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May 10, 2010

MINUTES

LESS OVERRIDE OF VETOED ORDINANCES

STOCKBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL

MAY 10, 2010

City Council
Lee Stuart, Mayor
Mark Alarcon Ray Gibson, Assistant City
Manager
Harold Cochran Vanessa Holiday,
City Clerk
Shirley Dabney
Fred Evans
Kathy Gilbert (absent)

The Regular Meeting of the Stockbridge City Council was held on May 10, 2010 at 6:00 P. M. Mayor Lee
Stuart presided and members present were Mark Alarcon, Harold Cochran, Shirley Dabney, and
Fred Evans.

Harold Cochran made a Motion to Convene; Fred Evans seconded and passed unanimously. The meeting
convened at 6:00 P.M.

Harold Cochran made a motion to approve the minutes from the April 12, 2010 Regular Council Meeting;
Harold Cochran seconded and passed unanimously.

Harold Cochran made a motion to approve the minutes from the April 26, 2010 Special Council Meeting;
Mark Alarcon seconded and passed unanimously.

Mark Alarcon gave the invocation

Mayor Lee Stuart led the assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.
Mayor Stuart: And Mr. Grimes, I hope you noted--you corrected me last time--Retirees can do the salute.
Appreciate it.

Mayor Stuart: I want to welcome everyone here tonight for our Regular Council Meeting on it here. We
had, supposed to be a special…There were some Eagle Scouts that were going to be here, but I don’t see
them. Maybe I’ll have to recognize them when they come in. T. J. Marchant is not here. Okay, we’ll go
ahead and skip on to and we’ll move… Appreciate everyone coming, taking your time to participate. This
is your government. We need to hear from you, and hopefully, that we will do you right in what we’ve got to
conduct the business of the City.

Mayor Stuart: Our first thing on our agenda for old business, if y’all didn’t get a copy, there’s…Do you
have any more copies up there, Vanessa? They’re outside there if you didn’t get a copy of it there. Alright,
our first order of business here under Old Business has to do with Item One and this is a rescinding of
resolution adopted April 12 by the hotel-motel tax and I figured it out today. I think what happened on this
here is when I discussed with some different people. I had received a phone call from B.J. Mathis, the
Chairman of the Henry County when we were down in St. Simons saying—and she had left me a message;
I didn’t get to talk to her—and said she had talked to Fred. She had talked to you about sponsoring a
reso…this City had a resolution supporting their support for the hotel-motel tax. She said she hadn’t heard
anything from you and that she had contacted Kathy Gilbert, which we were all at the same conference at
that time. So Kathy caught me on a break and said that they wanted us to pass a resolution showing
support for them. And I left it that, said I thought you’d heard it, she heard it. I think it got mis-translated
then when we came back. I think between--not looking at blaming anybody--but I think between Kathy and
Merle when they turned around. It wasn’t meant for us to be passing a resolution, which that’s what we
did, which Mr. Welch has rightfully pointed out, we really can’t do it. It’s illegal the way to do it, and it’s
erroneous the way to turn around and do it. The intent was to show support for the County on their support
for the hotel-motel tax. If we want to raise ours, and as Mr. Welch has explained it to us, we must turn
around and go through a different procedure and stuff and have a referendum. Is that correct, Mr. Welch?

Buddy Welch: Yes, sir.

Mayor Stuart: And so that’s the reason why this resolution, though, even though we passed it is really not
correct. So that is the reason for the rescinding on it. And I didn’t see anything on here for me to sign. Is
there something for me to sign on that?

Buddy Welch: Mr. Mayor, you need to call for a vote to rescind that resolution number.

Mayor Stuart: Okay.
Buddy Welch: And that’s all it takes. Then it goes in the minutes.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Do I have a motion?

Fred Evans: I make a motion that we rescind the hotel tax.

Harold Cochran: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Got a second by Mr. Cochran. Any discussion? (no response) All in favor of rescinding
the resolution? Okay. Thank you very much and sorry for the…

Buddy Welch: Mr. Mayor, are we going to go forward like Henry County did next year with that, or do you
want to wait and discuss that at the next meeting?

Mayor Stuart: I think we need to discuss that in a Work Session, because we heard a lot of bad vibes
afterwards as we were out here walking around, people coming in, ‘What are you doing? And, Whoa,
whoa!’ So, I think we got off-track, and if the Council wants to, I think we put that on a Working Session
agenda to be addressed at a later time in the year. So this is 4-0.

Mayor Stuart: Item Seven is the Atlanta Regional Commission presentation by Kellie Brownlow.
Presentation for Salary and Classification Study. Is she here? Oh, come on up, please.

Kellie Brownlow: Good evening. We are here today because the City has contacted us about conducting
a classification and compensation study, and so I’m just going to share with you, you know, how that
process works and how we go about it and see if you have any input or feedback for us. Have you all been
a part of a classification and compensation study before as elected officials? Okay. Good. So you know
that it’s basically two studies in one, going on simultaneously, and the objective of a classification and
compensation study is to, you know, make sure the City is in the best position to recruit and, you know, at
this point in time probably, more importantly to retain qualified employees. And so I’m going to go through
both of those processes and tell you how they all wrap together and how we do it, and you can feel free to
ask questions as we go or when we’re done.

But the classification part of this study starts first, so, you know, upon your approval, we would go start that
part of the study and we begin that by meeting with Department Directors and then all of the employees,
not individually, but Department Directors as a group and then the employees in different groups. And at
these meetings, we distribute a position description questionnaire and that’s how we gather a good deal of
information about all of the jobs here at the City. And basically, we look at decision-making, complexity,
purpose of contact, and then line and staff authority. We ask every single employee in the City to complete
a PDQ. We then take these PDQ’s, do a thorough review, and we would compare them against existing
job descriptions and look at how they compare. If jobs have changed often, if these aren’t done every two
years, jobs pretty much have changed dramatically. And so, we will create the job descriptions and then
send them back to Department Directors to review. We go back and forth until we actually come to
agreement, so the Department Directors will review all the job descriptions for their department; the
supervisors will review them, the Department Directors and then your Manager. Everyone signs off that
they have reviewed them and that they’re accurate--and so, and that they properly reflect the knowledge,
skills, and abilities to do the job and then the tasks associated with each job. We revise job descriptions.
It’s really a…we kind of look at it like the people in the positions know best and we just have our experience
professionally with the general positions.

