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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the
Town Council meeting for uh

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second meeting of the month of August
2026.

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Glad to have everybody. We'll call our
meeting to order.

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And I'll ask our council to stand up for
the opening prayer, please.

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» Let's pray.
Most gracious heavenly Father, we just

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thank you for uh
just what an opportunity we have to come

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here today
and consider the business of this town.

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Father, I pray for
the words that we choose this morning

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and the
decisions that we make.

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Father, I pray for this group of people
in this building this morning. Thank

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you, Father, for the dedication and time
they put in and

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Father, we just uh we give you the honor
and the glory and we just pray for your

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guidance and direction in the days to
come.

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We ask all these things in your name.

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» Join us for the Pledge of Allegiance,
please.

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I pledge allegiance
>> to the flag

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of the United States of America.
And to the republic for which it stands,

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one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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» I'll note that uh
Ms. Lisa, our clerk, is uh

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out this week and uh our assistant clerk
is with us. Sherry's doing a great job

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this week. And thank you, Sherry. If
you'll note, everybody's here, so we

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have a
quorum and

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please check the roll for that.
So, then we'll move into our

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consideration of the minutes, August
10th, uh regular meeting August 14th and

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21st work sessions. Those were
distributed to you, Council. What are

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your wishes?

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Motion approved by Council Robinson,
second by Councilman Furman.

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» Motion to be uh accepted as presented.
Any further discussion? Seeing none, all

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in favor please say "Aye".
>> Aye.

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» Suppose like sign, so ordered. Thank you
very much.

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Uh
now we're privileged to have Ms. Dena

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with us again to give us our monthly
financial report. Good morning, Dena.

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Thank you for your work.

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» Morning.
Did you

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Good morning, Mayor Stone council
members. I'll be presenting the July

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2026 financial statements on behalf of
Carr Riggs Ingram.

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As of July 31st, the available cash in
the general fund is $20,495,000.

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This cash This cash balance represents
32 months of operating expenses as

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directed in the adopted budget for 2026.
After completing the quarterly funding

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transfers, the available cash has
decreased $515,000 more than last month

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and increased $833,000 more than last
year.

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The fund balance stands at $20,000, a
decrease of $294,000 over last year.

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Year-to-date revenues are $11,223,000,
an increase of $204,000 more than July

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of 2025.
Current year-to-date net income is

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$2,855,000.
When comparing to last year, it

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represents a decrease of $905,000.
If we're comparing apples to apples, the

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quarterly transfers are about $912,000.
So, we are pretty much breaking even

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from last year. It's not really down.
Um the town of Pike Road uh target ratio

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for year-to-date net income to
year-to-date revenues is a minimum of

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10% and currently we are at 25%.
When comparing primary sources of

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revenue collections in July of 2026 to
July of 2025, ad valorem receipts are up

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4%, sales and use receipts are up 12%,
business contractor licenses are down

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11%, building permit fees are up 9%,
Franchise fees are up 24%. Overall

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revenues collected in July of 2026 are
up over 2% from last year.

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Uh this concludes the financial
statement presentation. Are there any

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questions?
>> Council?

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» I don't have any direct questions, but I
did get four questions from the public

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regarding the financials as they were um
posted. So, before you leave today, or

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maybe you and Sherry I can I just need
to get these details so y'all can get me

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back some information for me to take
back.

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» Sure.
>> Just for clarity. I think I can answer

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them, but I need to make sure.
>> Sure.

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So, we post those those audit reports
every year. Um

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So, that's what was posted. All right.
Um

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any other
questions from finance? Is there a

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motion to approve?
>> Motion to approve.

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» Motion by Councilwoman Whatley to
approve the uh financials as presented,

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second by Councilman Robinson. Any
further discussion? Seeing none, all in

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favor please say aye.
>> Aye.

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» Those like sign. So ordered. Thank you
very much. Good job, Dana, as always.

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Uh next item that concludes our um

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reports uh
our main reports. Um the next item would

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be our old business.
Uh we do have one carryover ordinance,

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which is a second reading. It is a
property fill-in right there all uh

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connecting
current um pieces in on Timberlane Road.

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» This is
501 Timberlane Road.

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It was granted annexation
uh 6.2 acres. And this is the

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And it is uh filling gaps on Timberlane
Road.

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» Yep. They were here last meeting if you
all recall.

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Council, have a preference?
>> I'll make a motion to approve.

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» Second.
>> Motion by Councilman Starnes, second by

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Councilwoman Whatley to approve the,
um, second reading

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of this ordinance for annexation for
uh, 501 Timberlane Road.

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Any discussion? Seeing none, all in
favor please say aye.

