City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening. Welcome to the public hearing for the city of Hampton May and City Council, February the 10th, 2026 at 6 PM. A notice is hereby given that the city of Hampton mayor and council will hold a public hearing on February the 10th, 2026 at 6 PM at the Hampton City Hall Council Chamber located at 17 East Main Street, Hampton, Georgia for the purpose of We have three items on the agenda for the public hearing. We're going to move right into item A to hear from the public in accordance to OCGA 36664A and the Hampton code of ordinance appendix A article 2 article 3 article 6 and article 7 to amend appendix A zoning of the code of ordinance in the following section and consider the items listed specifically to address data centers as required and respective zoning district. We have article 2 3 six and seven. Miss Wanda was directed by Mayor recent to address data centers and that's what we're doing today first engagement with the public to start the conversation So everyone as far as what staff did in their research and review city Urban Land Institute guidelines for data

center development and then also building what this ordinance currently does not address standards requirements protection and parking requirements. The city currently has putting robust standards on building materials for these large builds requirements. However, we're not addressing specific ordinances. Article general provisions we're adding a new section which currently does not ex section 27 requirements. And then we want to address the articles and seven business districts to define where data center should be. So I'm not every single bit of interesting public share about what they understand data centers are concerns they may have to share with us what's now is basically to amend article two we want to identify what a closed loop system is and it defines it there as it's being closed and it's constantly recycling.

And then data center just in general the data center is defined as a physical room building or facility that houses infrastructure for building or transmitting technology technolog applications and services or stoing and managing the data associated with technological equipment application systems and services and then we go into define different types of data centers. The first one is a data center accessory use which could be inside hospital like the FAA some other type of entity where they may have a room within a facility this particular has to be a building and cannot substit with an approved condition that center major is for buildings that are greater than 10,000 but not more than 7500 which is under the thresh located heavy. This could support facilities where you might have a smaller building data centers. It would not have

a subst less definition that we don't currently have related to data centered by data centering the purp The section is to ensure that development is conducted in a manner that protects the environment, public health and safety. location again as reiterated as far as where the zoning district would allow these particular data centers and then D you'll see application required for all data centers all data center applications building requirements It addresses those applications that require that before the application is received or prior to land service provide written confirmation that the utility service has agreed to provide service. Typically this happens way ahead of time. that the city has actually agreement instead of having data center buildings built in our city which does happen

with things that we have going on in the city but for these studies to have parameters and also for the study to be prepared by consultant that isredited expert or qualified professional address as they be able to reduce that 200 measures that are added to that datal yards and any other exposed shall not be located between the primary data center and the public right. All cooling and ventilation equipment shall operate on system and then our water consumption sustainability would have to be provided. criteria that would be in that plan. Energy consumption and sustainability plan to address some of the environmental concerns for energy use CO2 emissions and different things

that are not necessarily that can be addressed at sight specific sight specific. One of the things that I'm sure is aware that it would be forc would be a concern because it's that we might allow that down which is another reason why it's great that ARC has added this to their threshing maintain our dark sky. We currently have ordinances that we condition in all of our resial developments as well as commercial transmission line impact assessment. That's a huge one when we're talking about what I just shared. We want to understand how the transition lines once they get to our data centers, where they go, where they come from, what kind of impact they're having to cing and cooling, ventilation, other equipment shall not be located

right. Again, this is about having quality development in the city. Substations only subst I don't want to see when you drive by that they have different equipment in that yard. access to the substation and then infrastructure plan. These plans will help address some of the things that we talked about. You know, what's the plan? What's the contract? what's coming from these established prior to everybody going forward in a very last article to talk about where these data centers should be located. The first one data center accessory is right now

in office and commercial at the bottom that is only able to locating their data from paper to that can be shared at all facilities as well as these type of centers equipment that hospitals have now intensive as far as the need for data and support. So that would be an example of a current regulations but it's these regulations. The second campus. This would require conditional use and that is a single building that is greater than 10,000 but less than that 2700,000 station. You might have something like this or it might be situation build that might be something that they would have at the airport.

FAA some of those specific building and there is no substation associated with it right now how it's written by this time we're going to from the public in regards to agenda item A um OCGA 3666 for article appendix A article 2 article 3 article 6 and article 7. Anyone that would like to speak in favor in regards to this text amendment or has anything that they would like to say about it you can come to the podium at this time please state your name your address.

Thank you. Don Greer 20d Street. I just want to thank the council for getting some more details on this. It's more I've read through a good bit of this. It's way over my head on parts of it, but it's very it looks very thorough, but I do ask the council to please continue to to do a deep dive on it and make sure it's as comprehensive as we can get. Um, so that the next ones, if we do have any more, that they're highly regulated. And I want to thank y'all again for that.

Thank you. Anyone else would like to speak at this time? My name is Bill Den, 15 Shelby Street. I would uh fully support a a temporary moratorium on data centers and I base that on the fact that they're a big concern on the whole east coast, east coast. Uh the state of Georgia according to data leads the nation in moratoriums on data centers. So what does that tell you? there's some issues such as power and water and there needs to be more research on it and I just don't think you ought to keep going forward and until you you know you feel confident with everything. So talking about growth and data centers if you ever wonder why north side's grow bigger than the south side because they have twice as much water as we do the lake lener and altuna alone is 50,000 acres of water and and and and here in Henry County, we became a a a metro area and it didn't do that until the Tusher Hall reservoir opened in the late 90s. And when that happened, we become a a metro Atlanta. Ain't I correct there, Marty? And it's it's because we had the water and that's when ACRC come involved. But uh there's just there's not much water in this area to support. I'm not saying banned them or nothing, but somebody better do some checking before you keep moving forward, you know. Thank you for your time. Okay.

Anyone else? Mr. Henry, come forward. Council members,

it sounds to me like cow's already out of the room or out of the building. The horse is out of the barn. I think we got a couple of data centers already being built, aren't we? And those are going to be regulated. You're going to come in here and tell somebody else, "Oh, no. We're going to put all these regulations on y'all. We didn't do it on them." And you're going to end up in court being sued and they going to tell you, "No, since you didn't do your homework the first time, you're probably going to end up doing it again. You're going to allow them to be out here." Y'all, y'all didn't let that. And by the way, they're talking about talking to Atlanta and Cal County, they got the same problem we got. They don't know nothing about data centers. You got to go to where data centers were at. It's been there for five years or so and find out what kind of problems they had with them and what they should have done with them so we'll know what to do with them. But we can't set up here. These these people I've been right there and the same thing happens out here. They'll promise you the world everything's going to be great. just get it approved. And when it sh gets approved, you left with manure back. They they long gone. They got their money and they gone. And and and you talking about data center. We don't know the half of it. I had I had made the statement, I'd rather have a data center than 900 apartments. But it's like the lady said at the last meeting, I know what I'm going to get when I get 900 apartments. I don't know what I'm going to get when I get a data center. So, so therefore, I don't really I really want a data center over 900 apartments. I don't really want them either, but I want what's best for my community. And if it ain't best for the community, y'all are sitting there demand y'all should be demanding that you're going to stop it for the citizens in your community. Every one of you got roots and

connections this community, whether you've been here a long time or not. But I tell you, data centers are something you better look at. And I think we've already we've already set our precedent because we're allowing two to be built out right now and can't even find out really who who authorized them. Whoever find out who signed the paper and notorized it says, "Hey, y'all can build it." They just sat there illegally building it, I guess, because they didn't come to the government. And I've been here for 31 month and Let's see. I've been here 31 months continuously trying to get something straightened out that you screwed up a year and a almost two years ago.

Good evening. My name is Ann Fields. Um 329 Chase Marian Way Mcdana. Um we didn't mention the Bitcoin mining within the scope of a data center. They use a lot more power. They run 247. there's just constantly mining for bitcoins. Um, they require more power than a standard data center. So, that's a consideration that I'm not seeing in in your work here, the arc, dicabs, other stuff I've read for other communities. Um, and then another concern really would be to make sure that the water's ready to go as they start the construction, not like an afterthought or something that's going to start co-constructing with a data center construction. Same for power and um we all saw what's going on in Fagatville with um power poles that are bigger than trunks and trees going into people's front yards and devaluing their property. So, what consideration is Hampton making for power infrastructure upgrades that would be required by the power company that could extremely devalue your residential and possibly commercial properties um to accommodate power needs for these centers. So, I I didn't hear any of that within the scope of this. I just wanted to mention that. Thank you for

anyone else to speak. Good evening, Jean Cassinger of Rocky Creek Road, Hampton. We're you're in the process of trying to fix something that got broke accidentally. And I get that. We were here a year ago trying to tell you about the barge report and how it said there isn't enough water in this area that we're using everything that county water authority makes every day and that infrastructure is necessary to do any big building like the growth. Well, you approved it. It's happening. We talked again about the data centers a year ago and y'all prove that along with more is happening. So I'm going to go further out because my research has led me to the area where data centers in 15 to 20 years with AI will not be necessary. So, we're going through all these hoops to change things to gear up for something that's not going to be here in 15 to 20 years. I'm more concerned about the cleanup of that data center. Who's going to be responsible for picking up the toxic waste for knocking the building down? So, it's reusable land, reclaimable land. That's where I'm going. I'm further out than where we are right now. The mistakes have been made. They've got to be fixed. But I'm further out from the mistakes. I'm I'm looking way far ahead because that this is what is designed in the

industry. 15 to 20 years from now, nobody will talk data centers and we'll have all these empty toxic buildings all around the continental United States. We need to be thinking about that now, too. been planning for and these taxers need to have them into the cities where they clean up their own mess. It's not left to us citizens in our taxes to clean it up. Thank you for your time.

