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We was able to route that to the people who were responsible for that, which was your neighborhood association, not your HOA, but Riverview Road Area Association. They that was routed to them. We realized that they realized that they they had a new management company and they were behind on it. We stayed on top of that for you. And that was something out of our jurisdiction, but we made sure they got it taken care of for you. Okay? We reached out to the developers. Well, just speak city staff that did that. Okay. City with you after this where you can see these tickets. I have the tickets here where they was just closed. Didn't even read them. Just closed them out. You know, I'm talking about the signage um that shows like where Howard's um tow truck company is there. I'm talking about Sweep America Corporation. The the signage issue. We we have to know what the What are you speaking on? I'm talking about the signage. Now, I'll show it to you after. What about signage? We're giving you the four here. Well, the signage um they didn't have the right signage with the city. I guess it has to be a certain sign size for the for um the business and they closed the ticket. I sent several emails telling them that they were saying it was on private property, that it wasn't in the city of Smyrna. We pulled the address, showed them that it was in the city of Smyrna. They kept saying that it was in the city of Mapleton that they couldn't handle it. So, they kept closing it. We finally got them to open it for a little while. And let's see, Tim Freeman. He that was for Howard Recorder. For Howard Record and also with Sweet America Corporation. Okay. And And there you're saying their signs are out of code.

Out of code. Yes. Hey, my guess is some of those were grandfathered in. But here's what we're going to do. Look, we're going to schedule a meeting with you, Mike, me, and the neighborhood, and we're going to figure this out because I don't I don't want everybody I don't want anybody to ever come here and and feel like they're not being heard or their their issues addressed. So, we're going we're going to get this handled. Okay? And I really appreciate you coming and bringing it up and we'll figure out where the communication problems are and we're going to fix this. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Anybody else here to speak? Come on up. State your name and address for the record, please. Hello, uh, Mr. Mayor and Council. My name is James McKay. I live at 6212 Pipevine Lane. Uh, I'm here with many of my extraordinary neighbors. And, uh, once again, I just want to thank everybody for showing up and representing our community. It's amazing. Thank you. Um, and I just wanted to point out that uh in uh a lot of us were at last week's permitting meeting and I feel like that's where uh our uh current uh challenge or not current but where uh we feel uh a lot of neglect coming from. Um and uh for me uh I just want to point out that I uh grew up off of Bankhead now Veterans Memorial since uh 1983. Uh so I went to uh Harmony Leland, Lindley Middle School, Plebrook High School. Uh nothing in Smyrna, but uh I know Mapleton in the area very well. Mr. Mayor, you mentioned that the city of Smyrna had annexed the Riverview Road. And so when I came here to buy and invest back in the community, I was thrilled to see that Smyrna had taken over that part.

I was thrilled to see that we're investing in parkland on the along the Chattahuchi River. I was thrilled we're investing in other river parks there in the area. And I was thrilled to find a community where I could live and buy with amazing neighbors like this. And uh it was suggested in the last permitting meeting that myself and the neighbors had not done our due diligence on the area. And everyone knows that it was an industrial space. Everyone knows that it's an industrial road. Uh I used to tell people and still do that my dad used to drive me over in his pickup truck to catch turtles off of Riverview Road and now I own a home there that's in the price range of many of the new homes that were spoken of this evening. Uh, and so I think it's important for the council to understand the due diligence that my neighbors have done is the investment the city of Smyrna has put into the area. And our expectations are that if the city of Smyrna has put in an investment, that's why we did it. And so we expect the city of Smyrna to continue with that investment and continue with investment with of my neighbors and residential spaces and not temporary mixeduse and industrial permits. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. Yes, ma'am. and I'm here once again. Say that again when you're over the Pam Barton. I live at 1700 Hop Boulevard. Um what I'd like to offer is one to get you a list of the issues. Oh, really? Oh, we had that issue earlier. So, so one, I'd like to offer to get you a list of all the issues that we have. Um there are many while we use 311. 311 has not worked this summer. Let's be clear, that's not something that we made up.

