City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right. All right. Good evening. Uh, I would like to call the February 10th, 2026 council meeting to order and I'll ask the clerk to please call the role. Dr. Lee here. Miss Simmons here. Miss M here, Miss Pendergas here, Dr. Wills here, Miss Shanhoster here. We do have a quorum present. It is good to have everybody on the dis tonight. So, we'll continue with the meeting. Uh please stand and join me in prayer and then the pledge. I have asked Pastor Barnes if he would render the prayer for tonight. Thank you, Pastor Barn for doing so.

For those who will, let's let us pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you today, God. We thank you for heaven and we thank you for earth. We thank you for your son Jesus that died that we might live. Father, you said that if there's two that touch and agree, you'll be in the midst. God, and join our hearts today, God, that we might move our you might elicit our leaders to move our community forward. These are trying times, God. neighbor against neighbor, American against American. But God, you are still the same. You are still the same. And we thank you that you give our leaders courage and wisdom to move us towards peace. The peace that you desire us to have in your will. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Amen. 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.

The young man exciting. All right, we do have one who has come to speak on public comments tonight. And as always, we always read the decorum of the night. And it reads, "Citizens wishing to speak during a city council work session must complete all areas of this form. If you do not sign up to speak prior to the start of this meeting, you will not have an opportunity to speak. Citizens are not allowed to speak openly during the meeting unless first recognized by the presiding officer, typically the mayor. When the presiding officer calls their name, citizens may speak for no more than three minutes. Citizens who attend the meeting as part of a group may not give their time to another member of the group. The presiding officer may stop the person from speaking if the remarks or gestures are profane, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise offensive. Persons who refuse to stop speaking at the direction of the presiding officer may be escorted from the meeting by a law enforcement officer at the request of the presiding officer. A maximum of five citizens will be allowed to speak during the during any single meeting. Speaking opportunities are first come, first serve. So, first to speak tonight is Mr. uh Pastor Gregory Barnes. If you will come to the podium and state your name and address for the records.

Good evening. Gregory Barnes, 3736 Sussex Drive, Millisville, Georgia. And thank you all for giving me this opportunity. It's Art Healthy Festival time again. Art and Healthy Living Month time again. April 2026. We are excited about the the this year. This is our 13th year. Um moving forward, we have really ingrained ourselves into the community. Now, I know this is a new administration. So, I just wanted to come and make sure I'm going to send all you new councilman information about the Rhealthy Festival, the Art and Healthy Living Months, what what our goals and objectives are so that we can all be on one team. I do want to see if it's a possible we can find a point of contact that I can kind of uh work through to make sure you guys get all the information you need and we can kind of get on one accord and and just make sure April 2026 is as successful as it possibly can. I'm looking forward to 26 27 and beyond. I think the festival tourism in in Millersville is a great opportunity. It's a great economic driver and I think we need to invest in it and uh I think the R healthy festival can be one of those investments and if it there are any questions.

Um is it April the 11th?

April the second Saturday is the is the festival and the month is what we're going to be doing different classes from uh uh safety um technology. We're going to we're going to uh introduce AI workshops, things of that nature. We want to really uh give people the opportunity in physical, emotional, financial health as well as artistic creativity. I believe that's that's our way forward. I hope that answered that. So I not only the the the festival but just keep be on the lookout for the whole month with in of course in partnership with the city that we just continue to encourage and educate our community to be the best we can be. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. All right. So, we have two presentations that I would like to make tonight and I'm going to come around from the DAS and then I would like to invite Mr. Anthony Lane Lenir III to join me up front.

Yes. Hello.

We want to recognize him from the city of Millersville. certificate of achievement and it states is presented to Anthony Laneir III for becoming a published author at the age of seven. Anony's book Anthony Platus first day of second grade shares his journey as an autistic child and the challenges he experiences in school every day uh school and everyday life. He encourages kindness, understanding and confidence in being yourself. We are so proud of your hard work and creativity. Keep dreaming, writing, and shining. As the mayor of the city of Millsville, I do hereby place my hand and cause this seal to be a fixed on this 10th day of February, 2026. And you have your own certificate, sir. Oh, wow. How about that?

Yeah. Yeah. is not here tonight.

Just Can I take this at home? Yes. Yes. And he signed it for all right. Thank you.

