City Council - Regular Meeting

. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. please call the roll.

We do have a quorum present so if you will please stand with me for the prayer and the pledge.

eternal most holy father we come before you this evening saying thank you first and foremost thank you for all that's going on around us lord we know that death angel is moving rapidly but yet our heart goes out to the community and all that we're seeing right now father we ask that you continue to keep us with like minds on this dais that we continue to do the business of this city We ask you to continue to take care of our first responders, our fire department, our police department, our ambulance service. Continue to take care of the nurses, teachers, doctors, everyone, Lord God, because we're living in such a time right now that we just don't ever know. So as we pray this prayer tonight, we pray for all citizens, that they continue to be at rest and at peace. In Jesus' name we do pray. Amen.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance 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. You do have a couple on the request board to speak tonight and as always I read a script before anyone comes up to speak and it states citizens wishing to speak during a city council work session must complete all areas of this plan if you do not sign up to speak prior to the start of the 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. 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. and maximum five citizens will be allowed to speak during any single speaking opportunity that is if you signed up so we're going to have one person here tonight Drew Walston will be speaking to us tonight so Mr. Walston if you'll come up to the podium and state your name and address for the record

thank you so much madam mayor members of the council my name is drew walsh and i'm with mighty hero homes so we are it's an honor and a pleasure to report that we are going to build an 84 home community for homeless veterans right here in millersville villageville is going to serve as the tip of the spear if you will to combat the egregious crisis that we have in our nation for veteran homelessness You may know that there are over 35,000 homeless veterans in our nation. One is too many. 35,000 is unthinkable. So we are honored to have worked with Senator Rick Williams. Lieutenant Governor Burke Jones to secure 20 acres on the Central Straits Hospital facility right there on Bypass Road. Got a lot of work to do. That's an old property that's been there for a long, long time and got some things to do. But this is going to be a state-of-the-art facility. As shown here, by the way, this is Les Carroll. Les is a retired two-star major general with the U.S. Army. He's our board secretary. We're honored and pleased to have a number of board members that are of his caliber. Our veterans, the tagline is, I wear on my bracelet 365 days a year because they deserve better. It drives everything that we do. Our veterans raised their right hand. They swore to defend our Constitution. They wore the cloth of our nation. And to think of the fact that they are sleeping under bridges in the woods or couch surfing is something that we need to and will correct. I serve on the Statewide Commission for Homelessness. I was just in North Atlanta this morning. I had made a beeline down here to get here in time. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. But it's not just a crisis amongst, as you know, it's not just a crisis amongst our veterans. It's a crisis nationwide. And we hope that our model by providing affordable permanent homes, which is what makes us different from the other thousands of organizations that are fighting some type of homelessness, our ability to allow a veteran to go from homeless to homeowner in two years is something that we're working very diligently to to achieve. I have some information here. One of the things that we're going to do is who was that are a couple of you were at our town hall meeting. Thank you all very much for coming for that. So you've already got a little preview. But one thing I said in that meeting that I want to reiterate and we will continue to reiterate is Mighty Hero Homes is not seeking to do something in Milledgeville, to Milledgeville or for Milledgeville. We're seeking to do something with Milledgeville. And by this being the first of 450 of these, what we call bases, we plan to build 450 of these across the nation, as many as it takes to accomplish the mission. We want to do it with the good folks in Milledgeville. And as Senator Williams said in his speech at our town hall meeting, Milledgeville has a wonderful reputation of caring and loving and tending to the neighbors. So we couldn't think of a better place to start this initiative and to be our pilot for what we believe to be many, many bases to come. One of the things that we're going to ask is for the Milledgeville citizens to engage with us. And with your permission, Mayor, I'd like to provide these handouts to

the folks here.