I put in a submission on September 5th because about 50 neighbors told me they all summer long they've been writing about Nichols Road. I did get something back three weeks later saying that they get to it and it was closed. It was closed before we got an answer. That's not acceptable. I agree. From East West Connector and South Cobb Drive to Riverview Road is deplorable. Bankhead Highway is cleaner. I left Brooklyn 28 years ago and when I go back, it is cleaner than South Cobb Drive from East West Connector to Riverview. We've all made an investment here. We all pay into the city of Smyrna. None of us like coming here at this hour. We have homes. We have families. We have other things to do. We're here because there's a problem. And I don't want y'all to mistake that. We're willing to help these young people. If they send you something that you don't get, point them to the right direction. They want to be good citizens. They are good citizens. And it's about time we stop telling them not to email and point them in the right direction. Period. And I'm going to stand on that and I'm going to be here every meeting to make sure that we're on the same page. We've invested too much. These are young homeowners. This is their first home. A lot of them, a lot of them are single doing this at this price point. It's about time that we get on board with them and we work as a community. And that's all I ask. We and we are respectful of your time and your f all of your families. We understand it takes an effort to get here. Uh my commitment to you is I'm not going to have you coming to every meeting because we're going to meet before our next one. Okay.

Thank you. We'll set something up and I'll we'll review those issues. I promise to get you a list. We will get the staff together and we're going to figure out where the misses have been, if there been any, and what the what you know this is this is just know this isn't the way we do business here in Smyrna. We we have a a a long track record of of of great response and great constituent service and our staff provide prides itself on that and so do these elected officials. Okay. Uh to a person. So we we're we're going to figure it out and we're going to address the issues the best we can. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Mr. Oglesby, you have all of the contact information. you have I want to make sure before we leave this room that we're connected and we know exactly who we're going to meet with and when we're going to do it and you let's let's absolutely I want to get all that information before we go. Okay. Uh yeah, I have everyone's contact and everyone has my contact. Who contact do I not have? Let's just make sure we get afterwards we'll y'all come up and we'll make sure we got Okay, feel free to share my information. Thank you. Anybody else? Uh, we have nobody else signed up for citizen comment, but does anybody else want to say anything? You already spoke. You coming back up. All right. Um, so once again, I'm Corenza Morris. Uh, but, uh, my main reasons for coming tonight was just, uh, to give words on behalf of business owner in the city. Uh I've owned a business here for the last five years and the um support that I've received from the city and the neighbors is well um uh well taken I should say.

So I was just mainly just coming to say thank you guys for supporting our business. We're going on five years now. And um at the end of this month, we're actually going to have a event at our location in which I just wanted to invite you guys personally out to uh come celebrate with us as we uh celebrate the five years that we're uh that we're uh heading towards. We appreciate you doing business in Smyrna. That's a great milestone. Remind everybody the exact location of your business. Yeah. So, we're at 4585 South Cobb Drive on um across from Chrissy's Cream and uh Jimnitz. And Mr. Mayor, if I could if you I don't know if you have done so, but can you reach out to Andy Andrea Worthy, our economic development person, and she'll get that information when you do your celebration, we'll get connected with the Smyrna Business Association, and I'm sure we can get that on their calendar and get folks to come on out and promote that for you. Yeah, we'll do. Thank you. Very good. Anybody else? I'm Natani Edy. I live at 6050 Leotra Street along with my neighbors. I'm not going to reiterate. I'm just going to echo what they've shared. I do want to go on record and say that constituent services have not been as um appropriate and I'm speaking specifically to Councilman um Oglesby. It hasn't been as you all have demonstrated here. The fact that you've offered a meeting, I really appreciate the fact that the councilman just sat here and asked my neighbor to share their information is concerning to me. We haven't met. We haven't had those conversations. So, I just want to offer and I appreciate all of you at least hearing us about what we have to say. We want to be proactive. We want to be committed to uh Smyrna.