At that same time, we go ahead and we’re doing the compensation side. And the compensation side is
where we actually do a market survey and so we will look at those local governments in your competitive
market and in Stockbridge we say your competitive market are local governments that if you were to fall 15
percent behind the market salary, people would leave to go to those local governments. In other words,
we don’t look at population as the deciding factor of your competitive local governments because
Stockbridge may have the same population as Elberton, Georgia, but it’s unlikely that people are deciding
between Stockbridge and Elberton, Georgia. They’re probably more likely to be looking at Stockbridge and
McDonough and Henry and Clayton, because they’re looking for a certain quality of life. And so we will
gather information about the other jurisdictions. We do a job-to-job market survey, so we actually take your
job descriptions and compare them to the other local governments’ job descriptions, because often titles
may vary, but the positions, you know…So we look at the responsibilities and the tasks associated with
each position and that’s how we compare salaries. And we actually look at minimum and maximum
salaries. We do not consider actual salaries in this.

And so, this is being done simultaneous to the classification side of things. There is a difference in the
classification and compensation. For the job description, as I just told you, we actually work with
Department Directors on making sure that we’re in agreement on the tasks and the final product. We do
not share the pay information with, usually other than the City Manager, until Mayor and Council has seen
the pay, the compensation side of things. And so, basically, we take the market survey and the information
that we’ve collected from the job descriptions and we create a pay-scale for the City, and then we also will
show you how to implement that pay-scale. So, we’ll do an implementation plan that will put all the current
positions into the new pay-scale. And again, we don’t share that information with anybody but Mayor and
Council. And the reason for that is that if we share the compensation information as we have shared the
job information, then I can tell you right now I don’t think I get paid enough. And the market probably says
I do, but I can tell you, I don’t think I do. And so, we like to look at it objectively and share it with you, and
then once it’s passed, we will go ahead and share that with staff.

And so, that’s kind of a very brief overview of how the process works. Any questions before I go over next
steps? Or any thoughts?

Mayor Stuart: So, you look at one of the positions here, whatever it happens to be, and supposedly there
is out there in the market, another comparable one—they might call it a different title, but will you be able
to tell us this person should also be doing these things in that job as well? A typical, let’s say I’ll just pick
on Vanessa, a City Clerk’s position, saying this is what the City Clerk here does, ‘cause you know we’ve
outgrown our, I think we’ve outgrown ourselves from when we had the job duties, descriptions before as to
where we are now. And so, like I’m saying if you’re looking at her position, let’s say, would you be able to
say you probably need two more people, because all these different tasks and duties are…How are we
going to be able to tell…

Kellie Brownlow: We have done that. That’s a different type of study and we can do that and we’ve done
it several times, but that’s really looking, that’s kind of a workforce analysis, where you’re looking at, and
we’ve done it in periods of two years, five years, 10 years, where we still do the PDQ’s and the job
description and look at all the tasks, but then we say we would help you plan for your future workforce, and
again we’ve done, usually when people, when we’re asked to do that by a community they’re not really
thinking 10 years ahead. They’re thinking we probably need to make changes now. So we’ve done two
years, five years, then 10 years and you know it would be an analysis of each department and each position,
and perhaps, you know, you don’t have an IT Department at this point, but you’ve got different people in
each department looking at IT. But that is—we have done that before—that’s called a Future Workforce
Analysis and we can do that. We can do it along with a Classification and Compensation Study. We can
do it instead of, if that’s what you’re more interested in. But it’s a little bit different from the Classification
and Compensation side. Now we would be able to, as a result of this looking at doing the market survey,
we would be able to say, to know very quickly that your City Clerk position, to use your example, doesn’t
compare well to any other ones. And so, you know, because we look at all the tasks, so we could say,
‘Well, it’s not going to be a good comparison here, and here’s why,’ and we could share with you, you
know, what the other positions entail. We also look at, obviously, minimum qualifications and experience
for each job, and that plays into that. Does that answer your question?

Mayor Stuart: Will we be able to tell at the end, say we have 70 employees, and what we’re saying we
really need 75 employees?

Kellie Brownlow: If you do a Future Workforce Analysis.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. But that’s not part of this.

Kellie Brownlow: No, but, you know, we’re the Atlanta Regional Commission. We can rewrite a proposal
and come back to you with that if you’d like to do that along with it or instead of. I mean, we’re not popping
in from somewhere out of the state. I mean we’re right here with you, so you’re our member and if you
want us to look at that in addition to, or instead of, we’ll be happy to …

Mayor Stuart: Okay.

Kellie Brownlow: …to do that and tell you what that would look like. That might take a little bit longer to
do, but, you know, by a couple of weeks. These studies don’t take long anyway. I mean they take about
12 weeks. Any other questions about the process and the ultimate product?
Fred Evans: No, ma’am. I got a question about what’s this going to cost us, though.

Kellie Brownlow: We have proposed $3500 and we do flat fees. We’re not hourly. We’re, like I said, I
mean, and so $3500 is the proposed cost and as we’ve tell all local governments, you know, we can work
with you on that. So that’s our proposal, and like I said, once we determine a cost, it doesn’t go up or down.
It doesn’t matter how much time we spend here. We spend a lot of time in the City, because we need to
get to know the City. But there’s no hourly; there’s no increase; there’s no…It would be additional now if
we do add the Workforce Analysis, it would be a little bit different, because it’s adding another component.
But for the Classification and Compensation, it would be $3500. And again, we’re very willing to talk with
you about that.

Mayor Stuart: Anyone else? And for the citizens, the reason why we’re asking for this, again, one thing
we came in here and found we have very little, if any job descriptions at all and it’s one of the things we’re
trying to do is upgrade our HR side of it. So this is the reason why we thought—Ray and I were talking and
we found out ARC does it. We appreciate y’all coming and explaining that to us. If nobody has any
questions, do we need a motion or something to go forward with this study?

Kellie Brownlow: I can tell you our next steps…I would just really quickly. I didn’t go over that. It would
be if you decide to move forward with this, what we do is fairly quickly. We’d meet with your department
heads; we work with them to talk about who your competitive market is. We do don’t decide that for you;
like I said, we don’t use population as a variable, but we do work with them and look at the trend-setters in
the region, then your competitive market. We’ll then have employee orientations and go through the PDQ
process. And I think I neglected to mention that we also will conduct interviews with about, it usually ends
up to be about 10 percent of City employees, so we actually have individual interviews, but we’ll also—you
know that can be as many people—we can interview as many people as the department directors think. I
mean, if someone wants to be interviewed, we interview them. That just gives us usually a better idea of
the detailed information with each job; it kind of gives us a better feel of how it works here in Stockbridge.

