Mayor and Council - Regular Meeting

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Oh, nice. All right, we're going to call this meeting to order. Uh, thank you all for being here tonight. Um, before we get started, I want to introduce our honorary mayor of the day, Jackson Carile. And I'll talk a little bit more about him later, but he's going to help run the council meeting tonight. So, he said we'll be in and out of here in about 10 minutes. Does that sound all right to everybody? Um, we do have with us tonight Reverend Katherine Davis with Smyrna First United Methodist Church, one of my preachers. Uh, come on up and lead us in the invocation and pledge. Everybody, please rise. Thank you, mayor and mayor of the day. If you join me in going to God in prayer. Gracious God, as we approach the final days of this year, we thank you for the gift of this community and the privilege to serve it. Bless our mayor and council members, granting them wisdom to navigate complex issues with integrity and fairness. We thank you for your continued care and protection of our first responders and for the care you continually bestow upon the family members of our diligent council. May all their families know good health and sacred season in this season of refle reflection and hope remind us of our shared humanity and the needs of our neighbors. Guide our discussions towards decisions that promote justice, safety, and the care of everyone in this

community we hold so dearly, especially the vulnerable. Help us to see beyond our differences, to listen with open hearts and open minds, acting with courage and conviction, reflecting the light and hope of the world in all of our efforts. May our gathering tonight be a testament to your guidance and a blessing to our city. 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. Thank you for being here. Always appreciate you. Um, we're going to move on now. We don't have any agenda changes. Uh the mayoral report, we have a couple of items. I just want to say thank you to everybody for coming out for the um coming home for the holidays. I don't know uh I don't know if we've ever had that many people and it was so cold uh to to welcome Santa to our town and uh all of the all of the um school groups singing on the city hall steps and the market. It just felt like a a nice small town moment and a really special thing for our city. So, I appreciate that a lot. And I want to say a special thank you this time of year. Y'all have heard me talk about support Smyrna before. That's the hyper local nonprofit that helps the most vulnerable in our community. Every year we do or this is the second year we've done this gift a family program in coordination with some local uh hunt home team uh local group and last year we were able to help 197 children have Christmas. These are from all of our local schools that wouldn't have had a Christmas otherwise. Uh and this year we're up

over 360ome and most of those uh were adopted by local families. And what what that means is that those families um took it upon themselves to order the gifts, wrap the gifts and get those. Just super excited about it and I want to say thank you to this community for stepping up in a huge way like we always do to help out those um those less fortunate than us. I don't have anything else on the mayoral report except important I have to do and that is introduce formerly our mayor of the day Jackson Carile and he's here we we've got um Scott and Kirsten Carile are here in the audience his parents they're no strangers to Smyrna they once lived on Bank Street before a momentary lapse of judgment and moved down South Georgia but they are back uh they've got Smyrna Prep uh here in here in the market village uh Jackson is 10 years old. He's in the fifth grade. Um, and I learned at lunch today, we had lunch at Zuka and then he was uh he had a police escort, special escort over the police station and where he got to spend the afternoon with our first responders at the police and fire departments. Um, he's a baseball player, he's a football player, and most importantly, he's a straight A student. Uh, and we just couldn't be happier to have Jackson here to help us run the meeting tonight. Um, thank you, Jackson, for being here. I have a certificate that I want to read and and give to you and then we'll go down and get some pictures. City of Smyrna, be it be it known that Jackson Carile has been bestowed with the esteemed title of honorary mayor of the day in recognition of his exceptional spirit, enthusiasm, and curiosity. Jackson Carile is hereby granted the full authority and admiration that accompanies the prestigious role of honorary mayor of Smyrna for this special day. given this

15th day of December 2025. And I also have something that I don't give out very often, only in special occasions or those that uh have great accomplishments is a mayor's coin. And on the on the back it says Mayor Derek Norton, city of Smyrna. It's got a picture of city hall and then on the front it's got our city seal, Smyrna Strong, Smyrna, Georgia. And I want to give you one of these and your certificate. Then I want to go down and get a picture with you. Okay, let's go down. Let's go down in front and get a picture of you. [applause] Jackson does have some speaking parts in this meeting, just not yet. All right, we got uh proclamations and presentations. Um, one item is recognition from the Smyrna Veterans Committee and uh our mayor prom Tim Gould is handling this item. Mr. Gould. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think as uh many of us know, the veterans committee does just really an outstanding job of recognizing and supporting veterans in Smyrna and across across C County. and year after year they put together a wonderful uh Memorial Day celebration a veterans day celebration and really

