City Council - Regular Meeting

Here in the city of Fagville, we always open up our meetings with prayer. Today, facing our flag and citing our pledge of allegiance. At this time, Councilman Hoffman, bow our heads. Lord, we gather to make decisions for our community. May we use only our best skills and judgment, keeping ourselves impartial and neutral as we consider the merits and pitfalls of each matter that is placed before us. And as always, act in accordance with what is best for our community and our fellow citizens. Amen. Amen. Please stand, ladies and gentlemen.

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Councilman Hoffman. Ladies and gentlemen, uh we have an agenda that has been uh provided for us and presented to us by our staff. If you are a citizen and you want a copy, even though it's displayed on the uh screen behind us, uh please see our city clerk, she'd be glad to get you a hard copy. At this time, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Move to approve. Second.

Properly moved and second. Any unreiness? Call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposers? Nay. The approval of the minutes of the October 16th, 2025 city council meeting. Move to approve. Second. Probably moved and second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposes? Nay. And the approval of the minutes of the October 16th city council regular meeting. Move to approve. Second. Properly moved and second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposes? Name. and the approval of the minutes of the October 23rd city council work session. Move to approve. Second. Second.

Probably moved and second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposes? Name. Recognitions and presentations. Ladies and gentlemen, telling our story video series, Built for the Future being presented by our director of economic development, Miss Lori Thunderwite. Good evening, mayor and council.

Good evening, Lori. I'm happy to be here tonight to share once again the next video installment of our 10-part video series, telling our Fateville story, where we're highlighting what's happening in Fateville, not only to share with our residents and existing businesses, but also to share with the businesses that we'd like to attract here as part of our updated economic development strategy. The city's new economic development action plan focuses on recruiting creative industries, sports, tourism, technology, and retail and restaurant businesses. All to enhance our quality of life here and create high quality jobs for our residents. The economic development department created this video series and in partnership with our communications team, we're working hard to get the word out about our fantastic community and why Fagatville is a great place to do business. So, what you're going to see tonight is a short reel that we've shared on social media this week that talks about how Fagatville is planning for the future and the vision that's making Fateville a destination for leading edge industries. You'll hear from some of our business leaders talking about why Fagatville is the right place for businesses and innovation. So, without further ado, let's roll the tape. Thank you. We were able to find our partners who were intentional, honest, trustworthy, and [music] really very strategic with how they position the community for success.

When you have someone like QTS, within 5 years, they're producing over $50 million a year of tax revenue [music] to where it ends up being about 30% of our budget. The ultimate goal of that is to take the burden off of our taxpayers. [music] takes bold, courageous leadership to step forward and lean into the future for the sake of the next generation.

We have four target industries that we've identified. Retail and restaurants are one of them. Sports tourism is another target industry. [music] We have professional services and technology and then creative industries. What energizes me and excites me the most is our new focus right on creating and building a entrepreneur ecosystem. Fville's story to me [music] is residents, businesses, and visitors creating their own story within our city and [music] us giving them the platform to do so. [applause]

Well done to both the uh economic development uh team as well as the communications team. Phenomenal. Thank you. comments from C other council members. All right, thank you. Moving on to the next item, the 2025 third annual Wolfstock donation award to the local animal rescue presented by Main Street Program and event manager, Miss Caitlyn Perkins. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm [clears throat] here tonight to report on the overwhelming success of our third annual Wolftock event. I have a vi I have a brief video recap to share with you.

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As you saw in the video, we had an amazing turnout. Our goal every year is to expand the event's appeal beyond just lovers, drawing a significantly larger crowd. We achieve this by hosting the variety of activities you just saw. This variety had a direct positive impact on our downtown, bringing increased traffic and revenue to local businesses. The increased attendance directly benefited our core mission, fundraising for local animal rescues. We significantly ra successfully raised a total of 6,000 local animal rescues. We saw a larger profit from our silent auction, a significant turnout for the dunk tank, and again, thank you Councilman Stacy for always being a great spons sportsmanship. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

I I was sick. [laughter] My apologies, mayor. Okay.

Thank you for [laughter] volunteering but not being able to make it. We are also grateful for contributions from local partners like Lime Creek Bus Barn and Scoops Favville. But most importantly, Wolftock was a a success for pet adoptions. The high visibility of our rescue partners resulted in three lives changing forever. TLC Pet Rescue facilitated two adoptions and the Fyet County Animal Shelter had one long-term resident dog find a forever home. This is a true measure of our impact. My deepest gratitude goes out to our public works, our event staff, citizens, and sponsors who make this possible. A tremendous thank you also to the rescue partners, Fyet Humane Society, Royal Animal Refuge, TLC Pet Rescue, and Fyet County Animal Shelter, whose dedication made this our most successful event yet. And thank you to Coco's Cupboard for participating and supporting our mission. If I could please have our rescues that are here tonight come and join us for the check presentation with mayor and counsel. a little bit. One, two, three. Let's give our staff as well. [applause]

[laughter] Yeah. Again, congratulations and thank you to the staff, not only Main Street, but all of the staff as well as our public safety personnel who's always providing protection during events like that. Really is uh great for the citizens community to see that the city is doing some great things, especially with rescue dogs. So, thank you.

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You a little rough. [laughter] Moving on to item. Next item, the city of Fedville Police Department employee recognitions presented by our police chief, Chief Robert Mask and Police Major Austin Dunn and Chad Meyers. [applause] Got to get my composure after that joke right there. Uh, I will have to disappoint y'all. I do not have a video, but we do have one [laughter] coming. So, um, good morning or good evening. Mayor and Council, City Manager, fellow directors. Um, I would just like to take this time and say thank for your leadership, support, and dedication to the employees of the city of Fatville and the police department. Uh, we are very fortunate uh to have you all leading and guiding our employees uh our community and business owners. Uh without your support, the police department would not be able to function, be proactive, our quality people, as you're about to meet. Um and stay ahead of the curve to maintain the quality of life uh for our citizens that they deserve. Um also, I would like to say thank you to the city manager and our finance department uh for their support, communication, and teamwork to make some of these promotions. uh the hiring process and also uh the units we're trying to put together. Uh this has allowed our department to grow, purchase the necessary equipment that we need, promotions, creative positions, uh and like I said, the the start of the traffic unit, crime suppression unit, and also a civilian accreditation manager, which will help tremendously uh with those two programs. Uh, I just wanted to update you on some stats at the beginning of our traffic unit. Um,

since [clears throat] starting on no November the 6th, the start of our traffic unit, Lieutenant Campbell and Sergeant Collins has been assign assigned to that unit. Um, they've hit the ground running. Uh, this is just a few stats since November 6th and this is going to be a sixperson team, so right now it's only two. Uh they've completed three miscellaneous reports, 13 incident reports, 19 crash reports. They've issued 18 citations, and 63 warnings. Uh they've made five misdemeanor drug arrest. Uh they've made four felony drug arrest, three DUIs, uh two other felony arrest, and one other misdemeanor arrest, which totals out to be 15. So, with just two people on that team right now, can you imagine what six people can do, plus another sixperson crime suppression unit to make sure our citizens are safe night in day. Uh the traffic, like I said, the traffic team will grow to a sixperson team hopefully within the next few months. Uh we hope to start our crime suppression uh unit in the in the future. Our department has been [clears throat] in need of these units to be proactive instead of reactive. um to again to uh provide the quality of life for all of our citizens within Fatville. Um at this time uh we have several recognitions we would like to present and I would like to get the majors up here with their captains.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

Good evening. Major Dunn and I are privileged tonight to be able to promote um several individuals in our organization who are very deserving of promotions. Um if I could get Officer Kenneth Maruchi or currently Sergeant Kenneth Maruchi to join us up here with your family. Kenneth Maruchi joined the Fateville Police Department back in April of 2021 after having served with the Fate County Sheriff's Department as a detention officer. Ken has been a valuable member of our uniform patrol division and our traffic enforcement and accident reconstruction team. During his career, he's completed over 1,500 hours of specialized training and holds his post intermediate and advanced certifications as well as accident reconstructionist and field training officer certifications. Ken is bilingual and re and regularly assists other uh officers within our organization with those skills. He's recent promoted to the rank of sergeant in the uniform patrol division where he continues his leadership journey. [applause] [applause] Stab him with that new badge. That looks sharp. [applause] Thanks, man. If I could also get Joseph Fritz to join us at the podium. Joseph Fritz joined the Fateville Police Department in July of 2022 after spending time with the Pike County Sheriff's Office. Fritz is most recently

a sergeant in the uniform patrol division and has also served in our criminal investigations division. During his career, he's completed over 1,259 hours of specialized training and holds his post intermediate and advanced certifications as well as his field training officer certification. Joseph is also a member of the United States Army Reserve. Sergeant Fritz is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the uniform patrol division while he will serve as the shift commander of D team. And congratulations to Lieutenant Fritz on this achievement. [applause]

[applause] Go Army. [clears throat] Yeah. Go. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good to have you. Justin Taylor join me, please.

Uh, Corporal Justin Taylor joined the police department in 2017. U, since then, he has served in the uniform patrol division as both an officer and a corporal and has worked as a detective in the criminal investigations division. Corporal Taylor earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Clayton State University. Has completed 1100 hours of training, including his intermediate and advanced law enforcement and field training certifications. Today, we're proud to officially promote him and announce him as sergeant in the patrol division and look forward to his ongoing leadership as a shift supervisor. [applause] That was already [snorts] [laughter] sticky.

