City Council - Regular Meeting

Uh it is 6 pm and I will call our regularly scheduled city council meeting to order. Seeing no objections, we are called to order. Uh Councilman Price, will you lead us in invocation and a pledge? Uh if you're able, please rise at this meeting. Help us to make decisions which keep us faithful to our mission and reflect our values. Give us strength to hold to our purpose, wisdom to guide us, and a keen perception to lead us. and above all keep us charitable as we deliberate. Will you please join me in the pledge?

Thank you, Rob. Um, as some of you may have noticed, I'm not the mayor. Mayor Deutsch is not feeling well and will not be participating in the meeting this evening, but we certainly uh wish her a speedy recovery and hope she's feeling well soon.

Yes. And we do have uh uh council member Lenbacker is participating in the meeting remotely. Okay. Yep. The first item on the agenda is an award presentation. Officer of the fourth quarter, Alvin Sloum and employee of the fourth quarter, Liz Stell, Chief Carlson. Good evening, Mayor Prom and Council members. Uh, this time I' like to call up executive assistant Liz Stell and officer Alvin Slen to the vote. Yeah.

Okay. These are the uh I'm going to start with the employee of the quarter. This is going to be the fourth quarter for 2025. Exe Executive Assistant Listelle is tasked with an enormous amount of responsibilities each day, yet continues to perform each of them above and beyond with passion and energy. Her professionalism is consistently demonstrated through her drive for excellence, attention to detail, and community engagement. In her own words, her most important responsibilities are to support the chief and strive to make the agency shine through effective problem solving, sound judgment, good organization, and maintaining confidential confidentiality of information. And she does a fantastic job at all of that. Among her many responsibilities, executive assistant Stell creates a myriad of departmental reports, coordinates police related items on city council agendas, um, and maintaining the police budget. She consistently participates in numerous community outreach events each year, often assisting in an organizational role. As the main liazison with the doy police foundation for departmental needs, uh Liz has established a solid working relationship with all foundation board members and frequently works with them and other community members on projects to enhance police services and assist police staff members in need. In particular, during the fourth quarter of 25, Liz spent countless hours assisting our community outreach offices in organizing the Christmas for Kids campaign on top of her existing responsibilities from project management to creating graphics and working with volunteers. She was an essential part of the program success. In addition, she volunteered as a traffic stop role player for the Citizens Police Academy training this past November. And she does this every year. Throughout the fourth quarter, she's been working hard behind the scenes to organize the department's annual awards banquet, which has proven to be a highly organized special event for our staff year after year. Liz has been a member of our department since the first year it began. And year after year, she proves her loyalty and commitment towards helping our department remain one of the best agencies to work for in Georgia. Like to present to you employee

of the fourth quarter 2025, executive assistant list. And at this time I would like to ask Janet Glass, one of the board members from the Del Police Foundation to present an award. Okay, for the officer of the quarter, um, fourth quarter 2025 is officer Alvin Sloum, our newest traffic enforcement member. So, he, uh, he put in for our traffic unit. Um, yeah, he does an outstanding job every day and, uh, he started today, as a matter of fact. All right. During the fourth quarter of 2025, Officer Alvin Sloum responded to a call for service in which a caller reported that her children's father had placed all of their belongings into storage and removed them from the apartment while she was away and without her knowledge, leaving her no means to retrieve essential items, including Christmas decorations and gifts. During the call, Officer Sloum offered any assistance he could, and the victim expressed that she wished she had a Christmas tree for her children. Acting entirely on his own initiative and using his personal funds, Officer Slokum not only purchased a Christmas tree, but also purchased Christmas gifts for the mother and her three infant and toddler age children. His actions went far

beyond the duties of his position and were not done for recognition or praise, but out of genuine compassion and a desire to help a family during a difficult time. When later discussing the incident, Officer Sloum shared the experience with sincere joy, demonstrating the meaningful impact of his selfless act. In addition to this act, Officer Sloum was asked rather last minute if he could fill in as the Grinch character during our Christmas for kids community event in December. He agreed without hesitation after working a 12-hour shift, arrived at the event in full cost and remained in complete character throughout the evening. Through his passion for spreading joy, Officer Slokum brought smiles and laughter to 52 children going through hard times and a fun evening they won't soon forget. Officer Slokum's integrity, kindness, and willingness to serve the community both on and off duty truly embody the core values of the DOM Police Department, and we are proud he is a part of our team. I'd like to present Officer Alvin Sloum as the fourth quarter officer of the quarter in 2025. And I also like Dan to come back up. Excuse me. Thank you, Chief. And uh congratulations to Officer Slokum and Liz for those welldeserved rewards awards and recognition. Uh you do such

an amazing job representing our city on a day in and dayout basis. And uh the city of Dunwy is very lucky to have you uh have you both and and have you all serving this city. So, thank you so much, Liz. I when Chief mentioned the your roleplay in the in the um citizens uh police academy, I I remember very well when you you did that. You did you did a very good job there and you had a little maybe a little bit too much fun uh doing that, but you do a great you you do a great job with everything. So, thank you so much for everything you do for the city. Okay, it is now public comments. Uh each speaker will have up to three minutes. When you get to the microphone, uh, please speak into the mic, uh, and state your name clearly, uh, for the record. Uh, first up is Bill Norton. Hi, as he said, I'm Bill Norton, uh, here to represent the 268 homes and families in Brook Farm. As you might know, Brook Farm has a lake in it. It's really just a large um uh retention pond is what it is technically, but it's a lake. And over the last couple of years, no over more than that, last number of years, it's developed a sedimentation problem. So, a couple of years ago, we uh the community spent some pretty good money hiring a professional engineering company who specializes in lake maintenance and construction to come out and take a look at the lake and see what needed to be done um now and in the future. If I can, just for a second, I'll just take one or two lines from it, from his conclusions, from one of his conclusions. Every storm drain discharging into the lake is a source of sediment. However, the 84inch culvert which discharges into

the lake is the primary source of sediment inflow into the lake. A sediment delta was observed under the water surface of the lake below the culvert head wall. Now the lake itself is a part an integral part of the Dunwoody sewer system, storm sewer system. All of which uh receive money from the city of Dunwy except a lake like Brook Farm Lake. So, I had a meeting about a month ago with Eric and Jay Vinicki and Cody Dallas and one other person, can't recall, uh to discuss the issue. So, we went through the report and uh at that point, no, let me let me check my notes here quickly. Yeah. Um, I asked why couldn't the city participate in the maintenance of the lake since it is an integral part of the storm water system? The answer I got was that the city is prevented by law from doing that. My response was, well, we also have a couple of very small retention ponds in Brook Farm that the city does maintain. Those are also privatelyowned retention ponds. The answer I got to that was, well, there's a special note on the plat that sets up a special tax district for those small retention bonds and therefore they can be maintained. My response to that is there is also a special fund set up for the retention of for the maintenance of our lake as well as the rest of the storm sewer system in Dunwy. It's called storm sewer fees. So at that point, Eric said, "What is it you're asking for?" I said, "I'm not asking for a done Woody to take over."

Thank you, Mr. Norton. Thank you, sir. No, that's not that's not appropriate. Each each speaker has three minutes to speak. Each speaker has three up to three minutes to speak. I'm not finished. That's not polite. Well, we do have another uh public comment section at the end of the meeting. If you'd like to stick around, you'll have an additional three minutes then. I will do that. Our next speaker is uh Ali Mabud.

Hello, city council. Uh my name is Ally and today I'm actually making public comments on behalf of the um board at Georgetown. So, I uh got tricked several years ago into being on my HOA board just kind of like you guys got tricked probably on being city couch. Same thing. But anyways, I um I'm on the board and we held our annual meeting and on our annual meeting um everything was fine with the community. They love what the police department are doing from on behalf of the board of on the actual association. They are very appreciative of what the city is doing. They're noting that great things are happening. They feel safe. They love the innovation. They love the businesses coming in. All of these things are great. They had two comments that they wanted me of course to come and present to you for help. They're traffic related. Um they're not um something that the Dunwy Police Department can handle. It's something more of the city would need to advocate for us. One is right behind the fire station where you come from Crown Point Plaza and I believe it turns into Meadow Lane. There is a side street called Ridge View. Ridge View is on the side of the fire department and next to the hotel. There is a lefthand turn there that is not a protected. Now, I don't have any issues with this for the last several of years because I have all-wheel drive. However, seems like a lot of the residents have complained that because of the bend in the curve, they they struggle to make that left turn. It it just and or the person in front of them struggles to make it. It's a nightmare. Honestly, I think they should just be a little patient. They can get it done, but whatever. They they that's one of their biggest frustrations. They want a protected light at that system. So, I would politely ask if the city wouldn't mind um looking into that to see if that would be something that's feasible that makes sense to put a protected lefthand turn onto that light. More than likely, the residents will appreciate that. That um area is is you've got multiple town homes, you've got a fire station, you've got a giant apartment complex, you've got a hotel. So, you have a lot of traffic going on that left. It could be beneficial. Again, I don't care, but they've asked me to say something. Second off, on Ridgeview Road can sometimes turn into a little bit of a a runway. Um what happens is actually the

apartment complex towards the tail end of it. Now this area is not able to be radar enforced. So Dunwy police could not come out there and actually issue citations because of the bends. I believe G dot is not had this street. We've had this conversation. It's it's it's not one of those streets you can do radar enforcement. So I emailed the Duny Police Department to put a trailer out, get some data on maybe speeders. They'll do that. It'll take them a while until the trailer becomes available. When that data becomes available, we would politely ask if it's possible to maybe put in speed bumps. That area is highly walkable, highly populated, and you've got middle school, high schoolers all during the course of the day walking through it. People from the hotel, people from the apartments. It's a very traffic, foot traffic heavy area. So, more than likely having speed bumps in certain areas of it would possibly help force a reduction of speed. I think it's a 25 mph zone. I don't even want to know how fast some of those people can come down that uh thing. Again, these are not my comments. They are presented by the board. We appreciate everything you're doing. I was just told to come here and make those comments. So that's what I did. Thank you.

Uh thank you. Our next speaker is Anna Beck. Thank you. I have a uh my concern is very similar uh to the prior one regarding um people not following the speed limit in Dunwy Club Drive throughout especially even near school zone. There's a part of the Moody Club Drive that has a school zone and um they are just not following the speed limit. So I was wondering if it would be possible to install some speed cameras in that area. That's what I wanted to present. Thank you.

