[0:02] Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the
Town Council meeting for uh
[0:07] second meeting of the month of August
2026.
[0:12] Glad to have everybody. We'll call our
meeting to order.
[0:15] And I'll ask our council to stand up for
the opening prayer, please.
[0:21] » Let's pray.
Most gracious heavenly Father, we just
[0:23] thank you for uh
just what an opportunity we have to come
[0:27] here today
and consider the business of this town.
[0:30] Father, I pray for
the words that we choose this morning
[0:35] and the
decisions that we make.
[0:39] Father, I pray for this group of people
in this building this morning. Thank
[0:43] you, Father, for the dedication and time
they put in and
[0:47] Father, we just uh we give you the honor
and the glory and we just pray for your
[0:51] guidance and direction in the days to
come.
[0:53] We ask all these things in your name.
[0:56] » Join us for the Pledge of Allegiance,
please.
[1:00] I pledge allegiance
>> to the flag
[1:03] of the United States of America.
And to the republic for which it stands,
[1:08] one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[1:12] justice for all.
[1:18] » I'll note that uh
Ms. Lisa, our clerk, is uh
[1:23] out this week and uh our assistant clerk
is with us. Sherry's doing a great job
[1:29] this week. And thank you, Sherry. If
you'll note, everybody's here, so we
[1:33] have a
quorum and
[1:36] please check the roll for that.
So, then we'll move into our
[1:40] consideration of the minutes, August
10th, uh regular meeting August 14th and
[1:45] 21st work sessions. Those were
distributed to you, Council. What are
[1:50] your wishes?
[1:54] Motion approved by Council Robinson,
second by Councilman Furman.
[1:57] » Motion to be uh accepted as presented.
Any further discussion? Seeing none, all
[2:01] in favor please say "Aye".
>> Aye.
[2:03] » Suppose like sign, so ordered. Thank you
very much.
[2:06] Uh
now we're privileged to have Ms. Dena
[2:09] with us again to give us our monthly
financial report. Good morning, Dena.
[2:13] Thank you for your work.
[2:18] » Morning.
Did you
[2:22] Good morning, Mayor Stone council
members. I'll be presenting the July
[2:24] 2026 financial statements on behalf of
Carr Riggs Ingram.
[2:28] As of July 31st, the available cash in
the general fund is $20,495,000.
[2:35] This cash This cash balance represents
32 months of operating expenses as
[2:39] directed in the adopted budget for 2026.
After completing the quarterly funding
[2:44] transfers, the available cash has
decreased $515,000 more than last month
[2:49] and increased $833,000 more than last
year.
[2:53] The fund balance stands at $20,000, a
decrease of $294,000 over last year.
[3:00] Year-to-date revenues are $11,223,000,
an increase of $204,000 more than July
[3:06] of 2025.
Current year-to-date net income is
[3:10] $2,855,000.
When comparing to last year, it
[3:14] represents a decrease of $905,000.
If we're comparing apples to apples, the
[3:18] quarterly transfers are about $912,000.
So, we are pretty much breaking even
[3:24] from last year. It's not really down.
Um the town of Pike Road uh target ratio
[3:29] for year-to-date net income to
year-to-date revenues is a minimum of
[3:32] 10% and currently we are at 25%.
When comparing primary sources of
[3:37] revenue collections in July of 2026 to
July of 2025, ad valorem receipts are up
[3:43] 4%, sales and use receipts are up 12%,
business contractor licenses are down
[3:48] 11%, building permit fees are up 9%,
Franchise fees are up 24%. Overall
[3:54] revenues collected in July of 2026 are
up over 2% from last year.
[4:00] Uh this concludes the financial
statement presentation. Are there any
[4:02] questions?
>> Council?
[4:06] » I don't have any direct questions, but I
did get four questions from the public
[4:09] regarding the financials as they were um
posted. So, before you leave today, or
[4:14] maybe you and Sherry I can I just need
to get these details so y'all can get me
[4:17] back some information for me to take
back.
[4:19] » Sure.
>> Just for clarity. I think I can answer
[4:21] them, but I need to make sure.
>> Sure.
[4:24] So, we post those those audit reports
every year. Um
[4:30] So, that's what was posted. All right.
Um
[4:33] any other
questions from finance? Is there a
[4:37] motion to approve?
>> Motion to approve.
[4:41] » Motion by Councilwoman Whatley to
approve the uh financials as presented,
[4:45] second by Councilman Robinson. Any
further discussion? Seeing none, all in
[4:48] favor please say aye.
>> Aye.
[4:50] » Those like sign. So ordered. Thank you
very much. Good job, Dana, as always.
[4:55] Uh next item that concludes our um
[5:01] reports uh
our main reports. Um the next item would
[5:05] be our old business.
Uh we do have one carryover ordinance,
[5:10] which is a second reading. It is a
property fill-in right there all uh
[5:15] connecting
current um pieces in on Timberlane Road.
[5:21] » This is
501 Timberlane Road.
[5:24] It was granted annexation
uh 6.2 acres. And this is the
[5:29] And it is uh filling gaps on Timberlane
Road.
[5:33] » Yep. They were here last meeting if you
all recall.
[5:38] Council, have a preference?
>> I'll make a motion to approve.
[5:43] » Second.
>> Motion by Councilman Starnes, second by
[5:45] Councilwoman Whatley to approve the,
um, second reading
[5:50] of this ordinance for annexation for
uh, 501 Timberlane Road.
[5:56] Any discussion? Seeing none, all in
favor please say aye.
[5:59] Those like sign. So ordered. Thank you
very much. Good job.
[6:03] No other old business, we'll move to new
business. Uh, there is a resolution in
[6:08] your packet. Our
team has been working, uh, assertively
[6:13] to address all of the uh,
uh,
[6:19] issues, opportunities, uh, relative to
our fire, uh,
[6:24] service and fire protection in the town
of Pike Road. We'll thank them for their
[6:28] hard work. Our liaison, Councilman
Bradshaw has been working hard.
[6:32] Uh, our council, both Mr. Williams and,
um,
[6:37] Mr. Graves have done a good job, and I
understand we have this morning a
[6:40] resolution, Mr. Graves, you want to talk
to us about.
[6:47] » So, the resolution before you
is a,
[6:50] uh,
resolution to allocate funds out of the
[6:53] town's fire protection fund
[6:59] to
[7:07] There you go. Through the, uh,
Pike Road Volunteer Fire Protection
[7:12] uh, for the expansion of emergency
medical services, fire protection
[7:16] services.
Uh, the amount is currently $75,
[7:20] $307,000.
That comes out of the
[7:24] 10% held,
uh, by the town.
[7:28] Uh,
10% of revenue held by the town
[7:31] generated by the fire department.
[7:35] » So, this resolution allows us to meet
that request for additional funding to
[7:39] support their services. Uh,
I think it's pretty straightforward as
[7:43] to what it gives. Uh,
asking the council to do is you know the
[7:46] 10% reserve comes before the council for
disbursement uh
[7:51] decisions before we can share that with
the requestor.
[7:55] Any thoughts? Councilwoman Lady?
>> I'll just say thank you for your work on
[7:59] this. Um, as in council like as we
discussed on our work session, we'll
[8:03] continue to have um I'm having weekly
check-ins um with um
[8:08] the Pike Road fire chief as for my
operations perspective. And so I'm
[8:11] looking at those quality numbers on the
weekly now working with um directly with
[8:15] Clint regarding um you know as we get in
the weeds to um
[8:19] meet additional um
needs. I feel real confident that we're
[8:23] going to get where we're going quicker
than we expected in terms of more boots
[8:28] on the ground and things like that. So
we're monitoring all that. It's a work
[8:31] in progress. There is one thing I wanted
to clear up from the work session. It
[8:34] was the my verbage that I used
incorrectly when I mentioned that we
[8:37] were looking into outsource 911. That
was the wrong verbage. That's not what
[8:42] we're looking at. The 911's fine. It's
the dispatch piece of it that comes with
[8:46] it that we um just you know are looking
at another model not that the county um
[8:51] doesn't do a great job. It's just our
model being that we have more
[8:54] volunteers. We've got to come up with a
work with a model that is um more
[8:59] conducive to dispatch specifically for
our type of hybrid uh program which is
[9:04] volunteers and paid um to try to
decrease the workload on all of our
[9:09] volunteers all the time which in return
will get us a better use of our
[9:13] volunteers for boots on the ground. So I
just wanted to clarify the terminology.
[9:16] It's not the 911 system. It's the
dispatch system that we're looking to um
[9:21] um
you know looking for other options
[9:23] there. So not ready for a recommendation
on that yet, but I did want to clear
[9:27] that verbage up. Thank you.
>> Thank you, ma'am.
[9:31] Any other comments on the resolution?
Not, is there a motion?
[9:36] Motion by Councilwoman Bratcher second
by Harmon to move forward with the
[9:39] adoption of this resolution.
Any further discussions seen on, all in
[9:43] favor of please say aye. Those like
sign, so ordered. Thank you guys and
[9:47] just a reinforcement of the
Councilwoman's comments, we are excited
[9:50] about the opportunities to continue to
do our best to make sure that every
[9:55] citizen in Pike Road gets the coverage
that they deserve and that we are being
[9:59] good stewards of the resources and
that's the bottom line.
[10:03] Thank you for your work, everybody.
Um any other new business not on the
[10:08] agenda seen on, we'll move to other
business. I do know we have
[10:11] uh our clerk uh shared with you all a
memo with all with all of us a memo on
[10:15] Monday about the banking um
um
[10:20] decision to about where we bank our
our resources and uh
[10:25] I know Councilwoman Williams has
recommended that we ask you all to bless
[10:29] her recommendation. So, if unless you
have a problem with it, we'd love to
[10:34] have a
uh motion from Council just to um
[10:38] show support for the clerk and her
decision relative to that
[10:43] uh
choice.
[10:45] So.
>> Motion to support
[10:48] » Okay.
Motion by Councilwoman Watley, second by
[10:50] Councilwoman Steindorff to move forward
with uh our endorsement of our clerk and
[10:55] their team. Um Sherry and Lisa did
thorough job of looking over all the
[10:59] details and
Donna has reviewed that, Lance reviewed
[11:03] it, uh Mark's reviewed it, everybody
seems to be very content with their
[11:07] work. Thank you very much. Any further
discussion? Seen on, all in favor of uh
[11:11] let it be known by saying aye.
Those like sign, so ordered.
[11:15] Uh that's all I have. Any additional
comments, other business?
[11:20] All right, motion to adjourn by
Councillor Bratcher.
[11:24] Seconded by Councilwoman Robinson. Any
further discussion on adjournment? Seen
[11:26] on, all in favor of adjournment say aye.
Those like sign, we're adjourned. Public
[11:29] comment.
[11:32] Thank you very much. Have a great week,
everybody.