Anyone else want to speak? Seeing no one is coming forward, we're going to close agenda item A and move on to public hearing item B to hear from the public on the property owner request to core financial to resone property located in unincorporated Henry County from RA residential agriculture to city of Hampton M1 light industrial. The property includes 2.01 acres located on 1019 highway 1941 partial number ID 0080 01019,000 the reasonzoning request impacts the current 100% method annexation application AX21217 of the property into the city of Hampton if you would come forth and being the applicant would come after is the applicant here I saw Did you see the the map on the screen? Um, as you can see the pink with a blue line around it. The city limits is pink and the blue is the proposed um parcel. They are requesting to reszone from county Henry County M1 to I mean RA to city of Hampton M1 in conjunction with 100% annexation application. This is a zoning map for the county that shows um that next to in the county the property to the north is um zoned I think that says C2 and then M1 is above it and then it's surrounded by the city. This is our um sorry this is our uh city zoning map. You can see below that's M1. That's where Southern States is located

on 1941. And this property um abuts uh Southern States. So the request, as I said, is to annex and reszone. Um staff notes that there are a couple of things that may be problematic. Um, again, this is public hearing just to uh speak on the things that um we're looking at on initial review before we do the staff report. The lot minimum for M1 zoning um district is 100 ft. Our ordinance defines the lot width measured at the front yard setback, which this is a is a deep flag lot of frontage on 1941. And so the front yard setback is 70. So it doesn't really meet our zoning code um in relation to that criteria. So, if they decide to move forward, um, we might have to look at that and address it with some other level of variance or some other consideration on that. As well as G dot driveway spacings along 1941, there's an existing driveway that's um, at Southern States. this particular parcel um really is is in impaired to have the correct spacing um for an additional driveway. That would be something they would have to work out with Georgia DOT. I will let you know that uh this property has been probably not um um given notice is posted in accordance with zoning law. These are uses that are permitted in M1. The first is, as you'll see on the right, cemetery, a government building. The far right

indicates the M1 parks or recreation area, crematorium, a large appliance repair place, personal um a repair of personal goods, taxiderermy studio. These are all permitted um by right in an M1 zoning district. A pawn shop requires a conditional use. Sexually oriented business is permitted M1 only. Um M1s that are located along 1941. So uh that's um to note. Um television, radio, film production facilities are permitted by right. Utility substations are permitted by right. Commercial uses, lumber establishment, building establishment, uh feed and seed store, conditional use again, pawn shops, craft manufacturing, uh distribution, warehouse, dry cleaning, laundry, garage repair shop, heavy equipment, manufacturing, printing and publishing, uh renewable energy facility research and development in a whole food wholesale store, an armory, cold storage, uh selfservice storage facility, an airport helport or landing area is uh requires a conditional use and a bus terminal is permitted by right and then recycling center um requires a conditional use. So these are all uses that if um reszoned at the time it came back before mayor and council would be available unless um by ordinance you uh restrict the uses um and the um put a condition on the property. So, at this point, um, as I shared, the staff has

identified some concerns for the request and, um, if the applicant is here, I'll yield the floor.

Is the applicant currently here? All right, I'll open up the floor for anyone that would like to speak for or against item B, the annexation of partial ID number 008019,000 annexation 25-12-17 snuck up on you, excuse me, Don Gur, 20 Mcdana Street. I've just asked that the council not approve this. Uh, I know we're looking at moratoriums on annexations, but also uh with variance says it doesn't really sound like it's a good idea. I'm not sure if that's all the concerns that staff has, but I would urge all to just not approve this. Thank you.

Anyone else wishing to speak on this item?

All right, come to the Anyone else wishing to speak regarding this item?

Seeing that no one is coming forward to speak on this item, we're going to close the public hearing for agenda item B. Moving on to agenda item C to hear from the public regarding property owners Steve Mley's request for variance for the property located at the intersection of East Main Street and Woodlon Avenue partial ID number H0701009000 zone downtown mix they would like a varian to increase the number of allowed curb cuts per printage specific to article 3 section 3-28 varants 26 to allow for a curve cut to be located within 50 foot of the intersection of two curve lines specific to article 3 section 3-20 variance 26003 interior drive widen specific to article 3 section 319 F8 variance 26004 from the requirements provide ped walkways with a minimum width of 5t connecting all building to ground level parking the public parking specific to article 7 section 7-1 H2 I'm not going to speak for too long because the applicant does have presentation um but I'm just going to kind of give an overview the Circle K as you guys know that's right over here on off Woodlon Avenue and East Main Street um is uh basically their project is to move their canopy from the front and to replace the canopy and replace the gas tanks and they're going to move it over to the sideyard. And so that's what they have a concept for currently coming before staff. Um they've been in discussion with the city regarding the proposed updates to their site. Um relocating that gas pump and uh canopy. Um and our ordinance requires that the fuel canopies be located within the rear

sideyard. So that's why they're moving it to the sideyard. Um, this update represents a positive reinvestment by a long-standing business within the city. Um, the submitted concept plan includes improvements such as enclosing the dumpster area, removing outdoor storage items such as ice boxes, and providing a new sidewalk along the property frontage. But staff has provided comments on the current concept plan submission. Because the site is considered currently considered a legal non-conforming development, any proposed relocation of the canopy and gas pumps would require the project to meet current development regulations and standards. They are requesting variances to be relieved from the uh codes that the mayor just went through right now. So, I'm going to step back and let them

Hello. Hello. Thank you for having me. Tell us your name. So I'm Harrison with the

Perfect. Thank you. Um so I'm going to flip we're just flip through a couple different slides here really quick, but what you can see on the screen right now is the existing uh aerial with site plan. And so a couple things to point out is along the right side of Um there's really two curb cuts that are existing today that are broken up by median just in front of the canopy. And so and I'll touch on that a second. And then also the bottom right side of the store right at the intersection there's actually access for cars to drive through today. And so, as Tiffany mentioned, we are working to basically reinvest in the building, um, move the canopy. And with that, some of the site plan changes that you can see on this slide are adding a sidewalk and some crosswalks along East Main Street um, and closing off the cut through basically between the intersection between the building. Um, so that way cars just can't pull in and basically cut off the intersection itself. And so now I'm going to walk through the different variances that we are requesting. So variance one is basically the three different uh curb cuts that are that for this property um we don't have the required frontage width to be able to have three curb cuts. So we're only allowed to have two. Um basically what we're proposing by adding in a couple of medians and sidewalks is reducing the the length and the total amount of curb cuts. Um, but we are basically proposing three curb cuts as a result of that. Number two is having a curb cut be within 50 ft of the existing intersection. So again, this one is an existing non-conforming one, but because we're basically adding we're altering the curve cuts along the frontage, we're requesting that that is a variance as well. That's basically remaining what it is today.

Three is uh the driveway in the red width, so adjacent to parking and behind the building. As you can see here, we just don't have with the with where the building sits today and where the existing parking is, we don't have the required widths uh within the site to be able to have that 24 ft. Um and then also on the left side of the property behind the building, there is an existing easement back there um as for the railroad itself. And so we can't extend the width of the driveway back there. And then the last one is the uh variance for non-conforming design of the parking spaces along the south end of the building. And so that's specifically a minimum of 5T connecting all building entrances at the ground level. Um and again this one because of where the parking sits today, we're going to resurface it. We're going to repaint it, make it look a little bit nicer, but we don't have the required width to basically pull off that parking off the building without pulling it directly into the rideway and then reducing the amount of pull off from the lawn into the site itself. Um so again that's more of a it's existing use. We don't want to make it a more unsafe condition and so those are the

Thank you so much.

Awesome. Thank you guys. At this time, I'm going to open the floor for anyone that would like to speak in regards to variance 26 0012003 and 004 or partial ID number 807-1009000. Anyone that would like to speak in regards to this item? Saying that no one is coming forward, we're going to close the public hearing for that item. That will conclude the public hearing for our 6:00 meeting. We will move directly into our now regular scheduled council meeting. At this time, I call the meeting to order for the February 10th, 2026, 6:30 council meeting for Mayor and City Council at 17 East Main Street Southampton, Georgia. At this time, we're going to ask that Pastor Cal from Zaptist Church would come forward. I haven't seen him. All right. lead us in prayer.

Heavenly Father, we are grateful to be able to manage the business of the city. We ask you wisdom. We ask that you would help us to consider the benefits that all citizens ask you. Thank you for the privileges we have as citizens of the United States of America. Thank you for our first responders. Lord, thank you for the public services we enjoy. Just thank you so much for many people in Jesus name. Now we will have our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all to agenda item two presentation and approval of the city council agenda. We need to amend the agenda to add Public hearing for the 6:30 meeting for agenda item G and H the moratorum. We need to add a public hearing for that. Can I get a motion to amend the agenda?

Make a motion to amend the agenda. I have a motion by council member and a second by council member White Williams to submit the agenda to add a public hearing for agenda items G and H. Discussion from the council. Discussion from the public. All in favor? I have a 6. All right. Now, I need a motion to approve the agenda as amended. I make a motion to approve the agenda as amended.

Have a motion by council member Duchaine to amend it to approve the amended agenda and a second by council member. Any discussion from the council? Any discussion from the public? All in favor? I have a 6. All right. At this time, we're going to do the public hearing. We're going to go ahead and do the public hearing in regards to agenda item G and H. Consideration and approval of Yeah. of a second proposed resolution for 20268 that would establish a 120day moratorum on the acceptance, processing, consideration, and approval of a new annexation petition of or request seeking to annex property into the municipal limits of the city of Hampton. At this time, we're going to open up the floor. Anyone that would like to speak in regards to agenda item resolution 20268. Seeing that no one is coming forth at this time, we will close this agenda item. Moving on to agenda item H which is consideration and approval of the first proposed resolution 202609 that would establish a 120day moratorum the acceptance processing review and approval of a new data center related zoning and development application and associated development permits within the city of Atm for anyone that would like to speak in regards to moratorium on 120 days regarding resolution 2026 Good evening everybody and thank you for letting me speak. Is this on?

Yes. State your name for me.

My name is Connie Snow and I live at 426 uh Chase Marian Way Mcdana, Georgia and I'm with Conser Henry. Um, I'm up here tonight that, you know, hopefully I'm hoping you're all going to vote for this moratorum because you really need to pause and review everything. I missed the beginning of the meeting because I was stuck in traffic when there was some discussion about the ordinance. I did review the ordinance. I have some concerns with it. So, I'm hoping during this time you guys will be able to actually review that in more detail. some of the uh questions I do have and concerns. First questions is has anybody consulted Henry County or reviewed their uh ordinance that's being proposed right now before proposing anything for the city? Because if not, you need to they kind of need to somewhat go in line. A lot of us have reviewed the proposed Henry County ordinance and a lot of us have submitted changes that we're waiting to hear on and I think that you guys should also review it as well. Since you are a part of Henry County, it would make sense to make sure that the ordinance that you're going to put in place matches the ordinance of Henry County or as close as possible. Um, I also want to address one more thing, one thing real quick in regards to the ordinance. It doesn't feel like it has a lot of protection in regards to the water requirements, the power use, uh, the definitions, um, the zoning. I feel like you guys have given it too many zoning classifications versus putting it in one. I noticed through the ordinance it could be anything that's mixed use um light industrial or office industrial I do believe I think you guys need to curtail it to just one zoning and not have it to where it can just pop up in multiple areas around the city. Um additionally I do want to say that the broader concern about the data center and what's all came about there's still a lot of information that's not known. I know for a fact that there were a lot of processes and procedures that falls within the city that weren't followed in regards to a few of these centers. And I

want to say that I would like for you guys to really go back and re-evaluate what your purpose is here in the city. You need to have more concern when it comes to being transparent and involving in the community in these decisions. Um, I have a lot more to say, but I've been in traffic for two hours. I'm a little like scattered. I just got out of the car. So, I'm just going to close it with that and thanks for letting me speak. Thank you.