Uh thank you. Our next speaker is Kelly Johnson. Hi there. I'm Kelly Johnson. I've lived here for about 30 years. Raised both my boys here. Grew up just down the street when it was a cow pasture at Perimeter Mall. And just love how this city has grown. It's my Mayberry is what I tell people. I just love Dunwy. So, thank you for all that you do. Um, one of the things I love the most about Dunwy is our parks uh and wreck facilities. They are incredible. Um, Brookun, Persial Park, all throughout all that you've done to expand those have been phenomenal. One thing that is an issue is the connecting trailway between Brook Run and Pernal Park at night feels like the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Um it is incredibly dark, wooded, scary. I've caught myself there a few times, been followed a couple times. Um got my phone out, the light on, called 911, and got some help. Um have had friends had the same experience. Um, I brought this up back in about 2022 and um, just keep bringing it up and you guys graciously um, gave me some time through some email communication right before the holidays and Rachel Baldin who's been phenomenal, has been super to work with. She jumped right on it and said, "I agree. Um, safety is a priority, whatever it costs." Um, she has already um, done all the work and come up with schematics and proposals from Georgia Power um, that seem very reasonable. And I think um just continuing that light lighting between the two parks is really a priority for safety. Um and the the price is really reasonable. So again um love this community. Uh my boys again, I've been at every um Austin Elementary, Peach Tree, Dunwy High School event that you know of and I'm just proud to be here. Um Tuesday nights are my favorite in the summer when you hear all the swim team meets going on in every neighborhood. Um so this is a special place and I just want to keep it safe. So thank you. Thank you, Miss Johnson. Um, our next speaker is Jason Hunar.

All right. Hello. I'm Jason Hunar. Before getting into the broader issue here, I want to mention the drone advertisement that Flock released a week ago. Uh, it heavily features the Dunwy police, including our police cars and real-time crime center. The department says it's struggling with staffing, needs more technology to fill these gaps. Yet apparently Dunwhaty taxpayers still have enough resources to contribute officer time, public infrastructure, and marketing material to a private tech company that's valued at $7.5 billion. But aside from this point, this no longer looks like a surveillance issue in Dunwy. Duny is now using tools that can search camera networks and databases for people based on appearance and generate alerts. That is a major expansion in surveillance capabilities. And if it occurred without clear contracts, public's explanation, and council approval, then both the public and this council are being asked to accept powers that may have never been fully disclosed. Through open records requests, I actually obtained audit logs showing how one of these tools, Flock Free Form, is actually being used. Those logs include searches for prompts such as Trump sticker and person in wheelchair across large camera networks without case numbers attached. These logs also show 62 searches conducted by flock employees themselves inside the system on both public and private networks. At the same time, my written requests asking the city to identify what contracts authorize these technologies have still gone unanswered. If these tools were implemented without clear authorization, then the responsible step is to pause their use until the council and the public receive a full accounting of what technology is deployed and what contracts authorize it. as well as what safeguards govern it. I have also offered to connect the city with independent cyber security experts from the community, including Ben Jordan, a researcher who identified dozens of flock AI cameras live streaming directly to the internet, even from near uh Peach Street Creek

Greenway. These offers have also gone unanswered. Before any further expansion, I'm asking the council to require a full public accounting of what technologies are deployed, what contracts authorize them, and what safeguards are in place. And if the city believes that there's nothing to hide, then announce it in the DNES and hold a public briefing specifically focused on these surveillance technologies. AI surveillance systems costing taxpayers more than $500,000 a year should receive at least as much public input as a sidewalk expansion. Thank you. Uh thank you Mr. Hunar. And that is all of the cards I have for public comments. Um I don't see any other people stepping up to speak. So uh just a reminder as I mentioned earlier, we do have another opportunity for public comment at the end of the meeting. And uh before we get on to the agenda, I do notice we have a couple of scouts here in the room. And we always like to recognize our scouts when they come. Uh so if you wouldn't mind just stand up and just briefly tell us which troop you're with and uh what badge you're working on tonight. Thank you both for being here. I hope you learn uh some things tonight. And uh yeah, we we love the scouts. They do so much great things for the community. So So good luck with that.

Okay, we on to our reports and presentations. Uh Eric, city manager report.

Sure. Yes, thank you. to Mayor Pro Tims. I have the uh report that concludes through the end of February. Uh for parks, we have the uh concession stand fans and the new little free library by uh by Girl Scout Troop 21672 were installed at the Brookrun Park multi-use field that was done in the past few weeks. Also, we have our uh sculptural bike station was installed at Spruel Art Center. Um, which also by blacksmith artist Mike Romeo. And we have future artistic bite racks are stated to be for Brookun Park, baseball fields, and the multi-use fields. So, we do have some additional artwork going in there. Lemonade Days is just around the corner, April 22nd through the 26th. We also have our blue star memorial plaque has been received and is awaiting a granite base for installation. This was funded by the Dunwy Garden Club and we and will be located between the Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Brook Run Park. Um, a couple other notes. This the project was funded by the Friends of Dunwoody Library, which is the Storywalk beautifification installation. uh begins anytime right now and it will include a new angled display in lie of yard signs for program branding and decorative ri with program branding and decorative river rock on that Windward Hollow Park communication board is complete and is scheduled for installation in March and that is the um also sponsored by the Dumby women's club so a lot of volunteer things the things I wanted to point out tonight were all the outside organizations that we have that participate in our parks We also have homecoming park had a pre-bid meeting with 20 firms interested in that. That is excellent news for us to have a good selection of people who to can bid on that park and hopefully get us a very competitive price. For the police, we had uh during our

last winter storm, we had the real time crime center uh was proven to be a valuable tool. We're able to monitor safety conditions throughout the city and field a solid emergency response in conjunction with the public works staff. Um, we also had our on February 20th, we had our community outreach officers partner with the backpack buddies for metro Atlanta to ensure children in the community don't don't go hungry. That's a great uh program, the backpack program. If y'all are not familiar with it, please look that up and uh participate if you are willing. We do have some other highlights that go on. We had a drug trafficking and shoplifting stop at Dillards and you know with that I'm pointing that out because there you know some people is great. It's an awesome community. It is. We keep it, but there's a element to keep it safe. You know, we have to work very hard to keep that that safe. The person was uh had a fire firearm on them inside the Dillards and they had almost three lbs of meth um on them as well. The other thing we had, we had an arsonist at a couple different locations. Uh they were on the lookout for for that person. We also had a um a brush fire near the um perimeter center west near Joey D's and on Crown Point Parkway and Sandy Springs and Dicab fire did an excellent job responding. Um we had one fire we responded to. Then there was another fire that broke out. Um so those there is some relation there on those. That's something that we're um kind of under attack on there a little bit with with some arsonist coming out. I don't um hopefully we can put a stop to that pretty quick. The um there also was a fraud element on Waterford Court and this was a scam. I just want a public service announcement on that so to speak that u a person that was in a uniform at the cab. They thought it was a dab officer was was promoting somebody around to different ATMs and they were able to get $14,000 out of them in a way um you know saying they were trying to

prevent their arrest. There's a warrant for use. So they took them around and they were out for about seven hours on the phone with this person so they could wouldn't go to jail they thought. So that was something we did use the flock cameras to help locate the person to help find them and say hey look you this is this is a scam that you're in the midst of. So that was that was good news to be able to stop that. There is a link within the um showing all your crime stats within the uh report. Also for the maintenance building at at Brook Run that facility the if you have a chance to drive by over there there is a picture as well showing the uh steel structure has gone up and the roofs completed for both buildings that are there. Also we have the um all our sidewalk ramp upgrades have been completed. Uh we have a total of 93 ramps are brought into ADA compliance and that's something not to be taken for granted if you know a lot of cities you won't see that um you know that but in Dunwy you know there are the ADA ramps which are not just useful for people in um in wheel devices but also uh for the people who are challenged to step over the curbs as well. The 2026 uh paving is expected to begin this month. We have u we also have heard from Google. Google is going to be installing high-speed internet this spring throughout the city. Um, that comes with its challenges. There will be some interruptions, I guess, in people's yards and along the right ofways. So, be mindful of that. We are working with them closely to try to minimize any impact. They are a utility. We don't have a choice in the matter. They have the right to put their their uh cables in, their internet in, but we will work with them to make sure they follow all guidelines for the public service commission. the uh Meadow Lane street light project. Georgia Power has installed six of the eight pedestrian lights and 14 of the 15 roadway lights. So, that project continues to move forward and that was something that uh was a council initiative a little while back to have that area lit. Speaking of initiatives, we have the mayor's

initiative um which has gone on. There's a a little display within the report talking about meat uh griddles. That was the dog that was here last time. Um hopefully I'm not sure the status of the dog at this point, but nonetheless um that's something that we're working on to try to have those animals adopted. We will continue that program with the city. There is a uh there's a demonstration video created also by communications department that works with central square which is our business license um element to show somebody how to get their business license online. So they can click on the link and walk them through that. And I appreciate the feedback. back. I know we got some feedback from some council members who were actually using that that program and we want to be sure it's flawless for the public. The state of the city um is May 18th with the greater perimeter chamber and also on May 23rd at Dumby City Hall. So um please try to be at one of those two events if not both of those to support the mayor and to hear what um what the news is. Dominity 101 all aboard emailed 34 people on the waiting list to give them first dibs at spots for the next session which is April 17th. So um here again you know we've had two of these sessions so far and we had a waiting list each time but now the waiting list has actually gotten very large. So we said rather than revertise we'll try those these folks first. If they don't take the spots we'll advertise it then and we'll continue that list um for the city. permits that were issued um for the renovation of the Emery Medical Office Building at 4555 North Shallford Road. You know, they built their new facility there. This is a renovation of the old facility. So, a continued investment from Emery within the city. We also had the department received 87 permit applications in February and issued 72 permits during that period of time. So, the permit activity is still hot for our city. Uh the last point I'm going to bring up which is the finance department received the certificate of achievement for

excellence in financial reporting from the government finance officers association as we call GFOA for the fiscal year um 2024 annual comprehensive financial report what we used to call the caffer. So that's what I have and I'm glad to answer any questions. The majority of the staff is here including public works. Anybody has any questions from them? Uh thank you uh thank you Eric for the report and uh before I open it up to the council I just figured this would be an appropriate time to make an announcement too just as the meeting was getting started uh we got notice from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency uh there's a chance slight to moderate chance for severe weather in the area high winds uh rain hail so just take appropriate precautions will be monitoring it and uh hopefully we the impact's minimal but just uh take whatever necessary precautions and maybe turn on the news and see and track it yourselves okay um I'll open up for comments Bunch of questions. Captain, I'll start with you.

Thank you, Eric. I had a question about the state of the city for the mayor. I had March on my calendar. Is it May? Did I say May? It says May in the report. Yes. And you said May. It What is it? Let me check the report. I'm I'm pulling it back up. And I said May. Oh, it actually says um Let me pull it back up. Yes. It has May in here. So we will That's incorrect. It's March. Yes. Thank you for Thank you. Okay. Thank you. That's all.

So I just had a question on the Google Fiber installation. Um we have some streets that are where is it going and and how's this going to work? Because we have two streets in my area of the city that are really ripped up right now. like can they do it in conjunction before everything gets repaved or is that part of the city we don't need to worry about or do you know what their plan is at all? We're they have a plan, but we're coordinating closely with them for, you know, we're we're encouraging them saying, "Hey, we're paving these streets this year." So, even if you were planning on doing those later, you should do them now before we pave. Um, that's all still being worked out. I think the the very first place they want to start is Hammond Drive. So, um, that won't really affect anything, but we are working closely with them.

I guess as we know more about their Yes, we'll we'll we have a web page set up that um I don't know if it's been um I don't know if it's publicly viewable yet, but we have one ready to go when they start and we'll put information on there about where they're going to be and what they're going to be doing. Thank you.

