2022-08-30 · City Council · Transcript · Work Session Meeting

--- title: Work Session Meeting date: 2022-08-30 source: 2022-08-30_Work_Session_Meeting.wav --- [0:00:00, 0:00:01]: Alright, okay. [0:00:13, 0:00:22]: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna start our uh work session this evening. I have six oh three. It's Tuesday, August 30th, and I'm on call to meeting to order. [0:00:23, 0:00:31]: Invocation tonight will be done by Miss Armenta Jones. Miss Jones, please come forward and give us invocation. And ladies and gentlemen, if you can, please stand. [0:00:44, 0:00:45]: And there's just one. [0:00:54, 0:00:55]: Nice city. [0:01:17, 0:01:19]: Amen. Thank you. [0:01:21, 0:01:33]: To the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [0:01:35, 0:01:37]: Madam Clerk Rocall, please. [0:01:44, 0:01:44]: Present. [0:01:46, 0:01:47]: President [0:01:49, 0:01:49]: Present. [0:01:51, 0:01:51]: Present. [0:01:53, 0:01:53]: Right. [0:01:54, 0:01:55]: Present. [0:01:56, 0:02:00]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Uh council, I need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. [0:02:01, 0:02:07]: So moved. All right, is there a second? Second. Thank you very much. All in favor, please indicate. [0:02:08, 0:02:26]: All right, you now decision all night. So please review the minutes. You have the council meeting draft minutes from July eleventh and also the d uh work session draft minutes from July twenty sixth. Uh so review those and we'll approve those at our next council meeting, which is set for the September twelfth. Madam Clerk, any uh public comments tonight? [0:02:27, 0:02:37]: Okay, fantastic. And then we'll go on to presentation. So FY twenty twenty one audit report presented by Ms. Hope Pendergrass from Malden and Jenkins. [0:02:38, 0:02:39]: Good evening to you. [0:02:45, 0:02:48]: Good evening. How are y'all doing? Oh we're fine. [0:02:48, 0:02:53]: Um, I don't know, did you wanna pull up the attachments that were with the agenda or [0:02:54, 0:02:58]: No. Uh yes we can say it right. Okay. [0:03:04, 0:03:07]: Or if you could pull them up here, I can drive. [0:03:13, 0:03:16]: You want me to do them here? Okay. [0:03:23, 0:03:32]: No, I I didn't do a PowerPoint since we were gonna be in person. I didn't know what the setup was gonna be, so I was just gonna go through the um [0:03:32, 0:03:35]: Briefly through the attachments. [0:03:50, 0:03:51]: Yeah. [0:03:53, 0:04:04]: Oh yeah, sure. We can go ahead and go over it. So I don't know if um y'all have had an opportunity to look at the documents that were attached to the agenda in advance, but I'll give you a kind of the um [0:04:05, 0:04:10]: three to five minute condensed version and then I'll be happy to entertain any questions that you have. [0:04:10, 0:04:11]: Um [0:04:11, 0:04:30]: Th the the most important thing that I want to point out is that you all did receive what's called an unmodified opinion. That's a clean opinion. That's the best that you can get. So cadul congratulations on that. And that pretty much just indicates that it through our audit we ascertained that you all's um financial statements were materially correct. [0:04:31, 0:04:39]: So um kudos to management and the board for supporting their endeavors in in in having such a a clean set of books for us to audit. [0:04:39, 0:04:59]: Um also one of the things that's new for this year that's reflected in your audit is the outstanding bonds, which you all issued bonds through the PFA to do some of your projects like this nice amphitheater that I had not had a chance to see yet. That's nice. Um and then some of the other things that you did. Um you still remain in a strong cash position. [0:05:00, 0:05:20]: Um, you know, in previous years when I come to speak to you all, you had in excess as far as your fund balance and reserves, in excess of more than one year of operations, which was even more um interesting considering the fact that you all do not have property tax. So it's not very many communities that we go to that have such a strong [0:05:20, 0:05:39]: position considering the fact that you don't have property tax. But that has been diminished somewhat. You're still right around a whole year's worth of operations and reserves. But some of that did get diminished because you used that to invest in your facilities. So that was that was kind of expected, I guess you could say. [0:05:39, 0:05:59]: Um, we did um also take the opportunity this year to um move the activities of the Merlmanders Conference Center and the Ted Strickland Community Center into the general fund. So now that'll show up as a department to just better reflect um those operations because in the past the general fund was having [0:05:59, 0:06:10]: having to kind of subsidize those operations and I believe now you're not even you the Ted Strickland Center is um no longer something that you're renting out, correct? It'll be turned into the wealth [0:06:11, 0:06:12]: Okay. [0:06:12, 0:06:15]: So we just moved that activity into the general fund. [0:06:16, 0:06:19]: Um, okay, let's go through now that we have this pulled up. [0:06:21, 0:06:22]: Just go through this briefly. [0:06:23, 0:06:31]: What I've already kind of skipped over. We got this um outerge discussion and analysis just gives you a little background and kind of a summary level on the report. [0:06:33, 0:06:42]: So I'm gonna skip down to some of the the the graphs here. So this will see like your revenues and where they came from. So the majority of [0:06:42, 0:06:44]: Um your revenues. [0:06:44, 0:06:51]: do come through things like franchise taxes, other taxes, um some transfers in. [0:06:51, 0:07:00]: And then you know your expenditures, your biggest part of your expenditures this year was transfers out because you were moving some money over to do some of your capital projects. [0:07:01, 0:07:03]: And then your general government is gonna be like your [0:07:04, 0:07:09]: um council, your administrative functions, your finance function, all of that. [0:07:09, 0:07:13]: And then public works would be the next biggest piece. So [0:07:14, 0:07:20]: Um as far as like a trend analysis here, this just kind of shows where your revenues and your expenditures were. [0:07:21, 0:07:36]: um from a five year history. You know, the green is kind of your revenues, which were kind of outpacing your expenditures. And in the past two years y'all have had more expenditures as you've used some of your fund balance that you'd accumulated on some of your um other endeavors and initiatives. [0:07:39, 0:07:45]: And then you this is kind of a history of your fund balance. Um, this is your change in fund balance. So [0:07:45, 0:08:05]: Um, going back to 2017, you had about$2.6 million that you added to fund balance, and then this past year you used about a million dollars. So that's kind of how that analysis works. And then as you can see, as I alluded to earlier, this is kind of your historical fund balance in comparison to your annual expenditure. [0:08:05, 0:08:25]: So going back to 17, you had about 18.6 million in fund balance, but you only had about 7.6 in expenditures. And if you remember during that time, that was around the time that you were you were kind of in a position where you weren't really sure what the future was going to bring. So you were kind of holding on to some of your resources, trying to [0:08:25, 0:08:42]: So that you were in a good position going forward. And then after um you kind of had a path forward, then you started doing some of your initiatives and that fund balance has been decreasing some as your expenditures and your transfers out are increasing. So that's diverging a little bit more than it had in the past. [0:08:45, 0:09:00]: Um and this is just kind of an analysis. I feel like I've included this every year, but like going back to two thousand seventeen, you had over two hundred percent in reserves as compared to your annual expenditures. And then this past year, like I said, you only had about a hundred percent, which again [0:09:00, 0:09:20]: A lot of the communities that we work with, you know, might only have five or six weeks of reserve or two or three months of reserves. So y'all are in an excellent position having a whole year's own reserves. And remember, this is a twelve as of twelve thirty-one-21. So we haven't had an opportunity to look and see what's happened in the past eight months. So it could be [0:09:20, 0:09:24]: I'm not really sure where y'all are at this point. Um [0:09:29, 0:09:38]: And then we talk a little bit about some of your smaller funds, your special revenue funds. As far as your business type funds, you know, now we're pretty much left with your water fund, which is your biggest fund. [0:09:39, 0:09:48]: And then you have storm water and um solid waste. And so we've kinda gone into a little bit of a discussion here on that. Those funds are doing well. [0:09:49, 0:09:51]: Um you have positive cash flows. [0:09:52, 0:09:54]: From operations [0:09:54, 0:10:03]: And that's what you wanna see in a business type, enterprise type activity that you're you know, you have positive cash flows, you're bringing in more money than you're sending out. So [0:10:07, 0:10:20]: Um the footnotes that are in here, I always tell people that's good beside the table reading if you can't fall asleep. Um but the footnotes are included in your financial report to support the numbers and just give you a little bit more information. [0:10:22, 0:10:26]: Skipping down to some of our rep recommendations. [0:10:27, 0:10:27]: Um [0:10:29, 0:10:36]: We did have a couple of findings. These relate to the way things were recorded in the general ledger. It doesn't have anything to do with um [0:10:37, 0:10:52]: You know, we didn't really see anything that we thought was something going on that was that was significantly wrong. It's just anytime we have to make an audit adjustment, we have to report it. So these items have been discussed with management and I feel like they are easily um remedied in the coming year. [0:10:53, 0:11:05]: And as in prior years, we had a couple of recommendations. These aren't things that have elevated to the level of a finding, but just things that we recommend that can be improved as far as policies and processes going forward. [0:11:05, 0:11:18]: And then the last little section here just talks about some of the upcoming GASBY standards. GASBY is the regulatory entity that regulates and provides guidance on how you account for government finances, and they are very busy. [0:11:18, 0:11:34]: Um and so they are always kind of changing how things um might need to be reported. And so we always try to include in our communication information about those upcoming changes so that management and the board can consider those as they make decisions going forward. [0:11:34, 0:11:48]: So that's just kind of a high level um synopsis of the audit from last year and I'll be happy to entertain any questions that anyone has. Well we'll appreciate the briefing here. Uh would imagine like for me, I guess the bottom line is we're in good financial standing. [0:11:48, 0:11:53]: Yes, sir. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you. Questions? Sir. Go ahead, Mr. Alexander. [0:11:53, 0:12:13]: Yes, thank you for the excellent report. You know, I just want to take a snapshot and say kudos to everybody up here and understanding that fiscally this city is sound, solid as a rock. So the things that I want to uh go over, I saw I was looking at that, and uh we received the American Rescue Plan for [0:12:13, 0:12:33]: So talk about the the fund balances in these various accounts. I want the citizens to actually hear what these balances are so they can understand uh that what what makes this city so financially sound. So which particular fund do you want to do that? Well the total fund balance, the water sewer fund. [0:12:33, 0:12:48]: Fund balance, those kind of things, how to kind of hit those stormware, those things that with the various band balances, enterprise fund, that kind of thing. So folks understand it's just not one area that the city is strong in. It's really across the board. Yeah. Okay. [0:12:51, 0:12:53]: Pardon me for a moment while I get to that spot. [0:12:54, 0:13:01]: Thank you. Um the general fund is the one that I was mainly talking about as far as your fund balance and the general fund is kind of the heartbeat fund. [0:13:01, 0:13:16]: of the any particular governmental organization. The other funds are normally earmock funds for specific projects, you know, have SPLOSS funds that can only be used for funds that are approved by the voters or you have a hotel motel fund that [0:13:16, 0:13:27]: you know, those funds can only be used for a specific purpose. Whereas your general fund is, like I said, it's kind of the heartbeat as far as that's the fund that most of your activity is gonna flow through. [0:13:29, 0:13:32]: So the general fund, like I said, um [0:13:35, 0:13:40]: It had about thirteen point five million I'm gonna see if I can make this a little bit bigger. [0:13:43, 0:13:48]: Okay, so on this page you have all the different funds and um [0:13:51, 0:14:11]: You'll see that your cash balance there in the general fund is about$13.5 million. And then you had some franchise taxes that were receivable of about$1.9. So that makes up the majority of your liquid assets. And then if you scroll down here, your total fund balance is in the general fund, which some of that was already earmarked for projects that you had already. [0:14:11, 0:14:18]: already kind of had purchase orders for. Um but you had a total fund balance at twelve thirty one of sixteen million. [0:14:18, 0:14:38]: So Okay, that's what I want to hit on right there, because I want to hit on the high points for the citizens to understand. Now you made some very poignant um uh d uh discussions or uh points in the uh discussion that you were moving forward. Now you do how many sit how many cities do you all audit here in the state of [0:14:38, 0:14:40]: Um [0:14:42, 0:14:52]: In the state of Georgia, we're probably up to at least a hundred and twenty five cities. We audit over six hundred and fifty governmental entities throughout the southeast. That's twelve offices in five states. [0:14:52, 0:14:58]: How how many of them would you say have a hundred or ninety nine percent fund balance? [0:14:59, 0:15:00]: Not very many. [0:15:02, 0:15:22]: Right. So that the the it's it's definitely a good thing to point out. I mean, I I would say less than a handful. Um most of'em, as I said before, um have six weeks, three, four months. Six months would be an outlier, twelve months is definitely the exception. Yeah, because I think with Georgia Manure [0:15:22, 0:15:26]: municipal association they indicate and I think Henry County has this policy too. [0:15:26, 0:15:34]: That their target is a twenty five or thirty percent fund balance. That's a good number. So if you're sitting at ninety nine or a hundred. [0:15:34, 0:15:54]: Let's everybody understand that is way over what the uh threshold is. And sometimes I would argue that the city could have spent more money in upkeep, and that's what this board has endeavored to do, to spend more money into the things that the citizens want, like the amphitheater, the culture arts center, uh, the various improvements in the city. So the money has been well spent. [0:15:54, 0:16:01]: Spent. Now there was another category that we received nine million plus dollars in American Rescue Plan funds. Is that correct? [0:16:01, 0:16:20]: Yes, sir. I do want to go back to the general fund if I may, just a moment. Is that okay? Okay, sure. Um, so one thing that you do wanna consider here when you're looking at fund balance is you have two point two million dollars of assets held for resale. Now, if if you remember back a few years ago, y'all had some assets that were transferred to the D DA and then they came back. [0:16:21, 0:16:41]: Um, so some of your fund balance is tied up in property. Another thing to point out is you have almost eight million that was already obligated out for like y'all had already signed had purchase orders for that at twelve thirty-one. So you had about five point eight million dollars that was really like this is the liquid that we could spend on other things. [0:16:41, 0:16:42]: [1003.0, 1003.8]: Um [0:16:44, 0:17:04]: We haven't already said we're gonna s like determine how we're gonna spend that. So when you think about five point eight million as compared to annual expenditures or ten point five, that ninety nine does go down a little bit. Right. Interestingly you say that because I think uh the treasurer keeps a month to month balance. Is that right, Mr Mr. Wiggins? [0:17:04, 0:17:07]: That's correct. And what's that month to month balance as current with? [0:17:07, 0:17:11]: Right now the fund balance is at uh about thirteen million. [0:17:11, 0:17:31]: Okay. So we're moving printing as we're spending and we're going along, we're moving along, we're investing in what we got going on. So pretty much that number has pretty much it's still above maybe uh at a very good point and s certain significantly above the twenty five percent threshold, which I think some of that would be a good point. [0:17:31, 0:17:51]: And as you said, there's many cities out there that might have, you know, two or three months. And I'm my own personal philosophy pretty much is listen, it's not our job to put the citizens bank and the money in the bank. And and to I'm not that's not our job. Our job is to make those make that work. And if there's a over situation where that money is being spent [0:17:51, 0:18:03]: then certainly there would be to need to be returned to the taxpayers because it's their money. It's not our job to keep it in the bank. That's a point personal point of privilege for myself as I go along with that. [0:18:03, 0:18:23]: Another thing to consider too is this information you'll see this says balance sheet as of twelve thirty one twenty one. This is good for one day in time. So like the next day you got more money and you spent more money. So this these numbers will change every day. We just only audit them as we pick a day and y'all have picked 1231. When you're pointing out and talking about other cities too. [0:18:23, 0:18:29]: Two, you know, y'all are in the unique position that you're you're twelve thirty one year in, which [0:18:29, 0:18:33]: The majority of governments in Georgia are a six thirty year in. [0:18:33, 0:18:42]: Um and so if you think about the life cycle of property taxes, which y'all don't have property taxes, but as residents of Henry County you're paying property taxes. [0:18:43, 0:19:00]: When do property tax bills go out? They go out September, October time frame, right? So at June 30th, your usual city is at its leanest time of year. So when they only have two or three months worth of fund balance, it's also at their leanest time of year. You although [0:19:00, 0:19:05]: W you don't have property tax, so you don't really have that cyclical part to it. [0:19:06, 0:19:17]: Other than, you know, you have some franchise taxpayers that might only pay once a year, that's a a large amount. Your insurance premium tax only comes in once a year. So there is some cyclical [0:19:18, 0:19:27]: Um, it's not like your revenue comes in all even all twelve months, kinda like your expenditures somewhat are even all twelve months. You do have some special things that [0:19:27, 0:19:33]: that come in during the year. So it's important to remember that this is one day in time and that when you're comparing [0:19:34, 0:19:40]: city to city to city, you also have to consider their year ends and what they have going on. So [0:19:41, 0:19:42]: Um [0:19:42, 0:19:47]: You wanna talk about the ARPA fund? The different funds that that's Okay. Yeah. [0:19:47, 0:19:49]: So um [0:19:49, 0:20:09]: You got a significant um it's not a grant. They they keep saying it's not a grant, but funding under ARPA that's called the coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery fund. Um that is recorded here in this separate fund. You got about five million dollars in 2021, and then have y'all gotten the other five [0:20:09, 0:20:11]: Five million dollars. [0:20:11, 0:20:13]: Okay, so you got um two [0:20:14, 0:20:17]: buckets of money, I guess. They went ahead and and [0:20:17, 0:20:33]: And that was the amount that y'all earn based on your population. And so as of twelve thirty one, the majority of that had not been spent. And so if you if you go over here to the income statement, y'all had only spent about one point three million. So [0:20:33, 0:20:51]: Yeah, we we we we start we we have a police department now, so it really came in in handy. So yeah. And and I think that was what it was intended to do was to provide an influx of cash to a lot of entities that maybe had some projects or some initiatives that they had been putting off. [0:20:51, 0:20:52]: Um [0:20:52, 0:21:06]: And then you have your public facilities authority. So that was the includes the proceeds of the bonds that you issued. You know, most of all the bonds were issued at the same time, but you're doing the projects in kind of a sequential order. So that money is there, that's the bond proceeds. [0:21:07, 0:21:12]: Um and then you have SWAS five, which is the special purpose local options sales tax fund. [0:21:13, 0:21:16]: Um and so that's the cash that was on hand. [0:21:16, 0:21:36]: for that. And then you have your citywide capital projects fund, which is where you actually incur your expense to do some of those projects that you've um been wanting to do. And then the the next column is an aggregate column and that includes some of your other SPOSS funds that aren't in the current collection phase that y'all still had money. [0:21:37, 0:21:46]: Um as of twelve thirty one left to be spent and then things like the hotel motel fund, which that pretty much everything that comes in goes out. [0:21:47, 0:22:03]: Did that adequately address your question? Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate that. And I guess next year, Mr Wiggins, we'll have a line for T Splots, which and millions more will be coming in. Do you have a balance on what the T Splots have been taken in? Or or what has been taken in monthly? [0:22:03, 0:22:18]: Right now we've gotten statements in, but uh we still are dealing with truest on trying to establish a count number, which that's gonna happen in uh uh in a week or two. But right now our funds are over a million for T Swatch right here. So it's coming. [0:22:18, 0:22:23]: Okay. Over a million or this was over a million right now. Okay. Thank you. [0:22:23, 0:22:24]: Any other questions? [0:22:27, 0:22:33]: All right. Thank you, Miss Pendergrass. Appreciate that. Yes, sir. Thank y'all so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. [0:22:33, 0:22:38]: All right, what next is Masters uh Parks Masters Plan Update. Uh Heather Hubble. [0:22:48, 0:23:02]: Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. Uh tonight TSW will be g providing an update on the city's parks master plan. This has been an ongoing project for approximately about six months, so it's time to get an update on where we are with the plan. [0:23:03, 0:23:04]: All right. Thank you very much. [0:23:08, 0:23:08]: Mm-hmm. [0:23:10, 0:23:17]: Yes. Give us a sec, we're gonna pull up our presentation. While while Beverly's doing that, um [0:23:17, 0:23:37]: Good evening. So good to be back here in person, uh finally. Um I'm Brian Baze with TSW. This is uh Beverly Bell, uh the project manager for the project. Heather Hubble's here uh as well. Um we've uh as as Desh just uh mentioned, we've been working hard. [0:23:37, 0:23:51]: uh for the past six months, uh doing diligence for the project and really pulling together all the information analysis that that we need to to get to the next steps of the project. [0:23:51, 0:24:11]: Um and I'm gonna talk a little bit about the agenda. So we have a writ there's a lot of information here. We only have about 15 minutes to actually cover this portion of it. And then obviously we're gonna have questions and answers uh after that if we need to go back to an area uh and uh deep dive in it. Uh glad to do that. Um [0:24:11, 0:24:31]: We're gonna talk about the just a brief on the project background. We're gonna talk a little bit about what we heard from the public, uh, both uh at uh some pop-up events we had, uh some surveys that we did, um, and then we've also had some. [0:24:31, 0:24:51]: Some small group meetings as well. And then we also are gonna talk a little bit about our analysis, but most importantly, the start item on here, programming opportunities, is what we really wanna get into, which is where we've kind of outlined some opportunities at the existing parks. [0:24:51, 0:25:05]: uh which I know everybody's eager to kind of hear about. And then also uh we've uh we're gonna talk a little bit about um what is needed for some new parks uh and how much parkland uh is gonna be needed. So [0:25:07, 0:25:10]: And I'm gonna let Beverly dive in here. [0:25:10, 0:25:17]: Yep, again, I'm Beverly. Thank you for having us tonight to talk about the project. I'm gonna start off with the project background. [0:25:18, 0:25:27]: So, for an introduction of what this project is about, we are analyzing the parks, park facilities, and trails owned and maintained by the City of Stockbridge. [0:25:27, 0:25:39]: We are creating a park sister system plan for the next 10 years to accommodate the growing population. We are accounting for annexation in our numbers of population for this report. [0:25:39, 0:25:54]: We are creating conceptual designs for existing parks and potential new parks discovered during this process that we need in Stockbridge. And we will be creating an implementation plan and operations and maintenance plan to ensure that these are this is a buildable plan. [0:25:57, 0:26:14]: So there are currently six city parks in Stockbridge. You have Clark Community Park, Gardner Park, Memorial Park, Municipal Park, Reeves Creek Trail and Trailhead, and Unity Monument Park. The circles generally show the areas where these parks are concentrated on this map. [0:26:19, 0:26:39]: There are also nearby Henry County parks that are outside of the scope of this project, but we feel it's important to take note. JP Moseley Park, Cochrane Park, Mickey D. Cochrane Park, and Pates Nature Preserve. So the total acreage of all these parks is 214 acres. As you'll see in a few slides, we've done some calculations. [0:26:39, 0:26:52]: on where gaps in service are. We accounted for these, this acreage and those numbers, but just want to make note that as a part of this study, we won't be making any changes or recommendations to county parks, only city parks. [0:26:52, 0:26:53]: Good. [0:26:55, 0:27:00]: So next we're gonna look at the gaps in service that we've been taking a look at. [0:27:01, 0:27:21]: Starting with national benchmarks. So we looked at all this all the parkland and the park elements within each park and compared that to the national averages of other parks, park agencies in similar size communities. Um and we found that typically for an agency of this size. [0:27:21, 0:27:41]: It would have, according to national averages, 9.8 acres per thousand residents. And Stockbridge currently has 1.2 acres of parkland. So it is below the national averages. And then in terms of park elements, all the sports fields categories such as basketball courts or playgrounds or tennis courts. [0:27:41, 0:27:49]: Those are below the median. Dog parks are right at that median, and above the median are amphitheaters. [0:27:49, 0:27:50]: Okay. [0:27:50, 0:27:51]: Okay. [0:27:55, 0:28:15]: Some more statistics we saw were that 10% of Stockbridge residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park, and that park can be of any size versus 55% of the national median, and only 1% of Stockbridge land area is used for parks and recreation versus 15% of the national median. [0:28:15, 0:28:22]: So through all these calculations are showing that there is a gap that we need to fill currently as we move forward with this plan. [0:28:25, 0:28:45]: We also looked at access. We looked at both driving access and then also walking access. So we we as a part of our uh our research and public input, we did a survey and that indicated that residents would travel 10 to 20 minutes to a larger park or a unique experience. Um and then as you're looking, as this [0:28:45, 0:28:56]: map that we created with data, we the orange colors that shows five minute walking routes, the like dark orange, and that shows the gradient up to the 20 minute walk. [0:28:57, 0:29:15]: And then the purple shows the dark purple five minute drive to parks up to the lighter purple, which is fifteen to twenty-minute drive. So you can see that a five-minute drive covers most of the city and almost all of Stockbridge is served by parks within a 15-20 minute drive. [0:29:16, 0:29:26]: So as we get into walking, that's really where we need to start thinking about how we can provide more access since driving is pretty well, well covered. [0:29:26, 0:29:43]: And so yeah, the five, ten, twenty minute walks illustrate that parks are not walkable to most residents in Stockbridge. Um and if that we wanna th start thinking about proposed trails to increase um this, but also new parks and areas so that people are able to walk to more parks. [0:29:52, 0:30:00]: And so as we start to think about, you know, that there are these gaps, that we need more parkland in Stockbridge, um, some numbers that we've calculated. [0:30:01, 0:30:21]: Is that today if we're looking at just the current population and also including that we're looking at both city parks and