appreciate want us to come on up and and uh to be to be recognized and I think you may introduce maybe if you don't mind if you introduce yourself uh mayor councel my name is Mahar I'm the post commander I'm Ramona McCary and I'm the chaplain for the auxiliary for post 160 American Legion fifth district, Smyrna, Georgia. I'm George Boyd, retired lawyer and service person. This gentleman, I think maybe you know this is Bert Turnell. I'm actually not a veteran, but I've had the honor to serve on the veterans committee with these folks for I don't know how many years. And and they're such an such a great group of people that I'm really honored. And thank you, Bert. And the reason we're here actually because we would like to recognize the service of Bert, our senior simra veteran committee. So Mona, [cheering and applause] so I'm going to read the citation. [applause] Thank you so much. Um, in grateful recognition of your continuous service and support above and beyond the call of duty, we hereby present to Bert Turnball in appreciation to your effort on the behalf of Smyrna Veterans Committee and the American Legion Post 160, Smyrna, Georgia. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank [applause] you. I thought we were here maybe. You want to say a few words? I I I've said enough actually. I'm I'm I'm actually flabbergot. I had no idea. I really was just to come and support these folks. They mean a lot to the community. Um, we've done a lot of good things and the veterans are are just a really solid group and and and all of these there's so many more of them that aren't here. This is shouldn't be anything about me. This should be all about these folks here. But thank you. Well, we we thank you again and we

continue to rely on you to help us out. I'd like to say I can project pretty well. I'd like to say that they always say about the Marines, if you want something done, call a Marine. That's right. want something. [applause] Let's take a couple of pictures with you don't mind. Absolutely. There you are. Congratulations, Bert. Congratulations and thanks for putting a thousand% into everything you do for this city every single day. Thanks again, mayor and council, for your Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. I think we got him. I think he really was surprised. 100%. All right. Now, we're going to go on to the rest of our agenda. We have number seven is community development items. We have one item here that needs to be withdrawn at the uh request of the applicant. This is item A, zoning request Z25-014. I'll need a motion approve the withdrawal. Motion by Councilman Lley, second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. And I should note that Councilwoman Hines is joining us virtually this evening. How do you vote, Miss Hines? In the affirmative. And Mr. Welch is obviously not here. He had

And that's approved 6. All right. Item B, this is a public hearing Z25-016. Allow reszoning from LC to R15 conditional for the development of one single family home.57 acres landlock 592 uh 1521 Roswell Street in Ward 3. I'm sure Travis is going to want Joey to present everything. Yes, sir. I'm Joey Stabs, planner 2 in the community development department. This is uh zoning case C25-016. The applicant is Eric Nice. The planning and zoning commission heard this on November 10th and they recommended approval 6. Subject property is 1521 Roswell Street, a little over half an acre in W three. There was previously a house on this lot that was demolished. It's got a limited commercial zoning currently. So, it needs to be reszoned residentially to rebuild a house on the property. So, that's what they're requesting reszoning from LC to R15. As you can see on the zoning map, several of those properties on Roswell Street have commercial zoning. They'll all have to come through whenever they get redeveloped. The future land use is moderate density residential. That will not change. This is the proposed site plan. Um it'll have the R15 setbacks except they're requesting a reduction on the east side. Um so the front setback's 35, the east side setback is 8 feet. The west side setback is 10 feet and the rear is 30 feet.

It's a side entry single family home, approximately 4,000 square feet and uh 32 feet in height. There's a detached garage that is two stories in the back of the property. [snorts] They are required to have storm water detention on the property which they're um located in the rear yard. There are five variances requested. Um, four of them are for for the detached garage. Uh, one is to allow the side setback reduction from 10 feet to 8 feet on the east side. A driveway setback reduction from 5T to 2 feet. Uh, to allow a detached accessory structure greater than 25% of the primary structure, it's approximately 33%. um allow an increase in the accessory structure height from 15 feet to 18 feet and to allow an increase in impervious coverage from 35% to 39% and that is why they are required to have storm water detention. These are uh proposed elevations for the main home and for the detached garage in the back. some pictures of the property as it is today and some adjacent properties. Staff is recommending approval of the reszoning from limited commercial to R15 at 1521 Roswell Street for one single family home. It'll have the standard conditions regarding the architectural composition. They'll have to meet the tree ordinance requirements. Um standard conditions regarding the setbacks I mentioned a minimum 22 uh length driveway. They will have to replace any curb, gutter or sidewalk that's repaired

during that's damaged during construction and they'll be responsible for any water and sewer uh improvements. 13 and 14 tie this um to the site plan and elevations submitted with the application. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Covered it all. Uh I'd like to uh invite the applicant up like to add if you'll state your name and address for the record and be sworn in by Mr. Cochran. Yep. Yes. Hi everyone. Uh Eric Nie. I currently live in Whitfield Park in Williams Park. This property is about a 35 second walk from where I currently live for the last 11 years. Um thank you all for your time tonight, mayor, mayor of the day, and the council members and city staff. Um we really love Smyrna. Everything has to offer. We'd like to stay here another 25 plus years. Hence why we would love to build our house here. Um, I have two young boys, five and two. I'm definitely going to have to tell them about mayor of the day. My son's going to be thrilled to hear that's a possibility in his future. Um, said five and two. He's five and two. Yeah, it gets easier. Thank you. We're trying. Um, so we'd love to be here for a long time. The the variances necessary here are pretty minor and reflect a lot of what you'll see in Williams Park already. So, we are planning to make a lot of uh similarities that are there. So, any questions? Happy to answer them. Questions. to the applicant. Thank you. Thank you. This is a public hearing. If there's anybody who wants to speak for or against this item, please come up now and be sworn in by our city attorney. Right. Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. And I'll turn it over to Councilman Lindley.

