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It is now 6.30, and we're going to ask for chaplain Leonard Hines to give the invocation. They

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were going to move forward with the Pledge of Allegiance. And lastly, Chairwoman Woods

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will not be here just found out. Her granddaughter is six. I'm asking everyone to keep her family

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in your prayers.

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Let's pray, our Father, we thank You for this opportunity tonight as we assembled.

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And now we left, uh, lift up Commissioner Wood and the grandchild there, Lord, that

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You touch them, heal, work in their lives.

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And, Lord, we ask You to bless this meeting, the things that will be said, the decisions made,

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that that would honor You and that we'd be mindful of the responsibility set before us.

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Bless this meeting, please, all in authority, all the administration, and pray that things

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things would go forward in Jesus' name, amen.

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The Republic, which extends one nation under God,

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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So we'll call this meeting to order on Tuesday,

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August the 18th.

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County Clerk, can you make any amendments to the agenda

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that needs to be made?

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Yeah, we have a few items.

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We need to add a resolution of previewing an IJ

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with the city of McDonough regarding McDonough Parkway extension, we'll add this as the first

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item under the slosh presentations. We need to remove, at the request of the Henry County

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Water Authority, item eight. We need to remove item five, the commendation for police department,

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we're going to do that at a later date. And we need to remove item, I

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think it's the ATL transit

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item which is item

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14A. We are removing that one at this time and that is all.

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Can you repeat that one more time while those items because I can hardly hear you'll be here?

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All of them?

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Yes.

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We need to add a resolution approving an IGA with the City of Macdonough regarding Macdonough

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Parkway extension.

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Well, Adam is that, add that as the first item under this clause presentations.

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We need to remove at the request of the Henry County Water Authority, item 8.

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We need to remove item 5, commendation for police department.

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And we need to remove item 14, the BOC item to support the ATL.

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That is all.

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All right.

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With that said, I'm going to ask for a motion to accept the agenda as amended move.

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We have a motion.

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Second.

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Any comments?

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All in favor?

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All opposed? Motion carries.

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First on the agenda is the appointment, a district one appointment of the

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Henry First Board of Directors, the appointment of Vanessa Jackson, is there a

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presentation?

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You have any comments on your appointment?

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Okay, so I'm going to ask for a motion, we have a second, any comments,

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all in favor?

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Motion carries.

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Second on the agenda is the appointment to a appointment to a Mackintosh Trials Community

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Board Service, Susan Craig and Chuck Simmons, can have a motion, second, any comments,

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All in favor? Motion carries.

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Next item is the appointment to the Zoning Advisory Board. Willie Brown.

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Can I have a motion?

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Second? Second. Any comments? All in favor? Motion carries.

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Next on agenda is the consent agenda. The following items, the following agenda items shall be considered

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on the consent agenda, before voting on the consent agenda,

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the chair will provide an opportunity to remove items.

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First up is public safety, a resolution to accept a grant

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from the Georgia Association of Medical Services

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for the amount of $10,343.6.

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Next, on the consent agenda's resolution approving,

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the purchase of self-contained breathing apparatuses and SCBA bottles in the amount of 65,832.

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Next on the consent agenda is technology services, resolution approving, the renewal of the network, voice, hardware, infrastructure, annual smart maintenance agreement.

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and that ends the consent agenda, can I have a motion?

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Is there a second?

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All in favor of the consent agenda?

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I don't care if that ends the consent agenda.

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Next on the agenda is Public Safety Fire Department,

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resolution approving the purchase of Hazmat Elite Command Package

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that includes hazmat, hazmat elite monitoring and training and monitoring use in the amount of 55,200, and Chief Hairsman will be presenting.

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Just here speak briefly on the purchase of a hazmat monitor for our team.

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basically the monitor is an infrared spectrometer. It adds to our ability to

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detect and analyze unknown chemicals. Enhances our ability as a team. Enhances

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our ability with the growing fentanyl threats, other opioids and things that we

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can identify that are unknown. The price is $55,200. It's a purchase up front and

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I think 100% funded by grant funding on the backside.

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Any comments from the board?

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Okay, I'm going to call for a motion.

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Motion to approve.

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Can I have a second?

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Second.

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Any comments?

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All in favor?

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Motion carries.

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Next on the agenda is clause.

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I think this is the ad of the McDonough IGA.

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It's a resolution approving the amendment

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and the bid award for construction of the McDonough Parkway Extension,

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Splas 4, Rocky as the president.

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Good evening, Chair and board members.

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The first item is the one that was added amended, and

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the first item is a resolution to approve an innovative government agreement between the city of McDonough for

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We're a cash sharing project for the McDonnell Parkway extension, which is a plus four mayor project.

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And the amount that the intercom and agreement is for $700,000.

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Can we have a motion?

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I have one.

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Do you have a motion?

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I have one, of course.

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Do it.

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This one.

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Right, just $700,000.

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They have they committed to that yet or has it?

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But no, sir, as far as I know they have not committed yet, that's why we're bringing it today.

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The next resolution that you'll see is for the construction and we do have a budget amendment to cover that 700, just in case we don't get it approved.

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So amended the agenda to add the IGA that we will be providing to the city of McDonough so that we can't receive their commitment of the $700,000 fund.

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That's that.

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Yes.

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Sorry.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Any other commissioners with comments?

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All right.

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With that said, I'll ask for a motion.

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Okay.

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To approve.

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We have a second.

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Second.

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Last chance for comments.

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All in favor?

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Motion passes.

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Next on the agenda is a resolution approving an intergovernmental agreement with the city

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of McDonough regarding GDOT traffic signals at a one-way, at a one-way, a rocky up again.

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But before we go to that one, we have another resolution before that one,

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and is there approval of the low bidder for the McDonough Parkway?

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The low bidder, we received five bids for the McDonough Parkway.

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And the low bidder is stated before, it was CMES for 5,237,611 dollars.

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And we also request in a budget amendment for $750,000 needed for construction and the fund is available in the budget budget of a Pigsfield road from New Hope to the bridge.

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So the Splust Department is requesting the approval of this budget amendment and the approval of the low bidder for the amount stated.

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Well

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that ends Rocky's presentation. Does any commissioners have any questions?

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That is correct. All the funds are from district one.

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Any other questions?

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Well we have a motion on the table.

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Second. Any other comments?

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All

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I can move forward with the resolution

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for the intergovernmental agreement.

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Yes, sir.

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The board already approved the county portion

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for the signal at Stera 2081, McDonald Parkway.

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This is an intergovernmental agreement for the city of McDonald

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to contribute $50,000 towards this project.

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Once the city approves it, then we can move forward.

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Would she that to go ahead and install the signal or the signal is up, but just turn it on.

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So any commission will have any questions.

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I have a question about, I know that we're getting ready to do the widening for state road 2081.

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And do we have a timeline to make sure that this is not, I mean, I guess commissioner, I don't know if you've checked to see the timeline.

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How much is spending for this knowing that the road widening was coming and is this going to stay in place once the road is widened so that we're not spending money.

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and then they're going to widen the road and you've spent as money for this trend.

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Right, so the cost is roughly about $83,000 and it's going to be temporary when the widening comes through.

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As you all know, there's going to be a roundabout at that location.

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So you're looking about three or so years that it's going to be running.

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Okay.

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Operational.

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We'll have to be sure that the line was the contract installed because the whole way payers

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is going to have them placed only for three days.

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And so when we found that, or if we contacted Rocky and he contacted GDOT, so that's-

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What's the year for relief is good for $83,000, sir.

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So yeah, we'll have them to a completion of the roundabout, correct?

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So do we have a motion for item being?

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Motion to approve.

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Second.

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All right.

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any other comments from any commissioners? All in favor.

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Next only agenda is a resolution approving the bid award for

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cement stabilized based reclamation construction. District two, Rocky, you're still up.

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Yes, Commissioner.

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Splust four was was approved by the voters in November of 2013 and District two,

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resurfacing widening and surface streaming is an approved District two Splust four

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or project, seal bits were solicited through the purchase in the department per bid 19-03

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to improve various roads in district 2.

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There were three, we received three seal bits, and the lowest was, bid was Atlanta Paving

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and Concrete Construction, providing a low bid of $996,932.9.

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There are eight roads that we're looking at doing some reclamation for resurfacing, and

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And those are my Regan Drive, Hayden Court, Stephanie Court,

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some are Leah Drive, Victoria Lane, Leah Court,

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Olivia Court, and Pace Creek Road.