And what this will do is I've got some more than being assembled out in the hallway as we speak. I'll make sure you do get one. I'll provide a few more and I've got general audience I've got some as well. But what you'll see there when you have the opportunity to review it is we're going to ask Milledgeville to do something that's unheard of and on the surface is going to be unthinkable. So we're going to ask 84 organizations, whether it be churches or little league teams or civic groups or businesses, and Milledgeville has a wonderful network of businesses, to help sponsor to build one veteran home. And that's going to require raising capital for that group to raise $100,000. Now times are tough, and our economy is challenging. But we believe that the good Lord we serve owns the cattle of 1000 hills, and he's got all the money that we need to be able to accomplish this mission. So through this, and we're going to have and thank you, I didn't see you when I came in, I apologize. Thank you for the great coverage that you've provided to us. But through a partnership with the citizens of Milledgeville and Baldwin County. We want, when this is done and we have our ribbon-cutting ceremony, we look forward to soon having you out there with a shovel in your hand and a helmet on your head as we break ground. And we likewise look forward to having the big golden scissors there when we have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for our first home. But it's going to take all of us. This is a $20 million project. is less right here has shown. By the way, these are 84 homes are in seven quads of 12 homes per quad, there's a 6000 square foot community center, that community center will have health services, career training, commissary, coffee shop, gathering space, training space, workout space, we'll have a canine training center, you some of you may know the old mattress building there. The mattress building is going to be our canine training center. Our veterans will be taught and trained to be able to train dogs that will be exported to other veterans. with PTSD and other needs throughout our country, gives them purpose, gives them the ability to help in their rehabilitation. We also have a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse on the premises. The veterans will be taught to agriculture for hydroponics. Aquaponics will be able to raise tilapia, all kind of great stuff in this 3,000-square-foot greenhouse. So they can consume those vegetables on base themselves. They'll also be able to sell them to local restaurants, so local restaurants can tout farm-to-table or farm-to-table or directly from growing spot to table. And plus it also gives the base the opportunity to interact with the community. We can have an on-base farmers market and they can take their yield off base. But none of this is going to be possible if we don't do it together. And if we don't think about the community that's going to benefit from the work here. The Lord called me to this service over five years ago, and from the very beginning, if someone would have asked me, you know, Drew, what's the win? What are you after? I would have intuitively said, when we hand the last key to the last homeless veteran, we can check the box and say that we're done. I believe that's changed over time, over the past five years as we've learned and we've researched and we've planned. I truly believe that when we are successful in building a community for homeless veterans, The community itself is going to be transitioned for generations to come. You think about the men and women that are going to occupy these homes. They once held the keys to million-dollar pieces of equipment. They had the lives of hundreds of people under their control. And now they can't get a job at Subway because they made a bad decision or they had some bad luck or something happened to them that was out of their control. So as you read through this, this is not about just providing homes. This is about providing hope. about providing dignity, and it's about providing an opportunity to take care of the men and women who have so valiantly served our nation. So I look forward to getting to know all of you much better. I want to partner with you. I want to be friends with you. And together, we're going to do something that's going to be pretty incredible, something that A lot of people want to come to Milledgeville and say, what did you do? How did you do it? We want to learn from you. We want to learn how we can do it in our hometowns. I'll take any questions. And again, thank you for the opportunity to share today.

I'm going to allow him to have some questions answered since you kind of got the scheduling on this agenda messed up. So anybody on council, if you want to ask them questions quickly.

Well, I do have a comment, Drew, here. Thank you guys for choosing. our community to bring this valuable project to us. As an officer on the Central State Hospital Redevelopment Authority, it was a pleasure to assist you guys with obtaining the land. So thank you guys.

Thank you so much. You're welcome.

Thank you all for coming out and sharing with us.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you all so much. And for folks here, we'll have some of those that I just handed out to them out in the audience around the festival. Take one, share them with your boss, share them with your folks, and I look forward to working with you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You know have received a copy of the June 9th 2026 Council meeting minutes for their any corrections for amendments that need to be made. Hearing now ask the clerk please call the roll. Is it a motion not so move that. We have a motion and a second. I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll.

I'm sorry. Dr. Wells? Aye. Ms. Pendergast? Aye. Ms. Simmons? Aye. Ms. Sheehan-Holster?