Mr. Mayor, and uh thank you to Mr. Nice. As he mentioned, uh he's he's been a longtime resident, but also a leader in Williams Park and in his uh current neighborhood. Uh, so I'm pleased that he's staying in Smyrna first and foremost and building a beautiful home. With that motion, do pass and a second. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines affirmative. That's approved. 6. Easiest meeting you ever went to. All right, we'll move on now to item C. Uh this is approval of ordinance 2025-012 uh dealing with our alcoholic beverage ordinance to add specific definitions relating to distilleries. Um Mr. Jones the background please. Steelfire Brewing has expressed a desire to manufacture distilled spirits in the in the facility that's under construction. And the city's alcohol beverage ordinance is silent on distilleries. The city updated the zoning ordinance in 2018 to address zoning requirements for brewers and distill added as an available license to the city's alcoholic beverage ordinance. Distilleries fall under a separate classification under state of Georgia code and are permitted to operate separate from breweries and wineries. The community development department has reviewed the application and proposing a code amendment to the alcoholic beverage ordinance to address the licensing requirements and staff recommends approval. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Is there any

council discussion on this? Questions? Right. I'll entertain a motion to approve item C. by Mr. Oglesby. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Gould. That's approved unanimously. 6. Thank you. We have a few uh privilege license and show cause hearing items. Uh item A, B, and C. The first item A is uh privilege license chain of change of ownership existing alcohol license. Uh this is at 5350 United Drive, Sweet 106 uh in Ward 7. This is a renewal department. Did the background failed to reveal interviewing information? Yeah, I usually get heard pretty well on that. But police department failed their their conduction of the background investigation failed to reveal any information that preclude the issuance. Like to invite the applicant up. State your name and address for the record. And uh Jay Patel, um 5350 United Drive, Syracuse's New York Pizza. I'm hoping have been there [laughter] kind of bit nervous then ward seven Mr. Oglesby. Yeah. Uh, Syracus is one of my most favorite places, [laughter] not to mention the pasta, too. So, the new restaurant owner giving you

compliments, too. Right. Right. Uh, you're going to keep the same offerings, I hope. Right. No, nothing's changing. I'm just uh, you know, keeping the recipe the same. And that's change of ownership more than anything. Awesome. Great. I guess you went through all the proper protocols to get to this point. Yeah. Awesome. Great. Thank you. Well, you're welcome. Well, next time you see me, come say hi. Anyone? I'm there. I'm there quite a bit. So, any questions? Thank you. That want is this public hearing? Is there anybody that wants to speak for against this item? Please come up now. Seeing none, we'll close that. I'll turn it over to Mr. Oglesby. So move. I move approval by Mr. Oglesby. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, I vote in the affirmative. Okay, that's approved unanimously. We look forward to seeing you seeing you soon. Item B, this is another privilege license request. Beer and wine pouring 4924 South Cobb Drive. JNF Restaurant LLC doing business as Taste of China in Ward 7. I'd like to invite the applicant up. Good evening. Good evening, Oglesby. Hey, welcome to the neighborhood. Thank you. So, what are your offerings? Uh, we sell the Chinese food and um most customer ask us for sale like the beers are call. So, we decide to apply for

awesome. This will be dining in. Yes. Great. You've gone through all the proper uh classes and training. Yes, we will train our staff for check the ID and follow the rules. Great. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Uh this is a public hearing. Anybody for or against this, please come up and be sworn in by our city attorney. Right. Seeing none, I'll turn it over to Council Member Obsby. I recommend approval as written. Motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Gold. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, I vote in the affirmative. Approve 6. Thank you. The last item under privilege license request. This is for StillFire Brewing. uh doing business at Still Fiber Broom with Aaron Bis as the agent. Um is Aaron here? He is. I didn't even see you sitting back there. Hey, come on up. First question is when's that thing going to open? It's looking pretty good. Uh we're looking at uh end of February. What's getting close? This is in ward three. Good evening, sir. February. Um, you've taken all the requisite courses and understand the the burden of the license. Yes, sir. Further questions relating to this license? No. All right. This is a uh this is a public hearing. Anybody wants to speak for against this, please come up and be sworn in. Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. I'll turn it over to Mr.

Lindley. Pass as presented. Motion do pass. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines. I vote in the affirmative. Okay. That's approved. 6. Man, we're looking forward to that open. That's been fun to see being built for sure. Y'all put that thing up fast. Took a while. Well, once you got going though, it's been great. All right, we're going to move on to formal business. We have tonight several uh appointments to various boards and committees and some other formal business. So, we'll get started. Item A is the Do we really want to do this, y'all? Appointment of Mike Jones, city administrator, serve as the license and variance board chairperson, Richard Garland as vice chair, and Andrea Worthy as a regular member effective January 1st, 2026. This is uh we're just moving things around on that board and pretty straightforward. May I have a motion to approve item A. So moved by Mr. Lindley, second second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, I vote in the affirmative. Right. And that's approved. 6. Uh item B is the approval of the appointment of W three resident Karen Douglas to the KSB board for a two-year term um to expire 2027. Mr. Lindley, Miss Douglas is a longtime resident and has graciously accepted pass. Motion do pass. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote.

signs. You going to vote? He was just thinking about his he had to really consider that vote heavily. Uh and that's approved 6. Item C is approval of Ward one resident Ian Tumi to the Smyrna Planning and Zoning Commission for a two-year. Mr. Pickkins. Thanks, Mayor. I'm really excited that uh Ian agreed to serve and uh looking forward to see him on the board and grateful for Charlie serving the last five years. So, make a motion to approve. Have a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Lindley. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines. I affirmative. That's approved. 6. All of our reappoints we put on the consent agenda, but these are all new volunteers that have stepped up to serve in different capacities. And when they do that for the first time, we we um uh item D, approval of the appointment of W six resident Jeff Carter to the Smyrna Planning and Zoning Commission for a two-year term to expire December 31st, 2027. Mr. Gould. Mr. Mayor, very pleased Mr. Carter accepted the invitation to serve on the planning and zoning commission and uh well known around town and entrepreneur and really appreciate look forward to his input that Mr. Mayor like to approve uh item 90 as have a motion. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Lindley. Everyone vote. Miss Hines affirmative. That's approved six. Thanks for always being involved in the community and all the different things you do and for the corn maze and all that stuff. We we we

we love your energy and thanks for your service. Item E, approval of W seven resident AJ Davis to the Smyrna Parks and Recck Commission. Mr. Oglesby, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm extremely excited to that uh coach AJ Davis has has accepted the invitation. He's been active in our the community with the youth sports, coaching the track team as a head coach for over a decade, putting a lot of kids in D1 colleges all over the country and future Olympians. So, I uh would like to recommend Coach AJ as written motion to approve Coach AJ. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Gold. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, I affirmative G is considering his vote carefully. All right, we're approved 6. Mr. Ghoul's birthday today, so he's I don't know what's going on, but he's a little bit slower than normal. That's okay. Uh, is Coach Davis excited about the what we're doing at Campbell Middle School or what what could be done at Campbell Middle School? Extremely excited. Good. I'm excited, too. All right, we're through those appointments. We're going to move on now to item F. This is authorization for commercial signs um to complete our digital sign upgrades for an amount not to exceed $22,000. We're going to have some really new awesome uh signs around town that are going to the next evolution of what we have now, those digital sign. This is going to be so much better with LED screens. Um, Mr. Jones, any background, please? Yes, sir. In August of 25, the council approved an award of RFP 2524 to commercial signs. This was for the citywide signage up dates, um, which included the city's new logos and

colors, but there was no approved budget for the digital items. So, on October 6 of this year, the council amended the general fund budget using general fund balance provide the funding. This was bid out. Commercial signs has won this and as you mentioned this will replace all of the existing digital sign boards and then add one that was uh previously taken offline. Um I've looked at the new ones. Uh they are fantastic. They will be able to allow us to provide much much better communication. Uh if you're driving through through the the corridors the major corridors of the city of Smyrna. Staff recommends approval and my understanding is that we'll have these in place in the next eight weeks. That's outstanding. Any discussion? May I have a motion? Motion do pass by Mr. Lenny. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Gold. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines. That's approved. 6. Item G, this is approving a master services agreement um continuation with Axon Enterprise for the police department. A total amount of $2,749,9740 through fiscal year 2030 to be paid from the general fund uh police administration departmental budget for 2026. Miss Jones, the background, please. Yes, sir. Mayor Carlile. So this will be a master services agreement with Axion. This will consolidate multiple existing agreements that we currently have with this company. It'll consolidate all the existing contracts under a single umbrella agreement. 2.75 through 2030 is for the master

