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Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Please stand if you're enabled for the

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Pledge of Allegiance are remaining standing for the invocation.

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Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which

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it stands one nation under God in the digital liberty and justice for all.

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Councillor Rice? Would you join me in prayer, please? Heavenly Father, we come before you this

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evening with grateful hearts. We're grateful for the opportunity to serve this

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community. We acknowledge the seriousness of our responsibilities and we do

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seek your wisdom above our own. Lord, we pray that you would guide us in our

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conversation, discussion and decisions. Grant us discernment and insight and help

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us to lead for the good of all who call Canton home. As we face the uncertainty of

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challenging weather in the days ahead.

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We ask for your protection over our families, protection over those who serve our community

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first responders, our city staff, and all those in our community who may be vulnerable.

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We pray that you will calm anxious hearts, strengthen those preparing to serve and remind

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us that you are our refuge and our strength.

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We pray your blessing may our actions reflect the love of Christ this evening and how we treat one another and how we serve.

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We offer this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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To call the order, our January 22nd, 26th meeting of the mayor and council.

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Again, as always, with the consideration to prove tonight's agenda, are there any revisions, changes or motions?

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Mr. Mayor, we need to consider adding under new business a discussion and

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possible action to declare a state of emergency ahead of the winter storm.

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Okay.

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And that is item E.

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Anything else?

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Motion to approve the agenda is amended.

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Second.

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The motion is second.

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All in favor say aye.

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All members approve the motion.

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We will begin tonight.

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We have very special guests and visitors.

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We have a presentation from Cherokee County School District Superintendent, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Davis.

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She's going to give us an update on what's going on there.

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So welcome, Dr. Davis.

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And I mentioned to you earlier, I believe this is, I know the first time in my 12 year tenure position that we've had a superintendent come and meet with us.

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So we really appreciate your presence and being here tonight.

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Well, I love that and thank you so much for including me on your agenda mayor and members of the city council

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I really is an honor to be here

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Mostly because I just see so much

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Opportunity that we serve a community together and that schools are essential to the service you provide to our community and

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A relationship with your council is essential to how we approach

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serving families. And so really this is intended to just be an update let you know what's going on in our district, I'll pay some particular attention to the schools that have

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Canton affiliation and make myself available for any questions just in case there's something on your mind, except I'm not answering whether we have school on Monday or not.

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That question is off the table.

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So, as I get started, I really just want to recognize that as a school community and a

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district, we, over 40 schools and centers, nearly 42,000 students and employ nearly 6,000

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employees.

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And you see a quick breakdown of what the snapshot of our school community looks like.

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And we are governed by a Board of Education, seven individually elected officials who see

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on your screen. But what I think is really paramount for part of my report today is to talk

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about the governance work our board has engaged in. We've really embraced that a high performing

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school district starts with a high performing board of education and I've got a quick timeline

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of the body of work that this board of education has gone about developing in order to create clarity

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about what matters most in our classrooms and how we hold the adults employed by the school system

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accountable for the outcomes kids achieve.

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And really what you see along this timeline is that in August of 2024 they began by establishing

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core beliefs that have become the anchor of our organization, and through that they

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were actually able to establish goals in English language arts and in reading.

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They utilized that work to develop the superintendent's evaluation instrument, which is now available

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on our district's website.

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If you're curious of what I'm held accountable to, which I believe is really a transparent

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of saying what matters most in our organization,

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you can view that right on the district's website.

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They did that work all through the fall of 2024,

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and as we head into the spring,

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they began to work on math goals,

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really creating clarity about what achievement

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and success would look like.

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They, as they continued with that work

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for the first time ever in August,

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they were able to look at the progress

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of student achievement relative to the goals

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that they had set.

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and each one of our 40 schools had aligned goals

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to that real laser focus.

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And in summary, it's just built this incredible culture

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where we are committed to kids learning more,

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growing more and achieving more on our watch

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than they could anywhere else.

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And it's all because of our board like stabilizing

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and creating that laser on apologetic focus on learning.

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This is really a summary of everything they have developed

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and I'm not intending to dive into that.

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that's like a three hour like grad school session,

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but like it is a robust body of work

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that now anchors the organization

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and points our true north,

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which is really focused on learning.

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Our board has set us out to be

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the highest achieving district in the state of Georgia,

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and I'll talk in a minute a little bit

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about what our achievement looks like.

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Before I do, I want to jump into a little bit

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about our financial infrastructure,

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because what you see on this screen

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means starts to create the context not only for the outcomes we achieve, but the value

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in which we achieve those outcomes.

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Let me just take you the very first column is a series of districts in the region,

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Cherokee's identified as that top district and the others are in alpha order.

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And you can see just in that column immediately following the total service area, the total

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number of students served in that district.

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And you can see we're a big district but we're of course not the biggest on that list.

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You then see our per student investment, we're right there, a little over 13,000 per student.

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And you can see how that compares in the region, really kind of on the mid to mid-low

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end of that whole grouping.

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But the next thing you see, as what's called the CCRPI score, or the state accountability

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score, where the state has measured what outcomes have been achieved and what kind of quality

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is demonstrated in that school system.

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And you can see right there, our 87, well, it puts us third on this list,

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but it has actually put us eighth, highest achieving district in the entire state of Georgia.

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That's 180 districts that we have now moved to that eighth position.

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But you can also see that measurement kind of talks about the value of your education based on the investment that community is making.

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You can also see, if you move to the right, that the rank size of the central office in

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Cherokee County is now the sixth smallest central office out of 180 districts.

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And that's measured by the Department of Education and released annually to demonstrate

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how your infrastructure is invested in.

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And you can see some of our comparison districts have right there, Cobb at 92 and Fulton at 133.

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So, if we look tired, that's because we are the sixth, which is a great, small essential

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office.

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But let's just get carried forward and talk about the milledrate.

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Cherokee County Schools does currently have its historic low milledrate at 16.45.

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It's not the lowest on that list, so of course we've got four sites behind us and pickens

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behind us.

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But now let's carry your eye over to the value of a mill, because this is where you really

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see the investment story play out.

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The value of a million Cherokee is right at 17 million, but if you take your eye down

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to Cobb with their milled rate of 18.7 and the value of 1 mill is 43 million.

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You can really see there's a stark distinction between those two values, and carry your eye

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down to Fulton, which is 49 million, even Gwinnett at 58 million.

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I really paint this picture to demonstrate how proud I would invite you to be for the teachers,

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our support professionals, our school leaders, and our Board of Education for the outcomes achieved and the value invested.

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And really the last part of that picture is to look at where we are leading the pack.

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Now ranked number one in the region on the percent of our entire digest that is exempt from school taxes.

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Of course, we're really close to Cobb who trails us slightly there.

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Both having supported that full 62 and over tax exemption from school taxes.

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All right, why I paint this picture is because it really matters that in Cherokee County there is tremendous confidence that when you count on your education being in one of our classrooms, it's going to have quality outcomes.

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I've already shared with you that it was just released over the holiday break that Cherokee County moved from the 21st highest achieving district.

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Now the A's highest achieving district based on those progress accountability measures that the state outlines.

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Now there's a really important element in that score, and it's actually called progress, where the state measures how fast your students are growing compared to similar students around the state.

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30 of our schools showed growth in progress and 10 of them had double digit growth in that progress area.

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I mean, it really, it's just a testament to how incredibly talented our classroom teachers are and the real commitment that we see our families have in their child's education and I think it's really worthy of celebrating and sharing in that pride.

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All right, so, of course, there are specific schools that are organized in zones that have an affiliation with the City of Ken.

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And as we were talking earlier, some people like don't even realize how many schools across

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our district have a Canton affiliation, so I wanted to paint that picture for you.

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I've been able to meet with a lot of city councils and you get the most schools, so congratulations

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on that award.

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Here today with me is the assistant superintendent who supervises the Cherokee and Creek

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View Zone, and that's Rodney LaRoda, and I'm sure he'll give you a quick way if you don't

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already know him, so if you have any concerns or problems, you can talk to him.

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But what I just want you to know about the achievement in your particular school is just outstanding.

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Teasley Middle School was one of our superstar growth schools last year.

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We are so proud of their performance and they're really just at the start of taking off.

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You can also see that the Creek View Zone, we really see Creek View High School really as a standout across the state and

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really posting some of the highest performance really across high schools across the state of Georgia.

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And then I'd love to highlight in the Sequoia Zone.

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You can see so many areas where you have a highlight.

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That's double digit progress towards their goals.

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And I mean, you just see tremendous work across the Sequoia Zone.

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All right, I want to round it out by making sure you know

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that we're conscientious of the future workforce,

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that you're counting on.

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And here are the career pathways that are available

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at each of the high schools that have some sort of touch

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to our city of can. Pretty widespread opportunities for kids to get some early career exposure, and we'll have a lot of kids that actually take a sequence of three courses in one of those areas and actually graduate either industry certified or considered a pathway completed really solid career experiences evolving in the high schools right here.

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I think you might be wondering about a little construction project we've got going on.

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So I do have just a couple of great graphics in case you haven't flown your drone over

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the school to see its progress.

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Obviously, you're monitoring that progress from 575 with me, but you've got an 88 acre site.

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of course adjacent to Teasley Mental School, it'll be 473,000 square feet and it is ready

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for the 3,000 students that we will move over from the current Cherokee High School

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to the new facility. There will be no need for any changes to attendance lines or boundaries

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because it truly is a replacement school. Same attendance zone will stay intact and we're

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excited about the thousand-seat auditorium and the beautiful football stadium that has just been

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named Tommy Baker Field by our Board of Education, so we will carry the legacy to the new location.

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I've got a few other pictures for you. This is the main academic building and with some special

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education services incorporated. You get a quick view of our CTAE building. Our welding program

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will transfer over to Cherokee High School as well as our automotive program.

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You can take a look at the fine art space, it's just going to be stunning and the auditorium will be

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We really just a modern auditorium with really a beautiful stage for performances. Here's

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cafeteria, 30,000 square feet for a cafeteria. So if you're hungry, come on by. I think we'll

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be able to fit you in there. And we're introducing this grab and grow, go breakfast window. And

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then here you get a quick look at that beautiful field and the athletic facilities. So I know

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that it causes you to want to ask the question about our current Cherokee High School and its future.

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And many of you likely know that over the fall we really can vest staff groups and parent groups,

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community groups on all the ideas of what the future use of that facility could be.

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3,000 individual sticky notes were collected along the way and it really emerged into nine themes.

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And of those nine themes we are now doing a feasibility study on each of those themes

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and really trying to understand what type of sustainability requirements would be associated

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and that will bring us to being able to share more publicly later in the spring really recommendations

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of those next steps.

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Some of those themes are like a career academy, other themes are public private partnerships,

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Lots of ideas of reopening can't in elementary school.

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Themes that you've probably heard, your neighbors and community members talk about as well.

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All right, a few more important construction projects.

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Creekview and Creekland had an addition finished.

