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And I'm I'm very pleased about that event and looking forward to those in the future. Rose Garden had their fall festival um which I understand was a I was out of town but I understand was an excellent event particularly for the children in the neighborhood. So um appreciate that. We had our spooky fest downtown. A lot of kids dressed up in their costumes and trick-or-treating and doing all that kind of stuff. And then I want to make everybody aware and remember we've got our crafts and drafts festival this coming weekend and hope to see y'all there. So, um, the next item is the introduction. I told y'all I've got August Bini up here. Um, parents Devon and Blake are in the audience and, um, August is an eighth grader at St. Benedict's. Um, he is an avid tennis player. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him at Wimbledon or US Open one day. He's a percussionist uh, and a star student. And, uh, we're we're super happy to have you here. Um, we're gonna

step down and get a photo and I've got a uh proclamation here. City of Smyrna, Georgia. Be it known that August Bolini has been bestowed with the esteemed title of honorary mayor of the day in rec in recognition of his exceptional spirit, enthusiasm and curiosity, August Bleini is hereby granted the full authority and admiration that accompanies this prestigious role of honorary mayor of Smyrna for this special day. Given this 20 20th day of October, 2025 and you you can call him the honorable, but you don't have to, but you can. You want to go down and get a picture? mayor of the day and then they go behind the scenes tour of the police station fire stationer. [Applause] Seems like we have a neverending parade of uh exceptional young athletes coming through here. We just recently recognized the little league state champions, repeat state champions. We've had gymnastics and basketball and soccer and all just all kinds of stuff. Tonight we are honored to have uh the Junior Spartans here who um a little bit about them based here in Smyrna. The program develops young athletes through competitive play, teamwork, and a strong commitment to the community. Um they're the feeder program for the Campbell High School fast pitch. uh and the Junior Spartans uh prepare student athletes for

success both on and off the field. So, we're here to honor them tonight because the gold team just brought home the Cobb Metro Championship. How they did it in the playoffs alone. They outscored their opponents 18-2 with two run rule victories and across the season had 219 runs versus 60 allowed. Now the silver team also had a great run and reached the Cobb Metro finalist game uh to the championship game. their season. They were totally dominant with a 16-4 record, 226 runs scored verse only 34 allowed and had 178 hits verse only 27 given up. That is awesome, y'all. So, I'm going to invite the coaches up now to say a little bit about the program and then introduce your players. And I have something I want to give each one of them. Come on up. [Applause] Microphone and and tell us a little bit about program. And Sure. Hi, my name is Nicole P. I'm the president of the Smyrna Girls Softball Association. I'm also the director of the Junior Spartans Fast Pitch program. Um, this is our head coach of the gold, David P. Um, the coaches. We have a lot of coaches. Come on up. We got room up here. Rico. And I want to bring up I want to bring up coach Rico as well. He is the head coach of the varsity program. So, we're really, you know, this this program is for fifth through eighth grade girls who are zoned for Campbell High School. Our goal is to develop them and create a community of players and families and deliver them a big blue bow to coach Rico um for his program. You okay with that, coach? I'm good. Yeah. So, we also have coach Corey Spivey, coach Nana, coach David Selki, Coach Brittney Ferrell, and coach Cass Emerson Fox. So, these are our silver coaches right here, and these are our gold coaches.

Um, And I can't say enough. They, you know, they give up all of their time for the so much time for the girls. I say to the parents before we start, buckle up. It's three months of really intense softball. The goal is to, you know, the goal has been over the past few years to really build the program. Um, and it is actually, and I do like to give credit where credit's due, we built this ecosystem with Ryan Park as well. And if they hadn't really started investing and seeing what you guys and everyone has done for that park, investing in the girls, investing in the game of softball, um it has fed, you know, the Renegades and then it feeds our program and then it feeds right into the high school. So big things to come. I think we're all we're all on page on the same page for coach's goals state championship by 2030. These are the girls over here that can do it for you. So we're really proud of them and we're proud of the work they they've been doing. I will tell you this city does as much as we can to support all of our teams, including including y'all. There a lot of times people think that Ryan Park is a city of Smyrna Park, but it's it's in the county and then they think that, hey, why are you all putting so much money into the Campbell baseball field and not the softball field? Well, we own a baseball field. in the district owns a softball field, but what we do is get with the members of the Cobb County School District board uh and the superintendent and and the staff over there to make sure that they're putting money into making those facilities better.

And then we were able to get a nice partnership with the Braves and the All-Star with the in combination with the All-Star game for Ryan Park. So, very very very happy to see you all succeeding and I look forward to great things ahead. Coaches, you all want to talk or and introduce your teams? Yeah, I can go ahead and introduce uh my gold team. Um let's start with my eighth graders. Calls your name. Uh y'all y'all come up and line up on this side and then the other team on this side. So I'll start with my eighth graders. Uh, Nadia, uh, Kendall, Nava, Harper, Maddie, and uh, my last eighth grader back there, Riley. And uh now for my seventh graders, uh Gabby, forgot you Sky, Serenity, Ella, Marissa, and Evelyn. So, uh, Britney will now, uh, bring up her, uh, silver team here. So, starting with our seventh grader, we have Sylvia. [Applause] And then moving to our sixth graders, we have Noel, Scarlet, Asher, Liv, KG, Grace, Sydney, and then our two fifth graders, Mlan, and Ara. for exceptional performance. Mayor City, Mr. Mayor, while you're while you're doing that, I got to say, Coach Rico's got to be happy to have a few pitchers coming up through the pipeline. Did I hear that right? Silver had four had silver has four pitchers. That's pretty impressive. How about gold? How many pitchers we have on the gold team? Got three. That's pretty good. So, seven pitchers in the pipeline. If anything knows about Cobb County softball, if you got pitching, then you're really in the mix of it, right? You can hit and field and all that, but you have to have pitching. So, that's awesome.

Um, hey, as a dad of a daughter who played three years of Metro and four years at Campbell High School, I just can't tell you how proud I am of you girls and really coaches what you're doing to raise the program and Nicole and all that for really raising the bar here. It's wonderful. It's really It's wonderful to see and I I really appreciate it. So, and Coach Rico 2030, that's it, sir. All right. If we can't do it sooner, 2030 is good enough. here a little bit. Make a couple rows, maybe. Don't be afraid. Come on over. Make sure you can see the camera. Yeah, you can get behind us. How about one, two, three? Champs. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks y'all. That keep up the good work. Our city our city administrator, Mike, just said, "That's one of your favorite things about being mayor." And I said, "Absolutely." Yeah, absolutely is. I'm going to give them a minute to make their way out before we do our next thing, which is the Smyrna Youth Council introduction and oath of office.

Want to you want to come up and bring y'all? Come on up. Come on up.

All right. So, this is our um Smyrna Youth Council. We have a total of 20 high school students from a collection of schools. We've got a lot of Campbell. We've got Westminster and Whitfield as well. Tonight we have 15 showing up because unfortunately cold and flu season is here. Um we appreciate those other ones staying home. Then yes, we absolutely do. We have our youth council mayor who has presented or prepared a little speech just to share a little bit about what we do. Her name is Fatu Deop. So, Hello and good evening. Thank you to everyone for coming. I appreciate you for supporting this amazing moment. I want to start off with first thanking Mrs. Carson and Miss Eevee for making this program so accessible and inclusive for everyone. It is their skills that make this program so special and full of community building. For the past three years being involved in the council, I've learned more about leadership and how to make an impact on my community in so many different ways, more than any other activity. Participating in a variety of community service events has not only helped me build such an amazing community where I can work together with my amazing peers on the council, but has also shown me that I can make a difference and this is a real opportunity to improve Smyrna. We've gone from making an environmental impact to an impact on our senior citizens to an impact on those suffering from food scarcity and that shows the versatility of our organization and the other respect that we have for providing aid to Smyrna in every way we can. I am so grateful for this program as it has given me the perfect platform to express my desire for helping people and that's what we do and plan at every meeting.

Every voice is heard and I've built such amazing relationships with the people involved. It is this attitude that has inspired me to start a website of my own ba based on of my own based on community building and how to give back. Thank you so much for giving me this outlet to show my appreciation for the city and every person living in it. And I am thrilled to see the amazing things the council will achieve this year. [Applause] And I I want to just say something for one of your posts. I love following your Instagram. You guys stay up to date and the fact that you guys are having an adulting class that's going to be happening on October 21st. Is that correct? I want to make sure that we as council are sharing this information to get teens out there to do that. Um I I believe you guys are doing adulting 101 about finances and things like that. I mean I might need to go just send it myself just but um no I think that's great and any way that we can help support uh some of the projects that you guys are doing please do not hesitate to reach out to us or even if you might want us to show up um we're there for you. Thank you so much for what you do. super talented group and uh I know some of you as we talked earlier have been doing this for three years and I would imagine those that just graduated out will come back and visit and still want to be part of this. So uh what y'all are doing for the for the youth in our community and getting the message out and learning. I know y'all been down to the Capitol a couple of times. Um I know it's a really good experience for y'all.

And there are three new members of the council. Correct. Yeah. Well, seven new Oh, I thought it was three. Okay, good. Seven new members. That's awesome. Well, we're glad to have you. And Councilman Oglesby is going to u make the introductions and administer the oath of office. All right, great. I get to do the fun things here. Uh this is the Smyrna Youth Council oath of office. So, uh we're raising our right hand here. All right. Uh just repeat after me. I do affirm that I desire to be a member of the Smyrna Youth Council. that I will honestly and faithfully perform the duties assigned to me, that I would abide by the rules which govern Smyrna Youth Council members, and that I will be a good role model for all youth in Smyrna. Congratulations. We're proud of you. Thank you. [Applause] Sure. Let's do it. Y'all want to take a picture? We like to take pictures, y'all. Uhoh. Do this year. And we got an awesome city with a lot of talented youth. Love it. Um, we have a couple of items on community development

here. Uh, one of them is going to be tabled. Item A is a zoning request, uh, reszoning for 250 multif family units on

Highlands Parkway. This is going to be tabled until the November 17th meeting and I need a motion to do that. Please, do I have a second? Before we before we take the vote, I I should have said earlier u Councilman Lindley, who as you may remember joined us virtually from Antarctica where he went for milestone birthday recently, currently finds himself in China and is called in and has joined us uh virtually from China this evening. So, Councilman, do we have you on? Yes, sir. Good morning from Shanghai. Unbelievable. All right. So, we have a motion and a second. Uh, any discussion? All those in favor, please vote. Mr. Lindley, how do you vote from China? I vote yes. All right. Passes unanimously. Item B. Um, this is a public hearing reszoning for 13 single