service agreement. 452,000 will come in this fiscal year 2026 be paid for for the general fund police administrative department budget. Um, and we ask for the mayor to be authorized to sign and execute all related items. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any discussion? Move approval by Mr. Lily. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Oglesby. Everyone vote, please. Miss Hines. the that's approved 6. Uh item H. Uh this is the authorization to approve 12 retractable ballards from K12 defense soul source based manufacturer in amount not to exceed $244,95748 to be funded from the 2022 SPLS. This is to replace those bright orange and white barricades that we have to keep moving back and forth when we close King Street uh and and other have other events down here. It's going to be a really good uh welcome improvement to the downtown. Is there anything you want to add, Mr. Jones? Mayor, so this will go as you mentioned in the downtown area. These are areas that are routinely blocked off uh for various events. Um these are very similar to the ones that are used in the battery. Uh they're retractable and very very very effective. Uh the the oversight will be done by a qualified contractor. It's a K12 defense installer. Very reputable firm that's used to doing this and very excited to have these in place. And when they're there, they're going to keep our people safe during those events. So really excited about this. Uh is there any discussion?

Okay. May I have a motion? Motion to approve by Mr. Lley. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, a that's approved. 6 item I We're zipping through this, aren't we? It's not going to be 10 minutes, but we're doing pretty good. uh approval of fiscal year 2026 pay scale adjustments, cost of living pay adjustments, and staff merit increases effective uh on the January 8, 2026 payroll. This is uh this is us taking care of the people that take care of us and you. Um this is for our staff, Mr. Jones. Uh background, please, Mr. Mayor. So each year the cost of living and pay adjustments and merit increases for staff members, they're included in the the annual budget as a contingency line item for each fund. Uh this action will validate the actual dollar amount that will come from the general fund. Uh the federal estimate was 3.6% for COLA. We're adopting 3% and then there will be cola there will be additional merit increases of up to two and a half percent. Those will be based on ratings for each of the employees. Um, I've received calls from three department heads. They've let me know that their staff very much appreciates uh what the mayor and council has put forward after year and it does not go unnoticed. Certainly, we recommend approval of this act. Thank you very much for your concern. I would venture to say that our turnover here in Smyrna is unlike other other municipalities that turn through folks, people tend to stay here because we take care of them and we've got a great staff. Um, is there any discussion? Okay. May I have a motion? Do pass by Mr. Lindley. Do I have a second? Second.

Second by Miss Wilkinson and Mr. Ghoul at the same time and Mr. Oglesby. Um, Miss Hines, the affirmative that's approved 6. Thank you all. Item J, uh, this is a renewal of, um, Georgia firefighters cancer benefit program with GMA and Germa for 2026 for an annual premium of $7,145.50. 50 cents. This is something that we have to do every year to continue this program. Mr. Jones, anything to add? Sir, this was uh falls out of House Bill 146 was adopted back in 2018. So, all legally organized fire fire departments in the state of Georgia required to provide this coverage and it provides financial protection to the firefighters as well as their families in the event they contract cancer attributed to the job. The program provides a lump sum cancer benefit as well as long-term disability coverage for the fire. Certainly support this going forward. Any discussion? May I have a motion? Move approval by Mr. Pickkins. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Lindley. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines be quicker than that. Miss Wilson voted in the affirmative. Okay. And that's approved. 6. Item K, authorization to approve RFP 26-011 trenchless trenchless rehab storm and sanitary sewer pipelining as recommended by the evaluation team's assessment to three uh companies that submitted proposals. Utility Asset Management, Federal ECL, LLC, and Ken Construction and Rehabilitation Services. Mr. Jones,

any background, please? Uh, so this is a necessary utility maintenance item for both sanitary storm and sanitary sewer lane and storm drain rehabilitation. U, this also covers emergency responses as requested. We sent out RFP 26-01. We had eight responses and we are recommending retaining three of those eight. Thank you. Any discussion? None. Motion by Mr. Lley, second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines, I vote the affirmative. That's approved unanimously. Item L, this is Ricky Elglesby's almost million-dollar dock. Authorization to approve Board Safe Docks, a Soul Sourcebased contractor to perform the Riverview Park dock redesign and reconstruction at an amount not to exceed $994,257 to be funded from the 2022 Splast. This is the the dock down in Ward 7 that got wiped out when the when the flood happened and all the the river rose. And we're going to put it back much better than um much better than we had it. um that has handicap accessibility and some connection points that Mr. Jones will describe to us. Yeah. So, this was the dam the damage was done by Hurricane Helen back in September of 24. Uh significantly damaged the dock. Anyone who lives down in the Riverview area is very familiar with this. Um so we looked at a different a couple of different options and we went with a contractor that designs it, builds it, oversees the construction of it. Um, this is being