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The Rose Heart Fund is through this plus four district two,

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resurfacing account, and funding is available.

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Staff recommends approval of the low bid.

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Any commissioners, have any comments?

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With that said, I'm asked for a motion.

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Moved to approve.

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Zero second, any other comments?

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All in favor, motion carries.

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Thank you.

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Next one, the agenda is emergency management.

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First item is a resolution to accept funds from the state of Georgia in the amount of $249,926.20

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since Don Ash, presenter.

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Good evening, commissioners.

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On October 18, Hurricane Irma affected the state of Georgia and the southeast, President Bush, President Trump declared disaster resolution 4338. And these are funds that we were able to recoup for expenses that the county incurred, including debris management, protective measures, and damages to county properties. The breakdown of those funds would be for 96,000 for debris management, 96,451,06, 23,494.

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four ninety two for building damages, additional forty two five for to meet our insurance deductible and damages to our roof and our administration building,

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seventy four thousand three hundred twenty four thousand twenty two cents for protective measures and an additional thirteen thousand for debris management.

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Those funds were generated through the presidential declaration process and the paperwork we filed on behalf of the county for those damages.

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Thank you, Don. Do we have a motion?

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Move to a program. We have a second. Second. Any comments from the board? All in favor? Motion carries.

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Next, we have a resolution authorizing a 911 charge on prepaid wireless telephone services within Henry County, Don Ash. Still at the podium.

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In reference to this, this past year the Georgia legislature changed the funding and the scope of work for 9-1-1 creating the 9-1-1 authority.

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Previously, pre-paid cell phone were only accessed a charge of 75 cents per call.

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And this legislation and authority brings it in line to $1.50 just like all other phone services and providers in the state of Georgia for the delivery of 9-1-1 services.

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Okay.

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Okay. That concludes Don's presentation. Do we have a motion?

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Second. Any comments?

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All in favor? Motion carries. Next, we have a resolution authorizing 911 charge on

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pre-paid wireless wireless and voice over internet protocol. And Don Ash is still at the podium.

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I'm changes to the 911 authority in the creation of the 911 authority as it relates to 911 charges.

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This provides us an opportunity also to collect the 911 fees that are generated over voice over internet

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protocol type phones. These funds will be transferred to the county through the 911 authority.

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So it changes the direction and the flow of the money for 911 services which previously came from the

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Subscribers one additional thing that this legislation does do it provides enforcement capabilities that were never in place before

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So we can recoup all the funds that are due to our county for the services we provide

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Do we have a motion?

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Any comments?

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All in favor?

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Motion carries

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Next on the agenda is planning and economic development.

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This is the public hearing.

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We have a resolution accepting the completed County City's Joint Comprehensive Plan and 2040 updates.

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Now take a guess, President.

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Good evening, Chair and commissioners.

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It is my pleasure to present to you this evening the resolution before you to

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To transmit the Henry County City's joint 2040 comprehensive land use plan to the Atlanta Regional Commission for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Review and approval.

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Once the Department of Community Affairs review is complete and we receive their approval, the new Henry County City's joint 2040 comprehensive land use plan will come back to the Board of Commissioners for official adoption.

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At this time, I would like to take a quick moment to thank the citizens of Henry County

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for those who they participated in this endeavor.

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I would also like to thank the Henry County Board of Commissioners, the Henry County

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zoning planning, I'm sorry, Henry County is zoning a advisory board.

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Our stakeholder committee participants, our steering committee participants, the Atlanta

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Regional Commission, county management, the Henry County planning and zoning staff, the

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city of Locust Grove, the city of McDonough, the city of Hampton, and our private

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I would simply like to say thank you for working together, for your hard work, for your diligence, for your dedication, for your feedback, your respective expertise, and collective support over the last almost two years in galvanizing our new Henry County Cities Joint 2040 Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

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Thank you all most sincerely.

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And with that said, I believe Jared Lombard is here from the Atlanta Regional Commission.

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And if he wishes to say anything at this time, I would like to give him that opportunity.

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All right, he declines.

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So this being a public hearing, I will yield the floor for those who wish to speak regarding

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the public hearing process.

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So we'll open it up.

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Is it five minutes, Stephanie or three minutes?

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So, we'll open the floor for anybody that is against this particular plan, and you'll have three minutes to speak.

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Mr. Allen, why should this open to anyone who wants to speak on it one way or the other?

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We'll open it up to anyone that wants to speak.

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So,

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please do, during this, we ask for them to provide their name and address.

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good

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evening commissioners is this can you give me okay I'm sunny Strickland I

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live at 1507 Peaksville Road in Locust Grove and if I could approach I'll give

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you a copy of a small short outline that I have here

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it's

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in large print so I

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read it.

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There is in this, to the best of my knowledge, and from my conversations with

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Mr. Gibbs, a proposal to remove and rescind the future commercial land use plan in certain

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areas of the county. My property is affected by that. It's included in that and the diminishing

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and value that occurred in my property already from the change in the RRA zoning in 2008-2009

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was pretty severe in itself. The possibility of some future recovery in that property would

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be a good thing but if it's rescinded then it becomes impossible and the value of my

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property is further damaged and there's more diminution and value which damages me.

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So that being said if I could read this and I'll try to be brief it'll keep me on wide.

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Regarding the proposed changes rescinding the existing commercial zoning shown on the

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commercial zoning that was introduced by Mr. Dante Gibbs, director of planning and zoning and last month's planning and zoning meeting, which is before the Board of Commissioners today.

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In that meeting, I asked why it was being proposed that the potential zoning be eliminated, and Mr. Gibbs responded by saying that the 2008-2009 map was done anticipating growth that did not happen due to the economic downturn that occurred.

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Well, that was then and now it's 2018 and the economy is stronger than it has been in

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decades and the growth is occurring in Henry County and most everywhere else.

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And those growth patterns which were anticipated and most likely research then are likely to

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occur in the near future, rescinding the proposed land use plan and or certain categories of

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of it can most certainly have a very negative effect on land owners and potential for future

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business growth in those areas.

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Keep in mind, any application would still have to come before the Board of Commissioners

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for approval, so while we send or eliminate something that has been in place for approximately

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10 years without any negative effect on the residents of those areas of the county or

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the county.

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Such a change could, however, have a very negative effect on the property owners in those areas.

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And most certainly could cause a diminution in value on their respective properties.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else interested in speaking?

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I gave you a few minutes, a few seconds over.

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Thank you.

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But when we have three minutes.

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Five years ago.

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And this ain't no knock on Dante.

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You put a pretty picture up in but when you build warehouses all over the county, it

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kind of messes up those plans.

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You know, I got a four by six map at my office, I'll give it to you.

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If you fly into Henry County, it looks like a checkered board of warehouses, the white

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roofs are just everywhere.

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Now, a year ago, I took Mr. Wilson out to the golf course, the most natural place in America

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for an amphitheater.

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I asked him to kind of throw the idea out.

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You build amphitheater there, you got the parking lots from this building right out there.

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and you've got all these land across,

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you've got the college parking lot over there,

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you've got all the infrastructure ready.

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All you've got to do is just build a stage

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and you've got a natural amphitheater by the lake.

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The valley effect, the sound effect,

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and it's accessible from four directions.

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Immediate access to I said, and if I,

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all of the infrastructure is there without all that extra cost.

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And then I look at that

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And I've been looking at it while it was out there in the this view as well.

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And I am, and if anybody doubts my, my ability, I designed the first live working play community

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in Georgia which they now copy it in line of called smart growth initiative.

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That's my baby.

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I don't know where y'all planned all of this with all these warehouse and mixed in the middle

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of it, but Lord, how mercy 20 years from now.

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You'll look back at that thing and wonder who was drinking too late.

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Carl Swenson, ethics and government, I just wanted to finish off with Mr. Strickland

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started.

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So I'll pick up the, let's see, and one of his last paragraphs.

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Keep in mind, any application would still have to come before the Board of Commissioners

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for approval.

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Also, why resend or eliminate something that has been in place for approximately ten

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years without any negative effect on the residents of those areas.

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or the county such a change would however have a very negative effect on the property owners

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in these areas certainly could cause a diminishing in the value of their respective properties.