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And since you've got some constituents who attend those schools,

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I went to no, no, need for trailers at those locations anymore.

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And Sequoia High School has a magnificent athletic improvement project underway.

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And it will bring them their second gym.

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Now each one of our schools will have a second gym, this will be our last one, and they'll have replacement concessions and Sequoia did take us pretty far into the post season with their football team, and they were pretty remarkable to watch, but our visitors had no concession stands or restrooms, so that was unfortunate, but next year they will.

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And I actually already talked to you a little bit about that transition.

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And at current Cherokee High School, there's been just remarkable series of events to bring

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the community back together around this historical school, and I've got a few of those listed

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there for you.

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And then here are those common themes that I mentioned regarding its potential use.

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And then really in our next steps is to do this feasibility work and develop a timeline.

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And that really brings me to the end of just kind of a quick snapshot of what's happening in your schools in your backyard knowing that really our partnership in serving our community is only stronger when we do it together.

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So thank you for letting me be here. Mayor, I'll turn it back over to you and I'm available. There's any questions.

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Thanks.

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Thank you, Dr. Davis.

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We appreciate your time and updates, and Mr. Rola, thank you for joining us as well.

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People, I say often how important, and it's obvious how important our school assist

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and the quality of learning in our community is to our success and ongoing success.

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And we congratulate you on all the achievements you had.

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We appreciate you, the staff, the team, our teachers, our Board of Education, and we appreciate

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partnership we have with you guys and I think we have discussed and we know there's ongoing

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discussions about the future preservation adaptive reuse of the current Cherokee High School.

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I think you know we want to be a very integral partner in that and believe you know where

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our interests are there and we wanted to best serve the community and I know you do as well.

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So we'll look forward to the feasibility studies and how we can work together to ensure the

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best community outcome there as well so we appreciate I know you've had a busy week

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and you've been reporting a lot and we appreciate you taking time this week and I know the

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council got your entire presentation I know we asked you to kind of rush through that

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so we appreciate your attention to the time there and we can follow up with any questions

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Is there any questions for Dr. Davis tonight?

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Just a comment really.

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Between my wife and my sister, they have 47 years

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in the school system, those teachers.

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And they wanted me to make sure, and we talk about it a lot.

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Obviously, it's a conversation at dinner anytime.

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Just everybody's job.

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But they really wanted me to really recognize the fact

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that the increase in student achievement

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that we've had in the school system is a direct reflection of the accountability measures that you guys have put in place

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From the school board all the way down to the classroom, and I just commend you on that. That's what I mean. Well, thank you for sharing that

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I'd really say it's probably their talent coupled with the clarity

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The team effort team effort so you need anything else

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I was just coming from the net and having one in teesley and one that will be going to the high school year.

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Certainly, certainly very, very exciting to see this.

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Two quick questions.

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Number 23, page 23, that was the old ziller agent, correct?

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Are you looking at Creekview or are you looking at Cherokee?

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That's Creekview, sorry about that.

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And that is Creekview's auxiliary.

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Okay, and then the starting salary, 57, 6, 93, that is a certified starting teacher salary.

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Yes.

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Welcome right out of college, ready to work.

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Welcome right out of college.

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So last year, I shared publicly in a lot of public forums of the significant gap in teacher

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salary that existed in Cherokee relative to our region.

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As a matter of fact, like on this day a year ago, it would have taken $32 million for us

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to catch Cobb's salary schedule.

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It would have taken $12 million to catch Fulton, $8 million to catch Bartow, and $4 million to catch Forsyth.

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So last year, in the budgeting season, our board invested a 3% increase on top of the already existing salary schedule,

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which got us to surpass Forsyth and Bartow.

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And this year we really are aiming to catch Fulton.

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Cobb remains a little out of reach at this time, but we had a pretty significant gap $15,000

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gap at many of the levels along the scale.

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So our starting teacher salary has gotten within range.

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After that investment of the board, we've got a few other points on the salary schedule like

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at year 10 and year 14 where we still need to do a little better, but I see a path to doing

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that, and our board is focused on that.

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Because really the quality of the classroom is dependent on the quality of the of the professionals and and so pretty committed to that

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Definitely and again, but are you interested in teaching? Is that I mean if the line of inquiry is

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Suggesting I could turn us into a recruitment event. I'm eager to do that too

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Well, we'll have it soft to all educators. I can't get my kids on the bus

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And I guess with the increased salary and any staffing needs for the for the do

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are we understaffed or where we need to be?

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Yeah, I love that question.

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You know, the National Average is 74% staffed on day one

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and we were 99.9% staffed on day one.

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Our biggest gap is for some of those

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in the highly specialized areas like speech language pathologists

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where we do see those as hard to fill roles,

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but our classroom teachers have a solid retention rate

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and we were 99.9% staffed.

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And I believe had about 20 certified teachers

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who were on a personal lead for whatever reason,

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but we were filling that with a certified substitute.

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So really solid infrastructure for teachers.

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Awesome, thank you so much.

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Yeah, good.

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Ms. Bjorn?

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I just wanted to, there's one area

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that is near and dear to my heart.

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Many people here may know.

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My dad was the automotive teacher at Cherokee High School

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for many, many years.

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and so vocational is very near to my heart and I am very pleased to see the range of offerings

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and that you all are continuing that tradition at the new school and I'm just gratified

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to see it because we need it.

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Well that's encouraging. We're going to start to set out on designing a long range strategic

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plan but given the amount of community input that I've sensed over the last six months or so I

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I really actually see workforce development

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being one of our major themes in the future.

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Really starting to ensure that those middle school years

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are highly formative and purposefully exposed

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to the variety of ways you can use high school

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to get yourself set up into a career.

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So I do think we have a great portfolio of options.

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I think we even have more work we can do.

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Definitely.

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Well, we're definitely proud of the,

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to have not only the most number of schools

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in the city of Canton but the best schools and again applaud you on on on your

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performance and moving from 21st to 8th is no small. It's very impressive. We're

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here to help you continue that climb to number one and so we appreciate your

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updates and look forward to working with you very closely in the future so. Thank

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you. Thank you so much. I'm just a phone call away if you ever need anything. Thanks

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for being amazing in your public service. We appreciate you. Thank you so much.

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So

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our January 8th meeting? Are there any changes or revisions or motions?

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Motion to approve the minutes. Second. Motion to second. All in favor say aye.

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Aye. Aye.

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Opposed nay. All members voted for the motion. We have one informational item this evening.

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That is a review of the monthly financial report for September 2025. Mr. Luckett.

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Good evening, Mayor Counsel. I'm here this evening to present our September monthly financial

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report which also serves as a preliminary year-end report for our recently

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2025. Before I get into the details of the report I wanted to highlight a

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few things about the overall process for closing out our fiscal year. First

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the report we're going over tonight is preliminary and it includes many but not

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all of the year-end adjustments that are required for us to adhere to our

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generally accepted accounting principles for government. We are currently in the process

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of working with our outside audit firm, Rustin, as they review our financial statements to

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ensure they are accurate and a fair representation of the city's funding. As we work with the audit

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team, we fully expect that the numbers that you see this evening will change, although we don't

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anticipate major changes. As has been the case in previous years, we do expect to bring a final

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a budget amendment to the mayor and council in February or March for your consideration.

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The budget amendment is something that is developed in conjunction with our audit team and

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will include recommended revisions that are needed to effectively close out the previous

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fiscal year.

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Just as a reminder, governments are required to complete their annual audit within 180 days.

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And we expect to meet that deadline without any issues.

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So with that, we can get into the financial report, and I'll hit some of our major funds as we go through this.

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Page one of the report gives you an overall picture of the city's cash and investments as of September 5.

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So you can see that totaled about $44.5 million.

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that was down about 11 million compared to a year ago and that's directly a

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result of the spin-down of our 2021 bond funds related to the water pollution

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control plan. If we move on to page two this is our general fund and I will

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start with a revenues at the top. So our revenue budget for the general fund was

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is $24.6 million, we collected $25.3 million,

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which is a positive variance of about $700,000.

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That's primarily attributed to increases

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or increased collections in our property tax,

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franchise fees, as well as our business

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and occupation taxes.

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I will point out too that the city did

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through our investment efforts earn about $379,000

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interest income over FY 2025. Moving down the page to expenditures just to kind

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of give you the big picture first so overall our expenditure budget in the

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general fund is $27.8 million. Actual expenditures for FY 2025 were $27.5

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million so that was about $300,000 below budget. Most of our departments were

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well within their budget. We did have a few outliers and I'll kind of highlight

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that as I walk through this report. So we'll start with the general government

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section there under expenditures. So you can see our general government buildings

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function. That was about $265,000 above budget for the fifth square and so that

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was primarily related to two events. The water events that took place, the water

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damage events that took place at the public safety building as well as here in

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auditorium here in City Hall. Moving down the page, you can see for our police, our police

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department was about $100,000 above the budget and that was primarily attributable to our vehicle

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leases that are currently on hand as well as fuel. And as you might remember, in the budget that

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you all approved for FY 2026, we did right size those budgets so we don't anticipate seeing that issue

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going forward. For public works, the public works expenditures for FY 2025 were about

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345,000 above budget and again those were primarily related to repairs and

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maintenance for vehicles and equipment and again as you might remember you all

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approved quite a bit of funding in splice for FY 2026 to replace some of those

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larger pieces of equipment so we anticipate seeing a decrease in repair and

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needs going forward. Other contributing factors to that variance were electricity for our street

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lights and our traffic signals and again that was adjusted in the budget for FY26 as well as overtime.

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Page 3, I'm getting into parks and recreation. Their expenditures were about $70,000 above budget. That was primarily related to materials and supplies that were needed for maintaining the parks, as well as personnel salaries and overtime related to specific events. In our theater department, expenditures were about $40,000 above budget. And that was primarily related to personnel and contractual services or contracted services.

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services that are pertain to the number of events that we have at the theater.

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And then finally, I wanted to highlight our economic development department.

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It was about $48,000 above budget, primarily related to the software purchase of a place

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or AI that we use for economic development purposes, as well as, in addition to sponsorships

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related to the Chamber of Commerce.

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So overall, as I mentioned, the expenditure budget was about $300,000 below budget.

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So we will be making some adjustments between departments to cover those overages.

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And I will point out on the last line of the general fund here at the bottom,

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you can see that we did use about $1.7 million.

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We were budgeted to use about $2.4 million.

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So we use less fund balance than anticipated because of those revenues that came in above the budgeted numbers

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So that's our general fund and you can move on to page four for our water and sewer fund

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So I'll start with revenues

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Our budget for revenues was 20.2 million and we collected about

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19.1 million so a below budget by about 1.1 million and that's really tied to the sewer tap fees that came in less than expected

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which are also tied to the amount of development going on in the city.

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The total expenditure budget for the Water and Sewer Fund is 40.9.

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And actual expenditures were 29.4 million.

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So about 11 million less than budgeted, that is directly related to a

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couple of capital projects that were not completed that are carrying forward into

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FYI.