Anyone else wishing to speak in regards to 12day moratorum on data center? Seeing no one else coming forward, we're going to close the portion for the public hearing on agenda items G and H. Moving on to presentation and approval of the city council minutes. Uh item A, the organization meeting minutes for January the 6, 2026. I need a motion to approve or to deny. I make a motion to approve. Second.

I have a motion to approve by council member and a second by council member Cheney. Discussion from the council. Discussion from the public. All in favor. I have a 6. Agenda item 3B SCM minutes for January the 28th, 2026. I need a motion to approve or to deny. I have a motion. Approved by council member White Williams and a second by council member Dashane to approve January 28, 2026 minute. Discussion from the council. Discussion from the public. All in favor? I have a six acknowledgement of guest proclamations and flag. So um we don't have anyone that is on schedule for any um acknowledgement but I do want to Good evening to my one of my counterparts sitting in the back, Mayor Williams with Stockbridge. Thank you so very much for joining us this evening. Um, now we will move on to agenda item five, public comments. Public comments is limited to residents of the city of Hampton or those who own businesses physically located within the city limits. Speakers may raise any point of concern regarding any matter on the agenda or any matter which the governing body has driven. However, each speaker must maintain a civil demeanor and refrain from personal attacks upon members of the governing body. Section 2-46 decorum. All council members must conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner. Our remarks should be directed to the mayor and not in not to an individual, council member, staff, or citizen in attendance. Personal remarks are inappropriate. A council member is

not allowed to speak at a meeting until he has been recognized by the mayor. All comments may be a all comments made by a council member shall address the motion that is being discussed. The mayor shall enforce these rules of decorum. If a council member believes that a rule has been broken, he can raise a point of order. A second is not required. The mayor, the mayor can rule on the question or he may allow to debate the issue is Thank you, Don Greer. 20. I have some comments regarding the December council meeting. Uh, sometime after the council meeting went into executive session that night, I passed by the outside of city hall. I noticed lights on in an empty conference room and also in the city manager's office where three or four people were gathered. Since the meeting was on YouTube, I checked it to see how the meeting ended. It did not end an adjournment. Uh, three council members returned to the council chambers, gathered their things, and left. They were followed by the remaining three council members and the mayor. The meeting was never called back to order and therefore not adjourned. At the time, I did not understand. The December meeting minutes confirmed that several council members walked out of executive session. In the January council meeting during public comments, former council member Develin Cleveland explained what happened. He said that during that executive session stop for the excuse me. Mr. Cleveland said that during that executive session it was presented to the council to have a new contract for the now former city manager for four

years for $200,000 per year. This most likely would have extended that city manager's tenure as executive director of the Hampton Development Authority for four years at $24,000 per year. This proposed contract was said to have a payout clause for the full amount upon termination with or without cause. This totals to $896,000. Some of last year's later council meetings had votes for items that resulted in a 3-3 tie which were broken by a mayor may mayoral vote. From what Mr. Cleveland said. It seems that would have been the case for the proposed contract. The November election results were a mandate for change. Since the former city manager was terminated for cause, it seems that that change was warranted. What happened in December's executive session appears to have been an attempt to circumvent that mandate and leave the city on the hook for almost $900,000. How was this in the city's best interest? I asked the city council to determine if it's possible to have regulations in place that would prevent this type of contract payout. This should prevent personal motivations or feelings from superseding good business practices and good stewardship of city finances. Thank you to the three council members in that December meeting for having the courage to walk out of that executive session. You were put in an untenable position. Thank you.

Thank you. Next we have Connie.

Next we have India Stiger Ster. That'll be it. All right. Thank you so very much on the counter there. It was the six o'clock meeting. It was that was six. Okay. I didn't understand it was six o'clock meeting. Surely y'all want to hear me anyway, don't you?

I think it's the 30 31st to 32nd time that I've been up here each month. I missed one in June in June of 2023. Ordinance number 13, I believe it was, denied me and my neighbor, our opportunity to annex out of the city because we received no benefits from the city other than well, we get no water, no sewer. Fire plug in front of our house belongs to the county. So, we get tax benefits due to the county, not from y'all because of an argument in in 90 when they didn't even run wouldn't even let the county run water. to the city and they will buy war from the city. Now that makes a lot of sense, don't two government fighting over but anyhow that's the way it goes. And when we come over here and went to the county and annex to annex out, they turned around and approved all of it. Then when it got over here, y'all drug out this ordinance. your city attorney did, I reckon, and your city manager that says, "Oh, no. Y'all can't leave because we're under a bond issue that y'all are having to pay for. Until that bond issue is up, we can't allow anybody to leave." Well, excuse me. I didn't pay water and sewer tax. That's what the bond issue was for. So, I wasn't under it, but I couldn't get all of them up here to understand it. They they had a little clause they wanted to hold, and they sat on it. And so that brings me back to the 31st to 32nd time of coming here asking again stop discriminating against us and give us our rights to be able to annex out if we want to because we benefit we we are eligible for it because we're my property line. Now, if you want to drop our property taxes to where us old

codgers aren't paying but about 10% of what everybody else is getting full benefits from the city's getting, that'd be about fair to me of what you what I'm being paid. I'm paying for what I'm getting. I don't have a problem with that. But when you tell me you pay just like anybody downtown or one in one of these brand new houses is paying water and sewer bills and for everything the city provides. Until last till last year we never had a curb and gutter on the street we lived on. I lived on 32 years never had old driveway cut. Now they got a racetrack down through that. I mean they love to wear that new asphalt out start. All they got is one little curb in it. They can make it. If they don't, they'll end up in that household level. But nevertheless, I'm here requesting that you do away with that resolution that you passed that night. This council didn't pass. Part of you did that said that we didn't have the right to give us our rights or either lower the taxes to where we're paying a fair price for what we're given. And it really ought to do to anybody in the city. If you're elderly and you're on fixed incomes and stuff, your taxes ought not be full stream like like wide open and uh because I guess that's that's who has to pay for a lot of this this new progress around here where data is going to get approved and don't know about know how they got approved.

Thank you, Mr. Henry. Was there anyone else?

No, ma'am. Y'all know my name is Esma Oliver. I live on College Street. I am confused. I come to meetings to be informed as a citizen. And I come, what was that, the December meeting or January meeting? I'm not sure anymore. There's so many changes going on up here. And I see there's another city attorney. And I discover that our city manager is no longer with us. Now my question is are we as citizens allowed to know what transpired and why in all of these changes? I mean it's like there are new people here. We haven't been introduced to them, at least not in the meetings that I've been in. And no explanation as to why I What are y'all doing? That's all I want to know. Am I wasting my time coming up here to meetings and not receiving any information about changes that you're making and why? I'd like some answers. Thank you.

Moving on to youth council update. So this past month youth council participated in the MLK parade with the NAACP on Martin Luther King Day. They also hosted the annual Black History Month parade. Um it was um we had great participation. A lot of people came out in regards to participating in the in the parade and the children really had a wonderful time. They are currently preparing for the National League of City Conference and they are looking forward to that. Moving on to agenda item seven, city manager update.

Good evening, Madame Mayor Council. Mr. Baker's absence, I'll be presenting some. We'll also have department heads present their own departments. Um on the police department, I am going to present it and there's a reason and you'll learn it at the end of the thing. In the month of January, we had 560 citizen contacts. That could be anything from a traffic stop to a dispatch call to anything that we we documented documented a a contact zero citizen citizen complaints for the month of January. Our average response time, I think we talk about it every month, but I think it's so important to continue to talk about our goal is to be under five minutes. And I know last month you got the number. I think we were at 340 for the for the 2025. We started out January at 324. Again, that right there, it doesn't just happen. Um the next slide, if I could get Captain Brownley and Lieutenant Ronald to come up first, they are the reason for that that response time you see every month. That's not something that just happens in the chief's office. Um, one of the toughest things to do as police chief is to build a succession plan. You're you're essentially training people to replace you at all time. That's that's part of what the mayor and council um and city manager charge me with is to make it to when I leave, this place is better off than when I found it. Um, I'm proud to announce that both Captain Brownley to my left and Lieutenant Arnold on my right have both completed the chief's executive training course with GACP. Tell you what that means. It means that if either one of them and while we we certainly want them to have a long and prosperous career here, we've invested in them and they've they've now

achieved the they could go be a city chief Hampton or otherwise and on day one they're qualified for the position. So I applaud them um and the mayor and council for charging us to continue to build that success. Thank you. Next we'll get

even busy like always.

Is that better? Can you hear me? We've been having an There's a lot of things over there. Here's some pictures from the storm water project station around the air condition system. Imagine kids hanging out. For the month of January, we had 146 completed 57 miles of road 24 questions. Thank you for your time. Mayor that is the installation

that's going to be for the main bottom picture and that trench is um that pump El Street uh is replaced. Now, I'm glad to say every station that the city owns and operates has that wasn't the case when I first got uh now this is uh corner highway and uh the 25 um successfully subs. So annually we like to get them cleaned, checked, paid, you know, just regular maintenance. contract. You can ask the question.

I want to know first uh the uh fuel leak into the Flint River that happened at the airport. Did it said that it came to water south of the airport? Did it reach Hampton? That's what Henry County. That's what I Mr.

Wear from a different reserve. We didn't get it from where The spill happen in the Clint River. We get our water from the tower ladder river. All right.

Next, development director development department would like to update you guys on our business that were issued that includes renewals for new businesses. We've issued 11 building permits, seven current zoning applications. We have 18 projects underway. The following table will show you. Actually, it's 14. Um, and we have new grant applications. We have grant programs underway. I just wanted to kind of get it out there and have a list. So if you guys have any questions, they include GI which is Georgia initiative for community housing which is local maintenance improvement grants from G dot. L WCF is land water conservation fund grant from department of natural resources for our resol park. Our G dot project for West King overpass is a tip grant. Our CI is our capital improvement element which we're going to have a slide on that to update you what that is. Our MS4 reporting is our storm water and we've been helping out with that with public works that's due Friday requested for an extension and they were very kind to us but get that subitted on Fridays you guys visited Washington visit different so we have gone back and forth with them saying it's through this committee it's through the next committee it's on the

president's desk it's been on the president's desk for a year and a half notification We were finally awarded $954,000 and that is the area over that whole community where some residents on Every time it rains, we're very excited.