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And if I could have John Burkhard join me with his wife, please.

Officer John Burkhart joined the police department in 2022 after serving in the United States Marines Corps. Uh since joining, Officer Burkhard has been a vital member of the uniform patrol division, the traffic unit, and the tactical response team. Uh throughout his career, he's completed more than 1,000 hours of training, including his intermediate uh law enforcement, field training officer, and accident reconstruction certifications. And tonight, we're pleased to officially recognize his promotion to corporal in the patrol division. Look forward to his continued outstanding service to our community. [applause]

[applause] Don't be so hardcore. Give a kiss. Go down.

Go down. All right. One, two, three. Let's give him another round. [applause] Well, there's three. I got three more, but we're going to do them all at one time. Do them all at once. Sir, if y'all y might as well just stay down here. [laughter]

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Good evening. I want to give you a a brief rundown of what these next three officers have gone through. Uh but before I do that, can I call up uh Officer Graphante, Officer Langford, and Officer McDonald. So, prior to January of 2025, the mandate hours to attend a basic minimum level uh training academy was 48 hours. After January of 25, state of Georgia changed that. State of Georgia was 49th out of 50 in law enforcement training in the country. Almost dead last. Since the changes or since January of 2025, we have moved up to the top or ending in the top 10 to 15 uh states within the country. Uh the hours have almost doubled, practically doubled. They went from 48 hours to 810 hours plus. Um subjects range from from active shooter to uh firearms training to EVO, which is emergency vehicle operation courses where they get to drive really fast, go around stuff. Um those are some of the new new subjects that were added. Um crisis intervention was added. That was one of the big things that was done through the chiefs of police and the sheriff's association. They wanted that added uh along with tactical combat casualty care for military people. That's basically tourn tourniquet applications and things like that. Um also have officer resiliency learning how to cope with the many stressors that we'll see on a daily basis as well as

DUI enforcement. Um these these three have endured physical and mental hardships for the last 16 weeks. Um now they get to go another 12 weeks, 504 hours. Um 12 weeks and go through our field training program which they get on the job training uh on what they'll be doing on a day-to-day basis. So, I just want to recognize these three for everything that they've done um and everything that they have completed and we look forward to these three serving our serving our city as best they can. Thank you. [applause] Yes, sir.

Evening, mayor and council.

Yeah, that's fine. Do it that way. Um, I'm going to just I'm I'm going introduce a few new hires uh that that have gone through the process of, you know, background investigations and a serious vetting process to make sure we put out the best uh most qualified product to the citizens of Fable and to uh the mayor council here. If I can get Emily D up here. First, I want to introduce Miss Emily McDow. She is our newly hired crime scene investigator. She will be one of three uh crime scene investigators. She already already put her to work. Um she's been very busy. Um but already on her journey taking classes and already an integral part of that unit. Um want to introduce Miss Emily McDonald. [applause] Come up here. Um, since I would say July or August, uh, we were tasked with filling more spots to go into the upcoming academy in January. [clears throat] After, uh, testing, multiple interviews, and extensive background investigation, uh, we have selected four recruits to participate in the upcoming police academy starting in January. Our Mr. Pavl Sanchez, Mr. Robert Mandibles, Mr. Justin Nice, Miss Jasmine Shopire. Those your four recruits will be placed into the academy in January. [applause] [applause]

Last but not least, Mr. Cedric Cawthorne. Come on up here. Mr. Carne is a new hireer with us. Uh he comes to us with experience, but I don't know if [clears throat] many of y'all know this. How long has this journey taken you to come back here? taken taken over 10 years

over 10 years. He used to work for the water department for the city of Fateville 10 years ago, but unfortunately he tried to come over to the police department then. Unfortunately, we weren't hiring because of the economy non-certified recruits. So, he started his law enforcement journey uh with other neighboring jurisdictions, got out of it for a little while, then said, "You know what? I missed it too much." He contacted us. Now, it's come full circle. This is what happens when when we got the backing of a good city, a good city with citizens and the mayor and council. people actually want to come back. So 10 years later, we finally got him on board. Everybody, this is Cedric Arthur. [applause] [applause] No, you're good. Uh, that that concludes all of us, but we do have one more presentation and Chief Alan Jones is going to present that. shoulder coming. Stay there.

