2025-09-30 · City Council · Transcript · Work Session Meeting

--- title: Work Session Meeting date: 2025-09-30 source: 2025-09-30_Work_Session_Meeting.wav --- [0:00:20, 0:00:25]: This okay I'm gonna say I'm sorry. You ready? So very simple. [0:00:27, 0:00:32]: I wanna want to repeat after me. I try to take a small little snippet, it's okay. [0:00:32, 0:00:41]: And this uh come down just a little bit for okay. Ma'am, you if you wanna take pictures, I I don't know if it'd be better maybe take pictures this way, if you like. [0:00:44, 0:00:46]: Okay. I'm thinking let's see here. [0:00:48, 0:00:51]: That makes sense? Okay. So raise your right hand. [0:00:53, 0:00:58]: Okay, there you go. I wasn't gonna say that, I was just looking at you. [0:01:00, 0:01:06]: Y y are you no need to be nervous. I'm a nice guy. I'm not I'm not a bite chick. Okay, all right. [0:01:06, 0:01:26]: I and state your name. I repeatel. Do you solemnly swear? Do solemnly swear. That I will support. That I will support. Uphold and defend. Uphold and defend. The Constitution of the United States of America. Of the United States of America. And the laws thereof. And the laws thereof. That I will support. That I will support. Uphold and defend the Constitution. And defend the [0:01:26, 0:01:46]: And laws and laws of the state of Georgia of the State of Georgia not inconsistent therewith that I will all I will observe and obey the laws and ordinances of the city of Stockbridge of the City of Stockbridge. Georgia that I will faithfully performed [0:01:46, 0:02:06]: And discharge and discharge the duties incumbent incumbent upon me upon you as a member of the city of Stockbridge Youth Council fairly and honestly to the best of my ability the best of my skill and ability so help me. [0:02:06, 0:02:07]: We got [0:02:07, 0:02:23]: This is a third day of September year uh year is two thousand and twenty five and congratulations. All right, all right. All right. So uh normally when do we have signed some documents here. Normally when we do this, the floor is yours. Do you have any comments you'd like to make? [0:02:24, 0:02:34]: I don't want to say thank you. Okay, that's that's fine. Okay. That's fine. Alright, so we're gonna sign sign this. Okay, great. [0:02:35, 0:02:39]: Okay, and you assign right there? Okay. [0:02:41, 0:02:42]: I just suppose that we don't have. [0:02:47, 0:02:48]: A sign right there as well. [0:02:54, 0:03:03]: And then uh this is uh a gift for you. Okay. Thank you. All right, and we're going to take a picture. [0:03:03, 0:03:23]: Oh I guess picture with or with it can be with or without the bag, it doesn't matter. But take we get make sure we get this crest in the back. Okay, no come on this side. Okay. Uh do you want to join us, Mama? Yes, Mama. Okay, so something you can get a file to her if you'd like. She can take a picture with your phone. And we can flank on the phone. Okay, okay. Okay, sure. We'll flank on you. Sorry, but we couldn't. [0:03:23, 0:03:24]: Yeah. [0:03:25, 0:03:25]: All right. [0:03:27, 0:03:29]: Okay. [0:03:40, 0:03:43]: are [0:03:45, 0:04:00]: Congratulations to you. All righty. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Okay. So out of curious, what high school? Dutch Town. Dutch Town. I don't know if you remember, but I'm a lifeguard in Monarch Village. [0:04:00, 0:04:20]: Ah I I did remember but I'm glad she said that'cause that's right where I live. Okay. I have to admit I haven't been to the pool in a couple kind of a year or so. You know, but good deal. So obviously you're a great swimmer. Yes. Good deal. Mommy, you know I swim too? No. No. [0:04:20, 0:04:23]: Number two. Well good. Uh you're junior. [0:07:43, 0:07:46]: Oh. [0:08:15, 0:08:25]: Yeah, I think so. I don't know if it's inside. [0:08:41, 0:08:44]: Evening ladies and gentlemen. [0:08:44, 0:08:47]: Madam Clerk, uh you said? Okay. [0:08:49, 0:08:51]: All right, Council, I have 603. [0:08:52, 0:09:10]: We uh it is our uh work session this evening, Tuesday, September thirtieth. I'd like to call the reading to order and the invocation uh this evening. Mr Collins, please come forward. If please stand if you can, individual people. If you go to Mike, make sure the green light is on. [0:09:11, 0:09:15]: Looks like it's on the box. Okay, go right here, please. Ready? [0:09:16, 0:09:36]: Bow heads for prayer. Father God, we just come here saying thank you. Thank you for allowing us to assemble in this place. We ask that you dwell in this place as we do the business that we come here to do that protects the city, provide for the city, etc. Bless those who are under the sign of my voice. Bless those who wanted to be here and could not. All these we ask in your son Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. [0:09:36, 0:09:52]: Okay. We'll pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under the God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam Clerk, Roll Call, please. [0:09:52, 0:10:11]: Good evening. Mayor Ford? Present. Mayor Pro Tem Gantt. Let the record reflect Mayor Pro Tem Gantt is not in attendance. Council Member Thomas. Let the record reflect Council Member Thomas is not in attendance. Councilmember Berry. Present. Council Member Barber. Present. Council Member Alexander. [0:10:12, 0:10:16]: Present. Mayor Ford, you have a call. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I appreciate that. [0:10:16, 0:10:18]: Council, I need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. [0:10:19, 0:10:26]: So second from Mr Berry to Mr. Alexander, all in favor please indicate. Thank you very much. [0:10:26, 0:10:27]: Um [0:10:27, 0:10:36]: What we have next is public comments. Madam Clerk, we have any public comments at all? There are no public comments, Mayor. Okay, so council we have reviewed the minutes uh for the city council meeting on September eighth. [0:10:37, 0:10:44]: And uh take a look at those. If any changes or updates, please let the clerk know. We'll vote on this at our next regular meeting to approve that. [0:10:45, 0:11:03]: And on that note, we have our first presentation for this evening. And that would be a presentation requesting approval of a resolution to adopt a city-county joint transportation safety action plan. Mr. Aaron and Julia Billings with the Modern Mobility Partners Director of Transportation and Planning. [0:11:04, 0:11:06]: Please. Thank you. [0:11:22, 0:11:36]: Good evening, Ms. Mayor and Council. Evening. Herring County and the municipalities have been working on a transportation safety action plan. And tonight we have Miss Yasmin's I hope I pronounced Koroshaki and she's gonna present the plan to you. [0:11:42, 0:11:49]: How are you doing? Could you pronounce your name once again, please? Yes, sir. Yasmin Korashahi. Oh Yasmin Korashahi. Yes, sir. Okay, all right, thank you. Um [0:11:49, 0:11:54]: Mr. Mayor, honourable members of council, thank you for letting me pr present to you tonight. [0:11:54, 0:12:01]: I'm here on behalf of Henry County to present to you the uh transportation safety action plan. [0:12:01, 0:12:11]: Um the joint city and county county plan was adopted by the county earlier this month, and so we're hoping to be able to present it to you all today so it can be adopted. Um ASAP. [0:12:13, 0:12:26]: And so just a quick overview of what my presentation will be like for you today. I'm going to give a uh quick bit of background information on what the plan is, what the funding source for the plan is, um what the goals of the plan are. [0:12:26, 0:12:31]: and kind of what we've been able to accomplish in the year-long timeline it's taken to develop the plan. [0:12:32, 0:12:42]: And then I'll go into the analysis, the robust analysis that was done um to develop this plan, including safety analysis, demographic analysis, and public engagement. [0:12:42, 0:12:53]: And then finally, I'll present to you the three types of recommendations that were developed as part of this plan that also include recommendations that are specific to the city of Stockbridge. [0:12:55, 0:13:15]: So this plan was developed under a Safe Streets for All um grant award given to the county in two thousand twenty three. The purpose of the Safe Streets for All grant is to allow municipalities to develop plans towards reducing um traffic crashes and traffic uh deaths from traffic crashes. [0:13:15, 0:13:18]: Towards a goal of achieving uh zero. [0:13:19, 0:13:39]: hopefully in the long run, traffic uh deaths called Vision Zero, or some sort of significant decrease in the amount of traffic fatalities and traffic deaths. And so it's done in two parts, the first part being a commitment to a significant reduction. And so I'll tell you about Henry County's commitment later on during my presentation. [0:13:39, 0:13:45]: and then also adoption of a plan, which is what I am presenting you today to be adopted. [0:13:47, 0:14:07]: And so this plan was developed by the county with partnership with the cities. And the vision of the plan is that Henry County and the cities of Hampton, Locust Grove, McDonough, and Stockbridge are committed to improving mobility and reducing fatalities and serious injuries for all modes of transportation and all community members. And the plan has four goals, which are to promote. [0:14:07, 0:14:19]: a culture that prioritizes safety, increase the use of non-automobile modes, improve the maintenance of roadways and facilities, and identify improvements that can be implemented quickly to improve safety in the county. [0:14:21, 0:14:35]: Um, the plan was kicked off about a year ago, last October, and throughout the year-long process that it's taken to develop and adopt, we have done four public engagement events. We have met four times with stakeholders all over Henry County. [0:14:35, 0:14:48]: Um, we were here back in April at the Jazz in the Park event in Ellenwood. Um, and then we also did robust analysis and presented several times to the Henry County Board of Commissioners as well as different representatives from the city. [0:14:50, 0:15:00]: Um so just a overview of the analysis that was conducted as part of this plan and please if you have any questions while I am presenting, please feel free and stop me to stop me and ask. [0:15:01, 0:15:21]: Um, so we did a pretty robust safety analysis to develop this plan, and basically what we did is we pulled five years of crash data from uh GDOT's uh data repository and looked at it both in terms of statistics and spatially to see where our crash is happening, but also how are they? [0:15:21, 0:15:41]: Happening and what kinds of crashes are happening. And so you'll notice that of all of the incorporated municipalities, Stockbridge has the second highest number of crashes. And its number of fatal and serious injury crashes is also the second highest out of all of the incorporated municipalities. [0:15:40, 0:15:43]: So uh [0:15:43, 0:15:54]: Car crashes are um a s big safety issue in transportation here. And so it's important to identify where those are happening and what we can do to prevent or reduce loss of life. [0:15:57, 0:16:17]: And so based on those data that we pulled, we also did some spatial analysis. And so one part of the safety action plan development is developing something we call a high injury network, and that is a federal standard. And the point a point of the high injury network is to identify what parts of the roadways. So this is [0:16:17, 0:16:37]: Across Henry County, what roadways and what parts of roadways are we seeing the most of these fatal and serious injury crashes? And so based on this high injury network, what we did is we developed something we call a high-risk network, and this was an additional analysis in addition to the high injury network analysis that looks at [0:16:37, 0:16:50]: roads that are similar to the roads where crashes occur. So it's kind of like, well, do they have s the same number of lanes? Is the speed limit the same? Are they in the same types of neighborhoods? And how [0:16:51, 0:16:56]: Um, do they compare to the roads in the high uh injury network, and what can we do? [0:16:56, 0:16:58]: To try and be proactive and we [0:16:58, 0:17:05]: uh even though there's not crashes happening there now, how can we pro be proactive and make sure that there won't be crashes happening there in the future? [0:17:06, 0:17:17]: We also did a demographic analysis to see what types of people and what kinds of neighborhoods are being affected the most by crashes. And you can kind of see how both how [0:17:17, 0:17:31]: crashes are clustered and how they cluster kind of with those darker neighborhoods that are dem uh areas of higher demographic need. Um and the demographic need was assessed based on income, race, and ethnicity. [0:17:31, 0:17:51]: And then we also looked at specifically the types of crashes that are affecting areas with high with different demographic needs. And so unsurprisingly, vehicle crashes were affecting all areas of demographic need the most. But what is surprising is that for pedestrians, fatal and serious injury crashes were occurring. [0:17:51, 0:18:00]: Occurring in areas of high demographic needs. So places where we are seeing a higher concentration of maybe low-income individuals or [0:18:00, 0:18:08]: Individuals from uh diverse backgrounds, they are facing um more uh ha higher crash risk if they are walking along the street. [0:18:11, 0:18:31]: We also did very, very robust public engagement. The public engagement um we did three in-person public engagement events. I myself was down here back in April at Jazz in the Park, um, and we uh engaged over 300 or about 300 people face to face across the county, and over 700 people um [0:18:31, 0:18:35]: Ам онлайн трюар серве анлайн трю соціаль медіа. [0:18:36, 0:18:52]: And we got a lot of great feedback during that process. So we wanted to make sure that we were taking everyone's feedback into into heart and incorporating it into our plan. And so I'm really proud to say that this plan has included a lot of feedback from the public and a lot of input from different members of the community towards its development. [0:18:54, 0:19:09]: So um now that I've kind of given you an overview of the analysis we did and the work that was put into this plan, I am going to present to you the recommendations of this plan, which are the things that are probably most pertinent to you and your constituents to kind of see like, okay, well, you did all this work. [0:19:09, 0:19:15]: Um what what do we where do we go from now and what do we do now? And so um [0:19:16, 0:19:31]: We came up with three different groups of recommendations and so um the main purpose of the Safe Streets for All program is to help cities and uh different municipalities identify um [0:19:31, 0:19:47]: safety actionable safety improvements to their roadways. And so once we have this plan adopted and once we have like a list of things that could be implemented to improve safety, then the city can go and say like, hey, we have this plan, we have these ideas that we want to do to improve safety. [0:19:47, 0:19:57]: Can federal government, can you please give us some money to help us uh implement these ideas? And so what we've done to help you guys do that is we've come up with um [0:19:57, 0:19:59]: What we like to call uh [0:20:00, 0:20:05]: Пріорі коридор за езпрі, содер е зампле. [0:20:05, 0:20:25]: Of what a safety improvement could look like. And the way we determine these priority corridors is by looking at what is the locally owned road. So, what road does the city of Stockbridge have authority to develop without state or county assistance that has the highest number of fatal and serious injury crimes? [0:20:25, 0:20:40]: Crashes in the jurisdiction. And so for a city of Stockbridge, we identified the stretch of Patrick Henry that runs parallel to I-75 and crosses across Eagles Landing Parkway. [0:20:40, 0:20:40]: Um [0:20:41, 0:20:46]: And there's a lot of different types of land uses on that road. There's a lot of different intersections. There's a lot of unprotected turns. [0:20:47, 0:20:50]: Um some segments of it have sidewalk and some segments of it don't. [0:20:50, 0:21:00]: And so um we kind of use that as an example to say these are the types of interventions that you can implement into a road like Patrick Henry. [0:21:01, 0:21:21]: And to see like a significant improvement in transportation safety. So there's a lot of recommendations, and I'm not gonna go through every single one of them, but some of them include closing gaps in the sidewalk network so people can walk from the different neighborhoods that are along that road to the different businesses and commercial centers that exist. [0:21:21, 0:21:40]: look reevaluating the speed limit on that road and seeing uh is this a road where we can slow people down or maybe kind of add some different elements to the street so that it this it feels a little bit safer. And then also looking at things like traffic signal timing and making sure if there are um [0:21:41, 0:21:53]: places where there's a lot of pedestrians walking from place to place that they're giving pri they're given priority at the traffic signals so that they can f safely cross the street without having to worry about um cars coming. [0:21:53, 0:22:05]: And so that is the exemplary corridor that we developed. And the next part of the engineering recommendations that we've created for you is a safety countermeasures toolkit. [0:22:05, 0:22:18]: So all the different types of things that can be applied in different categories to improve safety along corridors throughout the county. And so there are things like lowering the speed limit and um [0:22:19, 0:22:39]: making ADA ramps more accessible in the county and raising the crosswalks and fixing sidewalk connections and adding speed tables and um a big one that was called out by a lot of the residents in um the community was uh pedestrian lighting and making the roads [0:22:39, 0:22:45]: more well lit, especially in the roads that are like a little bit more rural and a little bit more um [0:22:45, 0:22:50]: a little less bright and more uh shaded and have more trees. People were really um [0:22:51, 0:23:07]: interested in improving the lighting conditions in a lot of roads. And so that's one of our recommendations included in this toolkit. So we've prepared for you this toolkit and I'll give you a couple of examples of what the toolkit recommendations look like and you can see the whole toolkit and the entire plan. [0:23:08, 0:23:10]: Um but basically we kind of [0:23:11, 0:23:31]: Pulled in all the different types of interventions and we made sure to tailor them to what the county can use and what is specific for the county. So things that can be created quickly, things that can be done within a reasonable budget and a reasonable amount of time. Um, and then give give a little bit of background information on how to go about implementing them, where to implement them, and um [0:23:31, 0:23:36]: what you need to do to be able to prioritize these interventions. And so um [0:23:38, 0:23:58]: The final piece of this plan is a set of policy recommendations. The first one and the most important one being the moving towards zero policy, which is that crash reduction goal that I talked to y'all about earlier in this presentation. And so Henry County, along with uh stakeholders in the county. [0:23:58, 0:24:00]: County and leadership from um [0:24:01, 0:24:21]: Representatives from the different municipalities decided that because the county is growing, we're seeing a lot of people moving into Henry County and we're seeing a lot more traffic and a lot more development. Um, then a a full reduction of crashes is of crash fatalities is just not feasible or affordable to do in