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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes CC - 07/07/2014 - MINS 07 07 14 REG (Migrated from Optiview)Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page I of 15 This summary is provided as a convenience and service to the public, media, and staff. It is not the intent to transcribe proceedings verbatim. Any reproduction of this summary must include this notice. Public comments are noted and heard by Council, but not quoted. This document includes limited presentation by Council and invited speakers in summary form . This is an official record of the Milton City Council Meeting proceedings. Official Meetings are audio and video recorded. The Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton was held on July 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Mayor Joe Lockwood presiding. INVOCATION Remco Brommet, Chaplain for City of Milton Police and Fire CALL TO ORDER Mayor Joe Lockwood called the meeting to order. ROLLCALL Councilmembers Present: Council member Thurman, Councilmember Kunz, Councilmember Mohrig, Councilmember Lusk, Council member Longoria and Councilmember Hewitt. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (Led by the Mayor) APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA (Agenda Item No. 14-183) Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk moved to approve the Meeting Agenda with the following changes: • Add an Executive Session to discuss land acquisition. Councilmember Kunz seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7,2014 at 6:00 pm Page 2 of 15 PUBLIC COMMENT (None) CONSENT AGENDA 1. Approval of the June 9, 2014 City Council Work Session Minutes. (Agenda Item No. 14-184) (Sudie Gordon, City Clerk) 2. Approval of an Inter-Agency Agreement between the City of Milton, Georgia and the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, Inc. d/b/a Progress Partners North Fulton Atlanta to Implement Certain Economic Development Related Sections of the Strategic Plan. (Agenda Item No. 14-185) (Bill 0 'Connor, Economic Development Director) 3. Approval of an Agreement between the City of Milton and WebsEdge, Ltd. for the Production and Distribution oflCMA TV to Complement ICMA's Annual Conference. (Agenda Item No. 14-186) (Jason Wright, Communications Manager) Motion and Vote: Councilmember Hewitt moved to approve the Consent Agenda. Councilmember Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS (None) FIRST PRESENTATION 1. Consideration ofRZ14-10NC14-01 -13941, 13943, 13945 Highway 9 North (east side) by Phoenix Senior Living, LLC Containing 5.3 Acres Currently Zoned 0-1 (Office -Institutional) to 0-1 (Office-Institutional) to Develop a 74,000 Square Foot Assisted Living/Memory Care Facility (86 units) and a Concurrent Variance to Increase the Height of the Building from 2 Stories and 30 feet from Average Grade to the Eave to 3 Stories and 36 feet to the Eave. (Agenda Item No . 14-187) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) 2. Consideration of ZM14-06 -Southeast Comer of Birmingham Road Containing 22.30 Acres Currently Zoned MIX (Mixed Use) and AG-l (Agricultural). By Capkey Birmingham Partners, LLC to Modify Condition l.d. to Delete the Community Park and Community Septic System. To Modify Condition 2.a. to Revise the Site Plan. (RZ14-0116). (Agenda Item No . 14-188) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7,2014 at 6:00 pm Page 3 of 15 3. Consideration ofRZ14-05 -To Amend Article VI, Division 23 -CUP (Community Unit Plan) District. (Agenda Item No. 14-189) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) 4. Consideration of RZ14-06 -To Amend Article VI, Division 24 -NUP (Neighborhood Unit Plan) District. (Agenda Item No. 14-190) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) 5 . Consideration ofRZ14-07 -To Amend Article VI, Division 13 -TR (Townhouse Residential) District. (Agenda Item No. 14-191) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) 6. Consideration of RZ14-08 -To Amend Article VI, Division 4 -R-2 (Single Family Residential) District. (Agenda Item No . 14-192) (Kathleen Field, Community Development Director) 7. Consideration ofRZ14-09 -To Amend Article VI, Division 5 -R-2A (Single Family Residential) District. (Agenda Item No . 14-193) (Kathleen Field, Community Development DireclOr) 8. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton, Georgia to Establish the Ad Valorem Tax Rate of the City of Milton for Fiscal Year 2014, and for Other Purposes. (Agenda Item No. 14-194) (Stacey inglis, Assistant City Manager) Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk moved to approve the First Presentation Items. Councilmember Thurman seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). PUBLIC HEARING 1. Consideration of a Resolution of the City of Milton, Georgia Enacting a Moratorium for 180 Days to Bar the Acceptance of Any Rezoning Applications for Property Located in the 2014 Highway 9 North Vision Area. (Agenda Item No. 14-195) (Ken Jarrard, City Allorney) Ken Jarrard, City Attorney This is a proposed resolution that will enact a moratorium with respect to those properties that comprise part of the State Route 9 North Vision Plan. On June 2, 2014, the City Council approved the State Route 9 North Vision Plan and then because of your concerns that the current zoning code as configured is not going to be equipped to help you and to help staff to bring that plan to fruition, on June 9, 2014, we adopted an emergency moratorium with respect to those properties that comprise the property area of the plan. However, we also must, under the zoning procedures law, have a public hearing and then if we want to continue the moratorium longer than the thirty days, we need to have that after the public Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 4 of 15 hearing. This moratorium would extend until roughly January 8 , 2015 . The purpose of the moratorium is very straight forward. It is to allow staff to bring forward modifications to the zoning code that will allow the city 's vision for the State Route 9 North Vision Plan to be brought to bear. 2. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton, Georgia to Establish the Ad Valorem Tax Rate of the City of Milton for Fiscal Year 2014, and for Other Purposes. (Agenda Item No. 14-194) (First Presentation at July 7, 2014 Regular City Council Meeting) (Stac(;)I Inglis, Assistant City Manager) Stacey Inglis, Assistant City Manager I have a power point presentation I would like to share with you. 51• 1 Public Hearing -July i h 6:00 PM 2 nd 51• Public Hearing -July 21 6:00 PM • 3rd Public Hearing and Adoption of Millage Rate -August 4th 6:00 PM 5t• Tax bills projected to be mailed September 1 51• Taxes due October 31 According to the official code of Georgia 48-5-32, we are required to hold three public hearings on the establishment of a millage rate when there is an increase in the tax digest. The first public hearing will be held tonight, July 7th, where the first presentation of the Ordinance to establish the millage rate will also be sounded. The second public hearing will be held on July 21 st. The final public hearing will be held on August 4th, where the Ordinance will also be considered for adoption. • Total Tax Digest =$2,112,490 ,166 • Total Taxes Levied = $9,994,191 • Property Taxes = $9,473,509 • Motor Vehicle Taxes = $520,682 • Property Tax Increase • Increase of 4.17% Due to Reassessments • Millage Rate = 4.731 mills Please keep in mind that "Property Taxes" include real, personal and motor vehicle taxes . We are projected to have an increase of 4.17% due to inflationary reassessments of existing property. When coupled with the upsurge in the digest for newly improved properties, the overall taxes levied will be 8.1 % higher than 2013. Mayor Lockwood I would just like to make a comment that while this is an increase in revenue for the city , it is not based on the city actually increasing taxes. It is based on both adding new properties to the digest and reassessments by the county of the value of properties. The good news is that property values are rising but the bad news is that the tax rate is based on that figure. However, the city is not raising the millage rate. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 5 of 15 ZONING AGENDA (None) UNFINISHED BUSINESS (None) NEW BUSINESS 1. Consideration of a Resolution to Approve a Defined Contribution Pension Plan that Will Serve as a Social Security Replacement Plan for Those Employees Regularly Scheduled to Work 40 or More Hours per Week and Hired or Rehired on or After July 1,2014. RESOLUTION NO . 14-07-302 (Agenda Item No. 14-196) (Sam Trager, Human Resources Director) City Clerk Gordon read the following public comment into the record: Mr. Mayor, Council Members, ladies and gentlemen, Hello, my name is Bill Coleman, 13000 Arnold Mill Road Milton, GA. For the purposes of my comments when I say "Government" it means all government, federal, state, local, and it's employees even though this comment is specifically for the City of Milton. I am 65 this month and retiring in the near future. I will have social security and any investments and 401 K that I, and I alone, have provided for myself to rely on. I am mandated by the law of Government to participate in the Social Security system. If I do not send part of my pay to the Government for the Social Security system they can take legal action against me, up to and including sending me to prison, in other words at the point of a gun. The City of Milton is proposing to opt out of the Social Security system and provide an enhanced employee retirement system which will provide much more of a benefit to them than participation in the Social Security system that I am forced to participate in. If the program being proposed were not going to be a much greater benefit for them then why would they change? How can Government opt for a better system than the one they force me to participate in? Because Government made the rules and wrote the law exempting themselves so they could opt for something better. A retirement program I cannot have. A better retirement program for them at my, the taxpayer's, expense. If Social Security is deemed good enough for me by my Government, why is it then not good enough for that same Government? My property taxes will be financing this enhanced Government retirement program. This proposal will be much to Government's benefit and my detriment. This is not right and not fair to us, the taxpayers that put you into office. We thought you were elected to serve the people but it appears your proposal here will serve Government at the expense of the taxpayers, the very voters that put you in the office of Government you now hold. The constitution guarantees "Equal Rights Under The Law". Government has found a way to circumvent this by adding exceptions to the laws they make for us, the citizen taxpayers, by adding exemptions deep in the bowels of the complicated laws they pass. This is slowly creating a class difference between the elite Government and the common taxpayer. You are, as my biology professor said, slowly boiling the frog so he does not notice until it is too late . Well, I notice. Government is slowly writing a different set of laws through these exceptions and exemptions that they are governed by Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday , July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 6 of 15 than the laws that we , the people, are governed by. If this trend continues what set of laws will the people be governed by verses the laws that Government is governed by in the future? If this divergence is allowed to continue how much difference in the laws will there be in twenty years , forty years, sixty years? Boil the frog! He won't notice. Just because you, Government, wrote the law so you could elect to opt out of Social Security and provide yourselves an alternate enhanced program at the cost of the taxpayer does not mean you have the moral right to do so. If you do this in the City of Milton you are simply taking advantage just because you can. Well, I can't avail myself of this same advantage because you hold a gun to my head and say I have no choice but to participate in a system that you deem not fit for you, Government. This matter should not be decided by you , Government, who have the potential of personal gain from the decision, but by the taxpaying voters who will bear the cost of this greater benefit you are proposing to give Government , yourself. Do this right. Let the people who will pay for this make this decision. I have only one question for you Mr. Mayor, and each and everyone of the Council here tonight which I, and probably a few others here, would like to have you answer to us and that is, "If social security is good enough for the taxpaying citizens, the voters who put you in Government, why is it not good enough for you, Government?" This is not a rhetorical question, Mr. Mayor? Thank you, Bill Coleman Sam Trager, Human Resources Director We are here tonight to discuss the city's new pension plan. It has been a busy few months since the discussion of the city's mid-year budget. During that time, we have taken our old defined pension plan and frozen that to our current employees and staff. We also shut down our current defined contribution plan for any new employees. We essentially drew a line in the sand effective July 1, 2014. Any existing employees were covered under the old plans and any new employees hired or rehired on or after July 1, 2014 would be placed under a new plan. There are three resolutions in front of you tonight that encompass all of the plans. The first plan on the agenda tonight is the Social Security Replacement Plan also referred to as the 6.2 I 6.2 plan because that is what the contributions are . It is a 401 Plan and the employees that are eligible to participate in this plan are all regularly scheduled to work 40 hours or more per week. This plan is mandatory and it requires the city and our employees to each contribute 6 .2% into a 401 plan vehicle as the Social Security Replacement. Employees in this plan are vested immediately. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-196. Councilmember Kunz seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). 2. Consideration of a Resolution to Approve a Defined Contribution Pension Plan that will Serve as a Social Security Replacement Plan for Those Employees Regularly Scheduled to Work Less Than 40 Hours per Week and Hired or Rehired on or After July 1, 2014. RESOLUTION NO. 14-07 -303 (Agenda Item No . 14-197) (Sam Trager , Human Resources Director) Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 7 of 15 Sam Trager, Human Resources Director This is the exact same plan as the previous one; however, this is designed for part-time employees and is set at the minimum Social Security Income Replacement which is set at 3.75% for city and employee contribution . This plan only affects employees that are scheduled to work less than 40 hours per week and participation is mandatory. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Hewitt moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-197. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). 3. Consideration of a Resolution to Approve a Defined Contribution Pension Plan that Matches Employee Contributions to a 457 Plan for Those Employees Hired or Rehired on or After July 1, 2014. RESOLUTION NO. 14-07-304 (Agenda Item No. 14-198) (Sam Trager, Human Resources Director) Sam Trager, Human Resources Director This is the final component of our Defined Contribution Plan and it is the matching component. We surveyed several jurisdictions and presented our findings at the last work session. This plan is completely voluntary for employees. It is only available to full-time employees who work 40 or more hours per week. Employees contribute to their 457 account an amount they would like and the city will match those funds at a rate of2% for every 1 % they contribute up to a maximum of 12% of their salary. The vesting schedule is referred to as the Graded Vesting Schedule. Employees would be vested at 20% of the city contribution after one year; 40% after two years, etc. until the employee has been with the city for five years and then he/she is completely vested in the plan and will receive 100% vesting. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Kunz moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-198. Council member Hewitt seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). 4. Consideration a Resolution Adopting the Arnold Mill Road Visioning Study as an Amendment to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. RESOLUTION NO. 14-0 7-305 (Agenda Item No. 14-199) (Discussed at May 12, 2014 Work Session) (Michele McIntosh-Ross, Principal Planner) Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 8 of 15 Michele McIntosh-Ross, Principal Planner I will give you an overview of the Arnold Mill Visioning Study which will include: • Purpose of the study • Key Findings -Land use -Transportation -Recreation • Next Steps We conducted this study because of the following issues: • Potential growth pressures Increasing interest from development community Multiple jurisdictions in the area • Cherokee County, Roswell, Alpharetta. • GOOT as 140 State Highway • Fulton County water and sewer • ARC "Planning Assistance Team" Andrew Smith and Jon Tuley The Planning Process consisted of the following: • June 2013 community meeting and workshop -Public kickoff meeting -Small group meetings over 2 days • November 2013 follow-up meeting Presented findings from • June workshop • Meetings with GOOT, Fulton County Water Resources, Waste Management Gathered more input from attendees • Since then Communications with staff Created draft report, submitted to City on 3119 Revised report based on staff feedback, new version available today PC and ORB review draft report (public process) Council review draft report (public process) -consider adoption City uses report to infonn future decision-making The Key Findings were: • Preserve unique resources Rural character -Natural beauty -Historic resources • A void strip commercial -Don't replicate development farther south • Avoid standard subdivision model • Think creatively about landfill reuse Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7,2014 at 6:00 pm Page 9 of 15 Recommendations for Transportation consisted of the following: • Local Intersection improvements Green Road • Enhanced approach signage • Caution light on SR 140 -or full signalization w/ GDOT approval Ranchette Road • Enhanced approach signage • Caution light on SR 140 -could be part of enhanced roadside signage • Dedicated turn lanes Sweetapple Road and Lackey Road • Enhanced approach signage • Caution light on SR 140 -could be part of enhanced roadside