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So overall for the Water and Sewer Fund we

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We added to fund balance by about $1.3 million.

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Moving on to the next page, our stormwater fund.

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I'm going to kind of move a little bit more quickly here, but we'll be glad to answer

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any questions you have.

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In our stormwater fund, we had revenues of $400,000.

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This is on page 5.

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We had expenditures of $447,000.

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So we used about $47,000 of fund balance in our stormwater, which we were budgeted to

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to do. Moving on to page 6, our Sanitation Fund. We collected 525,000 and when you factor

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in our transfer from the general fund that was about $651,000 in revenues, we had about

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$665,000 in expenditures, so that will be one of those closing adjustments that will need

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to make us part of our closeout process. On the next page on page 7, these are the

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funds, so we officially doubt the use of our ARPA funds in FY 2025, so that is complete

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and we'll be going away at the end of this year, at the end of the close-up for FY 25.

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Page 8 is our tax allocation district fund, so we collected $196,000 in revenues with

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no expenditures at this point. Page 9 gets into our hotel motel tax fund, and so here we had

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total revenues of 1.2 million in total expenditures of about 827,000. So we

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added to fund balance in this fund by about 444,000. So those funds will

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carry forward and as you might remember those are restricted funds so we can use

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them for basically the purposes set out by state law. Tours and promotion,

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tours and product development as well as some unrestricted funds that we can

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using our general fund.

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Page 10 gets into our rental car tax fund. We collected $204,000

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in revenue and had about $54,000 in expenditures. So in that fund, we also added to fund

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balance by about $150,000. Page 11 gets into our municipal court fund. So this fund is

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different in that any excess funds get transferred to our general fund. So this fund,

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the revenues collected from fines go to pay for the expenditures, anything excess gets transferred

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to our general fund. So in this fund we had about $300,000 in revenue to cover about the $300,000

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in expenditures. The next page is our Impact fee fund. So here we collected about $1.1 million

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dollars in revenue and had expenditures of about $800,000. So we added nearly

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$300,000 to fund balance in our impact fees. And as I'll mention for each of

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these capital project funds, remember we had about $46 million in investment in

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capital projects for FY26. So a lot of this the excess funds that you see here have

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been programmed for use in FY26. Splas7 is our Splas that is completed. We're trying

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to finish up using those funds. We did have some grant revenues in that fund of about

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$391,000 and we had expenditures of about $2.1 million. So we used about $1.7 million

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of funds. We have about $1.2, $1.3 million in fund balance remaining. And then finally,

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page 14, we have our Splas 8. So we had total revenues of about $8.5 million. That included

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We've included $7.3 million of actual splotst revenues.

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Total expenditures were $3.5 million, and so we added to fund balance in this fund by about $5 million, which again,

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programmed for a lot of different capital projects that were included in the approved budget for FY26.

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So this is the preliminary report.

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If you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer those.

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I appreciate the updates and the year information.

439
00:36:21,140 --> 00:36:23,540
We'll look forward to those final budget resolutions.

440
00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:31,060
I didn't want to know you mentioned and highlighted a few departments that were slightly over budget.

441
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:43,580
Didn't highlight the ones that were under, but again, just make sure I have this right that overall in general fund we brought in almost 700,000 in revenues above the budget.

442
00:36:43,580 --> 00:36:47,980
and we spent 300, 301,000 below budget, correct?

443
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,340
So net net, we're in positive there, so awesome, awesome.

444
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:58,340
And then on Splos 8, just if I'm reading this correctly

445
00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:00,380
on the new Splos, it looks like that

446
00:37:00,380 --> 00:37:03,540
is generating substantially more revenue

447
00:37:03,540 --> 00:37:04,640
than we anticipated.

448
00:37:04,940 --> 00:37:05,760
Is that the way?

449
00:37:05,940 --> 00:37:06,720
Am I reading that correctly?

450
00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:08,220
Is that, which is good?

451
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,180
Yes, we budgeted $6 million in revenue

452
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:16,100
for splotced revenues, tax is just the splotced tax itself, the sales tax, I'm

453
00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,820
in collected $7.3 million, about $1.3 million higher.

454
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,380
Great, great, great news.

455
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,860
Any other questions from Mr. Luckett at the moment, Mr. Johnson?

456
00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:31,960
Just for clarification, I wasn't sure, under licensing and permitting, that Apple

457
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:37,740
Visa, that a new, you have to apply for a new license with the remodel, is that what

458
00:37:37,740 --> 00:37:38,140
that's for?

459
00:37:39,420 --> 00:37:40,540
This is related to like,

460
00:37:46,050 --> 00:37:51,740
and do we, is there, I didn't see anything about reserves, is there

461
00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:56,200
report for that, how are we doing with that? So I don't have a comprehensive report. So basically

462
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:02,280
as I, when I went through each fine and mentioned we're adding or you used home balance, so that was

463
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,240
kind of given you an idea of, you know, did our fund balance increase or did it decrease as a result

464
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:14,240
of our activity this year, we will have a final number for you in terms of reserves when we finish

465
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,500
our audit, which will be in March.

466
00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:19,580
Anything else?

467
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:21,360
Mr. Water?

468
00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:27,440
When we have certain line items that are variable, so utilities,

469
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:33,460
you mentioned electricity, as well as fuel for the police department's vehicles,

470
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:38,940
how do we account for that in the next budget?

471
00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:44,700
What we just do in CPI or, you know, is it a standard 3% increase?

472
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:52,840
So basically looking at historical actuals and spend insurance, kind of using that information

473
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,060
to help us inform, you know, what we anticipate for the following year.

474
00:38:58,020 --> 00:39:03,500
We definitely would factor in some type of inflationary increase if we saw that we expected fuel

475
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:06,360
prices, for instance, to substantially increase.

476
00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:12,180
But overall, it's probably more based on historical actuals.

477
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:20,220
And to go back to the electricity piece, you mentioned, I think, streetlights.

478
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:28,500
How much of that was just related to the actual cost per kilowatt hour versus actual asset

479
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,200
that we took ownership of, I guess.

480
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,720
So, that I'd have to dig into a little bit more. I don't have that information off the

481
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:39,660
top of my head, but would you definitely take a look at that?

482
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:49,900
But there is a difference. It's just not the actual cost of electricity. That's causing

483
00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:51,240
the variance.

484
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,360
It's the actual assets that we've brought on. Would you say there's a difference

485
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,340
or is it just solely the cost of energy?

486
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,640
I don't know that we've added any street lights recently.

487
00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:08,820
I know we have some occasionally.

488
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:10,580
We accept this street.

489
00:40:10,860 --> 00:40:12,620
There may be a few in there like that,

490
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,460
where we've accepted the right-of-way on the street

491
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:18,600
and taken over those bills.

492
00:40:20,540 --> 00:40:23,440
I imagine the majority of that in this report

493
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,120
is just to increase the cost of George Vauer

494
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,720
for electricity that we're all realizing at home as well.

495
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:46,520
And I mentioned to you on the street lights, one of the tasks that we had for Schneider as part of our agreement was an audit of all of the streetlights because historically we could not get the data from Georgia power to substantiate which lights we were actually paying for on which roadways.

496
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,720
So that included coordinates for every single street

497
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:53,840
wide in the city so that we can track that matter.

498
00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:56,260
That's kind of like where that's where I was going to see.

499
00:40:56,660 --> 00:40:58,260
And how is that progress?

500
00:40:58,460 --> 00:41:00,300
Is that study complete?

501
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:03,880
The study part of it's complete and we're working on a process

502
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:08,220
now with our mapping group to figure out how we can upload all

503
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:11,660
that coordinate data into our own mapping profile.

504
00:41:13,860 --> 00:41:21,860
And one comment too, I would make about fuel, especially in the police department, we're

505
00:41:21,860 --> 00:41:25,920
at 100% stacking in the police department, which is something we have not historically

506
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,260
been in many cities around us with data to have that opportunity.

507
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:33,520
And when you're fully staffed, you're using more fuel.

508
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:39,500
And we also added a caption at mid-year last year too, so that was a new group that went

509
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:43,740
into the budget and while we knew that we had that group going on there were some cost

510
00:41:43,740 --> 00:41:50,660
associated with that that weren't at the start of the year. I see that as a multi-variable

511
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:55,420
you can't you're not going to put a you're not going to be accurate because your

512
00:41:55,420 --> 00:42:00,020
officers may drive more or the costs will go up and down so. That's exactly right.

513
00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:10,020
not. Yeah. We there's there's five or six key items in the budget that vary that we don't really

514
00:42:10,020 --> 00:42:17,280
know when we set it up fuels one electricity utility charges or one health insurance is one

515
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,780
because we don't do our renewal until midway through the year you know so we have to do our best

516
00:42:22,780 --> 00:42:28,180
guess estimate and we always give ourselves some wiggle room our percentage of wiggle room historically

517
00:42:28,180 --> 00:42:35,800
it might be 3% 5% up to 10% per health insurance and some years were good and we can do it within

518
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:42,120
that amount and some years we just can't based on the market but we can't we can't tell our police

519
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,520
officers to turn their vehicles out. No yeah.

520
00:42:47,060 --> 00:42:52,660
The last last question I feel within the last two years

521
00:42:52,660 --> 00:43:06,380
I may have heard a reference to this when this forest was here, but do does this city have a subscription to do plaques for pricing info?

522
00:43:09,710 --> 00:43:11,150
I'm sorry, do you say plaques?

523
00:43:11,190 --> 00:43:12,250
plaques, like S&P?

524
00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:16,030
No, we do not currently have a subscription.

525
00:43:16,030 --> 00:43:24,370
Okay. Okay. That typically will give you forward indication of what some of those variable

526
00:43:24,370 --> 00:43:32,190
pricing products, but I feel like you mentioned that at some point, but maybe I heard

527
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:35,910
wrong that we just don't have it. And I'm familiar with something like that. We've

528
00:43:35,910 --> 00:43:41,250
used some like Moody's data in the past to help with inflation forecasting and things like

529
00:43:41,250 --> 00:43:43,870
that. We can definitely look into that.

530
00:43:43,870 --> 00:43:48,670
The grand scheme is not a big variance, so I'm just curious.

531
00:43:49,070 --> 00:43:49,090
Sure.

532
00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:54,470
Yeah, really quick on the sewer tap fees.

533
00:43:54,690 --> 00:43:56,350
So they were down considerably.

534
00:43:56,850 --> 00:44:00,230
How do we or you guys go about determining

535
00:44:00,230 --> 00:44:01,490
how to budget that?

536
00:44:02,050 --> 00:44:05,050
Do you just look at several years of what we've had

537
00:44:05,050 --> 00:44:06,350
or is it just a?

538
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:10,390
So I can't speak to the past, but in terms

539
00:44:10,390 --> 00:44:17,570
of the 26 budget, that was kind of historical trend, seeing that we did see some decreases

540
00:44:17,570 --> 00:44:21,910
this year kind of helped inform, we did reduce that budget for FY 2020 sketches.

