia Power is gonna get their money because the lights gonna stay on all the time versus you paying them [2:15:35, 2:15:43]: for the material up front so that you can reduce your electrical cost by a hundred or two hundred dollars a month. That's really not [2:15:44, 2:16:04]: You know, a cost savings to me. So what we're doing now is we're choosing the zero option with this what we have here, correct? Yes. Right. But then after f subsequent to the upfront cost, you would have uh the electric power bill that you would be paying. Yes. Uh [2:16:04, 2:16:24]: No matter what d material that we chose. But certainly I'm in favor of making it a citywide proposal because when they widen Highway 42 down here, they're gonna have metal poles on it. When they widen Rock Quarry Road, Rock Quarry Road's gonna have metal poles. G DOT, that's what they're doing. [2:16:24, 2:16:37]: All of the road projects that are coming to the city, Rock Quarry, Highway 20, the Western Parallel Connector, they're using metal poles. That's what's going. That's what the standard is. [2:16:37, 2:16:38]: Yeah. [2:16:38, 2:16:58]: Thank you. Mr. Thomas, please. Thank you. I'm going to beg the different a little bit about development in District Two. There are conversations about mixed use, and we just finished talking about a commercial component to the development that's coming right now off of David. [2:16:58, 2:17:03]: So that is why I asked the question originally. [2:17:04, 2:17:24]: uh about citywide because if you go here with it then when this development comes forward then I would think that you know we would just follow suit. But I you know but I understand as Mr. Gardner indicated about the economics of this. I'm just saying let's don't put this [2:17:24, 2:17:27]: out here then when this development coming then well [2:17:27, 2:17:47]: I I just want I just want to be consistent with it because Davidson Parkway is it's coming. Yes, sir. And and that is and and excuse me for forgetting Davison Parkway, but that is a road that literally has uh uh no poles, right? So if at some point we decide to light or some of that combo development can work [2:17:47, 2:18:02]: does develop as commercial. Obviously the interior side of that will be be there. Part of what, because it's already zone commercial, we're gonna have limited say if they stay commercial, because all they're gonna do is submit their plans and go to work. [2:18:02, 2:18:03]: Right. [2:18:03, 2:18:16]: Um so that'll be an opportunity obviously to negotiate. But yes, that's the last last vestige of a m major commercial property. I forgot about that. And I'm looking at the street view right now and there are no poles along that roadway. Yeah. That is correct. [2:18:17, 2:18:19]: Thank you, Mayor. No problem, welcome. Ms. Gamp, please. [2:18:21, 2:18:41]: Um real quick, I'm g I want to follow the recommendation of our city manager, which is to get a um mm basically map out what lights should go where. I don't want everything just thrown up. I I know the price I appreciate you doing your homework and getting what we asked of you for the lights. [2:18:41, 2:18:58]: in the different areas, the whether we're gonna do wood or we're gonna do the iron black and what areas we're gonna do those in and whatever policy we come in place or what we can visualize w what might be whether it's decorative on one uh I don't know. So I'm thinking that we do what [2:18:59, 2:19:01]: Um Mister Gardner had mentioned [2:19:01, 2:19:08]: And make sure that we have one plan together and then we prioritize. [2:19:08, 2:19:10]: Where the lights go up. [2:19:10, 2:19:30]: each you know, uh where they're going. We also need to be aware and concern based off of his statement, we're not in the business of the light business, right? We we need to limit that too, but we all agree that we would have place lights at in major thoroughfare thoroughfare areas. So if for the sake of time [2:19:30, 2:19:50]: And to keep us from going around and around in circles, I think it would be best if the city, I move that we table this item and instruct the city manager and Politworks to come back with us with a like pinpoint. [2:19:50, 2:20:10]: where light certain lights would go if we were to get, you know, the black iron lights in certain areas or not, or we're gonna do all wood, or or what the recommendations are. I say that because I feel like we should get it right the first time and not kind of piecemeal it. I love those off of old [2:20:10, 2:20:30]: What did we say? Old Atlanta Road? East Atlanta. East Old Old Atlanta. Old Atlanta Road. I like those decorative lights. Those lantern look, that lantern look, especially when you have sidewalks and you're going up into I mean it looks like we're you're you're going somewhere really, really nice. I just um I I want us to consider what uh [2:20:30, 2:20:35]: um opportunities we have to get it right the first time and not just spend money. [2:20:35, 2:20:48]: Um, you know, I wanna make sure it's done the right. And then we go from there and make sure that we plan it the right way. And I before I well, I wanna make that motion, the one I just said to table and instruct you guys to [2:20:49, 2:21:01]: provide us with a plan on what lights should go where, whether they're wooding, they're black iron, if they're in a commercial quarter, w whether they should be decorative and lantern in a certain area. I think that would be ideal. And um [2:21:02, 2:21:22]: I also, um, even though I'm saying that motion, we had a uh quote given for one highway one thirty-eight. Highway one thirty-eight alpha exit two twenty-eight is cum is dark, right? But the amount of money they want to put street lights there is astronomical. And that is that [2:21:22, 2:21:29]: uh our job or is that the G uh G Dot's job to put streetlights there? Do you know? [2:21:29, 2:21:39]: That would be ours. That's ours. And what was that estimated quote, do you remember? Two million dollars. Yeah. So and that's w us getting off the exit. [2:21:39, 2:21:59]: into Stockbridge. The very first thing people see, whether it's it's the very first northern, the southern exit coming down seventy five south, or it's the furthest going up north in Stockbridge, and that's that exit two twenty eight, highway one thirty eight. And we got new restaurants coming there, there's a median there. We don't have any turns [2:21:59, 2:22:19]: J turns or any cut throughs and um businesses are complaining about that as well. But that's a big cost, two million dollars. So I just want you guys to r you know keep that in your radar. Maybe we can call talk to G Dot, maybe we can talk to someone or apply for some type of grant or something, but [2:22:19, 2:22:25]: That's a lot of money, but it's n it's well it's needed. That's the entryway to Stockbridge. [2:22:25, 2:22:31]: So just want you to think about that. But I my motion still stands on the floor. Just want you to know that. Okay. [2:22:31, 2:22:51]: It's I don't know if the Mr. Berry wanted to speak. I did I just wanted to add on and I I agree with um Councilwoman Barber to a T that it would be perfect for us to have some level of uniformity across the entire city and not hodgepodge. You know, Stark Bridge needs to look together, needs to be uniform, and so the lighting needs to be a representation of that. I just wanted to add [2:22:51, 2:22:52]: Yeah. [2:22:53, 2:23:10]: You said Barber, I think you I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He saw my hand. I saw her hand. I did see her hand. Yeah. I'm s I apologize. And but I did want to add, um, and this is just a point of observation, and uh I don't see any representation of district three. [2:23:10, 2:23:15]: in any other w road lightings and I don't you know, I just wanna advocate. [2:23:16, 2:23:19]: and lobby for my district to also be included in [2:23:19, 2:23:39]: The process of placing these lights. I see everyone else's district represented. I do not see my own. I have to advocate for district three to have some lights, especially on flipping roads. That is correct. Because it is one of the darkest roads in the city. And it is also a cut through a major thoroughfare. [2:23:39, 2:23:50]: when when the interstate is backed up, people shoot up flipping road and they come up there and I'm also getting constant complaints of how dark it is. That's second emotion. And so I have to say that. [2:23:50, 2:24:10]: We will we will look at all of the districts and and make make when we come back with that comprehensive, hopefully be able to show uh illustration on mapping and road street views so you guys will see exactly what what it would look like if we put those lights up. So um give us a month or two and we'll bring that back to you guys. All right. [2:24:10, 2:24:15]: Okay, set motion to the second to further discussion. Thank you for that. Ms. Barber, go ahead, please. Yes. [2:24:15, 2:24:17]: My hand was raised