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Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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Councilmember Hines stated that as a prosecutor for 20 years, stated that Flock has the kind of technology that helps with convictions for crimes, especially for those crimes committed when someone flees. She asked how open records are handled. Mr. Jeffcoat stated that each agency has policies and procedures and built out models in the software that allows for those searches and provide the trails for auditing purposes. Councilmember Welch asked if additional personnel is needed if they move forward with this, and he asked what the range of the drones is. Chief Zgonc stated it does not create more work for personnel. It makes things more efficient for current personnel. Mr. Jeffcoat stated drone range is typically 3.5 miles radius.
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B. COW2025-023 Croy – Quarterly Update – Greg Teague / Zach Strickland Zach Strickland, Croy Engineering, presented the following: Active Projects: December 2025 Windy Hill Road Improvements – Complete South Cobb Drive Improvements – Preliminary Engineering Progress - Funding Information City of Smyrna GDO T ARC Community Project Funding Funding Needed Total Design $4,212,35 3 - - - - $4,212,353 Right-of- Way $80,000 - $400,000 - - $480,000 Constructio n $3,295,25 6 - $8,360,00 0 $8,116,279 * $10,931,462 * $30,702,99 6 Total $7,587,60 9 TBD $8,760,00 0 $8,116,279 * $10,931,462 * $35,395,34 9 *Draft FY26 THUD CPF Project List reflects $2,000,000 appropriated from McBath. - Schedule: November 2023-April 2028 • Concept Phase: Nov 2023 – July 2026 • Environmental Activities | Preliminary Plans Phase: Dec 2023 – July 2026 • Preliminary Plans Phase | Preliminary Field Plan Review: Dec 2024 – Sep 2026 • Right-of-Way Plan Activities: July 2026 – Oct 2026 • Final Design & Right-of-Way Acquisition | Final Field Plan Review: Augh 2026 – Oct 2027 • Prepare for Let | Let Contract: Aug 2027 – April 2028 Tolleson Park Aquatics Center – Under Construction, Estimated Completion March 2027 - Schedule: August 2024 – March 2027 • Concept Development: Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 • Schematic Design: April 2025 – June 2025 • Design Development: June 2025 – Aug 2025 • Construction Documents: Aug 2025 – Oct 2025 • Advertising/Bidding/Award: Sep 2025 – Nov 2025 • Construction: Dec 2025 – March 2027 Riverline Park Splashpad/Playground: Completion January 2026 Downtown Parking (Surface Lot): Substantially Complete Resurfacing: 31 Proposed Roads Downtown Improvements: Construction Complete Upcoming Projects: December 2025 • Cobb Parkway Pedestrian Bridge: Project in Concept Development (PDP) • Camp Highland – Slope Stabilization: Silver Comet Trail Reopened Brief discussion about joint projects with Cobb County.
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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A. COW2025-119 Review of the December 15, 2025 Mayor and Council Meeting Notice and Agenda Mayor Derek Norton reviewed the December 15, 2025 Mayor and Council meeting agenda. ATH2025-198: Paul Osburn, Deputy Public Works Director, explained that the retractable bollards will be at Bank St. and King St., Powder Springs St. and King St. by the brewery and the parallel parking where the food trucks are supposed to be. They will also be installed at Village Green at Atlanta Rd. They are quick release, so they should go up and down within 30 seconds. Reflectivity will be installed, and they will be installed by internal staff with oversight by an appropriate manufacturer representative which will save the City a quarter of a million dollars. RFP26-011: This allows the City to have an on-call set of contractors to utilize. ATH2025-210: This allows one contractor to manage the whole project from design to installation. This will be an upgrade from what was there before. It will tie into the river keepers building. It will be ADA compliant, elevated, tied into the trail, etc. ATH2025-211: This just increases the budget line item to do additional outfall clearing.
