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Meeting minutes · summary
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: The mission of the Emergency Management Division is to develop plans and procedures that provide an efficient and effective response to the threats facing the City of Smyrna. By developing and exercising our all-hazards plan, we strive to minimize the impacts of an emergency or disaster on our citizens, visitors, the environment, and the city’s economy. The Emergency Management Division has various Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) and agreements in place to strengthen our response capabilities and continue to develop additional agreements that enhance our working relationships with local, federal, and state partners. Smyrna is one of only two cities with their own Emergency Management Agency recognized by the State of Georgia. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES - Services related to medical emergencies which do not include ambulance service. Incidents involving heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, trauma & injuries, breathing problems, illnesses, etc. FIRE INVESTIGATIONS: Services related to investigating fire cause and origin. Incidents involving arson investigation, issuing of citations, enforcing outdoor burning regulations, etc. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE (CODE ENFORCEMENT): Services related to preventing fires and enforcing life safety codes. Building inspections, building safety systems, sprinkler requirements & inspections, local ordinances, construction plan review, etc. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MITIGATION: Services related to identifying, preventing, and stopping releases of hazardous materials into the community. Large fuel spills, chemical releases, etc. Fire Suppression - Services related to extinguishing fires. Incidents involving building fires, vehicle fires, grass & woods fires, etc. TECHNICAL RESCUE: Services related to highly technical rescue operations. Incidents involving victim extrications for motor vehicle accidents, trench rescue, high angle rescue, water rescue, below grade or confined space rescue, building collapse, etc. Community Program and Service Priority As a part of the online survey, community members participated in ranking the nine fire department programs based on their importance. The results revealed that Emergency Medical Service held the top position, with a score 7.78. Fire Suppression closely followed at 6.49.
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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32. The developer shall be responsible for any water and sanitary sewer improvements deemed necessary by the Public Works Director during construction plan review.
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A. COW2026-003 Review of the January 12, 2026 Mayor and Council Meeting Agenda AGR2026-001: Kirstin Robinson, Deputy City Administrator/CFO, explained that this is a software platform with mobile capabilities and other features like credit card payments and such that Parks & Rec is looking for. This will be phased in as the current software is phased out. ATH2026-001: Mike L. Jones, City Administrator, explained that the Smyrna water system is a distribution system. The management the city had was overkill. They will move Water & Sewer back under Public Works. Paul Osburn, Deputy Public Works Director, stated that there has not been a need for a Water & Sewer Director. (Mayor Derek Norton arrived.) Mr. Osburn believes that a Construction Project Manager and Construction Inspector would be more useful for city-related projects. RFQ26-014: Paul Osburn stated this is to award C.W. Matthews Contracting to resurface 10 full miles, or 20 lane miles. Smyrna maintains 176 miles of streets. RFP26-012: Paul Osburn explained that this is to award commercial sanitation and recycling services to Georgia Waste Systems (Waste Management). Kristin Robinson stated that there have been issues in Water & Sewer. She, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Osburn have been in communication about updating meters and other mechanics to better serve water customers as it will accurately read meters, be a more simplified process for reading meters, and be in more real time to be able to turn water on and off remotely. This project will take place over a three-year period. BCA2026-001: With the passing of Public Works Director and alternate License and Variance Board member Eric Randall, Deputy Fire Chief Dustin Davey and Special Projects Manager Carson Haynie have agreed to serve as alternates on the License and Variance Board. They will join Chairperson Mike L Jones, Vice-Chair Richard Garland, permanent Board Member Andrea Worthy, alternate Board Member Eric Mohrmann, and alternate Board Member Mary Moore.
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Meeting minutes · summary
Committee of the Whole
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• The Authority’s average daily demand in 2025 was about 76.5 million gallons per day, and the maximum daily demand was about 104 million gallons per day. o 53% of average-day demand capacity utilization o 60% of maximum-day demand capacity utilization o The Authority currently forecasts sufficient water supply and treatment capacity for service area growth through 2060, without the need for treatment plant or water supply expansion. Infrastructure Sustainability • In 2025, the Authority invested over $85 million in infrastructure improvements and plans to invest $84 million in 2026. o 44,500 linear feet of aged transmission pipe were replaced in 2025, representing about 4.4% of the transmission system's pipe. o The Authority replaced multiple critical transmission system valves and conducted in-situ inspections on miles of transmission pipelines. o Thirty (30) water treatment plant upgrade projects were executed to maintain or increase resiliency and sustainability. o Through quality long-term planning and execution of the capital improvement program, the Authority is securing a sustainable and reliable water system for its customers and stakeholders. City of Smyrna • In 2025, CCMWA supplied the City of Smyrna with an average of 4.09 MGD and a maximum monthly average daily demand of 4.52 MGD. • There are 22 total meters that surround the City of Smyrna. o Over the past two years, five aging meters have been replaced with advanced ultrasonic meters. o One additional meter will be replaced on South Cobb Drive in 2026. • City of Smyrna staff have access to Beacon Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) software platform that allows them to monitor water flow into Smyrna on a daily basis. • CCMWA also monitors the flows daily and routinely alerts the City of Smyrna to anomalies, helping to proactively identify and respond to potential main breaks. Level of Service Goals • 2012 – CCMWA developed design guidelines focused on how to size transmission pipelines in the master plan for growth in water demand over next 30 years with only general customer input.
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Mayor and Council Meeting
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I'm going to invite the next citizen here and then I've got a couple of comments I'd like to make. Mitchell Young, 2075 Nancy Circle, City Property Maintenance. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Mitchell Young. I live at 2075 Nancy Circle and I appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm here because of a concern regarding city-owned property that borders my property. For years, the city regularly maintained this drainage gully. However, about two years ago, I was informed by the public works director and my council representative that the city would no longer maintain it and that the responsibility would essentially fall on me. I respectfully disagree with that decision. This is not my property. It is city property and it serves a public purpose as part of the city's drainage system. Since maintenance stopped, aggressive invasive plants have spread throughout the gully and these invasive plants are now encroaching onto my property, creating an ongoing burden that should not be expected that I should not be expected to manage. Furthermore, it was suggested at that meeting that I use chemicals to kill the plant life in the gully. I chose not to do so due to the personal cost and the potential environmental impacts as it does feed into a creek system. Beyond the impact on my yard, I am also concerned about the drainage itself. The purpose of this gully is to move storm water safely. As vegetation continues to grow unchecked, there is an increased risk that the flow of water could become obstructed. Delaying maintenance today could result in a much larger and more expensive problem in the future if drainage is compromised. I'm not asking the city to do anything extraordinary. I am simply asking that the city resume maintaining its prop own property as it did for many years.
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Meeting minutes · summary
Pre- Council Meeting - A. Max Bacon City Hall Admin Conference Room
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A. Max Bacon City Hall ADMIN CONFERENCE ROOM 2800 King Street Smyrna, Ga. 30080 City Attorney Scott Cochran City Administrator Mike L. Jones Deputy City Administrator / CFO Kristin Robinson City Clerk Heather K. Peacon-Corn February 16, 2026 / 6:30 PM February 16, 2026 6:30 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers • This will allow for flexibility Councilmember Welch asked: • Are there no SPLOST funds set aside for water/sewer infrastructure? It was explained that the enterprise fund adequately funds that. • Why are there still park lighting funds? Mrs. Robinson explained that there is still part of Tolleson that needs to be addressed. • Why are there $9M for cameras? Mrs. Robinson explained that most of it is for Flock and the 911 phones system as well as radio upgrades. Also included is the citywide security access to buildings. Councilmember Lindley asked if there were funds dedicated to the downtown redevelopment. He also would like to see public facing documents as it relates to the chapel. Mrs. Robinson explained that there is a $500K bond and further information in the documents distributed to council. Councilmember Wilkinson asked about the Lattanzi Field concession building. Mayor Norton explained that the two-story building that hold the press box is separating from the main building, so it will be torn down and rebuilt as a one-story building. Councilmember Wilkinson also mentioned that she would like to see more funds go toward connectivity of trails. Mayor Norton discussed the 2022 SPLOST overages. Mrs. Robinson said that Cobb County will hold two meetings for the public. She stated that the county recommends the city hold two meetings. The list would be adopted at the second meeting. The SPLOST list will be released at the appropriate time as lawfully prescribed. 5. Executive Session (As Needed)
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The existing one (1) single-family home will be demolished to allow the construction of the proposed development. Two (2) of the homes will face Bell Drive, and two (2) of the homes will face Woodland Terrace. All of the homes will have front-entry garages. The Planning & Zoning Commission voted 7-0 to approve at the April 13, 2026, meeting. ATH2026-065: Kristin Robinson, Deputy City Administrator / CFO, said this is to clean up the General Fund. • Council agreed at prior meetings to use General Fund reserves (Fund Balance) to start the design process for the Campbell Middle School project. This amendment adds the budget for the transfer out of the General Fund to the GF CIP Fund, the transfer into the GF CIP Fund and establishes projects in GF CIP. • For Water CIP, Council approved a previous amendment for phase one of the project for meter replacement City wide to AMI technology. In addition to the amount initially approved for the meter replacement project, new meter boxes are required to accommodate the new technology. • The ARPA fund has expended all grant funds on eligible projects. This amendment adjusts all project length budgets on the expenditure side. It also adds revenue budget for the state funded Water related ARPA projects. AGR2026-018: Russell Martin, Community Development Director, stated the City requested proposals for a consultant to explore the most feasible bridge location to connect regional greenway trail systems across the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta and Smyrna, GA. The consultant will provide project administration, public engagement, site investigation & due diligence, and DOT concept development. Four (4) proposals were received on Friday, March 13, 2026, and evaluated by Smyrna staff (Economic Development, Community Development, Parks & Recreation, Public Works), City of Atlanta staff (Parks & Recreation, Planning, Engineering), Cobb County (Parks & Recreation, DOT), the PATH Foundation, and the Trust for Public Land.
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Mayor and Council Meeting
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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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Meeting minutes · summary
Committee of the Whole Work Session Meeting
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7. Adjournment Mayor Derek Norton adjourned the March 12, 2026 Committee of the Whole meeting at 6:59 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
Mayor and Council Meeting (Millage Rate Public Hearing #3)
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Give me just one second before the next speaker comes up if you don't mind. So sometimes bestlaid plans you you have what you think might be a short agenda and it becomes a little longer agenda. When you got a 5-year-old and a three-year-old that matters. So what we're going to do is say thank you. Wait, you got you got to come back up here. We got to say thank you to our honorary mayor of the day, Kelly. And I told her when we started this that she'd get to bang that gabble again. We are not ajourned, but she gonna bang that gabble again. Bang it. Bang that thing. All right. Good job. [applause] Yes, you can have that. You absolutely can. They did a great job. Excellent. Thank you all so much. [applause] And if y'all if y'all will send Christie your way, I can contact you. I'll send some of the pictures to you. Okay. All right. Thank you. Y'all wouldn't believe my my area up here. Okay. Uh, next speaker, please. Thank you and thanks for the pause. [clears throat] Robert Low, 4800 Claybrook Drive. And I'm respectfully speaking in opposition. Um, your honor, Mayor Norton, The water management is a concern amongst others. What was going to be retention which holds water but was set aside because maintenance would be required. So they went to detention. Detention slows water movement but it does not hold water. That is my understanding. I'm not a civil engineer but that is my understanding. That retention pond, I mean the detention pond, if I may correct myself, is now not at the lowest point on the property as best I know. I walked around the property and the lowest point is my understanding now is where the dog park and the playground is.
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My question is are our priorities as a city for residents and small business or private equity firms that own a waste? And then in this meeting, we've also spoken about how Aerow waste is clearly here temporary. They only want this temporary. We don't have to worry about it because in two years, we it's temporary. They they don't even want to be here. They're looking to move out is what we just heard this evening. None of my neighbors are looking to move out. None of the residents that I live with, uh, my wife and I, uh, no one that has bought a home and become a resident of Smyrna in a newly zoned residential space is planning to move away from the area. And I would very much like that to be considered in tonight's thought about the vote. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else who wants to speak for against this? I have to be sworn in by Mr. Cochran. I don't believe you were sworn in. I saw that letter. I saw Excuse me. I really can't see this. It's kind of small, but this is the Chattahuchi River Keeper. Oh, my name is Cody Hugley and I live at 1641 Flint Riverplace, Smyrna, Georgia 30126. So this is from the Chattahuchi Riverkeeper and it says, "Dear Mayor Derek Norton and Council, Chattahuchi Riverkeeper is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization dedicated to protection and stewardship of the Chattahuchi River and watershed. CRQ CRK represents more than 10,000 members who use and enjoy the river system and depend on the Chattahucha River and it lakes as a source of drinking water, recreation and economic development. Chattahucha Riverkeeper main office is located at 6020 Riverview Road southeast a few hundred feet from Aerrow Waste, a solid waste transfer station. Arow Waste has applied for a special land use permit to allow a modular office building, 6,000galon fuel tank and storage container at 6310 Riverview Road Southeast.
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pedestrian crossing improvements located at Hawthorne Avenue and Atlanta Road Railroad Crossing with the design work to be performed by CSX Design Consultant in an amount not to exceed $48,500. And this will be funded out of the 2022 Splast traffic calming line item. Mr. Jones. Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, so this request is based on a need that after review of the safety of the pedestrian access that's located Author Avenue at Atlanta Road Railroad crossing. Um there are some valid concerns that have been brought forward that need to be evaluated and addressed. Uh we've also received numerous citizen complaints, concerns about pedestrian safety at this location. This project will be performed in two phases. The initial phase is design and most of that data has already been collected and then a construction phase will follow. Recommend approval and an amount not to exceed $48,500 to be funded out of the 22. Any questions or comments from council? This is in W three. Mr. Lindley have motion do pass. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone please vote.
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