done in partnership with the Trust for Public Land. They're putting a trail through and we had the contractors redesign the dock that was there. So, this will allow disability access directly from the trail directly onto the dock and will also provide kayak launch. So, it's much much better than what was there before and it'll be fully integrated for what the Trust Public Land is already investing down in that park. Dr. Oglesby, anything to add? No, he covered it. I think the region as a whole are going to benefit and love it. U we're definitely going to be happy to see the big tree going off the dock and uh we're excited. Thank you. I yield back. May I have a motion? Move approval by Mr. Oglesby. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines be affirmative. Approve 6. Thank you. Item M, authorization to amend the fiscal 2026 adopted water and sewer fund budget to increase the water distribution departmental budget in the amount of $50,000 to provide additional funding for sewer outfall clearing. Mr. Jones, the background, please. Certainly. So, this is some additional maintenance that needs to be done to the to the sewer easements where the sewer lines run to allow maintenance and access to those lines. Uh, in 2026, the adopted budget included $65,000 for the sewer outfall clearing. We have exhausted those dollars and are asking for another $50,000. Um, and full disclosure, that probably will not get us where we need to be. These uh easements have gone ignored for many idea is that we'll get these things cleared and be doing this on an annual

basis. Uh so we ask for an additional $50,000 to complete to to continue this work. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Any discussion? Have a motion. Do pass by Mr. Lley. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. the affirmative approve 6. Um item N is approval of resolution 2026-001 for the implementation of adopted dates, times, and place for regular business meetings of this mayor and council. Mr. Jones, any background? This is regular maintenance for the city moving forward. We adopt at the end of each year. Any discussion? May I have a motion? Passed by Mr. Lindley. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Gold. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines. The affirmative. That's approved. 6. Item O. Uh this O, P and Q are um resolutions that we have to do every year on our 911 charges. So the first one is authorizing this is item O authorizing a 911 charge on postpaid Wline Wireless and voiceover internet protocol telephone servicesvicing within the city of Smyrna. Mr. Jones, any anything on these three items? Uh no sir. So the state public service commission asked that the council vote on these independently. One is mayor just just read out. The second one will be prepaid and the third one will be the official adoption and continuence of the

911 service. Any discussion council on this? Okay. Uh may I have a motion? Motion do pass item O. Uh, do I have a sec? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines. All right. I'll entertain a motion on item P. Pass as previously read by Mr. Gold. Um, do I have a second by Mr. Lley? I think you got in there. Um, everyone please vote. Miss Hines, that's approved. 6. And then I'll entertain a motion on item Q as read by Mr. Move approval by Mr. Pickkins. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Wilkinson. Everyone, please vote. Miss Hines affirmative. Almost there, Miss Hines. Almost. That's approved. 6. Now we're on to item R. Um, we had a presentation on Thursday and there's been an agreement in the works and this I'm excited about this because this is going to make uh city of Smyrna residents safer. Um, this is authorization to enter into an agreement with Flock Group, Flock Safety. um for subscription to to flock safety, the safe city program to include unmanned air support service addendum, the drones law enforcement product addendum and safe city program addendum. Um together

with the integration and implementation services for a cumulative total amount of $5,717,500 to be paid over a 10-year period with the right to terminate if the city so chooses. So, we're not hamstringing future councils. Um, and this is a tiered uh tiered contract where we we pay a little at the front and then it goes from there. Um, this is from the uh 2026 adopted general fund budget and we're increasing the police administration departmental budget in the amount of $123,500 which is the amount due at signing. This is also from general fund. Mr. Jones, background please. Mayor, you use the word excited and certainly we are. Uh we've we've had flock come in. They've given us multiple presentations. There's there's amazing examples of how this will be used. We currently using the service and they're expanding it by about 70 additional camera and license plate. We have 11 I believe today. So, um, to give you an idea of how that compares, the city of, uh, Dunwoody has about in place. Uh, so we're getting there. This will also, um, allow two remote launched aerial drones to provide oversight coverage uh, to incidents, whether that be fire, um, civil discourse, police events. Um, again, you you mentioned this is a 10-year contract and that the city does reserve the right to terminate if it chooses not to appropriate uh at any time during the course of this agreement. We strongly recommend approval and endorsement of both the fire department and the police department. And we're excited about getting started. And this is not only the license plate readers that that catch the bad guys that are either in our town or come through our town from somewhere else, whether it's a incident in Atlanta that we've all experienced

where they end up up here and they they the camera triggers a red flag and it goes to goes to PD. But it's also been explained to me that this is a force multiplier for our for our uh public safety personnel. For instance, if there's a wreck at Atlanta Road and Concord Road, uh they send a drone to see if that's a a fender bender or if it needs more attention rather than sending two police cars, a fire engine, a ambulance, and everything else. So, without having to use all of those resources, just being smarter with our with our resources uh and quicker to respond. They said those drones can get to those incidents in less than three minutes anywhere in the city. It's incredible. We'll have one located on the north part of the city and one on the south part of the city. And and the way these things are used, it just it it it continues to impress um how program could be rolled out. Uh we get Amber alerts on our phones, our cell phones all the time. This is an additional 71 eyes that do nothing but look for those things. And uh it doesn't matter what what the issue is, they're always watching. You put that data in there. Um I wish the public could see the presentations that we have all seen. It's impressive and it absolutely is a force multiple other cities around metro Atlanta that have this capability. Dunwy has I think 80 cameras, Brook Haven. Um it's it's just going to be a great thing for our city uh keeping us safer. Um is there any discussion or commentary from council? No, I just want to say I'm very happy about this. Oh, Miss Hines, say that again. I just want to say I'm very happy about this as a person who's been a prosecutor for something years. So with that make a motion to approve. Well, did you have something you wanted to say first,