county parkland, since they're your citizens are using both, um, the city currently needs thirty acres of new parkland. If we consider the annexed population today, we would need ninety-six acres, and we would need [0:30:21, 0:30:40]: 6.28 miles of new trails. In 10 years, which is the what we're thinking about with this plan, if we're considering the annex population, we would need 149 additional acres. And that can be that can be broken up into different areas. That doesn't mean one big park, it can be several smaller sized parks of various sizes. [0:30:42, 0:31:02]: So, some future considerations for the new park plan. We're looking at where the parks are clustered right now. The center of the city is very well served right now. That's where the majority of that five-minute walking radius is. And we want to start looking at how better more connections can be made between parks, schools, and other destinations in the city. And then also [0:31:02, 0:31:09]: thinking about how possibly school grounds could fill gaps of um for apt active recreation. [0:31:13, 0:31:33]: There's a lot of different there's these c classifications of the sizes of parks. Um we've looked at each of the existing parks and where they fit into the these categories. There's some mini parks, that's the municipal park, uni park, gardener, clark and memorial, those fall into neighborhood parks, and really where we're starting to see the [0:31:33, 0:31:53]: The gaps here are with the community park size, which is 20 to 75 acres, the regional park size 50 to 250, and also some gaps with the natural resource areas that can vary. Those are areas with natural, historic, or cultural resources. So as we're starting to think about the new parks, we're starting to think about the sizes. [0:31:53, 0:31:58]: Um how much acreage and then also the type of park and how in the areas of town. [0:31:58, 0:32:01]: that um we could create better connections. [0:32:04, 0:32:24]: We want to briefly highlight the public outreach that we've done so far and what we've heard. So far, we've had multiple steering committee meetings, we've had stakeholder interviews, we've had a public kickoff meeting, we had an amazing uh pop-up event at Tasty Tuesday in July. We had great turnout, a ton of feedback. Um then [0:32:24, 0:32:33]: We've also had two online activities to complement those in-person activities, and then a statistically valid survey that we kept open for several months. [0:32:35, 0:32:42]: Overview of what we've heard, the big ideas are Clark Community Park is the most popular park. That's because of [0:32:42, 0:32:54]: There's events that go on there, there's event great event space, um, the size of it, there's a a lot of different activities, there's playgrounds there. Um some of the reasons we've heard that are [0:32:54, 0:32:56]: that inhibit park use are [0:32:56, 0:33:04]: There's just not the features that people want to use there. They don't feel safe at the parks or trails, or they're just not aware of that park and trail location. [0:33:05, 0:33:07]: Some of the things that people want to see. [0:33:07, 0:33:21]: are walking trails both within the park and connecting parks, public arts, sports courts, community gardens, an aquatic center, splash pad, restroom, security improvements, and educational signage. [0:33:24, 0:33:29]: So next we're gonna jump into programming opportunities for each of the individual parks. [0:33:30, 0:33:49]: And this up these opportunities, this is a combination of what uh synthesis of what we've heard from the public, um, our analysis, what we've seen um based on some of those gaps that I described earlier, and also just our um outlook on each of the parts individually. [0:33:50, 0:34:10]: It's important to know this isn't necessarily a list of everything that we're saying should go in the park. This is a comprehensive list of things that could go in the park. And one of the things that that we're kind of looking for is a little bit of feedback on uh you know either things that are non-starters. [0:34:10, 0:34:16]: that are on this list or things that are, you know, you know, really high on the on the kind of want or need list. [0:34:18, 0:34:38]: So for Clark Community Park, adding pickleball and tennis gall court tennis ball court, tennis courts, uh splash pad, and we know that there's a splash pad already proposed in this location nearby. Um we've heard that there's some uh we had some discussion about that not too long ago. I'm I'm talking. I got it. [0:34:38, 0:34:58]: Discussion about it not too long ago, and I think the consensus of the council is that we want a splash plan, but the location that you originally thought was not the right location right outside the amphitheater as a general consensus and recommendation, one of the recommendations anyway was potentially Clark Park in that aspect as well. But uh, I mean the council's here, they hear that, so they can. [0:34:58, 0:35:18]: Can expound on that if they like, but uh that is that is uh the the last consensus that I I observed in this aspect. Okay. Yep. So we've thought we've made some recommendations on a couple of these other parks, so we think it would also be helpful and we'd love to get your input on that. Right. Um educational signage, uh restoring the stream, rebuilding the bridges. [0:35:18, 0:35:38]: Adding lighting along the trails, assessing drainage and improving stormwater through the park, improving the playground components, adding public park, resurfacing that parking lot, improving the pedestrian connections to Gardner Park and the surrounding area, improving the dog park, adding a community garden, and adding a variety of [0:35:37, 0:35:39]: of pavilion sizes. [0:35:40, 0:35:46]: Okay. So you want additional feedback right now? That'll come a little later in in the in this meeting or some other type uh t time. [0:35:46, 0:35:59]: Um if I it might be best if we just get through basically we have one of these slides for each park and then when we go to questions, we want to go back to each park and kind of look at it. That'd be fine best way to do it. Go ahead, please. Okay. [0:36:04, 0:36:24]: All right, Gardner Park. So expanding the park to the south, that would be over here. Um, improving connectivity within the park, improving pedestrian connections to Cochrane Park and the surrounding area, assessing the drainage, improving stormwater management in this park as well, also restoring the stream, fixing and replacing the bridge, adding a new playground. [0:36:24, 0:36:25]: Yeah. [0:36:25, 0:36:45]: Adding signage and wayfinding to better identify this park, adding benches along the trail, resurfacing the parking lot, adding ADA parking spaces and accessible paths throughout the park. If we did allocate this property over here, that would be a good spot for possibly adding additional parking and more accessible trails. [0:36:45, 0:36:45]: Yeah. [0:36:52, 0:37:12]: Memorial Park. Um so we're thinking maybe you could relocate the transfer station, add a new park entrance on that side. Um we know that we've heard from people that a lot this is one of the parks that a lot of people don't know how to that this exists or they have a hard time finding this park. So having a new entrance on that on MLK MLK senior. [0:37:12, 0:37:15]: your heritage trail that could provide better frontage. Um [0:37:16, 0:37:23]: You have the parking, have the direct trail connection to Rees Creek Trail, have a trailhead there and the dog park there. [0:37:23, 0:37:42]: Um and then also improving the pedestrian connections to the surrounding area and improving the wayfinding signage to the park, again making sure that people know how to get here and can get here easily, and then adding interpretive signage along MLK Senior Trail, make it add some more celebratory signage and [0:37:42, 0:38:02]: Um wayfinding and then improve internal ADA circulation and access. So that's at within the park, making sure everyone can get to every component. And then adding shade features. It's pretty hot out there. We've heard people want to see more trees or shade structures, adding public art, add community garden. [0:38:02, 0:38:02]: Yeah. [0:38:03, 0:38:23]: This also this park also has drainage issues, so figuring out some kind of central better management of the stormwater, adding benches along the trails, adding a variety of pavilions. That means also adding some smaller pavilions where smaller groups can rent and gather rather than just the bigger ones. [0:38:23, 0:38:36]: ones, improving the existing basketball courts, and then also possibly adding another court. And then this is another location for a splash pad that could happen, and then updating and improving the rest restrooms here. [0:38:41, 0:39:01]: And then for Reeves Creek Trailhead, uh, this one's a bit more straightforward. Uh adding shade around the exercise equipment and above to make it more usable during the really hot summers we're having, adding bathrooms, adding signage and wayfinding an informational kiosk, especially giving information about the trail, and then adding public. [0:39:01, 0:39:01]: Like art. [0:39:08, 0:39:28]: For Unity Monument Park. We haven't thought of a this is a pretty complete uh park. We are looking for a little bit of input on this. One thing we've heard is just adding TV informational screens that could advertise about community events. For municipal park, we know that the streetscape project is happening right now. [0:39:28, 0:39:38]: And we aren't quite sure about we're still have some questions, so that's a bit to be determined based on what's happening with the streetscape project in terms of opportunities for that that park. [0:39:41, 0:40:01]: And then for the new parkland, again, that can be could be multiple sites or it could be in a variety of sizes, but for those new locations, we're thinking again emphasizing on the neighborhood scale or the community scale, regional scale, or natural, and then the natural resources areas. [0:40:01, 0:40:08]: Prioritizing those locations outside of the current service areas that are maximized that maximize the number of residents within a 20-minute walk of the park. [0:40:10, 0:40:30]: The ideas that we've uh heard for the new park land, so basketball court, again, a lot of what the gaps were that we saw were a lot of those sports courts. Um, so basketball court, tennis court, pickleball, skate park, football fields, soccer fields, baseball fields, softball fields, playgrounds, public art, adventure zone, multi-use. [0:40:30, 0:40:45]: used trails, rock climbing wall, food vendor space such as for food trucks, multi-use trails, picnic pavilions, open lawn, event space, and that could be rental for events like weddings, dog park and natural areas. [0:40:46, 0:41:06]: And I I think as Beverly mentioned earlier, there are a couple of different strategies, you know, that we could use with the new park that I think we really need to think through. But just because of the kind of lay of the land of the city, it's kind of spread out. Um, you know, so one one option would be to just grab one giant park that means [0:41:06, 0:41:26]: meets all the needs. Uh but you you wouldn't solve some of the walkability uh issues that we've identified. Um so you know another strategy would be a few smaller parks strategically placed so that we're kind of spreading service out so that every part of the city has kind of good access. So that's one of the [0:41:26, 0:41:36]: Those are those are a couple of the things that we're gonna be wrestling with as we kind of search for this kind of new park scenario in programming. [0:41:39, 0:41:42]: Okay. Um [0:41:42, 0:41:47]: We can just briefly highlight the next steps and then we can go back to each park and get input if that works. [0:41:48, 0:41:56]: So next steps, so this is where's in the programming phase, we're figuring out what the we're refining what each part should include. [0:41:56, 0:42:08]: Um and what that new park should include. After this, we'll be moving into concept design of each park. We would like to bring those concepts back to your next work session and get another round of feedback. We'll go back to the steering committee. [0:42:08, 0:42:14]: and continue to refine it and then another public input meeting so that we've really gotten a lot of input on the concepts. [0:42:15, 0:42:17]: And then after that we'll move into our action plan and funding. [0:42:18, 0:42:29]: in November, where we're starting to look at the operations and maintenance plan, implement implementation plan, um, grant another funding plan and cost estimates, and be finished in January. [0:42:29, 0:42:49]: All right, fantastic. I would um a couple of things off the top of my head is uh more parks means we have to acqu acquisition and locate some land and for one thing to figure that out. And then we in a previous pr uh conversation a topic came up about T-SPLOST, transportation, special purpose option sales tax right to pass. So part of that uh process would be [0:42:49, 0:43:09]: a trail plan that we have and and that would help connect the communities and the parks of one another for walkability and things of that nature as well. So uh we're looking forward to that as we continue to collect that funds and help out with this whole process. But uh also somehow I think later on in the week we have some other meetings set aside. [0:43:09, 0:43:29]: One on one meetings, is that right? Set aside with you all? So okay, so um I mean so if you want to go back and the council wants to do this, uh we can go back to each one of those and give us a general idea, but I'm pretty sure this will be covered also in those one on one meetings a little later on in the week as well. And we're happy to I mean we can work whichever we want. I mean if anybody has any general comments now we'll [0:43:29, 0:43:49]: want to follow up with additional comments. If anybody has any comments they want to send in writing or email, do that too. And there's a lot of and and we need to this presentation is slightly different than what we turned in in the packet. So we need to reshare it. We just shuffled some information around it. [0:43:49, 0:44:07]: updated a couple numbers on the parkland uh to account for the county parkland uh so we want to make sure that you have uh the best possible information. Um all right so anybody got any thoughts and processes that you want to discuss at this point? Go right ahead sir okay well Mr. Alexander we'll go to Miss Barber next. [0:44:08, 0:44:09]: Go ahead, Ms. Barb. [0:44:11, 0:44:13]: You mentioned um [0:44:14, 0:44:16]: Memorial Park has an option. [0:44:16, 0:44:18]: Uh for a splash pad. Mm-hmm. [0:44:18, 0:44:20]: Where would you suggest we put it? [0:44:21, 0:44:22]: In what area? [0:44:23, 0:44:25]: Have you identified? [0:44:25, 0:44:45]: We so so the next steps uh we're gonna draw we're gonna basically take this