Yeah, Michael, you want to you want um Eric, thank you. I see that we have the RFP out for the Tilly Mill Mount Vernon project. Um, and uh, I noodled through it. Um, it's going to be a 36-month project. 36-month project. Um, and I know that it'll come back to council eventually because you're going to get the bidder and then hopefully people will bid on it. And then hopefully someone accepts uh the the offer and then it comes to us and then we're going to vote to approve the contract. Right. Correct.

So, sometime between now and when the construction actually begins, I know it's supposed to be, you say it's awarded sometime early Q3 and work to commence within, you know, 10 days of the ward or something. Um, and we already discussed that as the project goes through each month, there's milestones that the contractor has to provide in order to get payment through the whole term of that. And this was budgeted in our five-year CIP and and whatnot from the penny sales tax. My question is before construction begins because we've had we we get turnover of homeowners,

right? When we had initial meetings and so on, people move come and go. Could we look at doing some a little bit additional outreach of either knocking on doors, handing out a flyer, doing something to all those homeowners that live adjacent to that project and give them a little QR code with the project details. Give them the contact name and phone number of who's on site because they're going to have questions. Some people won't know about it, right? Level set, what's going there? They're going to be questions when they see trucks showing up. So my ask to Eric Linton and staff is that we do some type of additional notification and then we have a means of if there's a sign if you have a question on this project here's the QR code here's our project manager on site staff etc etc um have you had any thought and consideration of of doing that additional outreach

what we normally do is sometime between when the contract's approved and when they are going to start construction we'll send letters out to every property owner along the project telling calling them construction is about to begin and giving them a contact at the city for any questions or issues. Uh basically giving them the project manager's contact at the city. All right. All right. Thanks. Thanks then. Okay. That's all the question I Thank you. Any additional questions or comments? No. Mayor, if just for the record, let me just restate that that one statement about the state of the city.

Okay. So, the state of the city will be March 18th with the greater perimeter uh chamber and then March 23rd at Dumby City Hall. So, I just want to for the record. Thank you. My mistake I just had the wrong month in there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Uh next up is a presentation from uh Kate Dunwy Rosemary or Michael.

Well, Mayor Pro Tim and council, thank you. I'm just here to get things started. Um but as you know the uh city along with the development authority as well as discover Dunwhaty funds part of create Dunwy's budget. So every year we invite create to come and give us a presentation sort of look back at last year and then look forward to this year. So uh Rosemary is here to do that. Thanks.

Thank you. Good evening. Good evening Mayor Promp Lambert and council. Thank you for having me here. Um I'm here to share to you what create done what he did in 2025 and why it matters to our economic vitality, our community identity and how people experience the city. So, I first want to thank you for um sponsoring Create Done Woody because your investment really helps to um help us to create the activity that gets people into our city um that helps get people into business districts and into local venues. So, I'm going to go through what we delivered last year, who we serve, how we're growing awareness, and how we're stretching sponsored dollars into really measurable community and economic impact. All right. So, our mission again is to use arts and culture to make Dunwy areas feel alive, welcoming, and worth visiting and bringing economic development. So, with that though, economic buil development isn't just about the buildings and the infrastructure. We really worked hard to do that as a city. Um, but it's also living the experience. Do people feel like there's a reason to come here? Do they linger? Do they come back? Crate Dunwhaty is doing this placemaking. We're creating these reasons for repeated visits, connecting people to businesses and making memories in spaces that help support our economy. So, we're building these are some of our events and art. Um, building color, people, activity signaling that something's happening, something's happening here and you want to be part of it. um to re repeat those visits. Um the biggest win is not just like when these events happen, but it's more that

these are destinations and people benefit from the foot traffic and energy. So imagine without great Dunwy, this is what it would look like. Um they're quiet transactional places. It's not really a place to gather, just a place to kind of go through. um nice place to maybe drive by. So, we want to make it be more than just a row of storefronts. So, I'm going to quickly go through these next few slides. Um I've at the end of this uh of this uh presentation, there's an addendum which I've also printed and can be you can look through that. I'm not going to go through all the data, but I know some of you might want the data. So you have that at your fingertips and it's also in the agenda packet. Um so the first event quickly to go through all these events. This is the first year we did this one at leian. You know with our first year 200 plus attendees 36 performers engaged lots of businesses, nonprofits and artists artisans. Um a first time doing this as well the comedy festival. It's a clear example of driving economic activities. is we had five shows, four restaurants, 260 plus attendees, 20 plus comedians generated income and our restaurants uh reported increase of sales, 10 to 50% increases. So January we did this again, sold out three shows and we'll have two more shows this month at Vintage Pizzeria. Holy Festival, we just finished this on Saturday. It was a huge undertaking. Um it's one of our most visible communities and example of sponsorship leverage. So we this year we brought over 3,000 in sponsor in um revenue um net profit. Um we um have the largest number of web

page view for this event and um we had fabulous weather, great crowd. Thank you Stacy for being there and Chief Carlson was also there. We supported business, local businesses, Desi District, Royal Spice, Foxtail Coffee, Mathnasium, businesses like that that get to have a platform. Um, another little um stat is that based off of our sales, 22% of the people were from Dunwy. The other 78 were coming in from outside Dunwy. All right. AAPI is one of our cultural one of our other cultural celebrations. Usually get about 500 plus attendees, performers. Ashford Lane's CTO helps sponsor this event and they love it when we're there. Um we provide economic activation for them. Storefront art exhibit. This provides year-round value. Even though this is just an exhibit in the summer, after the summer, we have 15 businesses that host this over 60 submissions from the Dunwi High School artists. And um after this is it's done at the village restaurants and businesses, it goes into perimeter wall. So currently there are three walls with past year's art uh from this exhibit. And then some of this goes into the green light art uh art traffic signal boxes. So the art is working overtime. We also did an art scavenger hunt and a concert um over 100 participant at the last uh scavenger hunt. This trolley tour um takes people we did this with the Ravenia took people through the city and turned a regular lunchtime into a mini destination experience. people didn't know a lot of this art existed and a lot of the restaurants were there. Murder mystery is something that is another example of

partnering partnering with a nonprofit community um at Doni Women's Club to host an event. Balacopa that was one of our trial runs for World Cup style activation. So we're trying to prove this model to see if this will work um this coming summer. Empty neester event is another one where we're trying to target a specific audience. Okay. Um our third sort of cultural celebration, Latino Hispanic. Again, this is our sixth year doing this in Dunwy. It's a real good signal of inclusion and community pride. Scarecrow showdown. Uh this one is a month-long engagement and we're trying to pull in people from the community to build these scarecrows and pull in people to come visit and see take a tour of all the scarecrows all throughout the village. Partnered with a greater perimeter chamber on this one. Dewali is another unique event that no one else does. It is a um walk through the Dunwy Nature Center partner with stageore theater professional actors that interactive performance and really some of this this has become a tradition for some of the families that come fine arts month partnered with Dorty Fine Arts Association progressive evening. Here's an example of us going through uh High Street and introducing people to places in High Street that they didn't know existed. and um illuminated concert and a sounds of we had two concerts. All right. The holiday celebration and lantern parade. So this is a community identity at a large scale with lantern decorating parade, tree lighting. It's become also a signature tradition. Photos, memories. We engage nonprofits,

performers, schools, businesses, communities. Received sponsorship from the property management. So, they found value in giving us sponsorship to put this event on. Um, and then finally, holiday tree exhibit. So, here's another thing that's not necessarily an event, but it is a program where we're trying to drive people to the hotels by having Dunwy High School students, Duny Fine Arts, and um Sporal Art Gallery artists, high school and professional, create these 2 by twos um ornaments that were placed on trees in three different hotels. So, here's a little snapshot of all the events and programs and the people that we reached, revenue generated, volunteers, sponsors, businesses that were engaged. Um, and this is just a one-year snapshot, and we coming from a a previous year that we didn't have most of these events. So, our stakeholders, um, these are stakeholders. It's quite an array. Um, so, uh, it's almost like a symbiotic relationship where we help them and they sponsor us. So, it kind of keeps going around um, with ink kind support collaborate with them on things that will help them bring people to their centers. Okay. So, I'm going to keep going with our different nonprofits are also um, our stakeholders. Um, it gives them platforms, visibility, their volunteers. We have a lot of volunteers that come from these uh or nonprofit organizations and artists. Um, and then it again it loops back when these groups are activated, they bring people and people

come, businesses benefit, business benefit, and we get sponsorship. So, we're building this cycle. Um, this is just a snapshot of all the different ways that we're getting our information out and all the channels that are um that know about us. So, a little quick thing about um 2024 versus 2025. So, we're working hard to increase our social media um increase website visits. uh we moved from doing events just to building infrastructure to make these events scalable so we can do them year after year. Um and you can see like we're doing this on a very lean lean staff and budget. Our funding so this is why your sponsorship matters so much. Um here are three largest sponsors. development authority uh city of Dunwy and Discover Dunwy make they make up half of the funding. So um with this tiny budget we deliver a calendar of activations that bring people to our commercial centers and support local revenue or businesses and on a very very lean structure. Um so we have to be very focused and resourceful about what we do and partner aggressively uh and leaning on help of other people to help us plan and program our events. Great. So um on this slide I just kind of want to show um our demographics for Instagram just as an example. So we have about 38% of uh our Instagram followers are from Dunwhaty. The rest

are from outside the city. So other people are looking at what Dunwhati is doing at what create Dunwy specifically is doing. So I think that's a huge benefit um to what you guys are supporting. So looking forward, it we're really trying to figure out scale what works and kind of be more strategic about what doesn't work. So we're going to keep growing our events, adding, refining, and eliminating things that don't work. Um, and we're going to try try to also find funding that's that diversifies so we're not just so heavily rellyant on our three large sponsors. That way we can build an operational capacity so we can keep doing more. All right. So here are some additional in addition to what we're going to be you know have done in the past and continue to do. We're looking at World Cup activations which is just helping some of our businesses that are going to have watch parties do more activations to bring people in. Uh we are doing a doory exhibit which is partner with leadership perimeter. So that's the tiny doors concept that's already underway. Um village merchant alliance has um been is now a create dunwy subcommittee. So we're going to fold them in and help them with their um when they need funding um and help them to kind of grow and have um a more structure. Um, another thing is we want to expand our reach into Dunwy. So, Williamsburg and Jet Fairerryy area is another area that we want to activate. So, we have um possible battle of the bands and a travel and music component of that to have an event in October. Uh, taste of Dunwy is an event that we want to bring into the village and we're currently working with the

greater ch perimeter chamber and discover Dunwy to figure out how to do that. So with that um I want to end where I started by thanking the city of Dunwy for your support um for treating arts and culture as a part of economic development. Um your sponsorship isn't just the funding. It makes create Dunworthy it legitimizes what we do when we can say look the city is is sponsoring us. um helps us to bring in partners and get our performers and artists and get the venues and the commercial property managers to pay attention to us. So, moving forward in 2026, we already have a new um a few new strong board executive committee. Um we're here, our president, Devaro is here. I want to thank Rachel Waldrin, Rob Price, Michael Sterling for being on the board. and I'm really proud to be um the executive director for this really really high impact organization and lean nonprofit organization. Um and I'm excited to keep growing this and um keep giving you the return on your investment and I thank you for your attention and um happy to answer any questions or hear your comments.

