City Council - Regular Meeting

There we go. Good afternoon. I can have everyone's attention. I will call the March 2nd, 2026 Mayor and Council meeting to order. If you'll all stand and we'll have our pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Pastor Landram, would you please come and do our invitation if everybody remain standing.

Bow your heads if you will. Gracious and wonderful almighty God, we come to you right now just to say thank you. Thank you, dear God, for your this beautiful day that you have made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Lord, we thank you for the all these city council members and the people in this city who work so hard to make this a great community. And right now, a special concern goes out to Ward One where a young man shot himself in the head this past weekend. Dear God, we ask your covering upon him. We know that there is healing in the name of Jesus and we claim that right now in his name. Lord, we ask that you will continue to bless us in a mighty way. And all that we do in this meeting, may it bring glory to your name. We pray this prayer in the precious name of your darling son Jesus the Christ. Let every heart say amen.

Amen. Thank you, Pastor Land. Do we have any citizens comments? Okay. All right. We don't have any citizens comments, but the next item on the agenda is the minutes from our February meetings. Do I have a motion to approve? All right. I have a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Is there any additions or corrections? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Okay. The next item on our agenda would be the mayor and council announcements and we will start with Councilman North.

Uh good evening everyone. Um I uh for the last four or five days I've been up at uh the University of West Georgia undergoing the training for municipal uh newly elected municipal uh uh members and it was quite an eyeopening. I learned quite a bit and but you still got to read a little bit more to understand where I where my position is and how the everything works together. So, I appreciate the city uh getting me up there and I want my my I want to um give a shout out to Megan and Haley and um and Mr. Brooks for getting everything squared away. A lot of cities did not have what you all had for me and I appreciate that. Made me proud to have Carolton uh and everyone that not only talked about football, but they talked about what we were doing, growing and doing things the right way. So, so other than that, uh I'm here. I'm a little under the weather, but I'll get through it. And Councilman Ugam is under the weather, too. So, we need to remember him in our prayers. All right, Councilman Lo Better.

I I don't really have a whole lot tonight, but I hope everyone will get out and enjoy this pretty weather we've got coming up because we all know it's not going to last, don't we? But y'all have a good week. Okay, Councilman Gibbs, I don't have a lot either. I'm looking forward to the time change and the longer days and the better weather. Okay. Well, I just want to say um thank you to Councilman North for going to the newly elected um seminar. Of course, that's required by law, but still, it's one of those things where you learn a lot and you get overwhelmed and you come back and you say, "Okay,

yeah." But we're here to help him uh through anything he needs. And the staff has been wonderful to help also, and we we appreciate that. and we appreciate what our staff does on a daily basis and um we hope that pretty soon you're going to be able to enjoy some of the uh reap some of the benefits of our staff's planning which will start in the spring and I guess Mayfest kind of kicks that off and then from there we we're fullfledged full steam ahead. So um we look forward to the spring every year. Okay, Mr. Brooks, do you have any comments?

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Just a quick I know we're going to recognize the entire finance purchasing department today and uh for their uh professional uh associations week, but I just want to give a shout out to our utility department, building department, the ladies down in the uh first floor that work the windows and and take all the bills and and the payments and the complaints and everything else that comes their way. They probably are the most forward- facing group that we have in the city. They they're in contact with more of of our citizens than anybody else um all day every day. So, just appreciate the job that they do. They do it with a smile. They're uh um they do go out of their way to help folks and try to make uh make folks day better by giving them a good experience when they come to city hall. So, just wanted to give a shout out to those folks downstairs that uh they just in the grind all day every day. So, thank you guys. Okay. All right. Uh at this time, uh do I have a motion to approve the agenda items for consideration?