signage • Enhanced speed limit signage and/or monitoring at entrances -Can be used as connections while minimizing dust and excessive speed • Remain gravel/unpaved Rural parkway design: minimize curb cuts, monitor speed Recreation opportunities consisted of the following: • Expand parks and recreation options Multi-use paths (bike, pedestrian) Equestrian opportunities Chadwick Rd . Landfill conversion/reuse Chadwick Road Landfill Reuse Ideas consisted of the following: • Botanical garden -May be limited to areas around perimeter of landfill mound so as not to disturb cap • Working community garden -May be limited to areas around perimeter of landfill mound so as not to disturb cap -Potential connection to activities ofUGA Cooperative Extension program through Georgia Master Gardener volunteer program • Dog park • Access to Little River and Cooper Sandy Creek for fishing/recreation The next steps in this process are the following: • Council Decision July 7, 2014 • Potential Form Based Code Overlay process -Public Information Meetings : 2014 Late Summer/Early Fall (3-6 month process) -Planning Commission: Fall 2014 -City Council: Winter 2014 Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-199. Councilmember Lusk seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 10 of 15 5. Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the State Route 9 North Vision Plan as an Amendment to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. RESOLUTION NO. 14 -0 7-306 (Agenda Item No. 14-200) (Plan Document Approved at the June 2, 2014 Regular City Council Meeting) (Michele McIntosh-Ross, Principal Planner) Michele McIntosh-Ross, Principal Planner This is a resolution to adopt the plan which was approved at the June 2, 2014 meeting. It was indicated that we may want to grandfather that section into our 2030 Comprehensive Plan as an LCI through the Atlanta Regional Commission. It is always better when we have a resolution to submit with the plan. Carolyn Husk, 235 Hereford Road, Milton, Georgia 30004 I am in the Five Acres Estates residential subdivision. I was here at the June 2, 2014 meeting where I opposed it because of the R2 Conditional Zoning of our subdivision. I am opposed to withdrawing the four parcels along Highway 9 because you are withdrawing them from our subdivision. I presented five pieces of information to you. The original plat with the covenants, the Fulton County records of the zoning, the Georgia State Law that grand fathered the covenants in 1993, and now I am submitting to you; when I moved here in 1993, I had my property surveyed and the Georgia Land Survey had it AG-1. I thought it was AG-1 and when I initially came to Milton, they had it AG-1. When I thought the guy was building too close to me next door, I called Fulton County and talked to the head guy down there and within five minutes he said, "No, it is R2." And, I said, "How long has it been R2." And, he said, "Since 1978." So, you will see there I had the survey done in 1993 and in 1998 I found that out so I called the Georgia Land Survey who told me they were wonderful and I told them they weren't so wonderful because they gave me an incorrect survey. He asked me what I wanted him to do and I told him I had paid him several hundred dollars and I told him I wanted a correct survey. By the end of the week, I had a corrected survey. My concern is the fact that the real estate agents are telling me that what you are proposing to do will just destroy the resale value of my property. The real estate experts have told me that I live in a very unusual subdivision. I did not attend all the meetings you had because according to the real estate experts told me that the city has to notify every property owner and you have to get 100% yes from every property owner in the subdivision to change anything. So, I didn't attend all the meetings because according to all of the experts that I talked to the changes should never have been done. I presented to you the documents on June 2nd and you have declared a moratorium until you've gotten the situation straightened out. I would really like to know if you have an answer for me. Councilmember Thurman I just want to know for clarification purposes that the reason for the moratorium was so that we could get the details of the visioning plan in place not because we were concerned about the legality of the plan itself. Is that correct? City Attorney Jarrard That is correct. Mayor Lockwood Ken, you did some investigation into the existing covenants. What were your findings? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7, 2014 at 6 :00 pm Page 11 of 15 City Attorney Jarrard Staff had asked my office to take a couple of representative parcels from the Highway 9 area to include those that were a part of the Five Acres subdivision. We conducted title searches including one of the frontage parcels. No covenants were found on record. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Hewitt moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-200 . Councilmember Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). 6. Consideration of a Construction Services Agreement between the City of Milton and Astra Group, Inc. for the Renovation of Bell Memorial Park. (Agenda Item No. 14-201) (Carter Lu cas , Public Works Director) Carter Lucas, Public Works Director In October 2013, Council approved a master plan for the renovation of Bell Memorial Park. This master plan was intended to reflect utilization of additional property that was purchased over the past few years to increase the park area from 18.7 acres to 32.5 acres. The renovations were to update the fields and facilities that would bring the park up to date with current programming and design standards. Jim Cregge is going to update you on where we are with the master plan. Jim Cregge, Parks and Recreation Director The current park has approximately 200 paved parking spaces. The new park will have over 560 parking spaces with nearly 450 of them paved and the rest on a gravel surface. The new park will feature two rectangular fields. This allows the city to offer football , lacrosse, soccer, and cheerleading . These are programs that we have only been able to offer on a very limited basis in the past. The field on the west will be natural grass and the field on the east will be synthetic turf. The east field will also be able to support a fifth baseball field. The new diamond shape fields are no longer age specific in terms of their dimensions. This will improve the number of practices and games that children will be able to have. The walking trail is approximately one mile long. Half of the trail will be paved and will be fully ADA accessible. The other part of the trail is a natural surface and will be a more challenging trail. The concession stand, maintenance building, and storage buildings will be built to reflect the elements of our community that define the uniqueness ofthe city . The playground will offer elements for children of all abilities . Carter Lucas In March 2014, we issued an invitation to bid for this project and we received three bids. The low bid on this project was from the Astra Group, Inc. at $9,925 ,000. As part of our standard practice, we have worked through some value engineering with the Astra Group to come up with about $536,000 in savings that doesn't necessarily reflect any substantial changes to the park's master plan. In addition, we looked at five bid alternates that were provided in the original bid. One was a synthetic turf field at $380 ,000 , road way banners a s you enter the park at $14 ,000 , overlaying the existing parking lot at $36 ,000 , various colors for the plaza concrete at $62,000 and shade structures for the bleachers at $93 ,000. Staff is recommending that we accept the value engineering at $536 ,300 and that we also Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday , Jul y 7, 2014 at 6 :00 pm Page 12 of 15 accept bid alternate #5 to provide the shade structures over the bleachers for a total contract price of $9,481 ,700. Ken Sisson, 755 Scotlandwell Place, Milton, Georgia 30004 I am here on behalf of the Hopewell Youth Association. I am a long time board member and current president. We are very much in support of this endeavor. We are very appreciative of the city 's efforts to expand the park and help our program. We want to thank Jim and his staff for helping us find places to play for the year that the park will be closed for renovations . We have been playing at Bell Memorial park for almost 30 years and we just wanted to thank you for all you have done for our program. I, ­ LEGENDD\ .. -..... . 1 11O'~JliO'IMJIOSlL"00TIAU/S0CCtItf"l(LD ': : --1 l*". 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With proper maintenance, it will last longer, typically, about fifteen years. You get more playability with synthetic turf because of the drainage after rain. Councilmember Lusk I would like to see a cost comparison between a synthetic turf field and a natural grass field to include installation, maintenance costs, removal costs, etc. Mayor Lockwood Could staff let us know when we need to make a decision on the synthetic turf field versus a natural grass field and a pros and cons comparison between the two types of fields? Motion and Vote: Councilmember Kunz moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-201 with Staffs Recommendations. Councilmember Hewitt seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7­ 0). 