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think Mark Jackson's going to come up and give a a brief overview of the club and uh update on some of the club's recent events. They're celebrating their 40th anniversary this summer. Uh and we've got several members in attendance. Uh Mark Jackson, Pat Jackson, Gary Dixon, Keely Agburn, Patty Brewaker, Joe Deose, Larry Adams, Mike Terry, Ron Davis, and Tom Nton. and he Tom is the uh Kowanas lieutenant governor for district 15 here in the Jonqual city. Y'all want to come up? And as I said earlier before we started, I mean, this is my club, but my attendance record isn't always isn't the best at 10:00 a.m. on the weekday. It's hard for me to make it, but I sure like it when I am able to. And we're honored to have you. Good evening, Mayor Norton and city of Smyrna Council. We appreciate this time to to meet with y'all. Uh we are appreciative to Mayor Norton who is a mayor who is a member of our club and we are thankful for his service. To let you know, Kuanis is a global organization of volunteers that are dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. We meet every Tuesday at 10 o'clock a.m. at the Eileen Wolf Center on church at the Church Street Park. Um, I was going to recognize Tom Nton, but thank you, Mayor Norton, for doing that. He is serving Lieutenant Governor for our um our district and we for the division of Georgia. So, we are honored to have Tom serving at this time. I want to let you know some of the activities at the John Corn City Kuanas Club. We currently are working with Tilman House which is a local resource center in Smyrna. We contribute different items primarily hygiene and food items on a monthly basis.

We also work with elementary schools in the Smyrna area by reading with school students. We also support the terrific program terrific kids program at Smyrna Elementary. And our club also sponsors a writing contest at select school and this is called the silver pen contest and it helps students form ideas on how to help their community. We support the key club at Campbell High School and our club has fundraising events involving selling peaches, pecans, and Videlia onions. All of the proceeds from these sales are used to fund our scholarship program for local high school students. If you want to learn more about what we do, please come join us. We stay busy throughout the year and invite you to participate with us. To quote one of our members, "We are a small club that does great things." Thank you. [applause] I'm going to come down there and we can take a a group photo. Um, I want to tell y'all how much I appreciate the partnership with Support Smyrna and and Ron Davis and I have gone to Smyrna Elementary with the terrific kids program. I know Support Smyrna's provided some of those bicycles. But seeing those kids' faces when they get those bicycles uh really really awesome and I think we were even on the morning the morning news at the school and uh one of the kids at baseball a couple days later said, "Oh my gosh, you were you were on our school news." Which was great. I'm gonna come down. Let's get a Let's get a group photo. couple. Hope to see y'all soon. Thank you.

All right. Next, we have a proclamation in recognition of Women's History Month.

And I believe Miss Hines and Miss Wilkinson are going to do this together. So, I'll turn it over to y'all. Thank you so much, Mayor. So, I'll start off and we'll alternate. Um, so, um, this is in recognition of Women's History Month. Whereas Women's History Month recognizes that women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made significant and historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways. And whereas uh Women's History Month recognizes that women have played and continue to play critical, economic, cultural, and social roles in every sphere of life of the nation. But constituing uh a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home and by providing the majority of the women the volunteer labor force. And whereas Women's History Month recognizes women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our nation. And whereas Women's History Month recognizes women of every race, class, and ethic ethnic background served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement. And whereas Women's History Month recognizes American women who have served our country courageously in the military. And whereas women's history month recognizes women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the abol abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement and other movements especially the peace movement which create a more fair and just society for all. And whereas in 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued a proclamation declaring the week of March 8th as National Women's History Week. Six years later, six years after the proclamation, Congress declared March of each year as Women's History Month. And whereas the national theme for Women's History Month 2026 is is leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future.

As announced by the National Women's History Alliance, which spearheaded the movement for March being declared National Women's History Month, women's stories and the larger human story expand our understanding and strengthen our connections with each other. Now, therefore, I, Derek Norton, mayor of the city of Smyrna, Georgia, do hereby recognize the month of March as Women's History Month to honor women everywhere for their outstanding achievements and invaluable contributions to this society. So, um, thank you so very much, mayor, for always being so supportive of these types of endeavors. and we're going to have um our first ever women's history lunchon and that will be on Friday, March 27th. Please look out for that. Um a link will be going out on Friday uh for how you can register for that event. Um so we're really excited and we'll do a presentation of the proclamation during that event. And where will that be? It'll be at the Reed House. Great. Thank you. Thanks y'all. Appreciate y'all. All right, we don't have any community development items. We don't have any privilege license or show cause hearing.

So, we'll move on to formal business. We have five items on formal business. The first is item A, authorization to amend

fiscal year 2026 adopted general fund budget to increase departmental expenditure budgets for parks maintenance, parks administration, administration, and general government allocations in the total amount of $294,426. and the revenue budget by the same amount to cover unbudgeted expenditures and revenues. Authorization to amend the adopted project length budgets in the water CIP fund to decrease the project budgets in project 5249 and 52509 and increase project 52609 to move all funds into the AMI meter replacement project and authorize to amend the 2016 splice project length budgets. Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, sir. Uh Mr. Mayor, uh, the parks and wreck has requested weather monitoring and alerting equipment be installed at the Riverline Park and the Jonquil Park provide safety for patrons using those facilities. This was not included in the original FY26 adopted budget. So, we need to amend the park's maintenance and departmental budget to cover the equipment and related implementation cost and the annual fees associated with it. I also need council approval to uh use for use of a new software platform. This was approved at a previous meeting and we need to amend the parks admin departmental budget for the implementation costs associated with the switch of that software. Um, additionally, we have a contractual HR obligations that were not included in the original adopted budget and we need to amend the administration and general government allocations department budget to cover the salary and benefit expenses. Um, on February 2nd of this year, council approved phase one of a new water meter project. We're requesting to move existing meter and dial replacement budget to this new project budget. This will show all the cost in one single one. That's all the three different budget the project budgets you read earlier. Um we need to amend the project budgets for the 2016 funds to true up balances on both revenue and expenditure accounts.

The recommendation is for mayor and council to amend the 2026 adopted general fund budget to increase the departmental expenditures for parks maintenance, park administration, administration, and general government allocations in a total amount of 294,426 and the revenue budget by that same amount to offset the unbudgeted expenditures and revenues. Um budgets will increase the CIP fund and decrease project budgets in project 5249 52509 and increase project budget 52609 and move all funds into the AMI water replacement project and authorize an amendment to the 2016 SPLS budget. That is a very thorough explanation [laughter] and we appreciate that I think. Um is there any discussion or questions from council? All right, I'll entertain a motion. Motion do pass by Mr. Lindley, second by Mr. Gould. All those in favor, please vote.

And that's approved. 70. The next two items are easements, one of which were um given to Georgia Power and one of

which is coming to Smyrna. Uh item B, authorization to approve Georgia P's request to acquire one easement from the city of Smyrna located at 3515 Macaulay Road for the new proposed underground power service installation that will service the new Talison Aquatics facility and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all documents. Any extra background, Mr. Jones? Any extra brief background? No, sir. Okay. Is there a motion? Move approval by Mr. Lindley. Is there a second? Second by Mr. Welch. Everyone, please vote.

And that's approved. 70. Item C is authorization to approve the city of Smyrna's request to acquire a 20 foot

sanitary sewer easement from JSL Residential Properties LLC located at 1036 Dell Avenue for the city of Smyrna to be able to access and maintain its sanitary sewer infrastructure that crosses the property. Pretty straightforward. Yes, sir. No further background. Recommend approval. Any discussion? May I have a motion? Motion do pass by Mr. Lley, second by Miss Hines. Everyone, please vote.