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Those like sign. So ordered. Thank you
very much. Good job.

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No other old business, we'll move to new
business. Uh, there is a resolution in

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your packet. Our
team has been working, uh, assertively

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to address all of the uh,
uh,

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issues, opportunities, uh, relative to
our fire, uh,

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service and fire protection in the town
of Pike Road. We'll thank them for their

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hard work. Our liaison, Councilman
Bradshaw has been working hard.

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Uh, our council, both Mr. Williams and,
um,

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Mr. Graves have done a good job, and I
understand we have this morning a

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resolution, Mr. Graves, you want to talk
to us about.

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» So, the resolution before you
is a,

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uh,
resolution to allocate funds out of the

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town's fire protection fund

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to

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There you go. Through the, uh,
Pike Road Volunteer Fire Protection

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uh, for the expansion of emergency
medical services, fire protection

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services.
Uh, the amount is currently $75,

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$307,000.
That comes out of the

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10% held,
uh, by the town.

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Uh,
10% of revenue held by the town

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generated by the fire department.

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» So, this resolution allows us to meet
that request for additional funding to

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support their services. Uh,
I think it's pretty straightforward as

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to what it gives. Uh,
asking the council to do is you know the

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10% reserve comes before the council for
disbursement uh

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decisions before we can share that with
the requestor.

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Any thoughts? Councilwoman Lady?
>> I'll just say thank you for your work on

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this. Um, as in council like as we
discussed on our work session, we'll

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continue to have um I'm having weekly
check-ins um with um

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the Pike Road fire chief as for my
operations perspective. And so I'm

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looking at those quality numbers on the
weekly now working with um directly with

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Clint regarding um you know as we get in
the weeds to um

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meet additional um
needs. I feel real confident that we're

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going to get where we're going quicker
than we expected in terms of more boots

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on the ground and things like that. So
we're monitoring all that. It's a work

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in progress. There is one thing I wanted
to clear up from the work session. It

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was the my verbage that I used
incorrectly when I mentioned that we

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were looking into outsource 911. That
was the wrong verbage. That's not what

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we're looking at. The 911's fine. It's
the dispatch piece of it that comes with

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it that we um just you know are looking
at another model not that the county um

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doesn't do a great job. It's just our
model being that we have more

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volunteers. We've got to come up with a
work with a model that is um more

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conducive to dispatch specifically for
our type of hybrid uh program which is

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volunteers and paid um to try to
decrease the workload on all of our

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volunteers all the time which in return
will get us a better use of our

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volunteers for boots on the ground. So I
just wanted to clarify the terminology.

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It's not the 911 system. It's the
dispatch system that we're looking to um

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um
you know looking for other options

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there. So not ready for a recommendation
on that yet, but I did want to clear

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that verbage up. Thank you.
>> Thank you, ma'am.

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Any other comments on the resolution?
Not, is there a motion?

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Motion by Councilwoman Bratcher second
by Harmon to move forward with the

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adoption of this resolution.
Any further discussions seen on, all in

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favor of please say aye. Those like
sign, so ordered. Thank you guys and

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just a reinforcement of the
Councilwoman's comments, we are excited

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about the opportunities to continue to
do our best to make sure that every

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citizen in Pike Road gets the coverage
that they deserve and that we are being

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good stewards of the resources and
that's the bottom line.

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Thank you for your work, everybody.
Um any other new business not on the

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agenda seen on, we'll move to other
business. I do know we have

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uh our clerk uh shared with you all a
memo with all with all of us a memo on

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Monday about the banking um
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decision to about where we bank our
our resources and uh

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I know Councilwoman Williams has
recommended that we ask you all to bless

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her recommendation. So, if unless you
have a problem with it, we'd love to

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have a
uh motion from Council just to um

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show support for the clerk and her
decision relative to that

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uh
choice.

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So.
>> Motion to support

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» Okay.
Motion by Councilwoman Watley, second by

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Councilwoman Steindorff to move forward
with uh our endorsement of our clerk and

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their team. Um Sherry and Lisa did
thorough job of looking over all the

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details and
Donna has reviewed that, Lance reviewed

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it, uh Mark's reviewed it, everybody
seems to be very content with their

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work. Thank you very much. Any further
discussion? Seen on, all in favor of uh

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let it be known by saying aye.
Those like sign, so ordered.

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Uh that's all I have. Any additional
comments, other business?

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All right, motion to adjourn by
Councillor Bratcher.

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Seconded by Councilwoman Robinson. Any
further discussion on adjournment? Seen

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on, all in favor of adjournment say aye.
Those like sign, we're adjourned. Public

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comment.

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Thank you very much. Have a great week,
everybody.