Committee of the Whole Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL, HR TRAINING ROOM — Minutes
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1. Roll Call
Present: 7 – Mayor Derek Norton, Councilmember Glenn Pickens, Councilmember Latonia P.
Hines, Councilmember Travis Lindley, Councilmember Charles Welch, Mayor Pro
Tem / Councilmember Tim Gould, Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby, Jr.
Absent: 1 – Councilmember Susan Wilkinson
Also Present: 1 – Scott Cochran
Staff: 13 – Julie Barwig, Joe Bennett, Jeff Crowder, Richard Garland, H. Houze, Bo Jones,
Russell Martin, Jessica Meyers, Jodi Mills, Paul Osburn, Heather Peacon-Corn,
Eric Randall, Kristin Robinson
Call to Order
Mayor Derek Norton called to order the January 16, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting held
at A. Max Bacon City Hall in the HR Training Room at 6:01 PM.
2. Staff M&C Agenda Items to Review
ORD2025-003: Russell Martin, Community Development Director, provided the following
background:
The Community Development Department has received several requests from alcohol
manufactures for the ability to provide tastings at package stores in accordance with state law.
The City’s Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance prohibits any consumption of alcoholic beverages on
the premises of a package store location. Georgia state law allows for tastings at package stores
provided the municipality allows it as part of their local ordinance. The proposed code
amendment would modify Smyrna’s code to allow alcoholic beverage tastings at licensed
package stores in accordance with state law.
Community Development have received requests from alcoholic beverage manufactures to
update the City’s Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance to allow package store tastings as permitted by
state law. The tastings would provide manufactures the opportunity to showcase their products at
local package stores.
Committee of the Whole Minutes - Final
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
Derek Norton, Mayor
Tim Gould, Mayor Pro Tem (Ward 6)
Glenn Pickens (Ward 1)
Latonia P. Hines (Ward 2)
Travis Lindley (Ward 3)
Charles “Corkey” Welch (Ward 4)
Susan Wilkinson (Ward 5)
Rickey N. Oglesby, Jr. (Ward 7)
A. Max Bacon City Hall
Human Resources Training Room
2800 King Street SE
Smyrna, GA 30080
City Attorney Scott Cochran
City Administrator Joseph Bennett
City Clerk Heather K. Peacon-Corn
January 16, 2025
6:00 PM