before the motion. [2:24:18, 2:24:20]: However, I want to ask [2:24:20, 2:24:21]: Mr. Aaron. [2:24:22, 2:24:25]: I know last year there were street lights installed. [2:24:25, 2:24:27]: On Spear Road and Campground Road. [2:24:28, 2:24:32]: Can you tell me how many street lights were installed on Spear Road? I know about [2:24:32, 2:24:33]: Thirty. [2:24:33, 2:24:38]: I don't have that in front of me right now. It's about thirty. I count it. I can send it to you. Um [2:24:39, 2:24:42]: Can you tell me how many were installed on Campground Road? [2:24:42, 2:24:46]: I don't have this in front that in front of me, but I can email it to you. [2:24:47, 2:24:51]: Okay, and the reason why I'm asking is because last year [2:24:51, 2:24:52]: I was advocating. [2:24:52, 2:24:54]: First City Council District Four. [2:24:54, 2:25:00]: There are a number of streets um that have been newly annexed into the city. [2:25:00, 2:25:02]: That do not have street lights. [2:25:03, 2:25:05]: I think we need to be prioritizing. [2:25:06, 2:25:09]: The areas in which we will be installing street lights. [2:25:10, 2:25:22]: Um since we installed street lights on Spear Road, that's in City Council District One last year, and we also installed street lights on Campground Road last year, that's in [2:25:22, 2:25:24]: Council of District Five. [2:25:25, 2:25:29]: We need to focus on the other areas that don't have any lights. [2:25:29, 2:25:31]: But Davis Road is one of them. [2:25:32, 2:25:37]: Valley Hill Road is another and Shields Road is another. [2:25:37, 2:25:42]: I know Walt Stevens has very few lights right now, if any. [2:25:42, 2:25:46]: But they do have commercial irritants on Walt Stevens. There is lighting. [2:25:47, 2:25:49]: Valley Hero, there is no commercial. [2:25:50, 2:25:51]: There are no lights. [2:25:52, 2:25:53]: Same with [2:25:53, 2:25:54]: Davis Road. [2:25:54, 2:25:56]: So when I [2:25:56, 2:25:58]: Was pretty persistent. [2:25:58, 2:26:05]: about making sure that you all take a look at these newly annexed areas for lights. I expected that [2:26:06, 2:26:23]: Valley Hill, Davis Road, and Shills Road would be included on your list. They were thank they were. Thank you, I appreciate that. But I'm just thrown off that here we are again now with Walt Stevens Road, fifty nine lights, and Jodico Road. [2:26:24, 2:26:28]: It's twenty five lights, if not more. No. Twenty five. [2:26:29, 2:26:44]: Forty-eight lights. No. So we need to be prioritizing this. So so I certainly do support tabling this and having you all to bring us back a plan on how you all are gonna roll out. [2:26:45, 2:26:48]: installing these new street lights and ensuring [2:26:48, 2:26:49]: Each district. [2:26:51, 2:26:53]: has lights installed. [2:26:55, 2:27:15]: So the number of lights is not determined by the city, it's determined by the photometric analysis that Georgia Power conducts and that determines how many lights are installed. It's not we arbitrarily say we're gonna put fifty on this road or twenty-five. And I understand that. But my in in this proposal we did get proposals for Valley Hill Road, David's [2:27:15, 2:27:32]: Road and Shields Road. Did you not get a proposal for Valley Hill Road, Davis Road and Shields Road last year at the same time that you got lights for Spear Road and Camp Brown Road? They were already in the city prior to Valley Hill and these other roads, but when we were tasked to get [2:27:33, 2:27:44]: Proposals for those roles, they're on this list that was tabled. Is Valley Hill Road is on here, Davis Road and Shields rolls for life. So what I'm saying is last year [2:27:45, 2:27:50]: You're saying that Valley Hill Road, Davis Road and Shields Road was not on the list. Okay. [2:27:51, 2:27:56]: That's fine. This year they are. But I wanna know why, once again, [2:27:57, 2:28:04]: Walt Stevens Road and Campground Road, those had streetlights installed last year. [2:28:04, 2:28:05]: No other area. [2:28:06, 2:28:09]: had street lights installed other than this downtown area. [2:28:10, 2:28:12]: But the other areas did not. [2:28:12, 2:28:14]: I just want to make sure. [2:28:14, 2:28:21]: That we are investing in all districts and not just specific areas. [2:28:22, 2:28:22]: That's all. [2:28:23, 2:28:40]: Thank you. Ms. Gangoy, please. Thank you. Um in in rebuttal to that or just a response to that, I hope that we prioritize roads. I mean the lighting of roads, just like we prioritize our streets on what