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e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e good evening everyone thank you for being here if y'all will just take your seats and settle we're going to begin in just a moment well good evening everybody come on you can do better than that good evening everybody how's everybody doing welcome and thank you for being here uh from what I understand we have 60 artists from all grade levels from Nic Jack represented here with half of y'all's artwork over at the community center and half of y'all's artwork here in City Hall and from what I have seen y'all are so talented thank you so much for sharing your talents with us and and having your art exhibited at a city building we really appreciate it it is amazing I'm going to now turn it over to Leah who's with Smyrna Arts Council and she's going to talk a little bit about what we're doing and have some of y'all come up and be recognized with some pictures as well so I just want to say thank you again for being here and for sharing your talents we really appreciate it thank you mayor Norton I appreciate it thank you guys again so much for being here tonight and so much to all of the students for your participation we are so honored to have you guys as a part of this exhibit and so fortunate to be able to have such great blooming artists in our community to get to celebrate tonight so I want to hand it over to miss Hardesty who's going to say a few words um about the exhibit and what we've done here and um again I just really appreciate at you guys and the support that you have for our artists in the community thank you Leah um this came to me as an email from Renee Brown the foundation president for nicck and she said that this is going to be around um March or February and they were thinking about making the theme about love so being an art teacher of many years I was able to kind of condense it and amplify it for students in this way I said what do you who Do You Love what do love what you love doing or what makes your heart happy and then they created this art so congratulations students and parents and families for supporting these amazing artists um so thank you also to the City of Smyrna thank you to Leah and thank you to Renee for allowing us this beautiful opportunity um we have an

art show coming up at Nick Jack April 17th in the gym 5:30 to 7:30 which will also be showcasing your students your children and all the children's art at Nick Jacks thank you very much thank you so much so we've got an opportunity now we want to be able to um let you guys take some photos with mayor and Council we're going to do that by grade group and so um we will start with our kindergarteners can we have our kindergarten artists come up please kindergarteners come on up we're gonna just come right over here into this area can you tell us what your name is Maya Maya Amaya Amaya thank you British McKenzie thank you guys thank you so much all right come on around here where want to be next is where's it where's a good you're kind of running the show there we go oh that's what we do oh nice first yeah can we have our first graders come up too can we go ahead and have our first graders please all right first graders I want you to say your name as you walk by Noah Noah okayy Sarah Jay all right thank you okay we got our kindergarteners and first graders here you go sit right there over here I want you to you know he was he was he is good at organizing and I want you to come right up here all right can you see all the faces now oh I'm in the way here you scoot this way scoot this way there you go can everybody see all right need I didn't hear yall say cheese let's we're going to see which grade groups are the loudest cheers all our parents have the photos they need all right all right thank you kindergartners and first graders we will have second graders and third graders can we get our second and third graders let's see how big these groups are all right all right I'm going to go through and get some names here hero Madison Ariana Henry Fletcher Caroline candra Zion Malachi Bryant already got you didn't all right thank you second and third graders y'all squeeze in here [Music] my good parents anybody else all right thank you guys now can we have our fourth and fifth graders come up please fourth and fifth graders all right we got our fourth and fifth graders oh nice Amelia Riley Lyla promise Brooks AJ and Justice Jackson awesome guys we're going to squeeze in a little bit here e let's give all our artists a big round of applause thank you guys now I know the