Mark Alarcon: You mentioned an incremental charge for getting us both of the studies or doing an all-
inclusive type study. I hate to put you on the spot, but you know, that’s what I’m looking for as far as…Is it
something that we could move forward on with the 35 and have a under-and-over, or…

Kellie Brownlow: Yes, absolutely. And, like I said, we’re doing, to be honest, the job descriptions is a
large part of doing the workforce analysis, as well. And so it really—I mean, I can’t do it off the top of my
head—but it wouldn’t be too much, and we could go to the office and figure it out tomorrow. But the largest
part of time is the job descriptions, which is already part of what you’re doing. And so the most major impact
probably wouldn’t be financially. It would just be time-wise. But that would be it. But I could easily, I just
don’t want to flip out a number, but it would be incremental, only because we’re doing the biggest piece of
it already as part of this study.

Mark Alarcon: We talking 500, a thousand?
Kellie Brownlow: Probably right around there. It’s not going to double it, if that’s what you’re asking, or
even 50-percent it. I mean, it’s probably right around there. And so you know, and you’ll see in our
proposal, you know we do do, we figure out the amount of hours and we put it in there and then…I think
we have the proposal back here…and then we basically discount dramatically what the price would have
been if you look at the hours. Now, before the recession, we actually had a set cost for local governments,
but we’ve taken away that set cost now, because it’s just too hard for local governments. The economy is
bad, but you still need to do the work. And so, we used to have a cost per fulltime employee. We have
removed that and try to just round down. We still figure out the hours, so we can do a scope of work for
you, but I wouldn’t imagine more than $500 or a thou…I can commit that it would not be.

Mark Alarcon: Well, you know, just like a—I’m going to speak for myself—is I’ve looked at a lot of this with
Ray and with the Mayor. The City Clerk position, as an example, is a dinosaur as far as being up-to-speed,
or whatever. We’ve got to do something, in my opinion, to put, you know, job criteria together, positions
and make sure that we’re competitive. We have a lot of people that’s worked for the City for an extended
period of time and, you know, have done a good job and we appreciate their service and stuff. That may
be a little bit…They may be receiving compensation, maybe a little bit out of line with the average study,
but because of their time in the City, you know, and their reward for staying on staff with us a long time.
That may be one little bit of an item, but we’ve got to have job descriptions and we’ve got to see how we as
a City are compensating our employees. If we’re over-paying, then we need to know that. If we’re not, if
we’re underpaying them, maybe we need to improve the salary so we can continue to draw good, qualified
people. I’d like to make a motion to move forward with the 3500 base study, 500, not to exceed the
thousand, to get both of these studies done, and update all of the City’s paperwork and anything to do
with—I think it would help Ray or anybody stepping into a position to have that information. With Ted
passing and not being here to draw from his resource, his knowledge, we’ve got to have something to work
with and I think all that passed away with him. I’d like to make a motion to do the 35, not to exceed a
thousand.

Kellie Brownlow: Absolutely.

Fred Evans: I’ll second the motion.

Mayor Stuart: Any discussion? (no response) All in favor? The request for the Atlanta Regional
Commission’s staff to conduct a pay-classification from $3500 to $1000 step-in on the end. All in favor?
So we have four…

Kellie Brownlow: We’ll get that new proposal to Ray tomorrow. Just with the revised timeline.

Mark Alarcon: I’d like to see 500.

Kellie Brownlow: We’ll see what we can do. I bet we can, I’ll be we can get close to that.
Mark Alarcon: Okay

Kellie Brownlow: Thank you all. Have a great night…And actually I do want to point out Ashley and
Ashley. Ashley Rivera over there will be, raising her hand. She’ll be the Project Manager and Ashley
Phillips will be working on this as well.

Mayor Stuart: Now at the bottom of Page 2 is Item 6, not that Ordinance 6. Item 6, which was the City
Vehicles – Version 1 on the On-call Personnel for Public Works, Water, Sewer and Code Enforcement, and
that’s four vehicles. I said this is not necessary to have a new resolution on how the daily operations the
City is managed by the Mayor and staff. The City has been run for over a hundred, plus years without a
City Vehicle Resolution. So this is more of an administrative function and not a Council matter. That was
my reasonings for the veto.

Buddy Welch: The Charter doesn’t authorize the Mayor to veto resolutions. Resolutions sets rules and
policies and the Council has the right to set rules and policies. That’s our opinion.

Mayor Stuart: Say that one more time for me, Mr. …

Buddy Welch: The Mayor does not have the authority to veto resolutions. Only veto ordinances.
Resolutions sets rules and regulations and the Mayor and Council has the power to set rules and
regulations. And that’s our opinion.

Mayor Stuart: So, if there is a resolution passed, am I required to sign it?

Buddy Welch: You do not have to sign it. You do not have to sign it; it becomes effective at the same
period of time that is set forth in the resolution itself, and it becomes effective on that date that is set forth
in the resolution.

Mayor Stuart: So, if I don’t agree with a resolution, I just don’t sign it and it’s…I mean, I can’t

Buddy Welch: No, it becomes, it becomes the Rules and the Regulations of the City, whether you sign it
or not, is what it amounts to. If the Council votes it, then it becomes part of the minutes; it becomes the
Rules and Regulations of the City Council, whether you sign it or not.
Mayor Stuart: Okay. And if you would, Mr. Welch, please put that in writing to a letter to us, too, so we
can take that for review.

Mayor Stuart: Okay, back to page three. We’re down to…we jumped to Item 8, which is Public Works.
Ray is going to present that about the purchase of the cab, chassis, dump truck body, and trailer.

Ray Gibson: Good evening, Mayor and Council. This request came to you all at the last, at the workshop,
the last workshop. Public Works would like to purchase a cab and chassis, a dump body and a trailer and
the quotes are provided. The low bids are provided within your exhibit books. We’d like, we’re seeking
approval tonight. And then the trailer, most importantly, is it becoming a safety hazard. These items are
approved in the budget with the trailer is a major necessity right now, because right now the condition of
it’s not safe for the workers that are utilizing it right now.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. I think they made a good presentation at the Workshop and I personally went out
there and saw, and I think it’s very dangerous, the way we’re operating right now. We’re lucky the thing
doesn’t slide off. We will entertain a motion at this time to approve the purchase of a cab, chassis, and
dump truck trailer for the Public Works people. Mr. Cochran, this is yours?

Harold Cochran: I make a motion to approve it.

Mayor Stuart: Mr. Cochran approves it.

Shirley Dabney: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Fred beat you to it.

Shirley Dabney: Okay. Sorry, Fred.

Mayor Stuart: Fred said second. Any discussion?

Mark Alarcon: I just want to make sure. Did you say that this was in the budget?

Ray Gibson: Yes, it is.
Shirley Dabney: Yes.