I know I moved here because I wanted to be back in Smyrna. So, I appreciate the fact that you all are going to meet with us and hear our concerns and hopefully we'll get it resolved. So, thank you. Look forward to that. Be the last speaker. A lot of pressure. End with a end with a bang. Um Tina Gory, 1532 Purple Cone Flower Avenue. I'm here from Riverview Landing with all of my neighbors. Um thank you for taking the time and meeting with us. We really appreciate it and it's hopefully a good step forward. Um, I just had one question or something to bring up. When we first moved into the neighborhood about two and a half years ago, we did go to um, Mr. Oglesv's uh, councilman meeting and we talked a bit about potentially the traffic and the safety at Riverview and Veterans Memorial. Um, more specifically potent like having a traffic light there. Now that there are so many more of us in that neighborhood, I mean, I drive that way to work every day. It terrifies me to make a left onto Veterans Memorial from Riverview. Um, you have you have cars coming this way, you have a turning lane, you have cars coming this way. It's a nightmare. The traffic is awful. And I just think that it's a very dangerous intersection. And now that we do have more people on that road, um, and potentially if there's going to be more residential, I think it'd be important to consider something there. I just looked over and our city administrator is making notes and I'm I bet those notes say get with the get with the city engineer and traffic folks. Yeah, I mean the traffic is awful there. It gets backed up. It could potentially cause more traffic. I don't know. I don't know all the logistics, but safety wise, I know it's it's scary.

That's why we have people smarter than us that tell us all the Right. Yeah. that that that is it's very likely that that intersection was considered at the at the initial layout of that development and there may be a milestone in there that triggers certain types of traffic enforcement or traffic control to your point as as more folks move in more traffic. Um so I'll meet with the public works director and see if there was a milestone that was hit that would trigger some sort of additional Okay. Great. infrastructure. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, I see one Georgia Tech sweater in the audience. I will say I'm a Georgia guy, but I do root for Tech every day that they play except one. And uh I hope that y'all are undefeated when you play Georgia. Good good luck. All right. Uh we'll we'll end the public comment period and go to ward and staff reports and we'll start tonight. Start tonight from China. Mr. Lindley, are you still with us? He went to finish his breakfast. All right, Mr. Pickkins. Thanks, Mayor. I just like to thank our park staff for putting on an awesome spooky fest on Friday night. It was very well attended and it was a great event. So, I hope everyone gets to attend it next year. Thank you, Miss Hans. Um, once again, the Rose Garden Festival. Um, they do a great job in the neighborhood uh celebrating in the fall and in the spring. So, they had a great time with the kids. So, there you go, Mr. Welch. Mr. Mayor, thanks everybody for coming out this past Saturday to keep Mr. Beautiful and cleaning up our streets in the city. With that, I yield.

Miss Wilkinson, I want to thank the um the HOA from uh Chateau Walk subdivision in W 5 and for them uh reaching out to me and us having a a great meeting yesterday about a development uh near right on the border, but it's in the county. And it was a Mr. Gold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just want to congratulate Campbell High School, Campbell Metro softball again and look forward to seeing what the those young ladies do of their high school softball career. Mr. Elgby. Hey, I just want to remind everyone of the Jazz Under the Gazebo fundraising event that's sponsored by Smyrna uh public safety foundation. Uh they actually have a option now. If you can't make it, you can purchase a ticket for one of our public safety officers uh to attend. So, there's still the opportunity to support our public safety foundation and our uh our local heroes here in Smyrna. I yield back. Jones, anything? Nothing to add. Mr. Cochran, Miss Jill, uh, there is a special election for the public service commissioner. Early voting is available in several locations and that information is on the Cobb County Elections website. Smyrna is hosting vote early voting um, October 27th through the 31st from 8:00 a.m. to 6 pm at the Taylor Bronner House on Atlanta Road. The dropbox is located inside the house and available during voting hours and election day is November 4th. Mayor, I I forgot one. Miss Hines forgot something. It's 8:36. Miss Hines, I just want to thank our mayor for the day. There you go. Mayor back. There you go. Thank you. You pres you presided over a rather uh full agenda. So, we thank you. And stay and stayed the whole time. Uh if there's no other business be brought before this body, we'll say good night from the Jonqual city. Can I say one thing? I wanted to thank you mayor and council. We had no great turnout and then awesome. Thank you.