Aye. Dr. Lee? Aye. Ms. Mapp? Aye. The motion carries and the minutes are adopted. You have already a copy of the June 16 2026 Council budget work session meetings minutes. Are there any corrections or amendments that need to be made? Hearing none. Is there a motion to adopt the June 16 2026 called budget work session mean meeting minutes. Motion to adopt second. We have a motion and a second. Clerk, please call the roll.

Dr. Wills? Aye. Ms. Pendergast? Aye. Ms. Simmons? Aye. Ms. Schoenhauser? Aye. Dr. Lee?

Aye. Ms. Mapp?

Aye.

motion carries in the minutes are approved. As far as my comments tonight. I want to say everyone have a safe trip traveling to the conference. I'm looking forward to the retreat and diving into some deep conversation about what we're doing in the city. Most certainly want the people of the city to know we're not just vacationing but we're working for you to get the things together. That's all I haven't held some bus.

Good afternoon everyone. I don't think I have anything. Make sure you take your forms of payment with you. Take what? Credit card. Make sure you take your credit cards with you on this training, okay? Safe travels again. I echo the Mayor's sentiment on that. I don't have anything else, Mayor.

will now move to all business tonight which is a part of the agenda I will ask the clerk to read ordinance O-2604-13 by caption

Ordinance oh that's twenty six oh four that's thirteen conduct a public hearing of an ordinance amending the charter to accept approximately one point five six acres of land into the corporate limits of the city of Milledgeville with a zoning of HC every commercial the property is located at twenty seven forty seven North Columbia Street all the county tax map 0, 8, 5, parts of 0, 4, 5, and is owned by Wilson. He is the king plans to use property as a manufactured home dealership.

This law is real. Come to the bar method. We asked you come to the party. insert me if I'm wrong Mr Jordan did we not ask for him to bring us some different things to consider before we look at this yes ma'am did you bring it forth for us tonight yes ma'am I have it

Me and Mr. Thomas and Mr. Lowen, and I conducted the on-site assessment on June 11th. It was determined that the commercial driveway needed to be constructed following the City Land Development Code Article 7, Site Design Standards Section 7.5, Article 8, Project Construction Standards Section 8.5. Key issues. Council expressed interest in requiring the applicant to upgrade Longleaf Trail to commercial paving standards. March 31st, 2025, Public Works approved a site plan for a commercial driveway to be installed on Longleaf Trail. One of the main things that was considered was that it needed to be a commercial grade apron. Our recommendations was the standard is 30 inches, 30 feet. We recommend between 40 and 50 to be six inches in depth for commercial grade. We also did an impromptu traffic study. It was estimated that between 30 and 40 cars passed through that street an hour. so there's minimum there's there's minimum traffic impact on that road so that being said that is the cross qualified for a full commercial rebuild and it's also that for a grant in twenty twenty seven so that that would having the applicant do a full a full street rebuild there'll be a hardship on the on the applicant when it's already scheduled to be uh repaved in 2027. thank you mr bond any more questions well i i do have a question um so you're um and i want to make sure that we're clear on this um

when you approved his his um design for for that when you approved it you approved it with the commercial um driveway okay so we didn't have that information before before so that's that was why i was asking if it could be paved according to that so thank you for that information also um

You said that it's scheduled to be repaired 2027 with a grant. Repaved, right?

Yes.

Right. Okay. So who would be responsible for the payment after that grant? Is it going to always be? It's going to always be City Street.

Yes, ma'am. Once it gets paid, it'll be up to the city to maintain it.

Now, so you said an impromptu traffic study.

Well I did I did a little on my own I went out there for about an hour in this kind of cars in our time I mean cars pattern history between 25 to 30 cars so is in my estimation is about is moderate traffic. So the so there's not a heavy influx of traffic whenever it is mostly residential.

What time of day did you come to about 1230 to about one 30.

Snow in a pretty heavy out there because I'm yeah that's a

Well, I stood there for about an hour, and I counted about between 25 and 30 cars passing on that street.