needs to be repaved. And having said that, [2:28:41, 2:28:47]: Walt Stevens is a extremely busy road and it's in district three and it's in district one. [2:28:47, 2:28:50]: і із екстримли бізі. [2:28:50, 2:28:55]: And when you get off uh y you as we already know um [2:28:55, 2:29:00]: And th at least three council members have lived on Walt Stevens. [2:29:00, 2:29:00]: Um [2:29:02, 2:29:22]: That that road is used now as a cut through to get to the interstate. That the interstate's always backed up. And so flipping and Walt Stevens is it. And it's dark, and people are walking more. People, um, the the road is just extremely [2:29:22, 2:29:42]: Extremely busy, even in the middle of the day, but especially at night, and it's dark, and the commercial piece is all the way up where the lights maybe connect right there at the spear road. But there's a need for Walt Stevens to have street lights, and the number of lights are based off of the poles. [2:29:41, 2:29:52]: Somebody, we're not no one's getting a a privilege here. And I I think that that goes to say for just to be fair across the board. [2:29:53, 2:29:59]: You go based off of the volume of the amount of vehicles that are passing those roads every day. [2:30:00, 2:30:14]: That's what I would base it off of. I would base it off of the priorities of how many vehicles are are driving down those roads every day. There's a school right there. There's the largest subdivision probably in Henry County right there. [2:30:14, 2:30:34]: Which has a lot of kids that walk up and down the street right there. And you have the same thing whether they're driving through downtown to get downtown or whatever the roads may be. We have to consider it based off of volume, not based off of what council member got uh district it is and had a road [2:30:34, 2:30:40]: you know, have the lights up in whatever area. It needs to be based off of of priority, based off of volume. [2:30:41, 2:30:51]: Okay, thank you. Uh Miss uh Miss Holiday, uh you have the motion was made in action mo mo made by Miss Gad, second by Mr. Thomas. Could you read back that motion to make sure we have it correct, please? [2:30:52, 2:31:03]: I have a motion to table and instruct the city manager and the public works director to uh recommend a plan and not piecemeal on. [2:31:05, 2:31:22]: Okay. Uh is that what your motion is stand, sir. Ma ma'am. I'm sorry, Miss Scant. Okay, so map out a plan on where the lights will go and also prioritize the areas where they'll be installed. And what type of lights? Right. What what type of lights and poles? [2:31:22, 2:31:23]: I have wooden metal [2:31:26, 2:31:46]: Correct. Okay. And also I would like to see I wanna know how many poles are along the roadside'cause the act the information we were given on Jodico is incorrect. So if someone could go out and actually count the poles and how far they're off the roadway so that we can be accurate with [2:31:46, 2:32:06]: Okay, that's not part of her motion. She I would like her to add that to it because if you s to make that determination, you need if there's no poles at the street side, or you you might make a different decision if there was twenty-five poles at the street side already. So the decision would be different if there was already wooden poles there. [2:32:06, 2:32:26]: versus no polls uh being uh at this particular location. And in and as a part of my discussion, let me say this and I'm gonna respond to you, Councilwoman Barber. Nobody was talking about street lights until I started asking. Nobody. So we moved that forward into doing what we were doing and we did it citywide. Nobody was [2:32:26, 2:32:46]: was talking about metal poles. And we wouldn't be talking about metal poles now had I not suggested it. But it is a good idea, not just for me. It's a good idea for all of us. Because it's gonna make all of us look good. So I'm glad that you made the suggestion that we do it citywide, because that was my intent anyway. I thought [2:32:45, 2:33:05]: Everybody would follow suit. Certainly I would never say do anything only for District 5. But when you see it and it happens and people start saying street lights, and your constituents say, What about me? Then everybody says, I need streetlights. And I certainly agree with the preface, it's need. When you get off a highway, and I've [2:33:05, 2:33:25]: Been saying this, and you know, for the longest. When you get off highway 138, it's black dark. That estimate is ridiculous. I don't believe that. I don't. I don't believe the estimate is two million dollars. I believe that we could we should go back and ask. Um that's that that two million dollar estimate must include the X. [2:33:25, 2:33:31]: the exit ramps because there's not that many more poles along Highway 138. [2:33:32, 2:33:52]: Than the extra one. So I would ask that, you know, I would ask you to say the same thing. Go back and get another estimate. Because when we were talking to Tyler Peake about that, that estimate included the ramps. It didn't just include the areas along Highway 138. Because GDOT should be responsible for the areas on the ramps. That estimate. [2:33:52, 2:34:12]: Estimate is ridiculous at two million dollars. That cannot be right. Because if we put fifty-nine lights along highway one thirty eight like we're doing Walt Stevens, wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't that don't you think that would work? Okay, I'm not gonna let me let me interject here. Okay, why don't we do this? A couple things. And why don't we keep her motion as it is? If you want another motion, we can have another motion. [2:34:12, 2:34:29]: motion after that instead of adding that to it unless she really wants to add that. Well I already had motion already. I just wanted to add the por I went on commentary. I just wanted to add the portion of the counting the polls. That's up to her Sir Motion. I'm just making a recommendation that we just go forward and we can do a separate motion on that if you want. And uh Mr uh Thomas go ahead please [2:34:29, 2:34:33]: I was going to recommend um has been motioned. [2:34:33, 2:34:53]: Has been second. Right. I was just gonna call for the vote. I do believe in the motion and in the directive, all of this information will come back and we can make the adjustment. Also, let me add, for the record, uh the lanterns on ML King here. [2:34:53, 2:35:07]: Trail was in 2015. Okay. So this was out there, uh Councilman Alexander, before that. I just want to state that for the record. But I called for the motion. All right. So the motion made, Miss Second. All favor of the motion, please indicate. [2:35:09, 2:35:26]: All favor of the motion, current motion, please. I call for the vote, in other words, yes. Excuse me, sir. Okay. All okay, it's the unanimous decision on that note. I did want to ask the council to ask and I and I would just say whether we direct staff. [2:35:26, 2:35:46]: to just have an assessment as a part of the assessment that you would know how many poles are currently there and what we gotta add. I would just ask you to do that as part of the process that you would let us know so we when we're making the decision that we would know whether a wooden poles already [2:35:46, 2:35:58]: there, metal poles already there, or no poles uh already there. I think I would just like to sa i if we could just ask Mr Gardner if that could be part or Mr Aaron if there could just be a part of it. [2:35:58, 2:36:00]: Okay, he thumbs up. [2:36:00, 2:36:20]: Okay. All right. So is there a second to that motion? There's no oh it's not a motion. It's just a director. Just a director. Okay, fine. So be it. Okay. Okay, fine. We're we're good. All right. Thank you. What we have next, council consideration to fill a vacancy to appoint a member of the citywide authority board to serve an unexpired term. Mr. Gardner. And what I like to say [2:36:20, 2:36:37]: [9397.7, 9409.7]: We're t we're talking about uh we're talking about a appointment to the city wide authority board and you have three people buying for one position. Is this my recommendation that we thought we had two. I thought we had two. There are three in my book. [2:36:50, 2:36:55]: Oh I th no, we got more I know we need a d we there's more than one position available. [2:36:56, 2:37:16]: Not a citywide authority board. There's only there's only one individual with vacancy. It's my understanding. But go ahead, sir. With this one, Mr. Mayor and Council, we've looked at the open records exemptions. And open records would be exempt for people that would be full-time employees and department heads for those discussions, but I don't think it would apply to a bit I don't think it would apply to appointment. [2:37:16, 2:37:36]: For boards. Okay, so otherwise you're saying we can't go into exactly session and discuss this then. Not for this one, no. And I can I can quote the one that I'm I'm referencing, but we've been looking, we've been taking a closer look at the open records exemptions. And for personnel, it's for you can have discussions about full-time employees and department heads and acceptance of offers. [2:37:36, 2:37:51]: and all that, but that's that's in executive session, but appointments for just regular non full time staff boards. So if we can't legally do that, so be it then. So we got three people for one position. Mr Gardner, go ahead. If you need to explain anything any further. [2:37:51, 2:38:05]: So good afternoon good evening, Mayor and Council. Once again, you have uh one vacancy on the Citywide Development Authority Board and three applicants. You have the resume and the application for Miss Ivy Spear. [2:38:06, 2:38:07]: Miss Kim Mae. [2:38:08, 2:38:28]: And Mr. Antonio Gordon. Each one of those are business owners, uh real estate agents as well. So in reference to that, uh to their applications that you have before you, um, we just need a consensus on which one you think would be best to serve for in the city. [2:38:28, 2:38:33]: [9514.6, 9516.1]: Suppose there's only one. [2:38:37, 2:38:39]: [9520.9, 9522.5]: You have Chair Shaw. [2:38:43, 2:38:45]: Vice Chair Samuels. [2:38:47, 2:38:55]: Treasurer is Gatson Woodow. Secretary is Mark Glenn. [2:38:57, 2:39:01]: And then we have um Miss Terry Gleaton. [2:39:02, 2:39:04]: Okay, Council Member Gantt. [2:39:06, 2:39:10]: So you have was created by Mr. Morgan, who resigned. [2:39:10, 2:39:19]: So let me ask you a question. Can we increase the number of people on the board? Yes, you can. You the law states you can have no less than seven and no more than nine. [2:39:20, 2:39:29]: Let's let's do that. Let's increase the number of people on there.'Cause they always seem like they're having somebody uh out that's what I suggest that we increase the number on the board. [2:39:29, 2:39:33]: So we okay, well but you you're saying that can we legally do it at this point? [2:39:34, 2:39:46]: And Miss Gantt, you're the representative from this particular board. If you have any particular comment wanna get a legal opinion and of course you're a legal your attorney as well, but wanna get your thoughts on this since you're the representative to the to the board itself. [2:39:49, 2:40:09]: Two I believe two of the applicants listed the development authority or just uh some type of reference to willingness of the development authority and one applicant didn't say development authority, they said c uh board of ethics. Even though they said they would go with something else. [2:40:09, 2:40:16]: At least two of them. Um and then this is kinda tough. I'm used to being able to discuss this. Um [2:40:18, 2:40:19]: So [2:40:20, 2:40:25]: I don't object to adding an additional seat on the board. [2:40:26, 2:40:26]: Um [2:40:28, 2:40:48]: If we can do that, I don't object to that. But um I do see that that the first two candidates actually are listed somewhat or alluded somewhat to the development authority board. Okay. Mr Mr. Washington, sir. We can we can do that, Mayor and Council. We just need to have noticed it beforehand on the agenda that you all [2:40:48, 2:40:51]: we're going to take up expanding the size of the board. [2:40:52, 2:41:12]: Oh I don't know. Okay. So you can have you can have a discussion about it, but if you're going to do that, then that just needs to be noticed as an activity that y'all are going to do at that you all are gonna do at the next meeting. Yeah. Next meeting. We can't do it tonight, it's what you must do. Right. Mayor. Yes, ma'am. If we can, um development authority board meets tomorrow and I'll be able to get a little bit more clarity. [2:41:12, 2:41:32]: I would like to talk to the board. Okay. Um, it's a pretty strong board. They're they have their opinions and they'll let us know their recommendation on whether or not they want to add additional seats or not. Okay. Um I tried to message Ms. Shaw. Um, I haven't received a response back right now, so I wouldn't move [2:41:32, 2:41:40]: That we table this item into the next um into the work session. All right. Is there a second to that motion? Sir, ms mr second. All in favor, please indicate. [2:41:42, 2:41:48]: Yeah, ms b Mr Berry seconded. It's the unanimous decision. Thank you very much. All right. So be it. There we go. [2:41:48, 2:42:05]: All right, announcements of upcoming meetings in advance. Council meetings will be held, the city council chamber meeting