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So he would respectfully request as many of us would, that you vote no on this unneeded,

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unnecessary and unwarranted proposal. It is without merit, without just cause and most certainly could

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be financially damaging to the property owners. This goes hand in hand with the plans

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that they had established back in 2008, 2009. And they were based on the growth patterns

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that we're seeing now. But certain parts of that have just been overruled. So I don't

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know the importance of actually establishing this anymore because two years, four years

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down the road, we may get a different cast of characters and they may have a different

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vision altogether. So, you know, something that is, or should be the biggest concern for

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you guys, in my opinion, is your constituency, you know, what, what are they talking about?

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Because I, I don't think you're really giving them a chance to be heard and I don't think

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you're surveying the people, you're surveying the people doing the survey. Thank you.

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anyone else wishes to speak okay with that said Clayton.

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Good evening

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Henry County Board of Commissioners Clayton Cart 1503 South Bethany Road

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Locust Grove Georgia. I've had the privilege the past year of serving on one of

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the committees for this project and interacting with many Henry County

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residents regarding our future development plans. We held multiple rounds of

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town halls and public hearing public open houses heard from residents of

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Hampton, Ola, Locust Grove, Fairview.

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It was an honor to speak with residents

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about what they want to see in their...

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I want to share some highlights of what this comprehensive plan puts forward for Henry County. But before I share highlights, I'd encourage all residents to go look at the new future land use maps, go look at the new comprehensive plan. And I think they would be very excited about some of the progress we made. Some of the highlights within this update have included encouraging a diversifying of our economic portfolio and encouraging corporate office space to relocate within Henry County.

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We incorporated mixed use into the comprehensive plan for the first time.

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Many residents expressed a desire to see high quality mixed use, and we added a mixed

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use designation to the future land use map for the first time.

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We added programs and policies to improve the visual appearance of our state highways and

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our commercial corridors.

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We have a lot of commercial activity in the county.

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Some of it was built 20, 30 years ago, and it would be great to partner with those businesses

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is to improve landscaping or street lighting or other elements of the visual appearance.

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We worked on the future land use map to restrict further industrial sprawl in the state

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route 155 area and encourage future industrial growth to infill along our 75 and along major

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highways.

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We also are working to add new programs and plans to expedite transportation improvements

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within the state route 155 industrial area.

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We worked on the future land use map and spoke with residents to be more selective about

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future commercial areas in our rural neighborhoods like Ola or Louella and be more thoughtful

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about where we want commercial along rural state highways.

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And finally, we added and our encouraging programs for stronger protections of the most rural areas

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of the county. Many residents want to see, you know, our far away areas stay rural, stay farmland,

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and we certainly hope to work with those landowners in the future as we continue to strive to do that.

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Thank you commissioners and I encourage your approval of the Imagine Hingray 2040 plan.

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Thank you, Bill Tony, McDonough. You know, again, looking at this, and I go down 42 every morning,

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And I see all those warehouses and like Larry and a bunch of folks in our group come

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up with ideas and they give it to y'all, some ideas and all, y'all are so smart, y'all

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don't need anybody's ideas, y'all got it figured out.

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You got a beautiful county still left but all you're thinking about is warehouses and apartments

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and things like that. I tell you what, as far as my commission, I'm totally ashamed of him

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because he ain't doing nothing for me. And Mr. Wilson, you met with these folks and didn't

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even get back and say anything about it. It's just you listen and then you don't do anything.

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You know, you can't be a do nothing board except let all the industry in here and just kill you.

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Like he said, the farmland, they take away farmland, building buildings. Is that the way y'all want it?

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Do you want buildings and tractor trailers and pot holes and everything else?

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And you want apartments and all that?

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Or do you want to keep the county nice?

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You need to really look at it.

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And again, Mr. Barman, I'm not happy with what you've been making decisions.

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Thank you.

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Commissioners, my name's Don Dunlap, I'm 192 Ashley Drive, McDonough, and I'm not terribly

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I just wanted to thank you guys for allowing citizens to have some input in this process.

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With enough time that I could share with my students, folks that are going to be around

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in 2040 and need to have a voice in this that they could actually participate in that.

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So some of those responses that you got were from some of my kids and their parents and

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I appreciate you guys allowing them to have a voice in their future and not just making

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the decision without them. Thank you. Any other comments? Well that completes the public hearing.

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Can I ask if any other commissioners have anything to say?

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I want to circle back around to Mr.

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Strickland's comments real quick.

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Is this district? I just have some concerns. You know, people

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from Henry County and been around Henry County,

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I purchased property that was slotted to go commercial

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and it didn't go because we had the economy turned down.

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And now we're putting on a future land use map,

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it's not commercial.

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And a lot of these people, citizens have invested

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quite a bit of money into this property.

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And I don't know if it's the right thing to do

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to change it kind of midstream on them.

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You could say that it's a risk they take,

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But when the county's let them in a direction, and then we change directions, it does concern

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me the impact it will have on citizens.

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This isn't the only person who's contacted me with a very similar reference.

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As far as my district, I hadn't had any complaints calls.

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I had some folks with some concerns like this, and we went, we walked through them to make

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sure everybody was on the same page.

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But I don't want to vote against this against somebody else's district.

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It's, you know, I would be offended if somebody came into my district and voted against

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our district and what we want to see.

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So I'm a little bit torn here, Mr. Strickland has a very strong point of this property was

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purchased with the intent to go commercial and it is not anyone's fault that the economy

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downturn.

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It was a national phenomenon, so it's hard to point the finger back at anybody, but

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it does concern me that we're going to cause harm to a constituent, mean, to several

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of the constituents in different areas, so I just want to make sure that the District

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Commissioner is aware of this and has at least reviewed this.

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If you don't mind,

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I'll just very briefly, the future land use map has nothing to do with

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property value.

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It has to do with a projection based on analysis of how property trends develops, character,

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et cetera.

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The particular property, if I recall correctly, is currently zoned R.A.

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That's our base zoning.

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The current future land use map does have it the frontage of that 10 acre roughly track

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commercial, but the remainder of it is rural residential.

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So based on the character, how the area has trended objectively on all the data we've

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collected, there's nothing indicating in the last 10 years that that area is going to be commercial.

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Now, just like any other zoning process, he can come in and request the Board of Commissioners

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reason on the property to the zoning of his choosing.

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If our future land use doesn't support it, it'll be like any other case.

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We'll objectively make a recommendation.

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If he wishes to amend our comprehensive land use plan, he can amend that.

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He can come in request to amend it to commercial if that's his desire.

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We cannot tell him no or yes, we can simply take it to the process.

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Yes, that's the same that we do for everyone, but I cannot allow the feature

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language map to be kind of clouded as a negative when it's not.

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It's simply just trying to look at where we're going, and that's the area that we're

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talking about now does show it as rural residential right now.

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I'm zoning and let's back up, when we talk about trending over the last 10 years, we all

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have to realize there was the great recession. So trending may not be trending, it may be

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a fact of economics. And when we talk about property values, no, the feature land use

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map does not dictate values. But we all know a commercial piece is more valuable than a residential

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piece. And I just don't want to harm any of our constituents and citizens that have lived

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year long time and have planned on this for years by changing midstream something that

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they have put time into, thought into, and because the economy went down, there being

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now punished. If the economy had not gone down, we don't know what it would have. It could

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have trended that way. That could be all commercial. I don't know. But we'll never know. But it just

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This seems difficult for me to vote to negatively affect a citizen's property who was moving

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in a direction, and we've now changed directions mid-stream on citizens that live here, and that's

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my point on that.

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Commissioner Glimons.

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I have a question.

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Did you say, and I want to make sure that I heard you right, that this property presently

455
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is residential agriculture, but in the future it's going commercial on the front?

456
00:39:50,540 --> 00:40:00,480
No, the current feature land is now has just the frontage of the property currently as commercial and that was based on ten years ago when we went to the same process.

457
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,260
The remainder of the property currently is designated rule residential.

458
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,300
Any other questions?

459
00:40:14,430 --> 00:40:15,870
One side, we have the same issue.

460
00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:24,450
there's some properties that's owned 81, the New Hope Road that's going to be

461
00:40:24,450 --> 00:40:30,250
converted back to RA for the land use map. Why is that? How come it don't stay

462
00:40:30,250 --> 00:40:37,010
in the commercial area? What? If I heard you correctly you're asking along

463
00:40:37,010 --> 00:40:42,270
I-A-D-1 and the district one. Yes, it's west of New Hope. It's a stretch of

464
00:40:42,270 --> 00:40:48,870
property on this, if you may, back to R.A. Okay. It's playing that to me, especially on that

465
00:40:48,870 --> 00:40:56,270
V.Z. Highway, please. Sure. Along highway 81, as you go east from Mexico, this is used

466
00:40:56,270 --> 00:41:02,950
as City of McDonald as the center point. As you go east on 81, the trend is you go from

467
00:41:02,950 --> 00:41:10,090
commercial to less intense, some of it's still residential to a lesser lower density

468
00:41:10,090 --> 00:41:15,270
residential to more rural. So there's a point along 81 where the current

469
00:41:15,270 --> 00:41:20,770
feature lanes map adopted 10 years ago did have activity centers or nodes of

470
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:26,830
commercial where the intent was to develop just kind of a little strip center

471
00:41:26,830 --> 00:41:31,430
where the the rural parts of the county had some type of commercial access. Well it

472
00:41:31,430 --> 00:41:35,590
didn't develop that way and as far as the development goes and the trends in the

473
00:41:35,590 --> 00:41:39,730
character the further east you're going to want the more rural it is and that's

474
00:41:39,730 --> 00:41:43,930
That's just how things have trended and how things are today.

475
00:41:44,710 --> 00:41:46,730
Now, in 10 years, who knows?

476
00:41:47,270 --> 00:41:49,710
I don't predict the future, nor do I claim to predict the future.

477
00:41:50,190 --> 00:41:52,330
It could trend to where we have a boom.

478
00:41:53,230 --> 00:41:59,270
The highway to one is widened and the commercial businesses flourish all the way to Newton County.

479
00:41:59,890 --> 00:42:03,810
But as of right now, we don't have the data to support maintaining the commercial nodes

480
00:42:03,810 --> 00:42:07,110
that we once designated in that area currently.

481
00:42:07,110 --> 00:42:11,350
right now it's rule and and that's what the data shows us and that's what we're

482
00:42:11,350 --> 00:42:18,390
basing it on. Yeah well I'm looking at the map I'm looking at diagonal C1 C3 down

483
00:42:18,390 --> 00:42:24,730
two lights down the C1. Are you looking at commercial or the

484
00:42:24,730 --> 00:42:30,110
rezoning or commercial feature lanes? These are actually buildings in place that's

485
00:42:30,110 --> 00:42:35,590
actually surrounding this property that's going back to RA. Oh understand

486
00:42:35,590 --> 00:42:39,730
zoning and future land use are two are different so as a zone they can develop

487
00:42:39,730 --> 00:42:44,990
as a zone right if they were looking to change the zoning from commercial to

488
00:42:44,990 --> 00:42:47,970
something different then our recommendation will be based on what the future

489
00:42:47,970 --> 00:42:52,210
land use shows and so that's based on the character of the area so as far as those

490
00:42:52,210 --> 00:42:57,790
those nodes that you're referencing one thing I'll do tomorrow I'll get with

491
00:42:57,790 --> 00:43:01,390
Jared to go to zoom in on that part of the map and see exactly what's going on

492
00:43:01,390 --> 00:43:04,850
and to see if that needs to be updated with the future land use map based on the

493
00:43:04,850 --> 00:43:09,110
current zoning, as a possibility that it could have been broad brushed accidentally, but

494
00:43:09,110 --> 00:43:13,310
I'll check on that with respect to your question and trans and character.

495
00:43:13,650 --> 00:43:18,350
If the character of that area is generally rural residential, then the majority of what

496
00:43:18,350 --> 00:43:20,810
you will see is a rural future land use designation.

497
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:24,660
Thank you.

498
00:43:25,060 --> 00:43:26,820
Any other comments by any commissioners?

499
00:43:32,930 --> 00:43:39,710
I appreciate all y'all's hard work on this, but it appears that we've got some unanswered

500
00:43:39,710 --> 00:43:41,970
questions out there that needs to be addressed.

501
00:43:41,970 --> 00:43:45,130
and I would like to see us have a little more time

502
00:43:45,130 --> 00:43:47,310
before we make this decision tonight.

503
00:43:47,770 --> 00:43:49,750
Well, the thing is, we're governed

504
00:43:49,750 --> 00:43:51,130
by the Department of Community Affairs.

505
00:43:51,410 --> 00:43:54,530
Tonight is this transmittal to them for review.

506
00:43:55,270 --> 00:43:57,170
Edits and additions and corrections can be made

507
00:43:57,170 --> 00:43:59,950
through October, which is the deadline, October 31st.

508
00:44:00,470 --> 00:44:02,370
So time is of the essence, and we don't violate

509
00:44:02,370 --> 00:44:04,750
the law requirements for us to have this transmitted

510
00:44:04,750 --> 00:44:06,030
to DSA for their review.

511
00:44:06,930 --> 00:44:09,750
And these map items are relatively simple.

512
00:44:10,250 --> 00:44:16,890
We can go in, look at it, and see if there's an individual parcel that was grouped with a neighboring parcel.

513
00:44:17,030 --> 00:44:20,050
We can do that. That's a simple fix if it needs to be fixed.

514
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:26,050
But as far as that prohibiting this to be transmitted to the D.C.A., that's a risk that we're strongly encouraged you not to take.

515
00:44:27,450 --> 00:44:29,950
I just don't feel comfortable moving forward tonight.

516
00:44:32,650 --> 00:44:39,910
I feel like it makes a motion that we approve the future land use map that has been presented before.

517
00:44:39,910 --> 00:44:41,350
was I know for me, for my district,

518
00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:44,070
people came out, I shared it on next order

519
00:44:44,070 --> 00:44:45,930
to make sure the people could come out and have a say so.

520
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:49,310
I think that we're looking at 2040 and not 2020.

521
00:44:50,230 --> 00:44:51,890
And I think that you guys have done a good job.

522
00:44:52,210 --> 00:44:54,730
And just like Mr. Perkins said,

523
00:44:54,830 --> 00:44:56,290
this is about the future of Henry County

524
00:44:56,290 --> 00:44:57,730
and not yesterday of Henry County.

525
00:44:58,170 --> 00:44:59,350
So I would like to make a motion too.

526
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:02,260
So we have a motion. Can I have a second?

527
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:31,400
Is there a second? I will make a second so we can talk about it because we can't talk about it until just in my second. So I'm on second at this time. So I have a question down to you. I think you said, even if we approve this tonight, we can still amend it before October. Yes. So there's nothing. So there's nothing. No risk in approving this.

528
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,180
So tonight year you're approving it to be transmitted to DCA for their review.

529
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:39,340
So we have a second so we'll open it up for comment.

530
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,520
And I would like to say to the commission there was a parcel and I'll just share this

531
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:52,080
with you on Jonesboro Road in District 2 that was multi-family or it was a mixed use and

532
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:57,020
the people said they did not want that in the area and it was real simple to have a community

533
00:45:57,020 --> 00:46:00,860
to talk about it and get that change so I would just like to say I have watched the

534
00:46:00,860 --> 00:46:04,620
community be able to say what they didn't want and the changes be made but

535
00:46:04,620 --> 00:46:07,680
you got to get your people out or the commissioners need to speak up before

536
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,520
tonight because I mean this has been out for a long time and so that's why I'm

537
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,640
able to say that I'm pleased with what happened in my district because I was

538
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,320
involved and I made sure that the people came out and spoke so you can I know

539
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,380
that it can be changed if you have some issues with it but I do know that there's

540
00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:24,640
a deadline of October 31st. 31st. Yeah.

541
00:46:34,180 --> 00:46:51,650
Yes, if we find that there's a valid reason, yes, okay, you know, we're about to call for a vote. I think

542
00:46:51,650 --> 00:46:53,770
or a vote on crime property.

543
00:46:54,010 --> 00:46:54,390
Commissioner.

544
00:46:54,970 --> 00:46:56,970
And it doesn't allow the God to raise your name.

545
00:46:56,990 --> 00:46:57,870
It doesn't affect him.

546
00:46:58,110 --> 00:46:58,870
It doesn't affect him.

547
00:46:59,170 --> 00:47:00,510
The citizens in this house.

548
00:47:00,750 --> 00:47:00,950
Yeah.

549
00:47:01,130 --> 00:47:01,590
But Dante.

550
00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:04,110
I mean, the real state raises.

551
00:47:04,630 --> 00:47:06,010
I've got a little bit of a grip on the person.

552
00:47:06,010 --> 00:47:07,790
That's the point that goes on in the most I've business.

553
00:47:08,270 --> 00:47:10,610
As there's something out there that's not being

554
00:47:10,610 --> 00:47:13,610
that's not having any effect on what's going to be for an

555
00:47:13,610 --> 00:47:14,630
Indian citizens.

556
00:47:14,910 --> 00:47:17,350
Why are you in such a rush to abolish?

557
00:47:17,990 --> 00:47:18,810
Call it and say.

558
00:47:19,110 --> 00:47:20,930
Dante said that this can be amended.

559
00:47:20,930 --> 00:47:32,730
And so my suggestion would be to sit down with your commissioner and try to amend the map that's satisfactory for your property or his district.

560
00:47:33,610 --> 00:47:35,850
But we're going to move forward with this vote.

561
00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:42,530
And I don't disagree with you, but we have to send this up to the ARC.

562
00:47:42,530 --> 00:47:53,790
But it affects me and I would respectfully request that you set aside my property from this until it is further respected and done.

563
00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:54,910
Yeah, I would.

564
00:47:56,770 --> 00:48:02,750
What I would do, I would set up a meeting which a commissioner directly after this meeting is over with.

565
00:48:04,910 --> 00:48:06,390
So, Commissioner Graham?

566
00:48:07,310 --> 00:48:16,230
Yes, since we can amend this by October 31st and what happens if we can't come to the

567
00:48:16,230 --> 00:48:20,050
amendments that we want to come to in about 31st, what happens?

568
00:48:20,550 --> 00:48:23,710
We think we'll be in violation of the law requirements by the Department of Community Affairs

569
00:48:23,710 --> 00:48:25,170
to have this adopted issue.

570
00:48:26,130 --> 00:48:26,970
And then what happens?

571
00:48:27,550 --> 00:48:30,770
We could possibly lose our local qualified government status.

572
00:48:32,970 --> 00:48:34,010
We'll call

573
00:48:37,180 --> 00:48:38,640
about a little government status.

574
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:44,140
If we have grants that are funded through the state, we could certainly jeopardize receiving

575
00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:45,860
funding for those grants as well.

576
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:51,600
Commissioner.

577
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:57,780
We've been in the public here and this year we'll use the amendments will happen between

578
00:48:57,780 --> 00:49:01,740
now and then in discussions with the Board of Commissioners, myself kind of management and

579
00:49:01,740 --> 00:49:02,660
the Atlanta Regional Commission.

580
00:49:02,700 --> 00:49:02,920
Okay.

581
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,040
Any other questions?

582
00:49:05,540 --> 00:49:05,960
Commissioner Prince.

583
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,380
I'm going to support this because we need to get this done.

584
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:15,400
It has to go through, but I hear you, Mr. Strickland, and we can make some revisions and

585
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:16,640
we'll make sure we look at this.

586
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,720
And if anybody else has any questions like this, we can make revisions as we go.

587
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,260
But this has to get pushed through.

588
00:49:22,780 --> 00:49:27,700
I understand the importance of this, and if we don't push this through, it's going to affect

589
00:49:27,700 --> 00:49:28,200
this county.

590
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:30,160
Bad.

591
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,220
Anything goes through with the property where it is.

592
00:49:34,220 --> 00:49:39,300
I want to make sure that Mr. Strickland has the right to come before this board to export zone and change for his property, too

593
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:44,220
That law still is in place and even if this goes through Mr. Strickland is going to be okay as long as he has his

594
00:49:44,220 --> 00:49:46,300
Commission of support to change that zone

595
00:49:48,450 --> 00:49:49,490
Any other comments

596
00:49:50,650 --> 00:49:53,310
Okay, we have a motion and we have a second

597
00:49:55,210 --> 00:49:57,850
So I'm going to ask for all in favor

598
00:49:59,990 --> 00:50:00,790
Motion passes

599
00:50:02,150 --> 00:50:08,750
Next in the agenda is another public hearing resolution to transmit the annual update of the

600
00:50:08,750 --> 00:50:16,790
2018 capital improvement element to the ARC and DCA of Stacey Jordan and presenting.

601
00:50:17,950 --> 00:50:25,570
Good evening chair, commissioners, the item before you, tonight is the transmittal of this annual

602
00:50:25,570 --> 00:50:36,030
capital improvement element update, this is for the period between July 1st of 2016 and June 30th of 2017.

603
00:50:37,210 --> 00:50:45,230
And so this is a report that was put together by the finance department as well as the Henry County Water Authority.

604
00:50:45,730 --> 00:50:53,150
And this is something that is required by DCA. They reserved to themselves two months to review it.

605
00:50:53,150 --> 00:51:01,090
but it has to be approved and adopted by October 31st of this year and I'd be

606
00:51:01,090 --> 00:51:06,370
pleased to answer any questions. This is a public hearing so we'll ask anybody

607
00:51:06,370 --> 00:51:13,100
who wish to speak in favor or against a approach to microphone and you have

608
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:13,580
three minutes.

609
00:51:19,950 --> 00:51:24,790
Anyone wish to speak against or for? You have three minutes.

610
00:51:28,860 --> 00:51:38,720
Yes, so this is the capital improvement element of our comprehensive plan and it has

611
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:45,340
to do primarily with impact fees and how they are collected and spent.

612
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:54,120
So the report includes the figures on the interest that has been accrued and so forth.

613
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:59,380
and so this is a report that's due to the state every year and the hearing

614
00:51:59,380 --> 00:52:03,340
tonight is to transmit it to the Atlanta Regional Commission for the

615
00:52:03,340 --> 00:52:09,020
Department of Community Affairs review. So one more time this is a public

616
00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:15,160
hearing anybody who wishes to speak for or against this item please approach the

617
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:15,480
podium

618
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:25,760
okay no one wishes to speak on it so that will complete the public

619
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:33,160
the hearing? Any commissioners have any questions? So I'm going to ask for a motion, new to

620
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,600
approve. Do we have a second? Second. Any comments?

621
00:52:39,170 --> 00:52:41,870
All in favor? Motion carries.

622
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:53,220
Next on the agenda is a leisure in public services. It's a resolution to declare three house structures

623
00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:56,680
on county property as surplus, right, Greg? Good evening.

624
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:26,560
This item is to request approval to declare the following addresses, surplus, 851 Spragons Memorial Parkway Stockbridge, Georgia 30281, tax ID, 045-0101-3000, 613 Spragons Memorial Parkway Stockbridge, Georgia 30281, tax ID, 045-0101-6000, and 1035 Fairview Road Stockbridge

625
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:31,940
Georgia 30281 tax ID 045-0102 1000.

626
00:53:32,540 --> 00:53:36,620
These structures were houses located on the property when Henry County purchased the land.

627
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:42,080
The structures are in disrepair and no longer serviceable and are of no productive value to the county.

628
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:48,680
The request is to designate these as surplus properties so that the fire department can burn them for training purposes.

629
00:53:50,740 --> 00:53:57,580
We have a motion, we don't need anybody like to move since the chair is not voting.

630
00:53:58,760 --> 00:53:59,540
Move to approve.

631
00:53:59,860 --> 00:54:00,020
All right.

632
00:54:00,580 --> 00:54:01,060
You have a second?

633
00:54:01,420 --> 00:54:01,740
Second.

634
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:02,900
Any comments?

635
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:04,840
Mr. P.S.

636
00:54:05,740 --> 00:54:11,640
I appreciate you bringing this, this has been an ongoing thing with this surplus properties,

637
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:17,240
but at this time, Mr. MacKuse, will you share with us how are we going to move forward to

638
00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:21,320
how are we going to get rid of some of this other surplus property?

639
00:54:21,980 --> 00:54:25,740
Yes, or as we discussed this morning during our workshop meeting,

640
00:54:26,340 --> 00:54:30,280
regarding capital projects, more specifically some financial options

641
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:35,160
or other additional revenue streams, what we're doing is we have asked our chief

642
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:40,160
appraisers to prepare a booklet of all county-owned parcels of land.

643
00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:43,820
We've had it for some time now and what we're in the process of doing is

644
00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:49,020
looking at those parcels and determining if we have any current or feature use for the properties

645
00:54:49,020 --> 00:54:54,300
And what we'll start doing is bringing resolutions to the board if we determine that we have no need for those properties

646
00:54:54,300 --> 00:55:00,600
And then going through the process in terms of declaring it surplus similar to what mr. Gray is doing this evening

647
00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:03,240
It's a great move

648
00:55:07,420 --> 00:55:07,900
One

649
00:55:13,950 --> 00:55:18,110
second please man, all right the the syrup the one

650
00:55:18,110 --> 00:55:24,850
one at 851 Spragons Memorial is 1.2 acres.

651
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:28,660
Fire department.

652
00:55:29,220 --> 00:55:29,520
Yes.

653
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:31,240
We'll retain the land.

654
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:31,820
A lot of it.

655
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,400
It's at our park in a senior center.

656
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:35,540
It's just unsafe.

657
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,940
I'm just trying to see the correlation of what we were doing here with.

658
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,040
Commissioner Baum was talking about.

659
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:43,160
We're not making it.

660
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:44,780
We're just getting rid of this surplus.

661
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,020
It's not safe.

662
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,960
And it's terrible looking.

663
00:55:51,060 --> 00:55:54,520
All right, any other comments? All in favor?

664
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:56,660
Thank you.

665
00:55:56,780 --> 00:55:57,360
Motion carries.

666
00:55:59,260 --> 00:55:59,660
All right.

667
00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:01,860
Next one, the agenda is public comment.

668
00:56:03,140 --> 00:56:07,920
And I'm just going to ask that there are no personal attacks on anybody on the Board of

669
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,260
Commissioners or our staff.

670
00:56:10,860 --> 00:56:13,760
Please direct all comments to the chair.

671
00:56:14,580 --> 00:56:19,520
and please ensure that all comments are related to county business only.

672
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:21,620
Who do we have Stephanie?

673
00:56:22,620 --> 00:56:24,240
We have three speakers tonight.

674
00:56:24,700 --> 00:56:27,900
Bill Tony, Larry Mori, and Carl Swenson.

675
00:56:28,460 --> 00:56:29,200
We have five minutes.

676
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:30,300
All right.

677
00:56:30,460 --> 00:56:32,420
Do you have three minutes on here?

678
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:34,000
Three minutes.

679
00:56:34,140 --> 00:56:34,800
What happened to five?

680
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:36,000
How do you...

681
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:36,600
Oh, I got it.

682
00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:37,600
All right.

683
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:38,660
I'm on now.

684
00:56:38,740 --> 00:56:39,360
I've got to get my rhythm.

685
00:56:39,540 --> 00:56:40,600
I have to get my rhythm.

686
00:56:41,140 --> 00:56:41,400
Okay.

687
00:56:41,740 --> 00:56:41,980
Are you ready?

688
00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:49,400
Again, I want to bring this up.

689
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,720
I've been bringing it up at meetings.

690
00:56:52,300 --> 00:57:01,660
I'd like for the county and the commissioners to really get behind these people trying to work with this child trafficking stuff.

691
00:57:02,740 --> 00:57:06,660
These ladies in this business, I mean, they're trying to stop it.

692
00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:10,420
They're doing a lot of good work and they already need to be on board with them.

693
00:57:10,420 --> 00:57:11,220
I

694
00:57:28,180 --> 00:57:36,320
brought this to y'all's attention about two months ago about I feel like my pool and

695
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,320
the water coming out of the spiket looked like that.

696
00:57:39,060 --> 00:57:41,860
I don't think anybody here would drink that water.

697
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:47,400
I don't think anybody here would probably jump in that pool or anybody out there.

698
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,680
Now I brought it to y'all's attention that's strictly out of my garden hose and that was

699
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,340
that green right out of the hose.

700
00:57:53,340 --> 00:57:59,980
Now, we're paying a guy to run that water authority

701
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,980
over $300,000 a year.

702
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,000
I brought this up to y'all.

703
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:12,880
I haven't got a phone call.

704
00:58:13,180 --> 00:58:15,300
I don't know of anything that got done about it.

705
00:58:15,540 --> 00:58:24,080
If any one of y'all have talked to a Lindy farmer or anything like that, I'd like to hold up

706
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,900
your hand or something like that because I think it just fell on their fears.

707
00:58:27,900 --> 00:58:34,700
you know you don't care or I don't know I don't get it we're paying y'all

708
00:58:34,700 --> 00:58:38,480
you're not there as volunteers we're paying you to do this if nothing else

709
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,960
give the man a phone call and tend to get get with the program or either get

710
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:49,480
rid of him he's not evidently not doing his job we put out a lot of money over

711
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:50,580
there with

712
00:58:56,310 --> 00:59:00,210
the two meals and y'all need to repeal that two meals going to them

713
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,940
Over $13 million a year goes to the water authority that's straight out of our tax.

714
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:21,120
Evidently, we're overpaying the guy over there because he is definitely not doing a good job.

715
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:25,900
Alright, last but not least,

716
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:45,480
that right there.

717
00:59:55,710 --> 00:59:58,190
Ethics and government has been getting threats.

718
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,240
And they're telling us, they're demanding that we don't come to meetings. We don't do anything

719
01:00:10,420 --> 01:00:17,640
on social media. We're supposed to just go away. Well, I'll tell you what, ethics in government,

720
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:24,240
they're not cowards. We don't run. All that did was tick us off. I'll tell you that right

721
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:29,140
now. We're not going away. We're going to be right here until this county is done the right

722
01:00:29,140 --> 01:00:37,340
way. Now, I don't know, I don't know yet who did it, but I did find out that you can

723
01:00:37,340 --> 01:00:44,540
pull fingerprints off a paper better than you can glass. Quite concerning. We've already

724
01:00:44,540 --> 01:00:54,560
involved the FBI and the Postal inspectors. So for anybody that is childish like this to

725
01:00:54,560 --> 01:01:01,980
start sinning things like this and by the way the no quarters as a sign of war but we don't run

726
01:01:02,860 --> 01:01:08,480
we bleed red red white and blue we're going to be here we're not running from anybody and

727
01:01:13,540 --> 01:01:13,660
if

728
01:01:13,660 --> 01:01:19,820
anybody's got a problem with me everyone else got my phone number all you got to do is call me

729
01:01:19,820 --> 01:01:24,500
we can get it straight now but I'm not going to run and none of us are going to run

730
01:01:26,020 --> 01:01:27,800
You can carry that to the bank.

731
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,760
Now, I don't know if there's a lot of people I'm sure that'll do most of anything to get

732
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:33,780
re-elected.

733
01:01:36,060 --> 01:01:37,580
Well, they'd think about it.

734
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:39,560
The FBI is serious.

735
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:40,460
Thank you.

736
01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:41,480
Thank you, Mr. Tony.

737
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:44,000
Stephanie,

738
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,460
please take from the area address.

739
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,280
I, too, got one of them crazy letters.

740
01:01:58,790 --> 01:02:03,230
So the three things that accused me of, I put them right back on Facebook, it proved.

741
01:02:05,870 --> 01:02:15,690
my self from being above that. But to be threatened in America, to be threatened in my home

742
01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:16,190
county,

743
01:02:18,380 --> 01:02:20,560
to be threatened in my wife and children,

744
01:02:22,740 --> 01:02:25,480
you got to be blatantly stupid because

745
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:28,800
if

746
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,500
you try to harm my family,

747
01:02:32,670 --> 01:02:40,320
God help mercy on your soul because I ain't running and I'm not

748
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:50,100
not scared. So, bring it on. I've already cleared my name. So, bring on your ignorance

749
01:02:50,100 --> 01:02:56,600
and stupidity, and let's deal with it. Don't hide behind a paper, come to my face, and

750
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:03,700
we will deal with it. I would like to bring up a couple things that really concerns me.

751
01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:08,960
I saw a wreck in front of the Dunkin' Donut on 155 a few weeks ago.

752
01:03:10,900 --> 01:03:14,420
Two women, one woman just literally bumped another woman.

753
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:19,420
There was no major damage done to the vehicles.

754
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:26,120
But here comes seven police ambulance, fire trucks.

755
01:03:28,790 --> 01:03:34,590
So the other day I was out 81 to the roundabout just for you going to Newton County.

756
01:03:34,590 --> 01:03:40,390
And a couple of guys riding motorcycle, they were laughing and joking and talking and

757
01:03:40,990 --> 01:03:44,470
what around about and what I'm just running through all the little signs they're around

758
01:03:44,470 --> 01:03:44,790
about.

759
01:03:44,950 --> 01:03:50,250
It kind of knocked them through them every which way and pitched them off in motorcycle and

760
01:03:50,250 --> 01:03:51,490
here comes six more out there.

761
01:03:54,790 --> 01:03:59,270
Gentlemen, I don't know about y'all, but do you imagine what it cost to run one of those

762
01:03:59,270 --> 01:04:01,490
fire trucks down the highway?

763
01:04:01,490 --> 01:04:11,460
if you took the average accident and all those multiple vehicles going out

764
01:04:11,460 --> 01:04:13,060
there to a fender bender

765
01:04:15,650 --> 01:04:19,770
there's no telling what it's costing you will never

766
01:04:19,770 --> 01:04:24,250
raise the taxes high enough to pay for all of that because in a few years those

767
01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:29,350
fire trucks and and all that other is going to be wild running up and down the road

768
01:04:29,350 --> 01:04:36,010
to these fender benders surely you all need to get a handle on that and I know you

769
01:04:36,010 --> 01:04:42,170
don't get boats if you if you offend the first responders but now there can

770
01:04:42,170 --> 01:04:47,850
there is some stupidity in this multiple units go into a vendor vendor when

771
01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:54,130
you put six and eight nine vehicles out there that gets borderline ignorance

772
01:04:55,330 --> 01:04:56,970
and you tell them I said that

773
01:04:59,150 --> 01:05:03,270
also nine one one I hope Sherry checked it out

774
01:05:03,270 --> 01:05:07,950
the other day you can call nine one one the first they want to know it's worth

775
01:05:07,950 --> 01:05:08,810
Like what's your phone number?

776
01:05:08,950 --> 01:05:11,310
Well, your phone number, edit, is in front of you.

777
01:05:12,990 --> 01:05:17,630
And then the other day I called about a semi-truck being over the crest of the hill on 81,

778
01:05:17,990 --> 01:05:18,330
and you know what?

779
01:05:18,430 --> 01:05:22,890
The first thing she asked me after the telephone was, what's the name of the side road?

780
01:05:24,750 --> 01:05:26,350
I was just amazed.

781
01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:30,550
That would have been the last question I asked her.

782
01:05:31,350 --> 01:05:34,770
If I'm kind of like Donald Trump, that would have been the first thing I'd try to fire her.

783
01:05:36,790 --> 01:05:38,590
That's just how bad it is.

784
01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:47,710
I got a minute and 12 seconds. I want to end up with this.

785
01:05:51,300 --> 01:05:51,940
I want to go back

786
01:05:51,940 --> 01:05:53,620
to that thing we talked about a while ago.

787
01:05:55,780 --> 01:05:57,540
When I look, when I developed something,

788
01:05:57,700 --> 01:06:02,540
I look at cost. What's it going to cost me? Somebody should have been looking at

789
01:06:02,540 --> 01:06:05,700
these schools as you put all over the county and didn't build a highway to them,

790
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,900
didn't build an infrastructure to them. When you build them, you had to go do all that.

791
01:06:09,900 --> 01:06:14,640
That's the reason I looked at the amphitheater, putting it in the center of the

792
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:21,220
county in the center of the cities where you could get in and out to it after a

793
01:06:21,220 --> 01:06:24,620
venue where you could go to a restaurant down the street and bring more

794
01:06:24,620 --> 01:06:28,800
revenue to the county. I looked at all those things and determined that'd be

795
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:33,740
the best place for a venue but the bad problem was that was to bring it to the

796
01:06:33,740 --> 01:06:44,210
county and nobody ever calls me back. Now I'm developing a 3,000 acre project and I

797
01:06:44,210 --> 01:06:54,890
I want an awards on projects that I've done, but to not even be called back is just absolute ignorance.

798
01:06:55,830 --> 01:06:56,750
Thanks, Mr. Moore.

799
01:06:57,490 --> 01:06:57,870
And I know.

800
01:07:00,890 --> 01:07:01,370
Seventy.

801
01:07:02,010 --> 01:07:03,250
Mr. Swenson is our last one.

802
01:07:03,970 --> 01:07:06,050
Mr. Swenson, please state your name and address.

803
01:07:07,570 --> 01:07:09,530
Carl Swenson, I'm in Stockridge.

804
01:07:10,070 --> 01:07:11,410
What's the address thing for?

805
01:07:13,540 --> 01:07:14,240
Just in case.

806
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:15,420
It's 43-7 road.

807
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:23,940
To start off, Mr. Smith, I'd like to make you aware of something that's going on in your jurisdiction.

808
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:31,820
And that is the properties that are at the almost to the intersection of Thurman Road and Fairview.

809
01:07:32,740 --> 01:07:36,640
They are adjacent to the school that's right there, okay.

810
01:07:37,140 --> 01:07:40,360
There's some buildings that are going to be, I think, torn down.

811
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:47,760
They are in a half-state of being torn down right now, but they have been determined to be

812
01:07:49,300 --> 01:07:53,360
laden with S-bestus, which requires a very special treatment.

813
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:58,480
They're doing this almost like in the dead of night.

814
01:07:58,600 --> 01:07:59,820
I don't know what's going on there.

815
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:05,980
All I know is I see that it's in a state of deconstruction right now that has all that stuff disturbed.

816
01:08:06,380 --> 01:08:08,780
And that's the whole point of keeping it safe.

817
01:08:09,700 --> 01:08:11,320
You might want to look at that, please.

818
01:08:12,340 --> 01:08:16,920
The other thing is we are dealing with a serious problem here.

819
01:08:17,540 --> 01:08:22,300
I don't think I saw any of you at my at my at the town hall meeting we had concerning

820
01:08:23,020 --> 01:08:27,040
human trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia and all that stuff.

821
01:08:27,740 --> 01:08:30,640
But you showed up because you might have learned something at that time.

822
01:08:33,340 --> 01:08:34,960
This is a problem that's not going away.

823
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,940
I see a lot of people putting their heads in the sand.

824
01:08:37,940 --> 01:08:45,600
some here did not, some actually were assisted me in getting this going and we're going to get more of these going to that end.

825
01:08:46,620 --> 01:08:53,000
There's a meeting that is going to be set up with the GBI and we'll try and get the FBI involved in this too.

826
01:08:53,540 --> 01:09:04,680
On the pedophile issue, on the trafficking issue, as you noticed in the news today, we had 250 year old girls that were mentioned.

827
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:11,280
one was being trapped. Well, both of them were actually being trafficked, because one was by a police officer, and that was really frightening.

828
01:09:13,660 --> 01:09:19,840
The GBI definitely needs to get involved in this, and the denial that any such

829
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:26,320
shenanigans are going on in this neck of the woods is a little

830
01:09:28,420 --> 01:09:35,580
for lack of a better word ignorant because it's going on all over. If you can't see it, that doesn't mean it's not happening.

831
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:57,300
We've got evidence that it is, so if you are interested in joining with Chairman Pitts from Fulton County and we're working on Clayton County too, if you're interested in being part of this proactive meeting, please contact me and we will make sure that you get the date and time certain so that you can be there.

832
01:09:57,780 --> 01:10:00,380
It's important, we need to get a grip on this.

833
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:01,760
Thank you.

834
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:07,760
thank you Mr. Swanson. It's definitely any of the comments. That's all okay so

835
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:15,280
that includes public comment. Next is the approval of the minutes for July 17th

836
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:22,680
2018. A regular board meeting July 24th. Public hearing regarding the

837
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:28,800
Millage July 24th. Public hearing regarding the Millage and the Community

838
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:39,440
Black Grant, July 26th, public joint meeting with the Board of Commissioners, HCDA and

839
01:10:39,440 --> 01:10:45,420
the ZAB, and July 31st, Public Hearing and Adoption of the Millage.

840
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:52,000
With that said, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve.

841
01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:53,000
Do we have a second?

842
01:10:53,660 --> 01:10:54,320
Second.

843
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:56,560
Any comments regarding the minutes?

844
01:10:57,830 --> 01:10:58,540
All in favor?

845
01:11:00,750 --> 01:11:01,570
Motion carried.

846
01:11:01,570 --> 01:11:06,290
Okay. Any comments from commissioners,

847
01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:11,100
commissioners?

848
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:20,520
I have a quick question for County Manager. I've got the pay classification. Looks good. I'm actually quite impressed.

849
01:11:21,140 --> 01:11:31,520
The question I had, I don't see on here stormwater. I know it's an enterprise fund, but I didn't see the stormwater director in the van. Am I just missing that?

850
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:37,660
There the stormwater department although it is an enterprise fund should have been included I'll let me check and

851
01:11:37,660 --> 01:11:43,740
See what you have because all of the director salaries were included on there as well or should have been included it may have been on a separate sheet

852
01:11:43,740 --> 01:11:46,120
And I'm not sure if that was handed out

853
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:50,680
During the meeting today, but let me verify and I will certainly provide that information

854
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,060
Yeah, I see engineer when the engineer's gonna be I'm sure

855
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,180
You know this engineer here in this engineer the bill in the department's gonna be the same pay

856
01:11:58,180 --> 01:11:59,260
I just didn't see that.

857
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:00,740
And that's the good point.

858
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:06,060
That's one thing that we've asked the consultant to go back and revisit in terms of the classifications

859
01:12:06,060 --> 01:12:06,820
for the engineers.

860
01:12:06,820 --> 01:12:10,720
We have an engineer one, two, and three, so we have provided some additional information

861
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:14,560
so it may have just been an omission, but they are a part of the study as well.

862
01:12:14,900 --> 01:12:15,140
Okay.

863
01:12:15,620 --> 01:12:15,800
All right.

864
01:12:16,300 --> 01:12:16,760
Thank you.

865
01:12:17,940 --> 01:12:18,740
Commissioner Clemens?

866
01:12:19,300 --> 01:12:24,180
I had an email that came in from a citizen that wanted me to make sure that I thanked

867
01:12:24,700 --> 01:12:28,080
the DOT department and more specifically he called them

868
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:32,760
Johnny and the crew for some work that they did on McCurry Road and he just

869
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:36,640
wanted me to state that they always do a really good job they're always nice

870
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,820
and friendly and that he thinks that that's one of the departments that go

871
01:12:39,820 --> 01:12:43,820
least notice so I'm thankful to have that email to come in and if you all would

872
01:12:43,820 --> 01:12:47,700
definitely let them know that I mentioned them tonight and that they got a

873
01:12:47,700 --> 01:12:50,420
grave review from a citizen. Absolutely thank you commissioner.

874
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:59,420
I thought it was a great workshop this morning and the comp plan is long overdue and I'm

875
01:12:59,420 --> 01:13:00,760
really excited about that.

876
01:13:01,500 --> 01:13:06,500
The only other thing that I'm going to say and this could kind of be viewed political

877
01:13:06,500 --> 01:13:14,540
so I want to be real careful what I say but as far as this loud on this heat group I have

878
01:13:14,540 --> 01:13:18,320
had nothing to do with that and my family hadn't had anything to do with that.

879
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:23,320
I know anybody in my campaign, and I'm not going to say anything for all about it, thank you.

880
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,520
Any other commissioning comments,

881
01:13:28,260 --> 01:13:28,460
all right?

882
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,180
Will I open it up for the county manager?

883
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,700
If you can, can you talk about the classification study, the meeting you had this morning?

884
01:13:35,220 --> 01:13:35,740
Yes, sir.

885
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:36,620
What if you don't mind?

886
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:38,640
I do believe our HR directors here.

887
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:44,000
And if you don't mind, I'll ask her to come up and give a brief overview of the information that was presented this morning.

888
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,140
Good evening commissioners.

889
01:13:56,140 --> 01:14:00,760
I apologize, I don't have any material with me because I didn't realize I was going

890
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:04,700
to have to speak, but I can certainly give you a summary of our meeting this morning.

891
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:12,780
The Archer Company has over the last several months completed or conducted, I should say,

892
01:14:13,060 --> 01:14:21,440
our class and comp study, and what we were presented with this morning is a summary of the findings

893
01:14:21,440 --> 01:14:23,580
and recommendations from the Archer Company.

894
01:14:24,420 --> 01:14:29,620
And what you should have received was a folder that had a classification list

895
01:14:29,620 --> 01:14:32,000
of the job classifications.

896
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:37,840
We started with 518, excuse me, job titles.

897
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:40,200
Excuse me.

898
01:14:41,460 --> 01:14:46,100
And the Archer Company at our request has reduced that number down to

899
01:14:46,100 --> 01:14:49,340
in the material that you have to about 330.

900
01:14:49,340 --> 01:14:54,440
In 30, we have asked him to make some further reductions so that we can eliminate all the duplications

901
01:14:54,440 --> 01:14:55,060
of titles.

902
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,700
You also received a structure of our classifications.

903
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,880
In terms of the pay grades and in terms of the salary ranges. So we currently have about 50 grades in our compensation structure and he has provided a list of 36 grades. So that has been reduced as well. We also received information regarding benchmarks for certain positions within the county. And there were, I believe the number was 9 counties that were used

904
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:37,460
just to do our market comparison, and I believe there were seven cities that were also

905
01:15:37,460 --> 01:15:38,920
in that information as well.

906
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:45,180
So that's been provided for our market analysis, and we will be coming back before the board

907
01:15:45,180 --> 01:15:51,680
in September with a recommendation for the board to adopt what was presented, and if you have

908
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,720
any further questions, if you could send those to me, I'll make sure that I can get the direct

909
01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:01,400
information from the consultant prior to coming back before you in September.

910
01:16:01,860 --> 01:16:02,500
Thank you.

911
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,840
Any other comments from staff?

912
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,520
One other comment and it's not a comment from the county manager.

913
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:15,400
I actually want to defer to the county attorney to update the commissioners on the pending litigation for the city of Eagles landing.

914
01:16:18,030 --> 01:16:23,850
So you're all aware of the lawsuit that was filed a month or so ago that actually named you as defendants.

915
01:16:23,850 --> 01:16:28,930
The Superior Court rule in that case has gone up to the Supreme Court for appeal.

916
01:16:29,110 --> 01:16:35,870
It's that process is pending to either yesterday or today, and I'm sorry, I don't know the exact date.

917
01:16:36,370 --> 01:16:41,210
There were two new lawsuits filed on federal court challenging the new,

918
01:16:41,290 --> 01:16:45,290
the acts creating the city of Eagles landing on two different grounds.

919
01:16:46,170 --> 01:16:52,790
One was actually filed by the capital one is the bank that holds the city's bonds.

920
01:16:52,790 --> 01:16:59,610
the other was filed by a couple of residents in the area to be in the area that's

921
01:16:59,610 --> 01:17:04,590
potentially leaving Stockbridge and going to England. None of those lawsuits

922
01:17:04,590 --> 01:17:09,450
named the county as a defendant nor you. They both name your elections

923
01:17:09,450 --> 01:17:16,130
director and one of them names the Board of Elections which is while the

924
01:17:16,130 --> 01:17:20,350
complaints seem to allege wrong doing on their part they really don't the

925
01:17:20,350 --> 01:17:26,070
But the Board of Elections' only role is to conduct an election if required to do so by law.

926
01:17:26,590 --> 01:17:28,190
And today the law requires them to do so.

927
01:17:28,290 --> 01:17:31,670
So I just wanted to let you know of those lawsuits.

928
01:17:31,690 --> 01:17:34,850
There's no reason to do it in executive session because you're not a defendant.

929
01:17:35,590 --> 01:17:39,310
And I'll be meeting with both the Board of Elections and Ms. Lunsford over the next couple

930
01:17:39,310 --> 01:17:44,650
of weeks to decide what course of action if any will take, but I just wanted you to be aware

931
01:17:44,650 --> 01:17:44,910
of it.

932
01:17:45,570 --> 01:17:45,930
All right.

933
01:17:46,450 --> 01:17:47,190
Thank you so much.

934
01:17:47,450 --> 01:17:48,050
Any other comments?

935
01:17:48,050 --> 01:17:49,410
Okay, great.

936
01:17:50,070 --> 01:18:01,490
Upcoming meetings, we have an August 28th meeting at 9 a.m., it's a joint meeting between the Board of Commissioners and the Henry County Development Authority September 5th at 9 a.m.

937
01:18:01,550 --> 01:18:10,210
Is our regular board meeting and September 18th at 6.30 p.m. is our regular board meeting. Any other business executive session?

938
01:18:11,470 --> 01:18:15,370
Okay, so with that I'm going to ask for a motion to adjourn.

939
01:18:15,370 --> 01:18:20,070
So move. We have a second. Same. All in favor?

940
01:18:23,660 --> 01:18:24,300
Adjourn.