City Council - Regular Meeting

and we'll get started. I'll call the August meeting of the city of Carolton mayor and council meeting to order. You'll all stand and we'll have the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nationice for all.

Remain standing and miss Councilman Waters is going to do our invocation. Amen. Thank you.

The next item on the agenda is citizens comments. Mr. Do we have any comments? Okay. All right. Next, we have the minutes from the um July meetings. Do I have a motion to approve them as presented? So move. Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any oppose? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Before we get to the mayor and council announcements, um Councilman Led Better is not here tonight. He um lost his brother last week and um he also lost a very dear friend and he was just exhausted, he said. So we need to keep him in our thoughts and prayers and their families too for both of those people that passed away. Okay, so we'll start with Councilman Bridges.

Good evening. I would just like to say um thank you to all the people that had the opportunity to be at the unveiling of the street name change for Dr. Samuel Thomas. It was a exciting day and it was very good and uh we finally got that done. That would be something very good for the community. Also, we got the Dress for Success fashion show is next Saturday the 13th at the Center for Arts. I would like to see everybody coming out to support it. Um the event is like a fundraiser to help me put health care services back in the schools. When we think about homelessness and lowincome families, we know they need food and clothes, but their well-being is also important. Um so to build their self, self-esteem and their character. Also, we doing the 5K bike and run event also on the 13th on next Saturday at Legend West Park. Uh, it will start at 8:00 and it will end at 11:00. It's a familyfriendly event. We're going to be doing face painting. We're going to be doing um music. Uh the icy truck be there, the fire truck be there, the police be there, the whole community going to try to be there to do the congratulation and the ribbon cutting of the new trail head on Alabama Street and um which is in Ward One. And I just want to just thank the city of Car and our entire community for just being together and uh helping each other and aiding each other where we need it. And also in ward le cment left a ward we did the marketplace it was very nice and everybody were asking me we going to do this all the time I said I don't know and so we had a wonderful time so we have a great community we want to keep

it that way we want to love everybody we want to be there for each other as we should thank you councilman Uglam

uh Councilman Uglam is just happy to be here Tonight I was not able to be here last month due to uh CO invading the Uglum House and uh I was somewhat spared but got to quarantine for quite a while because everybody else in the house had it. So it's nice to be here and nice for our family to be healthy. Uh my deepest condolences to the Lead Better family. Uh, I've known Greg for a long time and was a good friend and and uh my heart goes out to all them. I would like to do a shout out to Kathy Parsons and First Baptist Church on Dixie Street for having the cooling center open for uh people to escape the the heat when it reaches uh unbearable temperatures. and very nice of both them to make that happen. Uh and market night, I'd second that. That that that was a great event, very well attended and uh a big hit in our town. That's it.

Okay.

Okay. I just want to um say also about the cooling center is they are in need of volunteers to work the cooling center just to be there when people come in um you know and get their need met whether it's water or just some place to sit down and cool off. Um and they're also accepting donations uh for water. Um, and I'm there is a flyer. I I don't have my copy with me, maybe on my phone, but there's several things and we can tag it on our website um on our Facebook page of the kind of um items they need for the cooling center. Um, I just want to say thank you all for all your support in the last four weeks of my knee surgery. Uh, I'm not a good patient and I'm very impatient. But anyway, thank y'all for last month making sure everything got done and Mr. Brooks and um, Mayor Pro Tim led better.

