2025-05-19 May 19, 2025 Mayor and Council Meeting Minutes - FINAL
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May 19, 2025 7:00 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers Page 2 of 17 Project updates: • Tolleson Poll – clearing debris from demo. Getting the site ready to be finished early 2027 • River Line Splash Pad – underway • Expanding Downtown Splash Pad in the next few weeks • Sports LED Lighting almost completely updated • GA Power building – design phase for the interior • Rose Garden pavilion and playground – budgetary process • Stillfire Brewery – making a lot of progress A. 25-7193 Recognition of Smyrna Basketball Association's U8 State Girls Champions Citywide Smyrna Basketball Association’s U8 Girls league recently competed in the State of Georgia Park and Recreation Association Basketball tourney and captured the state title for the U8 Girls division after beating College Park, Whitefield County and City of Rome. This tournament included teams from Roswell Parks and Rec, Savannah, Henry County and Spalding County. In this tourney they outscored their opponents for a total of 84-57 across 3 bracket play games. Prior to advancing to State they won three games in the District 5 tourney with teams from North Georgia including Cartersville, Rome, Whitefield County, Paulding County and Dalton. In this tourney they outscored their opponents 114-36 to capture the district title. This was an All-star team made up of nine girls from the community who competed across three teams out of SBA throughout the regular season: The players on the team were: Quinn Jordan Lively Winters Hayden Nelson Payton Hightower Leilani Russell Kyree Collins Skylar Morse Desola Akinnagbe Kamryn Millsap They were coached by: Coach Marin (Head Coach) Coach Jay (Asst Coach) Coach Malik (Asst Coach) SBA League Director: Vans Nelson B. 25-7247 Recognition of the Smyrna Elite - Spartans Track Club - State Championship Citywide Councilmember Rickey N. Oglesby Jr. presented the team: State Champions: William Smallwood