program and hopefully call the program down a little bit. There's a lot of program we have here listed as opportunities and we'll apply it to the site. So the next thing that we'll see in this meeting are plans uh and we can walk you through specific. [0:44:45, 0:45:05]: Of where those things might happen. It's a big park. I know there's parking issues there. You know, we talked a little bit about the kind of uh access issues. So I think all of that is connected. Um uh so it's difficult with the current configuration to be like, oh, there's the best place for it. Um, but there, I mean [0:45:05, 0:45:10]: There's definitely room for one out there for sure. Thank you. If that's if that's where you all want to do it. [0:45:12, 0:45:32]: I I think actually that's the other point about the splash parks or splash pad since that's come up in other meetings. Um we've we've identified opportunities in multiple parks for it. Um, you know, you can do one big one, you could do a few small ones if you wanted to spread them out more. Um uh [0:45:32, 0:45:52]: it just there are there are a number of different strategies that that we can kind of employ on that too. A small spot it really does I mean there's a kind of entry level cost to have a splash pad um but beyond that um you know it expands by programming the splash pad so we could do smaller multiple splash pads uh [0:45:52, 0:45:55]: Uh versus one giant one that's you know [0:45:55, 0:46:12]: Okay, thank you. Ms. Robert, you need got another question? Okay, Ms. Alexander, go ahead please. Yeah, thank you for that. Quality over quantity myself, but it is what it is. But uh the some of the things that I saw that you talked of while the whole council is here, there's some low hanging fruit. [0:46:13, 0:46:14]: The low hanging fruit, Mr. Aaron. [0:46:16, 0:46:36]: Want you to I wanna make sure we all we on the same page here. Mr. Aaron, as we walk look and you're in in the as the staff members responsible for this, every time I go by the exercise equipment, I think the same thing. It needs a cover over on Reese Creek. The playground equipment is a hundred degrees at Clark Park in the sun. That's low-hanging fruit. [0:46:36, 0:46:56]: That needs to go ahead and happen now rather than later. We need to, as a counsel, I think we could should be able to agree that that is a purchase that needed to be made made because if my granddaughter gets on the slide at 12 noon, she's going to burn herself. So those are the kind of things that I think that we could go ahead and tick off as we continue to move through this process. [0:46:56, 0:47:16]: And again, I swear to you, I was driving down Reese Flipping Road and I'm looking over there and the sun is just beaming on the exercise equipment. And I see, you know, up at Village Park, they already have the covers up there already. And we need to do the same thing. I would look at that for the uh shade in the equipment for that. [0:47:16, 0:47:36]: I just want to make sure that again I I like the timetable where you are in terms of doing things in terms of uh getting to uh where we are where implementation uh is where we want to be at. So you were pr you said you'd be pretty much the process will be wrapped up by January. [0:47:36, 0:47:46]: part would be over in January, we're ready to start on schematic design, which would be the first part of the kind of uh the construction process. So that would that would kick off sometime in January. [0:47:47, 0:47:52]: Um the first portion of that work is actually funded as part of this. [0:47:52, 0:47:53]: Mr. Theron, could you come up? [0:47:58, 0:48:08]: Uh the A C man. Let me um as far as everything is concerned, and I wanna get you all you all been out to these parks, right? [0:48:09, 0:48:09]: Okay. [0:48:10, 0:48:24]: Now, the equipment at these parks are in f what what level were I what I saw when I was at Clark Park with my granddaughter, it needed it it needed a lot of work. The swings, the slides and everything, what did you see? [0:48:26, 0:48:46]: Um uh so uh there are a lot of different elements of Clark Park. Um uh I would say actually probably the play equipment is in the best condition of anything there. Um uh just because it's kind of the newest thing there. Um but uh uh the shade is kind of the biggest thing on any play equipment and [0:48:45, 0:49:05]: And um it's near the tree line, um, but it's still sticking out in the heat of the summer, you know, kids will get cooked to that. So I agree, uh shades shades huge. Um the the other elements at Clark Park, the uh pavilions and the restrooms, although they've been very well maintained. [0:49:05, 0:49:23]: or showing their age. Um and uh part of that is environmental floods down there, even though they're raised up, just being in that kind of damp environment, uh and they're partially constructed from wood, that kind of wears on um on them as well. So but the playground equipment, I mean [0:49:23, 0:49:34]: There's a lot of it. It actually has good place uh good safety surface. Not all playgrounds have that high a quality of uh safety surface. And I mean [0:49:34, 0:49:41]: The s that the slide tower is pretty sweet. I mean there's a lot of slides on that thing, so and I think that there's probably a few [0:49:41, 0:50:01]: It's not a total rehaul, but there are some a few components that you could just replace that are more outdated and more used than some of the other ones. And I know the fully accessible if when I went over and touched those, those aren't functioning right now correctly. Right. So I think there's some that can just be updated. Maybe it's not a whole rehaul, but if certain [0:50:01, 0:50:05]: certain elements could be changed out for the newer components. [0:50:05, 0:50:25]: Well what I saw when I was there was that some of the equipment, the slide I mean the uh swings and all of that, that equipment was battered. It needed be it just didn't appear, uh the appearance of it. Maybe some of the s the seats could be changed out for the uh particular sli uh the swings and that kind of thing, and then some of the equipment needed to be [0:50:25, 0:50:45]: painted or made or just the appearance of it was not very um it wasn't uh some of the things were rusty a little bit. So those kind of things. Those are the kind of things that I want to talk to you about, Mr. Aaron, is that the overall maintenance of the park. These are the things that we shouldn't have to wait on and that this council can collectively [0:50:45, 0:50:50]: Agree, let's go ahead and fix the playground equipment uh at the park uh in this interim time. [0:50:53, 0:51:03]: Well we need some funding, let us know. No, it's not funding. We made several repairs over at Clark Park. In fact, we had somebody vandalizing set a fire on the uh [0:51:03, 0:51:23]: the surface there. So we've made numerous repairs to the equipment. We have some people that decided sleep and sleep in the park and those slides and things. But we've made numerous repairs to that equipment since it was installed about two years ago. So it's always constant maintenance to it. But uh there's also some other issues that are working against us. But staff doesn't [0:51:23, 0:51:28]: a great job with the maintenance on the facilities that we have. And one of the reasons we're [0:51:29, 0:51:49]: implementing this park master plan is that a lot of things are dated. The restrooms are small, they're not ADA compliant. So those are some things that we want to address. Just like the pavilions, you currently three different groups can rent one pavilion. Each one of them have a small section. That's why we talked about having individual pavilions because if I'm having my [0:51:49, 0:52:09]: my child's birthday party and then somebody's having a cookout, they're playing rap music, they don't go together. So if everybody has their own space. So that's why the this master plan is so important. It's gonna set the tone for how our parts look going forward. There's a lot of work that needs to be done, but staff is doing a great job of maintaining what we have. [0:52:09, 0:52:17]: And we're not satisfied with that and that's why this master plan is gonna be very beneficial to how we go about moving forward with our parks. [0:52:18, 0:52:34]: Okay. Thank you, sir. And then the last question for y'all. As as far as what are we doing in terms of the parks a and the wayfinding signage, you are are are that one of your groups is working on some a project for us to come up with concepts for the wayfinder. Are you all involved in that at all or no? [0:52:35, 0:52:37]: No sir, T S W is not involved in the U.S. [0:52:38, 0:52:56]: They're not some okay, I there's another group. Yes, sir. Okay,'cause I know you guys do amazing work, so you know. Okay, I appreciate it. We will make recommendations for that type of stuff in this. We just aren't probably designing. You're not gonna design it, but you'll make the recommendation for it. That's right. Okay, thank you. Mr. Blount, go ahead, please. [0:53:05, 0:53:25]: Uh I I just want to start with Clark Park. I think that when I uh go to Clark Park and I see uh this stream uh creek down the middle and I've seen signs and I don't know if they're still there, talking about moccasin or snakes or whatever, uh and I see kids playing with balls and that could potentially be in that creek. [0:53:25, 0:53:37]: I don't know how clean the water is. I don't know if that how often it's being tested, but I think that a small uh foot and a half to two foot wall on each side of that creek would be uh you know uh one that would be [0:53:37, 0:53:46]: you know, like you've seen in other parts, it looks kind of rust that rustic look, but they look but it's a creek. It's a wall of small water goes on both sides of that creek. [0:53:46, 0:53:51]: that would keep balls from rolling over in there or whatever you do and it would kind of be a [0:53:51, 0:53:55]: It's preventative uh measure for safety, I believe. [0:54:00, 0:54:01]: I'll put up over there. [0:54:01, 0:54:14]: Um now over at Memorial Park, you you all talked about and and that's one of the places that we definitely have to deal with we find signs you I I talked to so many people they have no idea what when I say Memorial Park, what I'm talking about. [0:54:15, 0:54:35]: But over Memorial Park, one of the things that I want us to look at as we develop the park, we look at other things to put over there and to bring more people and influx of people is that you only have two houses on that street from ML King Harriet's trail when you make that left. You got a cemetery on both sides, but you only have an eighteen foot. [0:54:35, 0:54:37]: Why street. [0:54:39, 0:54:59]: Two cars parking each other got it, one got to go off the road. I think that's interesting that a car would have to go off the road when you got a cemetery on both sides, which is real interesting. Um 14 foot one-way streets work very well. And if you do that over there, coming up and being a part of historic uh being a part of the historic [0:54:59, 0:55:19]: District, you can still put a five-foot uh five-foot walking path in there from uh in the King Harriet's trailer to the park. So I would say that would be one of my suggestions that that become a one-way street, a 13-foot uh wide street with a five-foot walking path from in the King Harriet's trailer. [0:55:19, 0:55:39]: That over there as we progress into bringing other people in there and the effectiveness of it being a one-way street doesn't affect a a majority of the community because you've got several ways back out of there. In fact, we got a green front cafe coming, we would like for them to pass by there on the way out, maybe grab something we never know. So I I I [0:55:39, 0:55:43]: I would just uh ask that you all look at that and make your recommend recommendations to this council. [0:55:44, 0:55:48]: Absolutely yeah, we'll study that as one of our options. Thank you. [0:55:48, 0:55:52]: Any other comments? Well I'll be oh I'm sorry, that uh you w you want to go [0:55:53, 0:55:55]: Oh yeah, I'll speak to real brief. Thank you. [0:55:56, 0:56:16]: Um hi, good evening. Um thank you so much for your presentation. I thought it was great. Um I tend to agree that um some of these things are low low-hanging fruit, adding benches, more park benches, planting some trees, um and maybe even putting [0:56:15, 0:56:35]: Providing some art. I think we can we can do that right away. Um throughout the city, not just even our parks. I mean, around city hall, across the street, by our fountains, and in some of those green spaces that we have. Um so I think it would be a good idea if we came up with some type of concept or [0:56:35, 0:56:55]: plan to include those um uh those type of things as soon as possible. I don't think any council member would disagree. I think that that's well needed. I mean more and more people are beginning to come back out and um outdoors is is [0:56:55, 0:57:15]: uh I think during that covert time period we learned that you know being outdoors was what we had to do. And so um Clark Park is is very popular. I would like to see it expanded. I hate that we have a park in between it um which is a county park and then we have that [0:57:15, 0:57:34]: rail line I wish we could have combined all three parks and made one huge park right um but maybe that's a future thing uh but for now at least the benches um some art and other things that we can do um would be great so thank you so much [0:57:34, 0:57:35]: Thank you. [0:57:36, 0:57:39]: Mm. Mr. Thomas, go ahead, please, sir. Thank you, Mayor. [0:57:40, 0:57:53]: Um I would say that the um analysis of all of the parks I I think is is really great. I I think you have captured um [0:57:54, 0:57:56]: everything with with all of the park. [0:57:56, 0:58:02]: Um and I made some notes here about Memorial Park. Um I actually um [0:58:03, 0:58:14]: sort of favor Memorial Park and I do believe that um Memorial Park presents the biggest challenge um as far as all of the parks. [0:58:14, 0:58:15]: And [0:58:17, 0:58:18]: If we're talking about [0:58:19, 0:58:23]: Um add into Memorial Park any features [0:58:23, 0:58:26]: That's going to increase. [0:58:27, 0:58:28]: Um [0:58:28, 0:58:29]: Participation [0:58:30, 0:58:31]: Parking is a must. [0:58:32, 0:58:35]: Excuse me. Um [0:58:35, 0:58:37]: And any given weekend right now. [0:58:38, 0:58:40]: Um pocket is an issue. [0:58:41, 0:58:44]: So any improvement and any [0:58:44, 0:58:47]: uh additional participation from [0:58:48, 0:58:49]: Uh the citizens read. [0:58:49, 0:58:52]: Um park is g is gonna be that issue. [0:58:53, 0:58:54]: I don't know. [0:58:55, 0:59:00]: Um, I don't have a crystal ball. Uh I'm not an engineer, but [0:59:00, 0:59:02]: I think that is going to be [0:59:03, 0:59:06]: The n one of the number one issue for Memorial Park [0:59:06, 0:59:07]: How do we [0:59:08, 0:59:12]: increase the parking. And