May I ask what day of the week did you conduct that study?

It was on June 9th.

Generally, when you do a traffic study, do you guys have an outside agency do that? Yes, ma'am.

Are we requesting the outside independent traffic study be done also?

It's requested, but it hasn't been done yet. No, ma'am.

I guess now the question is what do you have worked in here about the 50 feet now dry way. Did you did you put that in here about the request that he's requesting to do a 50 foot dry way that enters into the risk residential area.

I might have been Mister Thomas is a recommendation.

Mr. Jordan we did say that that could be a yeah that had or the or by Mr. Thomas speak to it so sure when we did the study we call it a field report we go out and do evaluation of driveway applications the minimum requirement per article seven and eight is like 30 feet But you don't just look at the minimum requirement, you have to look at the use of the property. Those would require wide driveways and radius because of the large equipment.

So we recommend that

50 to 60. Plus also you got to include the radius. So where a standard radius in the city is like 19 feet, for this we would require 35 feet radius for the turn. That's per design, not per code. okay so per your design the problem they have with those trucks turning off you're going to be able to turn off onto their property without interrupting the flow of the traffic that's correct and and we have a we have one uh criteria where you can't put an intersection within 50 feet for commercial property of an intersection this one would have to start 50 feet but it would be better if they go we don't we don't drive the design, we just make the recommendation. So you're so a lot of things you are asking about is already in articles, article eight and article seven. And whomever is putting in the driveways, they have to provide by them. And that's part of our plan review. We said, we don't just sit down and say, Hey, yes, no, we sit down, we have criteria that we have to meet, like, site, distance, local road, auto road, stuff like that, factor of traffic count and except is this the thing that we look for and mainly the use to use whatever type of use it is as the driver. So. So I don't know one cookie cutter is based on the on the use of that specific life.

So what are you recommending? for this lot. This lot is in the county right now. And we are, the mayor and council are considering annexing this property in. And what came up at our last meeting was whether or not, as the zoning ordinance allows, whether or not there are stipulations that this council wants to consider requiring the owner to adhere to in order for them to approve this annexation rezoning request. Because that's going to be part of an ordinance, it has to be specific as to measurements relative to the drive as well as any requirements that are going to be made for the owner to improve the road at least to the point of where the driveway ends. Not asking the owner to pave the whole road. That's coming up with the LMIG, but those were the two issues that got raised at the last meeting, and the council needs some direction from you and Mr. Barnwell in order to include the specific stipulations in this ordinance that they are considering, and that's on the floor now.

OK. So let me read through this. The approval was based on city land development code, engineering standards, traffic impact, and current use of property. Assessing property of interest by way of a longleaf trail is a safer option One is it provides a better sight distance to it, reduce conflict. Three is a low traffic by and also low speed on that area. Now, the question were, should we bring this road? Do we need to bring this road up to commercial standards? Well, it doesn't exhibit. It currently is being used as a commercial.

Correct.

Use now on the right and on the left. The road doesn't suggest that this road need upgrade. Because the use already been there is in fine shape. The only issue you have are the shoulders where they are pulling off the shoulder, and they're destroying the shoulders. Now there's something that you go back to seven point article seven and article eight. Any individual accessing their property must provide adequate paving funding, street to the end of the right away to the property line. That's supposed to be a protest in the in the engineers. Once they present the site plan, which they did present, we do the plan review and all the plan review information is based on the article eight and article seven. So so we don't have to has no the only additional issue that thing that we may impose would be going from a minimum to like a 50 foot width driveway and 35 feet radius on both sides. Now, if they choose to go off of that, that designated driveway, then that's when we impose that and we don't have to impose we just have to enforce it. It's already an article saying that they have to have an approved apron for transfer from the road, even if it outside of that 50 foot stretch, they have to provide that apron that extended. So it's an article.

So you're saying that there's no need for council to adopt any stipulation that once, if council chooses to approve this annexation and rezoning, that the property owner will already be bound by...

I agree with that. And we just out there force it and and how we enforce it based on when they go out and start the construction, we're playing the zone and give us a call and they have to stop once they put in the form for the driveway or they mark the for the driveway. Public work goes out and we say yeah and they can't move forward unless we go out and say yes. And they have part of condition they have to call.

OK, so Mr. Thomas, I'll make sure that I'm understanding this. So the stipulation from us would be the 50 to 60 foot width, or is it already in the standards? That is not in the standards. So that's the stipulation that we have? The standard is a minimum of 30 feet. OK, so that's what I'm saying. That's the stipulation that we have to put with our motion.

in order to move move and I recommend they make a recommendation already said well once we do once we do the stipulation is not a recommendation is a requirement okay okay so that's why I want to make sure that I say it right it was already recommended that he had put in 50 foot will okay he came back and mentioned that he put a 60 feet

Okay. Well, now we're going to require it with the ordinance, so it would have to be.

A minimum.

A minimum.

A minimum. Because, see, you don't want to get into attempting to design it because, see, once they go out, we could sit here all day and say, hey, 50 feet, this it. No. When they get out there, they may find out that they, that 50 feet may have to be 75 feet.

Okay.

You see, so we don't want to.

We don't want to lock in that 60. Okay, I understand.

That's the means of death that we try to stay out of this.

Yeah, I just want to make sure that we state it right for the ordinance. Right. So that it's a minimum.

Once they set the form in place. I got it. And they call us for inspection. We always have to write. And the building official has the right to say, hey, look, you need to assume this. We have that right. Even if you all put it in place and we go out there and we witness that the shoulders are being deteriorated because of commercial use. We still have the right to impose additional. That's where the proportion of requirement come into play.

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

So with the commercial use you see right there, would they have a special, you know, some commercial use, they have like a lift off, the white concrete off from the black, would that be in the same area?

It would be in whatever designated area that the engineer put on the site plan, that's their entrance.

Okay.

Right. And that would be, we call that designated entry. But the apron and the shoulder is beyond that. That's what takes the road itself.

So just so we're clear, you're saying we do not need a stipulation? No, sir. Because the ordinance already controls.

Yes, sir.

Miss Morgan has a question yes so I thought I heard to like additional requirements that you were suggesting like you recommended yes and that was the 50 to 60 foot minimum with as opposed to 30. as opposed to because the 30 is what's written in seven and eight. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And then the other one that you mentioned was a 35 foot radius. Yes, ma'am. Is that also a recommendation that you're making that we would call it as a stipulation?

Because in the order, I think the radius may be maybe not 19 feet.

Okay.

But we that's where the design factor keeps. Right. Yeah.

In your professional opinion, it would be. It need to be better.

okay yes ma'am no more than 35. no no no see that's what you don't want that's why i want to make sure minimum that's the minimum i guess 35 minutes it may be 50 feet but your minimum is 35. i just want to make sure i'm understanding the mayor may i ask you sure mr barnwell and i i went out there over the weekend because it's not that far from my house and i'm only asking because

He's getting on to me all night long. So I went over there over the weekend, and it's not far from my house. And I'm only asking because I can't even remember what I saw, to be honest with you. I know Garza is not part of this. They're in the county. But they are also on Longleaf Lane between what Mr. Keene is trying to do. There's what Mr. Keene is trying to do, Longleaf Lane, and then Garza. Is that correct? Mm-hmm. is guard does Garza actually access and bring their mobile homes in using Longleaf Lane at all?

It's not connected. I don't believe so.

Well, we're not taking questions from the audience right now. See your hand raise I don't you think I'm ignoring you. But we're doing a discussion mode during the discussion mode. We don't take any questions. There's no room for questions. They don't have

Garza is not on Longleaf. The empty parcel is.

OK. So Longleaf is not accessible by Garza, Garza's mobile home lot at all. OK. Because when I rode by, I think traffic was bad. So I just went on. I could not remember what I saw.

OK. Thank you. I appreciate that.