Mr. Gar? She's kind of stole your thunder. No, I mean just in support of what Miss Hines said, right? You said Mr. just helps us use our public safety personnel smarter, more effectively protect our residents, and uh keep keep our uh keep our community safe. All right, we got a motion on the floor from Miss Hines uh to approve. Do we have a second? Second by Mr. Lindley. Everyone, please vote. I think he was about to make a motion and then Miss Hines got in there before he did. That's That's pass 6. So glad. All right, we're now on to the consent agenda. Jones, please read the consent agenda for council approval. You want to you want to take a breath before you get started here? This is the first time I've seen a a consent agenda that has double letters at the end. So, y'all kick back and relax a minute while Mr. Jones does his thing here. If this was a football, this is where we would do the halftime show. Uh, so there are 28 items on the longest consent agenda I've ever seen. Uh, the first three items of these are council meeting notes. uh the November 13th committee, the whole meeting, the November 17th pre-consel, and the November November 17th council uh um meeting. The the next ones, items D through R are reappointments to various boards. Um we have urban design commission appointments, downtown development authority appointments, uh keep Smyrna Beautiful board appointments, reappointments for parks and recreation commission. Uh there are a second appointment approval of a reappointment for parks and recck, a third parks and

rec reappoint, a fourth parks and recck reappoint and an appointment to Smyrna Planning and Zoning Commission, a second Smyrna Planning and Zoning Commission, and then we have an approval of reappointment to the Smyrna Housing Authority. And we have a approval of a reappointment of award five resident to smarks to smrna parks and rec commission for a two-year term. And we have a approval and reappointment of a war two resident to the keep smrna beautiful board also for a two-year appointment appro have a reappointment of award two resident for the smrna planning and zoning commission for a two-year appointment and approval and reappoint of award seven resident for keeper beautiful for a two for a two-year appointment and approval and reappointment of a ward five resident to Smyrna planning and zoning commission for a two-year appointment approval of amendment number five to the community development block grant. This is for fiscal year um 20 let's see PY23 sub recipient agreement CD23- C23S8 and extends a termination date for the agreement to June 30th of 2026. There's a approval of amendment four to an existing community development grant. This is a PY 24 subreient agreement CD24-C24S8. We have an approval of amendment number two to an existing community development block grant PY25. This is a subreient agreement number CD25-C25S8. We have an approval for a special event permit for Atkins Park through Redbird Events to hold the annual Oyster Fest in Smyrna Market Village. An approval of a special events permit for Atkins Park and Zuka through Redbird Events to hold the annual St. Patrick's Day festival. Approval of a special event permit for Atkins Park through Red Redbird Events to hold the 24th annual Crawfish Boil in

the Smyrna Market Village. We have approval of the Smyrna Little League opening day parade on Saturday, March 24th of 2026, starting at 8:30 a.m. with rolling road closures and police presence. Authorization for installation of new parking signage on Reed Street between Church Street and Love Street. And the approval to use council chambers for the 2026 quarterly joint ward meetings for wards 1, 3, and 6 on January 4th, April 5th, July 12th, and October 4th of 2026. And finally, authorize the final dismissment to Baldwin Pavement for Windy Hill Boulevard project, withholding $175,000 of that as liquidated damages back to the city and approval of settlement of actions between Baldwin and the city for dismissal and mutual lease of all claims and formally approve the authorized outstanding change orders that were made in the field during the project and then authorize the mayor to sign the documents finalizing this project. Thank you, Mayor Norton. Just one quick correction, please. On item Y, the date of the parade will be March 14th, uh, not the 24th. March 14th, not the 24th. Okay. Did I hear you say final Wendy Hill action? I did indeed. And am I glad about that? I know everybody else is, too. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? We have a motion to approve by Mr. Lley. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Pickkins. Everyone, please vote. Signs. Oh, she's gone. Okay. All right. And that's approved. 50. We uh now to the citizen participation um portion of our meeting. Is there anybody I don't have anybody signed up. Is there anybody who wishes to speak