I also think that [0:59:13, 0:59:33]: Just knowing the significance of um ML King senior legacy in Stockbridge, we have to capitalize on that connection, the M. L. King Heritage Trail. You ride down through there now, the transfer station, and then [0:59:33, 0:59:41]: And it's a private owned fenced-in property. So, and I don't know, and we have not asked the city. [0:59:42, 0:59:44]: А тек ви хавтометні с комитмент. [0:59:45, 0:59:46]: to transfer [0:59:47, 0:59:49]: A move the transfrustation. [0:59:50, 0:59:57]: I I think we're gonna have to make that commitment. I know it's not gonna be cheap to do that, but for Memorial Park, [0:59:58, 1:00:02]: These are the thing A, B, C, D, E, these are the kind of things that I see. [1:00:03, 1:00:09]: in order for the opportunities for Memorial Park, these things had to happen. [1:00:09, 1:00:27]: And if we don't make these thing happen, I don't see anything else um fitting in. Um and so the city, number one, I think the city gonna have to make the commitment to to move the transfer station. [1:00:27, 1:00:45]: I think we're gonna have to make a commitment for some land acquisition with that privately owned fenced-and property. Um I think we're gonna have to seriously look at how do we increase the parking and by what numbers. Um [1:00:46, 1:00:53]: And I do think again, as I'm sort of rehashing some of these things, I think we have to make that commitment to enhance [1:00:53, 1:01:00]: the King legacy. So when you're talking about um ML King Harris's trail, [1:01:01, 1:01:03]: Memorial Park. [1:01:03, 1:01:05]: and the Reed's Creek Trail. [1:01:05, 1:01:08]: with some some type of buckhead. [1:01:08, 1:01:11]: А а тикфін, дас девізін. [1:01:12, 1:01:14]: That we have to capture. [1:01:15, 1:01:35]: And if if and we as a council agree on that vision, then we have to sort of how do we go about implementing that vision? And so and all of these things, parking, land acquisition, moving to transfer station, all of these things will have to happen. So I I'm sort of throwing this out and I think we already [1:01:35, 1:01:37]: and know this, I think you all know it as well. [1:01:42, 1:01:51]: But but we but but for me, uh has to be a commitment for these things to happen. So I'm suggesting that [1:01:52, 1:01:54]: T SW [1:01:54, 1:02:00]: probably need to make that recommendation. Now I've heard Councilman Blount mention the one way street. [1:02:01, 1:02:06]: I I you know, I'm not really one hundred percent on that, but I know that is a solution. [1:02:07, 1:02:20]: So that's what we're about, trying to find solutions. That is a solution. So we have to take a closer look at that as well. But I think Memorial Park creates the biggest challenge. [1:02:20, 1:02:29]: of all of the parks. And I just want us all to just comment on those. But I think y'all are doing a great job. And I think the analysis I think we have captured [1:02:30, 1:02:33]: uh for all of the parks I think we have captured that. [1:02:33, 1:02:34]: Um [1:02:35, 1:02:55]: I and I guess with the timeline, January, I know these kind of things are really sort of slow. And then it goes into finance. So I'm gonna start right there because I know with all of these parks, and then we're talking about a new park, but I know it's not overnight. Um [1:02:55, 1:03:15]: But I'm I'm glad we're in this process going forward trying to answer some of these questions. And I think the citizens do appreciate us trying to improve uh these parks because it is um improvement in the way of life, health and wellness as we look around, people are walking the [1:03:15, 1:03:22]: the dog people are exercising, the kids are out in the park during the summer, so these kind of things. So I I think we're on point. [1:03:22, 1:03:33]: Uh, we just have to just continue to move forward. But I do just wanna mention one more time that I think Memorial Park created the biggest challenges and I hope that we can sort of [1:03:33, 1:03:46]: look at these things and I don't know, mister Aaron, I don't know T H Dubb, I don't know when an engineer would come in,'cause if we're talking about parking and I don't know I guess not to prolong, but [1:03:46, 1:03:48]: If I ask you this question now. [1:03:48, 1:04:03]: What do you see? How how do we remedies for Memorial Park is for additional parking? So have you put your crystal ball and sort of looked out in the woods and say, oh, okay, we can do it here. So just briefly, so what are your thoughts just about parking? [1:04:04, 1:04:05]: Well [1:04:05, 1:04:25]: It's hard for us to go out to a park like that and not think that way, although we try to kind of be objective about it. Um we haven't really mentioned the transfer station, but a huge constraint for that park, uh from b uh both a no uh a noise uh and an odor kind of standpoint. It's just it's just an [1:04:25, 1:04:45]: In the wrong place uh and and the parks already there. So um so a couple things, um a couple things that we're gonna do. Uh so we're for that park especially, but for all the parks, um if there are specific conditions that we're trying to remedy, we'll study multiple options. [1:04:45, 1:05:05]: Options so that we can kind of compare them and we'll show you guys this group the options and let you kind of understand what the pros and cons of those are. One of the things we're definitely we've been talking about this for a while, uh, gonna consider is uh, you know, relocating the [1:05:05, 1:05:25]: transfer station uh and utilizing that portion of the property because that's actually part of this uh of that park parcel. Um pushing a new entrance in off MLK there, doing parking on that side and then bringing people over uh the creek uh to the to the park. It's I think it almost [1:05:25, 1:05:28]: I don't know that it quite doubles the size. [1:05:28, 1:05:48]: Of the park, but it's at least a third. I think it's about eight more acres. Yeah. So that's a huge opportunity to make a direct connection to the road out there, which would definitely make it a really visible kind of element in the community. Um I don't think you can propose something like that without looking at alternatives like [1:05:48, 1:06:08]: The one-way uh street option um uh or to just improve that uh the current entrance too. So we're just gonna look at them all. And then I think um uh one other thing to remember uh is that as part of our recommendations, uh we'll prioritize. [1:06:08, 1:06:28]: things so the low-hanging fruit we'll put that right up front uh and may recommend make recommendations for things that you can do immediately that are easy to remedy things like maintenance uh if there's a if there is an art program that you want to start up uh in the community we'll identify locations for those types of elements so [1:06:28, 1:06:48]: So day one, you guys can show progress on this plan while we're working on the kind of heavier design stuff. We will get an engineer involved during schematic designs, but as planners, we're, you know, we draw parking lots and locate them and site that stuff all the time. So that is going to be part of our kind of initial planning process. [1:06:48, 1:07:08]: Did that answer your question? Most definitely. Okay, good. Ms. Blount, go ahead, please. Well actually, I mean I want to come in on that uh real quick. We uh almost three years ago we went on this site and you can look at it. A lot of time is awake and you all try to agree with this as an opportunity. [1:07:08, 1:07:28]: The way something is designed can hinder what what we're actually looking for. So when we went out there before I was saying we that doesn't really matter who is that they showed that even cutting those trees down and then showed the frontage on the street and doing certain things, they showed that 25 to 20 almost. [1:07:28, 1:07:48]: So I would ask to look at look at that. Absolutely. Because the way this thing is configured is going to cut cleaning parking spaces on me. [1:07:47, 1:07:48]: Mm-hmm. [1:07:49, 1:07:53]: That has it been erected over there at that part that that we already have? [1:07:53, 1:08:09]: Well, we we do have a pavilion but there was not a place to put it and what we're looking at now the concepts that we're proposing will be completely different than these pavilions. You'd have pavilions centered like in a par with a with a courtyard instead of [1:08:09, 1:08:29]: just large pavilions. So it might be a pavilion you have some that see maybe 25 people, then you have one that sits 50 people. The issue you run into right now, like I said, you have a large pavilion and you break it up into three different sections. Or you have one large pavilion. So if somebody rents that then other people don't have any spaces available. [1:08:29, 1:08:42]: So it's a different concept that they're looking at. And I think is a scope and a vision that a lot of parts I know when I was in Virginia I saw one where it was like fifteen [1:08:43, 1:09:02]: uh pavilion centered around a courtyard that had fire pits and everything like that. Everybody had their own little space that was separate from everybody. So you could kinda get into your own little thing without infringing on other people. So those are some of the concepts we're using, trying to get away from just one big pavilion and just have multiple pavilions. [1:09:03, 1:09:23]: But I I I think that just to follow up on what you just said, I think that the city, because you can go to the block party, and you have one pavilion that's separated in three sections. Yes. But you can come to this part, even the one that we see, and you rent the whole pavilion. I think that we need to have we we need to have [1:09:23, 1:09:35]: it's set where you just rent the pavilion. Yes. Because when you get into those sections inside there, you just create more problems. I think that's in the quad part. If you rent the pavilion, you got the pavilion. [1:09:35, 1:09:55]: We ha we run into that about every other weekend. Somebody's arguing they don't want to leave or they conflicting with the ben I'm having conflicts with what I'm having. But it may be a a a uh uh something that should be brought to this council or whoever needs to make that decision to have to alleviate you know, alleviate those problems that that Scott and we can get with the [1:09:55, 1:10:03]: That problem again. That's that's low hanging fruit. That's the easy fix. I think that we should have been done that, in my opinion. [1:10:04, 1:10:05]: Is it? [1:10:05, 1:10:25]: Oh good, okay. I have one other comment and I have to tell you this comment is not original for me. It's something that was brought to my attention some years ago and it deals with connectivity. When you're talking about Clark Park and Gardner Park, and right between the two parks is what a rail line. So the question is is is whether or not if you want to con talk about connectivity, do we go under [1:10:25, 1:10:36]: or will we go over? And then obviously either one of those will probably be very expensive to do, and then you have to coordinate a course with the North Worth Southern in reference to that. But that's something I don't know, it's food for thought. [1:10:36, 1:10:55]: Uh like I said, it wasn't my original concept, my original thought, but I thought it was something to maybe check into as we look at other things in this aspect and that would help with connectivity. And then of course going from Gardner to Cochrane, it's between the two is just really a creek bed. That's a easy fix. That's easy. But the rail line is something else. Food for thought. [1:10:55, 1:11:15]: Any other comments? Yes, sir. Go ahead. And certainly I think we had I think you guys might be already looking into that. We had mentioned that earlier when you you had mentioned it and I had as well. So the one question I have remaining now is is Mr. Aaron, we had talked about a specific pocket parks plan for the entire city. With those [1:11:15, 1:11:28]: be identified and what we're doing here for the beautification aspect, you know, around the city to have these uh stations or the parking parks uh in tur parts of the beautification plan. [1:11:29, 1:11:30]: Well I'm [1:11:31, 1:11:51]: You know, I I would definitely say that's one strategy and approach to adding new parkland. And it like I said, there there are ton ton of different ways to dice. You mentioned I'm not saying these substitute for the others. These would be in addition to. Right. Yeah. [1:11:51, 1:12:11]: Well, so if we like let's say we need two, I don't I don't remember what the number was. Let's say we need 150 acres of parkland and a regional park or even a community park's fifty acres. Uh we might take the balance of that. We might do two regional parks, we might take the balance of it and look at pocket parks that really extend open space service to different parts. [1:12:10, 1:12:30]: to the community. And I think that's a great strategy and a way to get a park within five minutes from everybody's house, which is the goal. Keep people out of their cars, uh, you know, which helps with congestion and uh public health, uh, and give them a place that's close to their house that, you know, they can take ownership of. So that's definitely a good strategy. [1:12:30, 1:12:34]: I think that was one of the options that was there. I think it was like [1:12:35, 1:12:41]: number one or something. It had like I think neighborhood parts, pocket pocket parts. [1:12:41, 1:12:50]: Well, as I said, in addition to. Yes. Not in place of. It wasn't the only option, but it was just one of a number of options. All right. Thank you. [1:12:50, 1:12:52]: Any other questions for this group? [1:12:53, 1:13:02]: All right. Thank you very much. Obviously we'll have some uh one on one conversation, I guess, a little later on in the week as as we go down this road. Okay. Thank you for the presentation. Okay, appreciate it. [1:13:03, 1:13:14]: We're going to new business and uh new business is council consideration to approve the FY twenty twenty four Elmig, a local maintenance and improvement grant list presented by Mr. Aaron, please. [1:13:15, 1:13:24]: Yes, uh Mr Mayor. Uh we're coming before you tonight asking for approval of the twenty twenty four L Meg list. So uh we're in the process of [1:13:25, 1:13:45]: uh starting a 2023 list so we just want to stay ahead and on schedule with g dot schedule so tonight we're just asking for approval but it'll be late 2023 before we put out the rfp for for the ailmig project and it's about five point two [1:13:45, 1:13:58]: miles of road the city typically resurfaces about 5.2 miles. It's about 12, 13 streets on here. It's in your packets. It's uh [1:13:59, 1:14:19]: Surrey Lane from Carriage Lake Drive to Cul de Sac, Chariot Lane from Surrey Lane to Cul de Sac and Carriage Lake Subdivision, Coach Way from Carriage Lake Drive to Cul de Sac and the Carriage Lake Subdivision, Lakefront Court, Carriage Lake Drive to the Cul de Sac is Carriage Lake Subdivision. [1:14:19, 1:14:26]: Carrots Lake Lane from Carrots Lake Drive to Cul de Sac. Gallup Drive is in the Pine Grove subdivision. [1:14:27, 1:14:28]: Um [1:14:28, 1:14:48]: Gallup Drive from Brunswick Circle to Gallup Drive in the Pine Grove Subdivision. Shetley Drive from Gallup Drive to the Cold of Second Pine Grove. Brunswick Circle from Baltimore Avenue to Baltimore Avenue in the Pine Grove. Then you got Rock Lane from Brandon Road to the Cold of Second Lakeside. Needletop Court from Rock Lane to the Cold Second. [1:14:48, 1:15:08]: Falcons Ridge from Hawkeye Court to Cold de Second Lakeside. Got Enclave Trail from Vista Creek Drive to Thornwith Trace and Monarch Village. Got Chelsea Wood Court from Vista Creek Drive to Cold de Second, Monarch Village. You got Redbutt Lane from Country Club Drive north to Deerwood Drive and [1:15:08, 1:15:25]: Winsong, Deerwood Drive from the city limits at 755 Deerwood Drive to Cul-de-Sac and Winsong. Willowhill Lane from Country Club Drive north to Deerwood Drive and Winsong. Got Linton Court from Sunderland Way to Cul-de-Sac and Wingate Lakeside. [1:15:25, 1:15:39]: Chaucer Way from Sunderland Way to Cul de Sac and Wingate Lakeside, Paramount Drive from Cul-de-Sack to Cul-de-Sac in the summit, and Fairhaven Boulevard from Fairhaven Court to Sheffield Court, which is in the Appleton subdivision. [1:15:40, 1:15:41]: Mayor. [1:15:41, 1:15:52]: Yes, ma'am. Go ahead, please. I move that we approve the physical year twenty twenty-four LMEG list. There's a second. Ms. Barber second that. Any further discussion? I've got one question. You go right, sir. [1:15:53, 1:16:13]: Mr. Aaron, um ha having deal with drive on the uh Elmate list in 2024, is there any way that we could uh get an agreement or seek to get an agreement with uh Henry County that would take that because a portion of that is in the county. [1:16:13, 1:16:23]: Is there any way we can seek to get an agreement with the county for that road to make so that we can actually do the whole road? Just ask. [1:16:24, 1:16:30]: I don't know. I can you know, I can contact them and ask'em if that's on their list as well. [1:16:31, 1:16:51]: Well let me ask this. Let me mention this. Is that part see I was gonna think about this thinking thinking ahead like say for instance was successful with the annexation, how would those roads fit in? Because that probably would be twenty five, twenty six once you at least. If if it's part of the annexation and the an annexation is successful, then we'll do the whole road because it'll be a city road. Right. [1:16:51, 1:17:11]: And that made me think about everything else as well when it comes in, provided successful, citizens vote for it, it comes in and then all those other roles that have to go into rotation or this aspect. Yeah, I appreciate that mayor, but obviously a lot of this mute point what I'm asking, if you know I wouldn't say wendy. [1:17:11, 1:17:14]: Yes, okay. [1:17:16, 1:17:34]: That's plan B. But but the road, according to the uh analysis we had done, it's in need of repair the city portion. We didn't analyze the county portion since we don't have ownership of the road. So that portion in the city was deemed necessary to be paved. [1:17:35, 1:17:47]: All right. Any other questions? Yes. Well go ahead please. Uh in terms of um okay, what was this? I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought. Uh I'll come back to you. [1:17:48, 1:17:57]: Well I was gonna if you're no questions ask for the vote because we got a motion that made a second it so go ahead. All right. Well okay the motion made and second. All in favor of the motion, please indicate. [1:17:57, 1:18:05]: I fantastic you now. So okay, thank you very much. Thanks. I'm I'm sorry. I it came back to me. Uh you you know what we're you're doing a great job. [1:18:06, 1:18:11]: And the city is doing a great job paving streets, but nobody knows about it. [1:18:12, 1:18:32]: That's a problem. It's a problem for the city and all of this. I would ask that you and the city manager get with the public information officer to get this information. I get that question. I don't know about the rest of these council members, but I get that question from citizens all the time. When is my street going to be paved? This information needed to be put out publicly. [1:18:32, 1:18:52]: On the Facebook page or on the soul, so folks know when their street is going to be paved and they have a place that they can go to and seek out when uh that is going to happen. I would also like to see Mr. Gardner, the PIO officer, and Mr. Aaron go out to these sites, take some pictures of the. [1:18:52, 1:19:00]: the of the fact that we're doing that so that folks can actually understand that. Nothing wouldn't be anything wrong with a ribbon cutting for out the paving that street. [1:19:00, 1:19:20]: You know what I mean? Just for folks to know what we're doing.'Cause I see that and then folks really respond positively. But thank you. It's not just gonna be pictures, it's gonna be videos actually of the road. So great. And the list is always posted on Facebook and the city's other social media platforms as well as the city's website. But going forward in the future we're gonna start [1:19:20, 1:19:33]: doing a lot of projects where we're out videoing and putting it on the city social media of projects that we got in progress and projects that we've completed. So we're working on that. Thank you, sir. Good deal. Yes sir. [1:19:33, 1:19:46]: Uh uh I appreciate that, Mr. Aaron. Uh point because I think that we need to the citizens need to know. Um but I need need to make sure you all got a phone number for them to call. [1:19:47, 1:20:06]: Yes. Because once you put put out the Zelda list and you blast it, everybody that got a crack in their street done understand the status and needs when it comes to other parts of the industry's repair. So if you put it out, I'm good with that. But make sure you put a number out with that from the car. [1:20:06, 1:20:26]: Oh, public works number is always on there. So for them to to get in touch with it and I always tell people that roads are not resurfaced for aesthetic reasons. They're resurfaced for safety reasons. And just'cause it has one or two cracks in it does not mean it's an unsafe road. It just might not be aesthetically pleasing to look at, but it's [1:20:27, 1:20:43]: All right. All right. So thank you, sir. Pass unanimously in that aspect. So we'll move on to point number six. Council consideration to approve the T Mobile lease renewal at uh forty six seventeen North Henry Boulevard, uh million uh gallon water tank. Uh Mr. Deshus, please. [1:20:43, 1:21:03]: Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor. T-Mobile currently maintains a cellular antenna on top of the city's uh million-gallon water storage tank. They are paying the city approximately thirty-five hundred dollars a month, and their lease expires in December of this year, but they want to renew the lease, so we're bringing it to Mayor and Council for consideration to renew the lease. [1:21:03, 1:21:04]: The least. [1:21:04, 1:21:24]: Okay, good question. So what data do we have to back up that with that that rate is actually accurate and that that is uh the going rate for that? Was there some data that we can look at to see whether or not that thirty five hundred dollars is is is is the market for that? Yes, I can get that information to you. It's about the going rate for the metro. [1:21:24, 1:21:25]: Atlanta area. [1:21:26, 1:21:29]: Yeah,'cause I wanna make sure that they're paying appropriately, you know. Yeah. [1:21:30, 1:21:31]: Yeah, yes, go ahead, please. [1:21:31, 1:21:42]: Mr. Aaron, I'm sorry I have the call goes look good. Uh how long was the this lease that we just had? This lease? The one that's just expired. It'll expire in December. It's a yearly lease. [1:21:43, 1:21:45]: Yes, it's renewed every year. [1:21:46, 1:21:48]: Yes, I clicked on approved. [1:21:49, 1:22:05]: You know, questions from the council. Yeah, I I think I wanna want to get that information. Can we you you know we wanna table it to the next meeting until we have the information on the present table? I think so. We want to get the dollar amount appropriate for this. But we we have until let's find out. Do you say yes? Miss Barber says yes, anybody else? [1:22:05, 1:22:10]: I'm okay with bounding out the right amount. Fine, okay. So fine. So otherwise we're gonna table this then. [1:22:10, 1:22:14]: We're gonna table this to the next meeting then until you get the final amount, the confirm the amount. [1:22:15, 1:22:15]: Okay. [1:22:16, 1:22:17]: I'm sorry. [1:22:18, 1:22:26]: I'll make a motion to table it for the f for the following meeting. Okay. Who's second? Ms. Barber second. Alexander Barber, all in favor, please indicate. [1:22:27, 1:22:31]: Okay, it's unanimous decision. Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it. Okay. [1:22:32, 1:22:52]: We'll table that. Uh council consideration to approve uh Georgia Power Lighting Agreement for Street Light Ma enhancement in the amount of one hundred and fifteen thousand twenty-nine dollars. Funding source uh proposed FY twenty twenty-three budget presented by Mr. Aaron, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor, this has been in my pending file for [1:22:52, 1:23:12]: For a while, the previous city manager and I were tasked with meeting with Georgia Power to look at enhancing the street lights within the city. And this is spreadsheet as a result of that ride along with uh representatives from Georgia Power. So the total proposal as it is. [1:23:12, 1:23:28]: Right now we add 191 additional street lights. You'd go from adding like 67 lights on Hudson Bridge Road from I-75 to Highway 42. You'd add 30 uh street lights on Old Atlanta Road, 14 on Davidson Parkway. [1:23:28, 1:23:30]: Fourteen on Hudson Breed. [1:23:31, 1:23:44]: Twenty eight, I mean from Hudson Bridge to the quick trip. Then you'll also add some lights at Eagles Landon and Highway Forty Two. You'll add some at Eagles Landon Parkway and Country Club Drive. You'll add eight there. [1:23:44, 1:23:51]: Uh you at four at Flippin Road and North Henry Boulevard. And also you're at Patrick Henry and Jodica Road. [1:23:58, 1:24:18]: And so we're just bringing this for information. It'll add an additional hundred and fifteen thousand dollars to the annual street light budget. That budget is currently around five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So I'm just bringing it to for information. I've had it on my file for a while and see what council wanted us to do with this. [1:24:19, 1:24:21]: Yeah, go ahead, please. Go ahead, Mayor Porta. [1:24:21, 1:24:39]: Uh thank you, Mr. Aaron. Um you and I had a conversation earlier um about this agenda item. At the appropriate time, Mayor and Council, I wanna motion uh to add uh Ty Street to Child Street. [1:24:39, 1:24:45]: from Walker Street to Wilson Street to the list. [1:24:47, 1:24:53]: Okay. So you're making a motion to add now to add that to this overall list and and okay, is there a second in the motion? [1:24:55, 1:24:56]: Okay. [1:24:59, 1:25:07]: Yes, um to add to the list Ty Street to Child Street. [1:25:09, 1:25:12]: Walkers well Wilson Street [1:25:12, 1:25:14]: Ту вака стріт. [1:25:16, 1:25:36]: Sir Sir Yeah uh yes. Go ahead please. Before we do that, Mayor Pro Tem, uh let's can we kinda discuss some other areas. I know I've had some business owners discuss MLK Senior Heritage, which is right downtown, uh right down there in the district area, in that area. I don't see any of that uh actually listed uh [1:25:36, 1:25:56]: you know, there's a discussion about uh folks potentially opening businesses down there right there in that general area, uh uh round one around that general area on the other side of the tracks, and that it's very dark there. Mayor if I if I may across here uh in front of uh the um [1:25:55, 1:26:10]: Ted Strickle in the flower shop one fourteen. It's very dark when you come through the we just need to drive through there at night and you'll see it's very dark. But Love Street or of Birch. [1:26:10, 1:26:26]: I think one of the things too we have to keep in mind is that this is a living, breathing, working document that we'll always be looking at additional areas. So this is not a final list. This is just a list to get started. And and as we find other areas that [1:26:26, 1:26:40]: you know, you think need improving lighting, then we can always add, but we gotta keep in mind that this budget is constantly growing. You gonna get up to the point where especially if you annex the new areas, you're gonna be talking a million plus dollars of street lights, but [1:26:41, 1:26:48]: We gotta keep that in mind, but this list is always capable of being expanded based on where the need is. [1:26:49, 1:27:01]: I certainly understand the priority is downtown, right? So uh this council has decided that and if we got new businesses and we wanna encourage them to come in, I th I think that need to be on the list now. [1:27:01, 1:27:21]: You would you amend the motion to that, uh Council? Well, my friend. Well, let me let me just say this if I may mayor. When I call Mr. Aaron uh about adding to this particular list, he did mention to me what he just stated that this was and is an ongoing process. [1:27:21, 1:27:25]: Personally I do not have a problem in adding that to the list. [1:27:27, 1:27:33]: And if the council's okay with that, I'm okay. But I just wanted to mention this, and this is one of my rationale when I spoke to Mr. Aaron. [1:27:34, 1:27:37]: If if any of you are traveling North Henry Boulevard [1:27:38, 1:27:38]: And you [1:27:39, 1:27:59]: And if you didn't know where Tide Street was next to that car wash, if you didn't know Tide Street was there, you would actually miss that. And it is so dark there. And that was one of the reasons why I wanted to emphasize this right now. Right. But if this council is okay, and I I'm sure Mr. Aaron is okay with it. [1:27:59, 1:28:02]: And we wanted to add some additional but again [1:28:03, 1:28:05]: You know, we we got to pay for it. [1:28:06, 1:28:10]: So just that one is what what I would ask for now. Stemma, stemma. [1:28:10, 1:28:18]: So I do not have a problem in adding uh that to my list, but I just want counselor to understand that, you know. [1:28:20, 1:28:22]: We we have to pay for these, certainly. All right. [1:28:23, 1:28:24]: Miss Barber, please. [1:28:26, 1:28:27]: I wanted to ask Mr. Aaron. [1:28:28, 1:28:36]: This list or this proposal that you presented to us, is this the list that Georgia Power did an assessment of the areas? [1:28:36, 1:28:56]: Yes. Yes, ma'am, it is. These are did they do an assessment of the entire city? We limits. Uh Jenni Miss Williams was the previous lighting rep, her and I over a period of two nights rode throughout the city