Uh why don't we go ahead and get
started. Um for those of you that don't
know, the Braves just started playing at
7 o'clock playing the Dodgers. So we
need to move this along. So I'm Let's
get to the All right. All right. Uh
everyone is here. Uh if you'll all rise,
I lead you in the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. You may be seated.
>> Uh, one of the things that I really uh
enjoy about this job, it's the easy
stuff obviously uh not the voting and
the dealing with a lot of tough issues.
It's rip and cut. people are so proud
that starting a business or
proclamations like this one and
especially
when it's a very good cause and one that
I feel very strongly about. So why don't
you guys who's coming up? Is everybody
coming up? Come on.
>> Yeah.
>> And I will come down.
» Go ahead and line them up here. Here
we'll do it this way. Nice looking dogs.
» Don't hide your dogs.
>> Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Don't let me
get in anybody's way.
» All right, let's go ahead and get
started. A proclamation of the city of
Peach Tree Corners, Georgia, declaring
September to be National Service Dog
Month. Whereas we believe in the joyful
transformative power of the human canine
bond and inclusivity of all citizens.
Whereas in the United States 70 million
adults have a disability and only 16,000
service dogs from accredited training
programs exist nationwide and the need
is growing. Whereas K9 Companions
created the service dog for people with
physical disabilities 50 years ago in
1975 creating a new kind of support for
disability. Whereas K9 Companions is a
nonprofit organization that enhances the
lives of people with disabilities by
providing expertly trained service dogs
and ongoing support for to ensure
quality partnerships. Whereas K9
Companions and their service dogs
empower people with disabilities to lead
lives with greater independence by
providing best-in-class training,
ongoing follow-up services, and a deeply
committed community of support. Whereas
National Service Dog Month aims to
educate our community about the benefits
of service dogs and the laws protecting
their handlers. Whereas in recognition
of service dogs and the adults and
children with disabilities in our
community, inclusive community in which
all citizens and their trained service
dogs are embraced. Now therefore, be it
recognized that service dogs and the
adults and children with disabilities in
our community
do hereby proclaim September to be the
national service dog month and encourage
all the citizens to celebrate service
dogs and be respectful of the right to
safe access in our community afforded to
adults, children, and veterans who lead
more independent lives because of their
assistance. so proclaimed and effective
this 25th day of August 2026. Thank you
all very much.
» If if somebody would like to say a few
words.
>> I will talk first and then
» Thank you. I feel like we all of us need
to be looking both ways because I don't
want the council.
>> Why don't you introduce yourself and
introduce the dogs?
>> Okay. I am Margot Dietrich, my partner,
service dog Manhattan, who has served me
as not just my dog, but my son and my personal care attendant, my associate
therapy dog, I mean PT dog, he and my
business partner because you see how
dogs put people at ease.
That's what he does with my business
partners. But we also have
Edie with Puppy Nepal.
We have puppy razors who get our dogs at
8 weeks old. They're shipped from
California.
And we have these wonderful volunteers
who give their time, their home, their
heart, and their money to raise these
babies until they're about 15 to 18
months. And then they go to our
campuses. We have six across the country
where our professional trainers teach
them the skills that they will need to
help people with individual I mean
individuals with disabilities or we have
hearing dogs now. We have PTSD dogs. So
we have a veterans program.
It's awesome. children and adults. And
we have um our therapy dogs here,
two therapy dogs. When we try very hard,
we have our own breeding program, but
still only about 50% of the dogs
actually graduate as therapy dog, as
service dogs.
If they don't graduate, the puppy razors
can get them back, and most do. And
these ladies turned dogs they raised
into therapy dogs. It's a another
full education of what these dogs need
to do. But we have Maryanne with Falty
and Sharon.
I can't even see him with Jazz. Jazzy,
right?
>> Jazz Jazz.
>> We don't name them.
>> And and we have another therapy dog that
is a facility dog working at Shepherd
Center. Some of our therapy dogs
actually work in institutions,
courts, schools, hospitals, nursing
homes to help patients through all kinds
of things. So that's I I brought a a
whole group tonight because last time we
only had a puppy. I want to tell those
who saw and met Fabriio last year that
he just went to college.
Just started in August. And so his puppy
razors are
not here because it's hard to give your
dog up. God bless them. But we have
Sharon who is going to tell you some
really exciting news for our whole
community about Kenan Companions.
>> So, uh, the big announcement for the
greater Atlanta area is we have gotten a
field office. It will be in the North
Druid Hills area, Decar. It's off of
Briercliffe. We are hoping that the
office will be open early 2027.
It will function as a mini regional
center. Right now, our regional center
is Orlando, Florida. So, when we turn
our dogs in for uh professional
training, we have to travel to Orlando.
We are going to be able to utilize this
office um off of Brier Cliff. It's about
5,000 square feet and the buildout won't
be too much. Um, so we're hoping to get
that started pretty quickly and that is
huge news for us because it opens up a
lot of opportunities for volunteers. If
you don't want to raise a puppy, we will
need help there. We will need help
bathing dogs, walking dogs, um, just all
kinds of opportunities for volunteers to
become involved with K9 Companions. even
if you do not have a graduate dog, a
therapy dog, a new puppy, or a facility
dog. And these dogs all cover all areas
of K9 Companions, and we thank you so
much for the proclamation. Thank you.
» Put us where you want us, Louis.
» Okay.
Thank you so much.
One, two, three.
Australian
Labradoodle.
>> It's like a little white dog. He's about
this big.
>> About 30 pounds.
» Real good.
» Super friendly.
» There you go.
moving right along.
» All right. Thank you all for coming out.
Um, regarding the mayor's opening
remarks, the only thing I'll say is, uh,
we really had a very good event at the
Light Up the Corners race. For those
that participated in it, I encourage you
to do it next year. Do I hear a motion
to approve the minutes of July 28th?
>> So move.
>> Do I hear a second?
>> Second. Any questions or corrections?
Hearing none. All in favor, raise your
right hand. All right. Do I hear a
motion to approve the minutes of August
the 11th?
>> Motion.
>> Do I hear a second?
>> Second.
>> Questions or concerns? Hearing none. All
in favor, raise your right hand. All
right. Is our meeting agenda good, Mr.
City Manager?
>> Yes, Mr. Mayor. It is. And I do not
anticipate an executive session tonight.
>> All right. Thank you. Uh, we always
welcome public comments. Madam Clerk, do
we have any comments? Um, William
>> William,
>> come forward. Citizen, tell us your name
and address.
>> My name is William Monae. I live at 4373
Wickershire Way. Uh, I got a couple of
comments. The first one has to deal with
what's happening in our neighborhoods.
Uh, my neighborhood is the area that
includes Simpson School and Pikneyville
Middle School. So, it's East Jones
Bridge, West Jones Bridge, and Peachree
Corner Circle. Um, basically,
um, there's been some construction all
summer on East Jones Bridge Road. The
only thing I can see that's different,
and supposedly it's going to be finished
pretty soon, um, is that the sidewalk
from Wateride down to Jones Bridge Park
has been widened so golf carts can drive
down. But it's basically it's cut us
like I live off West Jones. My
neighborhood has only one entrance and
exit onto West Jones and we're cut off
and it's very difficult to get to um
Engles in that area.
Uh so it's brought a lot of traffic down
West Jones Bridge Road because all the
people who live past me have to go down
West Jones.
Um so it's that's a problem. Then uh
this last month we had the glow race at
night.
Um, basically Saturday night we were
stuck in the house because we couldn't
go out because goes from 8 to 10. The
problem with the glow race is that god
forbid if there's a fire or a heart
attack, it's very and with East Jones
being closed be very hard to get an
emergency vehicle down to our
neighborhoods on West Jones.
Um, now in the future, from what I
understand, Peachy Corner Circle in
front of the day building, they'll have
some sort of like a roundabout, if I'm
not mistaken. And it seems that's going
to take some construction, too. So,
we'll have another blockage. And again,
my area will have only one way to get
out, East Jones, or to go make a
right-hand turn and go towards the Cab
County on Peach Corner Circle. So, it's
just basically it's the traffic just
seems to be getting bigger and bigger
and more blockage and more construction
and it's getting more difficult to get
out of our area and more and more
traffic
and it just to me and also I don't know
it seems like I'm seeing a lot of
surveyors on Peach Corner Circle. So,
are we going to make Peach Corner Circle
Road and
you know uh three lanes or four lanes?
Is that the plan? I have no idea.
I mean, you guys know because I see a
lot of surveyors there.
And that's basically, you know, it just
seems to be more and more traffic and in
our area, which is a very quiet single
family homes area. But it seems that
with as we have more and more
apartments, we need more and more lanes,
more and more traffic,
which is not good.
And then I I want to make one other
comment that I spoke to uh uh the lady
there, can't see her name, um Ora about
the purchase
of the uh property uh in town center for
$3 and a4 million dollars. Uh I don't
know how we're going to pay for it
because it's a bankrupt business and
it's empty and I don't know what the
plan is on the deal. It was sort of
surprise a few months ago. So, I have an
excellent idea how to make money to pay
off that $ three and a quart million
dollar what, however we use the money,
loan, whatever, reserves. That's simple.
We just do like LA and New York.
We tax people have second homes in the
area and we tax empty apartments.
I think that's a terrific idea. New
York's doing it. LA's doing it. Hey, we
can be a big city, too. That's all I
have to say. Thank you.
Do we have others tonight that would
like to speak? You don't have to have
filled out a form. If you would like to
speak tonight, please come forward, tell
us your name and address. All right,
since there are no others, let's move on
to the consent agenda. M. City Manager,
I have just one item on the consent
agenda, and it is authorization for the
city manager to execute an agreement for
the digitization of um city records. So,
I submit that to you for your
consideration. Do we have questions for
the city manager?
>> All right. Do I hear a motion to
approve? Did you have something, sir?
>> No questions.
>> All right. Do I hear a motion to approve
the consent agenda?
>> So move.
>> Do you hear a second?
>> Second.
>> Questions or concerns? Hearing? None.
All in favor, raise your right hand. All
right. We have one first read tonight
and that's first read of request for a
special use permit to allow for a
recreational facility commercial outdoor
at 7067 Jimmy Carter Boulevard district
6 l 274 in Peach Tree Corners.
>> I do not have any updates tonight and so
that concludes the agenda.
>> Thank you Mr. Cure. All right. Do I hear
a motion to adjurnn?
>> So move.
>> Do I hear a second? Any questions or
concerns hearing? None. All in favor
raise your right hand. Drive careful.