541
00:44:23,450 --> 00:44:28,450
And one of the things on that particular item, it's normally a good conversation between

542
00:44:28,450 --> 00:44:33,910
the finance department, the building department and community development, knowing what projects

543
00:44:33,910 --> 00:44:39,170
have put in applications, what projects have met with us, what approvals have been done

544
00:44:39,170 --> 00:44:44,390
on zoning or whatever. We try to forecast as much as that as we can. But you may have

545
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:50,010
somebody who's had a project they've already put something forward, you know, for us to

546
00:44:50,010 --> 00:44:55,590
review and design and then project installs. And something we thought was going to occur

547
00:44:55,590 --> 00:44:59,950
in that fiscal year did. We try to reach out groups like Northside Hospital and get it.

548
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:28,200
We get a hand-alone, you know, we're there out on their specific projects. That's sometimes a project that you think is going to happen in one fiscal year may catch us the next. That's what I was kind of getting at. I mean, there's so many projects that are entitled now that just have not come off the ground so you can't rely on what mayor may not be passed for 26 because that'll be 27. So that was just kind of my, you know, the economy has a lot to do with as well as whether they're starting a project. That was it. Thank you.

549
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:34,420
We hear often a lot about growth, of course, is that fine balance of revenue and growing

550
00:45:34,420 --> 00:45:39,700
that revenue and knowing what we could anticipate as far as the development, but also I think

551
00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:44,820
people see things that have all come out the ground that were approved six, seven years

552
00:45:44,820 --> 00:45:45,740
ago, maybe longer.

553
00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:52,800
But when you look at this year, if I'm reading this correctly in the statement and tap these

554
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,460
or new development, I mean this council has been pretty responsible about what they've approved

555
00:45:57,460 --> 00:46:03,920
and there's not a lot on that list, so it makes sense to me that it that would come in less than we may have

556
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:09,320
that dissipated and anticipating, you know, growth of that nature, so. And I'm encouraged that, you know,

557
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:15,020
the areas, the departments that were over and I think you mentioned on all those occasions,

558
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:21,200
the due diligence going in that and we factor that in to this year's budget, which

559
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:30,860
We appreciate that, also appreciate the financial team and staff and the work on the return on the investment for full is very impressive and to be commended there.

560
00:46:31,020 --> 00:46:33,340
So appreciate that, always appreciate the updates.

561
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:34,760
Thank you very much.

562
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,120
Do we have any announcements this evening?

563
00:46:41,620 --> 00:46:42,060
Okay,

564
00:46:44,820 --> 00:46:46,480
we'll have our ten minute public input.

565
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:56,360
Again, we'll call your name, come to the podium, state your name and address, and we have one resident, Mr. Taylor still.

566
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:57,020
Thank

567
00:47:05,090 --> 00:47:10,050
you, Mr. Mayor, members of Council, Dr. Davis, thank you for being here this evening.

568
00:47:11,830 --> 00:47:17,050
Would you like to say thank you for all the hard work Cherokee County School District

569
00:47:17,050 --> 00:47:21,590
does for our students and the continued partnership for the City of Cam.

570
00:47:22,690 --> 00:47:26,070
Mr. Waterman, thank you for bringing up the street lights that's something I'm going to discuss

571
00:47:26,070 --> 00:47:26,590
this evening.

572
00:47:26,770 --> 00:47:31,270
I've discussed it in a prior meeting, but the lack of street lights across from the new Cherokee

573
00:47:31,270 --> 00:47:36,490
high school and down Bluffs Parkway and that certain corridor talking the Martin Luther King

574
00:47:36,490 --> 00:47:42,910
Boulevard Bluffs Parkway. That corridor in particular has no street lights. I think

575
00:47:42,910 --> 00:47:48,150
we all know the importance of that. There was an individual struck and killed on 92 earlier

576
00:47:48,150 --> 00:47:54,910
this week, largely attributed to unlit area. I just wanted to put that out on the radar one

577
00:47:54,910 --> 00:48:00,750
more time given it was discussion of the financials with Mr. Lockett and the importance of it

578
00:48:00,750 --> 00:48:05,430
that's been previously discussed, I want to make sure that that's on the radar, but that's all I got to see.

579
00:48:05,510 --> 00:48:06,150
Thank you so much.

580
00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:06,830
Okay, thank you.

581
00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:15,550
We will move into old business at this time.

582
00:48:15,550 --> 00:48:20,090
We have one item, item A, discussion and possible action on engagement with Granicus

583
00:48:20,090 --> 00:48:23,130
to upgrade the SCIA Canton website platform, Mr. Ingram.

584
00:48:24,390 --> 00:48:25,650
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

585
00:48:26,070 --> 00:48:29,050
You had in front of you a proposal from Granicus.

586
00:48:29,050 --> 00:48:36,750
they are our existing website provider. We have been notified by the Department of Justice

587
00:48:36,750 --> 00:48:46,170
that all government entities must be ADA compliant with their government website. Since we are under

588
00:48:46,170 --> 00:48:53,250
the population of 50,000 individuals, we must comply by April 26th of next year.

589
00:48:55,330 --> 00:48:59,030
This grant

590
00:48:59,650 --> 00:49:04,950
It's going to do more than just bring us up to speed and it applies with ADA.

591
00:49:05,270 --> 00:49:12,850
It's going to have a lot more accessibility for our team, make it a little bit easier for us to make changes on the fly, etc.

592
00:49:13,810 --> 00:49:22,170
But the communications in our IT departments are anxious to get started on improving our city's website before the April deadline.

593
00:49:22,170 --> 00:49:27,970
The proposal in front that you have in front of you is at a cost of about $30,000.

594
00:49:28,890 --> 00:49:32,170
It will take them about nine to 12 months to complete.

595
00:49:33,030 --> 00:49:39,730
So we wanted to get started on this project and afford us ample opportunity and it's completed.

596
00:49:40,150 --> 00:49:45,790
So if you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer those or we have members

597
00:49:45,790 --> 00:49:50,710
of our team that may help in answering those but we are asking for action and your hopeful

598
00:49:50,710 --> 00:49:54,450
support and approval so that when you started on this project tonight.

599
00:49:55,430 --> 00:49:56,430
Thank you, Mr. Ingram.

600
00:49:56,590 --> 00:50:01,890
No, we have discussed this, and we know that ADA compliance is mandatory, but we also

601
00:50:01,890 --> 00:50:06,150
know it's the right thing to do, but also taking the occasion to enhance our website,

602
00:50:06,910 --> 00:50:14,310
make it more functional, make it easier to use and navigate by our citizens and others.

603
00:50:15,230 --> 00:50:17,810
It's a great advancement in that.

604
00:50:17,810 --> 00:50:21,290
So, any questions for Mr. Ingram on this?

605
00:50:23,570 --> 00:50:29,530
Mr. Ingram, we're trying to find a way to frame this.

606
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:40,190
We are going to place where place are, can G.A. to make it more accessible.

607
00:50:40,190 --> 00:50:50,390
We also have, how many other services, I guess, do we pay for outside of that?

608
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:52,270
So we have Guamma, as well.

609
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:53,750
Sure, great.

610
00:50:55,050 --> 00:50:58,250
So, that is a separate cost.

611
00:50:59,050 --> 00:50:59,790
Yes, sir.

612
00:51:00,830 --> 00:51:06,530
How many other platforms do we have, as far as software platforms throughout the city, we

613
00:51:06,530 --> 00:51:11,730
We have our ERP with taller technology, LOMA, just to name through Granicus, Ledgestore.

614
00:51:12,550 --> 00:51:14,990
And then we've got a number of other smaller software.

615
00:51:15,470 --> 00:51:21,370
The ones that are community facing.

616
00:51:21,830 --> 00:51:24,650
So as a resident, I can log on to LOMA.

617
00:51:25,450 --> 00:51:34,570
I can go to KNGA, how many of those sites, because I'm sure we have internal systems as well.

618
00:51:34,570 --> 00:51:43,790
Yeah, they're public facing and we're soon to have a portal for our residents, our utility customers so they can monitor their

619
00:51:43,790 --> 00:51:53,930
assumption real time. We're soon to have that. You mentioned Lama, Granicus, maybe Legistar. I'd have to get an accurate

620
00:51:53,930 --> 00:52:00,650
response to you in the future because exactly what software is community facing.

621
00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:02,390
So if

622
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:12,340
there was an ever an opportunity to have a provider that aggregates specifically

623
00:52:12,340 --> 00:52:23,000
for municipalities or that on a state organizations, I'm sure that's been probably evaluated.

624
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,320
But I just want to throw it out there and it hasn't been.

625
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:45,180
So, you know, I recognize that there may be confusion, I can go to a website, but then I have to log onto another portal for X, my utilities, my permits, licenses, and so on.

626
00:52:45,420 --> 00:52:49,000
But, yeah, I figure they're all accessible.

627
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:57,480
This is the parent and everything else is the sub of the overall website.

628
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:05,880
But to your question on those public facing portals, yes, we do need to do our due diligence

629
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,820
to make sure that we're providing a service that's not too complicated, it's easy to use.

630
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:15,980
And this is obviously one of the major public facing software that we use.

631
00:53:15,980 --> 00:53:24,180
But again, just going to put a public-facing platform is all accessible through www.cantanjade.com.

632
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:24,640
Correct.

633
00:53:30,740 --> 00:53:31,540
Anything else?

634
00:53:32,380 --> 00:53:33,000
Mr. Owen?

635
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,000
Does this also include Explorcan?

636
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,020
No, it's required to do any work on that website or is it already?

637
00:53:42,140 --> 00:53:48,040
It is separate, and I believe that is supported by Kent Tourism in large part.

638
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,600
And I do know that's something that they are taking a look at as well.

639
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,740
So it's a great deal, it'll be forthcoming.

640
00:53:56,580 --> 00:54:03,820
Mr. Mayor, if there are no other questions, I would like to move that we take action on

641
00:54:03,820 --> 00:54:09,640
the engagement with Granicus to update the City of Kent's website platform in the amount

642
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,880
of $30,513.

643
00:54:14,020 --> 00:54:14,580
Second.

644
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,180
So motion the second, any further discussion?

645
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:20,640
All in favour say aye.

646
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:20,700
Aye.

647
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:21,480
Aye.

648
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:22,200
Opposed nay.

649
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,140
All members voted for the motion.

650
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:24,720
Thank you.

651
00:54:27,620 --> 00:54:30,060
We'll move into a new business at this time.

652
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:42,020
Item A, discussion and possible action on task order 8 to practical design partners for restricted crossing U-turn our cut at the new Cherokee High School in the amount of $34,000.

653
00:54:42,180 --> 00:54:42,660
Ms. Watson.

654
00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:43,620
Thank you.

655
00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:52,580
So, staff is proposing an ARCA at the divided roadway at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard

656
00:54:52,580 --> 00:54:54,760
at the new Cherokee High School.

