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with Designing Local LTD for public art consulting services for a term of one

year effective April 23rd, 2025 and to continue through April 22nd, 2026 with compensation of services provided not exceeding $25,000 and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. All of the art that y'all see uh popping up around here, whether it's the crosswalks or the fire hydrants or the utility boxes and a lot more to come, uh are under the direction and guidance of this firm who we hired because we found out that the city and our staff really were not experts in that field. And so this really hiring them has really made things go forward. Uh you'll start to see more and more public art around the city. uh particularly from Belmont to Bronner, which is the city's artery as we call it. Um so we're excited to uh to continue with them. Is there any other background you wanted to add? Any discussion? May I have a motion? So moved by Mr. Oglesby. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Gould. Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? In the affirmative. Thank you. Thank you. That's approved. 70. We have two more items on uh formal business. Item E, approval of authorization for Collier

Drive at Memory Lane in an amount not to exceed $327,655.78 to be constructed by Ardo Construction

Company to be funded from the FY26 Stormwater Fund and authorized the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, ma'am. So this was based on evaluation storm water. Thank you. Any discussion? This is in uh Mr. Ward, you okay with all this? Oh, it's great. Yeah, I really appreciate uh the work of uh Mark Wolf and Eric and engineering department making this happen. Can we make a motion? With that, like to approve. Motion as previously read. Have a motion to approve item E. Do I have a second? Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? vote in the firm move. Mayor, thank you. Looks like that's approved unanimously as well. Thank you. Item F, adopt a bond resolution. Resolution 2025-012

authorizing the issuance of economic development revenue bonds federally taxable series 2025 in the original amount of 11,335,000

and approve the bond purchase agreement bond form intergovernmental economic development agreement assignment and security agreement and bond placement agreement and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, ma'am. So, uh this is we had an letter letter of intent for this this this project and uh this amends the language in that agreement. The downtown development authority has already taken all necessary action and we recommend adoption of this bond resolution that will authorize the issuance of economic development revenue bonds in the amount of 11,333,000. Thank you. Any discussion? I think this is a great opportunity for us uh to as a city to to really have a lot of influence and control over what goes on that uh Emery Advent site and uh really try to put something special there versus several hundred apartments or any other use that um might not be as appealing to our residents. So hopefully we'll put something together that's that's awesome for y'all there. Um, any other discussion or comments from council? Great project. A lot of a lot of excitement to see what we can put there for the residents. Excited too. Um, all right. I'll have a motion. This is uh W six again. Yeah, it is. You want to make a motion? Like to approve item F. Excuse me. Item 9F as previously read. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Welch. Everybody, please vote. Miss Hines, how do you vote? I vote in the affirmative. Thank you. That's approved. 70. Item 10 is the consent agenda. Mr. Jones, please read the consent agenda.

Thank you. So we have about 400 items on the consent agenda. You need some water. So the first seven items A through G deal with meeting minutes. Uh the first is approval of the April 24, 2025 mayor and council retreat session one. B is approval of the April 242 2025 mayor and council retreat session two. Item C is approval of the May 15, 2025 committee the whole minutes. Item D is approval of the May 19th, 2025 pre-consil meeting minutes. Item E is approval of the May 19th, 2025 mayor and council minutes. Item F is approval of the May 27th, 2025 special called meeting, the service delivery strategy meeting minutes. Item G is approval of the June 2nd special called meeting the on the budget and service delivery strategy. Item H is an approval of appointment of Ward 5 resident Eric Fernol to the Smyrna Housing Authority for a 5-year term to expire May 31st of 2030. Item I is approval for road closure amendment and the addition of radio uh partner activities cornhole tournament special alcohol tasting sales arrangement for the day of July summer concert Saturday July 12th with functional hours of the tournament being 5:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. Item J is the authorization for the installation of no parking signs on Davis Drive between Hawthorne Avenue, Pierce and Pierce Avenue as shown on the attached map. Item K is approval of a special event for VRS to host the Race to Sea 5K on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. with rolling road closures begin at Brinkley Park on Legion Drive, Dun Street, King Springs Road, Concord Road, Atlanta Road. Runners will remain on the sidewalk. Call your drive, Dun Street, and Legion Drive ending at Brinkley Park with signage posted at each intersection one week prior to the event. Item L is an authorization for the approval of the updated purchasing policy.

Item M is the approval of amendment number four to the community development brock grant fiscal year 23 uh let's see PY 23 sub recipient agreement number CD23-2 C23S8 to extend the termination date the agreement to December 31st of this year and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Item N is an approval of amendment three to the CDBGPY24 subreient agreement number CD24-C24S8 to extend the termination date for the agreement to December 31st, 2025. Uh item O is a Simrna Police Department request authorization to approve a training program for Brazilian jiujitsu. I wish everyone could have heard the program description by our police chief, but this is well well thought of. I still want a demonstration. Yeah, I know. I still want a demonstration. For the total amount of $24,000 will be paid with confiscated asset funds. Item P is an authorization to approve Georgia P's request to purchase five 20 foot wide vegetation easements in two locations, one at Macau Road and four at Lake Drive. Item Q is approval for issue of a permit to special blends mobile bartending for permission to conduct beer, wine, liquor, and mixed drink sales at the city of Smyrna Junth event on Thursday, June 19th, 2025 between the hours of 5 to 10 p.m. under the direction of the Smyrna parks and recck department. Um, and then finally, item R is approved the Church Street drainage improve approve the Church Street drainage improvement project. approved the settlement agreement negotiated by Ger Germa resolving CER and Sterling versus the city of Smyrna. Both subject to receiving a donation of storm water easements from the Village Oaks HOA and authorize the mayor to sign related documents. That concludes the consent agenda items. All you got? That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I have a motion by Mr. Lley.

Do I have a second? Everybody, please vote. I didn't even have to prompt her. She knew exactly what to do there. Miss Hines, how do you vote? I vote in the affirmative. Thank you. Approve 70. Uh, next we move to our citizen participation. Before we do that, uh, our mayor of the day, Edy Douglas, has been uh, very patient with us and done a fantastic job. I'm going to send it's getting past her bedtime and I'm going to send her uh with her parents now. And uh I'd love a round of applause for our mayor of the day. Come on. Thank you guys. Thank you. Guess I might should have done that before the consent agenda. Um, we're at our public input u citizen participation part of our meeting and we have three three citizens signed up for uh comment. Brian Sterling, 1206 Church Street. Thank you everyone, Mr. Mayor. I didn't get to say thank you to Mrs. Mayor for the day, but um I just wanted to come up and uh speak in support of uh item R in the Church Street drainage project. Um that's been a a long a project that's taken a long time to come to fruition. Uh we appreciate uh how much the city was willing to work with us. Um we went through uh mediation and even though it was a long mediation, it was very pleasant process. Um and uh we just we're really thankful that it's um kind of finally coming to fruition and that there's finally a resolution to it. Um it is uh it's something where there's a lot of of storm drainage on the south side of Church Street where there's no uh drains at all right now. And it doesn't just help our property, it helps everybody that's downstream of that property. So um great for the citizens of of Church Street.

good for us and we think it's good for the city as well. So, my wife Hannah and I just wanted to say thank you very much um for everybody's time and effort over what has been uh probably years of talking with a lot of city officials um and making it happen. So, we appreciate it. Thank you. Love to have a good resolution. Appreciate y'all being here. Thank you. Next, we have Skyler Akens, 1302 Countryside Place. Hello, Mr. Mayor. Thank you all for listening to me. Um, I come to you today for a few reasons. As you guys know, I am the one that sent you all letter um back in January under the threat of federal litigation because we were denied the right to participate in Smyrna's Pride. Um, we were told at the time that it was simply due because it was a nonprofit putting it on. We sense settled that with them. I want the pride to be successful. I think that some implications have been made here that somehow I don't want this pride to be successful. I was actually a me founding member of this pride, a founding contributor to this pride event. So I want it to be successful. I want the out there. I don't know why there's this implication out there that the log cabin Republicans are somehow trying to destroy this ma pride. we are a vendor, but we had to literally go and threaten federal litigation to just have a seat at the table. Um, I just want to focus my comments really sharply on a couple of things. Um, there have been when we the last settlement that we had, the last letter that was sent, Mr. Mayor, we actually had to have them delete their Instagram post um, shooting back at us. um me shooting in the sense of they made a PR statement back to us.

In the comments that I have archived, there were death threats in those comments. It was extremely uncalled for. Uh it was just it was completely out of control. As a part of the letter, they were asked to take it down. They did. I commend them for that. There's no bad blood left between us. But what I'm coming to ask is, is there a plan, and I'm asking you as well, Mr. administrator and the police to make sure that we're safe and that we're protected at this festival because with all due respect with the public vitriol that's been out there as a result of this, this made national news for all the wrong reasons. How do I assure folks that we're safe? I look at the map. I'm very thankful they put us near the Smyrna Police Department. That's a great thing. It's a great move. But will we be protected when um if something goes wrong? Um, one of the folks that is um that you all have an email here is asking for a group to come out called Angels for Angel Action and the Pansy Patrol. What this group does is they surround booths at festivals so that people cannot see them or hear them and they agitate the public and the people in the booth so that they cannot speak and so that they're prompted to quote act out. we are asking them and you guys as well to publicly disinvite that type of behavior uh because we're really worried about the safety implications of that. And um you know I will say that that's really all I'm here is to ask someone here to ask some hard questions about what you're going to do to keep us and our group safe during this event because there's a lot of people wondering um here if this is going to be a safe event for everyone.

I thank you for being here and and sharing your concerns. I did get your email. Um I've had discussions with Chief Sagants. Chief Sagans is is aware of this of of all that you've put forward and he has assured me that uh they will do. They're not going to talk about what numbers they're going to have and where they're going to have them, but he he and his uh uh department are this like any other event are are making sure that everybody's safe and they have the information that you've sent them so they will do with it what they do as law enforcement professionals. I have every confidence in our police department to uh to do what they need to do to keep everybody safe in this and in all all circumstances. So, appreciate you bringing everything to our attention. Thank you. Yeah, I just worried with the alcohol. That's all. That's another reason. A little concern. Thank you. And lastly, we have I'll mess up the last name. Colin Shyel. Oh, you got Did I get it right? That never happens. Uh yes. Uh I'm actually a resident of Atlanta, but the reason I'm here and I appreciate your time, especially you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I'm actually the president of Georgia Law Cabinet Republicans. So I appreciate everybody's time here. So I wanted to just kind of give you guys a little bit of what we've experienced because again to echo my political director's concerns, uh this next weekend has me genuinely terrified and I'm not one to scare easily. We have been dragged through the mud and from national news, from local AJ articles. You can Google Georgia log Georgia law cabin Republicans and we come up in an AGC article where we're just lambasted for existing. We have gone through heck and back just trying to get a seat at the table.