of Stockbridge. These are the locations that she felt had an immediate need. [1:28:56, 1:29:05]: And we would keep going with the process, you know, as we identify other future areas that needed lighting enhancements. [1:29:06, 1:29:26]: So like I say it the the list will always be added to if the city so chooses. You know, if there was a area that we needed lighting improvement in, then we can have Georgia Power give us a proposal for it. Because just like downtown, we do downtown, it's not gonna be the typical street lights. It's a it'll be a decorative pole to fit in. [1:29:26, 1:29:29]: and with the downtown area, so [1:29:29, 1:29:49]: Thank you. So mayor for tell my once up there. Let me ask you something real quick. Let me jump in here. I saw on here a part of a a part of the lights I was on a diagram saw went to Clayton County. Can you explain that? Why w why are we paying for lights to go into Clayton County? Or what was the issue with this? Mm-hmm. What's going on? No, well you're talking about a tr a traffic light? [1:29:49, 1:30:09]: Yeah, well yeah, and one of these diagrams, it's in the book here. One of these diagrams show and talks about uh some street lights going in Clayton County. No, they it goes from on Davidson Parkway down to the Clayton County line, but there are no street lights that the city would be paying for in Clayton County. Well I thought I saw in the map where is that it it actually it actually shows a lot. [1:30:09, 1:30:25]: line. As a matter of fact, it uh is a one here says locations 17 to 25 for lights on this map says in the art in Clayton County what it says. And it shows on this little schematic here, it shows Clayton County North and Henry County South. [1:30:25, 1:30:32]: And uh so I was just kind of curious about that. But anyway, uh it's it's it's in the book, it's it's in the design, it's right there. [1:30:33, 1:30:53]: Uh I didn't uh but I was kinda wondering w why we would be doing that. No, so we're the only lights we'll have is on Davidson Parkway to Henry County line. Those are the the only lights that were given to me as part of the proposal from George Power. All right. Uh Mayor Pro Tem go ahead please. Uh I I will amend my motion if um [1:30:52, 1:30:55]: Mr Alexander, Mr. Blount give me [1:30:56, 1:30:57]: It's the streets that I needed to add. [1:30:58, 1:31:01]: Go go ahead, Mr. Blount. [1:31:01, 1:31:04]: One w one of the things and and and I appreciate [1:31:05, 1:31:20]: what's going on here because we're all concerned about different areas of the city. Uh and so I'm pretty sure that we all can go out and find the surface streets that that that need more light. But when you talk about a business district [1:31:21, 1:31:37]: That's immediate now. Now I think that we can approve the business district now and get that cost and then come later with those other streets that the council desire later. But I think the business district and I went through that just the other night. [1:31:37, 1:31:57]: Uh and it is in bad shape. We're talking about upkeeping downtown. I mean we we have someone here that I could I can pass that street if I'm not looking right. Uh McCain Creek. We can talk about lighting in the surface streets, but when we talk about our business district, I would like for us to have that as the low-hanging fruit that that that that applies to this. [1:31:57, 1:32:17]: right here right now and then the other streets that that are desired by this council to to formulate that list. I would like for that to happen right now. I don't I I I see a direct need right now of important, but I do believe that each council member has streets in area that we want to see lit up better. [1:32:17, 1:32:25]: in in in in different community our communities. But I think as a t as a whole that we represent downtown, I think that that needs to be on the [1:32:26, 1:32:45]: Yes, I will get with uh Mr. Cobb with George Carr tomorrow. I'll contact him d so that we can go ahead and have an assessment done in those those locations. Mayor Ford. Okay, back to you, sir, Mayor Ford. I'd like to still add Mr Alexander's uh street to my motion. If you just give me the name of the street, Mr. Alexander. [1:32:46, 1:33:05]: Uh from Love Street uh on down to um what's that? Jim Walker, which is on the other side of Rock. Jim Clark. Jim Clark. Love Street to Jim Clark. Clark. Mm-hmm. Okay. Um Mayor Ford and Council. I I motion [1:33:06, 1:33:07]: To add to the list. [1:33:09, 1:33:10]: Tash Street [1:33:10, 1:33:12]: To Child Street. [1:33:13, 1:33:14]: From Walker Street [1:33:15, 1:33:21]: I'm sorry, from Wilson Street to Walker Street and from Love Street to Clark Street. [1:33:22, 1:33:29]: Is there a second to the motion? I second. Ms. Ganttz second that any further discussion? Okay. I just want to say that. [1:33:30, 1:33:34]: For the sake of what it's gonna cost to do this. [1:33:35, 1:33:49]: Because remember I told you all before, when we set a precedent to do something, that precedence is for everyone and not just a certain particular area or a particular person. So when we come up with these streets. [1:33:49, 1:34:07]: Those things, there's no reason not to add them. That's why I wanted all the streets that we identified to be added at one time. But I I wanted this downtown district to be added now, which is an immediate need right now to be added because we have development for downtown. [1:34:08, 1:34:27]: All right. Any other comments? Motion has been made been seconded. Another comment. Yes, sir. I just had a question. Question. Um Ms. Aaron, once the lights are up, whose job is it to maintain those lights? Georgia Power will maintain the lights. They'll upgrade the lights when they need to be upgraded. The only thing the city pays for is the electrical cost. [1:34:28, 1:34:43]: So lights that are in subdivisions that are on the street roads, uh those those lights are the responsibility of the city as well. I mean of Georgia Power? Yes, they are. So if the light if trees are blocking the light, who's responsible? Georgia Power doesn't do that. [1:34:43, 1:35:03]: You know, uh we have gone out and trimmed and Georgia Power said that's one of the things they do not do. But the city has gone out and trimmed around tr lights, street lights. Uh okay. Well I just ask cause we in in my community we have lights and you don't even know it's a light there because the trees have [1:35:03, 1:35:23]: cover the light pole. And so we can't it's dark in certain areas and certain neighbors. I mean our trees have caused a lot of problems at the houses, but the trees in general at that light post have outgro have grown over so many of our lights in the subdivision. [1:35:23, 1:35:33]: Just so you know. But other than I'll have the the guys when they come in early in the morning take a ride through the subdivision'cause they're usually here before it is light outside. [1:35:33, 1:35:36]: Well thank you s for doing an excellent job. Um [1:35:36, 1:35:40]: at being way ahead of the curve is you're talking about twenty twenty four. [1:35:40, 1:35:57]: And we are it sounds like we're on one accord. I agree that we start with our our downtown first, it's our heartbeat, our businesses. Um, but uh you know, I know it's an ongoing document, a live document, so to speak. But um I thank you guys for the hard work you guys are doing. [1:35:57, 1:35:59]: Thank you. Ms. Barber? [1:35:59, 1:36:07]: I wanted to ask, I thought that Henry County, are they also doing a street light assessment as well? [1:36:07, 1:36:09]: Not that I'm aware of. [1:36:10, 1:36:11]: I think they are. [1:36:12, 1:36:12]: Um [1:36:13, 1:36:14]: I think it would be [1:36:15, 1:36:17]: beneficial to check with them. [1:36:18, 1:36:19]: Um to see what streets [1:36:20, 1:36:24]: They are prioritizing as well. I think they are. I think I saw [1:36:25, 1:36:25]: Um [1:36:26, 1:36:28]: In their newsletter or something. [1:36:29, 1:36:36]: 'Cause uh Mr. Cobb and I we had some preliminary discussions. He had some discussions with Heron County as well about campground road. [1:36:37, 1:36:44]: Because that goes in and out of the city about street lights. So I know that's one road we were talking about. So [1:36:44, 1:36:45]: Okay. [1:36:45, 1:36:45]: Thank you. [1:36:47, 1:36:51]: All right. I guess that's all the discussion. Motion be made in a second. All in favor, please indicate. [1:36:52, 1:37:12]: NAMS decision. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mm-hmm. All right. Mayor Ford. Yes, ma'am. Can we um also add to this uh motion for staff to check with Henry County? I think they are with the motion's already made and voted on. We vote it what it is. The Gardner hears you, he'll just make a he'll check on. [1:37:12, 1:37:14]: Yeah. [1:37:15, 1:37:32]: All right, uh council consideration to approve the job description play and classification organizational chart of a main uh maintenance maintenance analysis position and budget amendment in the amount of seventeen thousand three hundred uh three hundred seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. [1:37:33, 1:37:34]: Mr Gardner, please. [1:37:39, 1:37:59]: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um as I presented to you guys um the organizational chart um a few months a couple of a month back, uh my goal was to create a position that would help um move us forward in the in the area of uh technology implementation and software implementation, which will [1:37:59, 1:38:05]: will ultima automatically assist us with um streamlining the way we operate. [1:38:05, 1:38:08]: around our strategic plan and around uh [1:38:08, 1:38:28]: our management of of operations. And so this position would assist me and my department with doing just that. One of the things we talked about was looking at implementing open gov software and that would help us obviously look at our performance met create performance metrics and measure how we're attaining our goals and objectives. [1:38:28, 1:38:48]: but also benchmark us against how other communities are faring in the same area. And this position will do just that. Also assist us with obviously development of our fiscal year budget and changing our the way we operate our fiscal year budget in some of the areas that I want to see us move to. [1:38:48, 1:39:01]: um like priority-based budgeting, which is something that we instituted in the last community where I worked. So that was one of the reasons why. And the skill set is not available in the city at this time. So [1:39:02, 1:39:07]: I was asking if council would allow for the for me to advertise and hire somebody in this position. [1:39:08, 1:39:10]: Right, Meryl Tim. [1:39:11, 1:39:15]: The question is is this a executive session discussion? Personnel? [1:39:16, 1:39:17]: Yeah. [1:39:17, 1:39:35]: Because I I had a another issue that I wanna discuss in executive session uh on personnel. Um I I I believe it is. Because I mean there are some questions and some concerns. I I I just think it's it's a executive session discussion. [1:39:35, 1:39:53]: All right. Um yeah, I mean we can do that. We can poll we can d delay this and have this discussion in the second session if that's the need to come back out and make a decision if that's the will of the council here. I do have a question though. Um and and I just kinda kinda trying to understand this. Seventeen thousand three hundred seven sixty nine [1:39:53, 1:39:54]: Amendment amount to the budget. [1:39:55, 1:40:15]: But then also it's indicates something about 21,108. I'm not sure where this is, what's the difference here, what's going on. It says financial impact, 21,108.58 cents on the cover sheet. And of course, this position, I think the entry position, or the entry cost or salary for this position. [1:40:15, 1:40:17]: is highlighted here sixty six thousand. [1:40:17, 1:40:37]: Mayor Ford. Yes sir. This is one of the reasons why I think it should have been exactly. Okay, all right. I got it. I got it. I'm sorry, you got uh I got it, you're right. Yeah, that's a question. Yeah, uh okay. I g uh excuse me. Uh good good thing. All right. So I uh so council if you don't mind we we can go in the second session maybe talk about this a little further and make it. [1:40:37, 1:40:47]: One one second one second. Let me let me fin let me finish. And and potentially go in the second session and talk about this and and uh then come back out with a uh with a decision. Do I need to get a motion on that? [1:40:48, 1:41:08]: Do I do I need to make a motion? Well you you can well that's true. Uh probably a motion is probably the best thing to do. It'd be the safe way to do this in this aspect and and then come back out after the second session and talk and and give a decision if we need to do that. So go ahead, sir. If that being the case, Mayor, I I'm a motion that we uh table [1:41:09, 1:41:13]: I don't know, table this discussion for executive session. [1:41:13, 1:41:18]: Is there a second the motion? Ms. Plot second that any further discussion? [1:41:18, 1:41:20]: Yes. Um can we [1:41:21, 1:41:25]: I support as tabling item number eight, but I suggest that we [1:41:26, 1:41:30]: Handle item number nine before we go into executive session. [1:41:30, 1:41:38]: Oh we will. We we will. Okay. That's right. So all all in favor of the motion, please indicate? Okay. Now she says. Okay, so we'll talk about [1:41:40, 1:41:41]: Ms. Gardner? [1:41:41, 1:41:55]: We're gonna talk about this executive session. All right, and then we'll come back out. All right. All right, uh so on that note, number nine, council of consideration to approve intergovernmental IGA uh New World Public Safety System Software with Henry County. [1:41:56, 1:41:58]: And it says presented by Mr Washington. [1:41:59, 1:42:01]: So Mr Gardner, can you handle this since Mr Watson is not here? [1:42:10, 1:42:11]: Yeah, absolutely. [1:42:12, 1:42:15]: Mm. We don't have an attorney. Uh no, sir, we do not. [1:42:17, 1:42:37]: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um I'm gonna address this issue in the absence of Mr. Washington. I want to let y'all know that we had been in conversation with Mr. Washington. Our attorneys had reviewed this uh IGA and approved that. Uh this has already been approved by the Henry County Board of Commissions. Our police department is currently using [1:42:36, 1:42:52]: Using Tyler technology for our commute computer automated dispatching and our report management system. This system is in operation in all cities within Henry County so that we have a unified uh reporting system and that we're all on the same uh platform. [1:42:53, 1:43:13]: Henry County purchased this platform on the behalf of all agencies within the county, which have saved us uh hundreds of thousands of dollars in the initial implementation of this. What this IGA does is it now um makes the various city users of this platform responsible for. [1:43:13, 1:43:30]: A portion of the annual maintenance agreement. So there's an ongoing annual cost for this system, a maintenance agreement, and it's divided based upon the uh city's usage of that system. This um [1:43:31, 1:43:42]: Annual agreements in the ballpark of about a hundred thousand dollars of the financial impact of this for us, we use about twenty four we're about twenty-four percent of the overall uh calls for service for the county. [1:43:42, 1:44:01]: So this upcoming budget cycle, our projection for the annual renewal agreement is twenty-four thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars. And moving forward yearly, it would be estimated this would be our annual uh operating cost for the maintenance of that system. [1:44:03, 1:44:14]: Uh uh Chief, then this this uh uh uh budget amount comes out of your your uh police department, I guess it is, or or what's of our operating budget. Our operating budget. Okay. All right. Oh yeah, go ahead, sir, please. [1:44:15, 1:44:32]: Uh, Chief, how you doing? So th this system has already been purchased and and is already systematic throughout the county and all the in in uh is all the cities and then the other cities like the McDonald, Locus Grove, and Hampton, are they also doing it like we're doing it, be paying a portion? [1:44:32, 1:44:44]: Yes, sir. So this IGA has been presented to all the cities within Henry County that'll be on this platform. They'll be responsible for a portion of their usage for the annual maintenance agreement. Thank you. [1:44:45, 1:44:57]: Any other questions, Council? If not, I need a motion to accept this proposal. So is there a second? Okay, Alexander to uh uh Ms. Barber, no further discussion. All in favor, please indicate. [1:44:58, 1:45:01]: Okay, you now it's decision. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. [1:45:01, 1:45:10]: All right, uh, so what's next are my comments. Um as as you well know, ladies and gentlemen, we still have a uh we still have a pandemic going on. [1:45:10, 1:45:30]: And so we once again the Henry County Health Department at 135 Henry Parkway will give you a Pfizer and Mederma vaccination vaccination Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 1130 a.m. or 1 p.m. to 230 p.m. And that number to make an appointment is 470-664-0005. [1:45:30, 1:45:50]: And of course there's free testing the Red Hawk Field, also located on uh Henry Parkway, right down the street from the public health department. That's Monday to Wednesday, Monday, Wednesday, excuse me, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. And of course the CDC does recommend that uh everybody receive a second booster. Now mind you, uh shots and boot and boosters and [1:45:49, 1:46:09]: Vaccinations, uh, testing can be done in m multiple places in the county, in the in the metro area. So you just don't have those locations. But I want to mention uh the Henry County Health Department and where you can get those things taken care of in this aspect. Um and just so you know, for so far since this pandemic, uh in Henry County, there's been uh fifty-two thousand. [1:46:09, 1:46:13]: [6373.9, 6388.9]: And also in the county there've been six hundred and forty seven confirmed deaths and two thousand six hundred and fifty nine individuals have been h hospitalized uh due to this pandemic um of COVID nineteen. Now granted I just wanted I got that off the public health department's uh [1:46:29, 1:46:35]: uh website there. And also the unfortunately what's happening in our community is the monkeypox. [1:46:35, 1:46:38]: So this is once again from the Department of Public Health. [1:46:38, 1:46:48]: There so far have been 1,240 cases of monkeypox uh in Georgia, and 98% of these cases are men. [1:46:49, 1:46:53]: Seventy-nine percent of the cases are African American. [1:46:53, 1:46:54]: Individuals. [1:46:55, 1:46:59]: thirteen percent uh Caucasians and seven percent Hispanic. [1:46:59, 1:47:04]: But believe it or not, even those are one thousand two hundred and forty ca uh actual cases. [1:47:04, 1:47:22]: There have been sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty seven people have actually got a for a first dose against the monkey pox, and another f one thousand seventy nine people have had a second c uh uh dose against the monkey pox. So they're they're trying to get this out there and and get uh vaccinated so you don't get this uh particular [1:47:22, 1:47:24]: obviously this particular virus. [1:47:24, 1:47:26]: And look good another good news story. [1:47:26, 1:47:28]: Very proud, I know you heard of this before. [1:47:29, 1:47:33]: But Stockbridge is on, Stockbridge High School is on Michael Harris the second. [1:47:33, 1:47:40]: What a fantastic guy. Never met him. Uh but yet of course he's a seventy two million seventy two million dollar man. [1:47:41, 1:48:01]: He just got his contract with the Braves and extend out to the twenty twenty uh twenty thirty excuse me season. And uh obviously as a young kid growing up in Stockbridge area, uh the Braves were his his team and now he's actually got a a dream here. He's playing for the playing for the Braves and doing well. All right. And hopefully it's my choice and maybe [1:48:01, 1:48:21]: Many of yours choice is being a national least rookie of the year, so hopefully he'll get that honor. But Michael Harris, congratulations to him, and we'll have to get him here in City Hall sometime. I'll have to be in the off-season, though, in this aspect to uh come here and be introduced to everybody publicly. And uh of course, this coming weekend uh is Labor Day, so make sure you [1:48:21, 1:48:31]: You're safe. Have a good time with your family and friends and relatives and enjoy yourself this weekend. Alright, let's move on to some announcements and uh upcoming events. [1:48:32, 1:48:52]: And so council meetings, of course, will be held in the city council chambers. Meeting dates, location, times are subject to change. And of course, please visit the city's website at WW City of Stockbridge.com for the meeting invitation. And we'll be on Facebook, also be on the Facebook page when contact the city hall offices at 770-389-7200. [1:48:52, 1:49:12]: 7900 for any type of updates. City Council meetings are of course the second Monday of each month. Next city council meeting in the chamber will be September 12th. Main Street Advisory Board meeting is the second Friday of each month at 9 a.m. And right here in the city hall in the Levi Conference Room on that September 9th. Youth Council meeting is 5 30. [1:49:12, 1:49:32]: second Wednesday of each month in in the Levi meeting room right here in City Hall September 14th. The Downtown Development Authority meeting is 6 p.m. by way of Zoom, third Tuesday of each month on September 20th. The youth council advisory committee meeting is 6 30, third Tuesday of each month in the Levi Conference Room. [1:49:32, 1:49:52]: uh also on September twentieth. The planning commission meeting fourth Thursday at six thirty PM in the city council chambers um and that's September twenty second and the next city council work sessions Tuesday, six PM City Hall Council Chambers and that'll be September twenty seventh. Upcoming events of course we have a continuous salute to veterans, please [1:49:51, 1:50:11]: Forward pictures of veterans include name, branch, rank, and years of service in Meripro Tim Thomas. They present a special tribute to a local veterans. Pictures should be submitted to Miss Rosalind Rawls at R. Rawls at the city stopbridge-g-a dot g-ov. And of course, veterans, thank you for your service. Join Councilwoman Barber for a free Zoom on. [1:50:11, 1:50:17]: on every Saturday morning at Clark Park, 8 a.m. Come out for fitness in the park. [1:50:18, 1:50:28]: And uh you can join me, even though I invited all the cler local clergy, to a clergy round table uh roundtable meeting Tuesday, September sixth at six thirty PM right here in the City Hall in the Levi Conference Room. [1:50:29, 1:50:49]: City Stockbridge, of course, will also uh host this next Annex Town Hall meeting. And uh that's going to be online. It's gonna be virtual uh September 8th, 630, by way of Zoom. And so tune in and learn about the facts about the annexation referendum, neighborhoods and the proposed area benefits of Stockbridge Annex. [1:50:49, 1:50:51]: [6652.3, 6672.3]: Join us at the city's annual remembrance, nine eleven remembrance commemor uh remembrance ceremony, excuse me. Uh as we observed the anniversary of September eleventh, uh, twenty twenty one uh twenty oh one attack. So this is the twenty first year, which took place in New York, Washington, DC, Shainsfield, Pennsylvania, where over a total of two thousand seven hundred and fifty three people [1:51:12, 1:51:32]: With uh civilians and soldiers and military personnel died. We'll also honor all those who responded to the attacks. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. The ceremony will take place on the steps of City Hall beginning at 8:30 a.m. Please note that there will be temporary roads closings in the area. Main Street will be also hosting a second summer. [1:51:32, 1:51:52]: Movie on the lawn featuring Spider-Man. The fun starts at 7 p.m. So bringing along chairs and blankets. And by the way, then the date has yet to be announced, but it's coming soon. Bridge Fest is back. Outstanding. Are you ready for the day filled with family fun, great uh festive atmosphere, delicious food trucks, entertainment featuring the public. [1:51:52, 1:52:11]: Parliament Funkadelic. By the way, this concert is free. And so you don't need to take it for it. Just walk on in, right? Join us on Saturday, September 24th at the Stockbridge Amphitheater for all the activities beginning at 2 p.m. And contact our event staff or vet for vendor information at 770-389-5982. [1:52:12, 1:52:29]: And you have an opportunity to meet the mayor and voice your questions and concerns on Monday, September 26th, 10 a.m. to two uh to noon. And that's in person in my office. So you contact Rosin Rawls to schedule an appointment at 770-389-7900-stension 248. [1:52:29, 1:52:41]: And the city will also sponsor a um will host, excuse me, host an in-person annexation town hall meeting Thursday, September 29th at 6.30 p.m. at the Monart Village Clubhouse, 240 Monart Village Way. [1:52:41, 1:52:51]: Stockbridge, right? Come on out and learn about the facts about the annexation referendum, neighborhoods in the proposed area, benefits of Stockbridge annexation and proposed council districts. [1:52:51, 1:52:56]: Upcoming concerts, U B forty, the original Wailers, Maxi Priest and Big Mountain. [1:52:56, 1:53:00]: Friday. This coming Friday, September second, so start off with Labor Day weekend. [1:53:01, 1:53:10]: And with us at the Amphitheater. Okay. And then of course um T A and Waka Flocca and them franchise boys uh Friday, September uh sixteenth. [1:53:10, 1:53:22]: And then we have, of course, Uncle Charlie Wilson, October 14th. And maybe we might get a chance, just maybe, if we sell out the first show, maybe we can get a second show, ladies and gentlemen. So see if we can do that, right? [1:53:22, 1:53:25]: Key Sweat is October twenty ninth. [1:53:25, 1:53:45]: Let's get that going as well. Let's see if we can sell that out real quick as well, right? And let's see here what else we have. We got um we got a Hispanic Fest, uh, which is the first time we had since 2018. And part of uh screaming, Hispanic Fest will be the Sausa Fest, which we have for uh five different uh individuals. [1:53:45, 1:54:05]: individuals, international and national salsa performers at the Ambath Theater. Uh this be October first at three PM and actually there's a charge for this. Uh you have to go on Event Bright, it's thirty five dollars per person. And this is done with the Georgia Hispanic uh Alliance here in in uh in the area. And so and uh let's see what else we have. That one should be [1:54:05, 1:54:12]: it at this point. Uh so council, I need a motion to move into the second session, please. [1:54:13, 1:54:14]: Is there a second? [1:54:15, 1:54:15]: I've been here. [1:54:16, 1:54:21]: Yep. We need to move into the executive session for personal real estate and litigation. Okay. [1:54:22, 1:54:29]: Okay, so I'll give that to Ms. Gat, and you second that, Miss uh second that okay, m uh okay. Mr. Protein's second, all uh all in favor, please indicate. [1:54:30, 1:54:32]: Okay, there's an ammo as the season. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back. [1:54:33, 1:54:34]: In a little bit. [1:55:09, 1:55:16]: Thanks Chief. I got the jersey. Hey, y'all part of the team now. Love it. [1:55:19, 1:55:20]: Okay. [1:55:36, 1:55:37]: Shake the microphone. [1:55:46, 1:55:47]: It is up and off. [1:55:55, 1:55:58]: Yeah, it was two. [1:56:18, 1:56:22]: Kind of put the message out here to just pause the meetings. [1:56:26, 1:56:30]: King was in some. [1:56:35, 1:56:46]: All right, stand by okay, great. All right, council, uh I need a motion to end the executive session, please. Someone. Okay, Ms. Mar Barber, is there a second? Mayor Protence second that. [1:56:47, 1:57:00]: I need now a motion to reconvene our uh council work session. Mr. Blount? Was that uh Ms uh Merpo Tem? And Miss Barber second that. Okay. And uh all in favor, please indicate. [1:57:01, 1:57:13]: Okay, there's an anonymous decision on that as well. All right. So what we're gonna do now is that we're gonna bring back to the uh from the table we table the item number eight. And we're gonna bring it back, read it in the motion and make uh read it and then make a motion uh for this uh item. [1:57:14, 1:57:30]: It was council consideration to approve the job description pay classification organizational chart for a management analyst position and budget amendment in amount of seventeen thousand three hundred and seven dollars and sixty nine cents. Funding source was fund balanced and it was presented earlier by Mr. Gardner. [1:57:30, 1:57:36]: Okay. That is that's the item on the on the table. All right. Did you have anything to add before we uh make this motion, sir? [1:57:37, 1:57:40]: All right. So council, I need a motion to approve, please. [1:57:40, 1:57:43]: Um Mr. Blount. So move that. Is there a second? [1:57:43, 1:57:48]: Second. Okay, m uh Mr. Alzheimer's second. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor, please indicate. [1:57:49, 1:57:50]: I got four. [1:57:51, 1:58:10]: Five. You you're in agreement? That's our same unanimous decision. Unanimous decision on that note. Okay, fantastic. Now I need to congratulations to that manless management analyst, whoever that would be in the future. And on that note, there's no further discussion or no further items, so I need a motion to end our council meeting. So moved. [1:58:12, 1:58:20]: Okay. Is uh Mr uh Mary Brotem and Mr Blount you second that? Okay, all favor please indicate. Good night, folks. We'll see you next week. Later.