657
00:54:55,480 --> 00:55:02,120
I have drawn up a very amateur drawing of what this may look like.

658
00:55:02,380 --> 00:55:12,420
This is the existing intersection as it is today and this is the proposed intersection.

659
00:55:12,420 --> 00:55:16,360
It would allow for a left turn only into the school.

660
00:55:16,980 --> 00:55:20,700
Any left turns out of the school would not be allowed.

661
00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:26,780
You would have to turn right, and then if you were wanting to go back towards Bluffs Parkway,

662
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:33,460
after turning right, you would have to do a U-turn at the red light there at Ron Hart College Parkway.

663
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:40,760
The northernmost lane on Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard would also be a dedicated

664
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:47,240
related turn lane into the school which will have dual lanes so it would accept the left

665
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:56,760
turning eastbound traffic and also the westbound traffic each would have their own individual

666
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:05,060
lanes. It would maintain two through lanes. Our cuts are generally considered safer than

667
00:56:05,060 --> 00:56:13,300
signalized intersection. It does take a little bit of learning curve for new

668
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:18,760
drivers and for people who aren't used to them. You've probably seen if you've

669
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:24,980
driven down Highway 20, there's quite a few arcots that G.DOT has utilized in

670
00:56:24,980 --> 00:56:30,760
their new extension. I'll be happy to answer any questions. We do need action to

671
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:37,780
not because we are wanting to get this done before school starts and so we

672
00:56:37,780 --> 00:56:41,980
need to get started on design because they're expecting about 12 weeks to

673
00:56:41,980 --> 00:56:47,360
finish the full design. And I would just mention that we met with the school

674
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,380
district, school police, our police department was in the room,

675
00:56:51,900 --> 00:56:56,000
Georgia Department of Transportation and talked about traffic planning at the

676
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:05,140
school and the ARCUT was what G-DOT felt like was the best option for this. It forces that

677
00:57:05,140 --> 00:57:09,860
afternoon traffic when it leaves the school to get back on to Roundhark College Parkway,

678
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:15,440
which is a restricted access roadway because it has a median and has less opportunity for

679
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:21,880
conflicts, drivers, and intersections. Then Riverstone Boulevard does, which is not a

680
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:32,380
And also, coming there are two other access points to the high school, including a dedicated

681
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,340
bus access point that would be coming through the Teasley entrance, is that correct?

682
00:57:36,620 --> 00:57:37,040
Correct.

683
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,200
This intersection is just expected to be car rider.

684
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:49,740
And maybe will high school parking be using this too?

685
00:57:49,740 --> 00:58:01,440
They will have access to this one, they will also have access to the bus area on the backside of the school, and they'll also have access to the ride in, ride out and run, or college, parkway.

686
00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:06,980
One of the things to remember is the current high school really only has one major interest.

687
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:16,100
There's a secondary cut that's a little bit further down that doesn't utilize to accept for certain parts of the day.

688
00:58:16,100 --> 00:58:21,580
and then everything else has to funnel through Bowling Park, which no one wants

689
00:58:21,580 --> 00:58:26,260
to make a lap down Bowling Park. In this particular layout there's three

690
00:58:26,260 --> 00:58:32,280
different ways for students to get out of the school in the afternoon. The other

691
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:37,360
advantage to this is by pushing the traffic around Heart College Parkway. If it

692
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:42,040
does get back to Riverstone it has a longer area to queue up before the

693
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:49,100
the interstate, and if it got off at Reservoir Boulevard, so it tends to be a better fix.

694
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:50,480
Definitely.

695
00:58:50,740 --> 00:58:57,280
And then again, based on recommendations from G. and my understanding is also the surrounding

696
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,120
signals would be synchronized and adjusted for these new traffic patterns.

697
00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:09,540
And then actuality, when the school is open and the patterns turn out to be something differently,

698
00:59:09,540 --> 00:59:13,020
we can modify and adjust at that time.

699
00:59:13,580 --> 00:59:18,940
Well that was one of the conversations we had with everybody in the room is that, you

700
00:59:18,940 --> 00:59:23,760
know, we have to figure out these traffic patterns moving forward because today if you

701
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:30,220
have a student who's at Cherokee and a student that's at Teasley, your drop off is going

702
00:59:30,220 --> 00:59:34,320
to be very different than it will be with the new Cherokee at this location.

703
00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:39,020
Now you have to decide are you going to drop off at Teasley first and then get on one 40

704
00:59:39,020 --> 00:59:44,820
down to Marietta Highway to get to the high school, or are you going to go to the opposite

705
00:59:44,820 --> 00:59:50,640
direction? At this point, a parent is going to drop off in one area within one complex

706
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:56,540
as opposed to getting on all those additional roadways. And the steel population changes

707
00:59:56,540 --> 00:59:59,960
every year. So we don't really know what the traffic pattern is going to be.

708
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,700
But we do know that when school opens in August, the city will have done the best it could on the roadways. Our police department along with school operations and school police department are going to be working out there those first few days to help deal with any issues that arise and we may have to make some changes. Now we did also hear that it is up to the principal of the high school to determine the traffic patterns with

709
01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:37,780
in the school footprint so you know as we approach this we'll be going back to the school district

710
01:00:37,780 --> 01:00:42,720
and saying here's here's what the afternoon traffic pattern is going to look like the morning traffic

711
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:48,520
pattern will look like on city streets they'll have to make all of the changes or determinations inside

712
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:54,300
the footprint of the campus. I really appreciate the thought that's gone into this and all the partnerships

713
01:00:54,300 --> 01:01:02,420
recommendations from GDOT and as we discussed earlier, it's all working together to ensure

714
01:01:02,420 --> 01:01:08,840
safety, not only the students there and professionals at the school, but also the general public

715
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:15,600
and that uses that that that the referers will and I mean again the good news is that the

716
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:20,460
infrastructure around the new high school is much more advanced and you know the current one

717
01:01:20,460 --> 01:01:25,240
access point that that's the current location so. Any questions?

718
01:01:27,060 --> 01:01:33,000
Just a question. Is there any concern with so those the people that are into that left

719
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:39,760
turning lane to go across any concern with them crossing back over MLK with traffic coming

720
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:46,400
in the other direction and sometimes people just don't pay attention. So if you're turning

721
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:53,900
and left, off of MLK into the, I guess back to the school, the cars that are still coming

722
01:01:53,900 --> 01:01:59,460
this direction, is there any concern with that joint rent?

723
01:01:59,520 --> 01:01:59,720
Yes.

724
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:07,340
I mean, there is always a concern when you're crossing traffic, but it actually has less

725
01:02:07,340 --> 01:02:13,940
conflict points than a standard intersection would because you're not allowing cross traffic

726
01:02:13,940 --> 01:02:15,520
to come back across.

727
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:24,920
So, yes, those people would have to be aware of the traffic going straight through the intersection instead of turning into the high school.

728
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:35,780
I don't think that we're going to have a significant amount of traffic that's doing that because anybody that's going to the high school is going to use that turn lane to turn into the high school.

729
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:40,480
They're not going to bypass this intersection to go to the next one.

730
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:49,460
or I don't know if they might, but I don't foresee that this is a heavily trafficked area

731
01:02:49,460 --> 01:02:58,760
at 8.30 in the morning where it would cause a significant backup issue or anything, but

732
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:03,080
those people would have to be aware of what cars are going straight.

733
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:09,980
But with the dedicated, right turn lane, the cars in those through lanes will be going straight

734
01:03:09,980 --> 01:03:15,160
through, they can't turn into the high school as well, so there shouldn't be, it would just

735
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:22,520
be normal traffic, flow issues that you would have, but it's always a concern, but if someone's

736
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,080
driving properly, it shouldn't be an issue.

737
01:03:27,210 --> 01:03:30,710
No, all of us is the drive properly, so you can't pay attention to that.

738
01:03:32,150 --> 01:03:32,870
Anything else?

739
01:03:34,110 --> 01:03:42,270
And as I said, it will be a learning curve because not everyone is used to our cuts, but I think

740
01:03:42,270 --> 01:03:49,670
that if we can get it done early enough and maybe even put out some information on how

741
01:03:49,670 --> 01:03:55,410
it works, you know, at the beginning of every school year, we get a new map about how

742
01:03:55,410 --> 01:04:00,330
carpool line works, so I'm sure that we can incorporate this into what the school sent

743
01:04:00,330 --> 01:04:03,630
out to explain how this archive works.

744
01:04:04,130 --> 01:04:09,230
Well, historically any traffic pattern changes, we try to do as much education as possible,

745
01:04:11,770 --> 01:04:17,350
Mr. Roch. Mr. Mayor, if there's no further comments, I'd like to make a motion to approve

746
01:04:17,350 --> 01:04:24,850
Task Order 8 to practical design partners for restricted crossing U-turn or ARCUT at

747
01:04:24,850 --> 01:04:29,390
the new Cherokee High School in the amount not to exceed $34,000.

748
01:04:30,070 --> 01:04:33,630
Second. We have a motion, a second. Any further discussion?

749
01:04:33,630 --> 01:04:36,550
discussion, all in favor say aye.

750
01:04:37,170 --> 01:04:40,910
All members voted for the motion, thank you Ms. Watson.

751
01:04:42,230 --> 01:04:47,290
Item B, discussion on the ward of task quarter nine for the Transportation Improvement Project

752
01:04:47,290 --> 01:04:52,450
Highway 140 at Ron Hart College Parkway intersection improvement project design to Michael Baker

753
01:04:52,450 --> 01:04:57,630
International in the amount of $710,651 and 39 cents.

754
01:04:58,030 --> 01:04:58,610
Thank you.

755
01:04:58,610 --> 01:05:05,250
So, as we've discussed previously, Michael Baker is working on our project at Highway 140

756
01:05:05,250 --> 01:05:06,750
in Ronhart College Parkway.

757
01:05:07,390 --> 01:05:10,390
We are on the task order for this project.

758
01:05:11,210 --> 01:05:19,810
This final professional engineering task order is for the completion of the final construction

759
01:05:19,810 --> 01:05:26,930
plans, right away acquisition, some utility coordination, some environmental documentation

760
01:05:26,930 --> 01:05:29,650
in some required studies that require some updating.

761
01:05:30,650 --> 01:05:37,770
As a reminder, this $710,000, 20% of it is paid for by the city.

762
01:05:38,010 --> 01:05:42,270
And then the remaining 80% is paid for with federal funds.

763
01:05:43,050 --> 01:05:47,850
Of the 20%, 34.2% is paid for with impact fees and

764
01:05:47,850 --> 01:05:49,010
the remaining is splashed.

765
01:05:49,590 --> 01:05:50,970
I'd be happy to answer any questions.

766
01:05:51,870 --> 01:05:55,390
And again, you'll be bringing this to the next meeting for approval.

767
01:05:55,390 --> 01:06:02,850
And between there, between this meeting and at that time, can we just get an update on the overall project

768
01:06:02,850 --> 01:06:09,210
while I was anticipated and budgeted what the costs and change orders have been?

