2025-01-06 January 06, 2025 Mayor and Council Meeting Minutes - FINAL
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January 06, 2025 7:00 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers Page 8 of 14 Community Development, Public Works, Community Relations and selected Smyrna residents. The team selected five (5) firms for presentation/interviews and the final evaluation. The recommended firm is MKSK. Councilmember Lindley explained that the Church Redevelopment Advisory Committee has met about 4-5 times. The property closed in December. The next step with a firm for the downtown master plan. The goal is to go through exhaustive community outreach. The next meeting is at the end of January when they will officially kick things off. Councilmember Travis Lindley made a motion to approve item ATH2025-001; 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. RFQ25-018 Authorize to approve RFQ 25-018 CIPP (cured in place pipe) unit pricing contract for sewer main lining of sanitary sewer Infrastructure to Federal EC LLC (504 Allatoona Hills Drive, Woodstock Ga 30189) funded from the Water Sewer CIP Fund, not to exceed $500,000 annually and to authorize the Mayor to sign and execute all related items. Citywide Joe Bennett, City Administrator, provided the following background: As part of the 30-year rehab plan, Water Sewer Utilities requested unit price bids for yearly CIPP (cured in place pipe) for the city’s 60 miles of clay pipe to be lined. Based off of actual scenarios with unit pricing, Federal EC LLC was the lowest bidder. Our in- house CCTV and inspections division will inspect for deficiencies and when found the contractor will be called to line said area based off findings such as root intrusion and cracked/broken clay piping. Councilmember Charles Welch made a motion to approve item RFQ25-018; seconded by Councilmember Glenn Pickens. 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 C. ATH2025-003 Authorization to increase sewer rate per thousand gallons from $8.99 to $9.30 effective April 1, 2025, to be billed on the May 2025 utility bills, and to recognize that Cobb County Water approved a 3.5% increase to the wholesale sewer rate charged to the wholesale customers effective April 1, 2025.