Keep this. I hope the next um presentation tonight is actually not from the city of Millsville, but it is an achievement award that uh back in 20 Mayor, can you go to the mic, please?

Sure. 2019, I recognized at at my first gayla all of the women who had did and accomplish so many wonderful things. And so, uh, you know how you have to do some house cleaning? When I got sick, my grandkids were cleaning and they found this and I'm like, "Oh my goodness, we never made this presentation." And so, I want to make it tonight. And and I hope it um everybody understand why I'm just presenting it now from 2019, but it's still good and it still looks the same. So, I want to call Miss CC Sinclair to come up, please.

I know a few of y'all remember this. Hers still looks good. Miss Cece, you were granted the humanitarian award. You were away. You couldn't be with us that night. But I think so much of all that you give back, how you give your heart to the Boys and Girls Club, how you and your husband put into this community, uh, not just through the humanitarianism of looking out for others, but one thing for sure, the philanthropist that you all do, the work that you do here, and we greatly appreciate it here in our city. I appreciate you as the mayor of the city of Millsville and I want you to know that as a woman standing on structure and own business, keep standing on it. I appreciate you.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I just want to say to you, first of all, I'm just so impressed with this young man and as chair of the Boys and Girls Club of Baldwin and um Jones County. First of all, I hope he's a member, and if he's not, he's welcome. And I just want a copy of that book, and we need to put it in our library. And I'm accepting this award uh on behalf of the Boys and Girls Club. Um, and I'm going to take this as acknowledgment of the hope and the dreams and the work that we do all the time. in helping this community and to raise another generation and generations to come of productive, educated and responsible young people. So, thank you very much.

You know, as a mayor, I do believe in recognizing all for their accomplishments. We have some outstanding people here in our community uh that pour back into this community. I tell people all the time, we have philanthropists here that if we just reach out to them, we can continue to build this city to higher heights. And that's what it's all about, continue to build this city. All right. So, uh you all have received a copy of January 27th, 2026 count council meeting minutes. Are there any corrections or amendments that need to be made? hearing none. Is there a motion to adopt the January 27th, 2026 council meeting meeting minutes?

So move. Second. All right, we have been motioned and second. I'll ask the clerk to please call the role. Dr. Lee, I. Miss Simmons, I. Miss M. I. Miss Pendergas. I. Dr. Wills. I. Miss Shan Holster. I.

The motion carries and the minutes are approved. Uh tonight on my comments have some questions here and I believe we do have some recognitions as well. Get to that please. No, we do have some some recognitions. Are you doing those recognitions, Miss Mill? I remember seeing them in my notes.

Go. Uh, so under my comments, I haven't had the opportunity to thank uh openly. Uh, Miss Shinhoer has been an outstanding mayor prom. And not only that, she is now the sixth district vice president of of uh the Georgia mission uh Georgia municipal municipal association. and have been out of scene and and so that's a um awesome obligation that she's uh decided to stand up for. Let's give her a hand. All right. And she is vice chair of the regional commission. I think she's ser you still serving as treasur? No. No. I moved up from treasurer to vice chair.

All right. Vice chair. Listen, we're doing some great things. Strong women working hard. Let's give her a hand for her hard work. council, this could be you. You just got to work hard at it to fulfill the roles that we play with the Georgia Municipal Association and the Georgia Regional Commission. Thank you, Mission Holster. Um, I shared with you all that I had a couple more appointments that I need to make. However, I'm still working on those. I will have them by the next meeting for those that I didn't get to, which would be Miss M. Um, Miss Shenhost will be filling something else and then Miss Simmons. Um, so I'm still working on that.

I want to make sure I put the right people with the right departments so that they can um fulfill those o those job opportunities of working with the committees and and moving forth uh with the departments. Uh, as I stated, I thought I saw some more comments, but Miss Melville will make those comments. So, I'm not going to prolong the time. So, at this time, we have to we will move to the city manager report, and I will recognize Miss Hilson Buts. Good afternoon, everyone. Um, I've sent you all um information regarding tonight's council meeting. Um, are there any questions about anything that's going to be presented tonight?