dates, location, and time subject to change. Uh contact the city hall offices at 770-389-7900 or visit the website at www.stopbridgega.org for updates. [2:42:05, 2:42:25]: Citywide Development Authority meeting, second Tuesday of each month, 6 p.m. City Hall Levi Meeting Room, May 14th, which is tomorrow, right? The Planning Commission meeting third Thursday of each month, 630 P.M. City Hall Council Chambers, May 16th. The Downtown Development Authority meeting third Tuesday of each month. Welcome Center 130 ML King Senior Heritage Trail. [2:42:25, 2:42:45]: May 21st. New Council Advisory Committee meeting 6:30 third Tuesday of each month. Levi Meeting Room City Hall Chambers May 21st. 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Yes your question says when is there actually gonna be a don't trash stock bridge event? [2:45:23, 2:45:39]: Uh uh okay, well uh that is something that uh Mr Thomas will have to answer at this point. But let me continue on with the message here. Councilman Thomas says honored veterans with the council continuous salute for all year long. Please send any your pictures of veterans with their name, branch, rank, and years of service. [2:45:40, 2:45:55]: Please contact Rawls and Rawls. Once again, a schedule appointment will meet the mayor for m more information on council initiatives and events. Call her at 678-833-3348 or by email ralls at starbridge-ga-a dot or g. [2:45:55, 2:46:15]: Once again, the 2024 Stockbridge Empathy concert series is posted right now. Matter of fact, we just had uh wonderful concert for Mother's Day weekend just this past Saturday with Eric Penney, Isaiah Tatum, and and uh Tyrese. Uh Saturday, May 25th, funk party featuring Zap band, Evelyn Champagne King. [2:46:15, 2:46:33]: Rolls Royce and the Rick James Stone City Band. Now, as you may know, Rick James has passed away, but the Stone City Band is still going strong. Saturday, June 8th, TLC celebrating the 30th anniversary of Crazy Sexy Cool album with guests, uh special guests, Brownstone. They were here last year and did a wonderful job performing. [2:46:34, 2:46:44]: Saturday, July thirteenth and Sunday, July 14th, a night with Kim and special guest Leela James. Saturday, July twentieth, ladies' nights out, featuring Jodice, Johnny Gill, and Silk. [2:46:45, 2:47:05]: Stockbridge, excuse me, Saturday, July 27th, the 70 Soul Jam featuring shy lights, the Manhattan's legendary blue notes, bloodstone, peach, and herb, and that particular activity will everybody comes dressed in white. There's a StockbridgeAMP.com. Once again, StockbridgeAMP.com to get your tickets. And uh I want to mention [2:47:04, 2:47:24]: To you, everybody. Happy belated Mother's Day. Hopefully, all you mothers out there had a wonderful time with your families and loved ones. I've already met a Memorial Day weekend. We already talked about that walk coming up, and of course, a concert that weekend as well. And uh, counsel, what I'd like to ask is that we go into executive session for at least a personnel issue. I don't know if any legal or um real estate issue, but definitely a personnel. [2:47:24, 2:47:25]: [10047.7, 10051.4]: Mayor, I move that we go into executive session for personnel matter. [2:47:31, 2:47:33]: Okay, thank you very much. In a second. [2:47:34, 2:47:35]: Is there a second? [2:47:36, 2:47:39]: Okay, ms uh mister uh Berry Segond, all favor please indicate. [2:47:41, 2:47:47]: Okay. All in favor? All of everybody's in favor? Will you navigate sitting here? Okay. We'll go on a second set. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be back. [2:48:20, 2:48:24]: Council, I need a motion to end the second session, please. So moved. Is there a second? [2:48:24, 2:48:27]: Ms. Okay, from Miss Gantt to Miss Barber. [2:48:27, 2:48:29]: All in favor, please indicate. [2:48:29, 2:48:39]: All all favors, please indicate. Uh, looks like we have a unanimous decision here. Now I need a motion to reconvene a council meeting, please. Some move. Is there a second, Miss Barber? Second it from Miss Ganttham, Miss Barber, all in favor, please indicate. [2:48:40, 2:48:45]: All right done. On that mo on that I need a motion to end our council meeting tonight. So moved. Is there a second? [2:48:45, 2:48:48]: Okay, Mr. Barr second it from Miss Gantton. Ms. Barber, all favor, please indicate. [2:48:49, 2:48:54]: We are now well by have nothing to report, but we're now count we're now ending our meeting. God bless you all. Good night.