It's nice to have knowledgeable people. that's why I brought him up here all right thank you guys for your presentation are you through Mr. Barnes I think so

I you have heard that one is is there a motion to adopt.

Before we do that I I do want to I'm not sure how we would do this, but I know that the the members of the neighborhood were not happy with the initial proposal and I wonder if you can ask Mister Barnwell or if if there's some way that we can see how they feel about the amended proposal or the potentially amended proposal.

Some is more when we know how they feel. When we have the hearing, everybody got a chance to speak up and have their rebuttal. Somebody else had a rebuttal. So we know they're very passionate about what's happening up there. Well, tonight we're at the point of it has passed through planning the zoning once. They brought it back to us since it passed. Now what we have to do is decide, we meeting council, either you're going to vote for it or you're not going to vote for it. Does that help you a little bit? If not, maybe Mr. Jordan can explain a little bit better.

Well, no, that's... accurate, the public hearing, and everybody was advised that the public hearing had been concluded. If, you know, quite frankly, if we're going to start a round of further discussion, as in terms of a public hearing, then of course we've got the property owner here, we've got residents that have already spoken relative to how they feel. You know, everything that's going on to this point is still going to be dependent on whether the property owner meets with the stipulations and does what the property owner is going to be required to do in order to have this rezoned as a heavy commercial. Well, it's not in the county right now. So, of course, it's always up to the chair as to what the chair chooses to do.

Well, Mayor, if you don't mind, I think the reiteration of that question would be with Mr. Barnwell. I don't know if he's able to answer that. The recommendations that we received today, does the concerned citizens know about the updated recommendation that we heard today? And have you spoken to them about that? If not, I think that'll answer the question really quickly.

Come up to the podium, Mr. Barnes.

The answer to your question, I haven't spoken to the citizens about my recommendations because we did an on-site assessment. It's me and Mr. Thomas and Mr. Lowe, so I haven't spoken to them, no.

Madam Mayor, may I say something? Sure. Because the meetings are advertised as a public hearing. When it goes to planning and zoning, there are signs posted throughout the neighborhood for the people that live in the neighborhood to come to planning and zoning. Then they turn around from planning and zoning and they state that it's coming to the city and it's posted for it, that they can do that. And you know we've had this audience full of citizens that were for or against an issue. And I don't see that. I mean, I've heard two citizens say that the people are upset about it, but we don't see, you don't see the passion. Because we've had people, I mean, we've had people standing against a wall when they were against something that we had to vote for. I don't see that in this instance. So when we don't see that, we have a tendency to go ahead and do what we need to do and move on. So I understand what you're saying, Morgan, but I don't see that.

Well, my understanding when they came to us was that they had a signed petition of, it sounded like almost everyone in the neighborhood. Excuse me.

It was like 150-something people. Right.

So I don't want, and I understand that we closed the public hearing, but since the public hearing, it sounds that we have more information that could potentially make the people of the neighborhood happy. I just, before I vote on it, just to be transparent, before I vote on it, I want to make sure that I know that there's been some sort of resolution that the members of the neighborhood are happy with.

and I understand we can't make everyone happy but I mean and we can't well it's strictly up to the chair to conduct the meeting and recognize it's very unusual to recognize somebody from from the audience during the meeting where it is not a public hearing. And again, that is up to the presiding officer to make those decisions.

and I do understand I hear you Morgan however we have had a very passionate debate on this I think everybody had an opportunity to explain themselves I'm gonna go ahead and move it forward we've had Ms. Barnwell come twice to give us their renders of what's going on here so I'm gonna move it forward with a vote tonight you either gonna vote for it or you're gonna vote against it and it's your vote here we will it is your vote okay but given the facts and findings that we do have I'm gonna go ahead and ask for a motion if you're done yes ma'am I'm gonna go ahead and say that y'all have heard the ordinance is there a motion to adopt

Madam Mayor, I make a motion that we adopt the ordinance, knowing that with the minimum 50-foot stipulation as well as the minimum 35-foot radius. Second.