Mayor Stuart: All in favor? Any other discussion? All in favor of approving the resolution to purchase the
cab, chassis, and dump truck trailer. You got one, two, three, four. 4-0

Mark Alarcon: Mr. Mayor, I’d just like to make a note that we’ve just spent about $75,000, even though it
was in the budget. That’s what I was trying to point out earlier, guys. We’re blowing cash and the money’s
not coming in, and we’re just, you know, generously wanting to match these bonds, which, I mean these
other projects. I just wanted to point that out to the people that don’t have that number in front of them. It’s
$11,469 and 57, 293, and I’m in support of it, because, like I said, I mean I’m with the Mayor and I’ve seen
this equipment. It’s old; it’s dangerous; it needs to be replaced to make sure that everybody’s, you know,
operating safely. But there’s other ways, you know, to save, but we can’t save on that right there, because
we gotta have our citizens and our workers have to be safe. So, I support spending that money. Even
though it’s in the budget, there’s other areas I wish we would start looking at to save.

Ray Gibson: I also want to add that with the old equipment it greatly impacts the productivity of staff.

Mark Alarcon: Absolutely.

Ray Gibson: We’re getting calls about potholes being fixed and roads in disrepair, and we can’t get out
there if we don’t have the proper equipment to do so.

Mark Alarcon: Ray, while we’re on this note, could we maybe make a report and ask the, you know, the
superintendants and the different guys in the departments to let’s look at this equipment, you know. I mean
I got upset when I was-- my first finance chair committee was--we were spending $15,000 a year on small
hand tools. Well that’s one thing, but it’s different when you’re spending this kind of money. I mean, we
need to be thinking about other heavy equipment purchases and maintenance issues to where we can be
prepared for them. I mean, I’m glad to know that this was in the budget, but like I said, I mean it’s still a lot
of money that we just spent, rightfully so, in this instance. But I think we need to look at all our departments.

Ray Gibson: I agree.

Mark Alarcon: It’s dated. If you look at it now, a lot of our stuff is dated.
Ray Gibson: I agree. And each department head will be very responsible for providing to us a budget this
year. We’ll be sitting down with them, coordinating what they do need and we’ll be weeding out what they
don’t. But we’ll be working together to make this happen.

Mayor Stuart: What I’d ask the Council to do—we had a discussion a little bit earlier this, Ray and me did.
I would like see, maybe starting next month, we need to--everybody’s got their different--like Public Works
and stuff. We need to turn around and be looking at stuff that’s needed for next year’s on there. I know,
from what when I go down there, they’re telling me we already need another garbage truck, that we need
a street sweeper, it’s worn out. We need to start getting these things strategically, we need to put everything
on the table and lay out our budgets where we need to do, I think a little bit better job on it there. But, we
are at—Mr. Cochran and Evans. Okay, we’re all good on the dump truck. Okay. I’m sorry.

Mayor Stuart: Next is Resolutions and Ordinance. We have Item #9 is a Resolution appointing an
additional City Engineer—Arcadis Incorporated. They are not on the initial list that I required to sign, or
sign at the start of the year and we’ve been using them, I think, on from what I could tell, like 14 other work
orders we have used them, so I think this is just to make it more legal, is it not, Mr. Welch, to put them, a
resolution appointing them as an additional City Engineer?

Buddy Welch: Yes, sir.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Do I have a motion for the resolution appointing additional City Engineers, Arcadis?

Fred Evans: So moved.

Mayor Stuart: A motion by Mr. Evans.

Harold Cochran: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Second. Who second? Mr. Cochran? Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor of
approving the Resolution appointing additional City Engineers—Arcadis, Inc? One, two, three, four. Okay

Mayor Stuart: Number 10 is a Resolution authorizing the City of Stockbridge to execute a work order
authorization number 15 between Arcadis and the City in accordance with the City’s approved watershed
monitoring plan as required by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, dated, letter dated August
3, 2007 item 8, this is monitoring and reporting part one and all the other stuff that goes with it there. This
is, again, you can tell this is the work order authorization Number 15. This is kind of like the follow-up on
it. They’ve had 14 before, so I will entertain motions about the Resolution authorizing them, the
authorization of Number 15 for Arcadis and the City with the watershed monitoring plan.
Fred Evans: I make a motion to approve.

Mayor Stuart: I have a motion by Mr. Evans to approve it.

Shirley Dabney: Second.

Mayor Stuart: I have a second by Ms. Dabney. We have discussion? No discussion. All in favor of
approving this Resolution for authorization number15 for Arcadis watershed authorization monitoring plan?
Carries 4-0.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Item Number 11 is Resolution authorizing the City of Stockbridge to execute work
authorization Number 16 between Arcadis and the City engineers for the Colony North claim and Enercon
request for groundwater discharge. This is a resolution that has basically to do with the Colony North claim
up there that we’ve had some problems on the sewer and stuff, trying to get it straight, and is authorizing
them. We’ve asked Arcadis to take an independent look, since we had other engineering firm in it We
need an outside opinion on what is the cause of our sewage flow backup there. So I will entertain a motion.

Harold Cochran: Make a motion to approve it.

Fred Evans: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Mr. Cochran makes the motion to approve Number 16. Mr. Evans, you second it. Any
discussion? No discussion. All in favor approving the authorization of Work Order Number 16 for Arcadis
to do the North Claim on, the Colony North Claim? One, two, three, four. It carries unanimous. Okay.

Mayor Stuart: Number 12 is a Resolution authorizing City of Stockbridge to execute work order
authorization Number 17 between Arcadis and City engineering for engineering services performed at the
Dhichan/Country Fireside site. This is one that has been ongoing for awhile up there with the Dhichan
case. We came to agreements that we would turn around and send the City, he wasn’t at that time he
wasn’t the City, where we said we would send a engineering firm down from the City to go ahead and draw
up the watershed storm thing for their property there so we’d all have the same agreement. This is what
the City wants, and so we’re gonna--we’ve offered--this was part of our reaching out to them, trying to we
will turn around and draw the plans up. They have to meet those specs of it there then. But we need
authorization for Arcadis with authorization number 17 to do the engineering work. Do I have a motion?

Harold Cochran: I make a motion to approve it.
Mayor Stuart: Mr. Cochran approves, makes a motion. I’m sorry. Have a second?

Fred Evans: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Mr. Evans, second. Any discussion? No discussion on it? All in favor of approving the
authorization number 17 for Arcadis to do the work on the Dhichan/Country Fireside site. One, two, three,
four, so carries 4-0.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. And agenda number 13 is. We have Mr. Ed Whiddon, the Bypass at Rock Quarry
Road to Valley Hill Road, discussion on the City’s plans and positions regarding this project. Mr. Whiddon.

Harold Cochran: Ray, can you turn the mic around?