769
01:06:09,970 --> 01:06:20,630
And I believe there have been some additional funds dedicated to the project or the grants to just see where we are in that mix.

770
01:06:20,630 --> 01:06:22,550
Yes, yes, I'll be happy to do that.

771
01:06:23,390 --> 01:06:29,190
For this project in particular, I will be bringing a resolution

772
01:06:29,190 --> 01:06:34,390
for some additional funding that we're requesting

773
01:06:34,390 --> 01:06:36,890
in this year's TIP application.

774
01:06:37,570 --> 01:06:39,610
I've already submitted the application,

775
01:06:39,670 --> 01:06:43,150
but they do have to have a resolution by March 31st.

776
01:06:43,330 --> 01:06:44,670
So you will see that next month.

777
01:06:45,170 --> 01:06:48,970
And with that, I will update those total costs

778
01:06:48,970 --> 01:06:54,770
that we're at. With the other project, I will also bring an update on that one as well

779
01:06:54,770 --> 01:07:01,770
at the next meeting. But if you'll recall, we did do a tip application the year before

780
01:07:01,770 --> 01:07:07,390
last for additional funding for that project that we were awarded. So for this one right

781
01:07:07,390 --> 01:07:15,150
now we're around the 4 million range. We're going to be adding an additional 3.3 million.

782
01:07:15,150 --> 01:07:21,010
And then the other project we have, a little over 10 million that has been approved.

783
01:07:21,710 --> 01:07:26,810
But again, I will lay it out nicely and bring you an update at the name of it.

784
01:07:26,830 --> 01:07:27,630
I appreciate it.

785
01:07:27,710 --> 01:07:30,210
And I know it's a major investment, it's a major improvement.

786
01:07:30,450 --> 01:07:43,390
And I think it's always good to communicate to our residents who are always concerned about traffic on the air, that we are investing in that, but also what cost of that is going to be.

787
01:07:43,390 --> 01:07:49,050
And I'm also the increased support and you're in the team's efforts to get additional funding for that.

788
01:07:49,330 --> 01:07:57,110
So, Mr. Mayor, I would make a mention on something that Ms. Watson commented on on the additional money for this portion of the project.

789
01:07:57,370 --> 01:08:06,890
A lot of that is being driven by G.DOT's desire to go with the roundabout as opposed to the Florida T that was the original project plan when the funds were awarded.

790
01:08:06,890 --> 01:08:13,150
because there's a lot more right-of-way acquisition required for the roundabout design.

791
01:08:13,330 --> 01:08:15,130
So they're driving those costs.

792
01:08:15,810 --> 01:08:26,050
As well as when these original cost estimates were done was in 2017-2018, so as you know

793
01:08:26,050 --> 01:08:31,930
everything has went sky-recorded, so that's another reason why the costs have gone up.

794
01:08:31,930 --> 01:08:39,030
We just pretty much the big picture there and I think just that we can communicate it properly so yes there awesome. Thank you.

795
01:08:39,030 --> 01:08:39,650
On this.

796
01:08:42,090 --> 01:08:51,090
I them see discussion and possible action on the intergovernmental agreement IGA with the city of ball ground regarding a 2004 to F-550 bucket truck.

797
01:08:51,250 --> 01:08:51,910
Mr. Ingram.

798
01:08:51,910 --> 01:08:55,850
Thank you, Marin Council. Please recall in November of last year,

799
01:08:56,370 --> 01:09:04,490
Marin Council approved this position of this vehicle, a 2004 to F-550 bucket truck as 156,000 miles on it.

800
01:09:04,630 --> 01:09:12,010
The reason we approved that was we received a replacement and that replacement vehicle is up and running its end service at this time.

801
01:09:12,610 --> 01:09:20,450
Shortly after we approved that, our associates at Ballground, they came to us and they said we really need a bucket truck.

802
01:09:20,450 --> 01:09:24,030
with the city entertain disposing of that to us.

803
01:09:24,570 --> 01:09:27,670
So Mr. Peppers and I, we talked with our city attorney

804
01:09:27,670 --> 01:09:30,770
and said, what are the possibilities of doing that?

805
01:09:30,870 --> 01:09:31,630
What is that in tail?

806
01:09:31,850 --> 01:09:33,470
And they said that would require an IGA

807
01:09:33,470 --> 01:09:35,750
and then the Mayor and Council would prevent IGA

808
01:09:36,270 --> 01:09:39,650
to transfer that asset over to a sister city, if you will.

809
01:09:40,490 --> 01:09:44,330
So you have in front of you a proposed IGA from ball ground.

810
01:09:44,730 --> 01:09:49,470
They're asking offering $3,500 for that vehicle.

811
01:09:49,470 --> 01:09:53,570
but here's an added benefit to this versus us posting it to

812
01:09:54,090 --> 01:10:00,690
gov deals or auctioning that vehicle is, is we will be able to use that vehicle

813
01:10:00,690 --> 01:10:05,430
for up to two years, should something happen two hours. As you need, as you know,

814
01:10:05,590 --> 01:10:11,470
the bucket trucks are unique, they are very useful if you don't have one, you have to have one,

815
01:10:11,610 --> 01:10:16,330
you know, to do some work on your lights, street lights, you know, to do some of the decorations

816
01:10:16,330 --> 01:10:19,070
regulations and flags and whatnot around the city.

817
01:10:19,390 --> 01:10:22,810
So I think that's a very valuable proposition

818
01:10:22,810 --> 01:10:24,450
that Bob Brown is offering.

819
01:10:24,750 --> 01:10:26,910
So I put this in front of Mayor and Council

820
01:10:26,910 --> 01:10:29,350
and ask if you all consider approving that.

821
01:10:29,830 --> 01:10:33,770
One of the reasons why I haven't listed for action is

822
01:10:33,770 --> 01:10:36,650
because we've already technically disposed of the asset.

823
01:10:36,830 --> 01:10:38,470
We have discussed this in the past.

824
01:10:39,030 --> 01:10:41,290
So if you're amenable to take action tonight,

825
01:10:41,390 --> 01:10:42,770
I certainly would appreciate it.

826
01:10:42,870 --> 01:10:44,610
If not, we don't have to take action.

827
01:10:44,610 --> 01:10:47,050
so we can put it on the next agenda.

828
01:10:47,290 --> 01:10:50,010
So I'm here to answer any questions that you may have

829
01:10:50,010 --> 01:10:53,450
or make any changes or anything that you changes

830
01:10:53,450 --> 01:10:55,690
or comments that you see regarding the IGA.

831
01:10:56,750 --> 01:10:59,550
Thank you, Mr. Ingram, I think we're already disposing

832
01:10:59,550 --> 01:11:02,030
of the asset any way to be able to keep it

833
01:11:02,030 --> 01:11:03,870
in the community and help our neighbors out

834
01:11:03,870 --> 01:11:05,630
is always a good thing.

835
01:11:07,830 --> 01:11:11,130
Maybe we could put some decals on there

836
01:11:11,130 --> 01:11:17,530
like, you know, CD-Can, helping to lift bulk ground up, but anyway, I think it's a good

837
01:11:17,530 --> 01:11:26,090
solution. We're happy to help out our neighbors there, and any questions or thoughts on that?

838
01:11:26,850 --> 01:11:27,250
Mr. Trill?

839
01:11:27,830 --> 01:11:36,490
Mr. Chairman, what measure did you use relative to the age and the number of miles on the

840
01:11:36,490 --> 01:11:39,570
vehicle in terms of the price that you arrived at?

841
01:11:39,570 --> 01:11:46,830
In the value that is a value that's a true offer from them. We didn't go to them and say here's what we expect of it

842
01:11:46,830 --> 01:11:53,710
I will admit I did some research on my own. I know the other team members can't team members did as well

843
01:11:55,170 --> 01:11:59,810
And so yes, I can give you my idea of what I expected from it at auction

844
01:11:59,810 --> 01:12:05,770
But I did not give that number to them. I said yeah, but make an offer and they did their research. It came back

845
01:12:05,770 --> 01:12:13,370
that with 3,500. Again, that vehicle has 156,000 miles on it. It has given us a number

846
01:12:13,370 --> 01:12:19,170
of problems. Now, we were, they came down and inspect the vehicle and we were 100% transparent

847
01:12:19,170 --> 01:12:22,510
with them. We went over the vehicle, told them issues that, you know, we've had with

848
01:12:22,510 --> 01:12:28,170
it and let them know that, you know, obviously no warranties exist on it. You're buying it

849
01:12:28,170 --> 01:12:34,010
as is and here's some of the issues that you may end up having to deal with. So, I'm sure

850
01:12:34,010 --> 01:12:41,610
consider that in their offer of $3,500. Could we potentially get more afforded auction? I think we

851
01:12:41,610 --> 01:12:47,970
could. How much more that's a big question. But again, I go back to say that it is an asset. It is

852
01:12:47,970 --> 01:12:52,670
nice to have that ability if something were to happen to ours. Even if it's a recall and it had to

853
01:12:52,670 --> 01:12:57,510
be in the shop for a couple of weeks to be, hey, let us borrow that and have that ability to do that.

854
01:12:58,290 --> 01:13:02,790
I know you're always looking out for the city's best interest so just one

855
01:13:02,790 --> 01:13:08,870
little explanation on that. Thank you sir. Yeah thank you. Anything else?

856
01:13:10,030 --> 01:13:15,230
Mr. Mayor, if there are no other questions I will make a motion to approve the

857
01:13:15,230 --> 01:13:20,830
Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Ballground regarding the 2004-F-550

858
01:13:20,830 --> 01:13:27,850
Bucket Truck. Second. The motion is second. Any further discussion? All the payers say aye.

859
01:13:28,370 --> 01:13:32,290
Aye. Opposed nay. All mirror voted for the motion. Thank you, Mr. Engels.

860
01:13:34,390 --> 01:13:34,910
Item D.

861
01:13:35,290 --> 01:13:38,530
Discussion of the Reservoir Manager position at Hickory Law Creek Reservoir.

862
01:13:46,740 --> 01:13:47,960
Good evening, Mr.

863
01:13:48,100 --> 01:13:57,240
Maher and Council. There are two documents that govern the Reservoir Project. One is a joint

864
01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,800
project agreement between Cobb County,

865
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,900
Marietta Water Authority and the city and the other is Reservoir Management

866
01:14:03,900 --> 01:14:10,000
Plan that is controlled by the City of Kenton. The joint project

867
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:15,440
agreement outlines the staffing for reservoir operations, the cost sharing on

868
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:20,980
the operations and the allocations of the resources within the reservoir. The

869
01:14:20,980 --> 01:14:26,020
Reservoir Management Plan outlines the use of the reservoir and the impacts from

870
01:14:26,020 --> 01:14:31,600
adjacent properties on the reservoir. So think of operations being joint project

871
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:37,560
agreement, think about the space, the location, being the reservoir management plan.

