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Thank you very much. Go on now to item C, zoning request Z25- Z009 at Benson Pool Road. Mr. Jones, any background before we turn it over to Joey? No, sir. Defer comments to our city planner, Mr. Sts. Good evening. I'm Joey Stabs, planner 2 with community development. This applicant is Alejandra Sanchez. It went to the PNZ board on August 11th and they recommended approval 70. The subject property is 2351 Benson Pool Road. It's about an acre. Um there's an existing 1,800 square foot building on the property. They're not planning to redevelop the property. They just want to change the zoning from office distribution to general commercial. As you can see, all the red around it is general commercial. Um the property below it is office distribution. There's nothing that's happening with that property with this resoning. And the other big property is a Georgia Power Substation. The future land use is mixed juice. That will remain mixed juice. Here's a picture of the subject property overhead. Uh, and then the building that's on the property and some adjacent properties. Staff is recommending approval of the reszoning from OD to GC with the following conditions. One, the following uses will be prohibited. Automobile broker office, auto parts attire stores, automobile repair, major and minor. Automobile and truck sales and service, automobile wash services, drive-thru restaurants, motorcycle sales and service, package stores, service stations, hookah bars, vape shops, parking of commercial vehicles, impromptu weekend markets and adult uses. Number two, um these are conditional. So, event facilities shall only operate between the hours of 8 am and 10 p.m. Restaurants shall only operate between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 10 p.m. And laundry and dry cleaning will be pickup and drop off only. Three, they will all have to comply with section 46.1 of the noise regulation and city smartest code of ordinances.

I'd be happy to answer any questions. questions of Joey five. Thank you, Joey. I'd like to invite the applicant up now. This is in Miss Wilkinson's ward. I'll let you take it from here. Yes. Hello. Yeah. Uh hello um everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. Welcome. And um the only thing that um that uh the reason that I applied and uh to just reszoning is because I have the um pro property vacant for more than a year and I just want to have more opportunities for different tenants and uh I approve with the um I'm very considering the staff recommendations and I don't have any problem with the restrictions and I just want to have more opportunities to have um to, you know, to be able to rent the property. I appreciate the that you're agreeable to those condition residential across the street and I appreciate you coming. Thank you. Any questions of the applicant? Thank you. Thank you. This is a public hearing. If there's anybody to speak for or against this item, please come forward now. In none, we will close the public hearing and I'll turn it over to Miss Wilkinson for a motion. So, um, at this moment, I'd like to approve item 7 C 5-00008 as previously read. That's 009, I believe. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. All those in favor, please vote. And how do you vote, Mr. Lley? Yes. Approved unanimously. Thank you. Appreciate y'all being here. We don't have any privilege, license, or show cause hearings this evening. It's okay. You don't have to stay if you don't want to. Uh we have a few items under formal business. Four, in fact. Uh first one is item A dealing with general fund um increases dealing with 2022 splast. Mr. Jones, anything you want to talk about with this item?

Yes, sir. Mayor, when the budget was adopted earlier this year, one of the line items was specific to some signage updates. The signs were not awarded until August after the budget was adopted. So, we need to move those funds forward out of the 24 budget into the 25 budget. And then the one other addition to the budget is the city received an Elmig safety grant from the state the amount of $424,400. Um that was not included in the adopted budget because it didn't exist at that time. So, we need to add that to the 2022 SPLOS fund budget and also um balance the revenue budget to account for the grant receipt. Any questions or discussion from council? Thank you, Mr. Jones. I will entertain a motion be passed by Mr. Oglesby. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Welch. All those in favor, please vote. Mr. Lindley. Yes. That's approved unanimously. Item B, approval of the recommended 2026 employee benefit insurance plans as presented by John top of Oakidge Insurance. Mr. Jones, anything to add background? Uh, yes, sir. So, this is the annual renewal. We go through with had many meetings with Mr. Knob of Oakidge Insurance to go through each of these. There were nine components that make up the benefits package associated with the uh the the healthcare life insurance plans and pharmacy plans and things like that. Uh there were no changes to any of those components. Recommendation is for approval. Any questions or discussion? Right. May I have a motion? Approve item 9B. Motion to approve by Mr. Walsh. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Gold. All those in favor, please vote. Mr. Lley. Yes. Waiting on the computer to catch up with us. That's approved 70. And item C is approval of appointment of Diane Overton as my appointee to the Keeps Mr. Beautiful board to fulfill the current term through December 31st, 2027.

We had a resignation. Um, and Diane will be a great addition to the board. Uh, may I have a motion to approve Diane, please? So, moved by Miss Heiser. I have a second. Second by Mr. Pickkins. All those in favor, please vote. Mr. Lindley. Yes. That's approved unanimously. Item D is to approve the appointment of Mike Jones to serve regular regular license variance board member alongside Mr. Richard Garland and Miss Andrea Worthy effective October 6, 2025. Any discussion on this like you didn't have enough to do? I thought I'd add a few more things to my my to-do list. know, but happy to serve. There's no discussion. I'll take a motion now. Motion to approve by Mr. Ghoul, second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. Mr. Lindley. Mr. Lindley. has approved unanimously. Congratulations, Mike. Uh, now for the consent agenda. Mr. Jones, can you please read the consent agenda for council approval? Certainly. There are five items on tonight's consent agenda. The first three are approval of minutes from prior meetings, the September 18th committee, the whole meeting, the September 22nd pre-consil meeting, and the September 22nd mayor and council meeting. Item D is authorization to approve a quick claim deed from the city of Smyrna for two properties located at 2631 Brown Circle and 2651 Brown Circle. And item E is approval of the closing for the following streets of Smyrna Parks and Recreation Spooky Festivals. King Street from Stevens to Bank and also West Spring Street from King Street up to the Fountain from 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, October 17th. I have a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved by Miss Hines. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. Mr. Lindley. Yes. That's approved unanimously. We're now at our citizen participation portion of the meeting. Is there anyone here for public comment this evening?