So move. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the agenda items for consideration. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. The next first item on our agenda is a proclamation for the 2026 government finance professionals week. And we have our finance director here. Good evening, mayor and council. Uh tonight we join governments all across the state of Georgia in recognizing Government Finance Professionals Week, which will take place this month from March 16th through 20th and is sponsored by the Georgia Government Finance Officer Association. Government Finance Professional Week gives us an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the dedicated public servants who work behind the scenes to ensure our city remains financially strong, transparent, and accountable. This year's theme for Government Finance Professionals Week is the people behind the public trust. This theme highlights the the heart of public finance, the people whose commitment to excellence, integrity, and stewardship strengthen public confidence in government and ensures that our taxpayer dollars are managed responsibly. Here in the city of Carolton, we are blessed with an exceptional team who carries out this important work every single day. And tonight, we specifically re recognize the outstanding employees in our finance department, who assists with the preparation and management of our budget, oversees accounting and financial reporting, ensures compliance with state and federal regulation, processes all of our vendor payments, and safeguards the city's financial integrity. The purchasing department works diligently to ensure competitive, transparent procurement processes that maximizes value for every dollar that we spend. They also manage tons of our city credit cards, travel reservations, and just so many things that you know, you can't even believe. Our utility billing department, as um city manager Brooks just mentioned, serves as a primary point of contact for our residents, accurately managing utility account balances, accepting payments, and providing customer service with professionalism and care. And also our

meter reading department. They work in all kinds of weather conditions to ensure accurate readings that form the foundation of our utility systems reliability and fairness that drives our revenue processes. These teams operate with professionalism, precision, and a deep commitment to service. And much of their work goes unnoticed. Because when it's done well, everything simply works as it should. Bills go out on time, vendors are paid accurately, financial reports are clean, audits are strong, and services continue unin uninterrupted. Their work requires technical expertise, attention to detail, adaptability to changing regulations, and above all, a commitment to the public trust. I'm so honored to lead this amazing team and we express our sincere appreciation to each member of the finance, purchasing, utility billing, and metering departments. Your dedication, integrity, and hard work strengthen this city every single day, and thank you for what you do for the city of Carolton.

So, y'all stand up, please. Thank you, Kevin. At this time, I will read the proclamation and then we'll ask for y'all to come up front and I'll make a presentation and we'll get some photos. Um, the office of the mayor of city of Carolton proclamation government finance professional week March 16th through 20th, 2026. Whereas government finance professionals perform essential service that ensure the effective, transparent and responsible management of public funds for the benefits of residents throughout the state of Georgia. And whereas government finance professionals serve their communities through their expertise in budgeting, accounting, treasury, management, procurement, debt administration, auditing, physical reporting, and long range financial planning, thereby supporting the lawful and efficient operations of the state, the county, and municipal governments. And whereas these dedicated professionals uphold the highest standards of ethics, integrity, accuracy, and accountability, fostering public trust and safeguarding the physical health of local government institutions. And whereas the government finance officers association represents finance professionals statewide and advances excellence in government financial management through education, training, leadership and development and where GG FOA and its members jurisdiction have established and sponsored government finance professionals week to acknowledge and celebrate the constit contributions of public finance professionals and to increase awareness

of the vital financial services they provide that benefits all Georgians. And whereas it is fitting and proper to recognize, honor, and express appreciation for the dedication, professionalisms, and public service of government finance professionals whose expertise supports the physical stability and long-term success of Georgia's local governments. Now therefore, I, Betty Kasein, mayor of the city of Carolton, Georgia, do hereby pride proclaim the third week of March as government finance professional week in the city of Carolton, Georgia, and encourage all residents, elected official, and community organizations to join us in recognizing and expressing appreciation for the dedication dedicated government finance professionals across our community and the state state of Georgia. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the city of Carolton to be affixed the second day of March, 2026. Thank you. Y'all want to come up here and I'll make the presentation.

Congratulations. And just to confirm what a great job they do, at this time we are going to have our uh 25 fiscal year 25 audit presentation. Mr. Holfield from Rustin.

I'm glad we got a good report. Me and you too, buddy. I wasn't expecting anything but No. know has been good. So, uh, mayor and council, I'm Chris Holoffield. We got Julie George over here with our firm Rustin.

Uh, thank you for, uh, having ush back again to do the audit. I was looking back and, um, uh, this kind of marks our 10th anniversary with the city. Yes. This year. So, we we appreciate that relationship. It's been uh, really good. And I hope hope you agree as well. Um, is there a clicker somewhere? There we go. joystick there. Okay. So, um and I I just applaud the whole finance where they all go over here anyway.

