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e e we'll call this meeting to order get started thanks everybody for braving the cold to come out tonight um with us tonight we have Pastor shell Osman Life Church Assembly of God 4100 King Springs Road come on up pastor and lead us in the invocation and pledge everybody please rise thank you Mr Mayor counsel father we thank you so much for another wonderful day Lord despite the cold we're so grateful Lord that we're able to be inside and we pray for those Lord who are braving the elements Lord who don't have a warm place tonight we ask that you would watch about them and guard about them help us as a community Lord to continue to strive to make decisions especially for the mayor and counsel Lord that would be for the betterment of our community and ultimately for the glory of your name father thank you for this incredible City that of which we're a part where we can work play worship Dy and just enjoy one another's company we continue to ask your blessings upon the city upon our mayor Upon Our council members and all that's said and done and father while someone else might offer their prayer in another name it's my honor tonight that I can offer my prayer in the name of My Savior Jesus Christ amen and 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 appreciate you being here tonight and for all you do for the community thank you we don't have any agenda changes tonight uh next is the mayoral report um I just want to thank our staff really for the response to the snow that we had last week and for all of the folks who have to work outside sanitation and others uh who are braving the cold the last few days really really appreciate uh their efforts they always serve our citizens well no matter what the conditions so we we appreciate them uh I want to announce tonight that we're going to have a Citywide town hall meeting uh Thursday February 13th at 6:30 uh be during the time that we normally have our Council agenda meeting this Council met um at a retreat in January talking about some of the bigger picture projects that we have here and some some a lot of moving Parts whether it's toison pool or um the the purchase of the Baptist Church property and what all that means uh so we're going to have a a town

hall to share uh what the developments are with the public and engage the public and answer any questions that yall have again that's 6:30 Thursday February 13th with that that'll conclude my report uh under proclamations and presentations we've got the Smyrna Education Foundation report and check presentation from JRM management so I'll invite yall up here now I think from smrna Education Foundation uh John Ducati Elaine cook Tracy Santos Nichelle Walker Jeff Dax khila doson Mosley and then with JRM Bill Watson and Todd Miller and then we've got Kevin draw from Atkins park is there anybody I missed all right go ahead uh mayor and Council thank you for having us um we just want to um show our appreciation we value our partnership uh putting on events in this beautiful city and this uh fantastic venue um it's truly one of the nicest ones that we do uh we'll I think I mention this every year but the matriarch of our small company is uh feay Miller um and she was an educator for 30 years so education is near dear to our heart and U we always want to give back and do what we can uh our partnership with Atkins Park um on these events we give a percentage back from our sales um and uh from the three events we did it's like almost $4,000 and uh and those sales that through our partnership that we're able to generate and then we uh we added the money to that to basically bring it to $2,000 um is what we're going to give tonight to the Smur Education Foundation and we've also uh the the sales of drinks at the taste of Smyrna they were able to raise another $2700 so it's $2,730 bucks that we're able to give it back into the community so give that to you that's amazing couldn't do it without our Partnerships with man how long how long has the city partner with y'all it's been goodness it's been 15 20 over 20 years over 20 years all of the events are top-notch and we we really value our partnership with you all and we appreciate what the Smyrna Education Foundation does and so I know this will go a long way anybody want to talk a little bit about what you do and where this money might be used for our schools sure good evening um the smna Education Foundation Services the 14 Public Schools um that feed into Campbell High School we promote public education within Smyrna we also assist by providing volunteer service hours um help helping out with anything in the school that they

may need us to help out with it could be um Spirit nights it can be um going into the schools to help with reading sessions anything they may need we also help to think about how we can sort of equalize how much um support and funding each of the schools is giving so through throughout the year we tend to give out grants um and each School receives the same amount of Grants this year we've given out $7,000 and we have our new um core education grant coming up soon which we give out $1,000 do to each school we are very thankful to JRM they are one of our biggest donors and we are also very thankful to the City of Smyrna and to the Smyrna citizens and students we are always very impressed whenever we go into our city schools of how um engaged our students are and how they are so excited about learning and this is just a wonderful city thank you [Applause] we appreciate all y'all do do y'all want to get a photo or yeah let's do that come on they right here good awesome thank you hey good to see you I appreciate what youall do thank you over $20,000 that is awesome all right we'll move on now to Community Development items our agenda is not too long tonight um the first item is ordinance 2025-the amendment to chapter six alcoholic beverage ordinance to allow package St taste ing Citywide City of Smyrna and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents Mr Ben at the background please thank you Mr Mayor the Community Development Department has received several requests from alcohol manufacturers for the ability to provide tastings at package stores in accordance with state law the city's alcoholic beverage ordinance prohibits any consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises of a package store location Georgia law allows for tastings at package stores provided the municipality allows it as part of their local ordinances the proposed code Amendment would modify smyrna's code to allow alcohol beverage tastings at licensed package stores in accordance with state law Community Development recommends approval thank you Mr Ben is there any discussion or questions from Council before we open up to public hearing okay this is a public hearing if there's anybody in the audience who wishes to speak for or against this item come on up now and be sworn in seeing none will close the public hearing and uh I will entertain a motion move to approve by Mr Oglesby do you have a second second by Mr Pickins all those in favor please vote and Mr Lenley