hallways were crowded earlier so if you need a few more minutes to go look at some of the art that's out there please feel free to take some time to do that this evening e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e no listen I'm not I'm not accusing all right everybody let's go ahead and get started welcome uh glad to have you here tonight we have with us tonight Dr Jeff Pennington smrna First Baptist Church at 1275 Church Street Pastor come on up and Lead lead us in the invocation and pledge everybody please rise let's pray together father we thank you so much for tonight and I thank you so much for our wonderful City it's such a blessing the way that you have given us such a wonderful and incredible place to live and Lord I Thank you for our mayor I thank you for our counsel I thank you for our incredible City officials I thank you for Joe benett and the great work that he does in managing this place for our police officers for our firemen we are so thankful for all of them and the incredible sacrifice and the blessing that they give to us each day with their service and father I just pray that tonight in this meeting that you'll be glorified through everything that happens Lord you will just give wisdom and give discernment in the mundane and in the meaningful father we just give it all to you and in Christ's name we pray amen 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 thank you Pastor for being with us tonight appreciate you we don't have any agenda changes tonight mayoral report um I'll just mention that the construction on on the new bathroom downtown has begun um and still fire continues to um make progress on their grading and all that um so we're I think we'll be uh we we'll have Memorial Day on the um bathrooms and playground is our Target and um I think Aaron with still fire was uh just said as soon as humanly possible which we we hope will be by the end of the year or first part of next year so um with that we'll move on to proclamations and presentation uh we have two tonight and the first is a proclamation in recognition of women's

History Month in March 2025 and I'll turn it over to councilwoman lonia P Hines thank you mayor and it's supposed to be also um councilwoman Susan Wilkinson as well we're both presenting it and uh we'll read it in conjunction so um every other Clause I don't have a copy of it oh oh okay okay great thank you okay and we'll read every other Clause uh this is a proclamation by the mayor of the City of Smyrna and recognition of women's History Month whereas women's History Month recognizes that women of every race class and ethnic background have made significant and historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways and whereas women's History Month recognizes that women have played and continue to play critical economic cultural and social roles in every sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home and by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force and whereas women's history recognizes women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable philanthropic and cultural institutions in our nation and whereas women's History Month recognizes women of every race class and ethnic background served as early leaders in the Forefront of every major Progressive social change movement and whereas women's History Month recognizes American women who have served our country courageously in the military and whereas women's History Month recognizes women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the Abolitionist Movement the Emancipation movement the industrial labor movement the civil rights movement and other movements especially the peace movement which create a more fair and just Society for all and whereas in 1980 President Jimmy Carter issued a proclamation declaring the week of March 8th as Women's National Women's history week six years after the proclamation Congress declared March of each year as women's history month and whereas the national theme for women's History Month 2025 is moving forward together women educating and inspiring Generations announced by the national women's history Alliance which spearheaded the movement for March being declared National History Month Women's National History Month women's stories and the larger human story expand our understanding and strengthen our connections with each other now therefore I Derek Norton mayor of the City of Smyrna do hereby recognize the month of March as women's History Month to honor women everywhere for their outstanding achievement and invaluable contributions to society so I'm so very happy that we have this Proclamation and then um just to also state that we're having for the

first time a women's History Month event here in the city and it's going to be on March 23rd um and it's an afternoon tea um it'll be at the read house very excited about that and we will have two um uh categories of recognition for women we'll have a histor hisorical one uh for a woman who's made impact to the City of Smyrna who is now passed away and then one who is currently living and we will look out onto your um the websites and things because we will be doing uh nominations for that particular person and I just want to give the names really quickly of the ones that we're considering for purposes of our historical um last year when we came up with this idea and and did this we looked at women from our past in Smyrna who did some remarkable things for their time period and so for this year we have five um that we looked at Lily Wood who was involved with the JC's in 1969 and president of the PTA at Griffin Middle School um she was a part of the Bennett Woods Garden Club she helped with her church and just a lot of charitable um things that she did uh Leela um Denmark who uh was the oldest practicing uh physician at the time when she retired um who lived here she was one of the first women pediatricians in Atlanta and saw P patients in advised um uh parents for more than uh 70 years uh Diane mccartie um who started the Diane answering service in the early 1960s and um her answering service for businesses in smyna like read realy um she's one of those Maddie L Clow African-American school teacher in cob County and in the Davenport neighborhood um a Spellman graduate and just some of the things that she did within the community and then Louise Lindley Harper and the rosy riveters of the Bell bomber she had uh she was a part of uh the effort during World War II she uh went to work at Bell bomber in the photography uh department and um was a part of the Smyrna Rosies as the Rosie Riveter so um those are some really impactful people um and if you notice that Louise Linley Harper last name Linley um is a relative of our own uh council person Travis Lindley so I'm very excited about those recognitions and look forward to people submitting nominations for our current one so thank you awesome thanks yall next we have uh Campbell High School Education Foundation update Dr jadaa Foundation president welcome hello hello good evening

staff council members and mayor a special thank you for councilman G for his time and energy as a fellow board member my name is Dr pin Chada and I so sincerely appreciate the opportunity to come speak before all of you and the larger smna Community about the best high school in all of cob County Campbell High School and our Educational Foundation I promise I will not take too much of your time tonight I would like to First go over the foundation's history tell you a little bit about me how I feel in this role as president and as a CHS alumnist and end my comments by telling you what we're all up to recently and in the future so in 1995 30 years ago the found inaugural members were Schoolboard member at the time CT Johnson principal Joe Boland and parents Sheree Lynch W Van Horn Susan black Anne Brady Susan Pearson Charlie Phillips and Shelley corgle the foundation at the time raised funds through the establishment of an annual golf tournament which we still have and the Jon jog which we still have teachers had requested teachers requested funds through an application process during the first 10 years the board funded specialized teacher training additional supplies and equipment field trips conference fees expenses special projects and other worthwhile Endeavors the foundation's board of directors is comprised of 12 members including current and former parents former students staff the CHS principal and Community leaders funds are raised through community events such as personal and corporate donations and as well as other endeavors the goal of the foundation remains to provide C DS students and teachers with the best available tools to help students succeed throughout the 25 years since the Inception of the foundation to support students have been provided in many ways during the pandemic the foundation was able to act quickly to supply laptops to 120 students identified by teachers at being at risk for being left behind those laptops remain in service today in addition the foundation continues to support students needing students needs including grants to individual teachers to for updated classroom equipment an annual needs and achievement based ,000 scholarship tutoring sessions during school breaks for students at risk being not being able to graduate One Summer board members actually built the brick senior Courtyard adjacent to the CHS cafeteria a major focus of the foundation of the last 5 years has been to increase our staffing for our College and Career Centers and we have two College and career counselors that help individual and group sessions for P for students not patients sorry um that speak in English and

Spanish and they help guide students on either college or career in addition we also have a found uh endowment that we make a quarter of our funds raised go to the endowment and currently we stand at a quarter million dollars so no that was all about the foundation a little bit about me I'm proud to say that I am a Spartan class of 2003 when I graduated as Val dictorian and the Atlanta Journal constitutions cobs County scholar athlete of the year I then earned my Bachelor of Science in neurobiological Sciences from the University of Florida as well as my medical degree from there as well gogators I then went on I didn't know you were gonna be doing that now um I then went on to complete my Family Medicine Residency at the University of California San Diego and my fellow ship at the VA in West Los Angeles where I did my paliative and hospice Fellowship for the last decade I have been working mainly at kenstone hospital teaching medical students and um residents in paliative medicine as well as cob Douglas and paing hospitals I'm married have three young boys 742 and have a lovely puppy named Dexter I will end this presentation with why I feel so strongly about giving back to the high school that gave me a world class education in high school the lessons I learned over 20 years ago I still use to this very day and the one thing that I think I bring a little bit differently is my Neuroscience background when students learn their brain architecture actually changes and it is that lens through which I view what we're doing what my role is what the foundation's role is is helping brains of high school students make important connections so that when they leave high school they can be successful productive members of society and I hope that I can come back to you twice a year to report on our progress because we have a couple things are initiatives and I swear I'm done we have our commit to Campbell month that isn't every October and our commit to Campbell fundraising initiative acknowledges that our success at providing CHS students with the best opportunities is incumbent on our community committing to the cause without the community without all of you there is very little hope for success and so thank you thank you thank you for everyone that has participated in either a jog the golf tournament or being part in supporting our efforts we are excited to host alumni weekend so all Campbell students uh homecoming weekend this October be on the lookout

for that we have the Campbell advanced placement Scholars Program which was started in 2003 2024 school year to provide an opportunity for high performing students to become part of a community they students are not involved in IB program they maintain a 3.5 GPA or higher Take 5 AP classes 5 AP tests complete at least one pathway and complete two foreign language classes and so I will end with saying our golf tournament April 21st we hope to see you at Fox Creek and the junell jog thank you for the mayor and support Smyrna for partnering with us that will be May third and thank you so much I hope to come back in six months and report back on our progress thank you awesome thanks for bringing so much energy and putting it into that it's that's an amazing thing that you're doing and we appreciate appreciate the partnership with supports Smur to for the junle J thank you anything else Mr education chair oh thanks Mr Mayor so Dr CH Chada does a wonderful job of leading the foundation his passion and being out in front of our community and I appreciate it and appreciate the support of the Smurda Community for the camp for the high school itself and particularly the foundation thanks thanks bin all right we'll move on now to the rest of our agenda you can stay but you don't have to right have a good evening with your 7 four and two is that what you goodness gets easier it gets easier we have a Community Development items we don't have any privilege license and show cause hearings we do have one item privilege license this is item a privilege license New request uh package this is beer 2445 Cob Parkway Southeast smna Georgia 30008 cousins Brothers Barbecue doing business as CNB barbecue with leadon bernardet Moran as agent Mr Bennett any background please thank you Mr Mayor application was made for priv privilege license New request for cousins Brothers Barbecue DBA CNB barbecue for the sale of beer package with Leon bernardet Moran is the agent applicant Leon bernardet Moran will be the registered agent responsible for the sale of alcohol at 2445 Cob Parkway Southeast Smyrna Georgia 30008 the applicant has been given a copy of the alcoholic beverage ordinances and attended the mandatory alcohol awareness Workshop a background investigation conducted by the Smyrna Police Department failed to reveal information that would preclude issuance of this license Lon bernardet Maran has agreed to abide by the guidelines set forth by the City of Smyrna ordinance governing the sell of alcohol thank you Mr Bennett this is in Ward

one um council member Pickin say can I invite the applicant up May good good evening you uh want to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about the business and then answer some questions from Mr pickets yes my name is Leon maren uh the business is barbecue restaurant um my son is the actual owner um well we own it together and what more do I need to tell you you uh thanks for being here tonight and doing business in smyna have you taken all the necessary courses to obtain the license yes I did okay awesome uh I'll make a motion to approve 8A license 2025 d018 I'll second have a motion in a second all those in favor please vote and that's approved unanimously thanks for doing business in smyna thanks for taking time to come here tonight to get this approved and uh probably the easiest meeting you had all day it is and thank you for um having me and if you all ever get a chance stop by and get some rips you can count on it you can count on it thank you very much y'all have a good evening we'll move now to formal business we have a few items tonight item a authorization to amend the fiscal year 2025 adopted budgets for the general fund and general fund Capital Improvement fund to increase the adopted general fund budget to increase transfers out to CIP in the amount of $342,000 and to amend the general fund CP adopted budget to create a new project for computer upgrades and establish the budget for this city project in the amount of $342,000 Mr Bennett the background please yes sir Windows 10 is at the end of life effective October 2025 the city has 83 laptops 33 36 desktops 76 Police Department tough book rugged lap laptops seven other specialty computers that are all due for replacement due to the Windows 10 end of life that must be upgraded before the October deadline it requested funding for these Replacements during the CIP process for the fiscal year 2026 budget Administration and finance recommended committing funding from the FY 2025 budget to have adequate time to get the computers ordered and replaced ahead of the deadline in a previous budget amendment we amended an increase the fiscal year 2025 Revenue budget for unbudgeted House Bill 489 Revenue that will offset this expenditure increase so basically Windows 10's going away if we don't do this they're not going to work they will still work sir but they may have some security flaws got you all right any discussion I'll entertain a motion motion do