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Um these are the coffee shop inspiration images that we would look to provide. Um you know it would be a very nice community amenity where people could come in grab a cup of coffee grab a bagel etc. Okay. Thank you. Um the other thing if we could look at the site plan and I uh I'm assuming there's going to be sidewalks within the the community and access to the sidewalk. It's on Highland Parkway. Yes, that's correct. There's a there's a crosswalk or a couple of crosswalks right in front of the leasing amenity uh that would take you to a sidewalk that would take you out to to Highlands Parkway. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Gold, thanks so much for your work effort to get to this point. Um, for the mixed use aspect, it really to me it looks like an apartment multif family development and do you know what the minimum square footage of retail you need to qualify for mixed use? Off the top of my head, no, I do not. But most of us use applications that we've been developments we see here are really focused on retail that attracts visitors from the outside. Here to your point, the mix is really meant for generally be targeted for your residents, right? No, we we do believe that this is for the offices adjacent to us as well. Um Fountain Spark office when they come in to work um they can come in, grab a coffee, um grab a pastry, etc. Um you know, this is for everybody to use. Um so yes, we we intend for not just our residents but uh for the uh adjacent businesses and even for uh the existing residents.
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Item number six is approval of amendment number one to the CDBGPY26 subreient agreement CD26-C26S8 to increase the award by 82,74162 and reallocate the administration and planning budget to public facilities which will increase the public facilities award to $32,597. Next item is approval to conduct a classification and compensation study using Evergreen Solutions LLC as our consultant for an amount not to exceed 54,000 is approved in the 2020 FY27 budget and authorize the mayor to execute related documents. The next item is authorization to approve an agreement with Net Planner Systems, Inc. for technology infrastructure installation under the state contract 99999- SPD 0000172-012 this is integrated security and surveillance products and services and also 9999 SPD SPD 00000021-000012 at the new city of Smy administration office space is located at 1088 Concord Road not to exceed $231,311.50 which will be funded by the 22 authorized the mayor to sign and execute related documents. Next item is a formal approval to rename uh Glendale Place to the west of South Cobb Drive to Jay Wallace Way and authorize the mayor to sign execuments. The final item is to approval to close King Street between Bank Street and Powder Spring Street from June 11th through July 19th of this year for downtown Event Cup days celebrating the FIFA World Cup games to allow pedestrian traffic during peak hours with the use of the village green space. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Moved by Mr. Pickkins, second by Miss Hines. Everybody, please vote. And that's approved 6. A lot of people on that item Jay, a lot of people have been requesting that that portion of King Street remain closed. Um, this might be a precursor to that. Uh, we got the new Ballards and uh, it's easy to put them up and they may just stay there eventually and leave that space uh, that space open.
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Yes, we while we are making a recommendation to of approval license and variance board. Um, thank you. Yeah, they would have probably voted for it. Any other questions relating to this setback? Um, Miss Wilson, uh, can you put the the the um the site plan up there again that shows the the Okay, that um, is there any parking for the the vending machine on that side of the building? You said there's no parking on that side. Where will people park to get the ice that stopped there? on either side of the building there the there on the street side of the building there's approximately 50 feet um of area that's outside of the drive lane to park or to the west side of the vending machine there's additional parking over there I mean the vending machine process for this is probably a minute to a minute and a half to get your ice and leave so I don't you didn't you said uh no parking so I was kind of on that side. So, I was just trying to figure it out. I'll recouch that. It's not affecting existing existing parking for the restaurant use on site. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you, Rusty. Like to invite the applicant up now. I recognize this for this applicant is former council member Doug Stoner. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Appreciate it. anything you want to add to the discussion uh in the sense u for those who know this used to be our dairy queen years ago. I used to work there as a teenager. Uh currently owned uh we sold the property several years ago to Hibachi Express. Uh the gentleman who currently operates and owns it used to be our tenant and we have a lease with him as it relates to putting this uh machine on that location.
