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Pickkins. All those in favor, please vote. I guess you could move to make a motion.

Guess you could. That's approved unanimously. Item D, authorize and approve a quick claim deed conveying a segment of land that parallels the rear of the property located at 1501 Walker Street. Parcel segment to be deed is that of an old alleyway based on the recorded subdivision plat and authorized mayor to sign and execute all documents. Mr. Jones, this is item E. Can you give us some background, please? Yes, I'd be happy to. So, um, what you what you read off is exactly what it is. It's it's not a par parcel that um that the city is is has any interest in and we want to quickly this back to the property owner as mentioned 1501 Walker Street. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any uh comments or questions from council?

This is in ward three. Motion to pass by Mr. Lindley. Second.

Second by Mr. Gold. Everyone, please vote. That's approved. 70. And our last item under formal business, item F, authorization to approve city of Smyrna to quick claim deed a segment of land that parallels the rear of the property located at 1400 Corals Avenue Southeast. This parcel segment to be deed is that of an old alleyway based on the recorded subdivision plat and authorize a mayor to sign and execute all documents. Pretty straightforward there, too. Yes. Yes, sir. It is. This is this comes as a citizen request whose property was 1400 Carl's Avenue. Uh the city has no future plans for that alleyway. Recommend approval of the quick de Mr. G. This is in ward six.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Make a motion to pass as read. Have a have a motion seconded by Mr. Welch. Everyone please vote. And that's approved. 70. Item 10 is the consent agenda. Mr. Jones, can you please read the consent agenda for council approval? Certainly. There are six items on the consent agenda tonight. Uh first we have approval of the January 29th, 2026 committee the whole meeting minutes. Item B is approval of the February 2nd, 2026 pre-counsel meeting minutes. Item C is the approval of the February 2nd mayor and council meeting minutes. Item D, this is an approval of a special event permit for the Smyrna Pride to hold the annual Pride Festival in the Smyrna Market Village on Saturday, June 13th. 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. It also contains um the approval for closures of West Spring Street from Atlanta Road to King Street and King Street from Bank Street to Steven Street from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on the evening of the event and authorize the Vineyard Vine and Market for and Smyrna Village Bourbon and Cigar Bar to operate a beer, wine, and liquor mobile bar during the festival hours. also to authorize the vendor to seek the required special event permit through community development office and ala alcohol sales approval through the state of Georgia. So there's a lot in that one one agenda item. You going to read E and F or is that yes we're not voting on these independently. Uh, item E is the approval of the special events permit for a carry the load to host a community awareness event at Veterans Memorial Park on Friday, May 8th from 8:30 a.m. to 10 to 11:30 a.m. in honor of Memorial Day. And item F is an authorization to approve a road closure at 1493 CER Drive for the period of three March 9th, 2026 to April 10th, 2026 for the installation of storm water infrastructure improvements.

Public works staff has led me to believe that this will not take the entire month, but uh we're going ahead and get authorization for the full month. We hope this to be a week or less. Thank you, Mr. Jones. I know you have a cold and I'm sorry to give you grief this this evening. Uh we appreciate you. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved by Mr. Lindley. Second. Second by Mr. Gould. All those in favor, please vote. Travis and that's approved. 70. We're now into our public comment section. We don't have anybody signed up to speak this evening. So, we'll move over to ward and staff reports and start tonight with Mr. Ricky Oglesby. Man, f is first today. Awesome. Hey, in the spirit of Black History Month, I'd like to recognize the great Nat King Cole, who passed away on this day in 1965, a great jazz musician. And as always, uh, black history is American history. So, pick up a five minutes to read a little bit about black history. Thank you. I yield, Mr. Gold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just one uh one thought. Smyrna Business Association's uh March meeting which is March uh 5th Thursday will feature two local uh business owners Aaron uh Bizage Stillfire uh one of the managing partners and Nick Beverly from Rev Coffee and they'll be talking about their obviously Erin will talk about the the opening of StillFire and Nick will talk about the partnership with with StillFire Brewery. So come on out for Thursday, March 5th. Miss Wilkinson, no report tonight. Thank you. Mr. Jones, anything else you want to add? Okay, Mr. Lindley, Miss Hines, I have a report. Um, in thinking of Black History Month, I am so happy to be chairing the committee again. And uh we have our taste of black history um which will be our dinner annual dinner next Friday.

Very excited about it. And come Wednesday, we will be able to announce our celebrity chef who is going to be one of the judges who is from Food Network uh fame. So I'm very excited about that um being able to announce that. Um but we're looking forward to it. It's going to be a great event. And also I just want to give a shout out to the city officials for the city of Lugano uh Switzerland who um welcomed me uh in a meeting and it was a wonderful time and uh it was great to be able to discuss some of the redevelopment that both of our cities are doing and hopefully we'll be able to have more uh discussions and maybe a little bit of a sister city program. Thank you. Hold on, Mr. Pickkins. Miss Wilkinson thought of something. I want to put a plug in uh for a business in W five. It's called Dupsies and it's on South Cobb Drive and if you've never been there, they have a lot of uh clothing for African-Americans and uh they have beautiful clothes and I've been to a fashion show there. They've expanded into their the building next uh to them that used to be a uniform building uh store. But anyway, it's uh they have fabulous clothes. So for all of you that would like to um to celebrate u black history month in the some clothing just invite you there to that shop that's just north of windy hill on south cop pickings no report miss Heather Jill anything Scott all right that concludes our business if there's nothing else to be brought before this body we say good night from The junk city.