872
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:43,940
We currently have a reservoir superintendent, which handles the operations at the reservoir.

873
01:14:44,420 --> 01:14:50,840
That is an employee of Cobb County, Marietta Water Authority, who is jointly funded through

874
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:53,700
the project agreement by the city of Canton and Copcany,

875
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:57,780
area of Water Authority. At their other reservoirs,

876
01:14:57,880 --> 01:14:59,280
they have reservoir managers.

877
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,540
But they can't have a reservoir manager because we control the reservoir management plan. The current staff out there, they are trying to get that individual up to the same level as all the other reservoir managers in their system, but they can't without some of the duties associated with the reservoir manager under our reservoir plan. It's very confusing, right? Bottom line is this, we control the reservoir management plan. And that includes things like

878
01:15:29,540 --> 01:15:35,200
permits for people to do things on the reservoir. It's related to the land around the reservoir

879
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:41,780
and the buffer and inspections of that. And those are things we would not want to give up to

880
01:15:41,780 --> 01:15:46,280
Cobb County Mary out of Water Authority. But we have a really excellent reservoir,

881
01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:51,840
superintendent out there right now. And we're okay with that person helping us with that process

882
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:57,680
and maybe delegating some of that responsibility to them to the extent that we still get to

883
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:02,720
control the oversight of it. Our current Reservoir Management Plan is not set up

884
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:07,780
that way. It's really set up for the Reservoir Manager to be a staff person of

885
01:16:07,780 --> 01:16:14,200
the city and it's not a full-time job. So what I am suggesting to counsel is that

886
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:19,520
we consider drafting a policy under a Reservoir Management Plan that

887
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:25,880
allows us to name the Reservoir Superintendent as our Reservoir Manager with

888
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:30,940
some additional conditions so that the city still gets to sign off on permits and applications

889
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:36,080
and those decisions are not being made by an employee of Cobb County Mayor of Water Authority

890
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:42,780
but in consultation with the city of Ken. So it really is a win-win for us to be able to handle it

891
01:16:42,780 --> 01:16:48,700
that way. Now the other part about that is as I said we have an excellent reservoir superintendent

892
01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:54,760
right now who's been involved with that project almost since the project started. Lots of years out

893
01:16:54,760 --> 01:17:00,860
their lots of experience loves working in that particular area. If that person

894
01:17:00,860 --> 01:17:05,000
left we may want to claw that back because their reservoir superintendent may

895
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:09,520
not be somebody that we want to give those duties to. So I bring this to you

896
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:13,400
because I wanted to bring it to you as a thought and discussion on them. Get your

897
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:18,120
questions or any feedback you might have before drafting a policy and bringing it

898
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:22,380
to you. If you say to me no the reservoir manager really needs to be a city

899
01:17:22,380 --> 01:17:25,820
employee that I'm going to designate somebody to be the reservoir manager.

900
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:29,160
There's just not a lot of daily duties associated with it.

901
01:17:30,100 --> 01:17:34,160
The reservoir superintendents out there all the time, they have their boots on the ground,

902
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:38,580
they're more likely to see an issue that might pop up around the reservoir, so giving them

903
01:17:38,580 --> 01:17:41,820
a little bit of that authority is probably a benefit to the city and the law.

904
01:17:46,540 --> 01:18:01,580
So the IGA would allow us to name that person as the manager or superintendent manager, but it wouldn't be a default, like it's always that person, that's correct.

905
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:08,900
So we'd have the position, I mean, after that person leads retire, we could bring the staff person back in house if we wanted to correct.

906
01:18:08,900 --> 01:18:11,680
And it would not be drafted as an IGA.

907
01:18:11,900 --> 01:18:15,300
It would simply be a policy that we add to our

908
01:18:16,140 --> 01:18:21,540
Reservoir Management Plan that would allow the city manager to name the Reservoir Manager

909
01:18:21,540 --> 01:18:25,720
which could include the reservoir superintendent.

910
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:31,340
But if it is the reservoir superintendent, the following additional conditions exist.

911
01:18:31,740 --> 01:18:38,040
So still gives us authority over permits and decisions there, which I think is certainly important going forward.

912
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,980
And we had that conversation in December.

913
01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:44,520
We had a meeting, a regular board meeting,

914
01:18:44,620 --> 01:18:47,060
and there was some conversation about that

915
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,940
with the executive director

916
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:54,420
as part of a personnel item that we discussed.

917
01:18:54,940 --> 01:18:57,040
And I told them that I would be bringing that to y'all

918
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:59,180
as a potential idea because we want to work

919
01:18:59,180 --> 01:19:00,160
through that process.

920
01:19:00,580 --> 01:19:02,200
We want to help the guy that's out there.

921
01:19:02,260 --> 01:19:03,700
He does a phenomenal job.

922
01:19:04,340 --> 01:19:06,220
But we still want to have our own control

923
01:19:06,220 --> 01:19:08,980
over the final study on applications and permits.

924
01:19:09,620 --> 01:19:11,060
And if we did have somebody out there

925
01:19:11,060 --> 01:19:13,040
that was not doing the phenomenal job,

926
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:15,800
we would want the ability to pull some of that back.

927
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:24,440
So, and I think it's, you know, it's a good move

928
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:26,280
in listening to one disagrees here,

929
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:29,700
but you would draft that IGA for us to actually review

930
01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:31,220
and then be able to look at that detail.

931
01:19:32,460 --> 01:19:33,900
I believe that's going forward, so.

932
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:35,220
Yes, ahead of the next meeting.

933
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:38,700
Any questions on that?

934
01:19:39,300 --> 01:19:44,980
If not, we'll look forward to that, J, and appreciate that recommendation.

935
01:19:46,660 --> 01:19:52,720
We added item D, which is a discussion on possible action on decoration of the state of emergency

936
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:59,760
and preparation for winter storm burn, I believe, if he are in.

937
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:01,060
That's correct.

938
01:20:01,060 --> 01:20:09,660
So, under the city's code of ordinances in Section 2633, it gives the ability for the declaration

939
01:20:09,660 --> 01:20:11,500
of an emergency by the mayor.

940
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:16,400
We have typically had a situation where the mayor has had to declare that, and then

941
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:19,760
we've had to come back to the council to get that ratified after the fact.

942
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:27,500
Basically, in stating a declaration of emergency, there's some flexibility that's provided to

943
01:20:27,500 --> 01:20:33,180
the city manager in case we have to procure equipment or additional manpower or resources

944
01:20:33,180 --> 01:20:40,040
related to a potential storm. The state of Georgia issued a declaration of emergency and

945
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:46,100
what that means for us is by keeping track of any of those expenses that we have, we may

946
01:20:46,100 --> 01:20:54,100
be able to seek recoupment for those expenses after the fact. So we did this last year when

947
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:59,540
we had a winter storm, Kora, it was coming through the mayor declared a state of emergency,

948
01:21:00,420 --> 01:21:05,140
winter storm Kora never really it fizzled out before anything happened at the city so

949
01:21:05,140 --> 01:21:09,360
we didn't have to use it and then we didn't have the mayor and council ratified at the

950
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:13,860
next meeting because we didn't have to use any of those emergency powers. So to not always

951
01:21:13,860 --> 01:21:19,880
be asking for is for the mayor and council to vote to allow the mayor to declare a state

952
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:27,400
of emergency ahead of Winter Storm Furn what a wonderful name better be safe than

953
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:32,460
sorry and again I want to thank our staff that said in the past two days the

954
01:21:32,460 --> 01:21:38,780
police department and the city managers and staff on storm briefings with

955
01:21:38,780 --> 01:21:43,380
with the state and I know we have another one scheduled for tomorrow so I

956
01:21:43,380 --> 01:21:49,660
appreciate the advance preparation again hopefully we can declare these emergency

957
01:21:49,660 --> 01:22:06,520
The power is again, but not happy to use them, but we're all fingers crossed, things are looking omnisled a little bit at this point, but again, we'd rather be prepared and have our staff have the ability to act and protect our citizens as much as possible in case of the pending storm.

958
01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:09,820
So any questions on that?

959
01:22:10,700 --> 01:22:15,560
Did I understand you to say that the state of Georgia has already declared a state of emergency.

960
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:45,540
The governor does that so that it provides him the executive ability to go and call up members of the Georgia National Guard, which is already put some on notice, to move equipment around the state, it allows, it allows the executive to be able to utilize personnel that might not be frontline personnel to join in on specific efforts, if they need to go rent equipment or if it gets rid of some of the procurement issues that might exist in the state.

961
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:46,360
in an emergency.

962
01:22:53,670 --> 01:22:57,210
Mayor, if you don't mind, I'd like to make a motion to allow the mayor

963
01:22:57,210 --> 01:23:02,290
to issue a deck of state of emergency for the city of Penn. Second.

964
01:23:03,710 --> 01:23:07,750
Further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

965
01:23:07,830 --> 01:23:11,070
Opposed nay. I'll may have floated for the motion. Thank you, Mr. Peppers.

966
01:23:12,710 --> 01:23:17,650
All right. Well, I will give you an update on the winter storm. As the mayor mentioned,

967
01:23:17,650 --> 01:23:21,090
and we're preparing as best we can for that.

968
01:23:21,410 --> 01:23:24,730
The weather event was officially named Winter Storm Furn

969
01:23:25,250 --> 01:23:28,050
and is expected to move into the Canton area on Saturday.

970
01:23:28,770 --> 01:23:32,950
Based upon the weather meeting that we had at 2 o'clock today

971
01:23:32,950 --> 01:23:34,930
with the National Weather Service

972
01:23:34,930 --> 01:23:38,830
and other members of local and state government,

973
01:23:39,450 --> 01:23:42,090
we anticipate that it will start moving

974
01:23:42,090 --> 01:23:45,110
into our area of the state Saturday afternoon.

975
01:23:45,110 --> 01:23:51,390
likely began to rain, turning into freezing rain between noon and 6 p.m. Our

976
01:23:51,390 --> 01:23:55,970
team participated in the National Weather Service calls. Yesterday, again

977
01:23:55,970 --> 01:24:00,710
today, there'll be another one tomorrow. Some of the highlights from today's call

978
01:24:00,710 --> 01:24:03,650
is that Canton is in a...

979
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:12,140
Canton is in the current winter storm watch that includes

980
01:24:12,140 --> 01:24:18,220
all of North Georgia Metro and down through the Grange. At this time there is a

981
01:24:18,220 --> 01:24:25,120
50% chance that can't we'll see a quarter of an inch of ice and a greater than 30% chance we

982
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:32,220
could see a half of inch of ice. At this time snow is not in the picture. The actual watch area

983
01:24:32,220 --> 01:24:39,860
calls for a quarter of an inch to an inch of ice and one to two inches of sleet between Saturday at 1am

984
01:24:39,860 --> 01:24:47,020
and Monday at 7am. The concern is compounded with wind gusts ranging up to 30 miles per hour.