a reasonable [0:24:21, 0:24:33]: span of time. So the county opted to set an ambitious reduction goal of 65%. So we want to see um A, that trend of increasing crashes to start decreasing. [0:24:33, 0:24:50]: And be that number to go below sixty-five percent of what that number is right now. And so um the goal the county had was to reach that by the end of twenty fifteen. And that um policy was adopted September third of this month. [0:24:51, 0:25:11]: And then along with the moving towards zero policy, we have four different policy recommendations for the county. The first one being a complete streets policy. Henry County has adopted this complete streets policy and encourages municipalities to look into it and do the same. The county has a template if the municipalities are interested. [0:25:11, 0:25:16]: in um looking to looking at it for guidance or um using it as a reference. [0:25:17, 0:25:28]: Um we also recommend updating the city and county unified land development codes to explicitly mention and prioritize safety in transportation. [0:25:29, 0:25:39]: Um we recommend working to look at the freight network and maybe develop like a freight transportation safety plan and finally to improve [0:25:39, 0:25:45]: Um, first responder coordination practices so making sure that EMS, police, [0:25:47, 0:25:59]: uh news media, anyone who's there at the site of a crash kind of knows how to address and react to the crash in a way that improves the health and safety of the overall community. [0:26:00, 0:26:05]: I know that was a mouthful. I really appreciate y'all sitting and listening to me. I have um [0:26:05, 0:26:16]: the information for my project manager and um Sam Baker, who is leading this at the county level in case y'all want to email them with any questions, but I'm also answer here to answer your questions today. [0:26:16, 0:26:36]: I appreciate your briefing. A couple of things that come to mind you you mentioned that uh about uh pedestrians on sidewalks and obviously to me and you mentioned it's one of the recommendations that and we're looking along those lines of increasing the sidewalk network and pathways within the community itself, curb and gutter to help people stay on the on the right path and not into the street. [0:26:36, 0:26:56]: streets in this aspect to keep'em away from getting hit by cars or things of this nature as well. And of course if you even go down Rock Croix Road right now, you see that we're looking at expanding it already. It's already the meet. So I would think that as we expand that that the the sideway excuse me, the sidewalk network would be really inclusive in a sense and and uh be able to help out protect people in that aspect as well. [0:26:56, 0:27:12]: Um and all I'll um let's see here. Uh traffic supports timing and lights, lighting, all those type of things both taken into recommendation and incense and see how we can fund that. I'm gonna stop at that point and I want [0:27:12, 0:27:16]: I I'm gonna turn over to Mr. Alexander'cause I'm pretty sure he wants to talk about Patrick Henry. [0:27:16, 0:27:36]: I appreciate that. No problem. Certainly. Patrick Henry, that's a that's an awesome, that's a corridor that we look to have some amazing things happen. So keying in on that, I think that certainly would be a joint county and city project that we could move forward. But the news is good because uh we got some development coming. [0:27:36, 0:27:56]: coming there and in the city, that just like in the county, we require ten foot multi use pass when constructing new development. So some of those gaps in the sidewalk, there's two construction projects, three of them matter of fact, two city and one county in place. Uh the senior home [0:27:56, 0:28:16]: retirement community is the county project and then we have a uh gated community coming out Holloway Road and Patrick Henry uh as well that will have a ten foot path connecting to the encompass. Uh excuse me. The encompass already has a sidewalk next to it. So that will d definitely [0:28:16, 0:28:36]: be connected and on the other side of the road there is a mixed use development that's going to uh be starting construction very soon that will be able to connect to the senior housing community that the county uh completed. So those sidewalk networks certainly will be able to be closed as far as that is concerned. [0:28:36, 0:28:56]: We have some additional development coming at Country Club Drive and Patrick Henry, where there will be a four-way intersection there. And it will help with traffic combing because there will be a traffic signal that is uh there with the new hotels that'll be coming uh to that particular area. So uh [0:28:56, 0:29:16]: We've been kinda operating on the complete streets model because the complete street model includes pretty much everything we've been doing. It includes the path, it includes the street lights, it includes the beautification. So certainly we've been trying to ac you know, going down that mode, actually requiring them. I'm not sure, I'm not sure whether we passed a policy or not. [0:29:16, 0:29:36]: not, but it sure would be good to have the model policy to take a look at because that's how we've been operating with every uh project, including the uh sidewalks and the mobility issues. So that certainly would uh uh benefit us in having a cohesive policy connection with the county in and making these [0:29:36, 0:29:56]: particular projects happen. It's interesting again, certainly I had Clayton Cart. He was at my town hall and we were talking about certain corridors like this one. And he certainly did mention in the current SLOST we have a design for Patrick Henry [0:29:56, 0:30:16]: Parkway widening project in there and Jodico Road as well and several others. So it's good that the team in Splost and the County Transportation were being very proactive and understanding where we were going and putting this plan probably helped them to uh identify the areas that needed to be completed. [0:30:16, 0:30:36]: But uh we're hopefully we're well on our way and certainly encourage uh the partnership uh to continue because we know Patrick Henry Parkway is going to be super busy in certain areas uh we know in the city, like Flippin' Road, certainly needs to be widened. Walt Stevens needs to probably need to be. [0:30:36, 0:30:56]: be widened so as well. So because everybody knows that shortcut. Jump off at exit 228 and navigate the Spear Road and Walt Stevens and flipping. Certainly it would just seem that we would identify those to for the transportation improvements to continue going. And as the mayor close our close by saying as the mayor indicated, we were [0:30:56, 0:31:16]: Very proactive, especially in the Rock Quarry Road widening, showing up to the G Dot town halls and saying, We want paths. We don't just want sidewalks, we want paths too. We see you give those paths to the neighborhoods on the north side of the city. But it seems like we get a little cheated when they come to those projects. But they finally heard us, and now every project. [0:31:16, 0:31:26]: project that they complete, like the Highway 20 project, every time I drive by it in McDonough, you can see that uh ten foot path going right along it and it looks amazing. Thank you. [0:31:26, 0:31:28]: Yeah of course. [0:31:29, 0:31:49]: Again, thank you for this presentation. I'm I'm really super excited about what you have shared with us tonight. Uh specifically because the bulk of what you have shared uh runs through the heart of District 3 and Stockbridge, uh right on the Rock Court Corridor, which is uh the the primary space for our medical gateway right here at the uh Henry Middle. [0:31:49, 0:32:09]: medical and peat bond. And so uh I think that's a a well well placed, well strateg strategized um place to start this uh transportation plan. And so it it really uh beckons that um we will really see this as a as a needed needed uh support and needed partnership as we uh [0:32:09, 0:32:29]: Uh have really three districts that that share the Rock Quarry Road Patrick Henry corridor. I know uh Councilwoman Barber will share her sentiments and a few moments about um her her district in and and and and and the uh aspects that it will connect, bring connectivity for her as well in her district. But I'm I'm super excited because [0:32:29, 0:32:30]: Because we have [0:32:31, 0:32:51]: Yes, the medical gateway there. But then we also have some opportunities and potentials with the trails as well, with a large piece of nature preserve right there, right behind my subdivision on uh that goes between Rock Quarry and Eagles Landing Parkway. And the uh the the trails would be a added aspect of that that would kinda uh enhance and and and [0:32:51, 0:33:11]: And and pretty much give us a opportunity to to partner and do some things in that in that area. But then when we talk about just m moving it along with with all of the other uh residents that that connect, when we talk about Banks Road and we talk about Red Oak and we go all the way up to forty two, uh this is this is just a um a wonderful [0:33:11, 0:33:30]: wonderful earful to hear that the county is is uh uh willing to invest this into Stockbridge and uh I think as much needed uh as we do grow and we do see uh, you know, population growth and and development growth in our area. I'm super proud to be a part of it. And so at at that point, that's I just wanna say thank you. Thank you. [0:33:30, 0:33:31]: Ms. Barber, you have any comments? [0:33:33, 0:33:38]: Wanted to I wanted to ask about that table you shared. Yeah, which one? The priority corridor. [0:33:40, 0:33:43]: This one? Yes. The eighth most [0:33:43, 0:33:47]: Crashes there. Where was that data reported? [0:33:48, 0:33:51]: I'm sorry, could you read it? The data that you have there, the number of crashes. [0:33:52, 0:34:09]: Um what as in what it what is it and where or is it? Okay, so this is from time period. Yes. So this is from twenty thousand nineteen to twenty twenty three, which were the previous complete five years of crash data prior to starting plant development.'Cause we started in the middle of twenty twenty four. [0:34:09, 0:34:13]: Thank you. That was the only question I had. Thank you for the presentation. Yeah, great. Thank you. [0:34:15, 0:34:22]: No other questions? So I would imagine you don't need an accent for m for us this time. Mr. Dessert, you need to come up, Ms. Aaron? [0:34:31, 0:34:37]: We're just asking Mayor and Council to adopt the resolution that Henry County and the rest of the municipalities have adopted. [0:34:37, 0:34:51]: Okay, so you need a motion for that then to join in okay Mayor. Yes, sir. So move. Sir second? Ms. Barber second that from Mr. Alezander, Ms. Barber. All in favor, please indicate. Okay, unanimous decision. Thank you. You have it. Thank you very much. Appreciate you being here. [0:34:53, 0:35:01]: Next presentation, drone delivery services in Stockbridge, Georgia, connecting the future. Mr. Anderson, it has your name here, sir, please. [0:35:02, 0:35:02]: Yeah. [0:35:05, 0:35:18]: Good evening. We'll we'll have um Wings and Walmart um come up and give a presentation on uh the proposed drone delivery um project in the city of Stockbridge. Okay. So they'll be coming. [0:35:19, 0:35:22]: Okay, m uh Mr. Edmondson, you're here, you you have something to add, sir, this time? [0:35:23, 0:35:43]: Yeah, I just wanted to kind of give a quick uh overview uh how this kind of came to be. Uh Walmart uh reached out to us uh about this particular opportunity. Um we had heard about it before uh and wanted to learn more about it as we sat through the meeting and and and heard about the different things that this particular [0:35:43, 0:36:03]: Project brings to the city, we thought it was quite interesting. So we definitely wanted to bring it to your attention: kind of some of the ideas they have. Um, we always looking for ways to make us more uh accessibility to our residents uh regarding uh access to products and services and anything to put us forward thinking we thought would be a good. [0:36:03, 0:36:20]: addition to the CDF stockbridge. So we're excited about you guys hearing more about uh this this particular project because this is definitely the future and where to go. And I was just blown away by the safety record because that was one of my biggest takeaways was the safety uh [0:36:20, 0:36:36]: concerns about this particular project and I was just blown away by the safety and uh the reviews um across the country for this particular project. So we're extremely excited to hear uh for you guys to learn more about this particular project and and and have your questions and go from there. So uh [0:36:37, 0:36:57]: Welcome. If I if I could real quick Mr. Anderson, you come up real quick. And maybe Mr. Emerson, you can stand there too. Certainly ask. Now in our conversation'cause I had called and kinda asked about this, basically I think Ryan, you made it clear certainly that this basically it was really num [0:36:57, 0:37:17]: regulated by federal and that's kind of what it is. And basically we're our ask is not an real approval, but to just kinda understand what's coming to the city and to partner with them. Yes sir. We'll be up uh on item number seven to give a presentation on our regulations that we did and [0:37:17, 0:37:23]: consultation with the city manager on on regulating this process in the city of Stockbridge. Right, thank you. [0:37:48, 0:37:50]: Okay, so it's a click of it. Okay. [0:37:53, 0:37:54]: Yeah. [0:37:58, 0:38:18]: So uh good evening. Thank you for having us here, Mr. Mayor, members of council. My name is Glenn Wilkins. I'm the Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Walmart. Um I just wanted to uh do a quick introduction of you know how we got here, how Walmart got into this business. I'm I'm sure you all know Walmart. Uh we've been in Stockbridge in Henry County for a long time. Uh [0:38:18, 0:38:38]: Uh we've enjoyed our relationship with you all and so thank you for that as well. Um as at Walmart, uh one of the things that I've learned over the past 21 years working for Walmart uh in retail, you have to know what the customer wants before the customer knows that they want it. Right. I go back to uh a perfect example is Amazon. [0:38:38, 0:38:58]: Amazon Prime. We never knew we wanted Prime until they said, Oh, we can deliver this to your house in two days or less. Son of a gun, if that wasn't right. You know, we didn't even know we wanted. Now we wonder how we live without it. So as Walmart delivered, you know, worked on that as well as how do we deliver to the customer? We had a Walmart pickup. We decided we could do the shopping, we could have uh the customer. [0:38:58, 0:39:18]: Customers queued up, they can come and park in their space, stagger that out, bring the groceries to them directly. They don't have to get out of the car, make it more convenient, make it hopefully a better shopping experience. As we move from uh pickup, we moved to Walmart Delivery. That took off well, but really what kicked that off was unfortunately was COVID. But people really did enjoy [0:39:18, 0:39:38]: Having their products delivered to their home. So as we worked through the Walmart delivery side, we started looking for the next thing, obviously, drones. We were having a conversation with staff earlier about um, we always talked about it, right? You know, we sort of joked about it, delivery this, that, and the other. Well, here we are at this day. Um, I also [0:39:38, 0:39:58]: would do like to say that the expectations from our customers are that we are providing them with the newest way of receiving their product. Um I tell people I come from, I'm a Gen X, I come from I I call it the Microwave Society, right? I get that hot pocket, I put it in the microwave. Three minutes later I'm burning the top of my mouth. Things are good. [0:39:58, 0:40:18]: You know, and I'm moving along. My kids are Gen Z. They're 23, 24, and they're of a five-gig society. They open it up, they hit the buy button, and they expect it on the front porch almost instantaneously. Well, it's not only the Gen X, my father, who's 84. Uh, he does all of his ordering on Walmart Plus and [0:40:18, 0:40:38]: And he expects it to be delivered as his at his house too. So it really does span a lot of generations. We love being on the front end of it. Uh we're also very, very excited to operate uh as uh Steph said with such a uh a great company that has a great history. So I'm gonna leave it at that and Catherine can tell the story. [0:40:38, 0:40:58]: And we have members um of our team that can answer questions well. So again, thank you very much for spending your time. I have a question of you, sir. Mayor Certainly, I thank you. And certainly for you to actually come into the city to talk to us, certainly is awesome. And certainly that you chose the city of Stockbridge for this particular project is monumental. [0:40:58, 0:41:05]: uh for us as well. Could you talk about the process a little bit of selecting Stockbridge? Sure. So [0:41:06, 0:41:26]: Currently, we're only operating in one city in the nation, Walmart and Wing Partnership. And that's in the North Dallas area, Dallas, Texas. So we've been operating there for the past four years now. Um, have had great success uh you know with Wing and with customers accepting it as well. We decided we wanted to move [0:41:26, 0:41:46]: Into other states. As we did that, we looked at those other cities we wanted to go into. So we selected Houston, Texas, Tampa, Orlando, Charlotte, and Metro Atlanta. In Metro Atlanta, what we did is we looked at one, how the stores were performing, but also how was our Walmart plus customer base? And I don't know if if [0:41:46, 0:42:06]: If y'all are members of Walmart Plus or know about it, but it's like Amazon Prime, you pay uh$95 a year, we deliver to your house for free, you get um uh preferred times to for delivery or pick up whatever you want. So the numbers on that grew and it showed that there was a strong support not only of Walmart customers, Walmart Plus customers, but [0:42:06, 0:42:17]: But the potential and the growth that's going on in this area. So there's a lot of users in this area basically. Okay. Yeah. Great. That's that's awesome. Thank you. Great. Thank you. [0:42:20, 0:42:40]: Good evening, Council members. Um, my name is Catherine Lovett. I am with Wing Aviation. I'm the local policy and community affairs manager for Wing, and I'm based just up the road from you guys in Atlanta, Georgia. Um, I'm also joined here today by my colleague Tariq Rashid. He's our head of flight operations, um, overseeing our flight operations team and [0:42:40, 0:43:00]: And our FA requirements as a company. And then I also have Zenobia Haynes, who is here. She is our permitting manager from Wing. And then we're also joined by Brian Pelham, who is from Atwell, who is the engineering team that supports Walmart for their real estate project. So we've got the full team here for you today to answer any of the questions that you all have about this project. [0:43:01, 0:43:01]: Yes. [0:43:03, 0:43:23]: Is your mic on? Is the green light on? It's on. Yeah, just speaking the mic on. I'll get a little bit closer. Okay, sorry. Um so again, I'm Catherine Lovett, if you couldn't hear me, and I'm with Wing Aviation on the local policy team. Um so we're really excited to talk with you all today about wing drone delivery, and I realize that the [0:43:23, 0:43:28]: video let's see if I click there we uh [0:43:29, 0:43:30]: Okay. [0:43:31, 0:43:33]: It did a pop out, so I don't [0:43:37, 0:43:37]: Go ahead. [0:43:38, 0:43:42]: Just check, we got fiber, it oughta run. [0:43:43, 0:43:50]: So it's in that it's switched to YouTube. Since it's Yeah, so it's is there a way to switch over to that? [0:43:51, 0:43:52]: Okay. [0:44:00, 0:44:00]: Sure. [0:44:07, 0:44:27]: Yep, that's great. We don't need the sound. Um, so this video that you all are seeing now is showing you the Walmart Super Center in Texas. Um, and I'll pause here just a little bit so that you have some reference as we're talking today on what I ref what I mean when I refer to a nest N E S T. Um so this store is our [0:44:27, 0:44:45]: one of our first locations in the state of Texas, we again part started partnering with Walmart and Frisco, Texas, which is about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas. As you see here, we started with Walmart Supercenters and we're doing the same as we come to the state of Georgia for the metro area, which would include the city of Stockbridge. [0:44:45, 0:45:05]: The fenced in area that you all see at each site for our Walmart partnerships are what we call a nest in EST. They are used to house our drones. You'll see that inside of that fenced in area we have 18 drones and 18 charge pads. Each drone has a pad that they're tied to, and we'll talk about that more in the presentation. [0:45:05, 0:45:11]: But I just want you all to remember that as we go into the presentation and talk a little bit more about the Stockbridge store. [0:45:11, 0:45:31]: Now, for the uh Walmart customers here in Stockbridge, they would be able to place an order in the Wing app. There's a full catalog of thousands of items that have already been pre-weighed and vetted specifically for drone delivery. At the store, once your order is placed, it will get assigned to a drone, and then the order gets loaded on. [0:45:31, 0:45:51]: Onto the drone as you see here. The drone was hovering at about 20 feet in the air and is now going to climb up to a cruising altitude of about 165 to 200 feet, and then it takes off at a speed of about 65 miles an hour to get to your home. When it arrives at the resident's home, you will see here in the video that it never lands on the ground. [0:45:51, 0:46:03]: comes down from that 200 foot height to about 20 feet where it's going to hover as you see there. It gently unhooks the package using a little bit of gravity. You have been tracking the order in your app. [0:46:04, 0:46:20]: You know when to come outside to receive it. The drone will then return back to its nest at the store. And then as you see here, it will slowly lower and it's going to l land on its assigned charging pad to recharge for the next order. Um so let me see if I can. [0:46:24, 0:46:28]: Sorry, I'm not familiar with teams. Okay, there we go. [0:46:29, 0:46:30]: And then here. [0:46:30, 0:46:42]: And this video is available online currently. Yes. [0:46:46, 0:46:47]: Alright. [0:46:49, 0:46:56]: Sorry about that. Okay, so um this image here shows you all, and we'll jump ahead again. [0:46:58, 0:47:18]: There we go. Shows you a close-up of the aircraft that you all see here today in front of you. So this is our 7,000 model. This is the actual drone that you all saw in the video and would see here in the city of Stockbridge. We are an OEM, which means that we are the original equipment manufacturer at Wing. We started back in 2012 as a company in. [0:47:18, 0:47:38]: Google and then in 2018 became an Alphabet subsidiary. So as part of that process, we not only design and manufacture our drones, but we also operate them as well. So everything that you see here on this drone has been built by a fantastic team of aerospace, mechanical, software, engineers within Wing, and then we [0:47:38, 0:47:58]: Roll these out to each of our store locations that you all will see in Stockbridge. The drone itself only weighs 11 pounds, and as you see here in front of you, it's literally wrapped in styrofoam. It's designed to be lightweight and low impact. The drone also is all electric, so there's no concerns about CO2 emissions. And then we've even built this. [0:47:58, 0:48:18]: Is the aircraft to really focus on safety for residential communities. So, for example, the propellers that you see on the top of the aircraft have been built out into quadrants. If one or two propellers goes down, the aircraft is still able to stay in the air. Similarly, on the base of the aircraft, during that delivery process, you all saw the tether that. [0:48:18, 0:48:28]: that the drone was lowered down on. So if you can see here at the base of the drone, you see that little yellow dot. That's what we call a pill. So that's where the tether is housed on the drone. [0:48:28, 0:48:48]: So, as part of our safety features, if during the delivery process that tether gets snagged on a tree or a bush, or if Ms. Wilson's dog runs out from next door and tries to grab on that tether on the drone, anything that pulls on that more than once, it will simply detach the tether from the drone. So the drone stays in the air at that 24th. [0:48:48, 0:49:03]: foot height safely and then the tether just softly floats to the ground. So we've built all of that again to be really intentional about making sure that we're not only keeping the drone safe, but keeping your residents safe and residents safe in every city where we operate. [0:49:03, 0:49:23]: Another thing to note is that the package weight capacity is about two and a half pounds. And then the drone, the range, the maximum range one way from a Walmart store location is six miles. Now, when we launch operations at a site, we will typically start at about a four-mile radius from the store location. [0:49:23, 0:49:37]: to make sure that we're doing proper flight validations and testing. And then as we grow the surface, we can expand that range as needed. And then lastly, as mentioned, the speed for the drone gets up to 65 miles an hour. [0:49:38, 0:49:58]: In addition to our safety features on the aircraft, we at Wing are federally regulated through the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration. We are certified as a Part 135 air carrier and we're rated for package delivery similar to other commercial carriers, like you know, if you heard of UPS or FedEx. Now for us at Wing. [0:49:58, 0:50:18]: Wing, we are focused only on drone aviation and drone delivery for small packages. So we're not going to replace your full grocery order with that two and a half pounds. It really is again for those small items. Another thing to note, as you see here on this map, the purple circle in the center is what we call the mode C veil. So that's [0:50:17, 0:50:37]: That's the 30 aeronautical miles that surrounds the Atlanta Metro region, which includes the city of Stockbridge. Now you'll notice on this map that there are some red areas that are kind of shaded in. The one you probably notice that covers East Point, that is, of course, the Atlanta International Airport. So as part of our FAA regulations, we, for example, always stay below a [0:50:37, 0:50:57]: Threshold of 400 feet, anything above that height is considered commercial airspace. So we're making sure as part of our regulations that we don't enter commercial airspace where Delta and other airlines fly. We also make sure that we're setting up barriers or geo-restrictions for the aircrafts so they're not entering any of those airspace areas for municipal airports. [0:50:57, 0:51:07]: International airports, as well as things like Dobbins Air Force Base. And all of that, again, falls under the guidance and regulatory processes from the FAA. [0:51:07, 0:51:27]: You'll also note as well that we do not operate within three nautical miles of any public use runways or landing areas. So that could include, you know, helipads at a hospital, if the police or fire department, for example, had a drone unit, or if you had a helicopter pad at your municipal building, those type of things we can also. [0:51:27, 0:51:47]: set up similar geofencing around those areas to make sure again that we don't enter that space. Similarly for municipal buildings such as the city hall, prisons, schools, we do not enter that airspace without written permission from the the um sorry we don't deliver to those buildings without written approval from the [0:51:47, 0:52:00]: government. So um for Mayor Ford, if you really wanted to get drone delivery here at City Hall to maybe be able to order lunch, we would work with you to set that up, but we wouldn't automatically do that without the council's approval. [0:52:00, 0:52:20]: Okay. Um another thing to note as part of our FAA regulations is that um the drone here that you see is autonomous, which means that there's no one flying the drone on the back end with like a joystick or anything like that. So what happens is that when that order is placed with the drone, it is then going to get assigned to the drone, and the drone uses those GPS. [0:52:20, 0:52:40]: Coordinates for your address to build out its flight path to and from your home address. Now, with that in mind, we do have on the back of each aircraft, you'll see there's a little antenna that's sticking out. So our drones also have an antenna that supports ADSB software. Basically, what that means is that the drones are able to [0:52:40, 0:53:00]: To squawk out their position so they're visible on radar for other operators. We also have a fantastic team of pilots. They're known as pilots in command, who are FAA certified professionals. They have their Part 107 certification through the FAA that allows them to monitor not only our air. [0:53:00, 0:53:14]: Aircrafts at each store location, but also they oversee the airspace that our drones are moving in. So they're able to monitor for everything from other helicopters to other drone operators. They're also again monitoring that that altitude that the the drones are moving at. [0:53:14, 0:53:22]: Again, all of that making sure that for each store we have a pilot that is monitoring those drones in real time while we operate. [0:53:22, 0:53:42]: Currently, for our operations for our Walmart locations, we only fly during daylight hours. So we currently do not have approvals to fly at night. That could come at some point in the future. But of course, we would make sure that we're communicating that to you all in advance once and if those regulatory processes change. So currently for daylight hours, we know that. [0:53:42, 0:54:02]: daylight savings time is coming up. So right now our our drones are flying until about 7 p it would be flying here in Georgia until let's say about 7 p.m. And then once daylight comes we would shift that back to maybe 6 p.m as the the days start to get darker. So again a lot of our regulatory processes we're really proud of and additional [0:54:02, 0:54:22]: To the safety features that we've built into the aircraft. An additional one that we think is important to note are the optical lenses that are located on the drone. So each drone on the back of the aircraft has black and white lenses that are used for depth perception when they're coming in and out of the nest, and also during that delivery process. [0:54:22, 0:54:42]: At a residential home. So if you remember in the video, the cruising height for the drone is 200 feet. When it arrives at your home, the drone uses those optical lenses to measure the distance from the ground to make sure that it's staying safely at that 20 to 25 foot height and then lower the tether town. So the big thing to note about those lenses. [0:54:42, 0:54:44]: And I can show you where they're located. [0:54:46, 0:54:49]: Here on the drone. Oh my gosh. Okay. [0:54:50, 0:54:50]: [3291.6, 3300.3]: Thank you, Kirk. You'll see that here on the drone, these little circles, those are the lenses that the drone uses. And this is not a real drone that we would have in the store. [0:55:02, 0:55:22]: Assembled for you all to be able to travel. So again, those optical lenses are solely used for nav the navigational or vision awareness for the aircrafts and making sure again that we're keeping that aircraft safe when they're coming into the communities. Now a big thing to note about the cameras on the drone is that there's no audio and there's no live feed. [0:55:21, 0:55:41]: So our pilots who are working remotely cannot physically see you during that delivery process. They're only able to see the airspace that the drone is in at that time, but they can neither hear nor see any of your residents when they're at their homes. So we understand that questions about privacy are always important to every community, and we always like to make sure that as a company, [0:55:41, 0:55:46]: we're very transparent about that for each of our cities that we operate in. [0:55:48, 0:56:08]: Another big question that we get about the drones is the sound profile. So this image here that you're seeing has a few features that I'll call out to you. So again, focusing on Wing and being focused on residential drone delivery, we've really worked with our internal team to make sure that the aircraft blends into traditional. [0:56:08, 0:56:28]: Traditional neighborhood sounds that you would find in a residential community. So you'll see here for the drone at 165 feet, which again is around that cruising altitude for the aircraft. The sound decibels for that are at 56.5. And so you'll see here on this scale that at that cruising height of 165 feet. [0:56:28, 0:56:48]: The sound of the drone is quieter than a microwave in your kitchen. Now, when the profile does increase or that sound profile increases, it's during that delivery process when a drone lowers from that cruising height down to about 20 to 25 feet. And at that height, you'll see here that the sound profile is about 65 decibels, and even at that [0:56:48, 0:57:08]: That height of 23 feet, the drone is still quieter than a sedan that is moving on the street 50 feet away from your house at 40 miles per hour. So we've really worked for many years again since 2018, since we've launched, to make sure that our drones are blending into everyday neighborhood sounds. Now we know for communities, first time. [0:57:08, 0:57:26]: When they're getting drones into the area, you will have some people that are not familiar with the sound. But over time, we've been really proud that the drones have been well received over time once people understand what that noise is. Because it's not something like a a leaf blower or a car. So it's something that sometimes people have to adjust to. [0:57:28, 0:57:48]: Now, for the city of Stockbridge, as you all are thinking, big picture about your residents and how drone delivery can support them. One of my favorite things about working at Wing and our partnership with Walmart is that we've been able to see the benefits that drone delivery can provide to diverse communities. As Glenn mentioned, we have 15 stores and 15 cities in [0:57:48, 0:58:08]: The state of Texas, so at Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, and everywhere in between that we've been operating in for Walmart Super Centers. And it's been amazing to see how customers have adopted to using this service to overall improve their quality of life and access to goods and things that they need. Our number two categories of items that people order. [0:58:08, 0:58:28]: Order currently from our stores. The first is fresh food and produce. So blueberries, strawberries, bags of spinach, the pre-made salads, the cups of soup that you can get from the Walmart jelly. And then the second second is over-the-counter medication. So every we as we know we're heading into cold and flu season. You'll have sick kids coming home from school. [0:58:28, 0:58:48]: And so rather than having to drive 15-20 minutes one way just to get to the store for those small items, we're able to get those items to you in under 30 minutes. On average, our customers in Texas are getting their orders depending on how close they live to the store in about 10 to 15 minutes. And I believe as of two weeks ago, we just hit two. [0:58:47, 0:59:07]: 2,000 orders in one day for the DFW area. So that lets you know that we're doing hundreds of orders per store per day for our locations in Texas. We also have seen a really big adoption of our service from the 55 plus community. A lot of those residents are using our service three to four times. [0:59:07, 0:59:21]: times a week because the traffic is stressful, they don't like to drive, some can't drive anymore. And so the drone delivery option has opened up access to them again to the supplies, over-the-counter medications that they need. [0:59:22, 0:59:42]: Now important things to note, we do not deliver prescription medication. Um, so just only over-the-counter items from the Walmart pharmacy. We also do not deliver any flammable liquids or goods, so that can include alcohol, tobacco products, even for example, hand sanitizer, it is flammable, so that would be something [0:59:41, 0:59:58]: That we would not deliver. The important thing to note, however, is that all of the items that would be available for drone delivery have been pre-weighed and vetted. So there's nothing in the catalog that would meet those requirements, such as prescription medication or flammable goods. So you're unable to order them in your cart. [0:59:58, 1:00:18]: Another important thing to note for the convenience process for your residents is when you're placing your order through the app, you are able to select your delivery spot at your home. So for some residents, that could mean their front yard, it could mean your backyard, it varies, but you're able to confirm the delivery spot on where you want the drone to deliver your package at the home. And before you check out, [1:00:18, 1:00:22]: out you're also asked to confirm that that delivery spot is clear of any pets. [1:00:23, 1:00:42]: children, vehicles, and then you're allowed to check out. So we've built a lot of those safety features in, even just to the delivery, the ordering process that customers have found again that makes this process very convenient, helps to keep them safe, keep people off the roads, and helps to reduce the traffic congestion, accidents, and all of those things. [1:00:43, 1:01:03]: So, with that in mind, I wanted to jump in and we can talk about the site specific to the city of Stockbridge. So you'll see here on the screen, if you can remember back to the video, that fenced in area that I referred to as the nest. So this rendering here is showing you what that looks like. So again, there's going uh for the Stockbridge store, we would have 18 drones. [1:01:03, 1:01:23]: And 18 charge pads. We've intentionally set that number because it helps us to support that order volume during business hours. We typically see an uptick in the evenings. We think when people get home and realize they've forgotten pasta sauce or need cold medicine. So the number of drones is intentional to make sure that we can rotate the drones out, allow them to [1:01:23, 1:01:43]: To recharge in between orders. The charge pads as well, and we'll see a close-up of that, helps to make sure that we're not sending out a drone if it needs to recharge. We have enough in rotation to keep the order volume moving. And so again, we often get questions about battery life because we have the charge pads in the nest. [1:01:43, 1:02:03]: And the drones are sitting on those during full operating hours, they are always charging. So we never run into any concerns about a drone's battery dying mid-flight or anything like that. To date, again, Wing as a company has been operating since 2018. And we have been flying in Australia, we've flown in the UK, Finland. [1:02:03, 1:02:13]: Ireland and here in the US and we have an excellent safety record where for all of those communities internationally and here in the US, we have not had any incidences with bodily harm. [1:02:14, 