It is now 6.30, and we're going to ask for chaplain Leonard Hines to give the invocation. They
were going to move forward with the Pledge of Allegiance. And lastly, Chairwoman Woods
will not be here just found out. Her granddaughter is six. I'm asking everyone to keep her family
in your prayers.
Let's pray, our Father, we thank You for this opportunity tonight as we assembled.
And now we left, uh, lift up Commissioner Wood and the grandchild there, Lord, that
You touch them, heal, work in their lives.
And, Lord, we ask You to bless this meeting, the things that will be said, the decisions made,
that that would honor You and that we'd be mindful of the responsibility set before us.
Bless this meeting, please, all in authority, all the administration, and pray that things
things would go forward in Jesus' name, amen.
The Republic, which extends one nation under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
So we'll call this meeting to order on Tuesday,
August the 18th.
County Clerk, can you make any amendments to the agenda
that needs to be made?
Yeah, we have a few items.
We need to add a resolution of previewing an IJ
with the city of McDonough regarding McDonough Parkway extension, we'll add this as the first
item under the slosh presentations. We need to remove, at the request of the Henry County
Water Authority, item eight. We need to remove item five, the commendation for police department,
we're going to do that at a later date. And we need to remove item, I
think it's the ATL transit
item which is item
14A. We are removing that one at this time and that is all.
Can you repeat that one more time while those items because I can hardly hear you'll be here?
All of them?
Yes.
We need to add a resolution approving an IGA with the City of Macdonough regarding Macdonough
Parkway extension.
Well, Adam is that, add that as the first item under this clause presentations.
We need to remove at the request of the Henry County Water Authority, item 8.
We need to remove item 5, commendation for police department.
And we need to remove item 14, the BOC item to support the ATL.
That is all.
All right.
With that said, I'm going to ask for a motion to accept the agenda as amended move.
We have a motion.
Second.
Any comments?
All in favor?
All opposed? Motion carries.
First on the agenda is the appointment, a district one appointment of the
Henry First Board of Directors, the appointment of Vanessa Jackson, is there a
presentation?
You have any comments on your appointment?
Okay, so I'm going to ask for a motion, we have a second, any comments,
all in favor?
Motion carries.
Second on the agenda is the appointment to a appointment to a Mackintosh Trials Community
Board Service, Susan Craig and Chuck Simmons, can have a motion, second, any comments,
all
All in favor? Motion carries.
Next item is the appointment to the Zoning Advisory Board. Willie Brown.
Can I have a motion?
Second? Second. Any comments? All in favor? Motion carries.
Next on agenda is the consent agenda. The following items, the following agenda items shall be considered
on the consent agenda, before voting on the consent agenda,
the chair will provide an opportunity to remove items.
First up is public safety, a resolution to accept a grant
from the Georgia Association of Medical Services
for the amount of $10,343.6.
Next, on the consent agenda's resolution approving,
the purchase of self-contained breathing apparatuses and SCBA bottles in the amount of 65,832.
Next on the consent agenda is technology services, resolution approving, the renewal of the network, voice, hardware, infrastructure, annual smart maintenance agreement.
and that ends the consent agenda, can I have a motion?
Is there a second?
Any comments?
All in favor of the consent agenda?
I don't care if that ends the consent agenda.
Next on the agenda is Public Safety Fire Department,
resolution approving the purchase of Hazmat Elite Command Package
that includes hazmat, hazmat elite monitoring and training and monitoring use in the amount of 55,200, and Chief Hairsman will be presenting.
Just here speak briefly on the purchase of a hazmat monitor for our team.
basically the monitor is an infrared spectrometer. It adds to our ability to
detect and analyze unknown chemicals. Enhances our ability as a team. Enhances
our ability with the growing fentanyl threats, other opioids and things that we
can identify that are unknown. The price is $55,200. It's a purchase up front and
I think 100% funded by grant funding on the backside.
Any comments from the board?
Okay, I'm going to call for a motion.
Motion to approve.
Can I have a second?
Second.
Any comments?
Any comments from the board?
All in favor?
Motion carries.
Next on the agenda is clause.
I think this is the ad of the McDonough IGA.
It's a resolution approving the amendment
and the bid award for construction of the McDonough Parkway Extension,
Splas 4, Rocky as the president.
Good evening, Chair and board members.
The first item is the one that was added amended, and
the first item is a resolution to approve an innovative government agreement between the city of McDonough for
We're a cash sharing project for the McDonnell Parkway extension, which is a plus four mayor project.
And the amount that the intercom and agreement is for $700,000.
Can we have a motion?
I have one.
Do you have a motion?
I have one, of course.
Do it.
This one.
Right, just $700,000.
They have they committed to that yet or has it?
But no, sir, as far as I know they have not committed yet, that's why we're bringing it today.
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.
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.
That's that.
Yes.
Sorry.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other commissioners with comments?
All right.
With that said, I'll ask for a motion.
Okay.
To approve.
We have a second.
Second.
Last chance for comments.
All in favor?
Motion passes.
Next on the agenda is a resolution approving an intergovernmental agreement with the city
of McDonough regarding GDOT traffic signals at a one-way, at a one-way, a rocky up again.
But before we go to that one, we have another resolution before that one,
and is there approval of the low bidder for the McDonough Parkway?