Yeah. Uh Kevin, whole staff. Um I appreciate y'all's help with this, making the audit go helping the a go smooth. Uh David and and all the folks in the city. You know, we bother a lot more people than just finance as we're working through the audit. We appreciate everybody's cooperation helping us get where we where we are. So, uh this is the end result for the audit. This is the bound uh annual financial report. Uh there are many pages in here. If you uh um you know, if you need something to help you sleep at night or whatever it may be, there's 144 pages in this report here. Uh that gets submitted to the uh Georgia Department of Audits and uh that has been done. So, also we have some federal funding in there get submitted up to the federal clearing house as well. So, uh we're going to I pulled some highlights out of there. We'll go through on the slide presentation. Uh you also have hard copy in front of you as well. Uh there we go. So, I'm going to mention three different letters as we go through this presentation. Uh the first letter in in our uh in the report is our audit opinion letter. Uh this is on pages one through three in the bound report. Um this is where we talk about our responsibilities during the audit which is to give an opinion on the financial statements that the numbers are accurately presented and we have done so. We've given given a good clean opinion on those. Talks about the city's responsibility. uh we work with finance to um um to adjust any numbers uh as we go through the audit and u we help assist in preparing these financial statements but these financial statements are the responsibility of the city and that's what one thing it says in that opinion letter governmentwide financial statements. So you think what what are governmentwide financials? Well, they're just just what you would think. the whole governmentwide all funds as as you know

we'll hit some of the major uh funds as we go through this presentation uh that the city maintains u there's two reports in in in our annual financial report that represent all funds if a consolidation of all if you will into the statement of net position and the statement of activities. Okay, we'll look at some of the numbers out of those um statement of net position. So that's where we're going to have our assets, our liabilities, and our net position. Uh when we look at net position, think about if you're looking at the financial statements, we have our assets, then we have our liabilities. Everything we owe to someone. Assets less liabilities is going to equal our net position. Okay? So there's five-year trend here. You can see uh if we'll we'll focus on the two far right hand columns uh 2025 and 2024 uh you can see our total net position 240 almost 8 point $240.8 million there up from 227.5 million the previous year uh broken into three categories. The largest category being our investment in capital assets. So all our assets uh capital assets that we have this building would be an example of that your vehicles all your infrastructure uh water and sewer less any accumulated depreciation less any related debt that's associated with those capital assets is 200 million169. Uh then we have our in in the red the smallest there is our restricted little over $8 million. That would be any funds that come into the city that are restricted for a specific purpose. Uh hotel motel tax would be an example of that. Splash dollars would be an example of that. I have to spend the splash dollars based on the voter referendum. Uh those would be in the restricted

category. And and then the green or unrestricted is everything left over. Uh $32.5 million. That's up from $28.8 million the previous year. Okay. So, look at the change in net position. So, this is how we got from the previous year net position to the current year net position. Uh, we've got a five-year trend here. Uh, kind of looks a little odd there in 2022. If you if you look there, if you remember, um, uh, the city made some significant changes in your retirement plan that year. That added some significant expense and liability in 2022 uh, to the city. And then we kind of got back a little bit to normal in 2023 except we had those ARPA funds that came in. Okay, so we had those ARP ARPA dollars in that was recognized. Our tax revenues were up that year. Um so $9.7 million. If you kind of look kind of in between um uh with 2022 having the retirement plan changes, 2021 were $6.35 million. Um we jumped up to 9.7 in 2023. Uh 2024 13.6. Uh there was a good bit of water and sewer uh uh revenues uh that year. And then we kind of leveled off here uh between the two and two and from 24 to 25. Your governmental activities were down just a little bit in the net and your and your business type activities meaning your utilities mainly water and sewer were up in 2025. pretty those cancel each other out almost and pretty well leveled off 13.6 to 13.7 million. All right, so we're now we're going to dig into a few of the individual funds. General fund um our revenues from 2024

to 2025 increased almost $2.6 million up 7.9%. Um, our property taxes increased, our other taxes increased, our charges for services increased. Uh, the property taxes, as you recall, that's not an increase based on any adjustment to the millage rate. We had increase in valuation and growth in the in the city as well. That caused most of that increase in property taxes. Uh, our expenditures increased almost $1.5 million, 4.5%. Um that's these are not all the changes but you these are the major change most significant changes in the report culture and recreation uh general government public works and our debt service uh related to public safety all increased uh during the year from the previous year. Then we look at fund balance unassigned fund balance. So just in the general fund by itself assets lesser liabilities is going to equal our fund balance. uh we had a unassigned fund balance, meaning that's the fund balance we uh we have to be able to carry over to the next year. Sometimes you might use that to assist with budget if you need to, but it's funds you have related that you can carry over to future years. Uh we're sitting uh right at eight months of our annual expenditures uh down just a little bit from the previous year. Uh eight months I think the general fund's a ve very healthy place to be. Uh as as we well know, the city has many projects, many things that are coming up that you have uh possibly allocated those funds and carrying forward to future years and in those budgets. On the next slide, so we'll look at a five-year trend here on our revenues um and other financing sources and our expenditure. So uh top line there being our revenue, uh the yellow line being our expenditures. Uh again, you'll see a spike there in 2023.