1:02:25]: or head-on collisions with any property, ve homes, or vehicles. So that's something that hopefully gives you all some reassurance for the city of Stockbridge that we are very proud of at Wing as a company. [1:02:27, 1:02:47]: Another concept that we are bringing to Stockbridge that we are really excited about, again, keeping safety at the top of mind is the auto loader. Now, for the Walmart employees that work at the store, they may not have their FAA certification to work inside of the fenced-in area that is the nest. So the autoloader is a concept, and it's the fenced-in area that [1:02:47, 1:03:02]: that you see here that would be set up in the curbside pickup area of the store. So as you all probably know, the Walmart employees who already filled the orders walk out from the store to cars to deliver packages that customers have placed. [1:03:03, 1:03:23]: The same will go for the store with the autoloader, where this fenced-in area will allow the Walmart employees to walk in. They would then load the package here in the middle of what I call the bunny ears on this structure. And this physical- I'm sorry, this physical structure here with the Y arms and this stand, that is the auto loader. [1:03:23, 1:03:43]: Now, the drones, when they fly over from their nest, they are able to then hover and they use those black and white lenses that I showed you on the drone. They use these big QR codes here to identify which auto loader they've been assigned. So the drone you will hover, it finds its assigned auto loader, it then will fly. [1:03:42, 1:04:01]: Above, lower the tether down, it picks up the package and then heads off to your home. So this is a hands-free delivery system to keep your Walmart employees and Stockbridge safe and also make sure that the drones are safe, but still maintaining that goal of getting you your orders in 30 minutes or less. [1:04:02, 1:04:22]: Um, here's a close-up of what the charge pads look like at the store. Um, this here is uh what we call uh the again the charge pads 18 pad nest, and that just is a close-up of that. Um, for those charging pads, we do utilize a battery energy generator to provide power to make sure that the drones have. [1:04:22, 1:04:42]: Have battery life. This generator, important to note, it does not require diesel. It is basically a big battery. So just like the battery packs that you maybe travel with and plug into your phone on the road, it's a very similar concept where this is brought in by a company, it's put into the inside area of the nest, and then it's used to charge the pack. [1:04:42, 1:04:59]: pads, once this generator runs out of battery power itself, it is then swapped out for a new battery. So we've made sure that again, we're using something that has a lightweight footprint for the nest and doesn't require flammable items such as diesel, which is not ideal. [1:05:00, 1:05:20]: Here is a close-up of the fencing that we use at the nest location. This is just showing you a structure that we have in the state of Texas. But the fencing that we use is a black metal-coated fence. It's about eight feet high. We utilize this to make sure for safety reasons that Walmart employees or people at your at the [1:05:20, 1:05:40]: The store are not wandering into the flight area for the drone where the drones operate. And as I mentioned before, this area inside of the fencing, it's an active flight line. So if you think about the tarmac at the international airport where individuals like myself and you may not have FA certification, we would get in trouble walking on the tarmac. The same applies for the fenced-in area. [1:05:40, 1:06:00]: At the nest is that we um want to make sure that we're maintaining all FAA safety requirements inside of that Fit Vincent area. So we utilize this to uh make sure that we're supporting that. Um, if you go to any of our Walmart stores in Texas, you will also see the drones doing um systems checks, just like you would see for an aircraft where they're testing their propellers. And so [1:06:00, 1:06:12]: When they do that, they're hovering at a height of about eight feet. So the fence height is very intentional, as well as the structure of the fence to make sure that we're keeping the drone safe during operating hours. [1:06:12, 1:06:32]: Now for the drone storage, this is the structure that you all will see in here in Stockbridge. And so we call this a drone pod or a kiosk, you may hear that phrase. But it's wood wood construction, and this is solely used for storage of the drones at night. So once we end operations for the day, our technicians that work at the nest will put the drones in. [1:06:32, 1:06:45]: of this, it gets locked up. The Finston area has keypad access as well as cameras for safety reasons. So we make sure that we're keeping the drones safe overnight and then we pull them back out in the morning. [1:06:46, 1:07:06]: And so with that, um I will turn it over to the conceptual site plan. I can pause here. We can if we want to transition after there's any questions about the technology. Well, I'd have some questions actually. I'm pretty sure the rest of the council does as well. First thing you already answered, I was wondering about the weight limit, but it's yes things you said two and a half pounds? Yes, sir. Okay. [1:07:05, 1:07:11]: I might have missed this next question, but may you answer this. In clement weather, high winds and rain, how does this work? [1:07:11, 1:07:17]: So I will have Tariq come up. Again, he's our head of flight operations and so he knows that front ways and backways. [1:07:17, 1:07:37]: All right, go ahead please. So thank you, Mary. So the the the aircraft itself can fly in what we call up to uh heavy rain. Uh in practice. So the we we fly in moderate rain. So it's kind of hard to as a person to gauge that, but we use a meteorological uh equ uh equivalent. Uh if you like are okay if it's raining so so much that [1:07:37, 1:07:57]: you know, you you might be okay like walking to your car without an umbrella. We can fly in that weather. Uh and then we have some certain ceiling and visibility requirements. Uh generally speaking, the weather can be um not great and we can still fly safely. Um the uh the temperature range we we can we usually operate down to freezing temperatures. So if it's zero uh or [1:07:57, 1:08:15]: 32 Fahrenheit or above. And then we can fly basically all the way up to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit as a upper temperature. And then winds, we it's a pretty wide range. You you definitely um the numbers about twenty, fifteen, twenty miles an hour for the winds. Um so pretty, pretty stiff winds and we can still safely operate. [1:08:15, 1:08:35]: How about birds? How do you deal with birds? So birds uh have not they they generally speaking, they don't seem to mind the drone. Uh we've had there's a good video if you Google it on YouTube of a raven in Australia going after a winged drone. The the bird was actually on the the drone's tail and was going after a tail. The drone is [1:08:35, 1:08:51]: uh robust enough and its flight control system is robust enough that it was able to just safely complete its flight even though the bird was was kind of uh attacking it. One way we avoid that is when we know about like nest like especially we have a actually a requirement [1:08:51, 1:09:02]: or certain protected birds that we have to actually stay away from their nesting areas. Otherwise we try to identify where nesting areas may be and stay away from them generally. Otherwise we don't ever seem to have problems with birds. [1:09:03, 1:09:06]: You might have mentioned it so I'm uh so I've got to reach back and maybe catch this. [1:09:07, 1:09:11]: For per delivery, what's the cost factor to the individual that you're delivering a package to? [1:09:12, 1:09:32]: So that's a two-part question. I can also have Glenn come back up. So to launch the service, we will be launching in the Wing app. And so for the Wing app, um you can go to your Google Play or your Apple store. There's no upfront cost for delivery for that when we launch the service here in Stockbridge. And then at some point it will trans over transition over to the Walmart. [1:09:32, 1:09:34]: plus app and I'll let Glenn explain that part of the process. [1:09:36, 1:09:53]: So th right now there is no additional charge to have it delivered by drone. There is no so there's no delivery charge and there's no upcharge on the merchandise. So if a box of cereal is five dollars in the store, you're charged five dollars to have it delivered to your home. It all remains the same. [1:09:54, 1:10:00]: All right. I got plenty of questions, but I'll open it up. If if you're willing to take questions now, no, I'm w open up to the council. [1:10:02, 1:10:03]: Okay. [1:10:04, 1:10:04]: This way? [1:10:05, 1:10:25]: I had the one. Go ahead, please. What what is the no what what type of product, most popular product you see the drone is actually carrying from? Because two and a half pounds is not a lot. And yeah, talking about Walmart, you go in there and you want to buy everything. So Yeah, so we have people who order everything from rotisserie chickens that when we started out that was [1:10:25, 1:10:45]: That was a very popular item. We have people that again order from the produce side. So everything from those market salads on the Walmart side, fresh produce like cartons of blueberries, strawberries, bags of spinach. Then we also see people who just order candy and PowerAid and you know some of those small things. And then we also have heard from customers who ordered [1:10:44, 1:10:47]: order one off things. So I met um [1:10:47, 1:10:57]: She was actually sit a council member in Texas and uh was at home with her family during the final four and was making guacamole and realized she was out of avocados and so ordered a bag of avocados or [1:10:58, 1:11:18]: I've met a very nice woman who was her first time going out since having her baby and had girls' night. She ordered a tube of mascara. So it really is, you'll see customers are ordering a little bit of everything. We also have a fantastic couple that ordered with us for years during COVID. They're called the Since Myers. They're in their 80s. And so when the pandemic [1:11:18, 1:11:21]: Mrs. Since Meyer was caregiver to her husband. [1:11:21, 1:11:41]: And didn't want to go out. And so they started ordering their morning coffee and having it delivered by drone. So you'll see that a lot of people, depending on what their needs are, are using it for those small things, even back to school supplies, um, cat food, you'll find, you know, um band-aids, baby food. So all of those different items are available in the catalog. [1:11:41, 1:12:01]: And and and I'll add this as well is that if there is an order that goes over that limit, as you look, if you've ordered from Walmart Plus, it'll say do you want a pickup, do you want it delivery? We will have that button then where it is for drone delivery. If you go over that, then the recommendation will come back. We're happy to deliver by car if you would like. So if they even if they try and game the [1:12:01, 1:12:18]: the system and do ten separate orders. You know, there are times that they'll have to wait in between that and then we make that recommendation. They might get two or three and says, It looks like you might want to order more than, you know, we can deliver that way. So we will continue to deliver just through different formats. Is that a guy sir? [1:12:18, 1:12:30]: Yeah, let me just say this. See, as the crow flies, I need six miles. Because the four miles are not gonna get me, okay?'Cause I'm in Jotoko Road, exit two twenty-two. [1:12:30, 1:12:50]: This is exit two twenty eight. That's it. But as the crow flies, a six mile might actually get me in there. I certainly would like to be one of the users. You know, stockbridge has a lot of land mass as we go from exit two twenty eight to exit two twenty two. So hopefully that four mile limit won't be long. [1:12:50, 1:13:10]: Right. Hudson Bridge is actually closer to me, but I think of course you using North Henry Boulevard at this uh present time. Yeah, so um what we are working on um is that our team when we I'm sorry, when we set up operations will come in once we've confirmed that the city does want to move forward with drone delivery. Um [1:13:10, 1:13:30]: Tariq's team, they'll do we have a team, a part of our flight operations team that will do an assessment of the store area. For that area, we're gonna be looking at all of the single-family properties that are eligible for delivery, and they'll identify those as part of the process and build that out. As Tariq referenced before, we do make sure, for example, like [1:13:30, 1:13:50]: Nature preserves or any wildlife parks. We're looking for those type of things. As I mentioned, hospitals, municipal buildings. So we'll build that out once we get a little bit closer, working with the review process with the city to then map out what that area would look like for delivery. Now, beyond the six miles, we are working on a new [1:13:50, 1:14:10]: Um roll out for a new drone. It's the 8,000 model drone. So imagine this drone here, but twice the size. It'll also have bigger propellers. The weight capacity for that will be five pounds, which is so you'll be able to fly further and get bigger packages with that drone. So we don't have a confirmation on when that will be rolling out, but I just want to assure [1:14:10, 1:14:17]: assure you that we are definitely working to get um the drones out further to get more people drone delivery that want it. [1:14:17, 1:14:24]: Okay, the next thing I will say, obviously Walmart's are doing a great job with diversity. Looks like Wing's very diverse too. [1:14:25, 1:14:45]: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We have a fantastic team of um engineers, coders. Uh I'm on the government affairs team. Tariq has a background in aviation. We also have um pilots, our pilots as well come from military backgrounds, commercial pilot backgrounds. So we're it's we're a unique company in that we're now [1:14:45, 1:14:54]: not just for a delivery or, you know, package delivery company, we also are an aviation company and we balance that kind of unique world as a company, which is pretty cool. [1:14:54, 1:14:57]: Well it's it's just good to see that, so certainly we appreciate it. Yes, sir. [1:14:58, 1:15:18]: Go ahead, sir. I I have a question when it comes to like a lot of our neighborhoods have a robust tree coverage area, uh especially around the front doors and stuff like that. So how would even with the uh the tethering and and the drop, how would it handle, say, a home that has a lot of limbs that that overarches the access? [1:15:18, 1:15:20]: access point for the drop. [1:15:20, 1:15:40]: So the the first thing we do is uh we have a uh detailed surveys. So we are we actually able to automatically see where there's clear areas. So the first thing that happens is like we don't even place a delivery zone unless pre-surveys have determined that there's a clear area. We need about maybe six foot radius, so maybe like a twelve yeah, something maybe like l twice. [1:15:40, 1:16:00]: the size of that table maybe. And then as long as there's a clear column that the drone can come down in, it can come down. Even if, like, for example, let's say you're in somebody's driveway, they they did have a clear area and they happen to park their car there. As long as there's a little bit of room to the side, the drone can actually detect that there's a car there and and shift to the side and they can deliver the package. [1:16:00, 1:16:01]: Next to the car. [1:16:01, 1:16:08]: So we don't need a lot of room, but uh we do need some clear area, like some vertical area down all the way down to the ground that doesn't have any obstructions. [1:16:09, 1:16:29]: Am I to assume that the sensors actually sense electrical lines and poles like this as well? Yeah, they can detect power lines, uh trees, tree limbs, etc. So basically, uh as long as there's a limit to how far it'll it'll shift to the side because we don't want to shift to the side into something else. So the the drone, if so hypothetically, it's coming. [1:16:29, 1:16:30]: Coming down. [1:16:30, 1:16:36]: And there happens to be like a a tree limb or some power line sticking uh near the the delivery zone. [1:16:36, 1:16:39]: drone will detect that and it'll shift to the side a little bit. [1:16:39, 1:16:57]: Uh, and then as long as there's still sufficient clear area beneath it, it'll go ahead and complete the delivery. Otherwise it'll actually abort the delivery and just climb climb up and then return to the water. I'm also assuming as it's flying to its destination, I guess it's the sensors. Yeah, moving forward, whatever the case the sensors must pick up where the lines are and poles and things of that nature as well. [1:16:58, 1:17:03]: Yeah, so for so so for that that what I was describing only applies to like the the last delivery phase for forward flight. [1:17:04, 1:17:15]: Wing actually does several layers of of preparation beforehand. We actually do uh LIDAR surveys of all of our intended service areas. And so we have detailed depth maps. So we [1:17:15, 1:17:18]: Beforehand, we know where the power lines are, where the trees are. [1:17:18, 1:17:22]: And we actually that data goes into our flight planning system. [1:17:22, 1:17:33]: And the flight planner actually plans the route so that it's clear of all those obstacles. Uh the only thing that like the if there's a a transi, like if somebody puts up a uh like a telescoping crane. [1:17:33, 1:17:34]: Like over a building. [1:17:35, 1:17:38]: That's not in our planning system, but the way we handle that is that we fly [1:17:38, 1:17:44]: minimum distances above buildings. We s we essentially stay at least fifty s fifty feet or so above any building. [1:17:44, 1:17:54]: Uh and then also uh we monitor for that kind of activity. But the the short answer is that we we have data, it goes into the planner and the planner automatically plans around those power lines and such. [1:17:55, 1:17:56]: Any other questions? [1:17:56, 1:18:16]: Okay, so you wanted to continue on with presentation then? Um yes. Uh so what we're seeing here on the screen is the proposed conceptual plan for the fenced in area that is the nest. So here is the front of the store. Um you'll see this red area here and here. Um so this is just the inset showing you a close up. [1:18:16, 1:18:36]: Um, so this is the fenced-in area that again is referred to as the nest that would house the 18 drones and the charge pads, plus that kiosk or the drone pod that would store the drones. That drone pod goes inside of the fenced-in area with that generator. And then over here on this side, on the south um east side. [1:18:36, 1:18:56]: Side of the store and this inset here. You'll see. So these are those curbside pickup parking spots for the Walmart customers. And you'll see this green dotted line here is where the Walmart staff already walks out to fill the orders here. So we're putting that auto loader to the side here, making sure that it's not blocking. [1:18:56, 1:19:16]: This drive aisle to the parking um to the loading dock for the 18-wheelers. And so the Walmart staff would be able to stay safe out of traffic, load the packages here. The drones would fly then, once the order has been assigned from the nest over to this auto loader, it picks up the package hands-free, and then it heads off to the [1:19:16, 1:19:18]: Yeah. [1:19:18, 1:19:38]: As I mentioned before, we do hire locally. So part of our process for each of our store locations is that we also make sure we're hiring FAA