[0:00] that is anybody on the platform if you
speak into the the mic you'll notice
[0:05] that it's very
hot so no yelling tonight and uh stay
[0:12] away from your mic because it's and this
one I think
[0:16] [Music]
coms yeah we don't recognize the song
[0:21] There You Go and secondly tonight will
be our first night that we're actually
[0:25] going to video our um city council
meeting
[0:32] so I think it's wise to say if you are
here you are saying you're open to be
[0:38] videoed is that how oh but you're only
going to video us correct not the not
[0:43] the CR oh okay well then everybody on
the Des on The View being video there
[0:49] you go so I call this meeting to order
we are all here and let's stand together
[0:55] please and pledge to the
flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the
[1:03] United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
[1:09] under God indivisible with liy and
justice for all thank you you may be
[1:16] seated do I have a motion to approve
tonight's agenda move second it's moved
[1:24] by council member palla and second by
council member batterton all in favor
[1:30] year aged for
to uh announcements are that
[1:36] every
third fourth Monday night of the month
[1:41] we have a town hall meeting third mon
third Monday night of the month we have
[1:46] a town hall meeting next one's February
19th 7 to about 8:15 it's in the Preston
[1:51] room immediately downt downstairs and
the agenda is yours so there is no pre
[1:59] uh script
scripted lecture or anything it's
[2:02] whatever we want to talk about to get
answers to communicate so that we know
[2:07] what you are thinking and you know what
we are thinking and I'd love for you to
[2:11] be there we had our first one in January
ccil no ma'am it's just we cannot have
[2:17] everybody show up or we have a called
meeting of some sort so it's just
[2:21] generally me and maybe one other council
member that just turns to show council
[2:27] member FM
there we go approval of the minutes from
[2:33] the January 8 council meeting do I have
a motion to approve so Mo second so I
[2:39] have by a motion in a second and uh by
Michael Hart and council member EML pu
[2:50] all in
favor passes forward is zero there's no
[2:54] public hearing tonight so we can start
our agenda and we have two items on the
[3:00] agenda tonight and the first one has to
do with an
[3:05] ordinance and this one has to do with
the swearing in of new council members
[3:13] or the mayor and we just discovered this
this past election cycle and that is we
[3:19] had assumed that all new council members
or the mayor would take office
[3:25] effectively January 1st of the new year
in which they were just elected in
[3:30] November but we found that not to be
true we found that the old Council mayor
[3:36] and Council still is
in office until we swear in to a council
[3:44] meeting like tonight so we just want to
amend the
[3:47] text that would be ordinance number
2024
[3:55] 622 and that is that we would say
beginning January 1 we would have
[4:00] swearing in for those who would want to
be sworn in and
[4:05] ceremonially we could come and swear in
in front of friends and family and the
[4:10] people of the city but we have that we
can elect to do it either way oh no
[4:15] excuse me we're saying are we saying
this will
[4:19] then on it's just an option oh it is an
option for okay so we might have a legal
[4:28] swearing in private in an office
somewhere in Buford and come back here
[4:33] and swear in publicly in in front of all
so that is the motion tonight do we have
[4:39] an approval do we have a a motion to
[4:44] approve second we have a motion by
council member batterton and a second by
[4:49] council member poala um how about
discussion anybody want to address this
[4:56] and any other question
comments mayor I have one comment and
[5:02] that is state law requires this to be
adopted as an ordinance oh that's
[5:08] correct we have to do this twice state
law requires a Char a charter Amendment
[5:14] we have to do this is like amending the
Constitution of the United States or
[5:18] amending the Constitution of the state
and so we are under the state guidelines
[5:23] and so we have to do this with two
public here at meetings like this so we
[5:28] will get a first pass tonight in
February and in March we should be
[5:33] compliant with state regulations and we
could then do it for our next election
[5:38] cycle so all in favor of this amendment
change and that would be 40 thank you
[5:45] very much the following and the
concluding agenda item is the approval
[5:51] of ordinance number 2023 so that was
from last year 6- 619 this is going to
[5:57] amend the Lilburn city code with our
alcoholic beverages and our
[6:02] licensing um city manager would you like
to speak to this
[6:09] particular text change so we can know
exactly what we're voting for I'm scared
[6:15] to use the
microphone yes sir this is a a simple
[6:19] Amendment to the alcohol ordinance that
will make sure that the language of
[6:24] alcohol ordinance and business license
all match so we are allowing a new
[6:29] business use of new type and that is a
wine shop that has not exist
[6:35] previously there is a wine shop that has
made an
[6:39] application is this the downtown
downtown at lurn wine shop we are giving
[6:46] now an ordinance amendment to say that
what they will be doing in that place
[6:53] fits the rest of the ordinance in our
community and what is the change
[6:57] specifically that is required here we
didn't have a defined a definition for
[7:03] wine shop so it's not a use that was
permitted because never had a wi correct
[7:09] because it was not it was silent in city
code so this allows for the use that's
[7:14] being
requested and that is they can sell wine
[7:18] and other products of cheeses and that
sort of thing and we've never had that
[7:25] before I'm going I'm going to ask
Rebecca to speak to those details oh I'm
[7:30] sorry
I'm it's okay not a problem I'm sorry
[7:35] Rebecca's over the licensing of all this
and I pivoted to sitting I'm so sorry so
[7:42] we adding it in six areas of alcohol it
was previously added into our table of
[7:47] uses and chapter 14 for business so the
purpose of tonight is to add it to eight
[7:52] specific areas in alcohol code and the
definition in section 6-59 says wine
[7:59] shop means a licensed location at which
a licy may sell wine by the drink for
[8:04] consumption on site and also by the
package but which earns a minimum of 70%
[8:10] of its annual gross revenue from package
sales of wine unless the wine shop isn't
[8:15] accessories to
restaurant so it can be a wine
[8:21] tasting organization as
[8:26] well not just FYI the way we know about
amending texts is when we have
[8:34] applications and we have a sense of
H and we don't want to do it wrong
[8:40] consistently and so Rebecca rides heard
over that entire department she brought
[8:46] to our attention that this needs to be
amended so that this organization this
[8:50] new business can flourish in our city
and nobody's out of compliance so thank
[8:56] you for noting that for us so we have we
have a motion and a
[9:02] second no we didn't I didn't call for a
motion yet we had is there a motion to
[9:07] approve
2023
[9:12] 619 motion to approve so moveed we have
a motion by council member Bella and a
[9:19] second by council member batterton is
there any further
[9:25] discussion hearing none all in favor
this count this passes four to
[9:36] zero thank you for coming
tonight this is a very short meeting I
[9:42] can stretch it out on the on the town
hall meeting we can make that one much
[9:49] longer and much more exciting is there a
motion to
[9:53] adjourn second have motion and second to
adjourn this meeting is now adjourned
[9:59] thank you very much God bless
[10:03] you