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when they're using this. My brother got to move the blood. got to the hospital today. So I need to try to get down there. So my mind is otherwise occupied sounds. I know. All right, let's get started, y'all. Y'all want to have a meeting? Welcome. This is the biggest crowd we've had in in a while. Uh, and you might have noticed we have some state champions in the house tonight. We're going to start this evening. Um, we have Pastor Kim Grahamling from Life Church, Assembly of God at 4100 King Springs Road. Pastor, would you please come up and lead us in the invocation and pledge? Everybody please rise. Let's bow to pray. Dear Lord, we thank you for those who serve on our Smyrna City Council and for all organizations and individuals who will take part in this meeting today. We thank you for those who serve in all le levels of leadership over this city. And I pray that your peace and unity will be present as they all work through the details of the agenda that has been set for this meeting. I ask you to give wisdom for making wise decisions that will be beneficial for the health, vitality, and progress of all its citizens. I pray for divine strategies and creative insights in how to execute those decisions in a timely and effective manner. I pray for the financial provision to see the vision for the future of Smyrna to be realized. I pray for a spirit of cooperation between individuals, government entities, businesses, and other organizations so that we will be stronger and better community. I pray most of all that we would trust in you and not lean on our own understanding. That above all and in everything we would acknowledge you, trusting that you give us direction and wisdom. And it is in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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And this is funded by transfer in from the water sewer fund for storm water CIP. Once again, this is just to help any storm water infrastructure to make sure that we are keeping up with that. We have about a 7% or a 7% increase. This is about a 2% increase each year. Um this is funded by the monthly storm water fee. Um all the money pretty much all the money goes here. We do have a transfer out because we have a assistant engineer for um in our engineering department that focuses on storm water. So that's funded by transfer in from the storm water fund. But other than that, all the money we collect goes into the storm water CIP to help with that. For our vehicle replacements and additions, as I said, we are replacing more vehicles than we did than we have previously. We're replacing about 24 or exactly 24 vehicles. Um our budget is 3.57 million about 3.6 million. Once again this is a bigger number but we have been putting more and more to fund balance every year. So we have plenty of money that is sufficient to cover um these purchases. We we were also able to use our ARPA funds to buy some vehicles which freed up even more of those reserves. Um we also have $100,000 that is budgeted uh for emer that is we are putting towards the vehicle replacement for emergency funds. There's nothing specifically budgeted. So if a vehicle comes up that needs to be replaced, it gets wrecked throughout the year, that will come back to you all to do a budget amendment to to replace that emergency vehicle. So that's 100,000, which was historically the number we put. We had a few years where we put 50 and then we had one or two where we had 150,000, but we have 100 there.
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Mayor & Council Retreat - Lanier Islands - Combined Session
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It will need to be brought up to code Georgia Power Building: • IT, Human Resources, and Utility Billing may be moved to GA Power building • GA Power building is on a transit line, City Hall is not, so it is more convenient for payments, etc. • Awaiting structural engineer • Court to move to HR/UB area which will alleviate foot traffic in City Hall • Court Services to be renovated to hold council spaces – meeting spaces, offices, etc. • Timeline – within the next year Lanier Islands Legacy Lodge & Conference Center 7000 Lanier Islands Pkwy Downtown Surface Lot: • Original contractor hit a spring and cannot finish • Total of 44 parking spots • Should be completed by July Castelaw Site Purchase: • Zoned for high density, LOI, general fund may fund its purchase rather than bonding • Walton has a master plan for that site, three weeks to a month for appraisal • Future recreation use • They wanted to have senior living in the back with city use in front IGO Land Purchase: • Approved a 290-unit apartment – Worthing • Funded from parking deck line item • LOI with Worthing, placeholder for future city facility Downtown Bathroom/Playground: • Part of the Splash Pad with the reflecting pool was a design disaster • Bathroom will go where the train park used to be • Delay on the playground equipment • Hoping everything will be done in July • Bids and plans took longer than expected Street Resurfacing: • 2022 SPLOST overages will go toward this = $10M • $20M can go toward bond debt Bridge over Cobb Parkway • $3.3M city portion • Partnership with Cumberland CID • Attempting to get funds from ARC and other entities Mayor Norton explained that these projects were discussed for a couple hours earlier. The overarching theme of that discussion was how the story is being communicated internally and externally.
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Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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C. COW2025-018 Croy – Quarterly Update – Greg Teague / Zach Strickland Greg Teague from Crow Engineering presented the following: Project Highlights – Windy Hill Road Improvements • Baldwin’s latest schedule continues to reflect they will be substantially complete in July 2025 • The contractor is beginning the final paving process in mid-May which includes paving the express lanes in mid-May as the first phase. There will be a break in the paving before the second phase begins paving the final course on the local access roads. • All lanes on the express lanes will be open after the paving is completed on the express lanes. • The contractor is continuing to install the multi use trails and driveways along the eastbound and westbound local access roads. Project Highlights – Downtown Improvements The Restroom and Playground Project: • Scope includes construction of restroom facilities, playground installation, and water feature upgrades. • Anticipated Completion Early Summer 2025 • Existing facility removal has begun; Site Improvements to begin in the coming weeks Contractor: Couch Group; Designer: Foresite Group Project Budget: Approx. $1.4 Million Construction Began: February 2025 Project Highlights – South Cobb Drive Improvements • Concept Development and Environmental Assessments & Screening will be completed in 2025. • Revised Traffic Eng, Report and Concept Report have been submitted to GDOT and Cobb DOT for review. • Preliminary Engineering is underway and progressing through the GDOT process. • The City has secured $16,876,279 in Federal funding for the project through ARC and Community Project Funding and continues to explore additional sources to meet the project’s anticipated budget. • FY26 CDS & CPF applications have been submitted to the offices of Senators Ossoff & Warnock, as well as Congresswoman McBath. Project Highlights – Downtown Parking Deck (Atlanta Road Surface Lot) • Contractor: SCA Construction • Pre-Construction meeting was held on-site 05/06/2025.