All right. Um, I do like to highlight those that you all don't see at the council meeting, our staff and their accolades when they're doing something. And so, first of all, I would like to um congratulate Miss Jackie Haley. She's sitting right over there as our deputy city clerk. She was elected in January um this year as the president of the Governmental Procurement Association of Georgia, also known as GPAG. So, she's she's been working in that association for quite a while and she's now moved up the president. So, she's she's done her time and she's earned her keep there. So, congratulations to you. Also, um I was remissed I didn't do this in the last council meeting, but I want to recognize Major Link Ber also because he was recently selected as the chairman of the Georgia State Intelligence Network or GSIN. So, he served on that board since 2022 and he's now been appointed as chairman as of January 2026. So, congratulations to him as well. Staff is doing great things. I don't know if he's here tonight. Yeah, there he goes. Okay, so let us see who you are.

There you go. And for me, I always like to um acknowledge our employees that are out there working hard, doing the things that, you know, we we see it as they're working, but you know, we don't get to recognize them. So during the last several weeks with the weather events that we've had, I think that our public works department, our water and sewer department, and our water sewer maintenance department have done an outstanding job in keeping the city going. Um, we did experience some breaks, but it was not as bad as we anticipated and they were very responsive. Um, they did their best to make sure that people were out of water. If they were out of water, it was for as short a period of time as possible. So, I always like to commend them because you don't see their faces, but they're always out there working hard for the city. And so, I re I appreciate everything that they do.

Um, I think that's all I have. You all Well, she does not give her own self. She does not pat her own self on the back, but I'm going to toot her horn. Miss Mcmea Hson is doing a a Thank you. And I always tell her we appreciate her. We do. We appreciate you. Thank you. You came right on in and you just stuck up and started to work. Never stop booking. Appreciate you. Thank you. Just got a little bit more in place. Crucial time in the city of Millersville. Um change of positions and brand new council and with the exception of Dr. Whale. All females.

Are you saying I messed it up, Madame Mayor? No.

You know I love you, Dr. Wales. I can't go there. All right. So, we will now move to old business tonight, which is a part of the agenda. We have three public hearings to conduct tonight. All of which relates to land use. The procedure for conducting all of the public hearings will be as follows. Once it has been determined that the public hearing has been properly posted and advertised, the clerk will read the proposed amendment to the land development code. We will then hear a report from the planning and zoning administrator, including the advisory divi decision of the planning and zoning commission. Council will first hear from the applicant and anyone who wishes to speak in favor of the amendment. We will then hear for anyone who wishes to speak in opposition to the amendment. If anyone speaks in opposition to the amendment, we will then give the applicant an opportunity for rebuttal, but the rebuttal must be limited to the points or issues raised by the opposition. We will then give the opposition the opportunity to speak in rebuttal. They too must limit comments to their points or issues raised. Please make sure that before you speak that you come to the podium and give your name and address for the record. Anyone wishing to speak on the matter is encouraged to do so, but comments must be must remain relevant, concise, and polite. The first public hearing is for the expansion of the city's central business commercial district. Madame clerk, has this public hearing been properly posted and advertised?

Yes. I will ask the clerk to please read ordinance 0-2504-07 by caption. Ordinance 025 04-07. conduct a public hearing of an ordinance amending the land development code to allow for amending the official zoning map so as to expand the central business commercial district. I'll recognize the zoning administrator. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Barnes. You done beat me up there. Uh, good evening everyone.

Good evening. Evening. Uh the planning is only made on on January 5th. Uh the motion was to expand it to include the city blocks boarded by the North Wilson Street, West and East Montgomery, North Elbert, East Macintosh, Floyd Griffin Street, as well as South to include the city blocks boarded by South Wilkerson Street, West Washington Street, South Wayne, and West Franklin. The reason for this motion is because we have a lot of city um buildings downtown far as uh lofts that don't have proper parking and to alleviate that problem, this uh proposal was was um brought before the board and the motion passed. All in favor? Any questions?

So, Mr. Barnes will um you said all the way to West Franklin. We couldn't stop at Washington. what causes us to go our way to West Franklin? Um, I think that was something that Hank Griffin had came up with, I guess, for the expansion. Um, I wasn't privy to the conversation as far as uh the reason why they did the expansion that way. Okay. Any other questions? It would have been nice to probably stop at Washington. Um but never a miss. All right. Thank you. Okay.

All right. I remind anyone who wishes to speak to come to the podium and state your name and address for the records. Is there anyone present who w who would like to speak in favor of this amendment? And mayor, this is a text amendment that the city proposed. So, okay. There are there is no applicant as such.