Hey, we're glad you're here, too. [laughter] Yeah. But um yeah, I think our market night was a great success. Um I think we had everyone had a good time there. And I spoke with a vendor who said she sold over $1,000 worth of jelly. Now you think about that. Most of the little jellies are like seven, eight, nine dollars. It takes a lot of jelly to make a thousand dollars. So you know, supporting our local um vendors was a great great thing, too. So, uh, and every time I drive by there, it is, I mean, there's people out there, there's families and children playing on the playground. So, um, I think that's been a great addition. And we're doing, um, we're upgrading some other parks around town. And, um, so I I I'm hoping that people can get out and enjoy, um, what the fruits of our labor to get their parks in better shape. Okay. Um, that is all I have. Mr. Brooks.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want to uh say just a thank you to our entire staff here at the city of Carolton and the department heads and and to you guys as elected officials. We've had a great summer. We've had a lot of offerings. We've we've gotten a lot accomplished and you speak of renovating the parks and adding parks over on Alabama Street. we just we've just done a great deal in uh uh since January and and especially this summer and it's been a been good for us. I just want to thank everybody that's been involved in making Carolton a great place to be. Okay. Um at this time, do I have a motion to approve the agenda items for consideration? Have a motion. Do I have a second? Second.

Okay. Our first item of business is resolution 10 uh 2022 health codes. Mr. Brooks.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is uh we've discussed this at a couple of work sessions and we're just asking you to approve uh this resolution that would allow the u the health department inspectors to be able to bring uh their uh citations into the city court and try and bring them in front of the municipal judge. just the uh infractions that occur inside the city limits. It also, if we adopt this, we're adopting the health department uh standards and regulations. It would also allow our codes um enforcement and our police if we so desire to enforce the same code. So, we're asking that you guys approve that uh tonight.

All right. Do I have a motion to approve resolution 10 2022 health codes? I am excited to make that motion. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. [clears throat] Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Our next item on the agenda is resolution 11 2022, our local option sales tax distribution agreement. Mr. Brooks.

Thank you, ma'am. Yes, we we would ask that you uh approve this resolution uh tonight. that would set the uh percentage breakdown of of lost revenue for the next 10 years. We've been negotiating and and talking. We started informally back in March with uh Carol County and we've I've met individually with each of you guys several times and um feel like we have done a a good job in um giving where we could and and getting and receiving some compromise from other folks as well. Um, you see the percentage breakdowns. We it would have us receiving 23.44% of the lost revenue uh going forward for the next 10 years.

Okay. Do I have a motion to approve resolution 1122, the local option sales tax distribution agreement? So move that motion. Okay. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. The next item on the agenda is bid award for the University of West Georgia Coliseum parking lot sinkhole repair.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I apologize. This is the only thing on the uh agenda that we have not been able to discuss in our work session, but it is uh as you guys know very well know, we handle the bids for a lot of the uh capital improvement work over at uh at the West Georgia. We handle the bid process for them and we just got these in just last week. Uh Tommy Holland uh oversees all of that. You can see the first one there is for UWG Coliseum parking lot and sinkhole repair. We got four bids in uh with the uh low bid going to Carl Owen Construction at $185,000 and they also had the fi the uh the best score is it's not all bas based just on price. There's a rubric that uh Mr. Holland goes by when evaluating these bids and so it's it's his recommendation city staff recommendation that we award this bid to Carlo instruction for the repairs of the coliseum parking lot and sinkhole of uh in the amount of $185,000. Okay. All right. Do I have a motion to make this bid award?

So moved. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. The next item on the agenda is the bid award for the um University of West Georgia West Georgia Drive Culver Replacement. Brooks. Yes, ma'am. This is uh again, this is the second one that uh that we've uh we're overseeing for the the bid process for the college. Um two bids come in. The low bid uh of $282,000 went to Compass Environmental Group and they also had the high school on the rubric. So, we uh city staff recommends that we award this bid to Compass Environmental Group in the amount of $282,000.

Okay. So, do I have a motion to make this award? I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Have a motion and second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. The next item on the agenda is a board appointment for the library board. Uh we have um Mr. Tim Griard who had served on the board before. um his term has expired. We have a recommendation of Lisa Carol to take his placement. I think the city has three appointments on this board. Um is there any other nominations for the library board? Okay. Hearing none, do I have a motion to approve uh Lisa Carol as the um library board member for the West Georgia Regional Library appointment?

I move that motion. Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none. Motion carries. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Sir, [laughter] do I have a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion carries. The meeting is adjourned.