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Background, please, Miss Robinson. Would you like to add anything to this? Yeah, this is authorizing uh in the unlikely event that we need it. uh authorizing all the Smyrna to be involved in a um lawsuit that would ask the court to stay any sanctions that would be imposed because of the uh failure of Mapleton and Cobb County to enter into a service delivery strategy agreement. It's unlikely because I've heard that as of today there's an agreement between the two. Scott, does it also the terms of this agreement. Oh yeah, we've we already have an agreement. So change, right? No, nothing changed. This is just if in the event that Mabelton and Cobb don't reach an agreement and our agreement is because of that nullified that authorizes us to ask a court to withhold sanctions while Mabelton and Cobb continue to negotiate. Any other questions? Seeing none, can I have a motion, please? Second by Miss Mr. Welch, second by Miss Wilkinson. All in favor? Hand vote. All in favor? Hand vote. Oh, the system's order. Do hand vote. Motion passes 40. One more and we'll stick with a hand vote. Uh, all right. Next item. Item 4 C. AGR2025-022. Authorization to allow Corey Engineering of 2200 Cobb Parkway North, building 400, Suite 413, Marietta, Georgia, to manage the day-to-day construction and inspection of the Windy Hill Boulevard project through December 2025. the amount not not to exceed $336,840 to be funded from SPLAS 2016 which will cover the cost of a senior professional to and construction manager to be acred on an hourly basis. Robinson. Yes. This is just to get us through the end of the project. Just extending questions. Have a motion. Moved by Mr. Oglesby, second by Miss Hines. All in favor? Motion passes 40. Next item is adjournment. Call this meeting adjourned. Hey, we'll call you back in about five minutes. We got a special call if you need to see

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] So when I was reading the MDJ, are are the Mapleton residents paying county taxes anymore. Have their own with just the fact that now they're a city in All right, we'll call this uh special call meeting to order. Um we'll begin with the invocation and pledge. Mr. Welch, could you please lead us in prayer? Our kind and gracious heavenly father, we thank you for bringing us here this afternoon to take care of the business of the city, Lord. And we just ask that you will be with these these that are here, be with the decisions that we make. Help us to do what is best for the city. In your name we pray. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible. You didn't know you're gonna be called on and that's my fault. Uh got my son here to help us through this meeting, this quick meeting today. Okay. What we're here to do is approve resolution 2025-010 as attached extending the agreement previously reached with Cobb County regarding service delivery strategy and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. And Miss Robinson, this is extending what we had the agreement we had reached with the county for service delivery for one year. Correct. Is there anything else that needs to be said before we entertain a motion and vote? Any questions of those that are here, council members? All right. I need a motion to approve item 4 A. So moved by Mr. Gold, second by Mr. Welch. All those in favor, please vote. Can you do it by hand? Oh, it did. I don't have it up on my computer. Okay, that's approved. 4 Z. Um I'll note that we have four members of council here. That is a quorum and so this passes. Uh any other business? All right. If there's no other business be brought before this body, we are adjourned from the Jonqual city at 402.

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Come on up and lead us in the uh invocation pledge. Everybody please rise. Let's all bow our heads and pray or you can stand in any way that you feel comfortable doing so as we pray. But Father, we come before you right now and we just uh thank you for bringing us all here. We we thank you for the city of Smyrna. We acknowledge that Smyrna itself as a city and all the people who are here are yours. We acknowledge the fact that about 150 to 200 years ago or so, there was a movement of your Holy Spirit that brought people here to gather here together to hear preaching from a Methodist pastor and then eventually decided we want to make this place home. And so that is why they called it Smyrna as well, just being one of the couple churches in Revelation uh that were faithful to you. And so we thank you for that. And Lord, we pray that you would do something very similar here in our city, in our midst even today. Lord, we know that you are powerful enough to do that. There there's so much potential here. There's so much opportunity that exists here and we would just ask that you would lead and guide all of it. We thank you that you are already here in our midst as well. We thank you that you see us. We thank you that you know us and we thank you that in seeing us and in knowing us you also love us. And so Lord we ask that you would help us to see one another. We ask that you would help us to sacrificially serve one another in all the different ways that you have called us to be here in this city.