All right. So, is there anyone who would like to speak in opposition to the amendment to the text amendment? All right. Hearing none. Are there any questions or comments from the council? Okay. This concludes the presentation of evidence in the public hearing. Is there a motion? So move. Second. Right. I'll ask madam clerk to please call the role. Dr. Lee. I. Miss Simmons. Hi. Miss M. I. Miss. Pendergas. Hi. Dr. Wills. I. Miss. Shhoster.

I. All right. The motion is uh approved. Madam clerk. As Hold. Let me go back. The second public hearing is for 195 Robertson Mill Road. Madame clerk, has this public hearing been properly posted and advertised? Yes, ma'am.

All right. I'll ask the clerk to read ordinance 0-2512-20 by caption. Ordinance 02512-20. conduct a public hearing of an ordinance amending the land development code to allow for a special use of property located at 195 Robertson Mill Road. This property is currently owned by Eric Walter and Carlo Walter Family Revocable Trust and is zoned CC Community Commercial. The applicant desires a special use for a used car sales lot. Right. I recognize Mr. Barnesville, uh, zoning administrator.

Uh, this issue was also brought before the board on January 5th. Uh, the lotment out the minimum setbacks and Mr. Walters stated that there' be a maximum of 26 cars at one time and the maximum would be between 40 and 50 cars. The motion passed. All in favor? Uh, you have my table time, Mr. Mr. Thank you, Mr. Barnes. Well, um I remind anyone who wishes to speak to come to the podium and state your name and address for the records

hearing that there's no one to speak. Is there anyone to speak in opposition to the mayor? We need to hear from the if the applicant is here, we need to hear from the applicant. I just asked was why. Okay. Well, then I guess I'll get up as the applicant. You said name. My name is Adam Shields. Address is 311 Pebble Hollow. Uh I worked uh I'm a real estate agent. I did work as a representative for uh Eric and Carla Walter and their trust. Uh we do have a contract to sell the property. The person interested in purchasing the property is the one that wanted to see if the special use would be permitted so that it could be a used car lot. Any questions from the D?

Yes. Um, is there an adjacent um business next door across from this lot? So, these are the this is the lot that actually comes between like the beverage depot and the that commercial, not commercial, but the there's a small strip mall that's right there beside it. It's kind of that wedge that cuts in between those as well as there's two lots that wrap around behind it, but currently nothing on that. Dollar. So, where we at side of Dollar General? Yep. Yep. Road. I have a question. Sure. You're you're a used car lot. Yes. But you're kind of gonna be locked in because you don't have access from Robertson Mill Road.

Right. So, the the point of of entry would be from the road that splits between Dollar General and um the beverage the beverage store there. But, yeah, we would not have access to Robertson Mill from there. Did you guys I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. I was going to ask. No, is that a private road? I believe it's public. Private drive. The city road. The city. The city has never been deed that road. We don't have that road. It's the road for the building. It's It has a name, but roads have to be when they develop, they have to be deed over to the city, right?

For us to claim it as a road. And it has never happened. So, I know the reason why I said there's a huge hole in there because when people and and it it will need to be paid, but I we don't want anyone to open up a business there and expect the city to maintain that road because it has never been deeded over to us. So, I wanted to make that clear. So, you can make that clear to whoever's purchasing the propert. I will do so. Mission host is the road that is located that will be located behind that propert.

Yeah, we have so many instances of that with another piece of property that's in Millersville that has holes in it and they always expect that you know just because it has a name it's a city street but that one is not. I just want to make sure that you understand that. Okay. Okay. Any other questions for me? Did you hear? So you you make sure you let your clients know that, put it in your disclosure or whatever that the city of Millersville does not. Yep. And let me ask on that property, what was the total amount of vehicles? Well, I could actually I could secede to the person that would be building the lot. Would that be helpful? Yes. Yeah, we need to know. This is Ashley Spires.