Thank you Rosemary. Uh, John, thank you, Rosemary, for the wonderful presentation. You do a wonderful job bringing unique events to the city of Dunwy. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, you piqued my interest on a couple things. I mean, you're doing uh unique, but at the same time, I remember I know what others do and I I know what we've done in the past. Um, a couple things I was looking at. How much how many big events do we have near Perimeter Mall that used MARTA to feed the ridership in? What really caught my eye was the beerfest that we used to do over at Brook Run Park. It was uh co-sponsored or was a fundraiser for the nature center at one point. So, they were a partner and we were doing it for them. Um, we haven't done that in about five years, if not longer. It's been quite a while. I'd love to see that come back. Perimeter mall feed bring everybody in from various venues and uh it would then feed the hotels in the sense of the overnight stays and you could you could make a big event out of it. The other thing is the taste of Dun Woody. Same thing. You were partnering with a nonprofit in the past. It was uh done it was through children's hospital and it was here at a hotel and I remember going to it a number of times. I think it was a great event. I'm looking forward to bringing that back. But those are the types of events that bring community here, but also bring other communities in. And I think those are the types of venues that I think we should be striving for. And you're already doing a great job. But I just wanted to mention those two um moving forward. I really hope they do are able to come forward and do something like that again.

Yeah, thank you. Yes, I I hope we can. And I have been um in discussions with Discover Dunwhaty about bringing something possibly to the mall area because I know they're very concerned about hotel stays. So they also want people to come in come into the perimeter area. So we'll talk to the general manager Nick um about how we can activate some things and we've even talked about possibly doing something on the parking lot top part of the parking lot at the mall. Um, and I believe Beerfest before it was at the park used to be across from State Farm in that area way back. Um, but but thank you.

Uh, thanks, Rosemary. Who's your number two? What's your secession plan?

You got I I mean I Anyway, you know what I mean. You're valuable. You're doing a great job. Um, we want to make sure that, you know, I I I mean it, right? Um that's so important to have that and uh have good board members and so on. Right. Um I appreciate that. Um it's interesting uh the unique partnership that exists in Dunwy for this model and you know I think about a year year and a half ago I started trying to educate myself a little bit about destination marketing organizations DMOS and what other cities municipalities do things and you know I remember of course 2008 nobody becomes a city and let's have the lowest taxes in all dicap county and have minimal services right so our net you know I'm paying the same amount city tax that I did in 2009 right and and it's frozen at 1.74 mill, you know, whatever the exemption, everything else. It's it's, you know, come on, give me a break. Do we want to be the city we aspire to be? So, Roswell does things. They're super proactive, right? Um, Shambley's got it going. Dorville's getting going now. Brook Haven, uh, Sandy Springs, we see our Norcross, we see these communities really activating and doing it and making it happen. And so we kind of had a made a kind of compromise here and creating this separate thing and you know could it have been done by the city maybe. Could it have been done by our DMO? Maybe. Right. So I appreciate what you're doing and you're worth your weight in gold. I'd like to look at longevity of systemically how that organization's going to going to continue on

and and and what's the best place for it and what how it really should be funded. Um look at what other cities do. So maybe uh I don't know maybe later this year we have a presentation on u best practices and how we can even do things better how we can support you even more right um from that leadership perspective and and turn on um I haven't heard too much about uh the celebration of America's two 250th year. Uh I haven't heard anything in the city of Dunwy. Uh I I Roswell has a website. They're putting up a commemorative bl brass plaque up these days. They've got a whole committee and they've got guest speakers and they're activating it celebrating the 250th year, but that's their city government and that's paid by their taxpayers, right? So they they have they don't have a military freeze and they don't have a cess freeze and all these things and you know just small government. So any any word about are we doing anything aside from the 4th of July parade that we always do? Is there anything special going on for America 250 that you've been involved in or of? Yeah, I know that we have had discussions with, you know, city communications and discover done about what we were going to be doing for celebration 250. Currently, for the storefront art exhibit, we have made that and the World Cup our priority themes for the students to to paint and to use as um for the the Door Woody exhibit. Um beyond that I believe there are different campaigns that they're doing. Um and I want to go back also to succession. I it is important and the board is concerned and we do have that in our sort of strategic plan of what is our you know we need to have a sessation plan and who are we training next to to do these. So once we have more funding and we can bring someone else on that's going to happen. So, and best practices,

you know, we're I had uh written an article about how we because we're so lean, we need people to to come in and actually volunteer and take on some of these, you know, help with event planning and donate, like be a part of this so we can make the city better because we we do need other people. We need the community to help us to succeed,

right? And that's that's in our our our business model that of our city regarding our cash flows. It it is what it is. I I volunteer at the Dweed Preservation Trust, but it might be city of Roswell employees doing that same kind of job in Roswell that get paid by the city. Um I'll just throw out two fun things. I'll always aspouse for having a rodeo. I I've said it. I joke around, but I mean it. Nobody else is doing a rodeo in metro Atlanta. I would love to see a rodeo in the perimeter mall area. And uh I'm just going to say it. I'm on record there. And uh I've said it aneidcally to oneonone people and um we need a music club like Elias's Eddie's Attic or so on that's not an event but you know there's no place within 5 miles of here that you can go hear regular music in a small setting. Uh there's a place up in John's Creek. You've got Duth uh uh the former Attakus up in there. You've got Decatur but it's really far and few between and I think that would be great if we ever get that going. So

just my two cents. Thanks. All right. I'm just gonna bail a little bit on what Joe said and and then what you said. What's that? No, no, no. We don't think we need to wrote just if you look at this list of of uh what was done over the last year and you look at create's budget and you look at the entirety of create staff which is standing right here at the podium. It's done by one person. Um this is a phenomenal return for the budget that's being spent. Um, the city gets a lot of benefit from its nonprofits and I think this for a dollar spent, the return is probably the best of any nonprofit in the city that we support. So, thank you so much for what you do. Thank you.

Obviously, I reiterate what everyone said. Um, but also having going to holy festival on Saturday, so much fun. I'm fairly certain that my forehead is still orange. Um, but it also really struck me. I went home and I was telling my husband that it was just such a fun vibe and there was people of all ages. Um I don't remember the last time I saw college kids and 20somes hanging out in one of our Doney parks having a blast. Um it was just a very very fun festival. Um so thank you for that and um if you missed it, it'll come again next year and um next year I'm I'm buying bags, but thank you. You're welcome,

Katherine. Thank you, Rosemary, and thank you, Devica, and the whole team. I can tell the difference in the in the last year, the the number of events, the visibility you've provided. It's wonderful. I specifically want to appreciate your efforts in bringing the village business association under your wing. I feel that they have a great bit of they have a lot of enthusiasm, but they don't have the structure that needs that they needed to carry them along. So, thank you for that. That's all. Thank you.

Well, yeah, and thank you, Rosemary, uh, really for everything you do. I'll just echo a lot of what what has been said. You know, I'm I'm really impressed with both the diversity and quality of the events and and both of those are important. Um uh and um you know you you you talked about the placemaking and that that's really critical uh from an econ economic development standpoint for our our small and local businesses but also you know the thing that I enjoy the most of these events too is is just the community building. There's a really big strong sense of community at these events and and you can't put a price tag on that. So, you know, I I I I make a a real effort to attend as many of these events as my schedule allows. Part of that, of course, is to support Create Dunwhaty, but honestly, uh a big part of it is I genuinely enjoy the events and have a have a great time. So, uh if there's members of the community that have not uh been able to make it to one of your events, I would strongly encourage them to be on the lookout for them and attend them. Uh I I think you'll enjoy it and and won't regret it, and we'll probably start adding more of these to your calendar. Thank you, Rosemary.

Thank you. Okay, next is the consent agenda. Move to approve.

Second. Moved by Rob. Second by Joe. Any comment or questions? Seeing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor, uh, say I. I. Any opposed? None. That passes unanimous. Thank you. onto our business items. Our our first item up is a speed permit renewal. Michael Smith, you have the floor. Go ahead. All right. Um council discussed we discussed changes as our speed limit in November with council and uh we went back and made a few changes based on that discussion. One being uh making all of Ashford Dunwy the recommended speed being 35 miles an hour. Um, since that time, we also uh received requests for two uh private schools that uh are K through8 schools to have speed zones established. Both um say they have some people that that walk to the school. And then in going through and updating our map, we found several existing streets and one street that's fairly new that residential streets that weren't on the permit before. or they're listed in the table on page two of streets we're recommending to be added to the permit. Again, this is the list of roads that we have to submit to the state uh for them to approve for the police to be able to run radar enforcement. Um so any street that they want to do that on, they it has to be listed in this in this permit. Uh in addition to the ones shown uh the streets added in the list, one other one that's um Councilman Hennean brought to our

attention is Brookhurst Drive uh is not on the current list that the previously approved list. So we're recommending adding that with a 25 mph speed limit. And then we received some clarification from the state today about school zones that are on 25 mph streets. Uh we have several like Barlay Drive where the the speed limit's always 25, but there is there are signs out there noting that it is a school zone also. And so the clarification we received, it hasn't been in our permit before, but we need to um spell that out as also being a school zone in the list of roads. So, we're recommending um we're requesting approval of the list of road shown in the package um to sub so that the police can go ahead and submit their their permit renewal that expires at the end of this year with the changes I mentioned adding Brookhurst Drive and then clarifying that several um existing 25 mph streets are also school zones like Barlay Drive um and I'll answer any questions that you might have.

Uh, thank you, Michael. Any questions, John? Thank you, Michael, for uh, adding Brookst and Barklay. Both of those were visible to me when I was looking to trying to figure out why they weren't on the list. So, thank you for adding those. The other question, you really came with Dunwy Christian. I believe it's the new school at the Dunwy Baptist facility. Is that correct? Yes. And uh so the East Kings Point Circle, it would be on North Peach Tree going from Catillian to East Kings Point Circle. And you you're confirming that, right? Somebody thought they were worried that it was the old location on Shambbley Dunwy that we were mistaken, but we're talking about a new school being added on the Dunwy Baptist facility.

Correct. Uh right there on North Pete Street from the 250 ft north of Catillion is just north of the gas station there. and then it would go up to East Kings Point Drive. And since that location has access both on Peachford and Katilian, is there a reason why you don't have any of those listed or is it only because they're that's their main entrance? They're

Yeah. And the and the the information we got was that people are walking on North Peach Street to the school. Okay. I'm not aware of um anybody walking on that would be walking to the school on Catillian. Um you know I'm not positive about Peachford, but it was specifically hey we have some people that walk or would like to walk from on North Peach Street to the school. Okay. And Peachford I'd have to look through the map. I'm just based on the schools. I'm guessing that's a school zone pretty close to there. I'm just not sure their back entrance on how that would work anyway. Yes. I think I think there's a sign near Bar Clay on Peachford. I think

correct. That's my thought as well. All right. Well, thank you. I'm looking forward to having the lists updated. Got some Stacy.

Um, thank you, Michael. Um, I just want to rewind back uh February 2021. Actually, a couple of you weren't on council then. I I we gave it you you offered a discussion in there. we were all on Zoom just kind of giving a 101 on how this whole thing works and I always like to have a 101 how's the process work and so on and what do other cities do and just kind of level set. So, for those of you in the audience who may not know, I'll just kind of paraphrase my best understanding is when you hear a G dot and you hear permitting, it means radar. And you mean radar meaning that police enforcing the the speeds. And of course, we also know that you have to be going 10 miles over. Is it or it would be 11? Would you have to be going 11 miles over the posted to to have a citation or is it 10 over?

Anyway, it's I'm not sure. Okay. 10 or 11. So, it really

So, we you know, people that see the signs, oh, it's 35. That means you can go 44. So, you know, that's just Georgia state law. Um, so there's the G dot, there's the uh the entire state micromanages every every roadway that a municipality wants to have radar on for police. Imagine that, big brother. Um, however, I did research this back in 2020. You know, uh, Woodstock lowered their speed limits, but they do these speed studies, a lot of things to lower. You can go below 25, but you can't use radar. So, just remember, you can go below 25, but you can't have radar permitted by GOT, but you can still do that. And um so, so that that's another conversation. And the lastly is where are these uh speeds maintained? And some cities, if it's an increase or or lowering, if it's a change of the speed limit at all, it comes to city council. It's voted on by resolution and it's incorporated in their code of ordinances. And right now, we're doing it by pol. You're presenting it and it gets it's in a packet and it's on an agenda item somewhere. Um, I appreciate that level of of of transparency. Um maybe we can have a discussion at a retreat or so on and ask our city attorney what might be best practices of do we adopt this into our code of ordinances or not for any speed limit change on on our roadways um including school limits. I know a few years ago we raised a speed limit from 25 to 30 on Ashford Center Parkway and that did not go up to council. It was done by staff administrative action. So like to just have that conversation on that. Um, so that's just the process. Um, in Brook Run Park, we have 15 mph posted speed limits. Inside Brook Run on Decab Drive in Georgia Way, it's posted at 15. Um, who set that speed limit and and is is it do we do any enforcement on

that? Was it really? It was set up by council doc because it's not it's not listed on our inventory here. So maybe that does get edited edited if we're going to this this is going to be an all-inclusive inventory of every street in city or just the ones that are going to be permitted by G dot.

Well, this is the list of roads is just what uh G dot reviews for the permit. I'm not sure. Um I mean because it is a city park, it is a public road, but it's als it's it's a road within a park. So, I'm not sure that that should be listed on the permit or not. Um because if if it's 15, you know, we I guess our city attorney could weigh in on this, but my reading of the uh state law is that they don't allow posted speed limits below 25. So, I don't and and I guess even what regardless of what state law says, I don't think G DOT would permit it. So, I would say if you want to have the speed limit of 15 in the park that we not put it on the permit.

Well, it's it's just you're not going to use radar for that information.

Joe, it's Yeah, it's not just a matter of radar. Radar has a limitation, but in the supplementary powers of home rule, the exceptions under Georgia law include the creation of a crime that's not already provided for by statute. And I can tell you on these roads and here's what here's where the history is. The history is in a lot of small towns in South Georgia and elsewhere uh they created traps to get a lot of money. So one is the enforcement mechanism and the means you're using to enforce the mechanism. The other is to is supposed to be based on a calculation of what is a safe thorough affair under cur you know Michael knows whatever those manuals are. So I think you're going to run into a problem unless you just have a sign that means nothing. And I think it's not just the radar. I think under the supplementary powers of home rule the exception and I'm doing this off the cuff of my head. I'll go dig for you deeper. I can't promise you I'll have it for the retreat, but I uh I think there is a omnibus provision in Georgia law because I looked at this for a county one time. It may have changed, but one of the exceptions in the home rule powers is the creation of a crime otherwise provided for in law already. And so I don't think you'll be able to enforce anything that violates state law, even in a municipal ordinance. and it will get kicked out and those court those people will be asking for jury trials in state court and those cases will become meaningless. So I'm going to check it to make sure I'm right. I'm about 95.75% right I believe. So we'll check it. And

also just as a followup, we could consider um whether we continue on as is today that we adopt the the permitting or do we adopt that by ordinance and incorporate in our code? Some cities do that.

Well, I I think for for purposes if you adopt a policy of Michael, I don't know how y'all have done it in the past. So I I guess the question for enforcement, it depends on the signage and whatnot because not every law is written in your municipal code. If you violate a speed sign, that is the that's the crime. It's not it's posted this street is 25, 35, and 45. So Michael, I don't know how y'all have done it in the past. Uh if you adopt a policy once it's signed after the state certifies it, I think it's enforceable in municipal court, but we can check. Yeah, I I haven't done this in the past. It's gone through police, but um I do think uh I know that Sandy, as far as the ordinance goes, I know Sandy Springs, they they don't they don't put the list of roads in the ordinance, but they just reference it. And I know as far as I don't think it would be feasible to make changes to this the way it's done now because the state requires when we submit this it has to be signed by the mayor and you know the mayor can't really sign it unless council approves it. So I think the way it works now it would have to come any changes would have to come before council any changes to the list of roads. And you know, I I I remember looking at Sandy Springs and they don't have all the roads in there. They just say they have a list of roads um adopted by council.

Just one more point and then I have a question. So it's a philosophical we can talk about traffic calming measures. We have the engineering, but there's also sorts of things to to in in uh you know calms traffic and slow speed. So I totally support having the sign posted as 15 inside the park. Sure. even though it might not be enforceable, it's still going to slow people down. It does slow people down, so I appreciate that. Um, so my my one I brought this up a couple weeks ago was the jet ferry. Even though it may not be on the um permit list, uh the jet ferry and you know that short segment between the club and Mount Vernon, uh right now it's signposted at 35 and it's what uh you know 500 ft long and I'd like to entertain um consideration to go to 25 on there. Uh, I know we can't do radar on there because of the geometry and geography of that, but I'd like to entertain um going to 25. We're going to be doing a restriping. We're going to do traffic hing. We're putting in a mid midb block pedestrian crossing there. Um, just just to kind of help that message as well. So, if I'd have that open to my peers and have feedback uh to see what they would think and ask staff or my peers to consider their support for 25 on Jeff Ferry, Michael, because this because this document is for the for the radar enforcement, if it's if it's not a radar enforceable road, would that change need to go be submitted to GOT or is that something we could do administratively?

We can do admin administratively. I just want to make sure that I understand the process and what we're voting on tonight because it is a business item. Um, we approve this and say yes, these are the streets that we want. These are the speed limits we want. The mayor signs off on it. It goes to G dot and they say yay or nay. And they might very well come back to us and say no, we like going 45 miles an hour or done. Too bad, Dunwy. I mean, right? Is that that's that's a possibility. I mean, we have for the ones that are on here, we have some documentation to back up our recommendations, but yes, they can say no and then we would come back to council.

Okay. And so then they come, what would you come back to council with? I mean I mean just when they just tell us they said no, would probably be a um just a a information like they didn't approve these. They didn't approve it. So there so you'll come back to us with say here's what they signed off on. here's what we have and that that is what the police work off of. Is that correct? Okay. And what's the timeline? Um I'm not sure if I I'd say a few months. May maybe six months, but our permit expires at the end of this year. So there police is ready to go ahead and start the process of submitting it. And you know, hopefully we would have

Okay. So whatever's whatever's in place now stays in place through 2026. So what we're looking at would be start January 1st, 2027 with what G do comes back to us with. Yes. Or whenever the permit is per Okay. Okay. So, so they're giving us a permit. And so, for example, the streets that aren't on it, the Brookhurst, the Wom Drive, when they come back and it is permitted or they change the speed limit on Ashford Wy Road, we can we can start that before our permit expires at the end of 2026.

Yeah. I mean the the new list will be effective at what we'll get a letter from uh from the state that basically says you're this the attached list of roads has been approved for for radar enforcement and it's good through whatever date. Okay. Is there an appeals process if they say no or is it just no? Um I mean you know if G dot says no on a particular case we can try to go back and talk to them about it but you know I don't there's no guarantees that I mean the appeal the appeal would be from staff to G dot. Okay.

Okay. Thank you. I understand more. Um

Tom Tom can I add something? So, I'm uncomfortable changing what's been recommended by staff until such time as we do further research. I would not do it on the fly because you risk undermining all your traffic citations if we don't do it correctly. I I point out that your code section from the charter has nothing about uh driving offenses. Rather, it refers to state law and footnotes. All the criminal penalties are established under state law and the footnotes, Joe. So, I would prefer to adopt what we know is enforceable until we do some further research. When we start, even if somebody else may do whatever they may do, but you get a good lawyer in a criminal case and they could potentially undo all your criminal sanctions, I would be very cautious about that as we sit here tonight. So, I don't know, Michael, what the time frame is for approval, if he can wait or if we need to go with what staff has recommended within the guidelines. I would stick with those guidelines until we get confirmation that we're not about to blow up our whole driving offenses because we do one thing on one street. I'm just telling y'all, I've seen it happen before. Just to follow up, I I might not have listen heard everyone's was there another I I was coming up of the suggestion I offered was not on the radar list and not in the permitted G dot section. So this it's independent of this conversation.

So So but your your your speed limit is not you're not going to enforce it. Is that what you're saying? It's not in this list. It's not under it's too short is why it's not on the list. It's I think it's maybe what a thousand feet long or something. So So it has a speed limit posted on it now, but it's never been in the the list of roads because it's too short to really do enforcement on.

I I would want you to go through the matrix required by that manual to determine what the appropriate speed is before we just say we're going to put a number on it that we like. I think we at least we need to be consistent with how we've adopted other speed limits using the manual is what I would suggest. But I hear you, Joe. I know we're in a nuance area, but I I don't think you want to roll the dice as to the other ones right now until we know the answer to this. Yeah, just to ozoop. This is this is independent and separate out of the G dot application. So that could be done later after we restripe and repave and do the MUTCD. That's the abbreviation

uh analysis on that. Okay. So that could be done later. Just to clarify, Ken a little bit more. So we talked about adding um Brookhurst and a couple of other roads. You're suggesting we hold off on those right now as well or have those been vetted by staff already? I'm recommending um Brook the ones that are here to be added. So then I guess procedurally let's make sure we have all those because if we vote to approve I want to make sure we specifically mention everything we're adding.

Yeah. The only ones the only ones I'm mentioning would be one that staff has not studied to have the background required by the manual to submit and that and andor you're putting a speed limit that's not recommended by the manual after they've done their research. I'd rather hold off on that one and do it as a one off after we do some more research. But we just need to make sure you read the letter.

Uh, no. In addition to what's in the agenda item, it would be uh adding Brook Drive at 25 miles an hour and uh clarifying uh in the permit. These roads are already listed. Barlay, Vanderland, and Brendan Drive are already listed in the permit at 25, but we want to add a clarification that they are also school zones. Is Barkley Vanderlin and which one? Brendan. Yes, Brendon.

Katherine, any questions or comments? No comments. Thanks. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the speed pit permit renewal as in our packet with the addition of Brookhurst Drive at 25 miles an hour and clarify that Barkley, Vanderlin, and Brandon Brendan are 25 m hours are but are in fact in school zones. I'll second that. Okay, we have a a motion and a second on the floor. Any comments or questions? I'll call the vote. All in favor uh say I. I. I. Any opposed? Seeing none, that passes unanimous. Thank you, Michael.

The next item is a resolution for budget amendment for fiscal year 2025. Richard Plateau. Sure.

Good evening, Mayor Prom Council. So this is a u an agenda item before you and resolution to align uh the 2025 budget with unawited preliminary 2025 actuals. Um to just hit some highlights here real quickly, uh general fund is increasing ever slightly about a percent and actually on the within the general fund operating revenues with uh operating expenses within the general fund came in about 95% of budget. So there's not really a ton of adjustments that need to be made there as well. What all that equates to is that we will not be budgeting a use of fund balance in 2025 and so it will fund balance will stay at about 10 months of operating expenses will be left in reserves at the end of the year is what we're anticipating right now. Um I'll walk through a couple of these and some of the other funds real quickly just to touch on them. um revenues. Again, within the general fund, there's two that we're adjusting. Electric franchise fees and insurance premium taxes. Within the general fund, operating expenses, we're adjusting a couple of account uh departments, city council, finance, legal, facilities, and economic development within those. Uh going through kind of the other funds. So, in the memo, I kind of I tried to put uh letters by each one to try to correspond to the resolution. So, hopefully it's easy to follow. But G and H are uh adjusting our confiscated asset funds aligning again actuals with with budget. Um in I is an adjustment to the E911 fund and that is the one that I do want to point out. We will be using fund balance in E911 in 2025. Uh revenue has continued to be very flat in that fund but um operating expenses continue to go up. Chatcom I think we saw a 10% increase last year. So something that we're monitoring and keeping an eye on, but we will be using fund balance in the

911 fund in 2025. Um Jay is adjusting CARES 2. We're just about done with that. 2026 should be the last year that we actually spend in that and then that fund will be done. ARPA K is ARPA1. We actually did complete all spending in that in 2025. So that that uh all ARPA proceeds have been spent now at the end of 2025. ARPA2 is number is L. Um that's close to being done as well. I think we might be done with that one at the end of this year. There's not a lot left in it. Mainly for safe streets is what the majority of the the funding is related for and and ARPA 2. Um I won't go through every grant. M through uh uh U is gr adjusting grant activity. So uh for all the grants that we had through the year, we're adjusting actuals, meaning that most of almost all these grants f uh work as reimbursement grants. So we incur the expense, we pay it, send a reimbursement request to the grading agency, they send us the the funds back basically. So this is aligning all of that activity with what happened on with our grants during the year. The last two motel funds revenue came in stronger than expected there as well. So um that 8% tax is split amongst the city uh discover Dunwy and then some stays within that fund for economic de I mean tourism sorry uh tourism related projects and then the last one is adjusting the municipal court fund. So those are all the adjustments that are being proposed. Uh the audit did start today was the first day. So um we have published a trial we have sent a trial balance to them. So, I anticipate this being what I plan on is the final adjustment, the only adjustment needed for 2025. Depending on how the audit goes, if there's an adjustment that they discover, there could be something that I would come back for, but I anticipate this to be the only adjustment. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Uh, thank you, Richard. Before I open up for questions, I just want to just clarify one thing just so that it's crystal clear to the public when you talked about the 911 fund. Sure. And and the use of fund balance. Actually, 911 has its own revenue source. Uh, comes from cell phone bills. I believe that's that rate is established by the state. But the the use of fund balance there is specifically from the 911 fund. It is not from the general fund balance. It is from revenues from previous years that had not been used. So that is correct. That's a a special revenue fund. As with all funds, it's a self-balancing fund. So it's got its own balance sheet and income statement. It carries its own fund balance and uh um so yes, we are using it there. But it is it's a self-sustaining fund. Yes, that's

okay. Thank I just want to clarify for the general public so they understood that. Are there any comments or questions from council? Just uh thank you Richard. I appreciate your attention to detail because that's the kind of business you're in. U good footnotes. It helps lay persons to interpret. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. Uh move to approve. Second. Okay. Before I call the uh vote, Katherine, any comments or questions? No. Thanks. Okay, we have a motion by Joe, second by Stacy. I'll call the vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimous. Thank you, Richard.

The next item is Dunwitty Nature Center Commissions. Council member Lenbucker. Good evening, Mayor Prom and Council. I am pleased to bring forth the commissions from the Dewony Nature Center. Can somebody please put up the drawing that was in the packet for for the viewing audience? I will just keep talking in the event that that happens. I've been serving on a Oh, what number? What? I'm sorry.

Oh, no. What's the presentation called? Is it a presentation? Don't see it in this. It's a photo. Okay. I might need some help with this. I don't know. It's not in this. Okay.

Okay. That is fine. I will talk without the photo. the council men can see it in the packet. Uh, I've been serving on the donor recognition committee. We have we have a a new building at the Deon Nature Center and we've been working to find art to celebrate the contributors. This is the Wildcat Creek Learning Lab. Proposals were solicited and one artist was chosen. Julie Mazone is the mosaic artist who did the sign that says Dumby in mosaic tile and it's along Wac Road. Ah, there it is. Okay. The the picture you're seeing is the side of the new building that faces the parking lot. So you've got to its left you would see the old original building and this is the new the side of the new building. The proposed mosaic on the top is 12 ft by 3 ft and then below that would be a donor thank you sign between the windows and it would be about 3 ft by 4t. This is not visible from Robert's road and we are not requesting any funding. I will be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Katherine. Any uh John? Katherine, it's a beautiful uh mosaic. I'm easy. Happy to approve this. I guess my only question really comes is why is it coming to council for approval? Is it does it go to the art commission? What I mean I think it's I think it's appropriate. I just don't wonder if it's appropriate for I believe I'll call Richard to clarify, but I believe the reason is because there's words. Yes. On the artwork, it is considered a sign and not public art. Well, that's correct.

Okay. Again, it it's great. It looks fine. I just want to make sure that it's appropriate. I just I guess my only comment is um Richard like maybe something to keep in mind as we go through the code update if we differentiate between maybe signs that are visible from the roadway and signs that aren't. So this is yes agreed. Just I don't know I don't know if that has I don't know if any thought has been put into that at all but I mean it's also on city property. Yeah. Right. So, but the mayor brought that objection up as well, so I think it could be looked at. Okay, we have a motion by John, a second by Rob. Any additional comments or discussion? Seeing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor say I. I.

I. Any opposed? That passes unanimous. Thank you, Catherine. Thank you.

Any addition? Okay. The next agenda item is 2026 athletic athletic agreement renewal amend to include month of May. Stacy Harris. Okay. So, apparently the month of May is a problem for us with Eric's March May. So, um in the February 23rd uh meeting, we approved all the athletic agreements. I made a change um on the floor, but I did not my intention was to include the month of May so they can have their tournaments. The new agreement in the packet um includes all of our changes and motions from the February 23rd meeting and now includes that they are allowed to have um tournaments May through July and Indigenous People's Day weekend in October.

And that's a what specific contract are you talking about? Uh this is for the Dony Senior Baseball athletic usage agreement. Move to approve. Second move by John. Uh second by Rob. Any questions or discussion? Seeing none, I'll call the vote. All in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? That passes unanimous. Thank you, Stacy. And that completes our business items for the evening. We'll move on to our discussion items. Michelle is up first. Uh we'll discuss the perimeter center east path uh conceptual design. Good evening council. Um I am here to present the concept for the perimeter center um east path. So this project is in partnership with perimeter C. Um it is to develop a multimodal connection between two bridges park and Ashford Dunny road. Um so it's to continue building um our connection with our adjacent neighbors into path 400. Um there um per center east is a two-lane um roadway with 10 to 14t widths. Um there is a divided wooded median that um varies from zero to 100 ft. Um the existing wide brideway varies from about 70 to 200 feet. So it's like there can get pretty wide in certain sections where they have those divided medians. Um and then uh the corridor has transit stops and then it's a mix of commercial and residential properties. So a little bit about the background. Um this project was identified in our Dunwy Trail master plan. Um it was adopted in 2023. um PCID contract with Kimley Horn in the fall of 24 um to develop a concept and to hold a public meeting. That public meeting was held last um July where we had 22 attendees um with 25 comments that ranged from um discussion about walkability and access

um community space, traffic impacts and like tree canopy. So, this is the preferred concept. And I'm going to zoom in a little bit so I can work this. So, this corridor has a um low volume. It's low volume and low speed. It's 30 miles per hour. So this is the initial phase where we're um approaching it using like a coste effective approach to making these improvements. Um we will reconfigure the lanes with signage and striping um to create like a safe space for cyclists and pedestrians and vehicles all within the um existing rideway. So just wanted to point out that the majority of this construction will happen within the existing rideway. So I want to start here at the intersection of Ashford Dunwy Road. Um so we are um proposing to u mostly keep the existing lanes in the existing configuration. We will be adding a proposed shared use path on the north side. Um and so this is really to create like the seamless connection as you go across the intersection um to connect with the Ashford Dunwood cycle track that's already there. Um, as we move along the corridor here, we are proposing a mini roundabout. Um, and this is really to encourage slower speeds and also help cyclists and pedestrians um, safely transition um, to the facilities on the north side. So, I am going to go to the next slide where we have a zoomed in version that um, so here is the zoomed in version of the roundabout. So, we will have the existing bike lanes coming um

on both sides. Um and then we will um as we approach the roundabout, we'll transition them um through um like a little a side path through the cycle track and then transition them to the north to get back onto the proposed facilities. So, that would be both for cyclists and pedestrians. Um, so this roundabout design really helps reduce the conflict points between the vehicle and the cyclist and pedestrians. Um, really to make it safer for them to navigate through the intersection. Um, and then transition um, back from proposed to existing conditions. So, I'm going to go back to the corridor and zoom back in. Okay. So, as we um are heading east, um we really wanted to be able to provide um these connections to these northern properties. Um and so, um we are creating this um exit only parallel access driveway from Apricorn and the adjacent driveway um to the driveway at um Park Place. So, this is a two-way driveway to Park Place. So, we're creating this oneway out exit. Um, and then they'll be able to then access back through the main corridor. Um the thought here is that in the future if this property or any of the northern properties get redeveloped that we would work with the developer and design um something that removes this parallel driveway access um and and really kind of just holistically just have that connection north south there. Um, one thing I did want to point out is that, um, we do have these locations

where we have median access points and we're really trying to maintain those to really, um, support the connection to those northern properties. Um, additionally, I wanted to point out that where we have pedestrian sidewalks that are already present, like here in this yellow, we are going to use those um in the proposed project. So, as we continue south along here, this section right here, we don't have any existing sidewalk. So, this is the section that we will um look at implementing a two-way cycle track with a 4ft buffer, striped buffer, and an 8-oot sidewalk that all would be located within that what is now the existing roaded. Um so as we continue around um this curve and head up towards the town homes um all of the um the pedestrian um facilities and the cycle track will stay on this inner loop. Um and then we'll head up to um the four-way stop that's located at the two bridges driveway. So here is where um we are um providing a pedestrian crosswalk and then we'll also transition bikes back to their existing um on street sh um on street bike lane. Um as we head north towards perimeter center extension here we um have a left turn lane as you head southbound and this is really to help support the drop off pickup circulation for the adjacent monator school. This right here is the typical section. So this is the typical section that we would be proposing for those um areas where we don't have any existing sidewalks. So, we'd have the two-lane

cycle track, we'd have the 4ft buffer, and we'd have an 8ft pedestrian sidewalk. Down here, we have some renderings. So, on the left here, this is a rendering of the initial phase, um, which is really just striping and signage. Um, and then on the right, this would be, uh, more of the final phase where it would be, um, new concrete and curb and gutter. Talked about that one. So our next steps are that um the consultant would um finalize the initial plans um for construction bidding and we would um be advertising by the end of the year for construction.

Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Michelle, comments or questions? Stacy? Um sorry I was on the wrong slide. Can you go back to the big overall one? Yeah. Because I think what you know some people first of all it's a 25 mph street. Um second of all um Richard or maybe Michelle you know how many residential units have we approved to be there at the bottom of that curve. I would have to ask Richard. I just Oh Richard is not here now. Okay. I mean, it's a lot a lot.

I mean, it's a lot and and that side of the street doesn't have a sidewalk right now and like those buildings are going to have a lot of residential. So, I think this is a great project to as we bring more resident as we bring residential into that area to account for all of it. And again, we're already on a slow street. Um, so yeah, I'm very much in favor of this project. That's all I just wanted I just wanted to remind us all how many residential units are are coming are coming. The um very very excited. Pinch me. I'll wait to see what it's done. Anyway, um I want to I want a press announcement saying I think this might be our first roundabout since city hood. What? Oh, it's a mini one. Well, you know, I'll take a mini. I many donuts are good. So, I think this is the first roundabout. Seriously, that would be since City of Dunwy in 18 years. So, okay, there you go. Um, C, they helped Did they help? I know the partners, they're great. We appreciate their great great support. Um, they paid for the the uh concept funding for Kimley Horn. Did they

It's joint share cost. I um I noticed so I looked at the uh the CIP I looked at our budget for that project. We have a balance right now of 288,000 right now. Um is that is that going to be getting us to um what will we get? I I saw the picture with the final phase buildout that looks like really really nice. Are we doing the is it just the initial one? It'll be the initial. Okay. And is that um does is the C are we anticipating asking C for uh helping with this initial with the initial one as well? Yeah. Okay. It will be a shared cost also for construction.

So it may actually it it could exceed what we currently have in our balance at 288K to get to this initial one and then you'd work. Okay. So add and then just explain the process then if we move for when we do move forward um because I it's been a while since I don't know if we've worked since I've been on council that the C has funded jointly a project with us for construction. So it goes through we're going to go through us and then

yes we would we would hold the contract for construction um and do the inspections and all of that and then it would be but it would be a joint shared cost on it but we would advertise the the project for construction and oversee it. I know that it'll come to council for approval of the contract um the funding then by the time that comes around whatever that total is we would then let's say it's a gap of money um we'll we'll have an anticipation from the CI of saying that they would be able to contribute X amount yes and then there's a reimbursement then okay so we'll know we'll know all that by the time it comes back to council for approval of the contract for construction contracts

for construction yeah but totally excited and you're saying It could actually be built by the end of the year. Well, not built, but start construction. Yes. So, we'll advertise by the end of the year. Start um and then, you know, we'll have our advertisement contracting phase so we can begin early sometime in spring. Right. Okay. Awesome. I'm very excited about it. Thank you. Uh Katherine, any comments or questions? It looks great. Can't wait to see it. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks. Yeah. No, I'll just echo. I'm really excited about this project. It's it's a great adaptive re reuse of in existing infrastructure and we're putting it to much better use. Uh you know, Stacy pointed out the number of residents that are already living there. We got more residents coming in plus the hotels, the office, the retail, everything. This is just going to be a great enhancement for safety for pedestrians and cyclists. Plus, it's going to be an an incredible new amenity creating a linear park through this whole area. Um, so as has been already said, I'm I'm excited to see this this one uh move on to construction and completion. So, thank you very much. Thank you.

Michael, you're up. We're going to talk about tree management on call contracts.

Yes. One year ago this month, the council approved three contracts for for tree management, tree trimming, tree removal on the rightway and in the parks. Um they were with Aka Tree Services Beasley and Tricapes. And recently Triccapes got out of that business, so we're down one contractor. And the other two contracts had a one-year, it was a one-year contract with a optional one-year renewal. So we we would like to renew the two existing contracts and then we've identified two other tree services that we'd like to add. These are all unit price contracts. We you know we call them up and say we this is what we need and then they they uh give us a price based on those contracts. So, we're recommending one-year contracts with with AKA. AKA and Beasley would be renewals and then um one-year contracts with Chartwell Tree Consultants and Elite Arbor Solutions for On Call Tree Services. Okay. Thank you, Michael. Any comments or questions? Catherine?

No. Thanks. Okay. Yeah, I think this one's consent. uh you know and just to clarify I know I know there's different rates and things in in in the contract but just to clarify for the public the reason that we do this is that if if there is a weather event and we have emergency work uh we already have an agreed upon price we can we have multiple units uh companies to choose from to get the work done.

Correct. And and each um each tree company has a little bit different approach. Some some have big expensive equipment that they bring out. So, we call one versus the other depending on the nature of the job. If it's something that needs a crane and it's real delicate, there's some tree services that are better than that and others, but it's it's good to have options for several. Yeah. No, I agree. So, we we're all good with consent for this. Yes. So, we could put this on consent. Thank you. And Michael, I believe you are still up.

All right. Thank you. Um, the last thing I had tonight is uh a few years ago when when the uh the land swap was done for Austin Elementary School and there were a lot of uh easements and different components to that agreement. The part of that was that the the driveway coming into the nature center and the parking lot is actually part of the school system property, but they granted an easement um for the city and for the nature center to use that for access. And um when the the nature center was planning their their classroom building that's finishing up construction right now, they were part of the permitting. They were told they needed to run a new water line into the site. And it was at that point we discovered that the original easement was a little too specific. Um that it specifically mentioned pedestrian pedestrian and vehicular access. And so just to clarify, we talked to the school board and, you know, explained to them, I don't think anybody meant for it to exclude utilities, but just to be sure, let's let's do a corrective easement. And so they agreed to do that. They've already signed it. Um, but it needs needs council approval, so we can sign it and send it back to them. And and the new easement just calls out that we can provide utility services to our facility as part of that permanent easement. comments or questions?

All good with consent. Yep. All right, we'll put that one on cons just one question. It was signed by Dr. Horton. Is it still valid? Um, it should be. Yes. Okay, good. I just Yeah. I mean, consent absolutely. Let's get it done. It needs to be done. Whoever who assuming it was approved by them, whoever had authority was signed, fine. They still it would bind to

Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Michael. All right, Rachel, you're up. You get to you get to bring us to the finish line tonight. Okay. Yeah, one one of three. Um, good evening. Um before I I jump into this item, I I do want to call out a um an error on my part on the memo. Um the top vendor should just say match point tennis, not match point tennis signature tennis. So I apologize for that. That'll be corrected in the next one. Um so when hollow tennis courts um we're here um seeking approval for repairs. Um this is something we've been working on for for several years. Um we we've tried the the grant route. We've tried a couple different options to to help with funding and we're just we're not finding anything. and I don't want these to sit any longer. Um, couple pictures of the courts here. Um, so our repairs would eliminate existing cracks, improving the unevenness or what they call a bird bath for servicing of the courts, restriping the sport lines, and then installing new uh, tennis nets. Uh, Match Point Tennis, who was our lowest um, bidder for this project, did perform this work for us before. Um, they've done it at both Windwood Hollow Park and Waterford Park. Um, we're very confident in their skills. Um, this work specifically at at Winwood was performed in 2021, so we're we're definitely due. Um, it's recommended about every 5 to eight years. Um, and these courts get get a ton of play. Um, between tennis and pickle ball, we now have our adaptive programs out there. Um, we we've got to have these in in better shape for for those kiddos out there. Um they asked tonight is um funding for the project which we will use SPLS 2 which is my parks green space recreation fund um in the amount of $57,640 which does include a 10% contingency just in case.

Um again just authorize us to to move forward with this project and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you Rachel. Any questions, concerns? Consent? Katherine, are you good? Good. Thanks. Okay. Thank you.

Y second item tonight. Again, this we're all about improvement tonight. Um, so we we have been working with a group called Kaizen Laboratories or Kaizen for short to update our um our reservation system. Um, when when I first started with the city, we were using paper. People were faxing things in to book a a pavilion. Um, we upgraded in in 2017 um to civic wreck, which is what a lot of parks rec agencies use. Everyone's um very familiar with them. Um, we decided to go civic wreck back back um, in 2017 because at the time we we weren't offering as much as we do now. We were looking for something that was very straightforward, very basic that could grow with us. Um, so that that fit at the time. Um, we have since then just just totally expanded everything we're doing in terms of um, court reservations. We have our internal internal software for you know the annex groups for athletic fields. Um all the wonderful programs that that my recreation team is um has has included over the years. Um and because of this we just need something that is more modern that really meets the need of of our department. Um Kaizen there's a little snapshot there. Kaizen has a great interface. Um it will look right now when you leave the doy page you can tell that you're going to a different site. This is more seamless. Um, we've been working with with IT and finance and and communications to make sure everything it works on the back end. Um, we had a meeting earlier today just to kind of look at, you know, kind of what a user would see and we're just we're we're thrilled with it. Um, there is this is not a very large amount. It's only $20,000 per year, but this is

coming to you tonight because it is a multi-year contract. Um, we were we were on kind of a a percentagebased fee with with Civic Wreck. Um, we when we initially started conversations with Kaizen, we actually were going to do the same thing, which is why you see the breakout of the three one-year terms and then the two one-year terms, uh, we have since renegotiated. The $20,000 is actually a much better deal for us. So, thank you, John Gates. Oh, he's not here. Um, oh, he is. Okay. Thank you, John. U, so we know we're getting the best deal for for the best service. Um, so tonight, we're just here to to formalize this request and, um, hopefully we'll have this ready for y'all this summer. showcase it. So, very excited.

Okay. Thank you, Rachel. Comments, questions, Joe or Rob? Go ahead, Rob. The order form that's on here. Yes. Is that just an example? It has zero with all the zeros. No, that's the order form. So, they do not charge anything for the upfront build, all the backend services. Um, so we we've paid nothing this far. The only fee will be um the annual agreement. Yeah. And there's language in the back of the contract that removes the percentages. Yes. Amendment one. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

Did this um how did the selection process work? Were there references other cities? Uh how did how did how do we Yeah. Just kind of explain the background of this, please.