All right. It's been properly moved and a second. Any questions from council?

hearing none I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll Dr. Wills I'm going to abstain because I I know that one of the owners and I'm I don't feel comfortable voting either way Ms. Pendergast no Ms. Simmons no Ms. Schoenholzer aye Dr. Lee aye Ms. Mapp aye

is it 3, 3, with an abstention.

Yes, it would be the mayor's decision to break the tie.

well given the information that I've received I've heard you I was passionate about it I understand trust me about roadways I lived dead in the center one that there's no extension either way but at the same time it appears as if it's it's not going to really harm you all that much I've driven the school bus back there eight years so I understand what you all mean when you talk about the school bus traffic and coming back through and the trailer tractor I've observed them pull in and out I'm gonna go ahead and go with the findings tonight that we move ahead with the owner's request and we're done with that sir with once I make my ruler we're done But we're done.

Sir, it is not invalid, sir.

Our attorney has told you, sir, our attorney has told you, you cannot call our meeting invalid. You don't have the authority to do that. understand your passion I watched you walk back and forth but I have rendered my suggestion I'm gonna do what I feel is best for the community we're growing in the city of Millersville and it's moving out that way whether we like it or not it's a lot more it's gonna come out there Well maybe you on it with the business maybe maybe you can maybe you can get with the business on the Sir and then you can talk okay, but other than that is done for tonight is over you in the business of on the can talk afterwards, thank you for coming. I was the court to re ordinance. There's 20 605 dash 15.

Ordinance old as 20 605 dash 15 an ordinance to adopt. The fiscal year 2027 annual operating budget beginning on July 1st 2026 and ending on June 30th 2027 to adopt the 5 year capital improvements program to make the budget available for inspection to outline the outline the adoption schedule and for other purposes.

You all have heard the motion. Is there a motion to adopt? The ordinance is a motion to adopt.

I'd like to make a motion to table the ordinance to give us time to further discuss.

That would require a second, of course, and then a vote on the motion to table.

I second that motion.

Yeah, there probably needs to be a specified time for the tabling. It's really a postponement, but we commonly refer to it as tabling because under state law, we're required to have a balanced budget going into July 1 of 2026. I assume that you're asking to table it until a called meeting on June 30th?

Yes, sir.

Can we do that at a retreat or it has to be here in the public?

Ma'am?

Can we actually talk about this budget at the retreat or it has to be done here openly in the public?

The budget itself is, yes, it would have to be discussed in public.

So we all know that means coming back off GMA. That means we got to meet that Tuesday as soon as we get back. We have a motion and a second.

No, we didn't have a second.

So this is a motion to table until June 30th or before June 30th. Obviously a yes vote is to table it. A no vote is to not table it and go ahead and consider the ordinance as its state.

Well, I got a motion to table it. Ms. Simmons seconded it, I thought. Did you not, Ms. Simmons? Yes, I did. So, therefore, the motion would carry.

No, it's a motion. We have to have a vote on the motion to table.

Okay, this I'm saying but we have an out carried through that process, but it's a motion on the table right that's correct. I'm sorry I didn't understand. So this I need a vote from Council on the ordinance to on the motion to table the table to table the budget discussion. Yes.

Ms. Pendergast aye Ms. Simmonds yes Ms. Sheeholzer no Dr. Lee no Ms. Mapp no it's a tie vote decision is made

how to put this we have been in a budget cycle ever since you've been given adequate information to make a sound decision on the budget I think I hear where you are coming from but you are need to hear where miss Sandra and miss to re have made their decisions as force the numbers we had the city has a practice we do not just overload ourselves and jump into stuff and spend money that's not in our hands we make sure the funding is there before we can do things or we match your funding and it has been a good practice for the city of Millers view that we do that So based on that fact tonight, I, as the mayor, believe they have presented a fair scheduled budget for everyone. That's my thing is everyone is going to get something. As we do our retreat, if you all want to talk later about some things we can do later, then that's a common goal. But as tonight, I'm going to ask that we go ahead and present the budget as adopted.

