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When you go up Shannondoa Valley and you and then you turn left on Napa Valley where I live, you go up the hill and on the left they put an old sign that says no dumping. Well, some people obviously can't read. They dump furniture, household furniture, washing machines, anything. And when you have company, you drive up the street and that's all you see. And my children say, "Mom, you live in the city dump, you know, in the ghetto." And I've begged the city of Smyrna. I've been to everybody I know. I even tried to get an appointment with you three times and never could. But what we're asking, me and my neighbors are asking, is is there any way you could help us and please get a no parking sign there? I've got pictures of cars parked on the on the grass there, right by the no dumping sign, but we want them to put a no parking sign and a no dumping sign there. They put one at the end of Napa Napa Valley several years ago and it says you will be fined $1,000. You're under surveillance. That sign worked at the end of where I live. But I begged them to put another one up there coming up Shannondoa Valley. Anyway, there were eight cars parked up there last night. When you come up my hill to turn right there, I almost had a head-on collision twice because the cars block at night. And I mean, we've called the police. the police has is tell the man, the Hispanic man that lives there on the corner. Oh, and yesterday, day before yesterday, had a big party. He had a swimming pool in his front yard as big as the yard. There were people laying all out on the grass. And so he drained the pool today because my neighbor called uh code enforcement.

And so they drained the pool and all the water comes rushing down the hill. I mean, these people, they just get away with all kinds of things out there. And but the main thing that I'm asking is we all in my neighborhood want to know if you can please put up a no parking sign at the top of Shannon Doora Valley and a no dumping sign. You think we can do that? And this is and this is Let me let me first address one thing that you said that you tried to meet with me three times and and hadn't been able to do it. I'm pretty open and available and that doesn't get to me. I don't I don't know how I don't know how to Every time I would come and and ask for an appointment, they would say, "He's out of the office. We don't know when he'll be back. You'll have to make another appointment." And tell you what, my my cell my personal cell phone number and my email are on the website and I I'm very accessible. You just call me and I'll be happy to say I don't spend every day in city hall. This is what I call my my full-time part-time role. But I'm glad to meet with you and I and I know that Latonia would be glad to help you, too. Yes. Because that's that's actually my ward. And uh Christy Olman, who is our executive assistant, is excellent about getting us uh uh coordinated. It sounds like, if I remember right, because I think I remember this area. Um Mark Wolf has been kind of working on this. I've talked to him. No, I've talked to him and talked to him and this has been going on for months. Actually, years. Yes. And so we'll we'll look into it. Terrible.

We'll look How about pictures if you want to see the pictures? Oh, sure. And and after this, if you can hold for a second, I'll give you my email address so you can send that over and um Mark is really really good about trying to get the signs up. We were able to get on the other end and sometimes there are things that stop us from being able to do it, but we're going to see what we can get done and we'll get code enforcement out there. Sometimes you got to do multiple things. He called me back the other day and he said, "I'm working on getting some signs out there." He said, "However, I don't think I can put a no parking sign there at the top of Napa Valley." And that's the most crucial place. So, here's the thing, and and I'll look into it myself. Um, you know, but speaking as a as an attorney on some levels, too. There's certain things we legally can do and can't do. And and I'm sure as our county, our city attorney can tell you that, too. We'll do whatever we can if we can do it within the uh the the code to be able to get it done or whatever we can do to help out. We want you to be able to uh be okay when you're at home and not having to worry about the traffic. Since she's had a little bit issue with or perceived issue with staff can let's let's coordinate with Mike and get and Mr. Jones, our city administrator. He handles the dayto day and um we'll coordinate and and get you out. I would be glad to meet with you out there. Just like I told Mr. Marwall, I said, I will meet you in my neighborhood and show you exactly what I'm talking about.

I'm going to go take a a couple of rides through myself. Good. Yeah. I'd like to I'd like to do a little field trip. So, I'll go do I'll give you my number. You can call me and we can I'll show you what's going on. Stay Stay. We're almost finished. Stay around just a minute. Okay. Okay. But it's so annoying, you know, to drive up that street and you have no idea. And the man that lives right there on the corner, the policeman told him the other day, you cannot park this van here. That van is there every single day. And he has company and four or five other cars. And I thought there was a city ordinance in Smyrna where you could not park on the grass. These people parked on the grass in the street out of the street. You know, it's just it's a hazard. We we'll get it looked at. A child could get run over or a person could have a head-on collision. But thank you so much. Thank you for spending your time here tonight. Thank you. You want me to meet with you? Sure. Yeah. All right. That concludes our public comment. We are now at ward and staff reports and we'll start tonight. Mr. Glenn Pickkins right as he's taking a big swig of his water. Uh thank you, mayor. Um I just really like to thank our uh public works director, Paul Osborne. Over the last few months, he's been managing some contractors out there doing some utility work along up and down Atlanta Road that have caused some pretty significant uh issues, including uh having to repave a portion of the road today. Um so, he's been really good keeping Tim and I updated and just making sure the contractors do everything they need to do and uh put everything back to normal and how they found it.