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Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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6. Other Business / Staff Comment Paul Osburn, Deputy Public Works Director, discussed the bagged leaf issues. Staff has attempted multiple ways to handle the bagged leaf issues from residents. Door hangers were distributed with the new rules. Ten bags or fewer are free. Communication will be better before the next fall season. Kristin Robinson, Deputy City Administrator/CFO, Cobb Marietta Water Authority is passing along a 5% fee increase. The water bill and the website will have the increase announced. She also said that the recycling fees per ton are going from $20 to $47 per ton. That is more than solid waste. 7. Executive Session (As Needed)
Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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A. COW2025-121 Discussion regarding Legal Councilmember Charles Welch made a motion Enter into Executive Session to discuss Legal and Personnel; seconded by Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby Jr. The motion Enter into Executive Session carried with the following vote: Aye: 5 – Councilmember Pickens, Councilmember Welch, Councilmember Wilkinson, Councilmember / Mayor Pro Tem Gould (virtual), Councilmember Oglesby Nay: 0 – None Absent: 2 – Councilmember Hines, Councilmember Lindley Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby Jr. made a motion Return to Regular Session; seconded by Councilmember Glenn Pickens. The motion Return to Regular Session carried with the following vote: Aye: 5 – Councilmember Pickens, Councilmember Welch, Councilmember Wilkinson, Councilmember / Mayor Pro Tem Gould (virtual), Councilmember Oglesby Nay: 0 – None Absent: 2 – Councilmember Hines, Councilmember Lindley
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Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM
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7. Adjournment Mayor Derek Norton adjourned the December 11, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting at 7:37 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
in Savannah. I did. All right. This is a I'm not sure. Yes. All right. Why do I have this up here? Heather, is my mic not working? No, it works. I just don't need this probably. Oh, they must have had trials because they've got this It's working. All right. Hello everybody. We're going to call this meeting to order. Um we have with us tonight Pastor Joel Smith, Smyrna Presbyterian Church, 3130 Atlanta Road. Like to invite pastor up uh for the invocation and pledge. Everybody please rise. Join me in prayer. Oh God, you are the great God that is to be praised. We thank you for this day that you are the creator and maker of all things, the provider, sustainer, and source of all things. It's in you we live and move and have our being. Lord, we come this night humbly to you praying for our great city, the city of Smyrna, Georgia. We thank you for its years of history, for those that have gone before us, the shoulders upon which we stand. Lord, we pray that our best days would yet still be ahead. Pray for our councilmen and women this night. We ask that you'd give them wisdom, insight, and discernment to lead the people of this great city. Give them leadership. Pray that they would do things willingly and with a servant's heart that only you can give. Lord, we pray this night for our first responders, our city workers, our businesses, our churches, our community centers, and other ministries around this town. Would you be with them, protect them, use them? God, you are good. And would we, your people rise up, praise you, and bless your name. And in this Thanksgiving month, would we give you thanks with great gratitude in our hearts to you. Pray all of this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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If you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, pastor, for being here. Appreciate it. Uh, our clerk just told told me that um as we go through this meeting, if you are wanting to come speak, you'll be sworn in by our city attorney and then you'll sign the sheet as you come up. I don't think anybody signed it on their way in. So, housekeeping thing there. Um, we next is agenda changes. We do have one agenda change and I'd like to have a motion to suspend the rules to add an agenda item. We have a motion by Mr. Lley, second by Miss Hines. All those in favor of suspending the rules to add an agenda item, please vote. Approved unanimously. Um, I need a motion now and and I'll tell you why this is being put on here. Um, we closed the green space, the the King King King King Street from Bank to Powder Springs on the weekends a few months back because there's been so much activity in the downtown green space, right? People are down there all the time. Well, we did it through uh the end of daylight savings time because we thought, well, it's going to be cold and it's going to be dark and nobody's going to be down there until it was 73 degrees this weekend and it was a ton of people down there and on Friday it wasn't closed. So, the motion that I need is to close King Street from Bank to Powder Springs on weekends from Friday afternoon at 3 PM to Monday morning at 700 a.m. All weekends going forward. Have a motion and a second to add this to the agenda.