These are our current projects. I shared there's 14. There's seven residential, seven non-residential. And if you would like, I can go to the map so you can see um how they are graciously spread out through our city. It's from the west with our Hampton data center that's underway in Equinex to the east which is not underway now. Just as an update technology park as well as farms as I've shared both of those projects are going back to a new technology part but no further action and no further action will proceed with thebody. Yes, it should be um that's Manassa. We have a gas station that is in front of Liberty Square. One of the bigenefit trail along the front of that particular parcel as well as a sidewalk. And then the orientation of the canopy

is on the side or so that one side not correct. Okay.

Have a couple of pictures just of a villa which is our ranch. These are singlestory ranch homes that have all have front porches face community greens and um that's part of farms but won't be developed has been approved and reviewed by you guys is underway right now and that's a that's 165 units It's a mix of town homes single family product and then front loaded single family homes farms. This is a image that the applicant has given us. They have submitted a concept plan review to the city. That's the first step in moving down. However, it's on hold until from this drive is underway infrastructure from that issue offsite sewer General Boulevard and the CIE just briefly CIE as I shared before is that uh community investment program um element

and we are required to do that. You guys will vote on that every year. We submit that to DCI DCA. We had to submit a fiveyear CIE update which we did. But part of our comprehensive plan and part of the requirements from DCA is we update our actual report our actual document which you guys establish the city established I can't remember it's 2007. In that document, it identifies what the city's water and sewer needs are. Um, also talks about um, police and impact fees, but we're only focusing on water and sewer. The city has reached out and has engaged with Bill Ross who is a premier person to do this type of analysis. We vetted him with another consult consultant, Sycamore Consulting, but Ross planning group were um engaged and they started we have given them a lot of information data but um he would like to come down and do a presentation before you guys to kind of educate you on the process. There's a committee that has to be established and that's all part of a process and it probably will take us about a year to work through it but at the end you will be able to assess are the fees that you are assessing adequate or should they be increased to cover current and future growth here in the city land water conservation fund grant. I I real fast through that where we're at right now with the grant. If you can go to the timeline, Tiffany, we were awarded the grant. We're at the

process now where we have made a couple of our reports and quarterly reports. The Department of Natural Resources wants to know where we are. When you're awarded the grant, you get two years between the award design and construction. And um anybody you guys know when you have public engagement, a public bid process, that's not a whole lot of time, two years. So where we are right now, we would request and ask for mayor counsel to allow us to to engage under three architectural firms that we currently have in under contract which is TSW Pond and UG.

Thank you WG out of Columbus. Those were firms that we vetted out. They're qualified architectural firms and if we utilize them and ask them and sent them out as a task order then we would not have to go through the procurement process and advertise which could take up to two and a half months before we actually design things. You don't have to let us know tonight. But if we could move forward with that, we're happy to do that and we'll just work to make sure that I think and then the West King pedestrian over happily received three bids on the design for the preliminary engineering. Um so with that we had to establish a um review committee had to be either a resident here with some type of transportation background or staff myself Mr. King and

Tylers

who is Henry County transit director he actually lives in Southed by we had to give them all our credentials and they said yes you guys are good to go so that's your selection committee now what's happened we have given the three consultants a deadline to give us their technical response back which is due on February 25th. After that we'll meet work through the very specific criteria that gives us and make a selection of those three to be presented to you guys. Once that happens then the design process will happen. there'll be public engagement, then that consultant will be able to move the ball quicker down the field for us. And that's the design and that's the grant monies that we were awarded already. Um the 684,000 question So I neighborhood strictly total rentals will not be um single family for purchase.

Is there any way um does council have a say in that as far as not being totally 100% rental?

Right. So this particular project is a ranch villa and that's their um that's their project. They have incentives to help with future home ownership but that's where that is that has in our process has been approved as a concept plan approval only and it's on hold until the development regional impact study is done. You guys can weigh in on whether or not you think the in the zoning district. You can say whether or not you think it's a good use there or if you want to meet with the I will just share they don't do simple. So if that's not a use that you want in that location you want it in another place on farms or you don't want it at allowed by

and it's the only location on farms. Is that the only location?

Yes, ma'am. And this is also there's a discussion that you could have with them about if you wanted it to be age targeted if that would facilitate anything. But these particular units, they typically rent for very high dollar as it were. And the folks who live here, they seem to stay, they said, in their facilities. They're very highly managed, but they're more than willing to come back and reintroduce themselves and share anything or answer any questions you may have.

So, are we is this the only company that's looking at putting something like this um at Henderson Farm or do you know Yes, ma'am. The concept plan for the whole entire Henderson Farms and I had emailed that out earlier this week. It was Monday. It was just yesterday. Sorry,

it's a long week. What's shown on the master plan right now is a mix of single family detach simple seem to indicate some type of whether it's a town home for fe simple staff has and we can provide these numbers to you. We did an analysis with our GIS to determine how many rental units we currently have in the city not only straight out but the numbers we're looking at that are in our subdivisions that are rental homes and where in good numbers that we want to be as a as a city on percentage of rental number

about 25%.

So with the numbers that we're projecting to a single family development in Henderson Farms as well as drive all of those units compon want to look at whether it's moratorum or some kind of cause to evaluate and show you the numbers that with what we have now I feel good about the ratio but it's y'all's decision if you want it less what that ratio is on Henderson Farms in case one of the goms but there are a lot of different resial And then last question, um any updates on those names? I haven't heard anyone talk about that in months. So are we going to have um with that project um go through or what's the status on that?

Yeah, there have been a couple different folks that have been interested in reser has been sewer. when you look at the cost to gravity that sewer and just the vitality of that. But since I guess probably in the last two to three months, I've been two differenties on the property. staff has worked probably with six different people since I've been here. Six different layouts I've seen and um staff has prepared and and composed a layout that's consistent along the lines of what was envisioned in the LCI study. Um and when we speak to people, we speak on fe simple whether it's town homes or detach that um unless you're over a commercial entity and sometimes even then you can have condos but we're interested in home ownership as well as that particular site is you know our gateway and is envisioned very highly. So every that we speak with on the when they come in and ask us about zoning, what's going to be allowed there, we always bring out the LCI study. This is what was showed back in the day and this is what can't get out of some people's head that this is what should happen.

Do you have an update on the gates of Floyd? What is happening with them?

Great question. Gates of Florida, they um reached out to me the other day had turn around and turn over and their company and so they are back on track at least they went out we cited them but they hadn't finished their erosion control installations and it's been they haven't done anything quite some time they said they were going to pick back up that project but nothing other than just to let us know that they haven't fallen Okay. First of all, Miss

No, I was asked what's the ideal number in a community x amount

currently? No, I'm not 25% of course I don't know exactly how I don't understand how developments are carried out and the council doesn't say so as to what they would like to see in the community. Um, it seems like a development is on the way, but they never got to this. I think it's a great observation because if you're not here and you're new and you haven't been a part of any of the planning processes or even understanding the city projects aren attorney if they want to share anything about process on zoning projects before council in our current process if it's a land zone and the uses that are identified in the ordinance are so far we had from Atlanta regional commission that they thought they wanted to go

needed us to go through another staff used farms master plan that was done decades ago because when you annex that was at least in our understanding what you had envisioned in relation to how many resident Henderson Farms mixed with the mixed use that we have. There's several options of housing and so became interested into being in the city and they had a product that was a ranch village and so that's why they are there as a concept plan that's been approved which you guys didn't see because the zoning that used to be there.

Okay, I get that.

But is there ever a time that we would have any control about how it looks? Yes, I know they're just at some point made aware of what's going to be built in the city. how it's going to look. Not saying that we're going to stop it, but maybe have some some more input as to what we are allowing to be. I will share when I first started here, I don't know if it was a staff retreat or you know a meeting just like this. What I encourage people that may to just how it all works and how it all gets there. When you go to a city that you just grew up or you drive through a neighborhood, you're like, "Oh my gosh, this is wonderful. Why can't we have this in our city?" Everything that you see with your eyes is regulated by code. How far back the houses are set, what's the buffer like city, we're not we're not ashamed. We borrow from people places that are good. So we enacted in our state 20 There's provisions for those reductions, but those particular codes you don't know about. You might be concerned because you just you just look at something like that and it's hard to visualize. It's hard to understand it looks like a bunch of houses.

I totally get that. I don't want to go past. But sometimes a city can control For instance, I wor I started out in engineering. So I know it's your permit. So I feel that there should be some type of way that we can have a little bit more input as to what's being built in our city. And just last week a lady came in city private development but we do have a little bit say of how kind. So, I'm I'm just I found it strange when someone raised their hand and say, "Um, are these all rentals?" I wasn't here, so I don't know, but I would like to come forward if there's any way possible if I need to come up here once a week and kind of see what's the bu I think you know the attorneys and their firm you know have many many jurisdictions under their oversight and we certainly want to help whatever process implemented to help you guys feel like you're more on the front end of things inutage a lot of the This is what our say

we have all these other boards that things go through but here it's just all to your point to your discretion the attorney said they're the ones that are here to be able to help through what you guys and we can put it in code. So there is a process because what you want if you want development you want quality folks to come in here they have to feel comfortable that there's a process right they're not saying that they wouldn't give and take and all that stuff but we can help Whatever process you guys need to code or throw everything out, whatever. We're here to work with the attorney and make sure that you guys are able to do your job as you serve the citizens.

I'm not sure.

So, could we put in a conditional use on everything that they have to come back to us before anything is being permitted? I need everybody to be quiet.

What I would encourage concern what I would say is you can certainly be aware of that secret documents documents. by hearing that due process requires that you make a recorded research gone outer. You have the matter come before you present an application that's going to be called upon to make a decision. So people be aware

aware but I would encourage you not too deep with that because it might conflict with your due process at a subsequent period. Hi. Good evening, Mayor and council. Um, for the finance department, we're currently working on the yearly award that the finance department go after, which is the budget award and the financial award. Um, we unfortunately we had to ask for an extension on the budget award because we're missing some documents. So, the GFOA gave us one extension. We're hoping that we don't have to ask for another one or we'll miss the award this year. Um, audit prep preparation we're doing right now for the FY September 30th, 2025. We're pulling documents and working with um Filton and Kak. Um for January, we got $351,000 in SPLAS funds for the month. Uh 184 was for SPL 6 and 167 for TPLS. We added 50 customers new utilities. That brings us up to 3,800 customers within the city.

All right. Any question? Maybe not for Miss Grace, but what's happened with our loss that we couldn't come to agreement with that was supposed to hopefully make it back on the ballot for me. You means floss. So, I have not heard about whatever at this point in time. We have,

but we do have an situation going on in regards to laws. revenue with the county and the finance department is actually in the process of doing research along with all of our municipalities city and so we um want to we'll have a joint meeting on I think this week uh we have a schedule meeting I think Thursday a zoom meeting on Thursday I did want to ask you in regards to is it just the transmitt letter that we're waiting on what are we waiting I do not want to say that. Yes, we

the pass the manager had until the end of September. Um we were supposed to have delivered verbals of that in December. We did not receive it. Thus we have to ask for a extension. I think we may have to ask for a second because we will not have to solicit help from various staff members. go back to the retreat presentation so that we can come up with a transmitter letter because we cannot submit without a transmitter letter. That letter drives a lot of stuff that we have to incorporate and answer to. So, uh, Mr. Foresight is going to solicit as much help as he can from staff and, um, hopefully from the new city manager. If not, we will have to either miss the award, which all is not lost. I've gotten three. So if we miss another one, we're striving not to.

We talked about this about a month ago. Yes. Yes. Mr. spoke to him yesterday working to solicit help from every staff member that we can if we want to meet it. I don't foresee them not giving us a second if we want to, but we're trying not to.

Um, so the transmitter letter is it what's in that transmitter letter that you need to in in the past the transmitt letter is always due before you adopt the budget. We don't have it in here. It was never started. So, and whose responsibility is it? The past city manager. Do you know why it wasn't started? I I I couldn't tell you. So, what can I see what a previous letter?

It's it's in your past budget books. You can look in and all it is is he goes over where the city is going this year, what projects we have going, what's discussed at the retreat. Um he talks about the millillage. There's various different aspects of it because to get the award you have to have certain criteria, strategic measures, plans, fiveyear plans. So um we take all of that inscribed out of the transmitter letter. We can have it done. Mr. Foresight, Mr. Baker and Miss Wanda. We'll we'll just have to go back to the retreat presentation and we'll somehow try to come up with it. I don't know how we're going to sign it. Maybe just the mayor. Usually it's Mr. Cohilis signed, but he's no longer here. So, um that's one thing we're going to have to decide who signs it. So, so the person that signs it in this case, there is any wiggle room to have

Mr. Baker can't sign because he was not the city manager at no sign. He normally signs a letter. the mayor can sign and you can transmit that way. I don't but I can see the mayor can sign.

No, no, no. He never started it. There's no way. Chief Turner can't I I would more than likely think the mayor once we compose the transmitt letter. Um you guys can take a look at it. I'm I I I'm going to say 80% Miss the mayor can sign. Um, I do I do have some footage from the budget meeting or the retreat if you would like to use it.

Yeah, we have the presentation. Thanks. So, we'll try to go through it. Yes. So I'm just concerned that um I know is not here because hemin we had that hierarchy of who can sign but but usually it's done within the deadline. There is a deadline for it. But my concern is that it wasn't even started. No, it was not. And I think that that is something as council we need to address and have to adopt, you know, ordinance that it be done by a certain date because our fiscal year starts October 1st.

Well, in the past, since I've been here the first two, three years, it was it was mandatory. It was always presented for the last read in the adoption. Something changed and

I know I mean I know you don't know, but I'm just saying as a council, do we know what No, he we had the conversation because last year I had to ask for an extension because it was not completed until December. So I ask for this year that we make sure we get it done by the end of September. Be reminded be reminded and again you know maybe Mr. Co had other things piled up on him that he couldn't have gotten it done. I can't answer

right. Good evening, mayor and council. Um, um, tickets are a big thing for me because as a department of one, it's how I help and aid in getting help for people who have trouble with their systems. Okay. Um, last month we had 46 total tickets. 42 of those were resolved. We have four pending, including the signage outside of the depot. Um, we're working on it. Um, we're working with the installers and support and trying to see if we can't get it back working again. Um, uh, current projects. Um, something that's continual networking and cyber security. Um, we're working on upgrading a lot of our networking. We have some things that are outdated. Um, some things um that are not up to code. Um, we just started upgrading our firewall, which is a very big part in keeping out keeping people out that have no need in being there. Um, we're enhancing our network visibility um with monitoring tools. I'm constantly monitoring what's going on in our network is my first thing in seeing if anything is wrong. Uh, we're improving network security. We'll always be improving network security because we're again trying to enforce keeping people out. Uh, cyber security, we're uh expanding our uh multiffactor, our two factor. A lot of people get sick of it, but we're going to keep doing it because again, it keeps people out. Um, improving threat detection. Um, we're actually getting bigger and better with our threat detection because, uh, as cyber security grows or as tech grows, uh, people find more and invasive ways of getting into your systems. And I just want to point out that you can spend billions and

billions of dollars on cyber security and someone will still try to get in. They hack into the Pentagon and we are just city of Hampton. it can happen. We're just trying our best to keep people out. Um, increasing security awareness. Um, a big part of, uh, keeping us safe is to make sure that, uh, our staff is trained. Um, making sure that they know what a fishing email looks like or different security measures are taken so that we can help secure the city. Um, I'm big on tech tips. I help the city uh, staff, but my knowledge extends all out. So, It helps the citizens in a new way. I like to make sure I can uh fishing is a big thing. Um it can get you really simply and allow people into your systems. Very simple. Uh check and make sure that the sender is the sender. Just because the name may be Antarpley, that doesn't mean that's Antarly. If you check the email address, the sender address, it could be something like a whole bunch of letters and numbers atgmail.com that is not. Um so something simple. Um, two, don't click first, think first. If it seems suspicious, more than likely it is. I promise you, no one in Africa is trying to give you a million dollars. Um, look for subtle red flags, misspellings, and weird grammar. If it says it's coming from Bank of America and it doesn't look like the Bank of America logo, anything so simple as Bank of America and something that is uh uh lowercase and it's supposed to be uppercase, more than likely it's spam. Even in your text messages, if it seems like Bank of America is asking for your uh your credentials, your username and password, it is not. They will most likely not do that in your text or in your email. So, don't give anyone ever control and report it immediately to whoever you need to. If you're at home, Gmail, Yahoo, whoever your provider is. If you're at work, please send it to itga.gov.

Thank you. Um I als want to just say this. It's not in my report, but because the question was raised, I just want to make sure that I say um um Miss Brooks um you asked about um the council being in the know on certain projects and different things. We are working on a software that will be inhouse. Um it works off of our domain um so that we can try to update you on projects. We may not go into depth so into depth so that we don't give you too much information, but we should be letting you know what each department is working on on a daily if that helps.

Andrea, human resources director. Thank you. I believe the product was um okay report. This report covers headc counts, vacancy numbers, turn turnover rates, and job resources. Okay, we're currently sitting at a headcount of 85 employees across all departments. To the right is just a brief um listing of employ by department. All right. Um currently then this is for the month of January. Um these are all the vacancies that are that are listed. Of course it shows one opening in the police department but that position has been filled. She Turner likes to fill positions within the first 48 hours. All right. So, our current turn rate is 1.2%. This is based on an employee count of 85. If you're interested in applying for a job in the city of Hampton, we have several different ways that you can apply. The first way that's listed is through a regular paper application along with our city site which is hamptonga.gov, gla.org, and If anybody needs to um needs an accommodation with completing an application, please feel free to call, stop by, or email me, and I'll be happy to assist you.

Miss McConnell, who's our interim director, just wanted to give you a quick calendar. Um, February the 7th was the Black History Parade. Our next event is March 28th, the Easter egg hunt. And then you I won't go through each one, but you do see our big one, April 25th, the Yellow Pollen. Um, there'll be a couple of couple more things to add throughout the year, but that's kind of what we have up and through May of 2025 for the Main Street Department. Um, next I'm going to do the city manager's update. Before I do, I want to say thank you to all the department heads. This is a little bit a little bit um out of every of everyone's comfort zone. Um Mr. Baker in his absence charged me with with kind of changing the format. I I think this will be closer to to where we are, but this was kind of his at his direction. So staff did a phenomenal job in not only putting the reports together, but but also being able to present them. So thank you to all the department heads. potential workshop dates. That's the first thing I want to talk about. Um there's we would like to get something done next week and wanted to get some input from the mayor and council um with Miss Hood on something we can all agree on next week for a for a workshop. So I'd love to hear from you guys. And Mr. Baker said he will be here all week. So whenever y'all are ready, he would We'll get it done.

A workshop on some things that like at the the public hearing that they was was it a public hearing? The one we had at the school, some things we table also anything in the any other things that he wanted to be able to update you guys on,

right? Um I know that we were looking at an executive session. We talked about that during that update and everybody can see some of the things that we're doing. Um, we talked about all the things that we had postpon he he proposed one day next week with, you know, at you guys' direction.

I schedule. Yeah.

Afternoon. Afternoon. Thursday maybe Thursday. Good for you. We have a lot of ground to cover. I don't know four hours. I would like to know Saturday not to go to work. So even if we have to split it up,

um let's let's try to get everybody caught up in regards to um real estate personnel litigation next week and then next week we tackle if it's okay next week whenever we can get another workshop if you don't want to be here for whatever hours it's

okay we'll do we'll split it so let's That's for Thursday of next week.

Afternoon. I think even when you said 12. Okay. So, what you're saying is what? Just an executive session next Thursday the 19th. Yeah, for real estate a special meeting.

Is the preference 6 or 6:30? Is good for you, Melissa? They have a card. No, we don't. Maybe we try to get some Chick-fil-A. Miss Hood will work on getting that agenda out. We'll look at at 6 on Thursday the 19th for a special call for executive session. Okay. All right. Thank you. What about the attorney? Mr. Denmark. Yes, sir.

