2026-03-02 March 02, 2026 Mayor and Council Meeting Minutes - FINAL
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March 02, 2026 7:00 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers Page 4 of 7 unbudgeted expenditures and revenues, authorization to the amend the Adopted Project Length Budgets in the Water CIP Fund to decrease the project budgets in project 52409 and 52509 and increase project 52609 to move all funds into the AMI meter replacement project, and authorization to amend the 2016 SPLOST project length budgets. Citywide Mike Jones, City Administrator, provided the following background: Park and Recreation has requested weather monitoring / alerting equipment to be installed at River Line Park and Jonquil Park to provide safely for patrons of those parks. This was not included in the FY 2026 Adopted budget, so we need to amend the Parks Maintenance departmental budget to cover the equipment and related implementation costs ($26,650) and the annual fee ($2500/ site, total $5,000). Council approved the use of a new software platform at a previous meeting. We need to amend the Parks Admin departmental budget for the implementation costs associated with that switch. We have contractual obligations related to a former employee that were not included in the adopted budget. We to amend the Administration and General Government Allocations departmental budget to cover expenses, contractual salary, and benefit amounts. On the February 2, 2026 agenda Council approved phase 1 of a new water meter project. We are requesting to move existing meter and dial replacement available budget to this new project to show all the costs in one project rather than 3 different ones. We need to amend the project length budgets for the 2016 SPLOST fund budgets to true up LTD balances on both revenue and expenditure accounts. Councilmember Travis Lindley made a motion to approve item ATH2026-026; seconded by Mayor Pro Tem / Councilmember Tim Gould The motion to approve carried with the following vote: Aye: 7 – Councilmember Pickens, Councilmember Hines, Councilmember Lindley, Councilmember Welch, Councilmember Wilkinson, Mayor Pro Tem / Councilmember Gould, Councilmember Oglesby Nay: 0 – None Recuse: 0 – None B. ATH2026-031 Authorization to approve GA Power's request to acquire one (1) easement from the City of Smyrna located at 3515 McCauley Road for the new proposed underground power service installation that will service the new Tolleson Aquatics Facility and authorize the Mayor to sign and execute all documents. Ward 3 Councilmember - Travis Lindley Councilmember Travis Lindley made a motion to approve item ATH2026-031; seconded by Councilmember Charles Welch. The motion to approve carried with the following vote: