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Are you standing with me? We appreciate y'all. Thank you. You can do that. So, Noah wants to show everybody his fine. Yeah. Go ahead. You are one tough guy. You sure are. We always talk Yeah. Mike just said that's the best part of being mayor right there. That's not that's not uh that's not wrong. Uh, we always talk about how tight-knit this this community is and how we're a midsize city with a small town feel and it doesn't get any better. That's not a that's the perfect

example of that right there. Always there for for each other. All right. Now, we're going to get on to the main agenda. Um, we have a couple of privilege license and show cause hearings. uh two um pouring licenses. Item A is um beer, wine, and liquor Sunday sales and and pouring for Jay Christophers. U they're on Atlanta Road. This is in Ward three. Any back? And I should I should mention uh Len Pickkins and uh Councilman Lley are both traveling this evening and not able to be with us. Uh Mike, is there any background on this? Anything anything we need to add? pretty straightforward. Um, are there any um is there any discussion amongst council? Do we even need to have the applicant up? I think we're I think I think we're in pretty good shape on this based on our discussion pre May I have a motion? Yeah, I like make a motion to approve as written. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Gold. All those in favor, please vote. Okay, that's a technical difficulties tonight.

Couple that aren't working. So, we'll we'll do a handful. All those in favor.

Okay, that's approved unanimously. And Scott, I don't need to have any hearing on this. This is just a vote. All right, that's approved. Thank you. Appreciate y'all. Thank you for being here. I love coming over there for breakfast. appreciate you. Appreciate you doing business in Smyrna. Item B is similar. It's u Sunday sales of Riverview Road. Um this is the Riverview Grill Chattahuchi business as a Riverview Grill. This is in Ward 7 and Councilman Oglesby's district. We had a similar discussion in pre-consel. Anybody have any issues with this? No. No issues, but we would love to hear about uh the grill. Come on. If y'all are here, come on. Talk about it. So, can I pull this up? Yeah. Good evening, everyone. How you doing? You don't have to spend light. Just take it out of there. There you go. There we go. Now we got it. How you doing, everyone? So, yeah. I'mwami Vanderpoo, the owner of Riverview Grill in Smyrna, Georgia. I'm a 20y year uh resident of Smyrna, Georgia. Uh we just wanted to provide another great restaurant option, casual fine dining option, uh American cuisine option for Smyrna for people to come out to eat, create good times, and enjoy themselves. So, uh we'll have your lamb chops, some steak, um some vegan options, other seafood options, and we we'll be doing a brunch on weekends as well. So, we're looking forward to getting open and serving the community. When you going to open? As soon as I get this liquor license. No, it should be uh early to mid October at latest. Everybody's always asking. That's the number one thing. When are we going to get more restaurants? How can we get more restaurants, more dining options, and now what a great thing. We got somebody who's lived here 20 years doing it right in his own community. Yes. Me and my wife thought it was time. Good. Well, let us know how we can help promote it on social media and whatever else when when when you're open and hopefully it'll be a wild success. Okay. I appreciate everybody's time. Look forward to seeing everyone there. Everyone's welcome to come and enjoy themselves.

Thank you. Appreciate you being here with us. Thanks for doing business in Smyrna. We need a motion to approve. So move. Have a second.

All right. All those in favor, please raise your hand. Or are we back online now? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's approved unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you. We have four items on formal business. The first is to approve the fiscal year 2025 year end budget amendment. It's something we do every year to true up our budget. And Mr. Jones, anything you want to add on that item for the public? Any discussion or questions from council? I have a motion to approve item A. Mr. Welch, do I have a second? Second by Miss Wilkinson. All those in favor, please vote. Are we back on on that's a all in favor? Vote. Let's see.

If it doesn't work, then we can

worry. We'll do We'll do back. Don't We'll do back. No problem. All right. Item B, U, which is, I guess, why we have four members of the fire department here. Uh, we're we're have before us purchase Pierce 107 foot ascendant enforcer aerial fire truck in the amount of $1.5 million, part of the 26 budget. Straightforward purchase of a fire truck very briefly. I always give the chief a very hard time since he's not here tonight. I tell you guys, y'all do a great job going support this issue. And you tell him I was speaking posit tonight since he wasn't here. Yeah. And tell him when he's not here to have four of y'all here for an agenda item that we're pretty much going to stamp this and and be done. I don't know. We have to have a discussion with

with the chief. We appreciate you being here and all. Uh do I have a motion to approve item B? Second by Mr. Oglesby. All those in favor, please vote. Got to vote by hand, guys. Approved 5. Thanks y'all. Item C, uh, we're reclassifying two current part-time positions over at Wolf Center to one, uh, position, one full-time position, and we're it's we're going to be more efficient and it's going to save us money. Mr. Jones, anything else that we need to add there?

staff over there says this is going to make it jobs a lot easier. So, any discussion?

Do I have a motion to approve item C? So, move by Mr. Ghoul. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Hines. All those in favor, please raise your hand. 5 and item D is the approval of the 2025 2026 front yard tree program campaign by Trees Atlanta in partnership with city of Smyrna. I believe this is renewing what we already do with them.

great program we participated in and glad that we're do it. May I have a motion to approve item D by Miss Wilkins. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Oglesby. All those in favor, please vote. 5 Z. Now we have the consent agenda. Mr. Jones, can you please read council approval? that last item. The new athletic director and and assistant principal over at Campbell High School came to see me a couple of weeks ago and um he said, "How come we don't do a homecoming parade and we used to do one and when did that stop?" I didn't have the answers because it hadn't hadn't been happening since I've been here. Uh so we're gonna we're gonna reboot that and excited about it. He's got all kinds of energy and it's forward to that on October 9th. Uh any discussion on the consent agenda? Have a motion to approve. Moved by Mr. Ghoul. Do I have a second? By Mr. Welch. All those in favor, please raise your hand. approved unanimously. We're now at the citizen participation uh part of our meeting. Uh I don't have anybody signed up for public comment. Is there anybody I see if there's a few people here. Is there anybody who wishes to speak this evening? Um we'll go to ward and staff reports and we'll start tonight with Miss Hines, Miss Wilkinson. No report tonight. Mr. Gold, no report. Mr. Mayor, could be a first, but I bet Mr. Oglesby got something. Mr. Oglesby. Yeah, I got So, first off, I'd like to uh congratulate Shallow 7th Day Adventist Church who will be celebrating their 37th uh anniversary. Uh on Saturday, Sabbath, I'll be speaking there and bringing greetings from the city. So, looking forward to that. If you see someone doc uh Dr. Pastor Thomas, please congratulate him. Also, last but definitely not least, uh happy 10th birthday to my daughter Bailey. Happy birthday. I yield back to you, Mayor. There's the birthday. They share birthdays. Yep. Mr. Cochran, anything? Mr. Cochran's eagerly await child who could be born any moment. Right. Jones, anything else? Miss Right. Uh I had one more thing I forgot to mention. October 9th uh is the support Smyrna uh southern nights gayla in coordination with smrna bindings lifestyle magazine mag magazine it's at the reed house again October 9th so if you haven't got your tickets they're available at supports smrna.org And that there's no other business brought before this body. We will say good night from the Jonqual city and adjourn at 7:33.