Hello, I'm Ashley Spires. I'm at 148 Bombay. Um, typically I I've I've had a lot here in Milligville for the past 18 years. Um, typically most part of the year we run 12 to 15 cars out front and then as seasonal demands increase we we will run upwards of 35 to 40 usually at the most and that's only for a short period of time. So you saying 40 max at some point? I'm sorry. You're saying 40 max at some point up to

I can't I can't I can't remember a time in the past 18 years I've had more than 40 at where I'm at now. And I'm not looking to expand for I'm not looking to expand to get more room. I'm looking to expand to get a little bit nicer facility. Where's your I'm I'm on 441 in between Simmons Ice Machine and the uh Okay. The old Piggly Wiggly. That's where you currently are. Yes, ma'am. Was that Gaza? Spires. Spires. It was Gaza, right? No, no, he's he's he's only been there a few years. I' I've been since 07. Okay. Okay. I'm with you. I'm right across from Tony. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. Right across from Tony.

Up above it. All right. Where Treywood used to be. Okay. Thank you,

Madam Mayor. I have a question for Mr. Jordan about the proposal. Mr. Jordan, given the fact that that road does not belong to the city and we are licensing and we are amending this code to allow for such, is there any kind of liability to the city? Just say if a car comes through there, hits that hole that Miss Shenholster's talking about, throws that front end off. Is there a liability back to the city because we did this and that is not a public road? there would not be any liability per se for for the city. Uh every business is to have uh an access to a public street. Uh so I don't know what the arrangement is as far as the owners of that drive. Okay. Because that's basically what it is. Uh but from the city's standpoint uh we are approving it uh

with the full knowledge and understanding of the applicant that that is not a city drive. That that's those roads have never been dedicated to the city probably due to uh whatever was going on with the the assisted living or what was taking place on the corner there. Yeah, I got you. They were responsible for for all of that. Did they still own that street? Uh, I do not know who owns that street to be perfectly honest with you, but I'm assuming that they that they do. Uh, I can find out.

Okay. Because I'm going back to the comment that you made about every business in the city has to have access to a public street. That is correct. So this business would not in the event that the owners I'm not against the proposal. I'm just concerned about Good question. That is we right because I mean you can imagine somebody drive a used car off the lot and run into that hole and and you know they they they always want to blame the city for it. That's why I want to make sure that I say that. But it would have to be properly graded and and and and asphalted or what and and built for for and turned over to the

probably the bigger concern from the property owner standpoint would be uh if the people that own the roadway decided uh they weren't going to let anybody traverse. Right. That's true. That's true. Hadn't thought about that. and probably uh I don't know whether G DOT would allow or whether there's even room for a de acceleration lane uh coming off of Robinson Mill Road to access uh that property is and I'm talking to Mr. Spires then is there a possibility that we can find out this information before we proceed? I'm I'm kind of looking out for your help,

right? I understand. and the cities. So the road So the road at the red light, who who has that road? Cuz obviously Dollar General uses it and the beverage depot uses it. You jump out. The one that goes between them. That's That's a DOT. That's That's D. Uhhuh. And and and those B those businesses had had a had a cut right there because that was where that road turned and they had an opening. So they paved their way on both sides. But then that that one on the corner the needed the way through. So they came from the from that drive extension.

I'm not sure even that road is a public street. Uh obviously uh Dollar General and the Beverage Depot u have access to it. And I don't know if that part of it is actually owned owned by them. when when DOT finished it, they just finished, you know, how they'll finish it and cut it like that. So when those businesses came, they paved up to where where dot stopped it on both sides. So it was the the road was done by someone else. And

but Dr. Well, to answer your question, uh if council were to so choose, uh you could table this uh matter until the next meeting of city council and uh we could we could find the answers. And of course, I'm assuming the property owner is going to want to know the answers or the potential property owner. Uh but we we could also take a look at it. This came up earlier today because some questions were raised about uh whether that those streets I don't even think anybody's ever attempted to dedicate those roads to the city and u

well just and that's good information to have Mr. Jordan, just to further clarify, I'm glad that somebody wants that property back there because, and I mean no disrespect or harm to the property owners cuz I love property owners, but I can tell you from the standpoint of litter control, he's horrid back there.

