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And whereas the city of Smyrna cherishes the value and dignity of each person and appreciates the importance of equality and freedom. And whereas all are welcome in the city of Smyrna to live, work, and play. And every family in any shape deserves a place to call home where they are safe, happy, and supported by friends and neighbors. And whereas the city of Simra denounces prejudiced and unfair discriminator discrimination based on age, gender, identity, gender expression, race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical attributes as an affront to our fundamental principles. And whereas the city of Smyrna appreciates the cultural, civic, and economic contributions of the LGBTQ community. And whereas it is imperative that young people in our community, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, feel valued, safe, empowered, and supported by their peers and community leaders. Now therefore, I, Derek Norton, mayor of city of Smyrna, to hereby proclaim and recognize June 25th as LGBTQ Pride Month in the city of Smyrna, Georgia, and urge residents to recognize the contributions made by members of the LGBTQ community and actively promote the principles of equality, liberty, and justice. and witness whereof I have unto set my hand caused the seal of the city of Smyrna to be affixed upon this 16th day of June in the year of our Lord 2025 Derek Mort Norton mayor city of SMA thank you much like to come down and get a picture if that's all right I really appreciate y'all's work you said 50 vendors how does that compare with over 50 vendors so what has it been historically for for this 36 last year 36 last year so it's so so the answer is growing every year. We have a long wait list, too. Double We nearly double our sponsorship. That's awesome. That's really Thank you. Same goes for y'all. You can stay, but you don't have to. This is your chance to escape.

All right, we're going to move on to community development items. Um, item A, request to allow a school in the

R15 zoning district, 5.08 acres, landlock 530 to 400 4100 King Springs Road, Smyrna Preparatory School. This is in Ward 6. Uh, and I think Rusty Martin is going to give us the background here. Good evening. Rusty Martin, community development director for the city of Smyrna. Um the request is for Sarna Preparatory School uh to move from their location here in the Market Village down to uh Life Church off of uh King Springs Road. Uh the property is zoned R15. The city's zoning ordinance under the R15 zoning category requires that all schools be approved by the mayor and council. Um so their request today is to um allow them the opportunity to move into uh that location and uh this is only to give them the ability to to move in. They still have to work through um making sure the egress and the fire safety requirements all met and that will be done prior to issuing a uh business license for them to operate in that location. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. So I think uh the applicants here as well and uh they can answer any specific questions you have with respect to the school. No, I just I know it's been a lot of work, Rusty, for your department and other other agencies and really appreciate you all trying to make it happen and work with Pastor Osbun and and uh and Scott and Kristen Carl will make it happen. So we hopefully hopefully it takes place. All right, I see the Carla's here. Is there anything y'all want to say? Nice to see y'all. anything y'all want to may not need to, but I just Okay, we'd like for it to happen. I just wanted to say we appreciate all the work the city's done.

Um, and Tim and the fire department, fire marshals have done a lot of work and collaborating with us, make sure that we get this right. So, we really appreciate the fact that you guys are willing to reach out to us. So, thank you. And I will say this is an amazing city. We've been here for a long time and I I do appreciate all the work that's gone into it and we're glad to be a part of the city and look forward to a a very very very long long continued uh presence. So, thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. This would be an opportunity for us at Life Church just to continue to expand our partnerships with other organizations. We're deeply embedded in our city. Love partnering with organizations, schools, homeschool networks, and things of that nature. known Scott and Kirsten for quite some time and uh based upon your approval and meeting all the other expectations and requirements, it'd be a joy to host them on our campus. Thank you for your consideration. Any discussion from council? May I have a motion? Move to approve by Mr. Ghoul. Do I have second by Mr. Lindley? May we please vote? And Miss Hines is on uh is remote with us this evening. How do you vote, Miss Hines? In the affirmative. Thank you. Court, we're waiting on Mr. Gold. Oh, she didn't he didn't have the Sorry for the suspense, Carile. Hold on just a minute. Vote in the affirmative. Okay. All right. Everybody voted in the affirmative. It passes unanimously. Thank you all for being here and thanks for being in Smyrna. We appreciate you. Even though you used to live on Bank Street and defected for a little while, we still love y'all. All right, we'll move on to item B.

Ordinance 2025- Z005.

Uh this is this is approval of ordinance 2025- 005. Annexation request 100% of owners requesting annexation 7.55 acre track zone heavy industrial parcel 170686000020 all that tractor to parcel of land lying and being in land lot 683 17th district second section Cobb County Georgia 1990 Watkins Road Smyrna Georgia 300080 will be effective July 1st 2025 and part of Ward 7 and authorizer authorizes the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Any background, Mr. Jones? Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any discussion from council? May I have a motion? So move. Move to approve by Mr. Ogensby. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? In the affirmative. Thank you. And that's approved unanimously. We don't have any privilege license or show cause hearings this evening. So, we'll move on to formal business. Uh

item A and B are um approval of agreements with Corey Engineering for Splast Management from

2020 2016 and 2022 Splast. I'll read item A first. Approval of the proposed agreement Corey Engineering for professional services for program management for the 2016 splast as requested for fiscal year 2026 in the amount of 156,000 for the projects as outlined in the attached proposal. Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, sir. They've been managing our splots for a long time and these like you said this is routine. We've done this many times before. Is there any discussion amongst council? All right. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. So moved by Mr. Welch. Second by Mr. Lindley. Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? In the affirmative. Thank you. And that's approved unanimously. 70. Item B, very

similar as Mr. Jones says is approval of the proposed agreement with Cory Engineering for professional services for program management of the 2022

splast as requested for the fiscal year 2026 and the amount of $483,000 for the project as outlined in the attached proposal and Mr. Jones been over this. Uh is there any discussion amongst council and may I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve by Mr. Lley. Second by Mr. Gould. All Everybody, please vote. Almost took almost took you fine. Uh, Miss Hines, how do you vote? In the affirmative. Thank you. Thank you. That's approved unanimously. 70. We'll move now on to item C. This is an approval to amend a contract with Rebuilding at Road Building Together Atlanta Incorporated uh for

administration of the city's CDBG home repair grant to allocate an additional $125,000 to the program, extend the

contract termination date to June 30th, 2026, and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, this is program. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any um any discussion? All right. May I have a motion? Move to approve. We're going to let Miss Wilkinson do it. Move to approve. She was, but we're going to give it to her anyway. Uh, a lot of this has happened in in Ward Five, the the Rebuilding Together Atlanta activity and and all the good work they're doing. We'll let her do the motion. Would you like to second, Mr. Limley? All right, we have a motion and a second. Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? Definitely the affirmative. An amazing organization that does wonderful things for the citizens of our city. They sure do. And that's approved. 70. I'm glad to and I know a lot of the council members have been a part of those projects and and on-site doing some of the work with them. Uh we hope that they continue uh for a long time in our community. Item D, uh, authorization to extend the contract