Um the next The next thing that Mr. Baker wanted me to update you on is um you guys at the January meeting um passed a couple resolutions for forensic audit and a financial consultant. Um Mr. Baker has prepared those RFPs. He wants to wait to put those out. He's going to be implementing a process in the city through it's called Bidnet. Um it is something that he's he's used that he said we will be implementing in the city of Hampton and as soon as he gets here that'll be one of the top things on his list and that list seems to be getting a little bit longer but we will make sure that he stays on to be able to get those two things out. I know a couple pe couple council people had asked questions have we have we started that process. He has wrote the RFPs for them and he'll get them put them out next week. Next. Capital project updates, McGre Park. Um, another council request. If you'll look on your left there, um, like to thank Miss Wanda and Mr. King for, um, getting with Falcon and kind of coming up. And now, the one thing that I'll caution everybody, this right here is for McBrer Park. And you'll look, I'll kind of go through the highlights of it. The mobilization, it's actually a big thing that started on Monday. That's where they get out all their equipment, everything to be able to do the work. um takes six days for them to really get in place to be able to start work. Um but if you were if you've been by McBear Park this week, you'll see there is there is definitely movement out there. Um site grading will started taking place. That takes 20 days. I'll only hit a couple of the highlights, but you'll see the March 16th they're weather p weather permitting they're scheduled to pour concrete for the basketball courts. Um the asphalt courts will go in on the 30th. Scheduled installation of the

pickle ball courts is May the 25th. Completion date and this is a swag. I mean that we we all know that you know March March showers bring April flowers. Uh that's very true in this right here. We're we're at the at Mother Nature's disposal, but we are looking at a June 14th completion date. I've made them promise they'd be done before Cops Day because we want to have Cops Day out at the new park. So, we'll see how that works. Any questions on McRa Park? I know that's something that a couple of you guys had asked Mr. Baker about.

Um I don't know if we can do this, but I think it would be nice to put this um schedule posted at the park so people can see you know what's going to be taking place. Okay, Mr. King's going to get that done in the morning with his staff and we I know Mr. Meeks does a very good job, but if everybody can share it on social media and any any platforms that you may have um do you're fixing to see. Okay. Next,

we do have a video of what the what McBrare Park we hope looks like in mid June.

As you're looking at it, you'll see the pickle ball courts that is in front of Miss Asma Oliver. This right here is coming up. The school's on your left now. Miss Esma Oliver is on your left. That's kind of your house.

I was it from your house. Now, the one thing I was I will say is not in the the current budget. I'll go back to it is the turf field. This right here's the basketball court. The school is directly behind it. You're going Miss Oliver on College Streets on your left. There's the skate park coming up. That's the pickle ball court. there. It is not correct. It is six there.

Yes, ma'am. And then there'll be one tennis court down there. This turf field is not in this in this project. That's the soccer field.

That's the soccer field that is not in this project. This right here tells a little bit about the it's going to be the renovation of the existing basketball court. This is they flipped those tennis and pickle ball courts and just from a space perspective the design worked better. People use pickle ball courts more than the tennis and it gave us more space to allow more courts.

They are when you build them people come when you build them pickle ball courts people come.

That's a new restroom that's also as part of this plan. All right. Please remember the turf field is not included.

All right. Any questions on McBar Park? Um we will and keep in mind that video is was done before. There's been some minor changes. Hey, excuse me. Yes, ma'am. That there's been some minor changes. um for both aesthetically and what kind of helps the the the layout where we get the most use out of the space. So, um that can we get that video to

we we'll get that video um delivered to all the mayor and council where you guys have it and it shared as you see fit. Um, but just make sure you put that disclaimer that it's not an exact rendering because people are going to come back and they're you're gonna have one that talks about that turf field. I promise. I promise. All right. Next, want to talk about the Hampton Road Curve roundabout. Um, Atlanta Gas Heights completed design work to relocate the gas lines that is in conflict with roundabout plans. They should be mobilized and ready to start moving by the end of February. That's the end of this month. Georgia Power had poles that conflicted with the roundabout roundabout that they have since installed new poles. They now need to relocate the existing lines to the new poles and remove old poles. Zo is fiber optic lines.

Fiber optic lines where we discovered that there is a couple there. So, um, Miss Wanda is working diligently with them. I believe she's emailing them hourly and Yeah, I promise. And so we're we we're a little bit in their hands right now how long it's going to take. Once those once those two are coordinated with Georgia Power, it'll kind of get moving a lot quicker. Any questions about the Hamilton roundabout? That is all I have. Any questions?

All right. Thank you very much. Moving on to agenda item eight, unfinished business. Seeing that we have none, we will move on to our consent agenda. Consideration uh for the consent agenda item a consideration and action on approving the alcohol license application for the following new businesses. We have J4 LLC fast track and Lucky Strike LLC break. Um, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as published. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as published.

I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as published by council member and a second by council member. Discussion from the council. Any further discussion from the public? All in favor? All opposed? I have a 6 on approving the consent agenda. Moving on to agenda item 10. A consideration and action to approve resolution 26-12 to consider the current branding of the new logo and revert to the previous logo. The old logo carries deep meaning for for our community symbolizing the roots and stories that shape our city. I make a motion.

Mr. Baker wanted me to weigh in on this. He asked he said he wasn't familiar with what all has gone into to where we are. He asked that it would be his preference to table it until the workshop that we're speaking of to where he can give all the mayor and council a full a full scope of where it was to where it is and the the cost associated to where he felt that you guys would be able to make a educated decision in in doing that. That was his preference. He asked that I relay that to you guys. Yes, M. I want to make a motion to move this item to a work session for redesign.

I have a motion by council member Cheney and a second by council member Meeks to move this item resolution 12 to our work session for the future. It won't be on next Thursday, but the following week that we'll put it on there. Michelle I have a motion to approve. No, no, I got I'm sorry. All in favor?

Oh, any questions from the public? Got it. Thank you. 10B consideration and action to approve resolution 202610 to submit an application for transportation improvement tip funding from the Atlanta Regional Commission through the L livable center initiative grant program. The requested funding is for construction of a pedestrian bridge that will connect section of West King Road that was severed in conjunction with the construction of Georgia Highway 20. The proposed resolution authoriz complete the tip grant application for 2026. I need a motion to approve or to deny.

I have a motion on the floor by council member. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second by council member Cheney to approve resolution 2026 from the council. So is it possible that we can move this bridge to else that might be more usable for the pedestrian.

So I believe the reason this location was actually chosen was because that was actually the area that was severed. So if you if you notice down west king road there is a dead end round orac at the bottom of it and on the opposite side of there's also that exact thing because it was cut off there and so that is the reason during the LCI study and um LCI it was identified that that was the area for such a connection to be made and that is what made it appealing for this particular so we're tied to that because of this because of the LCI

Wanda are we ti as currently we have road that has sidewalk that comes from that side to the sidewalk and then the new plan for that connects down south into the road development so you're literally have a path encir around the city. And so as far as future access, you will have up to its 6,000 folks that will be connected through that bridge.

So then what's the plan to connect Southampton, which is further down Southampton Road, where there's no sidewalks, but is annexed into the city, right,

to to be able to because who's going to walk on the roads just to get there? We're going to have trails that go down there. We've talked with Henry County when they were here to present the we shared that with Madam Chair and just shared the concern that the city had that kids were walking down the 20. And so the new concept plan that was sent out on Henderson Farm shows a parallel connector road that runs all state on both sides east and west and it will connect down across Southampton Road along Southampton Road to connect our 6,000 farms if you develop it out Then you got employed that has 383's numbers per household is roughly around 3.5. So in the next 20 years you'll have a population that can actually pedestrian which will hopefully facil that type of travel in your car driving streets, but it will also develop front less. So, it's a larger plan that we'll talk about traffic studies that will be considered as part of these two.

So, is there a possibility for us to go after um another 1941 because that's going to be your high traffic area and with Echo Park now having a ton of events there I think we need to have another bridge if we can't do something with this one we can't move it we need to look at having something where we can invite those people that are going to park into our city without having to cross over six lanes 1941.

So is there another LCI study that could put that into um

either LCI study or other funding whether it's from the federal government, Federal Highway Administration, they're very big now on pedestrian facilities and facilitating what you just described. If you look back into the city, we had back in Foundation back in 2025 24 did a trail study for the city. Part of the trail study identified pedestrian bridge at speedway coming down Oak Street. When we were looking at Oak Street as a corridor connecting to our downtown, we're looking at signage there on Oak Street as well as how to bridge that connection. We require development that if y'all remember Bear Creek Town Homes, we required them to do a multi-use path from which is like next to Waffle House all the way through the woods to Oak Street. So, we're working to make these connections. The gas station will connect with that foot. We'll have a section between the Waffle House that needs to be done. But all of these connections start to make a real exciting place to But to your point, absolutely directed, we can start to look for opportunities to apply for grants for that location.

May I may um authorize her to Yes.

And I mean it may us est partner, you know, they would partner with us to make that happen. Um, I'm pretty sure they would love to have their guests coming to our options any% when we have partners with jurisdictions and also Can we look at anything that would allow us to become a golfart? While it would be nice for a bridge over Highway, I don't live on my car and drive over

I mean I think we have talked about golf carts in the past.

I don't know exactly how They're allowed now specific roads under certain speed limit to your point which is why we require these extra buffers to try to emulate what's going on city and make them wide enough to facilitate golf and other golf. So Wheel. So I have a motion on the floor for resolution. Any discussion? Mr. Hendry.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Since I live over that section, I sure I tell you what would be super nice. Instead of putting walkway path across that bridge, we'll put one wide enough with two lanes of traffic with no offs on 20. That way the people from that side a straight opportunity to come to the city instead of turning and going halfway to McDonald to turn around so you could come back to the city of H. I mean, that's you could have a place on the side where they could ride the golf carts if you wanted to.

And it ain't going to cost a whole lot more to go ahead and make it just a little wider while you're doing it. And I'd serve him 383 houses down there. The only way out is coming up. And the dumbest thing in the world, those there's 250 houses that are rental over there. Every now king in Florida has been paid. That's a direct cut through the back all this traffic. So it's just getting heavy and heavy in and out of there. And it'd be nice to have an alternative that the whole world didn't know about. that you can go take a left right across right into the city and do your business and look forward to coming to the city instead of feeling like you isolated from the city. They don't want you put curbs make you turn go a mile down the road and turn around traffic come then they tear out the roads and dead ends and while while I'm here just couple things right quick what M's talking the farms will they receive their water from Griffin or will they get it from the city of Hampton they going to be in the city of Hampton That water line is coming right up from the city of Griff.

Yeah, but it'll be from the city.

Okay. And then the other one was with Henderson Farms. Each one of you remember you don't have a community with rental apartments and rental houses. You have a community. You have people buying homes, putting roots down in your community, and staying here. Keep that in mind when I want to tell you about rental stuff because it ain't building a community. And the percentage of it right now is probably more than that. And y'all looking putting some kind of tax deal on corporations that own the rental houses here that's killing the community. You're not making anything up.