So, if we can get somebody like this gentleman here with a car lot back there, you know, people are not going to buy his cars if it's on a filthy lot. So, I know he will take care of that problem. However, I would not want to get anybody's hopes up if all of a sudden the property owner who owns that road does not give them the right to ingress or egress and then then that ends up becoming an issue for the city. And I'm I'm not I am not here to torpedo

at all. But I'm just I'm just Miss Unholster and I had an opportunity to talk about a road that I complained about a lot and she informed me that is not a public thorough affair and it may and so I no longer complain because I the city can't do anything about it. But at the same time I just want to make sure that if if we consent to something like this that it is done with all available information on this dis. Sure. Is that fair enough? I mean because I think They deserve to know, too. Yeah. And it could be that they were not informed. So, Right. Right. Well, it's it's Yeah. It's got a 60 foot rightway on it. So, someone has control of it. We just have to find out who

Right. And that may solve all of our problems. Right. So m what that would entail if that is the wishes of council would be for someone to make a motion to table this to our next meeting and second and voting on the motion to take I make a motion that we table it for our next meeting. I'll second it.

Right. So it's been properly so there again going through this process we would have had somebody come up and speak in opposition but due to he's being asked to u be second motion and second to table it to get further information um Mr. expires, you know. No, you you're welcome to sit down. I just wanted to stress, you know, I think that's a good move on council's part, uh, that we start to do this. We start to be more intuitive to knowing that, hey, let's make sure the realtors know what they're doing. Let's make sure the property owners uh, purchasing these properties know what they're getting and what their rights and stuff are. So, yes, ma'am. Okay. Has been prop.

I just want to make sure it's okay with him because he may be on a time base. No, I'm I'm Is that okay? Yes, ma'am. Yeah, I think we're I think we're fine with that. Okay. So, the plan is you're going to go back and get additional information in reference to the road going to the area where you're trying to put put your business. Yes, ma'am. To find out. Just want to make sure we're all on the same page. Yes, ma'am. To find the ingress egress the it's got to have some deed access somewhere. Okay. Or you you can't split it couldn't be subdivided if it didn't have access. So, it has to be accessible. But who owns the access? So, Mr. Jordan, are you going to recommend that our planning and zoning administration also do their homework on our side to make sure we know just as well as they know? Yeah, we're going to look at it. Okay.

We're going to have somebody uh look at the title at all. And is there any renderings on what this uh buildout will look like? Yeah. Yes, ma'am. I have a basic basic rendering. You want to see what I brought there? So, just a small structure. Let make sure I'm right. Okay. What's the size of that lot? The lot's a little over an acre. Okay. And it goes all the way into here. So, I didn't want to get into the disturbance of where the the trees are. So, this is actual open section of it. Now, this is a 2400 foot building. Around it is concrete.

And so, that that shows the access off of Shephard, but obviously we have to determine that, right? to to determine whether or not we're going to use it this way or not. But it would be, you know, cars here where your rideway ends here. So, the cars would be here in line with their with their parking lot basically. 2400 square feet. I'm kind of worried about the congestion of that uh lot um and the business of the of Robertson Mill Road, but we'll we'll speak on that later. Okay. Thank you for showing me. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Mr. S. Thank you for your patience and and working with us on that. Dr. Lee,

this is on the motion to take. Yes. I I'm sorry. Miss Simmons. Hi, Miss M. I Miss Pendergas. Hi, Dr. Wills. Hi, Miss Shanholster. I All right. So, it's been um properly motioned and second to table to the next uh meeting for information purposes. So, that concludes the presentation of evidence on that public hearing. Um I ask the clerk to read u

Oh, this is the last public hearing is for 261 Mobly Road. Madame Clerk, has the public hearing been properly posted and advertised? Yes. I'll ask the clerk to read Ordinance O-2512-21.

Ordinance 0 2512-21. conduct a public hearing of an ordinance amending the land development code to allow for re reszoning of property loaded located at 261 Moy Road to allow for an automative repair shop and embroidery business. Property is owned by Elizabeth Martin Alice LLC. applicant wishes to have property reszoned from OI office institutional to CC community commercial. All right. So at this time I'll recognize the zoning administrator Mr. Barnes will come forth again.

I just want to say real quick uh on the last matter that I plan on getting with Mr. Jordan sometime this week to address that. Um, this also made on January 5th, uh, Miss Ellsworth Martin, Elizabeth Martin, excuse me, uh, 261 Mobly Road. That's the old Central Fire Department. Um, on a personal note, I used to work here for about, uh, five years at Central State, so I'm glad somebody's coming coming through and trying to repurpose this. Um, it passed. All in favor? I see trying to put an auto repair shop and an embroidery shop in the back. There's two buildings on that property. The back will be an embroidery shop and it pass. All in favor? Any questions?

Okay, I'll give my time to Miss Martin. She's already on her way up, Miss Martin. All right. Hello everybody.