7. Consideration ofa Resolution of the City of Milton, Georgia Enacting a Moratorium for 180 Days to Bar the Acceptance of Any Rezoning Applications for Property Located in the 2014 Highway 9 North Vision Area. RESOLUTION NO. 14 -07-308 (Agenda Item No. 14-195) (Public Hearing at July 7, 2014 Regular City Council Meeting) (Ken Jarrard, City Attorney) Ken Jarrard, City Attorney This is the adoption of the moratorium that we held the public hearing for earlier. This moratorium will tenninate at the earliest of 180 days from adoption or approximately January 8, 2015. However, whenever the zoning changes for the Highway 9 North Vision Area are adopted then the moratorium would end at that time. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-195. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7,2014 at 6:00 pm Page 14 of 15 8. Consideration of a Resolution Appointing a Member to the Historic Preservation Commission for the City of Milton by Appointing a Member for District 1 !Post 2. RESOLUTION NO . 14-07-30 7 (Agenda Item No. 14-202) (Mayor Joe Lockwood) Councilmember Burt Hewitt I appreciate all the hard work that Ken Sisson did for us on the HPC. Joan Borzilleri has agreed to re­ join the HPC. She has served since its inception. Joan will put a lot of effort.into the position and I would appreciate your approval of her appointment. Motion and Vote: Council member Kunz moved to approve Agenda Item No. 14-202 appointing Joan Borzilleri to the Historic Preservation Commission. Council member Lusk seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS STAFF REPORTS EXECUTIVE SESSION Motion and Vote: Councilmember Kunz moved to adjourn into Executive Session at 7:31 p.m . to discuss land acquisition and litigation. Councilmember Hewitt seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). RECONVENE Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to adjourn back into the Regular Meeting at 7:45 p.m. Councilmember Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). ADJOURNMENT (Agenda Item No . 14-203) Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk moved to adjourn the Regular Meeting at 7:46 p.m. Council member Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (7-0). Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, July 7 , 2014 at 6:00 pm Page 15 of 15 After no further discussion the Regular Council Meeting adjourned at 7:46 p.m . Date Approved: August 4,2014. Sudie AM Gordon, City Clerk STATE OF GEORGIA ) ) AFFIDAVIT RE: CLOSURE OF COUNTY OF FULTON ) OPEN MEETINGS ) CITY OF MILTON ) Personally appeared before the undersigned officer, duly authorized under the laws of the State of Georgia to administer oaths, JOE LOCKWOOD, who in his capacity as Mayor and the person presiding over a Council meeting of the CITY OF MILTON, and after being first duly sworn, certifies under oath and states to the best of his knowledge and belief the following : At a Regularly Scheduled City Council Meeting held on July 7, 2014, at 6 :00 PM the Council voted to go into closed session and exclude the public from all or a portion of its meeting. The legal exceptions applicable to the exempt matters addressed during such closed meeting are as follows : [Check or initial as appropriate] 1. X discussion or voting to authorize negotiations to purchase, dispose of, or lease property; authorizing the ordering of an appraisal related to the acquisition or disposal of real estate; entering into contract to purchase, to dispose of, or lease property subject to approval in a subsequent public vote; or entering into an option to purchase , dispose of, or lease real estate subject to approval in a subsequent public vote pursuant to O.CO.A, 50-14-3(b)( 1)(B-E); 2. discussing or deliberating upon the appointment, employment, compensation, hiring, disciplinary action or dismissal , or periodic evaluation or rating of a public officer or employee or interviewing applicants for the executive head of the city with the vote on any such matter coming in public pursuant to O.CO.A. 50-14-3(b)(2); 3. ~attorney/client privilege in order to consult and meet with legal counsel pertaining to pending or potential litigation, settlement, claims, administrative proceedings or other judicial actions brought or to be brought by or against the agency or any officer or employee or in which the agency or any officer or employee may be directly involved, pursuant to O.CO.A. 50-14-2(1). 4. other (explanation): I certify that the subject matter of the closed meeting or the closed portion of the meeting was devoted to matters of official business or policy, with the exceptions provided by law as set forth above. 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