Thank you. Um, all in favor of resolution 2026-10, I have a motion by council member and a second by council member Shen. All in favor? I have a 6. Moving on to agenda item 10, consideration and action to approve resolution 202611 for the budget adjustment for the IT department for capital outlay equipment project in the amount of $38,700. The budget adjustment would be for a more streamlined streaming system and service. I need a motion to approve or deny. I have a motion by council member Williams.

Have a second by council member me to approve resolution 2026-11. Discussion from the council. Yes, I have a discussion. Yes. I was going to get away without speaking. No, no, no. Not this time. Um what the question I ask is in the past we have spent a lot of money and keep doing this. Are we going to get a a perfect equipments that um when you say in the past can you tell me how long ago? A long time ago this

Okay. So and how five iterations. Okay. That's about how long how many how long iterations? Okay. Let's talk about this. Technology needs to be updated and upgraded. constantly when you don't you have a system like we do back there. I'll take you back there after this. It it has cobwebs. Um our system is very outdated. So what we're trying to do is first get the equipment that we need so that we can a live stream and also hear everyone in the building and then keep it updated that way it doesn't cost money to get a new system every 10 to 15 years. I mean ask a question. You mentioned to me we have purchased something like that $15,000 20 2018 2019 $15,000 we spent

for train depot for this right here 2020 right here in six months I can we hire so many people to do this and what I'm trying to say is this I don't spend ask C to spend the money but spend the money so that we can um citizens can hear I speak very softly so they want to hear my voice you know so um and the people um can see what's going on so um can you promise to get a better good equipment

the one thing I think Miss Arthur has done as far as how they did it she did it out she went to other And then she pointed it out. We didn't necessarily try to find the cheapest solution. Try to find a solution that is sustainable and will meet those meet those needs as you speak of here. I know she she put a extensive amount of work in in who she recommended that we use um because of professionalism and the the technology that they bring to the table as well. So I think she has Yes. I'm not looking for cheap equipment. I look for quality equipment. Yes, sir.

The difference. That's what we have here. Okay. All right. Well, I won't promise anything because technology changes. Like they said, it's ever updating today. This is the best thing we can get to be able to allow the citizens and to honor the request of the council's choice of making sure that we're able to live to where people can hear it. They go to hear it on day one and I think we'll be able to continue to update it to where it continues to be sustainable. You mentioned technology. Technology is very big. Talk about data um improvement. Technology is different combine everything. Yeah.

So when you break that down for me, it's um you said to me I know it's a lot. I'm I'm good at technology. So you know be careful when you speak to me about that. You know, I was going to say something funny, but I'm not. I mean because we could go toe to toe if you want. Thank you so very much.

So I just have two questions with the system that we're looking at. I know we're looking to um renovate city hall. So scalable for future growth and How soon will this new technology be installed? How long will it take for?

Uh, we're looking at the last week of February. Um, it's going to take that entire five days. Um, and then we're going to implement it here. Um, and then shortly after that, we're also going to implement it in the train depot because when this place does get renovated, we're going to store that equipment away. Um, and then we're going to use the train depot, as what I've been told, um, for meetings and for other larger events that we may have so that we can also have live streaming there. This is while this certainly covers the council chambers here. It also covers there for those meetings that we have whether that's community meetings and council meetings there and we'll also use it.

Yes sir. Is the 38,000 is enough? 38,000 is the entire amount for the uh council chambers here and the train depot. you know, saying, you know, the reason why I ask this, um, we know people come to us and ask her, you want $38,000, then next thing you know, it's $50,000. Next thing you know, it's $600,000. You know, I mean, I can ask you for a new pair of shoes.

I only want to ask for exactly what I need. Um, I have gone uh to the people that we chose and asked them specifically if this was going to be the amount because if it was going to go over that amount, I didn't want them. Okay. Um, so this is specifically nothing more, nothing less.

I have a motion on the floor to do have any comments from the public. I have a motion on the floor by council member White Williams and a second by council member to approve resolution 20261. All in favor? 10 10 D consideration and discussion on historical painting done by Mr. Art of Hampton, Georgia. Mr. Arty's family would like to sell a rendering of the old train depot to the city of Hampton. Um, you see the old the rendering that is on the back here. Mr. Art still used to work for the city of Hampton. I think we have a couple of his paintings over at public works, but he used to work in the public works department. His family and brought it up and it has been in my office couple months and they're asking that it did originally ask for $5,000 for this particular thing and the detail but um I told them I would bring it before the council. I have reached out to the art consortium and they told me um in regards to value and and what it has been colored with that It does not is not significant in value except for what we value the artist as. And so we would have to put a figure on what we would be willing to offer them if we wanted to offer them anything at all. I just wanted to bring it before the council um see if it's something that you guys want in regard. I thought it would be great to go over to the historic train depot, but if we don't want it, I need to make sure that I return it back to the any discussion regarding it.

Yes. We can make a motion. Um, can I get a motion to approve or to deny the historical painting from from Mr. Arty Steel for discussion? I make a motion to to deny.

Okay. I have Miss Pam Dashain with motion to deny purchasing this rendering and a second by council member White Williams. Any discussion from the council? Any discussion from the public? All in favor? I have a 6. All right. Consideration and action to approve resolution 202613 the foreign policy for regular and special call meeting granting the citizens of Hampton the opportunity to address the mayor and council. This resolution seeks to allow each citizen 3 and a half minutes to express their concerns and review. I need a motion to approve or to deny resolution 2613.

I make a motion to approve it with some changes to it. I need you to do the I mean what changes. So I think we wanted to just stay with um three minutes instead of the 3.5. Okay. So we need to remove this item from the agenda because it's already we already are at three minutes. I mean three minutes. So we don't need to change this. We just need to remove Well, no. Then I just make a motion to approve it. Okay. I have a motion on the floor by council member Dasha to approve the resolution 13. Second.

I have a second by council member White Williams. Any further discussion? Yes. So I would like to see it amended just to three minutes, but we would also like to see um the last sentence taken out where they needed to um email or or written notification um for non-residents to take that out. I'm not exactly sure what they're asking to be done. So, So, so what you guys are are saying is that you want people that don't live in the city to be able to speak as well without having to notify the city that they want to speak. Is that what you're asking? what's on the agenda is going to be allowed to come and sign up for how are we determining if it

I'm saying they would have to sign up to speak on that specific item that's on the agenda. So like how data center is on the agenda they would have to sign up to speak in regards to data centers but they would be able to come and sign up like any of our residents could sign the when they come instead of having to get a majority vote from the council.

I don't think it's a good idea to to allow people from the outside of the city to have park uh opportunity to come and speak uh like our regular residents, the citizens of Hampton, the city, the citizens of Hampton should be given the opportunity during public comment to speak. When you start bringing I mean that's like saying people from Atlanta, people from Chicago, people from all over the place can just come in and take over the meeting. We have to have some type of

residents that non-resident there is Hampton that is county Hampton outside the city limits and sometimes some of these things like data centers will affect them. So they do they should be able to have to come and speak how these will affect them as well. So they do they have that no we've stopped them several times from coming to speak

because they did not follow the rules which is to submit that they would like to talk so that we've given them an opportunity to be able to talk. They just didn't follow the rules to be able to talk. I think they should be able to sign up the book like anybody else of our residents and put their name down and have public comments. Okay. Go get section two.

So it says um persons who are not res provided subsection may request permission to address the governor.

That's the old No, that's the new proposed

number, right? Item four said something different, but I was looking at section item three. Sorry. Okay. Item three. Such request shall be granted only approval of the majority of

I'm attorney from I would like it. can sign up for public comments to vote outside that they don't have to come before us for a vote if it's something that's pertaining to them. If we're if we're putting a data center on lower and they live just 600 yards down and it's affecting them and they're falling in

that they should be able to come and speak without having to get an approval from us. It seems to me that section will kind of contradict that any non or operate business within the city of it ownership property directly. section three and section four of this section

okay because it just seems to me non-resident speakers at the same time limitations and They have direct section.

It gives them a foundation, right? Okay.

Right. I just want to remove that. All right. So, uh I need amendment to the motion to Approve resolution 202613. You want to change it and keep it at three minutes and you want to remove item that's being proposed. Such request shall be granted only upon approval of a majority of the city council. Do I have a motion to amend that? I make a motion to I have a motion to amend it by council member White Council member Dasha and a second by council member White. Okay. Will we have to change the 17.5 also? Right. If it's going to be kept to three. So, we'll have to change that back to the 15.

That's right. All right. Um, any other questions or discussion from the discussion from the public? Yes.

Who gets the right to speak? I think that it should be citizens first and the consideration that should be given to those of us who live in the city is to have so 3.5 minutes. So, it's going to stay. It's just going to stay at 3 minutes.

What's this 3.5 that we just removed that 3.5? They were proposing it go to 3.5, but we're going to keep it at the 3.5 and just allow anyone I mean three. It's going to stay at three and we're just going to remove the line of such no majority vote from the council. So you can just come and speak as long as it is something on the agenda that pertains to you and you're in the vicinity of that particular item. That's right.

Um can I make amendment to the motion? The other thing on the spoke about this several times that I didn't think it was at the beginning of the meeting before I thought it should be further downed speak about changes and we've already had we have no way of com. So yes, we you do after every item agenda item that's not but that hasn't always

it's always been like that. It has always been like that. Every every meeting I ask the public any comments okay after every item I just chop it up to my and I've also talked many times about these microphones

everybody respectfully and thank you, Mr. Shane, for bringing that up. I'm a Henry County resident in unincorporated territory. Stockbridge just annexed to my back door, literally. They're 10 feet off my property line. We're all impacted by these annexations. So, your city's growing and quite honestly, my tax dollars spend here. My employment dollars spend here. And the money I pay in taxes to Henry County helps service fire, rescue, water, and all the other infrastructure needs and so forth. So, what you've brought up, Mr. Duchain, thank you. I just wanted to say thank you because Henry County residents do matter and if you're going to defer us to the back of the line, we gladly deferred at the public meeting at the school. You live here, come on right in front of us. We didn't want to take away from the city residents, but our money is spent here and our points should be heard as well. And I'm not going to back down off that. I've actually never attended city council meeting if you're not a res.

Thank you.

All right, moving on. Just because I don't fell in what I hear and what I have experienced. in this room. So I'm not speak to speak and when you are making decision I should not be denied that privilege that is given to me. every single person in this room. I should not be anybody else. Thank you very much for your time. amendment.

You got a

I have a motion to amend resolution 2026 to keep it at three minutes um without without council approval for fin the city limit. Um I need a all in favor of that amendment. All opposed. Now I need a motion to approve as amended resolution 202613. Second motion by council member White Williams and a second by council member Shane. All in favor zero. Appointment of the city of Hampton ethics committee members. Um section 2-307 the term of office of ethics committee member shall begin on the date of the appointment and end at the end of the present term of the nominating member of the council. Should the nominating member of the council be reelected to a subsequent term the ethics committee member must be reappointed by but shall serve until he or she is reappointed or until the successor is appointed. vacies during the time of the ethics committee shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term of the of the office by the city council members who express vacancies. Members of the ethics committee cannot also serve on existing city committees or board. Uh I did not have an opportunity to appoint the ethics member um for myself and so that person is Miss Christy Palmer and you can see on the screen Palmer is a resident here in the city of Hampton has been many years. Um, and I would like to appoint her on the ethics committee. I need a motion to approve Christy Palmer to the ethics committee.

I have a motion by council member White Williams and a second by council member to approve Palmer to the ethics committee. Chissy is here in the audience. Thank you so much for serving on the ethics committee. We do appreciate it and we thank you for theert. Thank you. Uh I Yes. All in favor zero. Moving on to agenda item G. Consideration and approval of the second. This is the second proposed resolution 202608 that would establish a 120day moratorum on the acceptance process, consideration and approval of new annexation petitions or requests to annex property into a municipal limit municipal limit of the city of campus. The proposal of this moratorum is to allow the city to evaluate annexation policies delivery capacity infrastructure and long-term growth and planning objectives before accepting the approving additional annexation. I believe this is the first defer. It defer

defer.

Yeah, we're amending. I need a motion to approve, work, and deny resolution 20268. Second. I have a motion by council member White Williams and a second by council member for resolution 2026. Discussion from the council. Discussion from the public. All in favor? I have a quick zero. Agenda item H. Consideration and approval of the first proposal resolution 202609 that would establish a 120day moratorum on the accepting process review and approval of new data center related to zoning and development application and associated development permits within the city of Hampton. The proposal of this moratorum is to allow the city to evaluate public infrastructure and service capacity and consider potential amendments to the city zoning and land use regulation applicable to data center uses. I need a motion to approve or to deny. I have a motion by council member and a second by council member Williams on resolution 20269 to approve discussion from the council reason.

Yes, I have something I would like to add. Um, one of Miss Snow mentioned that Henry County Board of Commissioners, they're working on their their ordinance and I feel like that we should look at their the information they have because it's indepth and mirrors because we haven't written it yet, have we? So, look at the We have written it. It's final. Oh, okay. So, I didn't know it was final. So, we can't.

So, no. So, so we do have an opportunity during this 120day moratorum to look at the Henry County um u and and implement the things some of the things so that we're better aligned with county. Over that 120 days, that's what taff has been tked to bring all that information in to us. They evaluate, give us that information. We evaluate and and then we make a decision and we actually craft our Okay. our order. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Any discussion from the public?

Yes, sir. Okay.

Okay. I would also get a poss very consult.

Thank you. Thank you. I have a motion on the floor for resolution 202609 by council member White I mean council member Dashane and a second by council member White Williams. All in favor? I have a 6. Moving on to agenda item I, consideration and action to approve a special event application to allow alcohol services at the private event on February the 13, 2026 at the Catherine William Community Center. I need a motion to approve or to deny. I have a motion to approve by council member. Do I have a second? Second.

I have a second by council member Mitchell to approve the special event application. Discussion from the council. Discussion from the public. All in favor? Item 6. Agenda item J. Consideration, discussion, and or approval on resolution 202614 for the purpose of submitting and advancing legislation to the state legislators of establishing a 100% homestead avalor tax exemption within the corporate city limits of the city of Hampton have placed on the November 2026 ballot for voters consideration. I need a motion. M council, I make a motion to approve.

Motion by council member Mitchell, second by council member Brook to approve resolution. Discussion discussion from the public. All in favor 6. Did you have a question? Are you voting? Did you have a question?

Yes, I did. consideration council discussion regarding the expired term and process of selection of new members of to the city of Hampton board committees and authority. This item will include consideration of appointment necessary to ensure each body is properly staffed, supported and aligned with the city council policy direction and governance responsibility. I need a motion to approve or to deny. Oh, this is actually a discussion.

Okay. So, um I did take a look at the application that has been put together in regards to the different boards. I only want this board to remember in regards to service. Uh we want to make sure that we don't put things so that we exclude people and that we take in consideration the kind of time and energy and effort that goes into serving on these committities. and how difficult it has been in the past to get somebody to actually get on it, serve, do the training, all of the things that it takes to do it. So,

can I add that? So, that is part of the concern as well, which is the reason why discussion because we think because we're people wanted to come here and typically end up in my opinion. So that's actually on someone else who dedicated to where we're headed experiences to these boards making decisions on purchases that don't just go along to get along but they're actually invested and they have previous

way, but I just don't think someone inclusivity as much as possible is the best way to go. But but

um We want to set some parameters in regards to what we're looking for and not exclude people if they don't have it. They are still able to serve. I think that would be a more inclusive way to be able to get a plethorized most of because they weren't having their meetings to get the training, something was going on with them. And then when you lose interest from your citizens, like if you're not having your meetings and they're not involved, they tend to just fall off. It's like, okay. So, you know, we have also whatever whoever is in charge of these authorities, we have to make sure that they keep their people engaged and make sure that they are a making sure that people are engaged. So I think inclusivity is the best and making sure that we don't

well um m council when I saw this application I have some kind of concern because the duty we're not we're not we're not um the council is not um nominating nor recommend we appointed the difference in terms of um it's not um all vote approved when a council nominates someone. That's basically what it is. And because when I look at it when I read it right here, it's telling me that um if my friend books someone, I'm going to interview a person. Doesn't make sense to me. You're telling me that she's not qualified to select her own people. That's what it said to me right here. I read it based on um some of the part of it. The um application statement right here the application is good. There's certain thing that I need to remove from it like from um A. Do you wish to um to be appointed? No, you appointed for me and um B to H is okay and and I you know not necessarily need those stuff and K need those resume. We need to tweak the application part to make it fit according to the u the system that we established. When it was established in 20 what 2019 it was geared exactly like the um like the ethics board we nominate the vote is basically smear vote is not um majority vote it is not it doesn't create that way it based on council

not all Not not on not all board certain boards, but the HDA just created that way cuz I was here I was here when this was established. So that's why I'm saying I know this one better. So the HD does not necessarily each person comes up for a vote. Usually with that recommend

but the bylaw said different bylaw is stated we appoint the bylaw is different. It is not the bylaw is different. We governed by the bal by their authority. We had the backbone. We had the back back part of it. We'll have to take a look at the HDA.

Yeah. Tell us exactly how they are appointed. whether or not we choose one person like Mr. M and we're able and then we can work out session the application process that we want them to go through what we want to have included what we want to have included in the application process that way we can adopt the process. They have time for that process to happen.

Resolution number 2026-16, a resolution censoring Mayor Anne Tarpley on the city of Hampton, Georgia for conduct undermining council authority, professional governance standards, and the effective administration of city business to provide an effective date and for other excuse me, and for other lawful purposes. Whereas Mayor Anne Tarley is the duly elected mayor of the city of Hampton, Georgia city, and whereas the mayor and city of and council of the city shall share a responsibility to uphold the public trust, maintaining professionalism and municipal governance, and ensure the orderly administration of city affairs. And whereas the city council is committed to conducting city business in accordance with applicable law, establish procedures and standards of civility, transparency, and accountability. And whereas the city council has an obligation to address conduct by an elected official that it interferes with council authorized governance, disrupts the orderly conduct of meetings, or undermines the effective operations of the city. And whereas the city council has raised serious concerns regarding a pattern of actions by Mayor Anne Tarpley that have adversely impacted municipal governance and the city in the council's ability to carry out its lawful responsibility. And whereas the city council formally requested records and documentation relating to disciplinary matters, including the former city manager, including requests made on January 13, 2026, January 15, 2026, and January the 22nd, 2026. And whereas despite these formal

requests, the mayor has failed to acknowledge or produce the requested documentations to the city council to date. And whereas a special call meeting of the city council was held on January the 28, 2026. And whereas during the meeting, the mayor engaged in conduct toward city map city manager Jeff Baker during his appointment process that was unprofessional and tone and created an unnecessary public forum for matters that could have been addressed appropriately in executive session or other non-public meeting settings. And whereas such conduct undermines the dignity of council proceeding in risk discouraging qualified individuals from public service. And whereas the city council has further expressed concerns regarding the mayor's refusal or failure to execute agreements and contracts that were dually approved by a majority vote of the city council, thereby obstructing obstructing the lawful implementation of council authorized actions. And whereas the city council has also raised concerns regarding the improper disclosure of confidential information and privileged information including sensitive client and personnel related matters without appropriate review or guidance from human resource or the city attorney. And whereas such disclosures raise serious issues of confidentiality, privilege and compliance with proper municipal procedures. And whereas taken collectively, these actions represent a pattern of conduct that undermines council authority, disrupts effective municipal governance, and fall short of the professional standards expected of the mayor's office. And whereas the city council finds the formal censure censure is an appropriate and necessary response to protect the integrity of city

governance and restore orderly governance. Now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city of Georgia as follows. The city council hereby formally censors, rebukes and condemns me for conduct that has obstructed council authorized governance undermine professional standards of public service and disrupts disrupted the effective administration of city business. The city council calls upon me to adhere to all applicable laws, ordinances, policies, and standards of civility, confidentiality, and professionalism in the performance of marrier duties. The city council affirms that actions duly approved by majority vote must be implemented in accordance with law and urges the mayor to promptly carry out all min Ministerial ministerial okay and administrative um responsibility necessary to effectuate council agreement council approved agreements and contracts. The city council directs that all elected officials must exercise appropriate care with respect to confidentiality privilege and personnel related information and that disclosure of such information should occur only in accordance with the established legal and procedural safeguards. The city council reserves the right to consider and uh the right to consider any additional lawful measures of policy actions including additional appropriate sanctions necessary to ensure the orderly conduct of city governance. The city council will consider appropriate additional appropriate sanctions for Mayor Tarley. Be it further resolved that to the extent any person including an elected official is ruled as out of order by the governing body, that person shall be subject to

immediate sanctions up to and including removal from public office from public meetings. Be it further resolved that any and all resolutions in conflict with this resolution be in the same also hereby repealed. Be it further resolved that this resolution shall be effective immediately upon his adoption by the city council enacted and adopted on this 10th day of February 2026.