is joining us virtually correct Mr Lenley how do you vote Jill do we have him Mr Lenley couldn't be with us in person so was joining us virtually this time not from Antarctica I'm not sure where he's at bear with us as we deal with technical issues here he can hear us we just can't hear him okay then how does he vote ask him if you got him yes okay Mr Lindley votes yes we're going to do that through your text I guess and that's approved 70 thank you um item eight privilege license show cause hearing we're going to table item a 8 a to the February 3rd

2025 mayor and council meeting can I have a motion to table that item please miss Wilkinson um moves to move this to February 3rd do I have a second second by Mr G all those in favor please vote Mr Pickins you can tell us how Mr Lindley votes he can hear us but can't speak I guess okay great we're just waiting on figuring out Mr ogles of his vote is yours working Mr Gold it's so cold outside that even our computers aren't working we can do a vote by hand if that makes it easier going for the rest of these things is this going to be an issue with all our votes or should we do by hand okay should not be all right so that passes 70 okay we'll move on to formal business now we have three items the first is approval of a change order to revise the

ramps for the speed humps at each bridge on the local access Lanes at Windy Hill Road contract with B Baldwin Paving 1014

kenmill Drive Northwest Marietta Georgia 300060 in the amount of $6895 64 and close the local access Lanes eastbound from 8:00 pm Friday January 31st 2025 until 5:00 a.m. Monday February 3rd 20125 to allow construction without constructing temporary Lanes at an additional cost and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents Mr Ben at the background please yes sir this is to adjust the approach on The Pedestrian Crossings we have one installed currently eastbound on Wendy Hill Road there are three additional to be installed um staff has concluded that the uh approaches are too Steep and we need to soften the approaches along with this is also a road closure um to close the local Access Lane eastbound on Windy Hill Road from January 17th at 8:00 P.M until Monday January 20th at 5: a.m. staff recommends approval okay uh do I have a motion some move to approve by Mr Welch second by Miss Hines all those in favor please vote let's see if the computers work this time that's right and Mr Lindley votes okay that that's approved 70 then Item B approval of the change order to RFQ 018 in the amount not to exceed

$270,000 an amend contract price with Smith pipeline Incorporated 400 Bohanan Road Fairburn Georgia 30213 for the

dokin area project increasing uh contract amount from 80 86,4 to 1,76 $ 6,414 to be paid for from the 2025 water CIP fund and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents Mr benedit background please yes sir the do the dokin project is part of an arpa funded project it consists of 6200 linear feet of pipe replacement new service line materials project cost increased due to field changes that consisted of tree preservation driveway apron Replacements and saw installation to 70 homes which will return the landscape and back to its original state water and sewer recommend approval any discussion or questions from Council this is in Ward four M Welch have a motion to approve second by Mr Pickins all those in favor please vote all right that's uh pass 70 and our last item under formal business item C authorization to approve the city owned roadway and pathway lighting along Atlanta Road from Fleming Street to

Concord Road to implement an ongoing maintenance and replacement schedule for the fixtures and the conversion of all existing fixtures from High Press sodium

to new LED fixtures to be performed by Georgia power for a monthly service fee and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents Mr benett background please yes sir this is a request to implement an ongoing maintenance and replacement schedule for the fixtures to be performed by Georgia hour for a monthly service fee there are two options for the monthly fees option one is no down payment and the fee is $ 7,722 per month or $92,400 the fee is $591 34 monthly or $ 7,924 and 8 cent yearly this request also includes the conversion of all existing fixtures from high pressure so to new LED fixtures and is based off the current circumstances that our current vendors cannot currently get replacement poles that match our existing poles replacement parts are also becoming obsolete and are very expensive to replace as the high press sodium fixtures and poles are phasing out the city will maintain ownership of the lights themselves this will be a maintenance based only agreement with Georgia Power public works as requested and recommends authorization thank you Mr Bennett noticed a lot of a lot of folks have noticed and a lot of council members have noticed that there's a lot of lights out uh along our public roadways and so this will be a first step in remedying that quickly any um any comment or question from councel all right uh I'll entertain a motion motion do pass by Mr ghoul do I have a second second by Miss Hines all those in favor please vote okay and that's approved 70 next is the consent agenda Mr Bennett can you please read the very brief consent agenda for