Part 107 technicians to support the nest. So we are actively look starting to look for and posting positions for the Atlanta metro area, which I am super excited about. [1:19:38, 1:19:58]: out to make sure that we have again proper technicians and support on the ground here locally that will be able to support your store for the aircraft maintenance and also make maintaining the interior operations of that nest area, which again is this red area here. So happy to answer any questions that y'all may have about the setup. [1:19:58, 1:20:18]: I'm pretty sure we all appreciate the presentation. I guess in a sense, uh maybe I'm uh dumbfounded here. What do you specifically need from us tonight in this aspect? Do I don't know if I need any type of legal opinion on this? I think from the team, um from your leadership team, um we were here to make sure that you all had the information that you all needed, not just about the [1:20:18, 1:20:38]: The drone technology, but also understanding our operations for both Wing and Walmart. And then I believe the planning department was going to offer some additional context on their recommendations. We met with them maybe four weeks, three weeks ago, to provide this same presentation and to also review this site plan. So next steps would be recommending. [1:20:38, 1:20:58]: Recommendations from the city on how to properly permit the site. As mentioned for the nest setup that you see, we're bringing in the fencing that the again that black metal-coated fencing that's simply bolted into the parking lot. We don't do we try to avoid any land disturbance. Similarly, for the autoloader area, that also has. [1:20:58, 1:21:18]: has fencing around it and then we load in and erect those two structures for the package loading. So from there, that's where we're looking for your guidance on for the fencing, the generator as well as for the drone pod or the kiosk to store the lock, the drones, your guidance, I guess, also for [1:21:18, 1:21:38]: From the planning department on how best to do that to make sure that we are compliant with all ordinances and requirements for the city of Stockton. Mr. Alexander, I mean Alison, I'm sorry. Anderson. Ryan, I'm sorry. Okay. Ryan, come see. Thank you all so much for your time. Well, yeah, no problem. Thank you. Don't go, don't go away now. Okay. Don't go away. All right. So she just spoke. [1:21:38, 1:21:54]: So I mean what what do you what are you gonna do? We're coming up on item number seven on the agenda to give a um overview of our draft um regulations pertaining to drone delivery. Okay. That's coming up later on the in the agenda. Okay. All right. All right. So you all any any count you got any more questions for them at all? [1:21:55, 1:22:02]: No no we're good. Well, we'll talk about it further in item number seven. But thank you for your presentation. Appreciate you. Thank you very much. Uh huh. All right. Good deal. [1:22:05, 1:22:25]: Uh drone okay back up forward. Where are you? Okay. New business council consideration to approve the annual contract. Okay. RFP two zero two five-0006. On call, water and sewer, emergency operational repair, maintenance, and construction services. Uh to provide [1:22:24, 1:22:27]: professional pipeline, primary site engineering, secondary [1:22:28, 1:22:33]: an amount of four hundred thousand dollars from FY twenty twenty-six stormwater budget. [1:22:33, 1:22:53]: Contract to begin January first, 2026 and account numbers 510-4250-542-515 Stormwater Repair. Mr. Aaron, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor and Council. We come before you tonight to ask for your approval or of our annual on-call utility contractor for the past eight years. [1:22:53, 1:23:13]: We employed that service, which has been very beneficial to us. They repaired some major water leaks for us, made some stormwater repairs. And like a lot of utilities in the area, Henry County and Clayton County Water Authority uses on-call utility contractors because they have access to equipment and supplies. [1:23:13, 1:23:33]: That we might not have during normal business hours. And this pro this was bidded out site was our previous vendor. So this was recently bidded out. And this time we're going with two vendors in case one is on someone is unavailable. We'll have another one that we can call. And we're just asking you to approve. [1:23:33, 1:23:42]: to uh this vendor, which is professional pipeline, as our primary vendor and site engineering as our secondary vendor. [1:23:43, 1:24:03]: Okay. Questions? Clarify. Go ahead, sir. So this wasn't or you said eight years and then you said there was a recent bid so when was it the last time that's been contract was bidding? It's been bidded out several times since I've been here for eight years, but I was saying for eight years we've employed the services of an on-call utility contractor. Right. [1:24:03, 1:24:10]: When was the last time this was bidded out this year? Uh let me go through my documents. [1:24:15, 1:24:22]: Uh it was the it was open on May first, twenty twenty five and closed on June first, twenty twenty five. [1:24:22, 1:24:32]: And both of these individual comp d you said there's two companies were selected? Yes, sir. Okay, so these were the two companies that were selected? Yes, sir. Okay. [1:24:34, 1:24:37]: Anybody got any other questions? Go right, please. [1:24:38, 1:24:45]: Mr. Aaron, is the cost proposal included here? That's exhibit I. I didn't see it. [1:24:46, 1:24:54]: I see the scoring sheets, but I don't see the cost proposal or fee schedule or price list. [1:24:55, 1:25:03]: And the reason why I asked for those is because just to put it in the record, just in case if there is any contract disputes or [1:25:04, 1:25:08]: price discrepancies, that kind of thing. So that's why I look for [1:25:09, 1:25:12]: The cost proposal or fee schedule or price listing. [1:25:13, 1:25:20]: I can get that information and submit it to you from procurement, but I didn't have it as part of the packet that they provided to us. [1:25:20, 1:25:22]: We just have the scoring sheets. [1:25:22, 1:25:32]: Okay, so I know that during the um evaluation process or even after the evaluation committee makes their recommendation, um [1:25:34, 1:25:41]: They typically provide copies of the cost proposal, so you didn't get it. [1:25:41, 1:25:45]: No ma'am. Okay. Okay. Well thank you, sir. [1:25:47, 1:25:58]: But there were only two that submitted and we were choosing two, so based on the proposal, both of them were chosen. So where did you um get the four hundred thousand? Is that a not to exceed amount? [1:25:59, 1:26:19]: Yes, ma'am. And the reason why we do that because if there's an emergency that far exceeds like if we did it for a hundred thousand, then we would have to come back before you to get it ratified. But we typically stay under this budget. We just want to have it available in case like if a water bane broke on North Henry Boulevard, it's gonna get. [1:26:19, 1:26:20]: It to be expensive. [1:26:21, 1:26:32]: Yeah, I get that. I was just curious about the pricing. Yep. And they normally have fixed pricing. Um and that would be included in the cost proposal. But thank you, sir. [1:26:35, 1:26:36]: Any questions from the council? [1:26:37, 1:26:41]: Well if that's not no k no questions, I need a motion to uh accept this, approve it. [1:26:42, 1:27:01]: Uh Mayor, I move that we um approve the annual contract RP twenty twenty five zero zero six um board and own call board on sewer emergency operational maintenance construction services to professional pipeline primary and site engineering secondary in the amount of four hundred thousand dollars. [1:27:02, 1:27:05]: Certainly. Okay, Mr. Dallas and a second that all in fair please indicate. [1:27:06, 1:27:15]: Pose? I will abstain, sir, and I'd like to add a comment if I can. All right, so uh one second before you do that. So three zero and one, it passes. What's your comment, please? [1:27:16, 1:27:22]: Okay. I'm abstaining because the recommended awardees cost proposals [1:27:22, 1:27:25]: Or their fee schedule or price schedules. [1:27:25, 1:27:26]: Are not included. [1:27:27, 1:27:28]: In the packet. [1:27:28, 1:27:31]: I look for the price schedule or [1:27:32, 1:27:35]: price sheet or s fee schedules. [1:27:35, 1:27:37]: А за вай трюмент. [1:27:38, 1:27:39]: Um what their fix. [1:27:39, 1:27:44]: pricings are. Just in case if there's any contract disputes or [1:27:44, 1:27:48]: invoice discrepancies, we will know what that is, but we don't have it. [1:27:49, 1:27:52]: Mr. Aaron has provided a not to exceed amount [1:27:53, 1:28:00]: for this contract award, but it's just not enough for me to make a decision. So thank you. That's it. [1:28:03, 1:28:23]: All right, ladies and gentlemen, um there's been a recommendation uh t made to me that we take text amendment, which is item number seven involving the drone delivery facilities and move it up to to discuss it now. And that way if that's if that's the case you agree to that. That way we don't leave we don't have these uh ladies and gentlemen waiting to retire uh [1:28:23, 1:28:37]: meeting for that discussion. So is there a motion to move the text amendment to deal in drone deliveries to handle that now at this point? Yes. Seconds. Okay. From Mr Barrett and Mr. Alexander all in favor? Indicate? [1:28:38, 1:28:40]: Because you now see okay. [1:28:40, 1:28:42]: Uh Mr. Anderson, so what we got here, we got text amendment. [1:28:43, 1:28:46]: Case TX two zero two five dash zero three first reading [1:28:47, 1:29:02]: Citywide consideration of text amendment to the Unified Development Code UDC to allow and provide regulations for the use of drone delivery facilities and services by businesses with approved special use permit. Mr. Anderson, please. Yes, sir. Uh [1:29:02, 1:29:17]: Mayor, this is um is is a draft presentation um um to give city council an opportunity to um address any concerns they may have to make changes. We hope to get this adopted on the thirteenth city regular city council meeting. [1:29:19, 1:29:19]: Okay. [1:29:25, 1:29:44]: So here's a timeline. We met with um with Wing and Walmart in July twenty twenty five. Um so we also we had a pre-application meeting, but we don't have we didn't have really have a formal process. Um so at after that first meeting in July, um the city manager um [1:29:44, 1:30:04]: Mr. Anderson. Yes, sir. With all due respect, is it necessary for them to have to come back? I mean, honestly, because in the regulation, I mean, what do we know about drone delivery? I mean it's going to be something that the experts have put together. They've been doing this all over the world. So why would it mean we [1:30:04, 1:30:12]: We're gonna make the council gonna make some suggestion for them to change it. No, sir, Councilman Alexander, but there's still some regulatory processes. [1:30:12, 1:30:32]: that the city put in place. So we wanna make sure that council is satisfied with that. So for instance, they'll be placed on our regulatory business list and they'll have t uh to apply for a special administrative permit, go to a special administrative permit process, uh after review from the community development department and final approval by the city manager. I just wanna brief you guys [1:30:32, 1:30:47]: on that process, but it's governed by the FFA and it's and there's no need to go through the public hearing process, but we still need to adopt these regulations so we can charge our fees. Well I'm saying uh our appro our part, what is it that we're having to do is having to wait. [1:30:47, 1:31:07]: But the city council has to do we have you have to grant the city manager authority to approve these to approve um the fees, to charge the special administrative permit fee and place the uh drone delivery on our regulatory business listing. What what's keeping us from doing that tonight? You don't want to hear the presentation. I mean you can do it tonight. I mean [1:31:07, 1:31:13]: I'm just saying I don't know what's gonna come back. We just had a a presentation that lasted about an hour. [1:31:13, 1:31:33]: Well, I can go through this in three, four minutes. So i it isn't it it won't take long, but I would suggest we at least go through the presentation. Well, I wanna I wanna go through the presentation. I just wanna know I I just I wanna I just wanted to understand whether or not we could vote tonight versus seven. Yes, sir. You can vote tonight if you want. If somebody makes a motion. Okay, well we'll s we'll see. Thank you. [1:31:33, 1:31:34]: Okay. Um [1:31:35, 1:31:41]: Let me speed through this. So we'll be amending um I certainly want to hear the presentation. Okay. Uh so we'll be amending um [1:31:42, 1:31:54]: Title nine of the Unified Development Code Licensings and Regulations. I shall be amended to add a new section called nine point one one six entitled Drone Delivery Services, which shall read as provided in the [1:31:55, 1:32:15]: An attached exhibit uh that we will provide in the with the ordinance, approval to am amend you the UDC Title 12, title chapter three, use regulations to include a new section 3.2 point four two entitled drone delivery services, and also approval to create an administrative special. [1:32:15, 1:32:35]: Use permit and it's an administrative special use permit process is hereby created for the purpose of reviewing and improving drone delivery services within the city of Stockbridge. Uh here's a definition of drone delivery. So you the previous present presenter um provided information on that. So this is the zoning. [1:32:35, 1:32:55]: Use regulations chart. So uh drone delivery will be allowed in C2, C3, LI, and HI with a special administrative permit signed by the city manager. Um these are the the use standards for the commercial drone delivery. We're just basically placing um [1:32:55, 1:33:03]: Some design criteria on that on that nest which she described in the earlier pr presentation to make it acceptable to our um design guidelines and criteria. [1:33:07, 1:33:18]: Since this is um regulated by the FAA, there's no need to of taking this through the special uh use permit process, the public hearing process, or the normal zoning process. [1:33:20, 1:33:29]: So uh the applicant the the previous presenter presented on um no as restrictions. We basically adopting things that they had in their proposal. [1:33:30, 1:33:50]: So have you heard all that? So um security they they will be required to have a a flock camera for 24 hour monitoring and they already stated that they would operating hours. We're proposing 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. But um since they're proposing that they might do um night delivery, we might uh amend that process. [1:33:50, 1:33:54]: process to go up to maybe um twelve at night or something like that. [1:33:56, 1:34:03]: Uh and basically pr the permitting process, drone delivery shall be permissible by a special administrative permit. [1:34:06, 1:34:18]: Um so the city manager wanted us to uh come up with a fast and efficient process of approving these um special administrative permits for drone delivery and uh that's what we did. [1:34:19, 1:34:25]: So the process will be like um the community development uh department will review [1:34:25, 1:34:29]: the um the applications and all the information contained within the application. [1:34:29, 1:34:35]: And we will make a recommendation to the city manager and then the city manager will be the ultimate um deciding factor. [1:34:37, 1:34:57]: Application requirements must be submitted by the property owners, submitted to the community development department, special administrative use for me, special administrative permit fee of$600, a regulatory fee is fifteen hundred dollars, must include a site plan, operational details, and also we're requiring two public meetings in the impacted area. [1:34:57, 1:35:17]: wings will have to come out and present um maybe two meetings to um the affected target area. I mean they have a six-mile delivery radius so we want them to touch as many homes uh within that six mile radius just to let them know um about the the drone delivery program. Community department [1:35:17, 1:35:22]: Community development department shall review and recommend to the city manager. The city manager has the final approving authority. [1:35:25, 1:35:25]: So [1:35:26, 1:35:27]: That's it. [1:35:27, 1:35:47]: Well I I have some clarification. Night delivery. I thought what I heard is that normally it goes to seven PM but they based on um the daylight savings time it may change. Um but uh so I my I wanna get clarification on that because I thought uh you mentioned, sir, something about night time. So I just wasn't sure if you clarification on that. Well the [1:35:47, 1:35:52]: young lady said that they may in the future okay have the nighttime delivery so [1:35:53, 1:35:59]: Uh we just wanna extend that delivery time from from eight PM to maybe twelve PM to the hours to operating hours of the store. [1:36:00, 1:36:02]: So that would be the only change to this presentation. [1:36:02, 1:36:17]: Okay, which means w it has to be in in the actual regulatory guidance in the as well. Yes, sir. We just so be so when we m when we uh when we write up the ordinance we'll include that. We'll have we'll set the times and the final. All right. So be Yes, ma'am. [1:36:23, 1:36:38]: Yes, daylight saving times. I mean like eight PM is usually when it gets dark and daylight saving time. So but she's I'm just saying in the future she stated that they may do night delivery, which means like ten or eleven o'clock it'll get it's get dark during daylight savings time. [1:36:39, 1:36:53]: So but right now we don't have to do that, but I'm just saying in the future if they want to move to um nighttime delivery, that means we'll have to come back before you to get this orders amended. So I just want to include it in now, just in case to future proof it. [1:36:54, 1:36:54]: Yeah. [1:36:55, 1:36:59]: Question down here? I'm I'm sorry, I'm sorry you got I'm sorry, go ahead. [1:37:00, 1:37:10]: The renewal process. Yeah. So if it's a if it's a regulatory business within the city of Stockbridge, it would have to be renewed annually. Okay. Yes. Thank you. All right. [1:37:12, 1:37:13]: Any questions on this way? [1:37:13, 1:37:33]: Yes, certainly uh thank you for that. And um you're putting everything together. So pretty much basically uh there will be a special permit as you've indicated. Special administrative permit. Special administrative permit. So basically you would be able to uh make sure that that happens. Yes, sir. Um on your end. Yes. This ordinance will grant us a authority to [1:37:33, 1:37:39]: To issue a special administrative permit. Uh the community development department will review the application and make sure they [1:37:39, 1:37:59]: are in compliance with all our regulations and then we'll make a recommendation to the city manager. The city manager is the ultimate is the ultimate decision maker on this process. And then you'll be bringing you were you was wanting to uh the regulation would be it just it wouldn't just be for them, it would just be pretty much for everybody. Anybody like say for instance anybody coming from UPS, Amazon [1:37:59, 1:38:19]: Anybody that wants to do drone delivery in the city of Stockbridge, they will have to comply with this ordinance. Okay, so subsequently that they would not have to come back. We would just need to vote. Yes. Okay, certainly. And during that time they would be able to work through the process. Yes, sir. Maybe have the community meetings and everything in anticipation, no. [1:38:19, 1:38:30]: that that was coming. Yes. Uh to be able to have that happen. So simultaneously as we make that approval, then they would be able to uh basically be ready to go. [1:38:31, 1:38:41]: Are you talking about what they have to after we adopt this ordinance, they won't have to come back to city council anymore. It will be handled by the community development department in tandem with the c with the city manager. [1:38:41, 1:39:01]: Right, that's what I'm saying. I mean in terms of you know w at this point what will basically have to happen is th you would administratively be able to do that. Yes. But in the meantime they will be able to go ahead and move forward with setting everything up and all of that. And then you before they got their basically C O or operation then [1:39:01, 1:39:06]: Everything would be passed by us. Yes, yes, sir. Okay. So [1:39:06, 1:39:09]: Mr. Emerson, you you wanna ch you wanna chime in? [1:39:09, 1:39:11]: Oh Mr you have something, Mr. Edmondson as well? [1:39:13, 1:39:14]: All right. [1:39:16, 1:39:36]: I think I think he covered it uh pretty well. Um and to your question, uh Councilmember Alexander, yes, uh we'll set up that notification with the community as they go out and talk more about this, similar to the presentation they gave tonight. So while that paperwork kicks uh kicks in, we get it codified, so on so forth. By that time we uh would be uh in position. [1:39:35, 1:39:47]: to go ahead and approve that special use um thing and everything works out. So hopefully have this thing launch sooner than later. That's the that's the that's the plan before the close of the the year. [1:39:47, 1:39:55]: That was my concern. I just didn't want to hold it up right and uh, you know, have them have them make another trip back unnecessarily. Um [1:39:57, 1:40:13]: Okay, so you need a motion for us to move go forward. Yes, sir. Yes sir. Uh one one other question. I don't um I don't know if you know the answer or not. They may have we say we approve this, we go forward, okay? How many other cities actually in in the Atlanta Metro area are doing this? [1:40:13, 1:40:33]: I think Stockbridge will be the first in the in the that's that's what I'm trying to get clarified. We would be first, really. Yes. I'll be darned. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Cool. That's why the city manager wanted us to streamline this process so we can get moving. All right. Well well I tell you what, I need a motion, council. So move. Okay. Is there a second? Um [1:40:33, 1:40:44]: Mayor Flores. Yes ma'am. May I ask that we also include in the condition authorizing them the ability um to deliver to government buildings. She mentioned that. [1:40:45, 1:41:05]: Okay. Okay. We might want we might need a vegetable tray. I don't know. Do we need to bring her back? I don't know. I don't know if we can legally do that or not. Yes. Um she she said in a brief and what would happen is uh we'll just write a letter basically authorizing them that they would it is authorized because what happens is when they pull it up on their map, it'd be geospace. [1:41:05, 1:41:12]: But with that letter, they'll be able to remove that barrier to allow delivery here. [1:41:12, 1:41:31]: Giving authorization to allow delivery to government buildings. Just need to add that. Does it need to be in the motion? We'll we'll we'll modify we'll modify uh the ordinance the ordinance. Yeah, we'll take care of we'll we'll include we'll put that language in the ordinance. [1:41:33, 1:41:39]: Uh so uh you have a question? Before vote I need to disclose Oh yeah, go ahead sir. I'm sorry, go ahead. [1:41:39, 1:41:59]: All right, prior to prior to voting I do need to for the record disclose that uh I am a uh Walmart uh staff member and a stockholder. Oh and so I needed to legally disclose that uh on the refrigeration and facilities maintenance, I our stock owner and employee of Stockbury. So I can't [1:41:59, 1:42:11]: Not stop ri Stop Rich and Walmart. So Okay. Uh so mutual interest. So since you disclose it, does that mean you cannot vote w one way or the other? I need a legal opinion on that, I guess. [1:42:14, 1:42:28]: I had to disclose I'm a Walmart refrigeration tech associate and a stockholder. Oh, who would have known? Small world. Okay. Learn something new. [1:42:29, 1:42:45]: He can vote. He can vote. Yeah. He did okay. She legally you can vote. All right. Okay. It's on the record. You can legally vote as and mess this stu mess this up. So I think it went from you, Alexander, to Mr. Berry the second debt motion, is that correct? [1:42:47, 1:42:58]: Okay, all in favor, please indicate. See now it's decision. Congratulations, outstanding. We're gonna be first. Oh my hey, wait, wait, come on now. We're gonna be first, all right? All right. [1:42:58, 1:43:18]: Right. My make my night. Okay. Uh council consideration approved the annual contract RFP two zero two five-004 uh for on call sidewalk repairs and replacement to uh CGS LLC in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars. Funding from uh SPLA six contract to begin one January twenty. [1:43:18, 1:43:20]: twenty twenty six. [1:43:21, 1:43:41]: Yes, Mr. Mayor and Council. For the last several years, Public Works has engaged the services of an on-call sidewalk contractor, and we've repaired an average of about a mile, mile and a half of sidewalks throughout the city. So on April 28th, a bid was uh placed for the on-call sidewalk contractor and it [1:43:41, 1:44:01]: Closed on May 29, 2025. We had 10 vendors that submitted proposals for this project. And the evaluation committee evaluated all of the uh proposals, and they recommended that we go with CGSLLC as our annual on-call sidewalk vendor. [1:44:01, 1:44:07]: And we're budgeting three hundred thousand dollars for maintenance and repair of sidewalks throughout the city. [1:44:08, 1:44:12]: Okay. Council, any questions for Mr. Aaron? I do. Yes ma'am, go ahead please. Um [1:44:13, 1:44:23]: Same with this one, Mr. Aaron, the cost proposal um or the fee schedule or price list is not included. But I also noticed the evaluators um [1:44:23, 1:44:35]: All of them are well, except for one. Two um are from public works. Yeah. [1:44:36, 1:44:50]: But I just wanted to note that for the record. Um, I think it's best that when we are scoring these that we include people from other departments. So it's not just one sided. [1:44:54, 1:44:59]: Oh the um exhibit eye, the general concrete [1:44:59, 1:45:00]: Um [1:45:01, 1:45:07]: work or bid form and cost proposal was it included? I am gonna abstain. [1:45:07, 1:45:14]: from voting on this because of that, but also I noticed the evaluators. Um there were six. [1:45:15, 1:45:26]: Six of them and two of them I can't hear were not a member of Public Works. The other four weren't. Can you repeat what you just said? I didn't hear what you said was missing. I can't hear. [1:45:29, 1:45:38]: I noticed with the evaluators of this, um there were six evaluators. Out of the six [1:45:39, 1:45:51]: only two of them were from other departments. The other four were from public works. And I remember a few years ago when I discussed this that [1:45:51, 1:45:59]: And I don't know if it was by resolution or if it got adopted in the procurement policy that we'd make sure that we had a mixture. [1:46:00, 1:46:00]: Um [1:46:01, 1:46:07]: on the evaluation team, we didn't want all of them or the majority of them coming from the [1:46:07, 1:46:09]: their department in which they were. [1:46:09, 1:46:11]: recommending the award. [1:46:11, 1:46:15]: That was the other note that I mentioned. [1:46:17, 1:46:18]: That's all. Thank you. [1:46:19, 1:46:23]: But for questions. Yeah, for clarification. [1:46:23, 1:46:43]: You basically this contract is citywide to repair sidewalks. The cost is basically built in because you have no idea how many sidewalks that they're going to repair. They go out and do the inspections and what have you and uh the cost would be basically whatever [1:46:43, 1:47:03]: They go after they examine the sidewall to determine what needs to be done, right? There's a price sheet, but what we do is budget driven. So it's based on we give the contractor these amount of sidewalls which would add up to that amount,$300,000 or less. Our goal is not to exceed the budget. [1:47:03, 1:47:23]: So it's pretty much budget driven. Our sidewalks repair is gonna be done according to what our budget is. Right. And if you go over that amount, you would have to basically come back to us to ask for a additional amounts. But indeed, you still don't know until they get out there and actually start doing the work what the it what the final cost is gonna be. Yes, sir. [1:47:23, 1:47:43]: So uh is the is the Hudson Bridge sidewalk been fiction? Yes, so that should that's a part of the list. We've got a list, and when this gets approved, we're working on a list already, and it's been approved, and we're just waiting for the vendor to get started for 2025. That has been like six months. [1:47:43, 1:48:03]: Why didn't the other contractor take it? Because GDOT has technically changed the way sidewalks are repaired. And so we've got to comply with that. They're saying if you go in and repair a section, they want you to go in and repair the entire sidewalk. So instead of [1:48:03, 1:48:23]: We're going and do a 10-foot section if the sidewalk is 50 feet. If there's any issues, they want you to replace the whole 50 feet and not just a section that has issues. So we've been working through that new regulation. I can send you a copy of it if you would like. Okay. And in our last meeting, we discussed having an estimate for the issue. [1:48:23, 1:48:28]: East Atlanta Road sidewalk uh project. Has that estimate been completed yet? [1:48:29, 1:48:49]: Yes, sir. I sent it to uh the city manager and Okay of course we didn't have if we did we would not have time to to review it tonight. But you so it has been completed? Yes, sir. We'll we'll present it at the next meeting. So okay, so basically uh in terms of this particular East Atlanta Road project we [1:48:48, 1:49:08]: We would have to identify the funding. Personally, it looks like the funding would be available in splot six when we're collecting splot six, or it would be available for the million dollar bond that we have sitting in the bank for the last three and a half years that we have completed no sidewalks for or trails. So this is a trail project in downtown. [1:49:08, 1:49:14]: And there's a million dollars literally sitting in the bank to do that with and with the council approval. [1:49:16, 1:49:18]: And this and th then my question I'm sorry, excuse me. [1:49:21, 1:49:30]: Now, certainly this is a situation where we should be able to save some money. We know if there's an uh that the own-call sidewalk provider. [1:49:30, 1:49:38]: that we're paying three hundred thousand dollars should be able to uh be might might be able to complete this project. [1:49:38, 1:49:58]: That's what the cost proposal for that sidewalk, the East Atlanta, North Henry, is based on the cost for the on-call sidewalk contractor. So you can have one or two choices, either you bid it out or go with the on-call sidewalk contractor. So that needs to be sent out to everyone. So certainly uh once we take a look at it and then you'll be able to [1:49:58, 1:50:01]: [6602.1, 6605.1]: Yes, sir. We'll have time enough to review it by then. [1:50:05, 1:50:23]: Okay. All right. Well I certainly appreciate that. And that'll that that could be a shovel ready project. And is in terms of what we're doing here to be able to move forward with it. I know the one over uh the model mile trail. Are they gonna be able to compete for that? No or or Pathfinder shouldn't be. [1:50:23, 1:50:43]: I I think Path would be working on that. But one thing we gotta remember too, if you do not wanna get off this, but if you're gonna do that ten foot path, we gotta get those easements. Right, certainly. Okay. Well all right, well that makes sense for us to be able to uh get things done um here around City Hall where we had anticipated [1:50:43, 1:51:01]: using the bond funding in order to do that, but certainly it would need brought to you'll be bringing that to council with the estimate for us to be able to take a look at that and we should assume that the own site contract, on call sidewalk provider would be the one providing the service for us. [1:51:01, 1:51:04]: That's an option if you so choose. [1:51:04, 1:51:10]: Okay. What are the other options? We would bid it out? We'd bid it out. Okay. All right. Well, okay. All right, thank you. [1:51:11, 1:51:21]: Any other questions? Yes ma'am, go ahead please. Mr Aaron, do you have a copy of the price schedule or the price sheet? I can get it from procurement. You don't I don't have it with me. Okay, thank you. [1:51:24, 1:51:28]: Once again, other questions? All right, then I need a motion, please. [1:51:30, 1:51:35]: So move. Is there a second? A second. So Miss Um Miss Alexander and Miss Ken, all fair, please indicate. [1:51:37, 1:51:40]: Okay. You abstain? [1:51:41, 1:51:53]: I will abstain as well and if I can add a comment. Well actually if that's uh two four zero and then two s abstentions, then uh motion fails. Okay. And your comments are? [1:51:55, 1:52:01]: Well I'm I'm a little bit confused. This we we need a sidewalk provider. [1:52:02, 1:52:13]: Mayor Ford, yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, May I ask Mr. Aaron to can you bring this back at the last uh the next meeting and include the price schedule. [1:52:14, 1:52:15]: Um exhibit I [1:52:16, 1:52:18]: Which was the general concrete works bid form. [1:52:19, 1:52:22]: Whether cost proposal and price sheet or fee schedule. [1:52:22, 1:52:26]: And again the reason why I'm asking for the cost proposal or price schedule [1:52:26, 1:52:28]: Is because I want to get it in the record. [1:52:28, 1:52:47]: Just in case if there's any contract disputes or invoice discrepancies on down the line, not saying that there will be, but I just wanted on the record just to have it. Okay, Mayor. Motion to withdraw and uh motion to withdraw and to table this to the next meeting. [1:52:48, 1:53:08]: Okay, is there well first of all? Okay, you can second that. I would just want to make sure you've done with your comments. Okay. Motion to withdraw has been seconded. All right. And before we take the the that the vote, what is your question, ma'am? Uh Miss Barber seconded that motion to withdraw. I have a question in regards to this agenda. [1:53:08, 1:53:09]: [6790.1, 6798.2]: The actual repairs and replacement of sidewalks, it's kinda like you do with the streets. You scale to see which ones are needed. [1:53:18, 1:53:21]: More than and more so than others, correct? [1:53:21, 1:53:22]: Yes, mm. [1:53:22, 1:53:28]: Are you able to get quotes on each individual one at this time or how does that work? [1:53:28, 1:53:35]: Because I mean and so you basically say we have this pool of money and we'll do as many as we can with this pool of money. Is is that what you're saying? [1:53:36, 1:53:56]: So what happens is staff go out and identify the sidewalks that need to be repaired or replaced. And we submit the list to typically Falcon, our on call engineer, and they go out and scale and measure everything, and then they come back and submit it to the on-call contractor based on the unit prices for [1:53:56, 1:54:16]: each of those items, then they generate a cost for each of those repairs. So it might be all of the repairs come up to$200,000 based on what the cost and pay items per item like if you're doing ADA compliance, there's a cost for that. If you're removing tree [1:54:16, 1:54:27]: roofs on their sidewalk, there's a cost for that. If you removing concrete, there's a cost for that. Then there's a cost for the replacement of the concrete. So there are cost items [1:54:28, 1:54:30]: Associated with the project. [1:54:30, 1:54:36]: And do you already have a list of sidewalks that we're doing this year for we have a list already? [1:54:37, 1:54:40]: So you you would be able to get [1:54:40, 1:55:00]: 'Cause I I'm trying to understand what Councilwoman Barber's asking. You would be able to get a price sheet, basically schedule sheet on what those costs are. They are have Falcon already come up with the estimate or scale? I think what she's talking about is the price sheet that they submitted with their bid and saying to replace X amount of [1:55:00, 1:55:20]: Sidewalk, if there's no roots, it's just crack. It would cost this to remove that panel and it would cost this much to pour back the panel. I think that's what she's asking for. But we typically what we're doing is it's based on the budget. Okay, there's$300,000. We go out and they measure. [1:55:20, 1:55:39]: Falcon do and then based on the cost for those repair items, then they generate what the cost is going to be. And they come back to us and say, Okay, it's on their budget or it's over budget. If it's over budget, then we trim some things off and move it to the the next year when we have additional funding. [1:55:39, 1:55:41]: And where is that price sheet? [1:55:42, 1:55:56]: That price sheet, like I said, it was a part of the um bid packet. Okay. But I just the information that was given to me, we didn't have that as a part of the documents that we uploaded. And I'll get that for the next meeting. [1:55:56, 1:56:16]: Okay. Also also when we come back, can we can we get a uh guess a thorough assessment of what side which sidewalks and specifically like how how extensive the damage is at each location? Can we get some type of report out on where we're strategizing the funds and repairs to go [1:56:16, 1:56:34]: So the repairs are based on we had an analysis done of our streets and sidewalks and that's our guiding our guide because we wanted to take subjectivity out of it.'Cause somebody look at something and say, Hey, this needs to be repaired, but based on the evaluation, it doesn't. [1:56:35, 1:56:47]: You know, so we're doing those based on whether it's a trip hazard, mainly whether it's a trip hazard. And that's how we go about deciding. But the sidewalks are chosen based on that evaluation and rating we did just like we do for streets. [1:56:49, 1:56:51]: So they're rated by by staff. [1:56:51, 1:56:56]: No, sir. They're rated by our engineers, went out and and did an evaluation of all the streets and sidewalks in the city. [1:56:57, 1:56:58]: Okay. Yeah, for [1:56:59, 1:57:00]: One second. [1:57:02, 1:57:10]: You good, sir? Good. Okay. Go ahead, please. I wanted to confirm what Mr. Aaron explained about the price sheet. [1:57:10, 1:57:13]: That is correct. That is exactly what I'm looking for. [1:57:14, 1:57:20]: That whole price sheet that you just explained and described. That's why I'm asking for it. Thank you, sir. [1:57:21, 1:57:25]: And the motion was to table this item uh to be brought back to the next meeting. [1:57:26, 1:57:35]: And and Mr. Berry second that Ms. Barber. Ms. Barber second that excuse me. Ms. Barber second that excuse me. Ms. Barber second that so all in favor of motion, please indicate? Now it's decision. Okay, good deal. Thank you. [1:57:36, 1:57:56]: Okay, council consideration is approved the purchase of uh is this phosphorus, C C two zero five zero, remove chemical from the cedar cam in an amount of sixty thousand dollars of funding source from is is from the sewer department budgeted funds. Ms. Aaron, please. Yes, Ms. Mayor. As a part of our wastewater treatment process [1:57:56, 1:58:16]: We have to remove phosphorus and get down to the limit of 0.30 milligrams per liter, according to our permit issued by EPD. And we need some additional chemicals to get us through the end of this year. So we're asking to increase. We have money within the budget, but it exceeds [1:58:16, 1:58:22]: The city manager signed an authority, so we're asking your approval to purchase additional chemicals. [1:58:23, 1:58:30]: Okay, motion. So move. So move. Second. Ms. Barber, second down. All favor, please indicate. [1:58:30, 1:58:39]: Snail decision, okay, fantastic. Thank you, sir. You got a comment? Can I just say that um the sole source was verified? So thank you. Thank you for that. [1:58:41, 1:58:54]: Okay. Next is council thank you, Mr. Aaron. Thank you, sir. Council consideration to fill vacancy downtown development authority board to fill an unexpired term through thirty-one December twenty twenty seven. Miss Sanders, please. [1:59:02, 1:59:03]: Yeah. [1:59:03, 1:59:23]: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. The Downtown Development Authority currently has two vacancies on that board. This item this evening that's before you will address at least one of those vacancies. And so uh the recommendation uh that I'm making is that you consider uh Mr. [1:59:23, 1:59:43]: Tariq Collins to fill that vacancy. Uh he is uh he has joined us this evening, and I don't know if you all would like to have him come up and introduce himself or ask him any questions, but he's he's certainly here this evening. Um and so that is that is kind of in the nutshell what this one is all about. Uh we are working with [1:59:43, 2:00:03]: with the DDA board to vet some additional candidates to fill that second vacancy as soon as possible. But at this time uh we have one and this vacancy would fill uh an unexpired term through December 31st of 2022 27. And so [2:00:03, 2:00:10]: Uh if you have any questions, I'll attempt to answer them, but if you'd certainly like to be introduced to him, uh as I said, he's here this evening. [2:00:12, 2:00:19]: Can anybody introduce yourself and tell us about it? Yeah, Miss Carlford's come forward so [2:00:19, 2:00:20]: Like one. [2:00:23, 2:00:24]: I think. [2:00:25, 2:00:33]: I I we uh we usu I thought we had a discussion about this. And I'm I'm excited, but what I'm saying is [2:00:34, 2:00:37]: Uh, we're doing the procedure different from what we normally would do. [2:00:38, 2:00:40]: Okay. [2:00:40, 2:00:45]: Um He just offered, I suppose, and I think that's a good idea. [2:00:45, 2:00:48]: That's not what we normally would do. And we normally just go ahead and vote. [2:00:49, 2:00:55]: Yeah, well we uh some point we used to go into execucession, not that that matters more than we have. [2:00:56, 2:01:00]: opted to require it's highlighted here. We're good. [2:01:01, 2:01:02]: Apparently. [2:01:03, 2:01:15]: It's highlighted that um we we require some type of resume or something. Um and I'm all for I see there is some information up here about [2:01:16, 2:01:17]: Um [2:01:17, 2:01:18]: Uh. [2:01:18, 2:01:21]: business and financial expertise. [2:01:22, 2:01:29]: No no offense to you whatsoever. I I would support the vote. But I think that [2:01:30, 2:01:34]: Oh it is included? Yeah. She just included it in the package. It was said [2:01:34, 2:01:54]: Oh, okay. Well then I'm good. I just want to make sure it's done right because I don't want no problems. For for clarification, uh as you remember that the gentleman is a district five business business owner. So Yeah. Well I I just want to make sure because I don't want any issues and anybody saying that we did one one way and one another. That's the only reason why. [2:01:54, 2:02:01]: I when I looked in the book it wasn't here. That's uh my only reason. But I'm okay as long as it's there. Sure. [2:02:03, 2:02:23]: Uh good evening. I'm Tariq Collins, owner of uh Eagle Financial Group, the accounting firm all over on uh Eagles Landing. Um I've been uh I guess what you want to know about me, military veteran, army vet, uh business owner for some time. Uh we work with other business owners as far [2:02:23, 2:02:28]: as growing their companies from CFO services down to tax prep services. [2:02:28, 2:02:46]: Okay. And uh I've have to admit uh he's been to see me in a couple of times during meet the mayor, so uh excellent candidate. Um I don't vote as a tie, but that's an excellent candidate. I appreciate it. No problem, sir. All right. Um council need a motion, please. Yeah, mayor uh the [2:02:46, 2:02:58]: As the DDA liaison, I'd like I'm sorry. Give me a s say your name one more time. Tariq Collins. I'd like to nominate Tariq Collins as uh downtown development authority member. [2:02:58, 2:03:05]: Okay. Okay, Ms. Alexander, Ms. Gann, all in favor please indicate. Okay, she now succeeds. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. [2:03:06, 2:03:09]: Okay. Uh what is next? [2:03:10, 2:03:20]: Appointment what's next appointment of councilwoman Yolanda Barber to Council Liaison to Stockbridge Main Advisory Main Street Advisory Board through December thirty first, twenty twenty seven. [2:03:20, 2:03:40]: Mayor. Yes. Point of order. What's the point of order? Okay, certainly the issue is this, okay? And before we proceed with this, we already have a representative to the Main Street board that is Councilman Thomas. Councilman Thomas has neither resigned nor [2:03:40, 2:04:00]: Or been re removed from that board position to my knowledge by a vote of this council. So the position is not vacant at this time. I find it highly insensitive and inappropriate to replace a sitting board member who is out because of a medical condition in this state. [2:04:00, 2:04:20]: we appoint the board members in January, which is after the expiration date of Councilman Thomas's term. And I as as someone who has served with him and shoulder to shoulder with him, the least that we could do is to give him a couple more months at the end of his term. [2:04:20, 2:04:40]: Since he's not resigned and this board to for for this board to even consider removing him with two months to go in his term, which his distinguished service to the board would be inappropriate. And if he did tender his resignation in the condition that he's in, I wouldn't as I would not vote to accept it. I would not. [2:04:40, 2:05:00]: Because he has put his time in on that board uh religiously and represented it at every turn. And how we got here is I don't know how we got here because in the end he's still serving. He's still a member of this council. [2:05:00, 2:05:20]: Council. He's still a member of the Main Street Board. He's still an official member of the Stockbridge City Council. And as this is concerned here, I find it objectionable and I find it very insensitive to even consider this nomination at this point. [2:05:19, 2:05:39]: point when councilman thomas has neither signed or been removed. And as I said, even if he did in this current medical state, I wouldn't do it. I would wait to January and I would let the new council make that decision because it was it's the right thing to do. As we journeyed through downtown Stockbridge, we [2:05:39, 2:05:59]: Talked about Councilman Thomas in a heartfelt way as we journeyed through his district and we went to there and we went by his house. And to think of even forcing him out ridiculous. And I and I see it as very insensitive, and just being in a situation where it is about [2:05:59, 2:06:18]: about me. It's not about him and to not be able to wait till his term ends twelve thirty one or twenty twenty five and then say, I want to just do it right now. Therefore this certainly was not brought to the council. Stand by please stand by. As we indicated uh earlier that it requires [2:06:18, 2:06:38]: A count this is a council appointment. And a council appointment requires that we have three members of this board of order agree and uh to the appointment or to accept somebody's resignation and to try to appoint somebody to a position that's not currently open uh i is something. Uh there's [2:06:38, 2:06:58]: That I did. But like I said, I'm going to close by saying: even if he would issue his resignation under the person's person's circumstances, I wouldn't accept it because he only has basically about 90 days left in his term before we appoint a new representative. And with his distinguished service, he decided. [2:06:58, 2:07:02]: Deserves that. Thank you. All right. Ms. Barber, go ahead, please. [2:07:02, 2:07:20]: Therefore, I call for a point of order. No, you did. Go ahead. And when I when anyone calls for a point of order, you are to hear acknowledge that. I had called for a point of order. I was doing a point of order, so mine took precedent. Okay and I gave it. Oh, yeah. That's what you were doing. Hold on. I understand what you're talking about, Miss Barber. Go ahead with your comment, please. [2:07:21, 2:07:30]: So when anyone calls for a point of order, sir, you are to hear the point of order. The reason why I asked for a point of order is because [2:07:30, 2:07:38]: Miss Bareed has not even presented the item. I understand. I was I was no good record. I I wanted you to acknowledge the presenter of the item. [2:07:39, 2:07:41]: Sure. She would get a knowledge. I was gonna do that. [2:07:41, 2:07:53]: Will you please allow her to present this item before we totally inappropriate. Hold on. Totally inappropriate and insensitive. Come on. With a current council member, you've already said you already made your comments, so [2:07:54, 2:07:57]: Uh Mr. Reed come forward. And Megan. [2:07:57, 2:08:02]: You're gonna have to make a legal opinion here. I need a legal opinion from you in reference to this. Come make your presentation, please. [2:08:03, 2:08:23]: W before that I asked for the legal call because in essence we're making a presentation which is inappropriate on Councilman Thomas's term. Well hold a second. I I I mentioned that. I don't even want to begin. This is this is such a slap in the face. [2:08:23, 2:08:26]: Hold on. Hold on a second. Stand by. [2:08:26, 2:08:28]: Maybe you got a legal opinion on this at this point. [2:08:32, 2:08:34]: I have just a woman apple here. [2:08:40, 2:08:49]: Okay. If I could have just a moment I'm pulling up the city code, that'll get me to the answer that I'm looking for. All right, in the meantime in the meantime, while you're doing that, make your presentation please. [2:08:50, 2:08:54]: Thank you. [2:08:55, 2:09:15]: Don't want to read let's let her make a presentation. She's making a presentation on a position that's not even open yet. What make her let her make a presentation anyway? Why di if it was you or anybody else, I would not want to hear the presentation until she ruled legally because he still holds the position. It's like we're asking for somebody to be appointed to [2:09:15, 2:09:35]: To his position. How out of order is that? He's still serving. And we're gonna listen to the presentation about somebody replacing him. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. You want to recess? Is there a segment to recess? Recess. Is there a second to recess? Motion to recess. Okay, is there a motion is there a second to recess? The recess to m the recess when to make [2:09:34, 2:09:39]: Reagan finishes with the legal research on whether this is appropriate or not. [2:09:39, 2:09:40]: Okay. [2:09:40, 2:09:41]: Okay. I can agree to that. [2:09:42, 2:09:53]: Okay. I can second that. I can't. So you you meant just that. Okay, for Mr Alexander to one second. Mr. Alexander and Ms. Gantt a motion to recess. All in favor of recess, please indicate. [2:09:54, 2:10:04]: I say that because we need to know the legal ramifications or even Okay, so so the mo so it or should not hear. We need to know the legal code behind whether or not it's a good idea. All right, so we got three [2:10:05, 2:10:05]: You you [2:10:06, 2:10:26]: I will oppose because we haven't even heard the presentation yet. All right. So three one the motion passed, the have a recess for legal review at this point. Budgeted for two point six and the uh two point six we have received a million and we still have got some um [2:10:27, 2:10:47]: concerts to come, so that will be up to October, then we'll assess how much. But we are half of uh almost closer to half of what we budgeted for. Budget amendment will create out this one when we do budget amendment so that the negatives will go out. We'll transfer money from general fund to make [2:10:47, 2:10:50]: pick it up for the shortfalls in revenues. [2:10:53, 2:10:54]: Okay. [2:10:55, 2:11:15]: I'm moving from revenues if there's any question or comment on revenues. Any questions for revenues at all, council? No, I'm just a little I mean this is the pro this the representation we received at pretty much I mean we reviewed these numbers at the um at the retreat. So just kinda understanding is it just is just a need to just uh [2:11:15, 2:11:25]: Uh this is pretty much what you sent us uh in the email, right? For us, that is correct. And and I added you details. Okay. That is true, yes, exactly. Okay. [2:11:27, 2:11:28]: Okay, go ahead. [2:11:29, 2:11:49]: Then we get into the expenses general fund as you see general fund what we have received and what we have spent. So general fund revenues and general fund expenses are almost the same, fourteen million, fourteen million. However, on revenues there may be fourteen million, but remember that the big chunks of the [2:11:49, 2:12:09]: revenues of general fund we have not yet received. So you have sales tax, we are one month uh behind. Then we have insurance premiums that is the 3.5 million we are yet to receive in November. Then we have property tax about 7.4 million in [2:12:09, 2:12:29]: is yet to be received I think in December. So revenue may be down, but we will catch up as we go receiving those three big uh revenues. That's the premium, insurance, um, sales tax, as well as the property [2:12:29, 2:12:49]: Excuse me. It certainly looks like the T Splash is overperforming with a$5.6 million projection. And we've already collected. That's another one. You see there that on expenses we didn't budget anything, but we have spent money. [2:12:49, 2:12:56]: And those are the things that we'll correct uh we will be correcting through budget amendment. On revenues you see that we have received [2:12:56, 2:13:07]: money on revenues, but on expenses we didn't budget. So we didn't budget revenues and we didn't budget expenses, but we have received and we are spending. [2:13:08, 2:13:10]: Yeah, but certainly we [2:13:10, 2:13:30]: in the past with this particular situation, this is year to date. Yes. We have, you know, I think I think the last count, I think we had maybe fifteen or sixteen million dollars in the account and we received this amount this amount this year. So it certainly is, even though it might be trending that way, we need to get [2:13:30, 2:13:50]: get some of these projects done, which I anticipate we will actually do because we have money in the bank. But uh these numbers can be deceptive because, you know, it looks like again, we're certainly exceeding what the projection was. And then when you look at it year year to date or you look at it year to year, it might look like it's balancing, but in the past, because [2:13:49, 2:13:55]: [8035.7, 8055.7]: Yeah, as we said that the um there were two sets of uh reports that uh were being made and the the reports that were being given to you to make wise decisions were not uh so we misled you, but hopefully these ones I did bring them intentionally. [2:14:15, 2:14:35]: Mm-hmm. So that you can see them when we make budget amendment, all these zeros will be uh will be gone. I just want everybody to know where you're pulling the money from. You're pulling the money from because the money's in the bank. In these various accounts, you will be able to pull the money on the budget transfers because the money has already been collected and to [2:14:35, 2:14:44]: T spliced and splice and splice six. And you're not taking it out of general fund, you're taking that from the balances in these funds, correct? [2:14:44, 2:15:04]: So that of the thirty two that is the highly spoken about these were expenses that were incurred through T S plus majority of them Ts plus Splus five uh Splash T plus Splus five and now we have Splassix. [2:15:04, 2:15:24]: In 2025. So all those expenses had the corresponding revenues. Of course, there were some that we had to transfer money, but the majority of all those expenses were from public works that's to do with the roads paving and many other projects. Citywide projects. [2:15:24, 2:15:36]: projects that were performed and the the budget was zero. OPA funds again, we spent a lot of projects paying for uh [2:15:36, 2:15:56]: Paying for projects in upper funds, it was not budgeted for. So that budget amendment budget amendment was to make the balance, the budget balance or what would have been done originally when the budget was being proved uh provided to you to. [2:15:56, 2:16:00]: to approve it. Unfortunately it was not done. [2:16:00, 2:16:01]: Okay. [2:16:01, 2:16:08]: So every penny of that amendment was balanced with revenues and expenses. [2:16:10, 2:16:21]: Uh water is still the same you find out on the water side. If you go on water sanitation you find out that all expenses are higher than uh revenues. The budgeted [2:16:22, 2:16:23]: Amount. [2:16:24, 2:16:36]: And the expenses are almost closer, but revenues on the page that we just finished are much, much lower. But we'll assess, sit down and see w uh how we can limit on that. [2:16:38, 2:16:47]: That's the summary of um expenses. If there's a question on that one before I get into general summaries. [2:16:49, 2:17:09]: I have a question, well more so a comment. Are these still from the previous administration uh financial director and city manager? The former was this done during that re regime still? Is that what we're doing here? We're still clearing that. [2:17:09, 2:17:10]: Add up. [2:17:11, 2:17:12]: So [2:17:14, 2:17:17]: We are in twenty twenty five budget. [2:17:17, 2:17:19]: Twenty twenty five budget was the [2:17:20, 2:17:40]: prepared last year. Okay. So the first uh correction of twenty twenty five budget will happen when we do our budget amendment on the thirteenth of October. Okay, I gotcha. So it was it was during that administration. Yeah. So what you did was you accepted the audit of twenty twenty four, but from January [2:17:40, 2:17:47]: But the twenty twenty five going forward is what we are trying to for twenty okay. So you're getting us caught up. [2:17:47, 2:17:48]: That's correct. [2:17:48, 2:18:05]: Okay. And in regards to ARPA funds, I saw that it was zero in revenue but there were some expenditures. Can you explain that? Because when we got upper funds, we spent them in general fund. So general fund has to make up for that because we still [2:18:06, 2:18:11]: We have an obligation to finish up our program in twenty twenty six. [2:18:12, 2:18:32]: Okay. And we didn't account it properly and we commingled it in general fund. You put it in you commingled it into general funds. Yeah. That's why it says zero. Which was not the right thing, yes. Okay. Is there a way to separate it? Not at this time. [2:18:32, 2:18:52]: upper projects has to as as you remember we were requested to give back two point two million because we didn't properly account for that. But they they're refunding that back to us, is that correct? No, we are not supposed to give them back because we gave them [2:18:52, 2:19:09]: what they wanted. Okay. We met the uh we complied with what they wanted. So great. So we didn't have to give it back. We didn't have to give back. But the projects, the assigned money has to finish those projects and upper programme is ending twenty twenty six. [2:19:09, 2:19:20]: Right. And it's been my experience, um, for these past going on twelve years that the franchise fees and everything that comes in very late at the end of the year [2:19:21, 2:19:36]: actually catches us up, including splots. It's always two or three million dollars more than what we projected it out to be. Um, but they come in at the very end of the year, um, December, January sometimes,'cause I used to always worry and [2:19:37, 2:19:57]: Um through experience in the past, you you'll see it now at thirty one and then you'll get when what around what time of year does the franchise piece come in? I think it's in is it the end of December? Uh it depends on uh which ones, but uh by the end of the year we should have all of them because like [2:19:57, 2:20:17]: now we already have got impact fees they are already in. Right. So it's a throw out, but there is a specific time when we get more depending on which um impact fees that you are talking about. And just so everyone knows what those franchise fees are, they're like ATT, Georgia Power, different [2:20:17, 2:20:37]: Companies and utilities, they have those fees and assessments, and then they pass that on to the municipality for usage properties. So those uh fees, uh franchise fees are the ones that are levied from companies that are doing businesses in our city. [2:20:37, 2:20:37]: [8437.5, 8439.2]: Correct. Thank you. [2:20:42, 2:20:54]: Um you on the grant side on the revenue grants we have received a lot of grants revenues and most of those grants are almost almost all [2:20:55, 2:21:15]: grants are reimbursable. So we spent money and we are rebersed. And those monies were held up by various federal state agencies because we didn't comply. But after we complied everything, we gave we met all the requirements [2:21:15, 2:21:19]: [8480.0, 8492.3]: they have released those funds and those funds will automatically go to general fund because the general fund is the one that was providing uh those money for grants to to spend. [2:21:32, 2:21:51]: Okay. Is there a reason why we're doing this tonight and not waiting until the franchise fees and the actual depiction of money comes in to show the true budget of expenditures and revenues because it ba eventually balances out? Is there a reason why we're doing the presentation tonight? [2:21:52, 2:22:10]: No the presentation because we have never presented it from oc uh from January actually because we were behind. We had expenses but revenues we we did not. So we didn't want to provide you information that has the limited the uh [2:22:12, 2:22:22]: that did not meet all the requirements. Without bank reconciliation you can't say you are providing repo uh credible reports. But was this not provided to us at the retreat? [2:22:22, 2:22:42]: Retreat was for the next year for for the twenty twenty six budget projecting for twenty twenty six and where we are now. So it was where we are to help us for twenty twenty six budget. But this is a actual reporting of what we have received and what we have [2:22:42, 2:22:45]: have spent as of august thirty first. [2:22:45, 2:23:04]: Okay. I d I didn't know if it was a difference from what was reported. That's why I was asking. Yeah. But I just I I I see that uh so we really wouldn't amend this until those franchise fees and everything come come in first, correct? The amending is mainly to say there are some [2:23:04, 2:23:09]: There are some departments that the twenty twenty five budget didn't [2:23:09, 2:23:12]: The twenty twenty five budget did not balance. [2:23:12, 2:23:23]: Mm-hmm. Because we have some departments that they are short for of uh personnel funding and they will not finish um October if we don't do budget amendment. [2:23:23, 2:23:24]: Okay. [2:23:24, 2:23:35]: For example, one department has got three personnel that there will not be enough to finish there will be no enough w funding in personnel. [2:23:35, 2:23:38]: Because it wasn't budgeted for. It was not budgeted for. [2:23:39, 2:23:55]: I recall that. And there are some department um funds as I've seen you, I've shown you, Splash six, uh T S Plus. We are spending T S Plus, we have money, T S Plus is going on, but there's the zero budget that we budgeted for T S Plus. [2:23:55, 2:24:09]: Right. But those funds are for projects within the city. And we are receiving revenues every month. Right. Okay. Every month okay. That's perfect. I d I just wanted to make sure that it's not something we're just okay, that's good. [2:24:14, 2:24:20]: Any question, any comment on the revenues and expenses and general [2:24:22, 2:24:41]: Financial outrook This is the summary of funds. General fund is one line item on revenue, one line on expenses. Next report will have detailed for every department how much we have spent and on revenues how much we have brought in. [2:24:42, 2:24:47]: And that would be when now next month? On the amendment, no amendment to the budgets next month. [2:24:47, 2:25:01]: Mm budget amendment will be on the thirteenth. Okay. And the financial report for the month of September will be for October. Okay. So we will be having financial reports on a monthly basis. [2:25:01, 2:25:02]: Okay. [2:25:03, 2:25:03]: Good deal. [2:25:05, 2:25:09]: Continue on please. Is that the last slide? [2:25:10, 2:25:13]: Yeah, I say summary, the uh the rest the the the rest is just summary. [2:25:13, 2:25:20]: Okay, I got it. Okay. All right, good deal. And yeah, I was wondering about this. Did you need to go through this at all? [2:25:20, 2:25:25]: Uh I have explained most of those ones in my revenues and expenses. All right, good deal. [2:25:25, 2:25:31]: I'm a little confused, I guess, Mary. I guess we were getting quarterly reports. Now you changed it to monthly. [2:25:31, 2:25:35]: No no no. Quarter reports you get, but you I'll be giving you monthly. [2:25:37, 2:25:51]: Okay, I just thought we were getting quarterly reports so we could kinda'cause sometimes when you're doing month to month, it can throw it off. Just like now. You will see one month that goes way up, then the next month that goes way down. The quarterly report just like they do [2:25:52, 2:25:55]: Вино, сам танно до федерал репорт сняв, і кінсіа тренд. [2:25:55, 2:26:03]: Whereas you give somebody you throw some numbers out there for one month, you might give somebody the wrong picture of what's going on. What is your wish? [2:26:05, 2:26:07]: But you're if you're saying are you saying us you're just emailing them? [2:26:08, 2:26:24]: I'll de update you with the details then monthly. Okay. But if you cancel me. No, no, no, no. But if you feel like that one is too much, still let me know. No no no no it's not email me that's [2:26:25, 2:26:45]: Right, to get the updated thing. I just don't wanna throw information out there where people don't understand because they see something go up and down, they don't understand that the tax money is coming in in November. And they see, oh, all of a sudden this big gap in the budget and then you don't see the revenue understanding that the revenue is gonna come in in November. [2:26:45, 2:26:59]: Yeah, so you will say we have to understand our some of you have to understand when your revenues are coming in, because always expenses will be high and most of the revenues that we have they will come very late. [2:26:59, 2:27:19]: And the even when you are doing audit, they give you three months you can steal because see what we are receiving now sales tax are not for September, they are for August. So what we are receiving now are not w we received last year month, we are not for August, we are for the previous month. And the [2:27:19, 2:27:28]: Insurance premiums will not come until October, mid November. Then we have our [2:27:29, 2:27:32]: Property tax that this year will come [2:27:32, 2:27:33]: Literally. [2:27:34, 2:27:36]: mid or after mid of December. [2:27:38, 2:27:46]: Luckily enough we have we will not make it to go and look for we'll finish a year even if we get late the property taxes. [2:27:47, 2:28:07]: Could I just want to make sure that whatever we received, uh we of course we see that everything and that they were we won't I don't see it and then I see something that catches my attention. I just want to be able to see if I get October, I'd like to have the the this you know the month before you know, a couple months before so I can see the trend. [2:28:07, 2:28:09]: Mm-hmm. [2:28:10, 2:28:10]: Um [2:28:11, 2:28:25]: Revenues, I would like to see the total of revenues from the previous year so that I can kind of scale on what that looks like. Does that make sense? Like I otherwise I won't know. I don't know what our franchise [2:28:26, 2:28:27]: Well last year. [2:28:30, 2:28:44]: is always increased about two to three million more than what we projected it to be. But it's just good to see what those fees are obviously so we can kind of compare of where we are. [2:28:47, 2:28:48]: Any other questions? [2:28:49, 2:28:51]: If not, thank you sir, appreciate it very welcome. [2:28:52, 2:28:56]: All right. On that note, uh Council, we need a motion to go into the second session, please. [2:28:57, 2:28:57]: Sure. [2:28:57, 2:29:03]: But for legal, personnel, real estate and cybersecurity. [2:29:04, 2:29:04]: That made it. [2:29:05, 2:29:11]: Okay. No well actually she says so move, so I second. Okay. Miss Gantt second that. On favor please indicate. [2:29:12, 2:29:16]: We'll be back, ladies and gentlemen. [2:29:47, 2:30:07]: I see I got it. I I I just want to make sure you before I say anything, you're good? You're okay all right. All right, Council, we need to a motion to end our executive session, please. So move for Miss Ms. Barber, Miss Barber, Mr. Um Berry. All in favor in the case. Okay, we s did that now we need a motion to reconvene our city council work session, please. [2:30:07, 2:30:13]: So I'm facing so so for Miss Barber back to um Miss uh Gantt, all favor please indicate [2:30:13, 2:30:26]: And from the executive session, ladies and gentlemen, motion to ad uh journal the second session was a with approval after day with no action. So it's no action that uh we uh need to explain at this time for our executive session. On that note, um [2:30:28, 2:30:48]: Need a motion, uh well actually need a motion to end our mayor. We need a motion to remove item number nine. Right. I'll make a motion to remove item number nine, the appointment of the Main Street Board Member. I make that motion because Councilman Alfonso Thomas still serves in that position and [2:30:48, 2:31:06]: I believe it the right thing to do to allow him to finish that out under the circumstances um and appoint a ha and appoint a new Main Street board member in January at our convening organizing meeting as been the custom uh for the city. Oh is there a second that motion? [2:31:07, 2:31:15]: Mr. uh Mr. Berry, second and most. All in favor, please indicate. One one second. [2:31:15, 2:31:21]: Okay, okay, so I've got three votes for and uh you were uh say no or or abstain? [2:31:22, 2:31:24]: Discussion please. [2:31:24, 2:31:25]: Okay. [2:31:26, 2:31:28]: Well you can have discussion. Okay. We go ahead. [2:31:29, 2:31:29]: Mm. [2:31:29, 2:31:32]: I know that this item was placed on the agenda. [2:31:32, 2:31:35]: At the recommendation of the Main Street Advisory Board. [2:31:36, 2:31:40]: Actually the chair of the Main Street Advisory Board. [2:31:40, 2:31:42]: made a recommendation. [2:31:43, 2:31:43]: Um [2:31:44, 2:31:45]: To appoint me. [2:31:46, 2:31:47]: Yolanda Barber. [2:31:47, 2:31:50]: as a council liaison to the Main Street advisory board. [2:31:51, 2:31:54]: He also recognized all the hard work. Um [2:31:55, 2:32:05]: From Councilman Thomas, his tenure, the respect, the love, everything that he has put into the Main Street Advisory Board over the years. [2:32:05, 2:32:10]: But he also mentioned that the Main Street Advisory Board um had [2:32:11, 2:32:14]: Pretty much come to a crossroads. [2:32:14, 2:32:18]: They wanted or need a council liaison. [2:32:19, 2:32:26]: I am the only member of the council who is not serving on any of our city's boards and committees. [2:32:27, 2:32:28]: Additionally [2:32:30, 2:32:31]: The main street [2:32:32, 2:32:33]: The downtown area. [2:32:33, 2:32:35]: Is in the district. [2:32:35, 2:32:38]: That I am duly elected to represent. [2:32:38, 2:32:39]: I respect [2:32:39, 2:32:41]: The council's decision [2:32:41, 2:32:43]: To table this item. [2:32:43, 2:32:44]: Until the beginning of the year? [2:32:45, 2:32:48]: But I wanted to add those comments for the record. [2:32:49, 2:32:55]: Because it was not um a request by me. [2:32:56, 2:33:00]: to be appointed as a council liaison. [2:33:00, 2:33:01]: That recommendation. [2:33:01, 2:33:03]: Came from the main street. [2:33:03, 2:33:04]: Advisory board. [2:33:05, 2:33:07]: They made that recommendation just [2:33:07, 2:33:09]: I don't know, it's last month. [2:33:09, 2:33:11]: When they came before the council. [2:33:11, 2:33:14]: So I wanted to add those comments and notes. [2:33:15, 2:33:15]: For the record. [2:33:16, 2:33:16]: Thank you, sir. [2:33:17, 2:33:27]: All right, you're welcome. So otherwise the motion is already made second and seconded. So I would I all favor the motion to table this and I've already did that. It was three votes for, three votes for, and your vote was to [2:33:28, 2:33:48]: I will abstain. Mayor, if I may, real quick. Just just for the record, the the protocol hadn't uh not only that, my my decisions are uh based off of the policies and the protocols of the way things are to be done based off the main street policy was not adhered to. That's [2:33:48, 2:33:56]: that I n for the record there were several steps. There are several steps that are to be taken and they were had not been adhered to. [2:33:58, 2:34:08]: That's what I need to state, not anything else. Just it it was a black and white, there are steps and policies and procedures and they have not been adhered to. [2:34:09, 2:34:29]: Motion passed 301. On that note, uh the announcements of upcoming events. Uh let's see here. Stockbridge Citizens Police Advisory Council, first Thursday of each month in Stockbridge Police Department Community Room at 6 p.m. on October 2nd. Uh youth council meeting first Monday of each month. [2:34:29, 2:34:49]: Levi Meeting Room at 6:30, October 6th. The community zoning and information meeting Wednesday, October 8th, at City Hall and Council Chambers at 6 p.m. Main Street Advisory Board meeting second Friday of each month at 9 a.m. at Downtown Connection Center, 1.30 ML King Senior Heritage Trail, October 10th. [2:34:49, 2:35:09]: City Council meeting second Monday of each month, City Council Chambers, October 13th. Citywide Development Authority meeting second Tuesday of each month, 6 p.m. City Hall, Levi Meeting Room, October 14th. Youth Council Advisory Committee meeting date change Thursda third Thursday of each month 6:30 p.m. City Hall Levi Meeting Room. [2:35:09, 2:35:12]: [9312.5, 9332.5]: Planning Commission meeting Thursday, October 16th at 6 30 p.m. Sea Hall Council Chambers. The Downtown Development Authority Meeting Board Meeting Third Tuesday of each month, 6 p.m. at Downtown Connection Center, 130 M. L. King Senior Heritage Trail, October 21st. Ethics Board Meeting, Wednesday, October 22nd, Levi Meeting. [2:35:32, 2:35:51]: Meeting room at 6 30. City Council work session meeting last Tuesday of each month, October 28th at 6 p.m. City Hall Council Chambers. Join the city of Stockbridge Police Department for International Coffee. Coffee Coffee Coffee with a COP day. Wednesday, October 1st, at 9 30 a.m. to uh 11 30 a.m. [2:35:52, 2:35:55]: At Starbucks on ten fifty eight Eagles Landing Parkway. [2:35:55, 2:36:15]: Join Mayor Pro Tem Gantt at the Free Line Dancing Class Wednesday, October 1st at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Merrill Manor's Conference Center. Bring your own fan. Haul it to the hall. Bring your household documents to the City Hall parking lot for free shredding on Saturday, October 4th, 8 a.m. to 12 noon. The muscle must be [2:36:15, 2:36:35]: Car show is back. Main Street is hosting this amazing car show on Saturday, October 4th, from noon to 4 p.m. in downtown Stockbridge at 1:30 ML King Senior Heritage Trail. Join us for a live music. Come dress in your vintage outfit and enter the costume contest. All ages are welcome. The 2025 Municipal [2:36:35, 2:36:49]: election forum will take place Tuesday, October seventh, seven p.m. at Merrill Manor's Conference Center. Join Councilman uh Elden Alexander for the District Five Community Cleanup. Yes, sir. Correction. The date's gonna be changed on that to November the eighth. [2:36:49, 2:36:50]: November eighth? Yes. [2:36:51, 2:36:55]: The community cleanup date will be changed to November eighth. [2:36:56, 2:37:00]: And that'd be still from nine A. M. to eleven A. M. So please meet at Costco Parking Lot on Jodica Road. [2:37:01, 2:37:21]: Uh Councilman Berry in partnership uh with the monthly Bingo Bash on Wednesday, October fifteenth, 10 a.m. to twelve noon at Merrill Manos Conference Center. Lots of fun to be had by all. Join the city of Stockbridge for the annual breast cancer love walk, Saturday, October 18th from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Clark Park. [2:37:21, 2:37:41]: More information, contact the events department at events at stopbridgega.org. Join Mayor Potem Gamp for the free annual fall festival on Saturday, October 25th at Clark Park with candy, food trucks, games, costume contests, prizes, and more. Join Mayor Ford, Anthony Ford for the monthly Meet the Man. [2:37:41, 2:37:45]: Monday, October twenty seventh, ten A. M. to twelve noon, the city hall. [2:37:45, 2:38:05]: And meetings are by appointment. Starbury's Main Street is housting, hosting a diabetes awareness walk and health fair on th Saturday, November 1st. Registration begins at 7.30 a.m. The 5K walk will begin at 8.30 at Clark Park. The health fair will take place at 10 a.m. from uh noon at various locations throughout the park. [2:38:05, 2:38:25]: Whether permitting, or at Merle Manders Conference Center lower level. And the Economic Development Department hosts a free business health clinic on the second Thursday of each month from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. The Stockbridge Connection Center 130 ML King Senior Heritage Trail. Check your health and of your business with a free clinic. [2:38:25, 2:38:45]: Uh Councilman Thomas is honoring veterans with a continued salute all year long. Please send your pictures of veterans, their name, branch, rank, and years of service. And let's see, sign up for a real-time alerts about severe weather, rolls closure, roll closures and emergencies on Regroup app. Visit the city's website or social media. [2:38:45, 2:39:05]: Media pages for more information on how and where to sign up. Stay safe. Please contact Rosland Rawls, his schedule appointment for Meet the Mayor. And for more information on council initiatives 678-833-3348 or by way of email, rawls at stoppers G.org. And a 25-2025 council season. [2:39:05, 2:39:25]: Season comes to the end on Saturday, October 18th, with Detroit Gospel Legends featuring Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin, Anthony Brown, Vanessa Bell, Armstrong, Lisa Page Brooks, Calvin Wynans, and Brian Cage. And this is the fall, ladies and gentlemen. Flu shots, get your health in check for the winter months. Enjoy your [2:39:25, 2:39:45]: football season and your favorite team and uh have a fantastic and great safe hollow uh Halloween at the end of the month. On that note um council I need a motion to end our meeting tonight. So moved. Is there a second? I second. Okay from Mr. Alexander and Miss Kent. All favor please indicate announced decision. Good night everybody [2:39:45, 2:39:45]: And God bless you. [2:39:46, 2:39:47]: Look at those legs. [2:39:48, 2:39:49]: