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70. Item D, authorization to approve contract based off RFP 26-012 to Georgia Waste Systems LLC Waste Management and authorize the mayor to sign and execute all documents. Miss Heather, the background, please. Yes, sir. The city received eight responsive bids to this item and those were evaluated by our appointed evaluation team. Based on the outline criteria, Waste Management, Georgia Waste Systems LLC was chosen. All right. Any discussion?

All right. I entertain a motion. Motion do pass by Mr. Lindley. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. All those in favor, please affirmative.

That's approved. 70. Item E, authorize and approve a quick claim deed conveying a segment of land that parallels the rear of the property at 24 2641 Brown Circle Southeast parcel segment to be deed. Mcgriff Street is a portion of an of an old road never constructed and previously abandoned but is shown on the recorded subdivision plat and authorized mayor to sign and execute all documents. That's pretty straightforward, Miss Heather. Any more background on that? No, sir. This is pretty straightforward. This is in ward three. Travis good with that. All right, we have a motion do pass. Do I have a second? Second by Miss

Hines. Beat you out, Mr. Gold. All those in favor, please vote.

That's approved. 70. Also item F, appointment of Deputy Fire Chief Dustin Davyy and Special Projects Manager Carson Haney to serve as alternate members of the License and Varian Board starting February 1st, 2026. Uh, may I have a motion, please? Motion by Mr. Lindley, second by Mr.

Pickkins. All those in favor, please vote. Affirmative for Council Member Oglesby. And that's approved. 70. And then the last item under formal business is item G. This is the approval of the appointment of Deputy Public Works Director Paul Osman as the interim public works director for the city of Smyrna. And let me just tell you something. Paul has uh his dedication to this city and the amount of work that he does uh in in all kinds of lanes in in in this town. Uh we are so lucky to have you here. Uh we appreciate you a lot and um this is this is uh this is the right thing at the and and the opportunity. Uh you're the right person to fill this opportunity at this moment and we're we're really glad that you can do that. Um Miss Heather, any more background that you have or anything we need to say? Anything anybody wants to say other than congratulations? Yeah. Well, he hadn't been voted in yet. We have a motion do we have a motion do pass and a second by Miss Hines? Beat you. Uh, all those in favor, council member Oglesby votes in the affirmative. Vote, man, you barely made it. 70. Congratulations. Congratulations again. [applause] All right. Item 10 is the consent agenda. May uh, Miss Heather, please read the consent, read the consent agenda for council approval. Yes, sir. This evening, we have just a few items. Um, item A is the minutes from the December 11th committee of the whole meeting. Item B, minutes from the December 15th pre-consil meeting. Item C, December 15th mayor and council minutes. Item D is item ATTH 2026-004 approval to use the council chambers for two meeting on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 from 6 to 8:00 p.m. for council member Hines.

Item E, authorization ATTH206 005 authorization of the closure of the south side of the West Spring Street traffic circle circle for the installation of public art on Thursday January 22nd from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm for council member Lindley. Item FTH 2026-00007 approval to use council chambers for Concord Lake Village HOA meeting on Sunday, February 1st, 2026 from 4:30 to 5:30 for council member Lley. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Moved by Mr. Lindley, second by Mr. Welch. All those in favor, please vote. And that's approved. 70. Also, and I just want to note, item E. If y'all have seen all that construction activity outside of Zuka in that little space that we couldn't grow any grass and has looked terrible for a long time, there's going to be a great piece of public art put there on the 22nd and we'll do a ribbon cutting at the end of the month. I think you all will be very excited about what's going there. I sure am. All right, we've u reached the citizen participation uh portion of our meeting. Uh is there anybody signed up for public comment? Okay, please come forward. Miss Burns, it's been a while. Happy New Year to you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Pat Burns. I live on Concord Road at the confluence of Smyrna and Mapleton. I am a Smyrna property owner. It's been said, "The greatness of a nation is not measured by whom it casts out, but by whom it gathers in." I'm from Minnesota. Lately, my heart is there grieving. Grieving the shooting death of Renee Good. Renee Good died on Portland Avenue, a street I know well. I worked on Portland Nav as at a social service agency when I was a student at the University of Minnesota. That era, the late 60s, was also a time of community and national turmoil.

Today's upheaval is brought on by a sanctioned masked gunmen searching our homes, our schools, our businesses, kidnapping mothers, teenagers, and fathers based on their color. We've done this before. We rid Cobb County of the Cherokee. Here in the south, hooded marauders terrified people of color. We've done this before. Neighbors one day became brown shirts, the next betrayed their Jewish friends and other vulnerables. Uncensored history books in the future will write about today's mass government agents and students will ask why. Modern Smyrna, like this nation, is built on the back of Hispanic laborers. Today, they are vilified, afraid, hunted. Smyrna's strong police department can take care of violent criminals, immigrants or otherwise. I witnessed an ICE workplace raid on Concord Road with the building of Bentley Park. The raid was frightening, depraved, immoral. I'm asking you to pass a resolution to oppose and keep these sanctioned mass marauders known as ICE out of our city. Protect our neighbors. Protect our community. History has its eyes on us. Thank you, Miss Burns. Anybody else wants to speak this evening? All right, we'll close the public comment period. Um, we'll go on to ward and staff reports. We'll start tonight. Mr. Glenn Pickkins. Thanks, Mayor. I'd like to thank everyone that came out to our town hall last weekend. It was a good turnout and a good way to start out the year each each time. Thank you, Miss Hind. Thank you, Mayor. Um, and I want to let you guys know we're getting ready to come up to uh Black History Month um in February and we have our Taste of Black History Month program. That's what we're going to do this year. We're celebrating 100 years of celebration of black history and all the contributions of um the African-Americans in this uh in this nation.

So, uh additionally, in kind of segueing off of that, although it's not here in the city of Simrna, it is something that is attended by um people from all over Cobb County, it is the NAACP's um MLK program that will be this um Monday coming up. and uh they've been great supporters um for a lot of the different programming that we've had here. So, mayor, I thank you so much for supporting um supporting us when we we do those types of programs and partnerships. If this year if this year is half as good as last year, [laughter] that was so good. Well, we're trying we're trying something different. Um but uh we're bringing food into the equation and that's something that's definitely been a big thing a part of our culture. Um the other thing is I'm going to have a ward meeting uh next week on the 22nd here. Um it'll be our first of the uh year. So um please if you're able please come and attend. And then also um I want to mention Live Safe Resources. It's an organization um that is a domestic only domestic violence uh shelter um here in Cobb County. And they also helped with elder abuse as well. And um they usually have one of their main fundraisers here in the city of Smyrna. And um they have a recognition that they do for uh life life um their achievement women of achievement recognition that they do uh for women who've made a major impact um in the community. And I'm blessed to have been one of the uh honores and I know that um Tim Gold uh his wife Judy Fitzgerald was actually one of the honores and recognized as woman of the year. And I have the pleasure of being able to say that our first lady Laura Norton is one of the nominees this year.

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.

Um we just had a trafficcoming meeting earlier tonight which is a uh important committee for the city and as of course was one of the main topics of discussion at our recent ward meeting and you know our our we passed a vision and mission statement which essentially says you know we want to as part of the mayor and council's uh goal is to ensure we have safe uh safe streets, safe sidewalks and uh and uh keep our ne neighborhoods very livable. So that essentially is really the high level mission of the of the traffic company committee and and uh pleased to be a part of it and I think staff is doing fantastic work uh moving forward with these projects. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Jeffrey, thanks for filling in for Mr. Cochran tonight. Anything you have? No report, Mr. Mayor. Miss Heather, I have Mr. Oglesby's board report. He would like to mention the town hall meeting he is hosting tomorrow evening which is the 13th at the public safety training center and it begins at 7 pm. He also would like to invite the community to his new restaurant, The Indigo Room, to listen to local jazz vocalist Mary Katherine on Wednesday during the Wednesday. And live music will start at 700 p.m. And he wants also to mention that they are now open for lunch starting at 11:30 and Sunday breakfast and brunch starting at 9:00 a.m. Very good. Um if there is no other business to be brought before this body, we are adjourned from the Jonquil city at 7:32.