And we thank you that as well you have provided a council for us and you provided a staff for us who we know have the best interests of the city and the best interests of all the citizens of the city in mind and we pray that you'd continue to bless them. We pray that you would bless all of us as well. We pray that you'd bless the the citizens academy graduates uh the Smyrna basketball associations u state girls champions. Congratulations. You you send your congratulations Lord. We pray that you would bless the Smyrna Elite Spartans track club uh and all the small businesses that exist here in the city. Lord, your hand is in all of it. And we pray that you'd give all of us wisdom, discernment, kindness, grace to see one another, to love one another, and to do so for your glory. And I know that not everybody here would everybody here believes something that is unique and different to themselves. But for those of us, Lord, who will pray in the name of Jesus, we do that now. Amen. Let's stand and turn and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Thank you, pastor, for being with us tonight. Appreciate you. We don't have any agenda changes tonight. Um, next on the agenda is the mayoral report. And um, I just have a couple of things before we get into our recognition. One group that one thing I know is that our youth sports in the city of Smyrna is awesome right now. Y'all saw that the Campbell High School soccer team won the state championship. Recognized at the next council meeting in June because we would have needed a bigger council chamber to do it tonight.

We also have gymnastics state champions. We've got volleyball state champions. We had baseball state champions. We've got track state champions. We've got basketball state champions. And probably some that I'm missing. So, I'm super excited about all that we're doing, all the youth sports in the city of Smyrna. And I really feel like it's important to recognize the achievements of everybody as they as they are are so successful in everything they're doing. So, we we will continue to do that at each council meeting uh as as these state championships for Smyrna just keep rolling in. It's pretty awesome. Uh and I need to mention Whitfield was run runner up at state which is pretty awesome too in the soccer uh tournament. Um couple of project updates for me. Uh Talison Pool, I know a lot of you all are interested in what's going on over there. They are clearing the debris from the demolition and you'll start seeing activity over there and grading and and getting that site ready for um the awesome new aquatics complex that will be coming to y'all uh early in 27. Uh Ward 7 splash pad, if you've been down to Riverline Park, uh that's underway and uh is making a lot of progress. I think we're somewhere towards the end of the year on on the completion date for that. Uh if you've seen the fencing and activity downtown, uh we are expanding the splash pad, uh putting in a bathroom and then a little kids um playground there. And so that in the next next few weeks, uh that should be nearing completion uh for y'all to enjoy. And I'm excited about that. We've uh had our sports LED lighting. If you all been to our our parks um with Jonquil at Brinkley um Kachchuck Camp all of them they're replacing the old lighting with LED lighting and that's been a good thing for us and it will save a lot of energy over time.

Um the Georgia Power Building that we purchased uh we are in the design phase for the interior of that that'll be for um for our for our staff here our Smyrna staff um that is desperately in need of of more space. Rose Garden Pavilion and pray playground. They're in the budgetary process for that. And so we're looking forward to updates there. Uh and last but not least, it's not our project, it's a private business project, but if you've seen StillFire Brewery is finally coming out of the ground, and they're making a lot of progress over there. So looking forward to completion probably uh first part of next year. That's my project updates. With that, we'll move on down the agenda. We were going to have an honorary mayor of the day today, um, August Bleini, but he and his family came down with something and so we're going to do that in October and we're all thankful that they decided to stay out of this chamber uh for for tonight. Uh, next is the recognition of the Smyrna Basketball Association's 8U state girls championship. And I would like to invite the team and coaches to come on up. Let me read to you a little bit about what these girls did. They recently competed in the state of Georgia Park and Recreation Association basketball tournament and captured the state title for the uh 8U girls division after beating College Park, Whitfield County, and the city of Rome. This tournament included teams from Roswell, Savannah, Henry County, and Spalding County. And they in this tournament they outscored their opponents a total of 84 to 57 across three bracket play games. Prior to advancing to the state championship they won three games in the district 5 tourney that included teams from North Georgia in Carterville, Rome, Whitfield County, Pauling County, and Dalton.

And in this tournament, they outscored their opponents 114-36 to capture the district title. How awesome is that? This was an all-star team made up of these nine girls from the community who competed across three teams out of SBA throughout the regular season. And the players on the team who are standing in in front of you now are Quinn Jordan. Raise your hand when I call your name. Quinn Jordan lively winners Hayden Nelson Payton High Totower Lani Russell Kyrie Collins Skyler Morris Dola Akanagi Desa Akanagi. Okay. And Cameron Milsap. Give them a round of applause. Right. uh coaches to come up and say a few words if you'd like. You didn't know she was gonna, but I surely did not. Um well, thanks so much for for having us and um we really appreciate the opportunity to come here and for all of you to recognize all of the girls and their hard work because they really did work hard. Um there's one coach that did not stand up, Malik High Tower. So, I just want to point that out. Um, but again, we we really do thank you because this was a lot of fun coaching the girls and they worked really hard and thanks to all the parents and to Clay for coordinating this. So, thanks again. Let's get a Let's get a picture. Right over here. Can I get right? Congratulations. All right. All smiles ready. Three, two, one. Thank you. Good job. [Applause] And these meetings are fun when we get to do stuff like that. I love it. Next, we have recognition of the Smyrna Elite Spartans Track Club, state champions, and all of those that finish top eight or better in the state. And I know we have a lot of y'all here. I'm Councilman Oglesby has been very involved in the Smyrna League track and field.

And I'd like you to recognize uh these athletes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would love to recognize these wonderful athletes. Uh, Smyrna Elite Track, well, Smyrna Elite Spartans now track club participated in the state track meet. Uh, we we travel, I'm saying we because I'm one of the coaches to Love Joy High School to participate against uh, athletes, top athletes all over the state of Georgia. And once again, we came home with a whole lot of medals. All right. So, with that being said, I want to first recognize the coaches because these coaches have sacrificed for years and years in fact and develop a lot of great talent, even talent as far as up to the D1 college track and field right now. So, it's something to be celebrated. We have head coach over here in the corner. If you could just raise your hand. I know you you want to hide in the background, but that's coach AJ. Y'all, that's AJ, the head coach, Todd, who handles our long distance and middle distance. He's awesome developing these young athletes. We have other coaches that may not be here because you know what? We got practice today. So, we have a lot of athletes practicing, getting ready for a national tournament this weekend, the March trail. So, Coach Tama, Coach Jordan, uh, Coach Terren, he's here. I think I seen Coach Terren there. raise. Stand up. Stand up, man. And coach Dion. All right. So, if I call your name, please rise. We're going to make this quick. Okay. I know we we're up against the Oh, we're not. All right. Well, real quick now, I want to recognize some admins that handle the back scene. The background scene, too. Uh, Shelley Oon, stand up. She handles all this, takes care of us. Bridget Robinson, stand up. Don't be shy.

Yeah, they they do all the heavy lifting behind the scenes along with the parents. I know there are a lot of parents here. Waving hands, please. Those 8 hour 10-hour track meets. We appreciate you. All right. Recognition. William Smallwood, affectionately known as Liam. Please stand for me. Come up there. All right. [Music] How can you walk with all those medals? Don't run away. I got it. I got it. All right. Y'all see all that metal? There's a reason for that. That guy's a state champ. All right. So, he Liam is one of our newcomers, but he's really fallen uh settled in. So Liam got first place in the state of Georgia in the 3200 meter and the 1600 meter. So So we're very proud of him. I believe that he set a record. Tell us about that. I set the record for the 3200 which was 11 which was originally an 1125 but I broke it to an 1109. So we celebrate you Leo. Bradley McWater, come on up. Bradley, where your medals [Applause] at? Come over here, Bradley. All right, Bradley. Yeah, stay right here cuz we're going to take some pictures. Bradley, he really, really performed well. First place in the 200 meter. second place in the 100 meter and third place in the long jump. So, he should have a lot of medals, too. We celebrate you, [Applause] Bradley. All right, next up, Alexandria Robinson. I probably messed that up. Officially known as Lexi. I got it right. I got it right. Mama said I got it right. Come on up here, Lexi. Lexi is what I often tell her mom is a special talent. I I absolutely absolutely think Lexi will be in Olympics one day. I really do. Lexi didn't only do what she normally does at state, but Lexi is a national champion. She's done this before quite a bit.

So, we're really proud of Lexi, and we think she's on track to do the same thing this summer in junior Olympus. for state. She did what she's supposed to do and that's win. All right. So, let she got once again first place in the 100 and the 200 meter at state. And second place in the long jump. So, we celebrate you, Lexi, and we expect big things from you this summer. I'm going to call her name again later. So y'all stay tuned. All right. So actually right now. So along with Lexi, come on up here. Ariana, are you here? Okay, she's not here. Leila Opal, come on up. Tiana Outwater. Okay, so Lexi and Leila are going to represent our first place 4x400 meter team. So, there's two more. Here's the thing about this group and these two young ladies. They actually went to went to nationals in California. Did the same thing. Got first place a couple years ago. So, they're not new to this. These are national champions right here. Y'all looking at y'all right here in Smyrna, Georgia. All right. So, we celebrate you, Laya. Keep it going. All right. Uh, another 4x400 meter team. I think everyone's here. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing is not here. Okay. Uh Jada, they may be at practice, y'all. Jade. Jade. I'm sorry. Come on up, Jade. Spell Jada. Stand right here. Kylie. Kylie. Come on up. Sage Opal, come on up. These ladies also went to state and placed first place in the 4x400 meter relay. Y'all see a trend going. So we celebrate y'all. Snow, where are you? Come on up here. Snow. Snow Posley. She did awesome at state. Uh no surprise. She went out there and jumped and loan jumping and placed second. and seventh place in the 100. So, she's all state. Congratulations. And I called Sage name. You can raise your name.

Raise your hand again. Sage. She has more. You can see she got a lot of medals there. Sage also placed second place in the 800 meter. That's two laps around the track, y'all. And fourth place in the 400 meter. So, she did a lot of running. And she placed in the 400 meter. You y'all do the math. That's a lot of sprinting. All right. Uh Maya, is Maya here? She's probably proud. Oh, she is here. Maya Maya former. Come on over here. Maya is another uh is one of our newcomers, but she she definitely made a splash surprising us all. Maya went to state for the f her first year running running track uh period. And she played second place. Wow. Second place in the 200 meter and second place in the 100 meter. This is her first year. She's never ran track in her life. So, we expect some big things for her this summer. No pressure, but we going to nationals. All right. Um Mason, is Mason here? Mason. Mason King. Come on up, Mason. Mason's not new to this either. Come on over here. So, you can see Mason got a lot of jewelry on. Mason does what he normally does when he was shorter than me. Second place in the 200 meter, second place in the 100 meter, and fifth place in long jump. This is in the entire state. He's been consistent. Congratulations, Mesa. Amara, come on up. Amara runs my favorite race, the 400 meter, and she went out there and put up an impressive third place finish. We're so proud of Amara. Tiana Tiana Atwater, is she here? I don't think I saw her. Okay, we're going to we're going to Well, she's another 400 meter runner and she got third place. She's She's probably at practice. Amazing is not here. We Amazing also plays. She's not here today.