That's where we had the ARPA dollars that came in uh were uh were recognized then and expend expenses those years. Uh and then if you look at 2025, um we went from $36.7 million to $38.8 million in revenue, but pretty pretty break even. If you look at the general fund, we had revenues $ 38.8 8 million and uh expenditures of 38 almost $ 38.88 million. So just a slight uh revenues over expenditures for that year. If we look at our fund balance uh in that general fund I referred to we had about eight months uh earlier uh in fund balance you can see the last five years where uh where we've been here. Uh in 2025, we decreased the U total fund balance by $19,000, a little over $19,000. Uh we uh also in those expenditures and or also transfers out about $5.5 million that went over to the general capital project fund. So that's not something that happens every year. Uh so that was some of use of those funds we talked about. Um, if you look at what are our if we break out the pie of all our revenue sources in the general fund. Um, and it's good to see I've I know I've mentioned this before uh but when you have up and down economies, it's great to have a lot of different funding sources you depend on. There's not just one thing that's going to affect a certain um uh revenue source. I know at state legislature right now they're they kept trying to uh push down the freeze on the property taxes. Okay. Well, if that were to happen here and limit on the property taxes, look at all the other funding source opportunities you have to fund the uh fund the budget. So, I think that's very very important. Uh local option sales tax and property tax each make up about 19% of our total

revenue. So, both even right there. And then the uh culture uh the charges for services there 16% that would include our recreation, our cultural and arts and our main street the charges that we are uh for those services and things that uh uh your taxpayers are participating in. You look at the uh general fund expenditures uh by function. Uh public safety typically always the largest with any of our governmental clients. Of course, that's going to include uh both your police and fire and any other public safety that we have uh make up 50 uh 54% there. And then you see our general uh government's at 13. Our culture and recreation again, which includes parks, recreation, cultural arts, senior center uh make up 23% of our annual expenditures in the general fund. Okay. Now, let's look at water and sewage fund. Um our revenues for 25 23.7 million up 6.4% from the previous year. Um our operating expenses uh 14.9 million up 4.3% from the previous year. And then the green line is just the difference in those numbers. Revenues over expenses. See for 25 $8.7 million. The previous year was 7.9. And you can see where we've come uh come from on a five-year trend. Same thing on the sanitation fund. Same five-year um comparison. Uh revenues almost $7.6 million. That's up 11% from the previous year. Okay. Uh our expenses $5.9 million, up 4.6% from the previous year. And then and then the net and and really look look where this sanitation fund has come from

in the last five years. Uh in 2022 we had a loss of 144,000. Uh now we've increased this up in 2025 by just adjusting uh controlling expenses and adjusting rates where they need to be. Uh and so we've had a good five-year trend in this fund. Other major governmental funds. So when we say major funds, um you know there's there's several funds that the city maintains and keeps separate buckets if you will. Um the the ones that are larger in nature in dollar size, we're recorded to report those in the report separately. Okay? Call those major funds. Your smaller funds get sort of lumped together in what we call non- major funds. Okay? I went over uh the general uh the the water and sewage, the uh sanitation. Uh there's also three other major funds large in category to the city. The tax allocation district fund u pretty pretty new to the city. Uh total revenues uh 583,940 that includes taxes and interest and a little bit of other type revenue. And then we have expenditures uh 2,256. Uh if you'll recall, we advanced the general capital projects fund $2.2 million. You'll see a little bit of this in the more detail in the general capital projects fund. Another major fund we uh we had total transfers in of $7.5 million. Uh we had interest um revenue. We also had debt proceeds mean we issued the bonds there 11,780 plus we issued that those at a great time in the market because we had a premium on those bonds of another $735,000 that added to the amount that we're able uh to grab and spend there. That's relative to the city's parking deck and the cultural arts city uh center