Give me another [applause] Uh, thank you, Mayor Council. Uh, and I will say on behalf of all the other departments of the city, we also appreciate everything y'all done for us and can continue to support us. The ask me to read this because there's some big words in it. Um there are special we'd like to [laughter]

tonight our uh special recognition is for the spouse of one of our uh police officers. Uh a a very incredible story and I'm honored to be able to bring it to you tonight. Um tonight we take this time to recognize Miss Amy Jenkins, the wife of Lieutenant Ben Jenkins of the Federal Police Department. Uh Amy's extraordinary act of courage, compassion, and selflessness literally helped save a life. For more than 20 years, Amy's devoted herself to the field of sales and support. For the last 15 years, she specifically served state and local law enforcement agencies as well as regional 911 centers. Amy never considered her public safety customers as clients. Rather, she considered them heroes, peers, and many became lifelong friends. With this mindset, Amy's built strong relationships with community leaders, chiefs, sheriffs, and 911 directors across our region. In 2022, Amy met Barto County 911 Director Jessica Puit. Two years after meeting Jessica, she learned that Jessica's husband Brandon, who happened to be a bar, retired Barto County deputy, was facing serious medical challenges and was in need of a kidney transplant. Amy felt called to do more than offer support. she uh felt called to act. In October of 2024, she began the process of becoming a potential donor. Through circumstances, those circumstances required her to pause that process temporarily, she resumed it in 20 March of 2025. And in June, Amy learned that she was indeed a match for Brandon. After extensive evaluations, testing, and health screening, she was officially cleared for surgery in August. Amy met Brandon for the very first time in September, just two weeks before the operation. The surgery is a tremendous success, and today both Amy, who's here with us, and Brandon are thriving. Amy Jenkins actions demonstrate the traits are characteristic of the public safety community. She demonstrated courage,

generosity, and a willingness to sacrifice for someone she had never even met. She saw a need and was happy to help a member of her extended public safety family. We're so proud to have Amy as a part of our city family. Please join us in honoring Amy Jenkins for her heroic and life-changing act of kindness. [applause] [applause] [applause] My pleasure. All right. One, two, three.

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Mayor and council, that is it for the PD. Thank you for your support. Thank you. [laughter] We are always glad to do recognitions and presentations and here in the city of Fedville. And I don't want to dominate the conversation, but just briefly uh to all of our officers before y'all leave as y'all running out. Okay. [laughter] Um I've said it many times and Chief Mask and the command staff can tell you I I'm very sincere about this. Uh every time I've been with the police department and our fire department, I commend the f the uh public safety personnel here in the city of Fedville, especially our police department. I've traveled around the world and I believe that our police department is the finest police department in these United States of America sir.

Chief Mask said thank you to this council um for giving you the resources that you need. That's what we will always do because we have a responsibility to make sure we provide public safety and a safe environment for our citizens. We can't have you do that if we don't provide you with the resources. And you guys do it so well by going out and making sure you get the right equipment, making sure you get the right personnel. And I am so proud of people like Amy Jenkins to represent our Federville Police Department as well as all the others. So, God bless all of you and thank you so much. Amen. [applause] [applause]

Councilman Stacy, you want to say something? Nope. I said I said you [laughter] said that's a standing note. All right. If there's nothing else uh with regards to recognitions and presentations, we're going to move on to the business of the the council tonight. Move on to public hearings. We'd like to consider ordinance number 2526 amendments to United Development Ordinance or UDO related to building height requirements with the professional office zoning district for hospitals and the establishment of driveway and rightofway permit requirements presented by our senior planner, Miss Marissa Jackson. Um, good evening.

Good evening, Miss Jackson. This agenda item is to propose amendments to our unified development ordinance. There you go. Thank you. Okay. This agenda item is to propose amendments to our unified development ordinance. Um the amendment to chapter 200 will increase the maximum height allowed in the professional office zoning district from 60 ft to 165 ft. And that's in anticipation of a hospital expansion taking place soon. We can wing it. It's fine. Just want to make sure you be heard. You know, I got this.

Um, I'll change it for you. Okay. Well, we can go to the next slide.

So, like we were saying, so right now in professional office, the maximum height is 60 feet. We're proposing to change the maximum height to 165 ft for hospitals only and that's in anticipation of a possible expansion happening with the hospital. The amendment to chapter 300 is to establish a process um for permitting and review of driveways and other work that's taking place in the ride ofway is to help make sure that that kind of work is in compliance with both city standards and G dot standards. And at the October planning commission meeting, planning commission voted unanimously to um recommend approval of this agenda item.

Okay. Anything else, Marissa? That's it. Okay. Council members, uh just one question. Um 160 ft. Would that pose a problem for our police department? I mean, our fire department. Great question. It will require a apparatus that can reach a higher um height. The fire department is aware and we have put in motion what's necessary to uh purchase that apparatus. [clears throat] It will be several years before this is actually built. So that's gives the city plenty of time to obtain that.

Okay. Any other questions from council? Are there any citizens with any questions on this item? Seeing and hearing none. Council members, it is your pleasure. Move to approve. Second. Second. Properly moved and seconded that we approve ordinance number 2526. Any other unreiness? Call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any opposers? Name.