Hey, Elizabeth Martin, 177 Pedigrew Road, Melichville. Uh, it's my husband, Alan Martin. We have owned an automotive repair shop that services Milligville for the last 40 plus years. We began business in 1983. Uh we've spent the last 25 years over on Barrows Ferry Road and the buying this building which we did two days before Thanksgiving is our way of being able to continue our business for the decades to come. Uh so we're really looking forward to doing that. uh the business uh should be quiet uh because we do fleet vehicles. What that means is if you have let's say a state vehicle and it breaks down, they have a third party that very, you know, sends them to approved mechanic shops. We are one of those shops that bring the vehicle in, we repair it, it immediately goes out. We don't have cars, you know, piled up. Uh we only have a few cars in at a time because we do fleet vehicles. We don't have to keep them on the lot. you know, our goal is to get each business moving because they need their vehicles on the road. Um, the utilities there, you know, are already set up. Uh, they're adequate for our use. Um, you we've got internet, Wi-Fi, water. Um, what else can you think?

We're ready to go. We're excited. We've been we've been on hold for a while. Like I said, we've been in business for 40 plus years. So being down for these several months while we've been waiting to get reszoned, it's like we need to get back to work. Okay. Trying to say we hadn't been able to do anything for about six months now. Okay. Yeah. It's like we're waiting for zoning, waiting for the certificate of occupancy. And plus, we get to save a building at Central State Hospital. It's a really cool building.

Uh so we've been cleaning it up. Uh about to put a new roof on it. Yeah, we're waiting for the weather to clear up so we can Yeah, the roofers can come in. And so any questions for me? My husband, y'all see why at the boss? Well, I'm glad you all be doing some embroidery. My retirement business. And I want to say thank you all just for even just taking a building out there on Central State campus. We greatly appreciate that and and continuing to keep that on the tax digest and so we appreciate that. Remind me. Well, we thank you for

like I say, we're a quiet business. We're used to being uh in an area. We've always had like the kids come get air for their bike tires, things like that, you know. So, you we're community driven. Any questions for the DAS? Thank you. Okay. Right. So, is there any one present who would like to speak u in opposition to this amendment? All right. Hearing none, are there any questions or comments from the council? I don't have any.

There being none, this concludes the presentation of evidence in the public hearing. Is there a motion? Madame Mayor, I move that we accept the findings of the planning and zoning commission. Second and properly motion and second. U please uh please read the call the role. Madam clerk, Dr. Lee I. Miss Simmons. Hi. Miss M. I. Miss Pendergas. Hi. Dr. Wills. I. Miss Shan Host. I. All right. You can go to work.

That concludes our public hearing for land use this evening. We will now move to new business. Um, part of the agenda tonight, I'll ask the clerk to read ordinance 0-2602-2 by caption as a first read. Ordinance O-2602-2. Conduct a first read of an ordinance amending the land development code to allow for reszoning of property located at 900 Barrels Ferry Road. Map 080, parcel 1110B. Property is owned by John Schwarz, Schwarz Tools LLC. An applicant wishes to reszone from R2 to CC to allow for a vehicle repair and maintenance service or other low impact commercial use.

Sorry. All right. This is the first read of this ordinance and I am referring it to the planning and zoning commission. I will ask the clerk to read ordinance 0-2602-10 by caption as a first read. Ordinance 0-2602-10, an ordinance to amend the 2025 2026 fiscal year annual operating budget. All right. As referenced, this is a first read, but based on the request made by the city manager manager's report, the chair would entertain a motion to suspend the rules to adopt the ordinance with one reading. Is there a motion?

So move. Second. It would have been properly motioned and second. Madam clerk, please call the role. May um who second? I'm sorry. Miss Simmons. Dr. Lee. Hi. Miss Simmons. Hi, Miss M. Hi, Miss Pendergas. Hi, Dr. Wills. I Miss Shan Holster. I All right. And approve. Now that we have suspended the rules, is there a motion to adopt the ordinance as presented? So move second. Probably motion and second. Is there any discussion?

You adopted. Okay. U I'm usually we have a debit and a and a credit. My apologies. My first time preparing. I was trying to find some guidance on that. Yes, ma'am. I mean, you know, just make sure that we keep the budget balanced. A debit and a credit. We were trying to find a example on this. Um so, um the total amount, I believe that increased on the budget. I'm not I can't subtract it here, but the total amount um that was an increase over the six-month period because their insurance apparently went up as of January. The county already approved their portion.