expansion. Uh total expenditures in that fund $3.5 million. In the 2021 splash fund, total revenues $9.77 million. That includes six right at $6.9 million of splash. We also had $2.8 million of grant revenue that went in and $11,000 of interest. So if we have a um project that is funded with splast at all, we're required to account for it in this fund. So if we receive a grant to the city that we're going to use splice as some of the match, we must put the grant dollars in this fund and account for the whole project in there. So that's why you see grant funds in there. Uh we spent $9.3 million uh out of this fund. Um the city has eight other of those smaller non- major funds that I'm not going to talk about tonight just to give you an idea of uh what activity is going on. Uh report on internal control. This is a uh the second of the third letters I mentioned earlier. U under government auditing standards we're required to look at significant internal controls of the city. how you pro uh process certain transactions and controls you other controls you'll have in place. And then also compliance with grant agreements, state law, uh splice, hotel, motel, are you spending your restricted dollars like you're supposed to. Um this is where we would report any issues or anything in there that and you can find that report in page 135 through 136. Um and then the third letter that we have um is really the same internal control and compliance on how the city maintains and handles processes your federal only dollars. Okay. We're required to look at certain large federal dollars in there. Uh audit what we call major programs uh

that we had no issues, no no problems, anything to report to you there. Okay. All right. about to wrap it up and bring it back home here in about three or four more slides here. I'll cover these quick. Um, just to let you know, all this team over here is uh what they're having to deal with year after year is Gazsby. You know, it's not the great Gazsby. It's the governmental accounting standards board uh that issues uh the accounting pronouncements that all governments throughout the throughout the US must follow. Um we there was statement number 101 compensated absences that required us to u re look at how we handle certain uh employee leave pay. Okay PTO vacation sick those type pays. Um this standard in implementation uh increased the city's compensated absence liability by $410,494. So that's significant number you know all because of the Gazsby pronouncement that jumped as a additional liability on the books of the city. Okay. Uh Gazsby 102 uh has to do with certain risk disclosures. If there were some risk that we had in the city related to uh a concentration or a constraint of revenue that could not be a reader could not tell by reading the financials. We would have to disclose that. uh we did not note any of those that we need to disclose. So that really didn't affect the city, but something we have to maintain and look at each year just to make sure there's not an additional note disclosure we must add. Uh Gazsby 103 financial reporting model. U in the report here, there's a management discussion up front. Um and it starts on um probably page four, I think it is. Um if you get lost in the numbers and financial statements are Greek with you

start reading on page four in that bound report. Uh Kevin lays out the uh management discussion analysis kind of lays out in layman terms what happened financially with the city during the year. uh there'll be some changes in what's required to be put in that um for next year we'll have to implement and then some of our uh business type activities like water and sewer sanitation uh could see some differences in how we allocate for transfers and report transfers there breaking out subsidies uh versus capital type transfers. Um Yasby 104 will be implemented next fiscal year as well. uh if we have certain capital assets that we're reporting that we know are going to be sold. So let's say in August after your junior year in uh you uh push out of a good bit of your capital assets out to uh gov deals or for surplus sale, we're going to need to know that and disclose to the reader, hey, these assets are on the books were sold right after year end. Okay. Okay. That is my presentation. Uh, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Chris, we appreciate the great job y'all do um for us each year and we definitely appreciate uh our staff that work so diligently uh in making sure that all the compliances are met. And I know that each year Gatsby seems to change things sometimes in the middle of the year from the way you've been reporting in the past. So, you know, I know it's a lot and I I'm excited to see um that we continue to have an operating fund and I know people will look at that and say, "Well, the city has lots of money." But I'll give you a little bit of background on that. During COVID, um we were able to operate without laying anybody off. Okay? So so many of the cities don't have that reserve. So they had to lay employees off during COVID and and those employees weren't paid. Our employees never missed a paycheck. So we're very proud of that and and the job that that they do and I think we meet the recommendation of the state of the uh amount of operating capital we need to keep on file. Is that

Sure. Sure. Yeah. So, um, thank you again for the great job you do. Does anybody have any questions? No, but I' I'd like to add that during CO there was no reduction in services either. Well, you know, we had correct we were able to pay our employees, but we did not have to do any reduction of services to our community, which is not the case all over the state. Thank you.