Thank you. Thank you, Marissa. Appreciate that. Moving on to item number eight, consider ordinance number 2530, reszoning and development agreement for the 38 acres track located on Grady Avenue presented by our city manager, Mr. Ray Gibson. [snorts] Good evening, Mayor Council. Good evening, sir. This working? Here we go.

All right. As you stated, mayor, uh this is the the big resoning. I call it the big resoning. um the 38 acres um that we purchased in 2023. Um we're reszoning the property from uh downtown mixed use neighborhood downtown mixeduse mixeduse neighborhood to uh plan community district. Um and the reason why you know these districts are very similar there was some requirements in the PC the plan community district that allowed us to make this project possible that weren't uh provided in the mixeduse neighborhood uh district but the the PC it's a traditional neighborhood more compact development [snorts] that sense of place the vibrancy we're trying to bring to our downtown it's an extension of our downtown core u be a mix of uses and that this particular project meets all particular requirements as outlined in our code and in our comprehensive plan. And what I want to add here, it mentions up there that developer has more flexibility in their design. This isn't to be more lenient. This is to allow for the cool stuff that we've been looking for. We've been to many places, saw some really cool designs, allows for flexibility in architecture, um flexibility in uh lot layouts and different things. So it makes it makes the it allow allow us to make the project very special. And so to the the surrounding uh properties to the subject property. To the north we have uh gateway commercial zoning that consists of Magnolia Business Park. To the east, we have the downtown mixeduse mixeduse core uh zoning that consists of city center park and the Walton apartments as well as some DMU TR transitional residential zoning that consists of those single family residential homes that are currently along Grady.

And to the west we have neighborhood commercial that consists of Bradford Square along with some other uh neighborhood commercial uses in that area. And to the south we have the uh residential professional zoning district that consists of faget middle school as well as our 30 and 20 uh zoning uh district for single family residential homes. So for the future land use map once again I I I talked about that story about the sense of place. So in our in our comprehensive plan the goal was to create these activity centers. These activity centers were be places where things were happening where you had that sense of place where you have trails, you have restaurants, you have a sense of community and that's what this particular um downtown core activity center is and that's how this project uh fits in with that particular designation. Pedestrianoriented. We don't want everyone driving cars. We'll talk a lot about traffic. Chris is going to come up and talk about the traffic improvements. That's important. But what we need to do a better job of in our city is making sure we're creating it for the pedestrians, right? Trails, parkets, and parks. And that this project will help us achieve those goals. And the topography of the site as you go uh north from Grady, it gets it gets steep on the subject property. And then you have a a in the northeastern quadrant you have a creek that runs through the the subject property. And that'll be as I show the site plan here in a second you'll see that the parket the park not the park yet but continuation of our city center park will be on that particular corner of the subject property. So here we have the conceptual site plan as part of the application. the same site plan that was submitted to ARC for

review and it shows 46,000 square feet of retail, commercial and restaurant use uh 14,000 square feet of office, 150 rooms um hotel 150 room hotel and 39 units of single family residential to the eastern side of the property and 300 um 700 units of multifamily uh shown throughout the development. And then um town homes, town home units you see in the uh let me get this to work. There we go. on the uh western side of the subject property once again. and the center. What's important about this is it's got that central center green on the site right in the middle which will once again people can come together restaurants have activities once again create like an extension of our city center park where it's creating that sense of place like I've mentioned numerous times this is once again break out of the uh 48 units for the town home so how does this comply with the plan community district that we just recently created again or brought back brought back to life again as part of our UDO. Um provides a range in the types of residential environment. It uh provides jobs. It provides activities um like I said non-residential land uses trail system conservation's important in this project. So storm water is going to be a very important part of it. uh pvious pavers, those types of things can be used throughout the development. Uh like I storm water, I can't stress enough how important storm water is in a project u like this. And this definitely meet all those requirements. And then I as I mentioned before, create

a mixture of uses that decrease the reliance on the use of the automobile. And our story goes back a while, maybe eight years, when we started looking at different places. I know the mayor and I we started out in Greenville out in we visit a number of cities over in South Carolina, North Carolina actually South Carolina. Greenville being one of them. And us as a group, we've been to Franklin, Sugar Hill, Swani. We've seen a lot of places. Once again, we're out there looking when we created the city hall. How are these cities being vibrant? How's their downtown being vibrant? What are they doing? And so, not that we copied any of those. We took bits and pieces. We wanted to make our project unique. And I think this project coming to the town will be a lot like the one I got up here now was like Helion, which is up in Alpharetta, a place that we went and looked at as well. We spent a weekend, a couple days up there just studying the area, you know, looking at different parts of the development, what works, what doesn't work. And as you see, I love that. I love that center in green. People are out there. We've seen activities going on, events. this activity. It's just fun to watch and so many restaurants there to pick from and just a lot of families. What that was the great part about that. There's a lot of families out there having a good time. Here some more pictures of Helion. We went to Sugar Hill, saw their town center. [snorts] They were lucky back in when the recession happened. They bought a lot of land and they're able to be successful in creating their town center. They have a wonderful amphitheater there as well in their downtown. and that center every place that has a center green as well. Swany did a wonderful job with their green space. So the these Swani was actually the leader in coming out creating these town centers and they did a wonderful job and once again we went out there we visited