So, he's been doing great. Thank you. He absolutely does a fantastic job for us. Um, and mayor, if I can take a point of privilege here. Um, I want to say thank you to everyone who came out for our first ever Women's History Month uh, lunchon. Um, thank you so much for the support of this uh, council for being able to do it a couple years ago. It was a vision of mine. um to be able to do it and we did it as a uh you know it was just a private event and um I was so blessed to have first lady Laura Norton who said to me how can I help you be able to do this event and former council member um Kathy Young say to me what can I help you do do this event and I said you can be a host if you're willing to help support and they did and I was very excited for that so I'm excited to be able to say that we were able to have it now as a city of event and we were able to recognize as our historical uh honores and I just want to say their names really quickly because it's important. We recognize the effort of the Smyrna Rosies and if some of you know about Rosie the Riverer during World War II and those efforts what women did in the homeront especially since we were talking about um the military child uh was amazing.

And right here we had the Bell Bell bomber plant otherwise known as Lockheed and um the the efforts of those women um were really really amazing and uh one of those was Lorena Pace Puit otherwise known as um Smyrna's first uh female uh mayor and then Lucille Cobb Crowe and then one of which who is currently uh live still um and thanks to Council Member Susan Wilkinson a former uh it was her uh neighbor and she brought that to our attention the committee uh Joan Adele Caps Mayfield um who were a part of this effort and um the committee uh recognized Louise Lindley Harper um Lindley uh being a a relative of uh great aunt of of council member Travis Lley but in addition to her work as a as as a Smyrna Rosie she also was a professional photographer and one of the first in the whole entire state uh to do some of what she did. And those were just amazing things and it was great that we were able to recognize them. And then I want to make sure that we make note of who was chosen as our 2026 uh um city of Smyrna Women's History Month honore and that was FA Yoast. Feyost is a community leader and an education advocate and um she's gone through a lot of her own personal tragedy with regard to um some of the things that have happened in her family and it's made her an advocate for things like adaptive sports and making sure about inclusivity. So, I'm just so happy that we were able to do that. you can look on our um city website for some pictures and it was a lovely afternoon and I'm just so happy and thankful to the city and to the um our mayor and council for allowing us to do that and I look forward to next year.

Appreciate all your time and effort put into that event and and others. Mr. Lindley. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh first um want to thank as always and echo uh your comments and uh council member Pickkins, our public works and our park and wreck folks do a wonderful job. Particularly we've seen uh an enormous number of people downtown. Uh so working through some good growing pains there. We'll be uh looking at how to get grass to grow and be green uh in the next couple of next couple of days. But uh good problems. Uh we have a lot of people downtown which has uh been to the uh one of the scout questions that was one of the directives when we got elected uh almost seven years ago uh was to to revamp downtown. So we continue to work on that. Um as a reminder uh the city of Smyrna will be dedicating the what is currently called the Cobb Linear Park uh in memory of Dr. David Martin on Sunday uh the 26th of this month around 12:30. We'll have some information on that in the coming days. Um I want to thank uh Council Member Hines for all of her work for two back-to-back events uh with the Women's History Month as well as the Black History event. Both were huge successes and that is uh above and beyond uh the call to duty. So thank you uh to her for for her many efforts. And then I actually I like to harass him, but I do want to thank uh Scott Cochran as always for his uh a lot of institutional knowledge, but at the last meeting he uh he made I think one of the most poignant things uh of note which is the long a huge list of things that are underway in this city and they're all good.

Uh it is a sign of a a healthy growing community and uh something that uh we look in the coming weeks to to continue to broadcast to all 60,000 residents. So with that I yield. Thank you Mr. Lenny. Mr. Welch. Thank you Mr. Mayor. U I just want to make an announcement. I will not be here for the upcoming cow meeting um Thursday a week from now. And also I think uh Keith Mr. Beautiful has a cleanup on the 18th if I'm not mistaken with that date. Uh if any of you can contact somebody at Keith Smarter Beautiful and go out and volunteer to clean up the streets, we appreciate it. Thank you, Miss Wilkinson. Thank you. Um I hope everybody had a wonderful uh weekend this weekend and um and everyone's enjoying this wonderful weather. Um, and also I would like to say a little bit more about my constituent um that we did honor uh at the Women's History Month event and uh who is she is uh 97 um this year and uh she's quite a remarkable woman uh when she was just a young girl. Her dad taught high school in Atlanta at tech. It was called Tech High School and they recognized she had a ability to u to work on cars and they started training her to repair cars at a pretty young age. She would go in to work with her father in town and it was when a lot of men were going off to war and they needed uh people to work on automobiles.

So she was trained um at a young age and then from there that led her to work at the Bell uh well at the uh Bell Bomber plant which was later locked and she was uh a machinist and also a manager there at Lockheed on the assembly line and so I was really honored to be able to recognize her um you know with her being a neighbor I always knew that she knew a lot about cars but I didn't find out until um I started asking uh talking to her sons about her right before the event and I found out that she actually worked on um uh Goers's uh race car NASCAR racing team and she worked on automobiles for that and uh she was one of the crew members at uh the Daytona 500 back way back one of the first female uh members of the of that crew for gober Sosby. So anyway, um I'm just really honored to be able to recognize her. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Wilkinson and Mr. Gold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh just two quick things about some upcoming events, both uh fundraisers for some uh really impactful uh organizations here in Smyrna. Uh Monday, April 20th is the um 28th Susan T. Pearson Memorial College golf tournament that sponsors that funds the college and career office at Campbell High School. Uh so it's one of our major fundraisers as part of the foundation. So please reach out to me if you want to participate and or at least make a donation. And then secondly, John jog of course on Saturday, May 2nd. That funds uh supports Smyrna and its funds the the high school foundation also. So I think listings will come out for that pretty soon if not already. So please come on out. It's a wonderful event. Ton of people.

You can run, you can walk, or you can watch like I do. So I like to watch. I like to watch as well. But we do raise quite a bit of money for support Smyrna and the Campbell High School Education. It's a great It's a great eventual event and you if you get a Kenny's key lime pie if you do well in it too. So there you go. Mr. Urglesby. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh got a couple of things. First off, uh Junth festival is in planning is in full effect now. We met as a community committee uh for the first time and we got an awesome lineup this year. The festival will take place on Junth, which which is a Friday this year. So, it should be awesome. And there's a little um uh soccer tournament happening before that that will uh with a great USA team playing just before that and we'll be broadcasting that to uh in the same location. And so we got we have a fun-filled day uh uh planned for uh Junth with Soul Cartel headlining as a headlining band. So we're really excited about that. If you would like to be a vendor on this day uh and again that these vendors we we plan for them to be out there all day uh including for the FIFO uh World Cup um reach out to Jody Mills and Parks and Wreck here in Sperner. Uh we definitely need food vendors. A lot of people to feed this day. Uh also uh I met with uh one of our community citizen uh leaders. I like to call her a citizen leader now uh in reference to the river and having more uh activities on the river here in Ward 7 where we have an amphitheater and of course now there's a riverw walk being built and the dock is being replaced.

We're excited about that. So, I have brought it to the attention of the mayor and council and city leadership, and hopefully by next year, we'll see more activity out there near the river. Uh, beautiful area. Uh, with that, I yel back, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Oglesby. Uh, Mr. Jones just reminded me that on May 1st, the Riverline splash splash pad down there and the um the new and improved splash feature down here downtown um will open up May 1st. So, we're looking forward to that. The other thing I wanted to announce, you kind of touched on it, but we've been approved in Smyrna as an official FIFA World Cup watch site here in Smyrna. So, we're going to have pretty much every match uh we'll have a screen hanging from the stage facing uh the park there and then the two other stages that we have, we'll have out on the green space. Um so, it won't just be June 19th, it'll be throughout the whole tournament. And I just can't wait uh to see the crowds that come out for that. And just just a a note on the downtown. If you've been down there any of the last three or four weeks, it it for us uh you know, the the vision has has come true. You've got people down there all the time. You got strollers and dogs and kids and uh grandparents and everybody just hanging out and it's a great community space. uh the green space and the addition of the park and the brewery and the bathrooms and the splash pads and the little kids playground. It's all come together and you know it that wasn't an easy process. You there were there were folks who who who who pro protested against many stages of that and which is to your the gentleman who spoke earlier is is their right.

Uh but I think um I think the finished product has really been uh something that um that we can all be proud of. all of the businesses that are kind of behind Atkins to all the ones on the main drag here in Smyrna. I've talked to most of them. All of them have se said that their businesses up anywhere from 10 to 30%. So, the extra foot traffic and I know parking is a little bit difficult, but um people are still finding their way to downtown Smyrna and it's thriving like it never has before. So, very very nice to see and I'm proud of what we've accomplished there. Mr. Cochran. Miss Heather. Miss Heather. Ain't nothing about the elections yet or we're waiting to hear from the election. Okay. Thank you. Uh with that, if there's no other business be brought before this body, we're uh adjourned in the Jonqual City at 8:06.