Any other comments? I would just like to say I appreciate the work that that Chris and Julie do and they come in and um very professional. They do a great job. They get their work done. They do it in a timely manner and uh they're not demanding. They don't come in demanding things. They come they give us a checklist ahead of time and we try to we try to make available to them to and we try to respect their time as well and and they know that we're still working, you know, all day every day. And so it's just it's a good partnership. I appreciate you guys and and how you handle your business. Absolutely. It's a a good good report. I just had one question just for clarification.

Uh the county the county relationship with the city as far as the splash or the loss. Uh I'm pretty sure that's pretty smooth or we have no issues with it or some of that uh resulted in what some of your u some of your figures resulted in.

Yeah. So, so when we look at splast lost is not so restrictive as like splast is lost goes in the general fund is part of the general fund operating budget where splast is a separate fund kept separate and so one of the things we look at during the audit is we look at the expenditures out of that splice fund and we match that back to what projects that was they were spent on and verify those were in the voter referendum that was approved by the taxpayers. And so we're looking for compliance, making sure that we're not spending SPLS dollars for general operations or something like that. So yeah, look very good. Thank you.

Yes. Okay. Well, no other questions. Thank you again to you and Julie both and Kevin and your wonderful staff. We appreciate Becky. Y'all all do such a great job and and we really do appreciate the job you do. All right. All right. Thank you all very much for having us. Y'all have a great night. Thank you. You too.

Okay. The next item on our agenda is a resoning request at 750 Stewart Street. Uh yes, the only reasoning request on your agenda this evening is a resoning request at 750 Stewart Street for a reasonzoning from R10, which is single family residential uh to ER1, which is a state residential. The purpose of this request is so that the applicant may combine uh two separate tracks that she owns uh into one parcel. Uh the intention is for that particular parcel that that is up uh for um resoning tonight to be combined with that 750 Stewart Street tract. Uh the planning commission did review this uh during their February planning commission meeting and they did vote unanimously to approve it with the following condition. uh that the tract be combined uh with 750 Stewart Street uh which is also parcel number C 03 0270102. Uh again, that's the applicant's intention. The applicant is here if you have any questions. Um and I'll leave it you guys.

Okay. All right. Before we proceed with the resoning request, I'm going to read something to you. At this time, we will hear resoning request. Since many of you may have not previously attended a public hearing on a zoning request, I want to quickly review our procedure. No person in attendance shall speak unless formally recognized. Upon rising to speak, each person recognized shall state their name and home address. Speakers must not employ tactics of intimidation, profanity, or threats of violence in their comments. All comment shall be directly directed to the mayor and council, not to the petitioner or those in opposition. In accordance with Georgia law, each side, not each individual, is allowed total of 10 minutes of public input. This means all of those speaking in favor of the request have a total of 10 minutes and those all speaking in opposition of the request have a total of 10 minutes. Time devoted to questions and answers that the elected officials may ask should not be counted against the time limitations. Since we do have limited time, please try to avoid restating what a mo another may have already said. The applicant shall be allowed to speak first in order to present the application. Others then may speak indicating for their support of or opposition to the application. The applicant will then be allowed time for rebuttal. Rebuttal must be limited to points or issues raised by the opponents to the application at the hearing. And I um as Miss Connelly said, Miss Smith here, but I mean um we have the information that basically we're just putting all of her land together. So, is there anyone here to speak in opposition

of this land being basically put together as one parcel? Okay. Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve this resoning request? So, move. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Smith. Okay, the next item on our agenda is board appointments for the Board of Development Appeals. Mr. Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Connory.

Suzanne Machelli and Philip Block uh both have terms that are expiring uh on the board of development appeals. Um I know you guys just appointed uh Mr. Philip Block, but he was serving a term uh that my Liboitz had vacated. Uh so he's up for reappointment two months into the job. um uh both uh have expressed a desire to continue serving in this capacity. Uh should it be the desire of the mayor and city council? Okay. What's the pleasure of the council? I make a motion that we approve the Suzanne Machelli and Philip Block to remain on the board of development appeals. Okay. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second.

Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Madam, yeah, just before we adjourn, I would like to just recognize we got University of West Georgia um here tonight filming and uh so just appreciate you being here and just let you know you're welcome to come and and film uh and broadcast these meetings uh as often as you want to. So, we're glad to have you here.

Okay. And we also have some of our youth council members here. They are very good about attending the council meetings to see what's going on in the city and make recommendations to us. So, we always appreciate them here. All right. No other business coming before the council. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? So move. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed?