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Council approval yes sir item 10 A Min 2025-the of the whole pre-council meeting minutes Item B min -28 approval of the use of council chambers for the Creekwood ADV Vinings annual HOA meeting Sunday February 16th 6: pm to 8:00 pm thank you Mr minut do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so mooved by Mr Pickins do I have a second second by Miss Hines all those in favor please vote okay and that's approved 70 Now we move on to our citizen participation portion of the meeting uh public comment nobody signed up looks like we got one gentleman in the audience who's not staff do you want to say anything tonight nope okay all right we'll close the public comment portion and move on to Ward and staff reports uh start tonight with Mr Glenn Pickins thanks mayor no report this evening Miss Hines um just mentioning again our black history month program that will be coming up on the 28th of February had the opportunity to um attend the the cp's uh MLK program yesterday which was very nice and always very inspiring so um that's great and a shout out to our C smer beautiful for the service Day activities that they had in um observance of um ml day also our women's history program I'm looking forward to it and hopefully be able to give more information will be on March 23rd thank you thank you Mr Welch no report this evening Miss Wilkinson I just want to uh thank our staff for keeping us safe with this uh cold weather and keeping us informed can you hear me or anyway I just want to thank the staff for um keeping us safe during this cold weather and keeping us updated about the storm and um with that I yield Mr Gold thank you sir uh just two quick things first is uh we're going to have the second uh Foundation Round Table in coordination with the Smur HED Education Foundation on Thursday March 6th at 5: PM so this is the foundations from all the local area schools come together to share some best practices and then also this coming Friday is the second annual Gotcha Covered Gala and Gotcha Covered Gala provides funding for blankets in the memory of of of Mitchell georgiano who is an officer that uh that lost his life two several years ago so please come on out and support that that important Mission if you can thanks thank you Mr ugs thank you Mr Mayor uh got a couple of things in reference to the public art committee uh in reference to the
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crosswalks as soon as it gets a little warmer we'll touch them up and make them look nice again uh but we're moving forward we have a we we have a new RFP out for uh the ottery which consists of 15 fire hydrants that will be painted so if you are an artist or an inspiring artist and would like to participate in that project please submit and I you back Mr Bennett yes sir I have one correction the issue sheet wasn't updated the road closure for Windy Hill Road will be from Friday January 31st 2025 at 800m until 500 amm Monday February 3rd 2025 I thought that maybe you said something different but on the agend it did okay all right well we got that all handled Mr Cochran M Heather Miss Jill anything he just wanted everybody to all right well good well if there's nothing else to be brought before this body we'll say good night from the jonell city and adjourn at 721 thanks
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P. Hines, Councilmember Charles Welch, Councilmember Susan Wilkinson, Mayor Pro Tem / Councilmember Tim Gould, Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby, Jr. Absent: 1 – Councilmember Travis Lindley Also Present: 1 – Scott Cochran Staff: 5 – Jennifer Bennett, Joe Bennett, Jill Head, Russell Martin, Eric Randall
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2. Call to Order Mayor Derek Norton called to order the January 21, 2025 Pre-Council Meeting held at A. Max Bacon City Hall in the Administration Conference Room at 6:30 PM.
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5. Review of Current M&C Agenda PRE2025-004 Review of the January 21, 2025 Mayor and Council Meeting Notice and Agenda Mayor Norton reviewed the January 21, 2025 Mayor and Council agenda. There was no discussion.
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6. Other Business / Staff Comment Mayor Norton announced that there will be a citywide town hall meeting on February 13, 2025. At 6:00 PM, the public hearing for the state homestead legislation will be heard. At 6:30 PM, the Town Hall will begin, then it will be followed by the Committee of the Whole meeting. Pre-Council Meeting – Final MAYOR AND COUNCIL Derek Norton, Mayor Tim Gould, Mayor Pro Tem (Ward 6 Glenn Pickens (Ward 1) Latonia P. Hines (Ward 2) Travis Lindley (Ward 3) Charles “Corkey” Welch (Ward 4) Susan Wilkinson (Ward 5) Rickey N. Oglesby, Jr. (Ward 7) A Max Bacon City Hall Administration Conference Room 2800 King Street Smyrna, GA 30080 City Attorney Scott Cochran City Administrator Joseph Bennett City Clerk Heather K. Peacon-Corn City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers Councilmember Oglesby – stated he, Richard Garland, and Jodi Mills had their second Juneteenth meeting. More information will come. The Smyrna Public Arts Committee had their meeting to discuss touch ups on the crosswalk murals. They also took a vote to develop a master plan. Mayor Pro Tem Gould – announced the 2nd Annual Gotcha Covered Blanket Gala on January 24, 2025. Councilmember Wilkinson – stated she will likely miss the second March meeting. Councilmember Hines – Black History Month tickets are on sale. The Women’s History Afternoon Tea will be held on Marsh 23, 2025. She stated she attended a very good MLK Jr. program yesterday. Councilmember Welch – asked if Christy and/or Heather could provide updates quarterly on meeting attendance so council could be aware of potential quorum issues. Joe Bennett, City Administrator – stated that if the Ga Power item on the tonight’s agenda is approved, he will speak to Al Martin at Ga Power to hasten the street light repairs that are all over the city. 7. Executive Session (As Needed)
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8. Adjournment Mayor Derek Norton adjourned the January 21, 2025 Pre-Council Meeting at 6:45 PM. Facilities are provided throughout City Hall for the convenience of persons with disabilities. ******************************* THIS MEETING WAS PROPERLY NOTICED AND POSTED AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NOTICING STANDARDS AS OUTLINED IN O.C.G.A. 50-14-3: The City of Smyrna website – www.smyrnaga.gov City Hall, 2800 King Street SE, Notice Boards
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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1. Roll Call Present: 7 – Mayor Derek Norton, Councilmember Glenn Pickens, Councilmember Latonia P. Hines, Councilmember Travis Lindley, Councilmember Charles Welch, Mayor Pro Tem / Councilmember Tim Gould, Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby, Jr. Absent: 1 – Councilmember Susan Wilkinson Also Present: 1 – Scott Cochran Staff: 13 – Julie Barwig, Joe Bennett, Jeff Crowder, Richard Garland, H. Houze, Bo Jones, Russell Martin, Jessica Meyers, Jodi Mills, Paul Osburn, Heather Peacon-Corn, Eric Randall, Kristin Robinson Call to Order Mayor Derek Norton called to order the January 16, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting held at A. Max Bacon City Hall in the HR Training Room at 6:01 PM.
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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2. Staff M&C Agenda Items to Review ORD2025-003: Russell Martin, Community Development Director, provided the following background: The Community Development Department has received several requests from alcohol manufactures 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 state law allows for tastings at package stores provided the municipality allows it as part of their local ordinance. The proposed code amendment would modify Smyrna’s code to allow alcoholic beverage tastings at licensed package stores in accordance with state law. Community Development have received requests from alcoholic beverage manufactures to update the City’s Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance to allow package store tastings as permitted by state law. The tastings would provide manufactures the opportunity to showcase their products at local package stores. The code amendment would allow sales representatives, manufacturers and wholesalers to hold tastings at local package stores. State Law O.C.G.A. § 3-3-26 and O.C.G.A. Tit. 3, Ch. 15 provide the minimum requirements for these tastings should the local government permit them through their local ordinance. Community Development reviewed the alcoholic beverage ordinances of several local municipalities, including, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Woodstock, Marietta and Cobb County. The municipalities address alcohol tastings in different ways. Some municipalities address it through ancillary tastings, some in verbatim to state code and prohibit tastings out right. Further, the Community Development Department and the City Attorney have reviewed the State’s Code with regard to alcoholic beverage tastings at package stores. To allow for tastings at package stores, the city would be required to make amendments to several sections of Chapter 6 the Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance. Community Development is proposing the following amendments to the City’s Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance: The following are proposed code amendments to Chapter 6 of the City’s Code of Ordinances and are presented in draft legislative format (underlined items should be added and items with strikethroughs should be removed): Repeal Section 6-75 to Chapter 6 – Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance to remove any inconsistency with other tasting requirements.
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