So that's a no vote.

That's a no vote.

Okay.

madam may I make a motion that we approve the ordinance second the motion has been properly seconded and it's adopted clerk please call the roll Dr. Wills no

Ms. Pendergast no Ms. Sammons no Ms. Shanholster aye Dr. Lee aye Ms. Mapp aye the budget is adopted it's the time you need to vote

all right there again we have met on this budget almost once a week since April but I'm I'm from out is in discussions and sad bars and asking questions there again I feel they have present a very fair outstanding budget that we need to adopt some I'm both issues to adopt the budget in this time. motion to vote yes budgets approved based on my vote of yes the budget is approved I will ask the clerk to read ordinance O-2605-17 by caption

Ordinance O dash 26 oh 5 to 17 an ordinance to a man chapter 62 of the code of ordinances city of Milledgeville Georgia to add a new section 62 dash 20 to be a step to establish a curfew for minors under under the age of 16 and for other purposes.

This ordinance was also table during our last Council meeting for further review. Is there a motion to adopt?

Madam Mayor, I make a motion that we table this ordinance indefinitely until such time as the city manager decides to put it back on their agenda. I'll second the motion.

And are there any questions?

What we'd like to do is establish some town hall meetings and establish a committee out of those meetings that will work with us along with law enforcement on the ordinance and make sure that we come up with a solution that will be, we're not gonna be able to please everybody, but it will be a workable solution. So I would like to start those meetings for this on Monday July 6 at 5 30 p.m. our first town hall meeting will be held here at City Hall on Monday July 6 at 5 30 p.m. Mr. Jordan could all of us over 10 will that constitute a quorum that we need to put that in the paper yes the meeting if it's going to be attended by members of this body then it needs to be advertised as a

it can be advertised in many different ways, as far as what you want to call it, but it's in some meeting of the mayor and there will need to be a vote on this shin holsters motion to table.

At this time I ask for a motion to vote on mission hostess got the wills yes miss Pendergast yes, it's him yes mission host and I'm not only I is now I it's been motion to second.

Are there any questions or comments.

we're going to here at City Hall here at City Hall Monday July 6.

I wish you to attend you're welcome to do so this meeting will you have not only just police chief major us we have committee from the community and I'm contacting the police chief major Boyer and others who have input

as to how they'd like to see this ordinance move forward.

OK.

all right it has been explained it's been tabled motion to second we do not have any new business to consider this evening the final item on the agenda is to make an appointment tonight I'm nominating Bruce but senior to be appointed to the planning and zoning board is there a motion to confirm this nomination motion Is there any discussion? Hearing none, I ask the clerk to please call the roll.

Dr. Wills? Yes. Ms. Pendergast? Aye. Ms. Ennis? Aye. Ms. Shanholzer? Aye. Dr. Lee? Aye.

Ms. Mapp? Aye. Mr. Jordan, is there a need to go in closed session tonight?

No, ma'am.

All right. And this concludes the item on the agenda. Does anyone on council have any questions or comments?

Yes. I do just want to say to Ms. Sandra and Ms. Jury, I mean no disrespect in wanting to table the budget. It has nothing to do with y'all. It's more about my satisfaction with my level of understanding. So I just wanted to be clear about that. I appreciate all the work that y'all do. Thank you. I appreciate it.

And let me reiterate, the more you all go off to training, the more you take human resources, finance, you're going to understand it more and more. I suggest to all new members, please form your own opinion about what you go learn. we can always reference one another but it's always good that you form your own opinion based on what you want and one thing for sure we have a tight ship here at the city of Middlesville I heard their plan I've seen their plan I think all of us have seen their plan we've questioned minus plus what's going on here what's going on there and so I feel comfortable with what we have done tonight so is there a motion to adjourn so moved second please call the roll.

Dr. Wills. Yes. Ms. Pendergast. Aye. Ms. Simmons.

Aye.

Ms. Shanhoster. Aye. Dr. Lee. Aye. Ms. Mapp.

Aye. Meeting adjourned.