So, a couple years ago, we actually saw their demo at a conference uh the National Parks Conference. Um and we're very pleased. We had a demo with them and a few other companies. Um, again, just to look at pricing and just interface. We were are we really want something that's seamless and that matches all the wonderful work that um, communications has put together with their beautiful website and the other ones just aren't they're just not there. They're very clunky and they're just um they're just not very modern. Um, Kaizen has a beautiful mobile app which which we don't have right now for the park side. Um it's it's really that that user interface both publicly and internally that we've been liking which is why we were drawn to them.

Uh like references or other cities that are using it or municipalities. Are you are there anybody in the region that you know that's using the name? I know we talked about it but they yeah they sent us the test sites for for a bunch of um agencies across the country we're able to look at first. One of them is Maricopa County which is Phoenix Arizona. Yeah. Okay. Uh yeah great. Great. And I again I was initially I was reading about like who's going to actually do this, but so the the company is actually going to are they going to so they're going to look at everything we're offering and they're going to set it all up in their software. So they're going to set up all that offering so that their staff. It's not on our plate.

No, it is. So, so Kate Board, my recreation manager, has been um single-handedly working with them to build basically they give us kind of the their their out of the box and then we tweak it specifically for Dunwy. So, they're working Kate's working with the Kaizen um IT team to get it just as we need it. Right. Okay. And so it's a I guess you don't have any this is not like when I think of like financial systems and payroll systems it's way way more critical but you keep on your old system until you're fully tested and vetted and then you like flip it and turn it on and then change it over. I'm sure you guys will figure all that out of what makes a best time frame to do that

because you know in the middle of a class and everything else but yeah I'm excited. Now what about the difference? I don't know how the transactional fees I notice it says it's a six and a half initial percent transactional fees six and a half% initial term then 8% thereafter. So what do we pay with our current system? So with civic wreck it's um about 2 and a half% or a flat $200 um which we were doing years ago just because we weren't running it's it's all based on what revenue is is put through the system right with Kaizen. So that's what that amendment is in the packet. It's there's there's no There's no percentage of fees. It's It's just a straight $20,000 per year. That's a full amendment. Yeah. All right. Sorry.

Yeah. It's flat. Okay. Yeah, that's all. All right. Well, thank you. I'm excited to see this. Thank you, Katherine. Did you have any questions or comments? No. Okay. No. No. Thanks

for this as well. All right. We'll put that on consent. And one more. Rachel. Next one. All right, last one for the evening. Um, so you heard a little bit earlier. Um, this this is for what we would call phase four of the Brook Run lighting system. Um, phases one through three have already been completed been completed at Brook Run. That's what you see um around the trail. Um, phase four would add lighting between Brookun and Pernial Park. that that area that um connection if you will. The photo you're seeing here was taken at 6:30 just a couple weeks ago. So, it's it's very it's very very dark as you can see. There's another one. Again, these are it's very dark out there. Um huge lighting gap. Um and again, it just additional lighting would would really really increase pedestrian safety um and visibility in these unlet areas. We we want people to be able to to use the parks when when they want to when they be out. they don't need to be limited to, you know, 5:30 in the winter and and have to go elsewhere. Um, we've been working with with Georgia Power. Um, they would have the post posttop lights that you see at Brookground Park. So, aesthetically it would match. Um the the initial cost would be $131,160 um which we would pull from general capital for from parks and then there is a new monthly lighting fee of $68 um which will be allocated from parks utilities. Um but what this does is includes it's 20 of the posttop lights all the cables. Um we have already talked to them about um some shields on the residential side just for residential comfort. Um so that 131160 includes all those components. Um, happy to answer any questions you have on this one.

Hey, John. Thanks, Rachel. I was very interested in those side shields and I started looking at your polls and where they're located and uh some of them are very close to the house and actually some of them are between two houses. You got the house on one side, the apartment on the other.

So, you're putting shields on both sides. How does that work on the effectiveness? And have we thought about just changing it from 12 foot poles down to, you know, below, you know, walking level? Because again, the houses have fences all along. I'm just trying to figure out that we're right up on the property line. Does it make any sense to go from 12T down to a six foot or a 4 foot pedestrian walking path lighting in that one section right there at the bottom? So we did initially um the design that we walked to Georgia Power had posttop lights until you get to just about what I call the bridge area. Right. And then it converted to ballards. Yes.

The phototric survey on that was not very bright. You really would just kind of get a circle around the ballard wouldn't enhance the pedestrian light that we're looking for. Um so that's why we went back to the posttop lights. Um because really the the ballards probably wouldn't do much um in that little strip because where they would put them would be right when you come up between the columns and the town homes and you've got that wall. So it's even it's even darker.

I get it. I'm just I'm worried about the lighting in the sense on both sides you're I mean seven poles. I'm I'm counting the poles. I'm trying to figure out who we're blocking the light for. On some poles I think you're going to need to block on both sides. I don't know. I'm just looking at it from that perspective. And then over near the bridge, you're um it's probably fine there. I'm just trying to figure out if there's anywhere else. Um and then the Lakewood Lake ridge area. I'm guessing the trees will block those. Those aren't an issue. I'm just trying to think of even in the summer in the winter time when there's less coverage. Um we may at some point need to request another shield that somewhere those could always be added later. Correct.

They can. Yes, we've done that other places. Okay. Again, I'm just trying to understand the lighting to make sure that we're not inconveniencing our our community. So, thank you though. Sure.

Um, last thing for the for the greater public. Um, folks, uh, this this little trail connection barely happened. In 2014, the city council had a split vote of four to three, and my friend on council sitting to my left was one of the yes votes. The city paid an extra $30,000 to acquire the connection between Brook Run and Pernaw. $30,000. It was a split 4 to3 vote. Four people said yes. John was one of them. The other folks aren't on council anymore and different mayor. Uh so imagine if that vote hadn't happened, we wouldn't have this connection. And just it's just it's just the way it it's reality, right? That says March in 2014. So, I want to thank uh John for voting for that in 2014. Um I I'm going to continue to harp about the lower level pedestrian scale lighting wherever we put this on a path uh in front of the high school. I supported it. I I look at what they do in Hilton Head there. They they there are you can Google this. they can do a ballard a 4ft ballard height and and the spacing is from 10 to 20 ft and it still lights the pathway and and it preserves the dark skies wildlife uh and so on. So, I I get the the 12 foot, but I I I'm I'm I'm also concerned the way John is here with the tightness with the residential on both sides. And I just would would like to see where we just keep on putting in these big tall lamp posts everywhere. Uh they can be trail lighting and they could light onto the trail itself. Um so, it could be shorter. Um that was kind of a question but or a comment. Do we have what hours are are the um the lights on even like tonight today the the ones on the current path inside Brookun what hours?

Brook runs 10 um all other parks are are dawn to dusk dawn to dust.

So we could so with with the Georgia Power um technology we could you know do the photo cell plus or minus however however many hours to kind of schedule as needed like the other ones. So, I pulled up our Munich code and I looked at our parks because I've got another question that maybe we talk about at our retreat, but our park hours I'm just reading from Unicode. Uh, park hours of operation are from 8:00 a.m. I'm 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. unless otherwise posted otherwise by the director. That's what it says. parks, hours of operation, 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. It talks about recreation facilities, and it's it doesn't specifically say trails, but right, but it says a vehicle is a bicycle as well. So, I um it says it shall be unlawful for any person or vehicle enter or be within a recreational facility outside of posted hours of operation. So that means right now today in my legal interpretation uh if you're on the Dumby trailway and you happen to want to go to work in perimeter area and you want to ride your bike and you live on North Peach Tree and you want to scoot through Brook Run and if you go before 6:00 a.m. you could get a ticket and that would be a misdemeanor. And um I'd like to entertain a council having a conversation about that because I think it's a meaningful means of transportation or maybe people jog at 5 in the morning and they would get a ticket right now today. It's it's illegal. So um anyway, the and the last that's affiliated with this project, there's a trailway sign that we put up in 2014 uh on Mount North Shallford. It was part of that $30,000 um project. Um it's the columns at Lake Ridge. You can you can't really see the Delway Trailway. I thought that we had somewhere where we're going to clean up that um signage and make

We do. Yeah, there's there's um the original designer um owes us a few files. Um otherwise, we'll have to we'll recreate them and and go that way. But yes. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Good. Thank you. I just want to commend um the citizen Kelly. you're a braver woman than I because I would not walk on this path with no lights. So, thank you for bringing it really to the forefront. Um, and I love walking this trail, but I wouldn't do it after dark. So, I think this just connects two parks. Um, it does need to be lit. We do need to keep our citizens safe. So, um, thank you for putting in the effort to, um, to planning it.

Katherine, any questions or comments? No comments. Okay, thank you. We could go with consent for that or consent. side shields that blocks the lighting and those can be added later. I just really wanted to make sure this Yeah. No, no, thank you. I appreciate that.

I really like the pack with the Georgia power technology too. We can control it as well. So, I think with that Okay. Thank you, Rachel. Okay. We are now to the We are to the second public comment portion of the meeting. Um, as a reminder, each speaker will have up to three minutes. I have one card, Mr. Norton.

Yes, thanks. As I was saying, um I met with Eric and his folks and talked about uh potential solutions and the bottom line to it was uh while I recommended that should that the city share responsibility his response was we'll get back to you which I thought was satisfactory at that point. One week later, I get an email from a lawyer, not a response from Eric or his staff. The email from the lawyer says in part, "Georgia law is clear that simply because storm water flows from public streets into private storm water infrastructure, that does not create any maintenance responsibility of that private infrastructure on the city. No statutes, no case law cited. I would suggest that the lawyer who wrote this is perhaps not as clear as she ought to be with regard to Georgia law. There are exceptions to the statutes that exist. At the same time, there's another way to look at the issue, which is that it should be that Dunwitty is using Brook Farm Lake as a part of its storm water system. Storm water flows into the lake from the culverts, flows through our lake, sediment settles to the bottom, then at that point, storm water flows out of our lake down to Kingsley Lake and onward. So there's a couple of different ways to look at her response, both of which I'd suggest need, let's say, further investigation. So at that point, what I decided to do was to get a hold of my representative

on the council, Tom Lambert. I called the office for Tom Lambert and was told that I'd need an appointment. I said, "That's fine. Let me give you a couple of times and suggestions of times I'm available. The next thing I know, rather than getting a call back, I get yet another email from the lawyer. If you have something new you intend to share with the mayor prom, I would be happy to take a look. Otherwise, his response would be consistent with my evaluation of the situation. Not exactly a constituentfriendly approach is what I'd say. So I think we have a situation where sedimentation is a problem for Brook Run for Brook Farm. Sorry, Brook run in my mind. Brook Farm sedimentation is a problem for Dunwoody. It is not going away to have lawyers initially get involved. We have not called a lawyer,

Mr. Norton. We have not called a lawyer nor gone to court but if necessary that would be the outcome. I do not want that. I don't do want that. Thank you. I look forward to your response. Thank you. Are there any uh additional speakers for public comment? Seeing none, uh city manager comments. I have no no additional comments. We do not need an executive session this evening. Thank you. City council comments. Um, happy belated birthday to our major pro mayor prom and mayor.

Thank you very much. We do share a birthday. C Katherine, any comments? No. Thanks. Second. Okay, we have a motion to adjurnn by Rob, second by Stacy. All in favor say I. I. I. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.