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Uh, all those in favor, please raise your hand. That's added to the agenda and that will be under formal business item J. Thank you. So, now we're moving on to the mayoral report. And I'm going to start with a special recognition. I have a few things I want to go over, but um we have had a we've got a ton of talented youth here in Smyrna, particularly in athletics. And um over the last several years, we've had soccer teams and gymnasts and basketball and baseball and wrestling and you name it, we we've brought it swimming, all of it. I think this is the first time that I remember uh in all my time here that we've recognized a champion golfer. And so I want to read a little bit about Robbie Alexander III. And and Robbie, can you come up here to the front? And and I'm gonna I'm going to recognize you here. A little bit about Robbie. Robbie Alexander III is right here at Campbell Middle School in Smyrna, Georgia. One of the top junior golfers in the state. Did I see you hitting balls on the range today? I did, didn't I? They had the go they had the inaugural golf tournament to support the golf team. And I and I I noticed you hitting, so I I I know I know now where that nice swing came from. In uh in 2025, he was named Junior State Champion after winning the GSGA Junior Tour Invitational, which is the official season finisher for junior junior golfers. He finished the 2025 season ranked number one in Georgia for boys 12 to 15 nine-hole division leading the state in every major performance category including highest point total, lowest lowest scoring differential, top overall performance ranking score and he had he participated in 13 competitive events which is one of the highest participation totals amongst all top ranked players.
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He earned the prestigious title of GSGA Junior Tour Player of the Year for his age division and secured five tournament victories in 2025, including his first ever competitive event win. He trains daily, sometimes more than two hours a day, under the guidance of Coach James. Uh he he's he's got a disciplined routine that incorporates full swing development, short game precision, strength and mobility work, and mental preparation, which I know as a as a guy that tries to play golf sometimes, it's almost all mental and and uh hard to concentrate on. So that's not all he does academically, which we all know is the most important. He he maintains straight A's in honors classes, has been on the principal's list every single year, and is active in leadership and academic clubs, including Beta Club and Future Business Leaders of America. He aspires to earn a full college scholarship, major in business, and compete at the collegiate level. Though he's got excellence both exemplifies excellence both on and off the course, he's supported every day by his parents, Dr. Robert and Key Alexander and his sister L and Coach James and a close supportive community of friends and families. We are thrilled to have you here tonight and recognize you for your achievements. Give him a huge round of applause. [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [applause] Obby, anything you want to say? Um, got quite a fan club here. Thank you. Um, I'd like to thank my family, neighbors, and friends for always supporting me um through tournaments and practices. Um, my coach, Lenard James, he's always there. every single day I come out to practice, he's helped me for years now and has always supported me through all these years. Um, all of my friends, they've always been there since kindergarten. Um, they're always supporting me, motivating me, and helping me to be a better person.
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And my grandparents, they um, they have set the path for me. Um, academically they've always helped me and they've also helped me to be a great person. Love that. Would you would you mind if I come down there and get a picture with you? It's okay to clap again for him. I saw it. Yeah. [cheering] [applause] I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. Right here from Georgia. Come on over here. Yeah. Come on in here. This is awesome. I love it. Come on, coach. Come on. Get in here. Oh, yeah. You get Yeah. Come on. There's room. There's room. There's room. There's room. You better get in there, too. All right. [applause and cheering] Very good. fun part of being in this role. That's that's a lot of fun. Congrats again. Uh we had to cancel our last council meeting. So it's been since October 20th that we met and we've had a lot going on. I was kind of taking notes. Um, some of the things since that time, we had our crafts and drafts festival, uh, college football Saturday, we had the Halloween spooky fest. Thank you to our, um, our first responders and police for keeping all of our neighborhoods safe during the the Halloween time. Um, we've had a couple of nonprofit events. The Support Smyrna golf tournament happened a week ago Friday, and we raised over $50,000 for the most vulnerable here, right here in our community. Uh Smyrna Public Safety Foundation had an event right here downtown. Um the council had a mini retreat uh here last Friday to all kind of get on the same page and do a six-month spot check on on where we are with all of our programs and projects. We had an awesome Veterans Day program. Um we had to move it inside because that was the day that it was so cold after being 70 on each side of that day.
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