we asked questions um which led us to what we've got today and this not this just this project but the ones we've completed already and this goes this is a rendering of what our special place could look like this 38 acres. Uh, one of the differences that we've talked about and you all know about, we went from structured parking to surface parking, which will impact the project somewhat in terms of the layout, but it'll still have that feel that we're looking for, that vibrant feel for our downtown. So, just some other renderings. And I'm not going to stand up here. I'm going to ask Chris to come up here in a second and talk about the traffic improvements, but I'm not going to sit up here and say it's not going to increase traffic because I'd be lying to you all. But it's creating different uh roadways, road networks in our downtown that people can go on and also getting people out of their cars to use other uh modes of transportation to get around our community and our downtown. And you'll see that as Chris talks about some of that. And so we all know this aligns with our strategic plan. We worked on the strategic plan and we're starting to put some of those ideas into play. And this project one of those and I will call this a gamechanging project for our community just like the one that we call the one in the downtown that will eventually happen as well um down the more into the core the apartment complex mixeduse development that was a game that's going to be a gamechanging project for our community as well. So it comprehensive [clears throat] plan I've already mentioned this it aligns effectively with our activity center concept for the comprehensive plan designation which you know shopping centers, retail uses, personal services, restaurant and residential. Bringing that all together

um once again to create a community that we're that people can enjoy. Um, we've all talked about we all want we every meeting we go into, we want our citizens, our residents, and even visitors to have a place to go to just to enjoy themselves and have that sense of community. And I think this project will definitely deliver on that. So, I'm going to Chris, if you want to talk a bit about the DRRi and then the traffic improvements and then we'll You need that. Yeah. for the map. Good evening, mayor and council.

So, a development like this um requires state review to see what the community and the developer is going to do about the traffic movements of of that particular development. It's called in Georgia, it's called the development of regional impact. it's reviewed by Greta and they come out with a decision of what's required from that community to either put on the developer or them do it themselves by the end of the project basically before the last co is is granted. So there was several uh comments made by ARC staff which is part of the review process with Greta but Greta is ultimately the one that comes out with the notice of decision which are those requirements. Um, some of them were recommendations. What I'm going to go over next will be the actual requirements that we have to make sure are in place. Uh, the some of the recommendations are marked and signalized street crossings. Uh, that definitely be we would look at here just because the school's here. I mean, just we want to make sure that kids can get back and forth across the street safely. Uh, surfing parking lot should be minimized and parking should be consolidated where possible. We did look at that by doing um a parking deck which just did not work in this this scenario. Uh developments must comply with the whitewater supply wershed requirements. We take this a step further because this is part of the south southern pile lake tributary. So we have stricter requirements than the uh water supply requirements. Uh recommend incorporating green infrastructure, low impact design. That's what Ray had talked about earlier, uh, with a green in the middle. So, next we'll get into the actual requirements. So, each one of these roads coming out of the development has basically the same requirement with the exception of this one up to the north.

Um, right in, right out is going to be required on Grady. Uh, del lanes will be required. You can, this map's sort of hard, but you can see the del lane there. There's right in, right outs. That way, we don't hinder traffic. Um, and the thought is is it's already opening up into three lanes in this area. So, we shouldn't have to have much more rightway. Now, on the next two slides, we'll show who's actually paying for it because the other requirement is going to be up at the north at Grady and 54. We will be adding a lane there and do traffic improvements to help with queuing at Bradford Square and the new roadway. There will be a traffic signal there as well, which will have to be synced with the one at 54 to make sure that we can stack enough cars without causing any problems. Uh on the other end at Gradian 85, um we believe by putting in center city center Parkway, there's going to be a warrant for north left turn signal right there. We've been trying to get that for years. The warrant was never there, but the increased traffic of this and city center Parkway, we believe that it will be warranted at that time. That's just something we'll have to do a traffic study after this is done. Uh the other, which I can't I don't have it here, is we're putting a traffic signal as part of City Center Parkway up there at Lafayette and Highway 54. So that is basically the Greta requirements for this development as it impacts Grady Avenue, Highway 54 [clears throat] and Highway 85.

