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on Fridays to 6 pm on Sundays you have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move by Mr Lindley second by Mr Pickins all those in favor please vote please by hand all in favor and that's approved unanimously 60 thank you uh we'll move on now to um our public hear public participation um portion of the meeting is there anybody signed up for public comment this evening yes sir anybody in the audience want to say anything tonight don't all come at once all right we'll move on then to Ward and staff reports start tonight with Mr Glenn Pickins uh thank you mayor last week council members Hines and Lindley and I went up to DC to attend the conference and also meet with our elected representatives up there uh we met with our staff uh their staffers all day on Tuesday at Capitol Hill had some good productive meetings on obtaining funding for South Cob Drive and uh looking forward to see where they go so thank you Miss hin thank you yes the national league of cities uh conference last week was a great conference it's a conference of over 3,000 um local city officials who meet in DC and we have classes and such and also we have the opportunity to meet with our legislators and and and that was a good thing and it was a busy time to be in DC last week so um we had that uh so thanks to um also uh women's History Month uh we are pivoting a little bit about the event itself but we are still recognizing um two honores and we look forward to that so um please look out we're still looking for some um submissions uh for some honores to be selected so we're excited about that and then um there was something else I was about to do I cannot remember what the other other thing was but um we might come back to you if you remember it I know yes I'll I'll I'll let I I'll yield for right now thank you Mr Lindley uh thank you Mr Mayor and just to Echo a productive time meeting with our federal officials uh a number of them were very familiar with our ask that you've been meeting with them as well uh so hopeful that we'll get some uh some needed federal dollars for a big project with that I yield Mr Welch thank you Mr Mayor I just want to make a real quick announcement kind of early but on May the 3 keithm a beautiful garden tour will occur and I'll be uh coming after this

meeting at some point in the not too distant future with announcement on how to get tickets but if you haven't ever attended this it's a great event that uh really highlights several people's gardens around the city and um it it's certainly worth the price of a ticket to go around and and just see what other people are are doing with their their yards and their Gardens mine's not on there I can't believe that but anyway um please U listen up in the coming weeks and I'll make an announcement on how to get tickets how how are you going run the junell Jog and do the garden tour on the same day um well the the junell jog was on the calendar but this took precedence okay fair enough Mr Gold thank you Mr Mayor spring is a spring is a busy time on uh Monday April 21st we have the um Campbell High School Educational Foundation golf tournament it's one of the major fundraisers for the foundation it's the 27th Annual Susan T Pearson Memorial Golf Tournament so it's up Fox Creek great fundraiser if you want information please reach out and then also on that same weekend Robert Harrison is going to host uh in his house which is a art museum essentially or Gallery uh an IB exhibition for the art IB art students at Campbell High School so a lot of lot of fun stuff that weekend good Mr Oglesby well keeping with the theme of art I'm excited to announce that we had 35 entries for our ottery project with the FI hydrant so we'll be deciding soon on 15 winners uh really excited to actually get the artery going I know this has been a work in progress for some years now so this will be another added addition to uh public art friendly City smrna Georgia how you're back to you mayor and I had a couple couple of things to add while we're talking about events coming up this Saturday from 1 to 4: at the community center is the kid Market uh children are going to be showcasing their talents and and I know this cuz my 9-year-old daughter will be part of that Sam will have a booth U so come on out and support our um our youth in the city uh I wanted to uh mention they talked about going up to DC to ask for federal funding for South Cob Drive we have secured now between state and federal and SPS dollars uh 26 million of the 30 some million that are going to be needed for that project and that what they're

talking about there is the refresh from uh on South cob from Concord to Windy Hill uh so it'll be it'll be a big project and um and something that'll be a good halo effect for this for this community economic driver here and then lastly um we mentioned the Citywide Town Hall uh that we were we had a couple of weeks ago now uh for those of you who weren't able to attend for those of you who don't want to sift through the two hours uh of uh meeting in public comment uh councilman Linley mayor PRM G and I did a podcast uh so it was about 20 minutes maybe 15 minutes kind of highlighting a high level view of all of the projects we've got going on in the city so that's available on our website and our social media if you'd like to um that'll be a good way to find out what's going on and with that I'll ask Mr whatever your name is uh to go uh City attorney Jeffrey no Miss Heather Joe your your name is difficult one to remember sometimes yeah uh with that if there's no other business be brought before this body we will say good evening from the jonell city thank you