985
01:24:47,020 --> 01:24:54,040
For our residents, plan to get off the roadways after lunch on Saturday, do not plan to get

986
01:24:54,040 --> 01:25:01,040
out on Sunday at all, and know that temperatures that may go up a little bit on Sunday in the

987
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:07,160
afternoon and though anything out will plummet on Monday morning and re-freeze everything.

988
01:25:08,060 --> 01:25:12,800
The city is releasing a weather statement this evening, I think it went out at 6 o'clock.

989
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:17,720
it's got a lot of information in there about the city our operations and what

990
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:22,680
we're doing. We will operate our emergency operations center at the police

991
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:27,120
department starting on Saturday morning and we'll have public works utilizing

992
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:32,820
Brian truck tomorrow into Saturday morning. We have all of our equipment which

993
01:25:32,820 --> 01:25:37,520
include 25 four wheel and all wheel drive vehicles in the police department.

994
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:42,440
Three plows and four spreaders through public works. We'll have all of those

995
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:49,120
working for us. We will only be adding brine solution to the major bridges and roadways

996
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:56,800
in coordination with GDI. We also have several tons of aggregate that we've spread and we've

997
01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:02,900
stockpiled in different locations across the city and we'll use that as the storm comes through.

998
01:26:04,380 --> 01:26:11,060
Ic issues can lead to down trees, broken limbs and power disruptions. It is imperative that people not

999
01:26:11,060 --> 01:26:18,200
try to remove limbs or trees from power lines. Just because the power may be out at your home does not

1000
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:24,520
mean the power on the roadway is out. Our plan is to have hourly updates from the field and we'll be

1001
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:29,620
able to update all that information from the public on our social media and also on our website.

1002
01:26:30,620 --> 01:26:36,080
We will continue to monitor this. We may make a few changes tomorrow when we get the next update

1003
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:44,040
from the national weather service. I will tell you that from yesterday to today, the degree of certainty has increased.

1004
01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:52,960
As you can see on the map on the screen, Cherokee County is kind of half in that major and half in that moderate area.

1005
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:56,000
It's all going to depend on timing.

1006
01:26:57,240 --> 01:27:06,860
We have what is interestingly called a fancy wedge for Northeast Georgia, a CAD, a damning

1007
01:27:06,860 --> 01:27:13,280
area where they don't know what's going to happen with the warm air as it hits that wet

1008
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:17,920
air and cold air on the eastern side of the Appalachian.

1009
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:24,100
So we'll see and we'll do our best to inform you and the public of what's going on.

1010
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:30,720
best case scenario. Don't look at the weather on your phone. You know we were

1011
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:34,380
going to get six inches of snow earlier this week according to my phone. Best

1012
01:27:34,380 --> 01:27:38,760
places to look for weather are always going to be your metropolitan news

1013
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:43,040
channels, the National Weather Service, and you can also find a lot of information

1014
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:47,880
from Chair County Emergency Management through social media. The calls that we

1015
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:53,040
participate on are made public. They are recorded to a YouTube channel from the

1016
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:58,280
national weather service so anybody can go and watch those and get up to what's going on.

1017
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:04,560
So I didn't want to update you on that. On some friendlier news, Jackson Jordan was named

1018
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:10,040
our team member of the month. Jackson is a fire inspector in our building and safety services

1019
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:17,080
office. He's just a really friendly guy. He should be because his mom is Karen Jordan who retired

1020
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:21,280
as a city clerk up in ball ground. If you ever dealt with her, you know how friendly she was.

1021
01:28:22,260 --> 01:28:30,240
Jackson is just an offshoot of her in friendliness. He does good job for us, has good attitude and is always willing to help out.

1022
01:28:30,500 --> 01:28:40,640
Has a pretty good sense of humor as well. When he received his award, he was told he had to come down and meet the city manager and all of his colleagues upstairs were afraid for him.

1023
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:46,400
When he went back upstairs, he had an empty box with him because he was trying to play a joke on him.

1024
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:54,960
I mentioned in our last meeting about the Health Insurance Renewal, we do have a record

1025
01:28:54,960 --> 01:29:01,140
mark three to talk through that discussion of the Health Insurance Renewal.

1026
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:06,960
The initial renewal statement we got from Anthem was in the ballpark of a 28% increase and

1027
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:13,960
we've been working with our agent of record to try to bring that down, but also look at

1028
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:18,820
other options should we have to go another way. City Council retreat, the Mayor and

1029
01:29:18,820 --> 01:29:23,480
Council will have spring retreat, March 26th through the 20th Rilla, which is a

1030
01:29:23,480 --> 01:29:28,960
mixed use development side in Fayette County. Citizens Academy, we have a new

1031
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:35,440
program that we are launching that starts in February that is, can't, can't

1032
01:29:35,440 --> 01:29:39,620
there's a citizenship academy where over a period of weeks you learn about the

1033
01:29:39,620 --> 01:29:44,980
operations of the city and what it takes to make the city work. Applications are still

1034
01:29:44,980 --> 01:29:51,620
being accepted at this time. We have about 20 issue applications. Now some people think

1035
01:29:51,620 --> 01:29:55,420
they live in the city limits and don't so they may not be eligible so we're going through

1036
01:29:55,420 --> 01:29:58,240
that list. Our first priority of course is our city residents.

1037
01:29:58,240 --> 01:29:59,920
That's the last thing I-

1038
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:24,680
Any update you own is an item that was before the Board of Appeals. There was an appeal to a decision by the community development director based upon a zoning case for the Riverstone retreat. The Board of Appeals upheld the staff's position on that. And so the applicant has requested an appeal before the city council.

1039
01:30:24,680 --> 01:30:32,600
So the appeal application from the applicant's attorney did not come in until after we had

1040
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:34,540
already set the agenda for this meeting.

1041
01:30:35,140 --> 01:30:40,520
So that request will be on the next agenda for you to consider hearing the appeal.

1042
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:44,960
If you choose to hear the appeal, we'll schedule the date for that appeal with the applicant

1043
01:30:45,460 --> 01:30:47,920
so that they can get in here and make that appeal to you.

1044
01:30:48,100 --> 01:30:52,280
If you choose not to hear the appeal, they would have the opportunity to make an appeal

1045
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:53,400
to the Superior Court.

1046
01:30:56,440 --> 01:31:02,140
That's all I have. Anything from you? Any questions I can answer or any questions from Mr. Chair.

1047
01:31:04,650 --> 01:31:07,150
Okay. Thank you Mr. Repres. Thank you.

1048
01:31:08,190 --> 01:31:11,770
Just double checking on Council introduced items. Good.

1049
01:31:13,090 --> 01:31:16,210
Just have a couple things here.

1050
01:31:17,010 --> 01:31:21,070
I do need to make an appointment to the Canton Building Authority.

1051
01:31:21,070 --> 01:31:30,230
As you may know, Ms. McGrew was a member of the Canton Building Authority, and of course Mr.

1052
01:31:30,290 --> 01:31:36,110
Ross has taken her position, so I'd like to point Councilor Rice to fulfill Ms.

1053
01:31:36,330 --> 01:31:42,810
McGrew's form of position on the Canton Building Authority, and I'd like to have a second to

1054
01:31:42,810 --> 01:31:43,330
that appointment.

1055
01:31:45,110 --> 01:31:46,390
Any discussion?

1056
01:31:47,710 --> 01:31:48,310
All in favor?

1057
01:31:48,890 --> 01:31:49,290
Say aye.

1058
01:31:49,670 --> 01:31:49,910
Aye.

1059
01:31:51,690 --> 01:31:52,970
I'm going to put you to

1060
01:31:52,970 --> 01:31:53,550
work.

1061
01:31:54,550 --> 01:31:55,750
I will put you to work.

1062
01:31:56,730 --> 01:31:58,010
I will remind everyone.

1063
01:31:59,410 --> 01:32:02,330
Next Thursday night, we will be

1064
01:32:02,330 --> 01:32:04,110
convened for the annual state of

1065
01:32:04,110 --> 01:32:04,870
the city address.

1066
01:32:05,170 --> 01:32:06,550
We look forward to speaking

1067
01:32:06,550 --> 01:32:06,890
everyone.

1068
01:32:07,090 --> 01:32:08,970
We are going to begin at five

1069
01:32:08,970 --> 01:32:12,050
o'clock I believe with a little

1070
01:32:12,050 --> 01:32:13,650
reception in the room so we can

1071
01:32:13,650 --> 01:32:17,290
mingle and mix and before the

1072
01:32:17,290 --> 01:32:23,290
address and then I will try to keep it under three hours and the state of the city

1073
01:32:23,290 --> 01:32:26,790
we have a lot to talk about a lot of review and a lot of exciting things to talk about going forward.

1074
01:32:26,970 --> 01:32:38,950
So look forward to that address next week. And again, I wanted to thank our staff and management

1075
01:32:38,950 --> 01:32:44,270
police department, public works, communications department, everyone who is participating

1076
01:32:44,270 --> 01:32:55,470
In preparation for the winter storm, as Mr. Peppers mentioned, Val look has gotten a little bit more competent and a little bit more ominous.

1077
01:32:56,170 --> 01:33:05,750
It's not a lot we can do about I suspicion those amounts, but I know we've got the right team in place and advancing at preparing in advance as much as possible.

1078
01:33:06,530 --> 01:33:11,450
And our communication team will be doing a great job of communicating what is happening.

1079
01:33:11,450 --> 01:33:15,550
I know the police department will be and the emergency operations center will be

1080
01:33:16,730 --> 01:33:21,810
communicating on an hourly basis and so again I just want to urge citizens to

1081
01:33:21,810 --> 01:33:27,930
prepare in advance, prepare for the worst, I hope for the best and again if

1082
01:33:27,930 --> 01:33:33,570
if ICE does develop as it's anticipated and predicted please stay off the roads

1083
01:33:33,570 --> 01:33:39,130
and don't get on the roads if you don't have to and

1084
01:33:39,130 --> 01:33:48,490
And go also remind our citizens that the mayor is not a meteorologist, so I don't know if it's going to snow, if it's going to ice or rain or anything.

1085
01:33:49,030 --> 01:33:53,850
But please go www.cantanga.gov and we'll be channeling all the information through that.

1086
01:33:54,010 --> 01:33:57,210
And again, our social media platforms as well.

1087
01:33:57,990 --> 01:34:01,310
And we'll be trying to share the same information as soon as we have that.

1088
01:34:01,310 --> 01:34:09,410
So communication is key and that's about everyone please stay safe and again prepare for the worst hope for the best. So

1089
01:34:10,370 --> 01:34:12,890
With that I'll entertain a motion to adjourn

1090
01:34:14,750 --> 01:34:16,050
Motion to adjourn

1091
01:34:16,050 --> 01:34:17,890
All in favor say aye

1092
01:34:18,750 --> 01:34:19,310
Pose name

1093
01:34:20,190 --> 01:34:21,910
We are adjourned. Thank you everyone