Hey Chris, real quick, does is the Manass or the Manasses 54 road potentially going to be done before this? I will say we're doing environmental engineering right now. I I really don't have a time frame because we found some things out there that would we would have to mitigate. Um, my guess would be this would move quicker than that roadway. 18 months old knowing what that timeline is. Yeah, I would say so, but that is not one of the requirements for this, but that is something that the city is pushing to have done because Kinjun really wants to have another way to get to his office. You know, it's because when traffic backs up on Grady, it impacts us.

Yeah. So, here here's those intersection I was talking about. Uh, we did work with a developer. Uh these four here will be developer funded. These are the ones I highlighted before on the map. Um these right here will be city funded and the these are basically traffic signal either additions or changes and the addition of the lane at Grady Avenue. So this was the this was the requirements coming out of the DRRI and we feel that these can be done before the last CO was issued and that's all that transportation.

Thanks Chris. I just want to add too that we you know as you all know we're um working with SJ Collins Enterprises Nelson Nelson Architecture or Nelson Worldwide did the layout the ar the uh conceptual site plans we've been working closely with them and then Kai Consulting with Ben Bernett as well who's been instrumental in you know

a lot of meetings wasn't such a great one yesterday sorry guys I apologize um we've had a lot of meetings and a lot You know, there's been a lot of renditions of the development agreement, but we think we're there. It's solid. It covers all the issues and concerns that you all have raised throughout the process, and I think uh Patrick, we've talked a number of times about it, so we think we're we're good to go. We're good to move forward with recommending approval of the requested resoning um with the two conditions and the development agreement as part of the packet as part of the approval. Thank you, sir. manager. Council members, any questions for our city manager?

No, just a comment. I think this is a long time coming and I think it's going to end a tremendous add a tremendous amount of of walkability and stuff to downtown and I think it's going to give us a downtown which we've never had before. Uh, and I think it's it's it's it's as I told you three or four years ago, we needed to buy that third 38 acres in. So

just uh one other uh comment I want to make is um I know sometimes our citizens they get fed up with traffic and you know the hindrances of it but when you get projects like this sometimes you're going to have to go through what we call grow growing pains. It it's not going to be something that's going to last you know uh forever. It's temporary. So just, you know, be patient, bear with us. The citizens asked for something, you know, to where they didn't have to go to Atlanta where they can stay in the city of Fedville. And that's something we want to provide. So just be patient. You know, we got to go through the growing pains, but eventually it's going to be something that you're really going to love and and um you're going to be proud of.

Any other council members? At this time, ladies and gentlemen, are there any citizens who wish to uh ask questions or raise uh concerns or compliments on this project? Seeing and hearing none, council members, what is your pleasure with ordinance 2530? Move to approve. Second. properly moved and seconded that we approve ordinance number 2530 reszoning and development agreement for 38 acre track located at Grady Avenue. Staying in readiness call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposers nay? All right. Consider ordinance number 2535 policy and procedures for proclamations and letters of recognition. Mr. Ray Gibson, mayor and council, I'm not going to talk too long about this one. We've had a number of meetings on this particular topic. Uh we making sure we have a policy in place of how we're going to handle proclamations moving forward and I think we have a a solid ordinance now to order. I'll open the floor for any questions you may have of us. Council members, any questions for Mr. Gibson? Citizens have any questions on this item? Hearing none. Council members, would it your pleasure would ordinance number 2535? Move to approve.

Second. Properly moved and second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposers? Nay. Thank you very much, city manager. Really appreciate it. Thank you, mayor. Moving on to new business, consider step one, annexation request from Kovas Investment Group LLC for three parcels totaling plus or minus 243.461 461 acres located on Highway 85 North and Highway 314. Parcel 054, [clears throat] excuse me, 611 054 025 and 054003 presented by planning director uh Miss Nicole Gilbert. Just

I guess I gave you a promotion. [laughter] And I've heard about the workload and I'm okay with the planner.

You all right? Okay. [laughter] Um, so as you mentioned, we have a step one annexation request from Corvvis Investment Group. These part parcels are located on the north end of the city limits. The um property includes one spot and two undeveloped parcels here between Highway 85 and 314. All three need sewer. and that's why they're requesting to annex. Funspot has plans to expand the amusement park and add additional amenities including food and beverage options. They would be seeking a LI or light industrial zoning. The two parcels here would be the proposed use multi-use business park including warehousing, industrial, light manufacturing, life science and research and development uses. They would be requesting BP or business park zoning. As this is a step one annexation, there's no recommendation from staff. Questions for Miss Nicole from the council. Is the applicant here tonight? Okay. Would you like to make any additions to Miss Nicole's comments?

