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all related documents. Mr. Jones, background, please. The local hazard mitigation plan, it's it provides sustained action to eliminate reduce risk to people and property, the effects of natural and man-made hazards. Uh the plan shows the planning process for Cobb County and participating jurisdictions and identifies applicable hazards and vulnerabilities. The plans are on a five-year rotation. The 2026 plan has been prepared by a company called Blue Umbrella Solutions and is recommended for approval by our Smyrna Fire Department, our EMA agency. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any discussion or questions from council? I will acknowledge that Mr. McReer has sat through. He dro tonight and is here for any questions. We thank you for being here for this long meeting and uh it doesn't look like there are any. Uh, I'll entertain a motion to adopt item B. Motion to approve item B by Miss Hines, second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Prove 70. You Thank you. You did a heck of a job tonight. Thank you very much.

Item C, this is um an item to purchase a 2027 F Ford F550

um Super Warrior transport capable rescue unit. Uh in discussions with the council in pre-consel, they are requesting some additional information on um response time from current ambulance services and other things. until we get all that information. They're asking that we table this uh until our next meeting, which is in two weeks. Um so I will u take a motion now to table item C until the next meeting of the mayor and council. Make the motion to table to the next meeting. And we have a motion by Miss Wells. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Wilkinson. Everybody please vote. Then that's approved 70 and tabled to the next time we meet. Item D, authorization to purchase four Dodge

Durango Pursuit all-wheel drive SUVs in the amount of $45,59 per vehicle totaling $182,36

from Akens Ford Dodge under the Georgia statewide contract to be funded by the emergency vehicle replacement fund. vehicle outfitting by Dana safety supply to be funded by the asset for forfeite fund at an additional 22,23840 per vehicle totaling $88,95360 and authorize mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Is there any other background besides what I just read, Mr. Jones? Yes, sir. Pretty straightforward. Do I have a motion to approve item D? So moved by Mr. Lindley. Second. Second by Mr. Pickkins. All in favor, please vote. Approve. 70. Item E, approval of a three-year contract under RFP26-019 for citywide fire systems inspections

and maintenance to Cliff's Fire Extinguisher in Woodstock, Georgia in an amount of $23,5124 and authorize mayor to sign and execute all related documents. Mr. Jones, any additional background? The RFP was let and rebid and it was a an award of a three-year contract for the fire system inspections. The city received five responsive bids that were evaluated and based on that evaluation, the team the evaluation team um has made the determination that the award go to fire extinguisher. Recommend approval. Any discussion? I'll entertain a motion. Move approval by Mr. Lindley. Second by Mr. Ghoul. Everyone, please vote. That's approved. 70. The last item under formal business, item F, authorization for a budget amendment to purchase two

Laser ZX series 72inch riding mowers at a cost of $16,14 each for a total of $32,228.

and one Vanguard ride-on blower at a cost of $11,880 totaling $55,788 from Howard Brothers Incorporated in Duth for the maintenance of the Campbell Middle School property and authorized Mor sign and execute all related documents. I think we had an option here where we could add this to our landscape agreement with Russell Landscape or we could we could get equipment and have our guys do it on our own. So, this is a one-time cost versus an ongoing cost of 40 or $50,000 a year. So, uh any other background, Mr. Jones? Uh yes, sir. If my father is listening out there, um if we had had a laser ZX series 72 inch riding mower, I wouldn't mind the grass quite Yeah. But but we didn't. And uh so this is this is um follows an approval of the joint use agreement with the board of education for Campbell Middle School property and it is now the responsibility of city of Smyrna to maintain that property in the parks and rec department can maintain the property with the purchase of this equipment and we recommend approval. Thank you Mr. Jones. Any discussion or questions on council? Okay. Uh entertain a motion to approve item F. Motion to pass by Mr. Lley. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Oglesby. All those in favor, please vote. And that's approved. 70. And now we'll go to the consent agenda.

Mr. Jones, we just have approval of the minutes from June 11th, 15th pre-consel, and 15th mayor and councilman. I won't even make you read that. Do I have Do I have a motion to approve? Oh, and item D. Yeah. Well, okay. I was moving too fast. Mr. Jones, you almost got away with that. So, we have the three uh meeting minutes, the committee, the whole, the pre-consel, and the mayor meeting minutes to approve the mayor just mentioned, but there was a motion earlier that passed to add an agenda item, and that is to extend the um King Street closures to August 17th. Basically, leave the current ballards in place till that time. Thank you. I'd forgotten that we did that because that was so long ago. Uh, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Approved by Mr. Lindley, second by Miss Hines. All those in favor, please vote. All right, that was approved. 70. We're at our public comment portion of the meeting. Is there anybody who signed up to speak tonight that hasn't already spoken? Looks like there just one. Anybody want to speak? All right. Uh, we'll close that portion. U we'll go to our ward and staff reports. One thing real quick that I mentioned at our in my mayoral report was the 250 flags. It's on our veterans memorial. I wanted to thank scout troop 220 and Barrett Carter in particular. They came out there. It was really hot that day and those scouts put all those in there and then uh Jack and I, my son, helped put the last one in. But they did all the heavy lifting and the volunteers. So, thank you for coming out and doing that. Mr. Pickkins. Uh, no report this evening. Miss Hines, thank you, mayor.

Um, I just want to say uh once again, wonderful job uh for the brush and box event that happened and then that we also participated some of us on council for the Georgia Municipal Association conference and that was a very uh well attended conference and so uh without a y. Travis, you missed that this year, didn't you? Yeah, I did. I missed it a lot. Mr. Lley. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to quickly thanks for a huge thanks to the staff. There has been so much going on. Uh I know they're taxed and uh hope they get a little reprieve as we get into the cool month of August. I want to congratulate uh my colleague from Ward 4 on his retirement. Uh I hope I live that long. Um yeah, well I don't think Mr. Well, Juicy. And uh in the back, the lone uh participant is my godson from Tennessee. He's wearing that lovely Tennessee orange. He is a uh go balls rising uh secondyear law student who is shadowing me this week and for some reason is enduring all of this. God bless you, sir. I close with a question. Is Carson in trouble because why did she have to endure all of this? And I yield. The answer is is is yes, she is. So So Mr. Welch, first day of retirement. So what do we do? We hold a military hearing at 8:30 a.m. uh on day one at a count long council meeting at the end. So happy retirement, Mr. Welch. Thank you, Travis. With that, I yield, [snorts] Miss Wilkinson. So congratulations to Councilmans. I want to just also thank the staff about what a wonderful job they did the concert and the um the soccer events that were going on in the downtown.

Um it was really amazing and also thank I did not realize it was a boy scout troop that put up all the flags, but that was really awesome too. Um you know I thought I thought it was our parks department. So thank you for clarifying that. I thought I actually thought it might have been grow the grass back up there because it was [laughter] [gasps] anyway. But it really looked nice and it it still does. It still does look nice. It's still out there. Grass. Yes, it does look nice. And anyway, but I did see some people doing an obstacle course in there around the different post. So, they did make use of it, too. Thank you. Anyway, it was it was really nice. Thanks, Mr. Ghoul. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple quick things. Tomorrow night is Forest Hills night at Stillfire. So, the Forest Hills Preservation Group is hosting with uh with Jerry uh StillFire's coordinator for a night at 6 PM tomorrow night at StillFire. So, come on out. Uh next Tuesday, I think it's the 28th, the Smyrna area middle school principles will have a meet and greet at Taylor Bronner Park during food truck Tuesday. So come on out and meet your middle school principles for Campbell Middle School, Griffin and Pearson middle schools. And then lastly, just want to thanks Park and Rec. They just do continue to do an amazing amazing job with all the different activities in the downtown and they deserve a rest after the wrapping up uh World Cup this past Sunday. Thank you, sir. Mr. Elgby, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I want to speak briefly on Junth. Uh we held our second annual Junth festival here in the city of Smyrna and I'm very happy to report that uh last year we had a great number 5,500 people uh to attend.

This year we had about 8,800 people to attend. So I think it's safe to say this is now truly an annual event. And so I'm so so humbled and proud. And next year you won't have a a worldwide soccer tournament this year. Next year we won't have the congestion of trying to switch over. But I do want to thank uh all the city staff that helped make that possible and the the planning committee. Man, y'all did an awesome job. We had to do some things, you know, at the last minute to accommodate certain situations and it was done and we had a great time. Um also, well, Cop County City students are going back to school real soon. uh real real soon. So, I want to wish everyone a great year. Um um and you know, far as our athletes, yeah, bring home some more of those trophies. I yield back to you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Jones, Mr. Cochran, you don't have anything you'd like to do? I thought you were going to speak on the fact that Mr. Jones didn't have on the jacket tonight, but I'm sorry about that. you you don't you don't get through Miss Jill, Miss Carson, anything. Okay. All right. If we don't have anything be brought else to be brought before this body, we're adjourned from the Jonal City at 8:35. We're so used to short meetings, these long ones.