The low bidder, we received five bids for the McDonough Parkway.
And the low bidder is stated before, it was CMES for 5,237,611 dollars.
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.
So the Splust Department is requesting the approval of this budget amendment and the approval of the low bidder for the amount stated.
Well
that ends Rocky's presentation. Does any commissioners have any questions?
That is correct. All the funds are from district one.
Any other questions?
Well we have a motion on the table.
Second. Any other comments?
All
I can move forward with the resolution
for the intergovernmental agreement.
Yes, sir.
The board already approved the county portion
for the signal at Stera 2081, McDonald Parkway.
This is an intergovernmental agreement for the city of McDonald
to contribute $50,000 towards this project.
Once the city approves it, then we can move forward.
Would she that to go ahead and install the signal or the signal is up, but just turn it on.
So any commission will have any questions.
I have a question about, I know that we're getting ready to do the widening for state road 2081.
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.
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.
and then they're going to widen the road and you've spent as money for this trend.
Right, so the cost is roughly about $83,000 and it's going to be temporary when the widening comes through.
As you all know, there's going to be a roundabout at that location.
So you're looking about three or so years that it's going to be running.
Okay.
Operational.
We'll have to be sure that the line was the contract installed because the whole way payers
is going to have them placed only for three days.
And so when we found that, or if we contacted Rocky and he contacted GDOT, so that's-
What's the year for relief is good for $83,000, sir.
So yeah, we'll have them to a completion of the roundabout, correct?
Okay.
So do we have a motion for item being?
Motion to approve.
Second.
All right.
any other comments from any commissioners? All in favor.
Next only agenda is a resolution approving the bid award for
cement stabilized based reclamation construction. District two, Rocky, you're still up.
Yes, Commissioner.
Splust four was was approved by the voters in November of 2013 and District two,
resurfacing widening and surface streaming is an approved District two Splust four
or project, seal bits were solicited through the purchase in the department per bid 19-03
to improve various roads in district 2.
There were three, we received three seal bits, and the lowest was, bid was Atlanta Paving
and Concrete Construction, providing a low bid of $996,932.9.
There are eight roads that we're looking at doing some reclamation for resurfacing, and
And those are my Regan Drive, Hayden Court, Stephanie Court,
some are Leah Drive, Victoria Lane, Leah Court,
Olivia Court, and Pace Creek Road.
The Rose Heart Fund is through this plus four district two,
resurfacing account, and funding is available.
Staff recommends approval of the low bid.
Any commissioners, have any comments?
With that said, I'm asked for a motion.
Moved to approve.
Zero second, any other comments?
All in favor, motion carries.
Thank you.
Next one, the agenda is emergency management.
First item is a resolution to accept funds from the state of Georgia in the amount of $249,926.20
since Don Ash, presenter.
Good evening, commissioners.
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.
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,
seventy four thousand three hundred twenty four thousand twenty two cents for protective measures and an additional thirteen thousand for debris management.
Those funds were generated through the presidential declaration process and the paperwork we filed on behalf of the county for those damages.
Thank you, Don. Do we have a motion?
Move to a program. We have a second. Second. Any comments from the board? All in favor? Motion carries.
Next, we have a resolution authorizing a 911 charge on prepaid wireless telephone services within Henry County, Don Ash. Still at the podium.
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.
Previously, pre-paid cell phone were only accessed a charge of 75 cents per call.
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.
Okay.
Okay. That concludes Don's presentation. Do we have a motion?
Second. Any comments?
All in favor? Motion carries. Next, we have a resolution authorizing 911 charge on
pre-paid wireless wireless and voice over internet protocol. And Don Ash is still at the podium.
I'm changes to the 911 authority in the creation of the 911 authority as it relates to 911 charges.
This provides us an opportunity also to collect the 911 fees that are generated over voice over internet
protocol type phones. These funds will be transferred to the county through the 911 authority.
So it changes the direction and the flow of the money for 911 services which previously came from the
Subscribers one additional thing that this legislation does do it provides enforcement capabilities that were never in place before
So we can recoup all the funds that are due to our county for the services we provide
Do we have a motion?
Any comments?
All in favor?
Motion carries
Next on the agenda is planning and economic development.
This is the public hearing.
We have a resolution accepting the completed County City's Joint Comprehensive Plan and 2040 updates.
Now take a guess, President.
Good evening, Chair and commissioners.
It is my pleasure to present to you this evening the resolution before you to
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.
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.
At this time, I would like to take a quick moment to thank the citizens of Henry County
for those who they participated in this endeavor.
I would also like to thank the Henry County Board of Commissioners, the Henry County
zoning planning, I'm sorry, Henry County is zoning a advisory board.
Our stakeholder committee participants, our steering committee participants, the Atlanta
Regional Commission, county management, the Henry County planning and zoning staff, the
city of Locust Grove, the city of McDonough, the city of Hampton, and our private
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.
Thank you all most sincerely.
And with that said, I believe Jared Lombard is here from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
And if he wishes to say anything at this time, I would like to give him that opportunity.
All right, he declines.
So this being a public hearing, I will yield the floor for those who wish to speak regarding
the public hearing process.
So we'll open it up.
Is it five minutes, Stephanie or three minutes?
So, we'll open the floor for anybody that is against this particular plan, and you'll have three minutes to speak.
Mr. Allen, why should this open to anyone who wants to speak on it one way or the other?
We'll open it up to anyone that wants to speak.
So,
please do, during this, we ask for them to provide their name and address.
good
evening commissioners is this can you give me okay I'm sunny Strickland I
live at 1507 Peaksville Road in Locust Grove and if I could approach I'll give
you a copy of a small short outline that I have here
it's
in large print so I
read it.
There is in this, to the best of my knowledge, and from my conversations with
Mr. Gibbs, a proposal to remove and rescind the future commercial land use plan in certain
areas of the county. My property is affected by that. It's included in that and the diminishing
and value that occurred in my property already from the change in the RRA zoning in 2008-2009
was pretty severe in itself. The possibility of some future recovery in that property would
be a good thing but if it's rescinded then it becomes impossible and the value of my
property is further damaged and there's more diminution and value which damages me.
So that being said if I could read this and I'll try to be brief it'll keep me on wide.
Regarding the proposed changes rescinding the existing commercial zoning shown on the
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.
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.
Well, that was then and now it's 2018 and the economy is stronger than it has been in
decades and the growth is occurring in Henry County and most everywhere else.
And those growth patterns which were anticipated and most likely research then are likely to
occur in the near future, rescinding the proposed land use plan and or certain categories of
of it can most certainly have a very negative effect on land owners and potential for future
business growth in those areas.
Keep in mind, any application would still have to come before the Board of Commissioners
for approval, so while we send or eliminate something that has been in place for approximately
10 years without any negative effect on the residents of those areas of the county or
the county.
Such a change could, however, have a very negative effect on the property owners in those areas.
And most certainly could cause a diminution in value on their respective properties.
Thank you.
Anyone else interested in speaking?
I gave you a few minutes, a few seconds over.
Thank you.
But when we have three minutes.
Five years ago.
And this ain't no knock on Dante.
You put a pretty picture up in but when you build warehouses all over the county, it
kind of messes up those plans.
You know, I got a four by six map at my office, I'll give it to you.
If you fly into Henry County, it looks like a checkered board of warehouses, the white
roofs are just everywhere.
Now, a year ago, I took Mr. Wilson out to the golf course, the most natural place in America
for an amphitheater.
I asked him to kind of throw the idea out.
You build amphitheater there, you got the parking lots from this building right out there.
and you've got all these land across,
you've got the college parking lot over there,
you've got all the infrastructure ready.
All you've got to do is just build a stage
and you've got a natural amphitheater by the lake.
The valley effect, the sound effect,
and it's accessible from four directions.
Immediate access to I said, and if I,
all of the infrastructure is there without all that extra cost.
And then I look at that
And I've been looking at it while it was out there in the this view as well.
And I am, and if anybody doubts my, my ability, I designed the first live working play community
in Georgia which they now copy it in line of called smart growth initiative.
That's my baby.
I don't know where y'all planned all of this with all these warehouse and mixed in the middle
of it, but Lord, how mercy 20 years from now.
You'll look back at that thing and wonder who was drinking too late.
Carl Swenson, ethics and government, I just wanted to finish off with Mr. Strickland
started.
So I'll pick up the, let's see, and one of his last paragraphs.
Keep in mind, any application would still have to come before the Board of Commissioners
for approval.
Also, why resend or eliminate something that has been in place for approximately ten
years without any negative effect on the residents of those areas.
or the county such a change would however have a very negative effect on the property owners
in these areas certainly could cause a diminishing in the value of their respective properties.
So he would respectfully request as many of us would, that you vote no on this unneeded,
unnecessary and unwarranted proposal. It is without merit, without just cause and most certainly could
be financially damaging to the property owners. This goes hand in hand with the plans
that they had established back in 2008, 2009. And they were based on the growth patterns
that we're seeing now. But certain parts of that have just been overruled. So I don't
know the importance of actually establishing this anymore because two years, four years
down the road, we may get a different cast of characters and they may have a different
vision altogether. So, you know, something that is, or should be the biggest concern for
you guys, in my opinion, is your constituency, you know, what, what are they talking about?
Because I, I don't think you're really giving them a chance to be heard and I don't think
you're surveying the people, you're surveying the people doing the survey. Thank you.
anyone else wishes to speak okay with that said Clayton.
Good evening
Henry County Board of Commissioners Clayton Cart 1503 South Bethany Road
Locust Grove Georgia. I've had the privilege the past year of serving on one of
the committees for this project and interacting with many Henry County
residents regarding our future development plans. We held multiple rounds of
town halls and public hearing public open houses heard from residents of
Hampton, Ola, Locust Grove, Fairview.
It was an honor to speak with residents
about what they want to see in their...
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.
We incorporated mixed use into the comprehensive plan for the first time.
Many residents expressed a desire to see high quality mixed use, and we added a mixed
use designation to the future land use map for the first time.
We added programs and policies to improve the visual appearance of our state highways and
our commercial corridors.
We have a lot of commercial activity in the county.
Some of it was built 20, 30 years ago, and it would be great to partner with those businesses
is to improve landscaping or street lighting or other elements of the visual appearance.
We worked on the future land use map to restrict further industrial sprawl in the state
route 155 area and encourage future industrial growth to infill along our 75 and along major
highways.
We also are working to add new programs and plans to expedite transportation improvements
within the state route 155 industrial area.
We worked on the future land use map and spoke with residents to be more selective about
future commercial areas in our rural neighborhoods like Ola or Louella and be more thoughtful
about where we want commercial along rural state highways.
And finally, we added and our encouraging programs for stronger protections of the most rural areas
of the county. Many residents want to see, you know, our far away areas stay rural, stay farmland,
and we certainly hope to work with those landowners in the future as we continue to strive to do that.
Thank you commissioners and I encourage your approval of the Imagine Hingray 2040 plan.
Thank you, Bill Tony, McDonough. You know, again, looking at this, and I go down 42 every morning,
And I see all those warehouses and like Larry and a bunch of folks in our group come
up with ideas and they give it to y'all, some ideas and all, y'all are so smart, y'all
don't need anybody's ideas, y'all got it figured out.
You got a beautiful county still left but all you're thinking about is warehouses and apartments
and things like that. I tell you what, as far as my commission, I'm totally ashamed of him
because he ain't doing nothing for me. And Mr. Wilson, you met with these folks and didn't
even get back and say anything about it. It's just you listen and then you don't do anything.
You know, you can't be a do nothing board except let all the industry in here and just kill you.
Like he said, the farmland, they take away farmland, building buildings. Is that the way y'all want it?
Do you want buildings and tractor trailers and pot holes and everything else?
And you want apartments and all that?
Or do you want to keep the county nice?
You need to really look at it.
And again, Mr. Barman, I'm not happy with what you've been making decisions.
Thank you.
Commissioners, my name's Don Dunlap, I'm 192 Ashley Drive, McDonough, and I'm not terribly
I just wanted to thank you guys for allowing citizens to have some input in this process.
With enough time that I could share with my students, folks that are going to be around
in 2040 and need to have a voice in this that they could actually participate in that.
So some of those responses that you got were from some of my kids and their parents and
I appreciate you guys allowing them to have a voice in their future and not just making
the decision without them. Thank you. Any other comments? Well that completes the public hearing.
Can I ask if any other commissioners have anything to say?
I want to circle back around to Mr.
Strickland's comments real quick.
Is this district? I just have some concerns. You know, people
from Henry County and been around Henry County,
I purchased property that was slotted to go commercial
and it didn't go because we had the economy turned down.
And now we're putting on a future land use map,
it's not commercial.
And a lot of these people, citizens have invested
quite a bit of money into this property.
And I don't know if it's the right thing to do
to change it kind of midstream on them.
You could say that it's a risk they take,
But when the county's let them in a direction, and then we change directions, it does concern
me the impact it will have on citizens.
This isn't the only person who's contacted me with a very similar reference.
As far as my district, I hadn't had any complaints calls.
I had some folks with some concerns like this, and we went, we walked through them to make
sure everybody was on the same page.
But I don't want to vote against this against somebody else's district.
It's, you know, I would be offended if somebody came into my district and voted against
our district and what we want to see.
So I'm a little bit torn here, Mr. Strickland has a very strong point of this property was
purchased with the intent to go commercial and it is not anyone's fault that the economy
downturn.
It was a national phenomenon, so it's hard to point the finger back at anybody, but
it does concern me that we're going to cause harm to a constituent, mean, to several
of the constituents in different areas, so I just want to make sure that the District
Commissioner is aware of this and has at least reviewed this.
If you don't mind,
I'll just very briefly, the future land use map has nothing to do with
property value.
It has to do with a projection based on analysis of how property trends develops, character,
et cetera.
The particular property, if I recall correctly, is currently zoned R.A.
That's our base zoning.
The current future land use map does have it the frontage of that 10 acre roughly track
commercial, but the remainder of it is rural residential.
So based on the character, how the area has trended objectively on all the data we've
collected, there's nothing indicating in the last 10 years that that area is going to be commercial.
Now, just like any other zoning process, he can come in and request the Board of Commissioners
reason on the property to the zoning of his choosing.
If our future land use doesn't support it, it'll be like any other case.
We'll objectively make a recommendation.
If he wishes to amend our comprehensive land use plan, he can amend that.
He can come in request to amend it to commercial if that's his desire.
We cannot tell him no or yes, we can simply take it to the process.
Yes, that's the same that we do for everyone, but I cannot allow the feature
language map to be kind of clouded as a negative when it's not.
It's simply just trying to look at where we're going, and that's the area that we're
talking about now does show it as rural residential right now.
I'm zoning and let's back up, when we talk about trending over the last 10 years, we all
have to realize there was the great recession. So trending may not be trending, it may be
a fact of economics. And when we talk about property values, no, the feature land use
map does not dictate values. But we all know a commercial piece is more valuable than a residential
piece. And I just don't want to harm any of our constituents and citizens that have lived
year long time and have planned on this for years by changing midstream something that
they have put time into, thought into, and because the economy went down, there being
now punished. If the economy had not gone down, we don't know what it would have. It could
have trended that way. That could be all commercial. I don't know. But we'll never know. But it just
This seems difficult for me to vote to negatively affect a citizen's property who was moving
in a direction, and we've now changed directions mid-stream on citizens that live here, and that's
my point on that.
Commissioner Glimons.
I have a question.
Did you say, and I want to make sure that I heard you right, that this property presently
is residential agriculture, but in the future it's going commercial on the front?
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.
The remainder of the property currently is designated rule residential.
Any other questions?
One side, we have the same issue.
there's some properties that's owned 81, the New Hope Road that's going to be
converted back to RA for the land use map. Why is that? How come it don't stay
in the commercial area? What? If I heard you correctly you're asking along
I-A-D-1 and the district one. Yes, it's west of New Hope. It's a stretch of
property on this, if you may, back to R.A. Okay. It's playing that to me, especially on that
V.Z. Highway, please. Sure. Along highway 81, as you go east from Mexico, this is used
as City of McDonald as the center point. As you go east on 81, the trend is you go from
commercial to less intense, some of it's still residential to a lesser lower density
residential to more rural. So there's a point along 81 where the current
feature lanes map adopted 10 years ago did have activity centers or nodes of
commercial where the intent was to develop just kind of a little strip center
where the the rural parts of the county had some type of commercial access. Well it
didn't develop that way and as far as the development goes and the trends in the
character the further east you're going to want the more rural it is and that's
That's just how things have trended and how things are today.
Now, in 10 years, who knows?
I don't predict the future, nor do I claim to predict the future.
It could trend to where we have a boom.
The highway to one is widened and the commercial businesses flourish all the way to Newton County.
But as of right now, we don't have the data to support maintaining the commercial nodes
that we once designated in that area currently.
right now it's rule and and that's what the data shows us and that's what we're
basing it on. Yeah well I'm looking at the map I'm looking at diagonal C1 C3 down
two lights down the C1. Are you looking at commercial or the
rezoning or commercial feature lanes? These are actually buildings in place that's
actually surrounding this property that's going back to RA. Oh understand
zoning and future land use are two are different so as a zone they can develop
as a zone right if they were looking to change the zoning from commercial to
something different then our recommendation will be based on what the future
land use shows and so that's based on the character of the area so as far as those
those nodes that you're referencing one thing I'll do tomorrow I'll get with
Jared to go to zoom in on that part of the map and see exactly what's going on
and to see if that needs to be updated with the future land use map based on the
current zoning, as a possibility that it could have been broad brushed accidentally, but
I'll check on that with respect to your question and trans and character.
If the character of that area is generally rural residential, then the majority of what
you will see is a rural future land use designation.
Thank you.
Any other comments by any commissioners?
I appreciate all y'all's hard work on this, but it appears that we've got some unanswered
questions out there that needs to be addressed.
and I would like to see us have a little more time
before we make this decision tonight.
Well, the thing is, we're governed
by the Department of Community Affairs.
Tonight is this transmittal to them for review.
Edits and additions and corrections can be made
through October, which is the deadline, October 31st.
So time is of the essence, and we don't violate
the law requirements for us to have this transmitted
to DSA for their review.
And these map items are relatively simple.
We can go in, look at it, and see if there's an individual parcel that was grouped with a neighboring parcel.
We can do that. That's a simple fix if it needs to be fixed.
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.
I just don't feel comfortable moving forward tonight.
I feel like it makes a motion that we approve the future land use map that has been presented before.
was I know for me, for my district,
people came out, I shared it on next order
to make sure the people could come out and have a say so.
I think that we're looking at 2040 and not 2020.
And I think that you guys have done a good job.
And just like Mr. Perkins said,
this is about the future of Henry County
and not yesterday of Henry County.
So I would like to make a motion too.
So we have a motion. Can I have a second?
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.
So tonight year you're approving it to be transmitted to DCA for their review.
So we have a second so we'll open it up for comment.
And I would like to say to the commission there was a parcel and I'll just share this
with you on Jonesboro Road in District 2 that was multi-family or it was a mixed use and
the people said they did not want that in the area and it was real simple to have a community
to talk about it and get that change so I would just like to say I have watched the
community be able to say what they didn't want and the changes be made but
you got to get your people out or the commissioners need to speak up before
tonight because I mean this has been out for a long time and so that's why I'm
able to say that I'm pleased with what happened in my district because I was
involved and I made sure that the people came out and spoke so you can I know
that it can be changed if you have some issues with it but I do know that there's
a deadline of October 31st. 31st. Yeah.
Yes, if we find that there's a valid reason, yes, okay, you know, we're about to call for a vote. I think
or a vote on crime property.
Commissioner.
And it doesn't allow the God to raise your name.
It doesn't affect him.
The citizens in this house.
Yeah.
But Dante.
I mean, the real state raises.
I've got a little bit of a grip on the person.
That's the point that goes on in the most I've business.
As there's something out there that's not being
that's not having any effect on what's going to be for an
Indian citizens.
Why are you in such a rush to abolish?
Call it and say.
Dante said that this can be amended.
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.
But we're going to move forward with this vote.
And I don't disagree with you, but we have to send this up to the ARC.
But it affects me and I would respectfully request that you set aside my property from this until it is further respected and done.
Yeah, I would.
What I would do, I would set up a meeting which a commissioner directly after this meeting is over with.
So, Commissioner Graham?
Yes, since we can amend this by October 31st and what happens if we can't come to the
amendments that we want to come to in about 31st, what happens?
We think we'll be in violation of the law requirements by the Department of Community Affairs
to have this adopted issue.
And then what happens?
We could possibly lose our local qualified government status.
We'll call
about a little government status.
If we have grants that are funded through the state, we could certainly jeopardize receiving
funding for those grants as well.
Commissioner.
We've been in the public here and this year we'll use the amendments will happen between
now and then in discussions with the Board of Commissioners, myself kind of management and
the Atlanta Regional Commission.
Okay.
Any other questions?
Commissioner Prince.
I'm going to support this because we need to get this done.
It has to go through, but I hear you, Mr. Strickland, and we can make some revisions and
we'll make sure we look at this.
And if anybody else has any questions like this, we can make revisions as we go.
But this has to get pushed through.
I understand the importance of this, and if we don't push this through, it's going to affect
this county.
Bad.
Anything goes through with the property where it is.
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
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
Commission of support to change that zone
Any other comments
Okay, we have a motion and we have a second
So I'm going to ask for all in favor
Motion passes
Next in the agenda is another public hearing resolution to transmit the annual update of the
2018 capital improvement element to the ARC and DCA of Stacey Jordan and presenting.
Good evening chair, commissioners, the item before you, tonight is the transmittal of this annual
capital improvement element update, this is for the period between July 1st of 2016 and June 30th of 2017.
And so this is a report that was put together by the finance department as well as the Henry County Water Authority.
And this is something that is required by DCA. They reserved to themselves two months to review it.
but it has to be approved and adopted by October 31st of this year and I'd be
pleased to answer any questions. This is a public hearing so we'll ask anybody
who wish to speak in favor or against a approach to microphone and you have
three minutes.
Anyone wish to speak against or for? You have three minutes.
Yes, so this is the capital improvement element of our comprehensive plan and it has
to do primarily with impact fees and how they are collected and spent.
So the report includes the figures on the interest that has been accrued and so forth.
and so this is a report that's due to the state every year and the hearing
tonight is to transmit it to the Atlanta Regional Commission for the
Department of Community Affairs review. So one more time this is a public
hearing anybody who wishes to speak for or against this item please approach the
podium
okay no one wishes to speak on it so that will complete the public
the hearing? Any commissioners have any questions? So I'm going to ask for a motion, new to
approve. Do we have a second? Second. Any comments?
All in favor? Motion carries.
Next on the agenda is a leisure in public services. It's a resolution to declare three house structures
on county property as surplus, right, Greg? Good evening.
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
Georgia 30281 tax ID 045-0102 1000.
These structures were houses located on the property when Henry County purchased the land.
The structures are in disrepair and no longer serviceable and are of no productive value to the county.
The request is to designate these as surplus properties so that the fire department can burn them for training purposes.
We have a motion, we don't need anybody like to move since the chair is not voting.
Move to approve.
All right.
You have a second?
Second.
Any comments?
Mr. P.S.
I appreciate you bringing this, this has been an ongoing thing with this surplus properties,
but at this time, Mr. MacKuse, will you share with us how are we going to move forward to
how are we going to get rid of some of this other surplus property?
Yes, or as we discussed this morning during our workshop meeting,
regarding capital projects, more specifically some financial options
or other additional revenue streams, what we're doing is we have asked our chief
appraisers to prepare a booklet of all county-owned parcels of land.
We've had it for some time now and what we're in the process of doing is
looking at those parcels and determining if we have any current or feature use for the properties
And what we'll start doing is bringing resolutions to the board if we determine that we have no need for those properties
And then going through the process in terms of declaring it surplus similar to what mr. Gray is doing this evening
It's a great move
One
second please man, all right the the syrup the one
one at 851 Spragons Memorial is 1.2 acres.
Fire department.
Yes.
We'll retain the land.
A lot of it.
It's at our park in a senior center.
It's just unsafe.
I'm just trying to see the correlation of what we were doing here with.
Commissioner Baum was talking about.
We're not making it.
We're just getting rid of this surplus.
It's not safe.
And it's terrible looking.
All right, any other comments? All in favor?
Thank you.
Motion carries.
All right.
Next one, the agenda is public comment.
And I'm just going to ask that there are no personal attacks on anybody on the Board of
Commissioners or our staff.
Please direct all comments to the chair.
and please ensure that all comments are related to county business only.
Who do we have Stephanie?
We have three speakers tonight.
Bill Tony, Larry Mori, and Carl Swenson.
We have five minutes.
All right.
Do you have three minutes on here?
Three minutes.
What happened to five?
How do you...
Oh, I got it.
All right.
I'm on now.
I've got to get my rhythm.
I have to get my rhythm.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Again, I want to bring this up.
I've been bringing it up at meetings.
I'd like for the county and the commissioners to really get behind these people trying to work with this child trafficking stuff.
These ladies in this business, I mean, they're trying to stop it.
They're doing a lot of good work and they already need to be on board with them.
I
brought this to y'all's attention about two months ago about I feel like my pool and
the water coming out of the spiket looked like that.
I don't think anybody here would drink that water.
I don't think anybody here would probably jump in that pool or anybody out there.
Now I brought it to y'all's attention that's strictly out of my garden hose and that was
that green right out of the hose.
Now, we're paying a guy to run that water authority
over $300,000 a year.
I brought this up to y'all.
I haven't got a phone call.
I don't know of anything that got done about it.
If any one of y'all have talked to a Lindy farmer or anything like that, I'd like to hold up
your hand or something like that because I think it just fell on their fears.
you know you don't care or I don't know I don't get it we're paying y'all
you're not there as volunteers we're paying you to do this if nothing else
give the man a phone call and tend to get get with the program or either get
rid of him he's not evidently not doing his job we put out a lot of money over
there with
the two meals and y'all need to repeal that two meals going to them
Over $13 million a year goes to the water authority that's straight out of our tax.
Evidently, we're overpaying the guy over there because he is definitely not doing a good job.
Alright, last but not least,
that right there.
Ethics and government has been getting threats.
And they're telling us, they're demanding that we don't come to meetings. We don't do anything
on social media. We're supposed to just go away. Well, I'll tell you what, ethics in government,
they're not cowards. We don't run. All that did was tick us off. I'll tell you that right
now. We're not going away. We're going to be right here until this county is done the right
way. Now, I don't know, I don't know yet who did it, but I did find out that you can
pull fingerprints off a paper better than you can glass. Quite concerning. We've already
involved the FBI and the Postal inspectors. So for anybody that is childish like this to
start sinning things like this and by the way the no quarters as a sign of war but we don't run
we bleed red red white and blue we're going to be here we're not running from anybody and
if
anybody's got a problem with me everyone else got my phone number all you got to do is call me
we can get it straight now but I'm not going to run and none of us are going to run
You can carry that to the bank.
Now, I don't know if there's a lot of people I'm sure that'll do most of anything to get
re-elected.
Well, they'd think about it.
The FBI is serious.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Tony.
Stephanie,
please take from the area address.
I, too, got one of them crazy letters.
So the three things that accused me of, I put them right back on Facebook, it proved.
my self from being above that. But to be threatened in America, to be threatened in my home
county,
to be threatened in my wife and children,
you got to be blatantly stupid because
if
you try to harm my family,
God help mercy on your soul because I ain't running and I'm not
not scared. So, bring it on. I've already cleared my name. So, bring on your ignorance
and stupidity, and let's deal with it. Don't hide behind a paper, come to my face, and
we will deal with it. I would like to bring up a couple things that really concerns me.
I saw a wreck in front of the Dunkin' Donut on 155 a few weeks ago.
Two women, one woman just literally bumped another woman.
There was no major damage done to the vehicles.
But here comes seven police ambulance, fire trucks.
So the other day I was out 81 to the roundabout just for you going to Newton County.
And a couple of guys riding motorcycle, they were laughing and joking and talking and
what around about and what I'm just running through all the little signs they're around
about.
It kind of knocked them through them every which way and pitched them off in motorcycle and
here comes six more out there.
Gentlemen, I don't know about y'all, but do you imagine what it cost to run one of those
fire trucks down the highway?
if you took the average accident and all those multiple vehicles going out
there to a fender bender
there's no telling what it's costing you will never
raise the taxes high enough to pay for all of that because in a few years those
fire trucks and and all that other is going to be wild running up and down the road
to these fender benders surely you all need to get a handle on that and I know you
don't get boats if you if you offend the first responders but now there can
there is some stupidity in this multiple units go into a vendor vendor when
you put six and eight nine vehicles out there that gets borderline ignorance
and you tell them I said that
also nine one one I hope Sherry checked it out
the other day you can call nine one one the first they want to know it's worth
Like what's your phone number?
Well, your phone number, edit, is in front of you.
And then the other day I called about a semi-truck being over the crest of the hill on 81,
and you know what?
The first thing she asked me after the telephone was, what's the name of the side road?
I was just amazed.
That would have been the last question I asked her.
If I'm kind of like Donald Trump, that would have been the first thing I'd try to fire her.
That's just how bad it is.
I got a minute and 12 seconds. I want to end up with this.
I want to go back
to that thing we talked about a while ago.
When I look, when I developed something,
I look at cost. What's it going to cost me? Somebody should have been looking at
these schools as you put all over the county and didn't build a highway to them,
didn't build an infrastructure to them. When you build them, you had to go do all that.
That's the reason I looked at the amphitheater, putting it in the center of the
county in the center of the cities where you could get in and out to it after a
venue where you could go to a restaurant down the street and bring more
revenue to the county. I looked at all those things and determined that'd be
the best place for a venue but the bad problem was that was to bring it to the
county and nobody ever calls me back. Now I'm developing a 3,000 acre project and I
I want an awards on projects that I've done, but to not even be called back is just absolute ignorance.
Thanks, Mr. Moore.
And I know.
Seventy.
Mr. Swenson is our last one.
Mr. Swenson, please state your name and address.
Carl Swenson, I'm in Stockridge.
What's the address thing for?
Just in case.
It's 43-7 road.
To start off, Mr. Smith, I'd like to make you aware of something that's going on in your jurisdiction.
And that is the properties that are at the almost to the intersection of Thurman Road and Fairview.
They are adjacent to the school that's right there, okay.
There's some buildings that are going to be, I think, torn down.
They are in a half-state of being torn down right now, but they have been determined to be
laden with S-bestus, which requires a very special treatment.
They're doing this almost like in the dead of night.
I don't know what's going on there.
All I know is I see that it's in a state of deconstruction right now that has all that stuff disturbed.
And that's the whole point of keeping it safe.
You might want to look at that, please.
The other thing is we are dealing with a serious problem here.
I don't think I saw any of you at my at my at the town hall meeting we had concerning
human trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia and all that stuff.
But you showed up because you might have learned something at that time.
This is a problem that's not going away.
I see a lot of people putting their heads in the sand.
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.
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.
On the pedophile issue, on the trafficking issue, as you noticed in the news today, we had 250 year old girls that were mentioned.
one was being trapped. Well, both of them were actually being trafficked, because one was by a police officer, and that was really frightening.
The GBI definitely needs to get involved in this, and the denial that any such
shenanigans are going on in this neck of the woods is a little
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.
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.
It's important, we need to get a grip on this.
Thank you.
thank you Mr. Swanson. It's definitely any of the comments. That's all okay so
that includes public comment. Next is the approval of the minutes for July 17th
2018. A regular board meeting July 24th. Public hearing regarding the
Millage July 24th. Public hearing regarding the Millage and the Community
Black Grant, July 26th, public joint meeting with the Board of Commissioners, HCDA and
the ZAB, and July 31st, Public Hearing and Adoption of the Millage.
With that said, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve.
Do we have a second?
Second.
Any comments regarding the minutes?
All in favor?
Motion carried.
Okay. Any comments from commissioners,
commissioners?
I have a quick question for County Manager. I've got the pay classification. Looks good. I'm actually quite impressed.
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?
There the stormwater department although it is an enterprise fund should have been included I'll let me check and
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
And I'm not sure if that was handed out
During the meeting today, but let me verify and I will certainly provide that information
Yeah, I see engineer when the engineer's gonna be I'm sure
You know this engineer here in this engineer the bill in the department's gonna be the same pay
I just didn't see that.
And that's the good point.
That's one thing that we've asked the consultant to go back and revisit in terms of the classifications
for the engineers.
We have an engineer one, two, and three, so we have provided some additional information
so it may have just been an omission, but they are a part of the study as well.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you.
Commissioner Clemens?
I had an email that came in from a citizen that wanted me to make sure that I thanked
the DOT department and more specifically he called them
Johnny and the crew for some work that they did on McCurry Road and he just
wanted me to state that they always do a really good job they're always nice
and friendly and that he thinks that that's one of the departments that go
least notice so I'm thankful to have that email to come in and if you all would
definitely let them know that I mentioned them tonight and that they got a
grave review from a citizen. Absolutely thank you commissioner.
I thought it was a great workshop this morning and the comp plan is long overdue and I'm
really excited about that.
The only other thing that I'm going to say and this could kind of be viewed political
so I want to be real careful what I say but as far as this loud on this heat group I have
had nothing to do with that and my family hadn't had anything to do with that.
I know anybody in my campaign, and I'm not going to say anything for all about it, thank you.
Any other commissioning comments,
all right?
Will I open it up for the county manager?
If you can, can you talk about the classification study, the meeting you had this morning?
Yes, sir.
What if you don't mind?
I do believe our HR directors here.
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.
Good evening commissioners.
I apologize, I don't have any material with me because I didn't realize I was going
to have to speak, but I can certainly give you a summary of our meeting this morning.
The Archer Company has over the last several months completed or conducted, I should say,
our class and comp study, and what we were presented with this morning is a summary of the findings
and recommendations from the Archer Company.
And what you should have received was a folder that had a classification list
of the job classifications.
We started with 518, excuse me, job titles.
Excuse me.
And the Archer Company at our request has reduced that number down to
in the material that you have to about 330.
In 30, we have asked him to make some further reductions so that we can eliminate all the duplications
of titles.
You also received a structure of our classifications.
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
just to do our market comparison, and I believe there were seven cities that were also
in that information as well.
So that's been provided for our market analysis, and we will be coming back before the board
in September with a recommendation for the board to adopt what was presented, and if you have
any further questions, if you could send those to me, I'll make sure that I can get the direct
information from the consultant prior to coming back before you in September.
Thank you.
Any other comments from staff?
One other comment and it's not a comment from the county manager.
I actually want to defer to the county attorney to update the commissioners on the pending litigation for the city of Eagles landing.
So you're all aware of the lawsuit that was filed a month or so ago that actually named you as defendants.
The Superior Court rule in that case has gone up to the Supreme Court for appeal.
It's that process is pending to either yesterday or today, and I'm sorry, I don't know the exact date.
There were two new lawsuits filed on federal court challenging the new,
the acts creating the city of Eagles landing on two different grounds.
One was actually filed by the capital one is the bank that holds the city's bonds.
the other was filed by a couple of residents in the area to be in the area that's
potentially leaving Stockbridge and going to England. None of those lawsuits
named the county as a defendant nor you. They both name your elections
director and one of them names the Board of Elections which is while the
complaints seem to allege wrong doing on their part they really don't the
But the Board of Elections' only role is to conduct an election if required to do so by law.
And today the law requires them to do so.
So I just wanted to let you know of those lawsuits.
There's no reason to do it in executive session because you're not a defendant.
And I'll be meeting with both the Board of Elections and Ms. Lunsford over the next couple
of weeks to decide what course of action if any will take, but I just wanted you to be aware
of it.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Any other comments?
Okay, great.
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.
Is our regular board meeting and September 18th at 6.30 p.m. is our regular board meeting. Any other business executive session?
Okay, so with that I'm going to ask for a motion to adjourn.
So move. We have a second. Same. All in favor?
Adjourn.