Want to say anything? Right. Uh, nobody's here for public comment, so we'll go to ward and staff reports. U, Mr. Lindley, you want to kick us off tonight? Any report? Yes. Just a huge thanks to city staff for a great event this weekend. Uh, certainly showcased our community in the best possible way. And huge thanks to the folks that came out yesterday for the backtoback ward ward town hall. So, thanks to And thanks to Glenn and Tim for uh for helping and being there and sort of keeping the keeping the room moving. Thank you, Mr. Pickkins. Thank you, Mayor. Just like to uh re reiterate what Travis said. Uh thanks to the staff for throwing a incredible birthday party over the weekend and uh those that came out to our town hall yesterday. Miss Hines. Uh thank you, mayor. And just echoing uh the words that you said earlier about the public safety appreciation lunchon. Um it was it it's very steering to be able to see uh those men and women being recognized for the things that they do every day. They don't do what they do for recognition. So it's good to be able to uh see them be recognized. And then also thank you to the staff. Amazing. I went out early on Saturday morning and they worked from early in the morning to late at night to make sure that things were um taken care of and uh to be able to have a event like that that big and it be a safe one, it takes a lot. So, I'm very thankful for that. And then I just like to Rose Garden will be having its fall festival. It'll be on October 18th. I'm not sure if we'll have another meeting before then, but um it's a great neighborhood and they do it all themselves and um it's a great recognition.

So with that I Mr. Welch. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I also want to thank our staff for doing all the cleanup work and setup work for the birthday celebration this weekend. They they do a fantastic job and really can't say enough about how how good of a job they do. We the council appreciate it and also want to mention on Saturday before the birthday celebration, the Smyrna Historical Society had an open house, both the Reed House and Taylor Bronner and I I worked the Reed House and I I estimate we probably hadundred people that came in just to see those facilities. So, we appreciate all y'all coming out. I think the plan is to try to do it again. I don't think we uh I think we purposely don't rent that facility or e either of those facilities that day. and um we'll try it again next year just to bring awareness to the great public facilities that we have for events and thank the city for allowing us to do it that I miss Wilson. Um I want to reiterate what my fellow council members have said thanking the staff for all their uh the work that they put into the birthday celebration. lot of people came out and thank the staff for all their work. Mr. Gold, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple of quick things. Uh to echo what Travis said, we had a very productive ward meeting uh here yesterday. Appreciate our folks coming out. Kind of a rainy rainy day. A lot of good input and questions. And then this afternoon we had a trafficcoming meeting and uh gota give staff a lot of credit for the work they're doing throughout the city being creative and come up ways to help ensure our roads are safe and usable and neighborhoods and are comfortable and all that with traffic and pedestrian safety.

So appreciate to Mark Wolf and Eric Randall. And then yeah finally again another is it the fourth amazing birthday celebration. So thanks to staff for making that making that happen again this year. How do we yield Mr. Mayor? Mr. ugles be wild four. That's awesome. Let's keep it going, man. Um, I have a couple of things. Uh, excited to announce that the Trussel Public Land has started the construction of our River Park, uh, Riverview Road along the Chattahuchi. So, we're really excited about that. It's going to bring a lot of value to the area and also to the region. Um, and it's paid for through grant money, right? It's awesome. Also, uh, I had the honor of, excuse me, of attending this the, uh, the awards, uh, banquet for the Smyrna that the Smyrna Public Safety Foundation put on for our fire department. Uh, there were led by Denise, executive director. Another awesome, uh, event honoring some of our heroes here in the city of Smyrna. I truly believe we have the best fire department here in the state of Georgia. and it was on full display uh during the uh the dinner. Um and if you would like to support the Smyrna Public Safety Foundation, they are actually having their annual Jazz Under the Gazebo uh here right here in downtown Smyrna November the 1st. And that's uh from 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. And you can get those tickets online at their website. Uh yeah, we should all uh support Smyrna Public Safety Foundation. I yield back to you, Mayor. I am so glad that you mentioned that because you triggered my memory to mention something that I'd have gotten in big trouble for if I didn't if I didn't do it. This Thursday from 6:00 to 9 u immediately following the um homecoming parade that was it'll be the first one we've done in quite quite a lot of years here in Smyrna.

Um the high school band will go over to the Reed House and from 6:00 to 9:00 the support Smyrna will have our second annual gala there. Um it is it was awesome last year. It's a a great way to uh mingle with other community members and and raise some money for a great cause. There's a silent auction that is um very robust. a lot of good things on there and um I hope you'll come out for both of those things for the for the homecoming parade and come over to the Reed House afterwards for a a great event. As a reminder, Support Smyrna is the hyper local nonprofit that uh assists seniors and children and families and others veterans uh right here in our Smyrna community. So, thank you Ricky for your mention of that, man. I'd have been I'd have been in trouble. Um, Mike Jones, anything you want to add tonight? Yes, sir. Judge, anything you want to add? The honor is ours. Miss Heather, Jill, anything? Not this evening. All right. If there's nothing else to be brought before this body, we uh adjourn from the Jonqual City at 8:00 PM.