Hey, Lance Ravenscraft with Corvis Investment Group. Um, this is uh under the kind of business park um plan. It's an extension of our phase one. We were the developer of the 243,000 square foot building off of Prominade Parkway. Um it was a very successful project. So and the city was amazing to work with. So we thank everyone on the staff and thank you guys for that reasonzoning. Um brought in two companies and look forward to the ribbon cutting with you guys coming up here in December. Um the so that's kind of this is the phase two of that. The fun park um is annexing with us. we are going to team up to build the sewer. Uh so, you know, like I mentioned, I think in a previous meeting, the fun park would like to add more FNB as kind of their initial phases. They cannot do that unless they're on sewer. And there are future plans eventually to add a water park. Um but that is not necessarily phase one for them in this uh annexation. But um I can that's pretty much it.

Thank you very much. Questions from the council? Mayor, I I have a question if it's okay. So, we're looking at this. It's got a lot of wetland on it, correct? There there is a stream that runs through, I guess. So, is that why you have the other piece to the 314? Um, that's correct. So, you have access from both sides. Yeah. Um, that's correct. So, there would likely be some kind of covert or bridge over that stream. All right. Thank you. Are there any questions from any citizens on this? Council members, would it is your pleasure with step one edation request from Kovas International Group? Move to approve. Second.

Properly moved and second that we approve. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposers? Nay. Consider resolution 256 2025 municipal election results. Presented by city clerk, Miss Chelsea Seaman. With the clicker in play, I have lost control of the presentation. You've lost control? I have. [laughter] Oh, no. That is a first. I thought you're the only person who's running this place. [laughter] Or maybe it's Kelvin because this isn't working either. That's possible, Kelvin.

So, anyways, the 2025 municipal election for the city of Fyville was held on November 4th of 2025. Our city charter requires us to announce and acknowledge the election results by resolution at the first meeting following the election. So I will announce the results by post. Favville City Council post three candidate Emit Spurlock received 2026 votes. Candidate Scott Stacy received 1,954 votes. For city council post 4, Richard Hoffman received 1,644 votes. Shannon Moltry received 2,42 votes. For post five, Nia Glover received 3,078 votes, and Ikasam Yubam Yubom received 918. These results were certified by FA County Elections Office on November 7th. Thank you, Miss Sean. Appreciate that. Council members, what is your pleasure with resolution 25 or 66?

Move to approve. Second. Properly moved and second. Any unreiness. Call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposers? Nay. Nay. Oh, I don't get a vote on this. I'm sorry. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we moved on to consent agenda items. The consent agenda item 25R67, job reclassification for planning and zoning and public works department 25R68, lease purchase agreement for capital outlay purchase. Council members, what is your pleasure with this agenda items? Move to approve both. Second.

Probably move in second. Any unreiness? Call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposers? Nay. All right, ladies and gentlemen, as we wind down, reports and comments from our city manager. Anything to report?

A few items, mayor. It's that festive time of year as we all know, and we have a number of events coming up. Tomorrow evening, we have movie in the park at City Center Park featuring the Santa Claus movie. Uh, Saturday, November 29th, from 6:00 to 9:00, we're going to have our Christmas parade and light up the city center park parade 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and it's tree lighting also from 7 to 9:00 p.m. Um, different from previous years. So, uh, Saturday, December 13th, we're going to have our Miracle on Main Street Market at the City Center, City Center Park. Um, a lot of fun stuff to do for the family, the kids, and the family. So, and of course I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving coming up in a week and a half and we will be closed on November 27th and the 28th.

Ray, I apologize. We did miss an event. Um, Christmas with the police is on December 13th as well. Okay. Um, it's 8 to 1 that day. All right. Thank you. Thank you, city manager. Council members, anything to report? Any committee reports? I just wanted to say a special thank you to the fire department for the fall festival that y'all put on. First off, thousands of people came and the the haunted house you had was really cool this year, but y'all did a fantastic job and we really appreciate it. Okay. Were you scared of it, Joe? I was so scared.

Anything else from the council? City attorney. Anything? Nothing for me today. Okay. Do we have to go to executive session? We do. We do. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, for purposes of real estate litigation and personnel. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, as you've heard from our city attorney, we will need to go to an executive session. Yeah.

Yes. Uh so therefore, uh if you have any public comments, now is the time. We open up the floor. If you are a citizen and you wish to come and address the council on any issues, please come forward. Uh please state your name, your address, and whatever is on your mind. Okay, in my closing comments, uh again, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Hope you have a safe one. I really want to uh thank Councilman Hoffman. I know he's got one more meeting in Councilman Stacy, but they have served this city tremendously in their terms and I it's going to be uh a great loss and we just uh just wish them well in their future endeavors and uh we make it more formal at the next meeting.

Okay. Make it more formal. You mean like we got to wear coat and tie again? You of course definitely. Ladies and gentlemen, if there is nothing else, I will entertain a motion that we go into executive session for real estate and personnel matters. So moved. Second, properly moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppos? Nay. Have a wonderful evening, ladies and gentlemen.