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Motion passes. 5-0. Uh, item 10, consent agenda. Mr. Jones, please. So, there are four items on the agenda. The first three are approval of the April 30th, 2026 committee the whole meeting minutes. Item B is approval of the May 4th, 2026 pre-consil meeting minutes. Item C is approval of the May 4th mayor and council meeting minutes. And item D is an authorization to approve a request to close Belmont Circle to through traffic at Atlanta Road to Woodland Trail from May 19th to May 22nd, 2026 and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Thank you, sir. Can I have a motion for approval, please? Motion by Mr. Lindley, second by Signs. All in favor? Motion passes 5-0. On to citizen participation and we have Mr. Paul Edson from 1278 Daniel Drive left me a message earlier today. Thank you, sir, for being here. Could you just uh state your name and address for the record, please? Um, my name is Paul Edson. I am I don't know that I pronounced that very well. It's Edson and um I am at 1278 uh Daniel Drive um within Mr. Gul Sward and I'm here to do really kind of three things at the same time. I want to advocate for a sidewalk along um uh Daniel Drive and request that the board uh that the council uh do something to um whatever it is the council has to do to um uh make sure that that happens. and um to ask for the council's input to me um for anything that I should be doing to get this project underway. Um the issue is this. Um, Daniel Drive is a twob block drive that runs basically between King Street and um, uh, Dunn. And it is a it is the only east west street between those major streets and other major streets that go north and south.
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Now on to the next fun activity is a recognition of a citizens academy graduation. Um [applause] a lot of graduations are happening these days, right? That's awesome. We have Eevee will explain and give us some background. Absolutely. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tim and council. Um, for everybody who is up here, I believe all of y'all know a little bit about the Citizens Academy, but for the people that do not, um, Citizens Academy is an 11week program that we welcome citizens of Smyrna to come into and learn all about the city departments. So, they learn from finance to public works to court. They learn about PD and fire, which I heard that fire was their favorite this year. So, that's exciting. Um, but they've they have dedicated every Tuesday night from six o'clock to 8:30, we have 25 members and they have put in so much effort to their attendance. I keep hearing back every single Wednesday morning from the department heads that these people are just so engaged and so excited to learn about Smyrna and they really love Smyrna. So, we're super excited to recognize them tonight with a graduation ceremony. And I would like to personally congratulate our group of 25 because they're not only are they just so engaged, they're just wonderful people. Um so I'm super excited and thankful that they're here and glad to have your attention for this. So without further ado, we're going to call up um each name one by one and we're going to have everybody line up for a picture. So is this like the final test that they can follow? Follow the instructions. [laughter] All right. Yes. and um and we'll go ahead and get started. Great. Okay. So, first I'd like to recognize Miss Leah Vanader and she can come up here. [applause] Congratulations, my dear. You come stand up and you can face the audience.
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And then also Kathy Young who's one of our former council women is also a nominee honore. So wonderful thing. Thanks. without a yield. Thank you for that. You know, I know I'm front and center on a lot of things, but but nothing happens without without Laura, and she does a lot for this community. I'm proud of her and just like Tim would agree, our wives make us look a lot better. We out coverage for sure. Yeah, there you go. Mr. Lindley. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to echo uh Councilman Pickkins, he and Mr. and I had our I think we're close to over 20 uh town hall meetings. We had one the first uh Sunday of the uh year had a good response and um today we had the traffic calming committee. We continue to make good headway there. There'll be some updates online on that front. With that, I yield. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a reminder to everybody out there that is interested. I believe this weekend is Beautiful community cleanup if it's something they're interested in. I don't know the exact location, but put a call in to the beautiful recycle center and they will give you the details, but it's Saturday morning. It usually starts by 9:00. Just not sure where they're meeting you. Thank you, Miss Wilkinson. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I want to wish everyone out there a happy new year and I think this is our this is our first meeting this year. So, happy new year. And I also want to recognize um Paul for um uh jumping in and helping us uh with the current situation. It's uh you've been done a great job and thank you so much for helping us get through this time. With that, I Mr. Gold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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