tonight? Yes, sir. You'll state your name and address for the record, sir. My name is Stephen Jones and I live at 2823 Spring Drive, Smyrna. And just wanted to make a comment and say the year is coming to a close and I want to say that appreciate each and every one of you for serving our city. I know your job is not easy. Um, and I really do appreciate all your sacrifice. And I just want to say I'm grateful to be able to live in Smyrna 49 years now. That says it right there, doesn't it? My parents 64 years. So, we're just happy to be here. Happy to be in this county. It's a wonderful county. This is just a great location and just wanted to share that my thankfulness and gratefulness to have the opportunity to live here. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. We appreciate that. I don't know if anybody wants to follow that or not, but if there's anybody else that wants to speak, uh, all right, we'll uh Did you want to speak? Come on. Hey, uh Olivia Wise, I'm chair of keeping beautiful. I just want to thank you all for the approvals and reaffirmations of several of our board members and new appointments as well and grateful for all that you all do and looking forward to 2026. So, thank you. We appreciate y'all's work and and all of these appointments and reappoints. Um these are people who are giving their time and talents to this city to serve in various ways and we're appreciative of all of y'all. So, thank you very much.

as a former board member of Keeps. Really appreciate y'all a lot. We'll move on to uh ward and staff reports and start tonight with Mr. Glenn Pickkins. Thank you, Mayor. I just This is the last meeting of the year, so I'd just like to wish everyone a great Christmas and happy New Year's. And to kick off next year, Travis Tim and I will have a joint town hall in this room January 4th at 4:30. And there'll be a there'll be a dunk tank at that meeting. Mr. Lindley. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you uh for the day. Great job. This has been a long meeting, so great job. Um a reminder that uh the special election, I believe, is tomorrow, Heather. Uh so for everybody in Smyrna, if you've not vote voted, please get out and vote. Uh to echo uh Mr. Pickins. Uh, happy holidays to everybody. Look forward to a great uh, new year. Uh, as always, a huge thanks to our staff. Uh, it has been a great Christmas season. Uh, in the city looks great. So, huge thanks to all of them. And, um, Stephen, thank you for your comment. Said 69. It reminded me of Tim's birthday today. So, uh, happy birthday. You don't look 69, so happy birthday. I yield, Miss Wilkinson. Um, yes. I want to thank the staff for a wonderful u Christmas tree lighting uh last Tuesday and also um tonight we had a wonderful uh Hanukkah celebration that was still going on when we left to come here for our meeting. Um I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and a happy new year. Mr. Gold. Thank you. I said Mr. Gould

speak up catching a little mid mid mid meeting nap. Um let's see. Again, I want to recognize the veterans committee. They do a great job uh of supporting our veterans and and really appreciate them being here to honor wonderful staff member Bert and um for all the all the hard work that he does. So uh secondly, just want to echo the comments. Tomorrow is election day. Please get out and vote. It's a selection of our state senator. So every In these smaller elections, every vote matters. So, please come on up. Christmas and happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah. Mr. Oglesby. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Uh also uh would like to let everyone know that we'll be having a ward 7 town hall meeting January the 13th at the public safety uh facility here in Smyrna near the ward. So it'll be right there in our area. Uh we als shameless plug if I might. I've recently uh doing soft openings for my my new jazz restaurant and I want to invite the community out now. I think we're ready to receive some other people that we may not know personally. Uh so this Wednesday we'll have u some wine tastings and in the evening um Thursday we'll have dinner. Uh Friday will be lunch and dinner. And Sunday we'll have breakfast, a little brunch. Okay. So, come out and enjoy a beautiful facility on 821 Concord Road about 3 minutes from here in the Concord Corners shopping center. I yield back. Concord and South Cobb Drive. The Indigo Room. The Indigo Room is the name. You can find us on Instagram. Indigo Room. Smrna Jones.

Mayor, only thing I would add is um Kim pointed out that one of our staff members, Bert, was honored here tonight. And as a former veteran, this the Smyrna Veterans Committee couldn't have picked a better honore. And the the uh pastor that that that talked about Bert and said if you if you get in trouble, call a Marine. Uh but in Smyrna, if you get in trouble, call Bert. We have a lot of great employees and it's diff what any one of those do, but um Bert Turnell is is an amazing asset for the city of Smyrna. He serves tirelessly and it was fantastic to see him honored tonight. Asset to this city and the citizens of Smyrna. Mr. Cochran Heather, just a note on the precinct um information for voting tomorrow. It is the Senate District 35 special runoff election. You vote in your normal precinct that you vote on election day. And if you do not know where that is, if you will visit the my voter page um or go to Cobb County elections, there's a link there as well to be able to access that information. And polls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. I'll just I'll I'll echo what Miss Wilkinson said. We we came straight to our meeting tonight from the seventh annual Manora lighting over at over at Bronner and I think that crowd has gotten bigger and bigger every year. Uh so great event. Happy Hanukkah to everybody. Merry Christmas. Hope you have a happy holiday season and a great new year. I think this has been a really good year for the city of Smyrna and I look forward to what's ahead and I thank you for the privilege of representing you uh as one of the great honors of my life. With that, I will um say good night from the jonquil city.

Thank of the day, [applause] Jackson, who did a great job tonight.