No, no. What I did here was to reflect what the new budget amount would be. The total amount of the insurance would be $2,931.36. That's going to be over a period of six months. So, what you have to do is show where your debit that those exact amounts do the not. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I can uh revise this before you all sign it if you need me to. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Details, details, details. Thank you. Thank you. Because I was struggling trying to figure out how to present this to you. So, thank you. We didn't talk about that today. Great job. Um I was there any discussions? I would ask the clerk to call the role. Dr. Lee, I Miss Simmons. Hi. Miss M. I.

Miss Pendergas. Hi, Dr. Wills. I Miss Shan Hoser. I Right. The budget amendment is adopted. I will ask the clerk to read resolution R-262-06 by caption. Resolution R-2602-06, a resolution approving an amendment to the agreement between the city of Milligville, Georgia, and Tyler Technologies Incorporated, authorizing execution of the amendment and for other lawful purposes. All right, you all have heard the resolution. Is there a motion to adopt? So move. Second. Is there any discussion?

Hearing none. I will ask the clerk to please call the role. Dr. Lee, I. Miss Simmons. I. Miss M. I. Miss Andregas. Hi. Dr. Wills. I. Miss Shanhoster. I. The resolution is adopted. Uh, we do not have any appointments or alcohol license applications to consider tonight. Is there a need to go into close session council? No, ma'am. Thank you.

Having not not having a need to go into close session tonight, this concludes the items on the agenda. Does anyone on council have any questions or comments? Well, I was absent on the 27th and I just want to tell the constituents that reached out to me because I wasn't feeling well. I thank you guys and thank you to Jeff and Morgan for offering me soup. You guys are awesome. And Melba, I'm sorry you didn't get the email of my absence part of you coming in this meeting, but it was there, ma'am. But I appreciate you guys for really really um checking on me. Thank you.

All right, Madame Mayor, I just want to make one announcement. Um, and this is I'm kind of switching hats a little bit on litter control here. So, we have um a couple of cleanups coming up um for the city. One is on February 28th. Councilwoman Simmons is sponsoring one for district 2. KMBBB will be supporting that. And on March the 28th, there will be a joint cleanup in district five of the county and district six of the city. That'll be sponsored by Commissioner Little and myself. So, um, KMBBB is I don't have approval yet on if they're going to support that or not, but I know the KMBBB chair and he's very persuasive.

So, you'll see. But I did want to say that our Earth Day celebration is coming up on the week of April 22nd. KMBBB meets tomorrow at two to decide which day the 18th or 25th we are going to have as Saturday. So we'll be back asking for a proclamation. Madame Mayor, but at the same time I wanted to encourage our city council members and our constituents that are out there to come and support these cleanups and let's continue to move Milligville toward a cleaner environment. Um, like I told Miss Shenholster many moons ago when I did a presentation, Milligville is a beautiful woman. She's just scarred in a couple of places. Beautiful. Count me in.

That one. I like that one, Mr. Wells. And you said uh March what for the joint one? The 28th. Saturday the 28th. So, they're basically a month apart. Trying to get me a day after my 60th birthday to get out here and clean up. Okay. I don't believe you're 60 at all. Okay. All right. So, um any other comments? We're glad you're feeling better. Um Miss Simmons and back with us on the DS. I will mention to you all, mayor, that um I think um you all have expressed an interest of holding a um

Thank you. My mind went blank. A work session. So, um if everyone as good as that with that information, um February 17th at 4:00 p.m. here at State Hall will plan that work session and discuss some issues and bring our new council members up to speed with the current council members. Be a little late. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Just make sure that 4:30. Okay. 4:00. Everyone's good with that date. 4 to 8. Gotcha. Great. Thank you. We'll move forward with that being advertised. Okay. All right. Everybody have that date inched on their calendar. All right. There's nothing else to discuss tonight. Is there a motion to adjurnn?

Motion to adjurnn. Second. I'll be scared on that second. Don't let it die. Um been properly motioned and second. Madam clerk, call the role. Dr. Lee, I mean here I. Miss Penderg, Miss M. I miss Penderg. Dr. Wills. I All right. Meeting adjourned.