Ed Whiddon: My advice is to stay out of hospitals. Mr. Mayor, distinguished City Council. My name is Ed
Whiddon and I am, of course, here tonight to talk to you about the Bypass. About a month-and-a-half ago,
several of the people involved in the Bypass path called me and asked me if I knew if anything was
happening and, of course, I said no, I didn’t know any more than what they knew or read in the paper. And
that seemed to be the problem. They had been promised a Bypass when they voted for the SPLOST and
it seemed like somebody was trying to take the money for other purposes. And that’s what they were asking
me about. Another problem that they had was that they were basically, since it’s been announced that the
bridge, or that the Bypass was going to be done, is they’ve been sitting there and people coming along to
buy property legally and morally have to be told that it’s possible they’re going to have either a bulldozer,
trash, mud, noise, no TV, no sleep, so if they want to buy it and live with that, that’s fine. But in the
meantime, they’re sitting there prisoners of time. And then they hear about the bridge over the railroad
track, so they’re a little bit upset about it. One of the individuals told me that he had talked to Mr. Bowmitt
at Bradford and admitted he told him that he couldn’t do anything because the City had stopped him cold.
So there is quite a bit of apprehension.

Another thing that came up recently, of course I think this is a little early, is they want to know if and when
the City comes through, how long will they have time to get out of their houses, and so forth. When Publix
moved my house, they told me I had 30 days, so I rushed out, dumped all my furniture in a little two-by and
the house sat there for a year, gathering rats, roaches, homeless people, whatever. So this is a concern
later, I’m sure; but in the meantime, with Mr. Bradford saying that he stopped by the City Council. I have
been out of town for 10 days and I really didn’t know that this was coming up tonight, so it’s kind of hitting
me right in the face, and I see there is some action being worked out, and I see some movement for the
bridge. But when you make promises, don’t change them in the middle of the ballgame. People remember
that for a long time. Any questions, or anything you want to ask me or you want to tell the people?

Mayor Stuart: As, who, when you said somebody promised you, who promised you? You said…
Ed Whiddon: Back when we did, when we did the SPLOST, every time we did a SPLOST. I’ve been
around a long time. When you do a SPLOST, they list the things that they’re going to do with the new
SPLOST. I’ve lived down on that corner for 30-something years and I remember about that being one of
the promises that they were going to bring that thing through, so people have been sitting there all this time,
and now here last year, they said, ‘Hey, we’re fixing to move it. It’s going on.’ Got a lot of publicity. We
got letters from Mr. Bradford; we got letters from the City: ‘Hey, the SPLOST is coming. We’re going to
assess your property. Call me, let’s talk.’ I’ve talked to Mr. Bradford twice. He don’t call back. But, of
course, he works for the City.

Mayor Stuart: Could you answer my

Ed Whiddon: Anything else, Sir?

Mayor Stuart: Yes. Could you answer the question? Who? Who promised you? Did I promise you?

Ed Whiddon: No. You weren’t anywhere around here.

Mayor Stuart: I just need to know, is all my question.

Ed Whiddon: But, are you going to come in and change the ballgame? I’ve been in your seat before.

Mayor Stuart: I appreciate that, sir. I’m asking…

Ed Whiddon: That’s all I have. I’m just asking you, are you trying to change the ballgame?

Mayor Stuart: I’d like to know who promised you.

Ed Whiddon: And I did not know this was coming up tonight.

Mayor Stuart: I’d like to know…
Ed Whiddon: In fact, I’ve been watching tar-balls roll up on the beach for the last 10 days.

Mayor Stuart: How many property owners are you talking about?

Ed Whiddon: Sir?

Mayor Stuart: How many property owners are you talking about when you’re saying the property owners?

Ed Whiddon: There are about eight out there. I know five wants to sell their property, been wanting to.
My property is there, right there at Valley Hill. You’re going to destroy-- I’m not really for this thing--but I’m
talking about other people.

Mayor Stuart: I understand.

Ed Whiddon: I’ve got five acres there. You’re coming in on the left side, you’re going out the right side,
and you leave me two little triangles.

Mayor Stuart: And who is Mr. Bradford? I’m the new one.

Ed Whiddon: Bitt Bradford. You don’t know?

Mayor Stuart: I have not idea…

Ed Whiddon: He’s been, evidently he says he’s been hired by the City of Stockbridge to do the
assessments on the property to do the railroad. And he’s talking to people, just calling him. I got a letter
at home from him saying that he was employed …

Mayor Stuart: Yeah.

Ed Whiddon: …by the City.
Mark Alarcon: I’d like to get a copy of that.

Mayor Stuart: You have a copy of that?

Mark Alarcon: No, I would like to have a copy of that.

Ed Whiddon: Is that not true?

Mark Alarcon: No, I would like to have a copy of that. I don’t know. I don’t know who Mr. Bradford is.

Ed Whiddon: Do you know who he is?

Mark Alarcon: I mean, maybe we could shed some light on it.

Ed Whiddon: You don’t know who he is?

Buddy Welch: No, that’s not right.

Mayor Stuart: Hold it, Mr. Welch. Mr. Welch. Mr. Welch, please. I’ll recognize you in a minute. Let’s
answer the questions that we’re asking, please. Thank you, sir.

Ed Whiddon: I’m sorry?

Mayor Stuart: Go ahead, Mark.

Mark Alarcon: I’m just saying, like I said, I’d like to have that letter with him stating that he is employed by
the City of Stockbridge, and representing us.

Ed Whiddon: And for him, me to call him and meet for our evaluations on the property. And people are
doing it.
Mark Alarcon: Okay, well…

Ed Whiddon: Not so?

Mark Alarcon: I would just like for you to provide us a copy of that so we can get caught up-to-speed as
to who this Mr. Bradford is.

Mayor Stuart: If I will, Mr. Whiddon. You know, Mr. Alarcon and myself are new and we’ve been here
now, going on five months, and we don’t know everyone. And that’s part of it Some things are going on.
We don’t know everyone up here, by no means, all these, and so when you said ‘Mr. Bradford’, I honestly,
I have no idea that I can recall at this time

Buddy Welch: Bradford is a realty…

Mayor Stuart: who he is, and I’m trying to get the staff and there’s ‘cause we don’t need things done in a
vacuum. If there’s two of us that don’t know, that’s not good that we can’t, that I can’t answer to you for Mr.
Bradford, so I will…I promise you we’ll work on that with the staff and see if we can’t do a better job of
communicating what all these activities that are happening, ‘cause I have no knowledge of, that I know of
at this time.

Ed Whiddon: The big reason that I’m here is a question of fairness. People were told that; they expected
it; they sit here and now it’s coming. They can’t sell their properties. Nobody’s going to buy something
that’s sitting next to a bypass. And if they’re going to buy it, and it’s in a bypass, then they gotta work with
people like Mr. Bradford to work out a deal. It’s a pain, so they ain’t going, they feel away in the night and
you would, too.

Mayor Stuart: Alright. Thank you, sir.

Fred Evans: Mayor, I’d like to hear from Buddy. With all due respect to Mr. Whiddon. I mean, he’s a
friend, you know. I’ve got to be honest with you, I’d like to see that letter, myself.

Buddy Welch: The Mayor and Council authorized the employment of Mr. Bradford to appraise all the
property on the bypass. This has been brought to the Council’s attention on several occasions, especially
this particular Council, and it was brought to their attention when they gave the report concerning that. I’ve
given update reports concerning that; and the Mayor specifically gave me directions to tell Mr. Bradford not
to do any additional work, to stop. That’s when I told him to stop and I brought that up at public meetings
before.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Now, I’m following you, but

Buddy Welch: Mr. Bradford is the real estate appraiser that the City hired to appraise each one of the
parcels.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. I’m … Let me clarify, and Ray, you can … When I talked to Ray…

Ray Gibson: (unintelligible)

Mayor Stuart: When I talked to you, I had no recall that we were talking about the bypass, the work going
on, and that there was appraisals. We were getting people, ‘whoa, whoa, whoa, what’s…’. I said ‘Stop’,
because I have no idea what was going on at this time. I can’t answer any of this. We need to stop and
take a look. I think, ‘cause you’ll see that we’ve done some reevaluations, we’re talking about budgets and
lines, and it sounds like the Council wants to turn around and go on with this. Well, they’ll go on with it
here, but I have no idea, and I would swear I have never seen any paperwork about a Mr. Bradford, but I
could be … Ray, you…

Ray Gibson: Those letters are in that package that was sent out to everybody. Everyone got the big
package…

Mark Alarcon: I’m certainly aware that there was an appraiser. I didn’t know his name was Mr. Bradford.

Ray Gibson: I didn’t either.

Mark Alarcon: He said he was an employee, it kind of threw me. He was employed. You know, that kind
of threw me.

Ray Gibson: He’s just been given approval to go ahead and

Mark Alarcon: I know, but when the gentleman said he was an employee, that
Unknown: If he’s hired to do it, he’s an employee.

Mark Alarcon: Not if he’s a contractor. But anyway, it was confusing to me, nevertheless. Yeah.

Mayor Stuart: We got it clarified.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. We have a request for Occupational Tax, Item Number Fourteen, business name D
Lightful Café’ & Bistro – Owner, Ker Rainsey, Business Address: 1445 Rock Quarry Road, Suite 208 –
Stockbridge. Nature of Request is a Beer License, Inspections Pending. Mr….You want to come on up,
sir?

Ker Rainsey: Good evening.

Mayor Stuart: You’re Mr. Rainsey?

Ker Rainsey: Yes, I am.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. And you’re requesting a beer license for…Would you tell them a little bit about your,
like you told me a little bit, what your business there is…

Ker Rainsey: Well, I would like to put a coffee shop/bistro, where I will be serving, you know, coffee, bottled
tea, sandwiches, and also beer, if possible.

Mayor Stuart: And Ray, this is the one where we’re talking about with not bringing these before…we don’t
have to …This is…We wanted him to bring it here, but thereon we’re not going to do this or…

Ray Gibson: I’ll communicate with Mr. Welch, too. We had talked about this earlier about having this
handled administratively, because in some instances, you may have to wait a couple of months before you
can get on the docket to get your item heard to get your license, which could, in that two-month span, you
could put somebody out of business before they even start, so we can communicate with Mr. Welch to get
an ordinance.
Mayor Stuart: How long have you been waiting? Just…

Ker Rainsey: Excuse me?

Mayor Stuart: How long have you been waiting? How long have you been waiting for this? For us to…

Ker Rainsey: Well, I just submitted the application a couple of, last week.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Okay, do I …

Buddy Welch: You can approve the issuance of the license tonight, subject to him meeting all the
qualifications.

Mayor Stuart: Have you submitted your paperwork for…?

Ker Rainsey: Yes, I did last week.

Mayor Stuart: So it’s just pending

Ker Rainsey: It says on it it’s pending inspection.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. Do I have a motion?

Mark Alarcon: I’d like to make a motion that we move forward with allowing him to have a license, pending
him adhering to all the City requirements.

Mayor Stuart: We have a motion. Do we have a second?

Fred Evans: Second.
Shirley Dabney: Second.

Mayor Stuart: We have a second by Mr. Evans. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor of approving
his license, pending approval? One, two, three, four. Carries 4-1

Ker Rainsey: Thank you.

Mayor Stuart: Thank you, sir. We’ll be up there to check you out, too.

Mayor Stuart: Public Comments.

Fred Evans: I make a motion that we amend the agenda.

Mayor Stuart: Let me finish through these here, Fred, then we’ll…Excuse me. Alright, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
I stand corrected. Ms. Dabney pointed out, Mr. Whiddon’s group…there was other…let me pull it up. What
number is that? Other people that were wanting to speak. Fourteen.

Mark Alarcon: Just before 14.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to overlook that. Do we have…that was Mr. Whiddon. Others
that may speak we have a Mike Mannis that was wanting to speak. Vernon Moss? Do you want to speak,
Vernon? No? Mr. Moss, Vernon’s brother

Unknown: (unintelligible)

Mayor Stuart: I’m sorry?

Shirley Dabney: What did he say?

Mayor Stuart: What…Okay, okay, I’m s… And Deborah, homeowner of property at the corner of East
Atlanta Road. You’re Deborah, too? You’re not Deborah. You’re not Deborah, right?
Unknown: (Unintelligible) Old Conyers Road

Mayor Stuart: I’m just saying she was on here to speak. She’s not here to speak?

Unknown: (Unintelligible)

Mayor Stuart: I guess they’re not here. Okay. Now, back to

Mark Alarcon: Thank you for pointing that out, Shirley.

Mayor Stuart: Thank you. I overlooked that. Back to… where were we? Okay, we had the Public
Comments that we have a Mr. Don Gordon’s here to speak about excess speeding on Shields Road. I’m
sorry, I can’t read the writing on 3-something, stop and Don, I’m going to let you speak, I have nowhere to
stand about handwriting

Don Gordon: Very good. Thank you for the opportunity to be here, and we appreciate the watchful eyes
on our dollars very much in the comments there…

Mayor Stuart: You have three minutes.

Don Gordon: …backing your opinions. This is not the first time I’ve addressed this issue. My name is
Don Gordon. I live at 197 Shields Road, in the City. I’ve addressed the City Council before on this issue,
and I’ve also written a letter to the previous, deceased City Manager. Not too long ago, at one of the other
events in the City, I asked what was going on with it, and I was laughed at and said ‘Probably nothing’ and
so I’m going to request again to the City Council on the issue that I feel is in the best interest of the safety
of the people, which an issue on Shields Road, regarding excessive speed coming down that road. Is
anybody here not familiar with Shields Road? Or not traveled Shields Road? Everybody know where that’s
at? It’s a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit, the same speed limit that we have on the five-lane coming through
town here, between Davis Road, it’s a long straight-away. If you go over Crest, which I live on the right,
right there, the house that sits back in the back of Dr. Victori’s old house. And you go through a series of a
couple of S-curves and most of the driveways on that street, you can’t even see until you get right on them.
And I can’t tell you, just in the three years I’ve lived there how many times I’ve almost been hit. Seriously,
come real close to being hit and the vehicles just this past Saturday on foot walking from a friend who lives
across the street. Now it’s a situation that somebody’s going to get … There’s been several wrecks in front
of my house since I moved there. I moved a half-a-mile from over on Springwood Valley. And there’s three
solutions. One would be to lower the speed limit, which is not going to do any good, because people are
not paying attention to it now. The second would be to put the speed humps through there, but that’s going
to be expensive, and that’s too long of a drawn-out process. And the third would be just to simply add a
three-way stop sign at Meadow Ridge and Shields Road. There’s one already there now, so just make that
intersection a three-way stop. And you’re going to stop the traffic coming down that straight-away before
they go over the crest, and you’re going to slow the traffic down as they come out of that S-curve and take
off up the hill there. And it’s a simple expense to, to…I’ll pay the expense for the City if you’ll put the signs
up there. If that’s the problem is money, I’ll pay to have the signs put up, if you’ll just put them up there.
But something’s going to happen real bad one day and this is a documented problem with the City, and I
know this because of the safety of the citizens. It’s a concern. It’s a concern of mine. I would request either
to be somebody tell me we’re not going to do it, or it be done.

Fred Evans: Don, did the County ever come out there and do the surveys?

Don Gordon: I haven’t seen anybody yet come out. I haven’t seen anybody do anything out there.

Fred Evans: There’s been no counters out, or nothing?

Don Gordon: The County come out, you mean? Oh, no. No.

Fred Evans: The County should have come out there and …

Don Gordon: There’s been counters around, and I think it’s probably got something to do with 138, but
there’s been counters all over our neighborhood here, over the last six months. But I don’t know if that’s
for the expansion of the 138 you know where 42, you know the Highway 42 going forward.

Fred Evans: Right.

Don Gordon: It looks from the pattern of the counters, if that’s what they’re doing, is trying to track, you
know that intersection up there in front of Wal-Mart, but there’s been no counters on my street.

Fred Evans: If there’s a need for one anywhere in town, it’s on Shields Road.

Don Gordon: Pardon?

Fred Evans: If there is a need anywhere in this town for one, it’s Shields Road.
Don Gordon: Oh, it’s just getting worse, and worse with traffic building up in the City. That’s become a
major cut-through there. And I don’t know what reason the County would have anything to do with it, since
it’s

Fred Evans: If I remember, and you tell me, the County DOT, correct? Since it is, it’s considered a County
road, you know.

Don Gordon: But I believe I do remember that conversation, but that would just be to give the County
authority to enforce the three-way stop sign. Is that correct?

Buddy Welch: The Shields Road, if I remember correctly, was part of the House Bill 489 Agreement, the
previous one. And that, by it being a County road, they had jurisdiction over setting the signs up. They
were asked for counters to be put out there by the County to make sure they knew what the traffic count
was and to put it in. What I would suggest you do is approve the putting up of the signs, if that’s the way
y’all feel, subject to us verifying if that is a City street. Under the new agreement, if that’s a City street, then
you got jurisdiction over it and it can come effective immediately. If it is not a City street, but a County
street, then we still got to get their approval for the signage.

Mark Alarcon: Fred, if I understand this correctly, I mean, Don, you’ve already been before this Council
before and we don’t have any verification that the County did anything to assist us as a City or him as an
individual in determining. And listen, I got property, you know, I’ve got interest. I used to live right there
on 208, which is actually at a kind of the crest of the hill, and where Don lives, I mean it’s difficult to get out
of there, because they’re rolling very fast. But in his position, it’s a detriment, because, I mean, I had to
look left-right-left and, you know, and had to get out of the driveway quickly. He doesn’t have that
opportunity because his, there is no short-long-left. It’s short-short, and he can’t see over the hill and they’re
flying.

Don Gordon: If you remember my house it’s Dr. Victori’s old house, a big circular driveway, look how black
the driveways are on the upper side, because you cannot get out. I come and go with a boat often and
another trailer with my tractor. And you cannot get out of that upper driveway.

Mark Alarcon: Well, it’s a blind drive, is what it is.

Don Gordon: Even at 35, if people were going the speed limit, it’s still close, but nobody obeys the speed
limit up and down that road. So, I’ve got a quarter-mile driveway I can’t even use. It’s dangerous.

Mark Alarcon: Ray, do you have a determination on if that’s City or County at this time? Do you know?
Ray Gibson: I have coordinated with the County, and I thought it was County’s. They were going to do a
warrant, they were going to do a warrant study to see if it was warranted. They go through a process to let
us know. I’ve asked them to do that about two months ago. I still haven’t heard back from them, so we’ll
just coordinate with Terry McMickle to get that.

Mayor Stuart: Is it County?

Ray Gibson: I believe it’s County, but I can double-check, too. That was my understanding of our
discussions in the past.

Mayor Stuart: Okay. You want to follow-up with the County?

Don Gordon: I tell you what, how about I just put ‘em up, and if y’all can’t get it approved, we’ll take them
back down.

Mark Alarcon: I mean, I make a motion for that.

Fred Evans: I’m tempted to agree with you. Just go put ‘em up and the County tells us we have to take
‘em down, then we’ll have (unintelligible)

Don Gordon: If nobody like them and you can’t get approval, take them back down, but something needs
to be done about it. Or there’s going to be a bad accident over there and then there’s going to be a lot of
people brought into it.

Mark Alarcon: You know, I’m inclined to agree that we need to act on the side of caution here and do
approve the additional two, because there’s already a third there, and try to impede that speeding and that
blind…We also, I would like to say we put a blind drive sign up there as well, because literally, that’s what
you have.

Don Gordon: Yeah. Anything is better than nothing.

Mark Alarcon: In conjunction with the stop sign, is what I’m saying.

Don Gordon: But they’re not going to see that, because they’re throwing their beer bottles out as they go
over that curve, you know, so…
Mark Alarcon: But, then again, like you said, Ray, you can…I think they’ve had plenty of time. I mean,
this is—even before you were on staff, from what you’re telling me, they’ve already dropped the ball on not
addressing this.

Fred Evans: You came before us, when, in October or November?

Don Gordon: Last year, it was mid last year, the latter part of last year, y’all. And then I’ve written a letter
to Mr. Strickland, and I’ve been meaning to come back in here, but I keep missing meetings. I don’t get to
the front doors here often. I’m in favor of putting the sign out here, you know, and announcing what’s going
on in the City so we can get more involved in what’s going on with the City, but that being said, I appreciate
y’all listening to my issue tonight. And I hope that something’s done about it.

Mayor Stuart: Well, with that being said, so we don’t keep dragging it out, we’ll get back with the County.
But let’s say it’s not the County’s problem and it’s ours, can we go ahead and pass approval if it is ours to
go ahead and do it so he doesn’t have to come back another two or three months down the road?

Don Gordon: I know we can move them all

Buddy Welch: You have the authority to approve it if it’s a City street to put up the proper signage and the
proper notice. Now, remember you can’t have a blind sign. If you do, you create liability, so if this is going
to be in an area where you’re creating a blind sign, and that means you top the hill and then you’re onto a
stop sign, you’ve got to give the previous notice further back. And there’s regulations concerning that.

Mark Alarcon: Yeah, I appreciate your sharing that, but I’m certainly not a DOT specialist

Don Gordon: In this particular instance there’s at least a 150 or 200 yards. You’ll see the sign, because
the way they would be positioned is right as you’re coming down the straight-away just before you go over
the crest. So, the sign coming from Davis this direction will be visible, as well as once you come through
the S-curves and then go by in front of my house. That would be

Mark Alarcon: Maybe Stop Sign Approaching would be better, instead of...

Fred Evans: That’s what we’re saying. You need a Stop Ahead sign.
Buddy Welch: All I’m saying to you is that you can approve it tonight, subject to it being put up according
to the regulations--safe roads, and so forth--regulations and we determining that it is not a County road.
Okay? ‘Cause if it’s a County road,

Mark Alarcon: Then we don’t have the authority…

Buddy Welch: They have jurisdiction over it under your House Bill 489 Agreement. They’re supposed to
maintain all of that.

Fred Evans: I make a motion to that effect.

Mark Alarcon: I second.

Mayor Stuart: I have a motion by Mr. Evans to

Don Gordon: I’ll have them up in the morning. Thank you very much.

Mayor Stuart: Mr. Alarcon is second it.

Fred Evans: Mayor, I make a motion to amend the agenda, please sir.

Mayor Stuart: We haven’t finished this one yet. I have a first and a second. Mr. Evans, Mr. Alarcon. No
discussion else on it. All in favor? We got 4-0

Mayor Stuart: Okay, Mr. Evans, you’re wanting to amend the agenda. What is it that you’d like to amend?

Fred Evans: I make a motion that we appoint Ray Gibson City Manager.

Mayor Stuart: Mr. Evans, here we go again. One, according to the Charter, City Council can’t appoint
anybody. Y’all can only approve. The Mayor will appoint and y’all will approve. Ray’s doing a great job as
the Assistant City Manager. I am all ready for us to advertise and go for a City Manager. Once the verbiage
is changed, that the old, the ordinance—the way it is written—tries to bind me as the old Mayor with the
previous Mayors and as soon as we get that ordinance straightened out, I am ready to start entertaining as
many City Managers as we can get to come in and interview them and get on with it. But until that time,
I’m sorry, you guys don’t have the power to appoint; you can only approve.

Fred Evans: We appoint everybody the second meeting of every January.

Mayor Stuart: You approve them. I appoint them. You approve them.

Okay. Now, I have an announcement here that I’ve been asked to make. This is called the Stockbridge
Heritage Association. Would like to invite everyone to attend a celebration of the community service
honoring Mrs. Carie Mae Hambrick on Saturday—that’s this Saturday—the 15th from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. at
the Red Oak United Methodist Church in the Family Center at 3894 Walt Stephens Road, Stockbridge,
Georgia. This is, my understanding is--Mr. Alphonso, there you are—last year I understand the Council
approved and proclaimed the six…it’s the 16th of May? As always, Ms. Carie Mae Hambricks Day, but
because the 16th is on a Sunday, the activities will be on, but the proclamation will still be the good and I’ll
be there to read it on Saturday. But this is an announcement they would like to invite everyone to please
come and attend, if possible.

And then the second item. The Henry County Library System will close all branch libraries for one week in
an effort to absorb budget cuts. All libraries will be closed during the week of May 24th through the 31st.

And then under the other announcements of upcoming meetings and events, for y’all’s reminder on May
17 at 6 P.M. is the Community Relations Meeting. On May 18, Tuesday, at 6 P.M. is the Building Committee
Meeting. On May 20 at 6 P.M. is the Finance Committee Meeting. And our Work Study Session will be
Monday, the 24th at 6 P.M. All of them will be here. Excuse me, then the City Council Meeting for next
month will be June 14 at 6 P.M. And we have already published the schedule, if I’m not mistaken, and
there will be no Working Session in June because we’ll all be down for the GMA training in Savannah. So
in June we’ll only have the regular Council Meeting and applicable committee meetings, as necessary, on
that.

Mark Alarcon: Mr. Mayor, I’d like to point out one more item that you mentioned in the announcements
there. You said that the County was closing our libraries for a week

Mayor Stuart: Right.

Mark Alarcon: due to…
Mayor Stuart: Budget cuts.

Mark Alarcon: Okay. I wanted everybody to understand. We’re probably the only city, federal
government, state government, county government, every entity—small busineses, large corporations,
multi-billion-dollar, you know, conglomerates—are cutting costs and we’re spending like there’s no
tomorrow. I just wanted to reiterate that the County is doing it and our pockets are deeper than everybody
and every entity. I just wanted to point that out, folks, ‘cause we don’t have those kind of funds. I found
that kind of ironic, and I wanted to reiterate that point. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Mayor Stuart: You’re welcome. Do I have a motion to adjourn?

Mark Alarcon: Make a motion to adjourn.

Mayor Stuart: I have a motion from Mr. Alarcon to adjourn. Do I have a second?

Shirley Dabney: Second.

Mayor Stuart: Second. All in favor of adjourning? 4-0 and I get to use my new gavel. We’re adjourned.

Meeting adjourned at 7:45 P.M.

Respectfully submitted by:

Vanessa Holiday, City Clerk Lee Stuart, Mayor
