HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - CC - 11/02/2020Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council
Monday, November 2, 2020 at 6:00 pm
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CALL TO ORDER
Councilmembers Present: Mayor Joe Lockwood, Councilmember Peyton Jamison, Councilmember Laura Bentley, Councilmember Carol Cookery, Councilmember Joe Longoria and Councilmember Rick Mohrig.
Councilmembers Absent: Councilmember Paul Moore.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (Led by Mayor Joe Lockwood)
**Technical difficulties with Audio Recording (Granicus). Recording begins at Consent
Agenda portion.**
CONSENT AGENDA
City Clerk: Sunnybrook Farms subdivision, Agenda Item No. 20-302. Our
next item is approval of a change order for the construction
services agreement between the City of Milton and C.W. Matthews
Contracting Company, Inc. for the reconstruction and resurfacing
of the roads called out in the bid document as Bid Alternate No. 1,
Deerfield Parkway, and Bid Alternate No. 3, Bethany Road,
Agenda Item No. 20-303. Our fifth – fourth and final is approval of
a professional services agreement between the City of Milton and
TizzyLiz Design, LLC for graphic design services, Agenda Item
No. 20-305.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Do I have a motion and a second on the consent agenda?
Mr. Mohrig: Mr. Mayor, I’ll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda
as read.
Ms. Cookerly: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Mohrig with a second
from Councilmember Cookerly. All in favor, please say aye.
Several: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: That’s unanimous. Okay, we’ll move on to reports and
presentations. Tammy, if you’ll sound the first item.
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Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the
Consent Agenda. Councilmember Cookerly seconded the
motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Moore was
absent from the meeting.
REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. Proclamation Recognizing Veterans Day.
(Mayor Joe Lockwood)
City Clerk: Our first item is a proclamation recognizing Veterans Day. Mayor
Joe Lockwood.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, this is always an honor for me and our council, and today, I
have a proclamation for Veterans Day 2020. Whereas it has long
been accustomed to commemorate November 11th, the anniversary
of the ending of World War I, by paying tribute to the heroes of
that tragic struggle and by redirecting ourselves to the course of
peace, and whereas in the intervening years, the United States has
been involved in several other great military conflicts which have
added millions of veterans, living and dead, to the honor rolls of
this nation, and whereas the Congress passed a concurrent
resolution on June 4th, 1926 calling for the observation of
November 11th with appropriate ceremonies and later provided in
an act approved on May 13th, 1938 that the 11th of November
should be a legal holiday and should be known as Armistice Day,
and whereas in order to expand the significance of that
commemoration in order that a grateful nation might pay
appropriate homage to the veterans of all of its wars who have
contributed so much to the preservation of this nation, the
Congress, by an act approved June 1st, 1954 changed the name of
the holiday to Veterans Day, now therefore, we, the mayor and the
city council of the City of Milton, hereby call upon all of our
citizens to observe November 11th, 2020 as Veterans Day.
On that day, let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those
who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign
shores to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us consecrate
ourself to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their
efforts shall not have been in vain, and that’s given under my hand
and the seal of the City of Milton, Georgia on the 2nd of November
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2020. Do we have any veterans in the audience that we can present
this to? If those veterans would step forward, I would like to –
Male Speaker: We got a couple staff members.
Mayor Lockwood: I would like to shake your hand, but we’ll do a fist bump. Thank
you for all that you have done. Thank you very much, and if you
guys – if you wanna stand back here with the council, maybe Joe
and Laura, you can get a picture. Thank you so much. [Applause]
Okay, if our city clerk would please sound the next item.
2. Proclamation Recognizing Native American History Month.
(Mayor Joe Lockwood)
City Clerk: Our second item is a proclamation recognizing Native American
History Month. Mayor Joe Lockwood.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. I’m also proud to submit this proclamation. I have a
proclamation for Native American History Month. Whereas the
Americans we know as American Indians and Native Americans
were the first explorers and settlers of the areas that now make up
the United States, and whereas mountains and rivers, lakes and
valleys, states and counties, and trails and towns across this land
have Indian names, they are lasting reminders of the presence and
the significance of American Indians not just in our geography, but
throughout the whole of American History, and whereas many of
the foods we eat and the medicines and remedies we use were
introduced by Indians and more than one highway follows an
Indian trail, and whereas Indians make contributions in every area
of endeavor in American life, and our literature and all our arts
draw upon Indian themes and wisdom, and whereas countless
American Indians have served in our armed forces and have fought
valiantly for our country, and whereas during the Thanksgiving
season, generations of Americans are reminded of the early
friendship of the Pilgrims and the American Indians, so now
therefore, we, the mayor and the city council of the City of Milton,
hereby dictate and proclaim November as Native American
History Month in the City of Milton, Georgia, and this is given
under our hand and seal of the City of Milton, Georgia on the 2nd
day of November 2020, and I don’t know, do we have any Native
Americans in our audience? If not, we’ll save these proclamations
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and submit them. All right.
So, Tammy, if you would please call the next item.
3. Presentation of Fire Station 42 Design.
(Robert Edgar, Fire Chief)
City Clerk: Our third and final item is the presentation of Fire Station No. 42
design. Mr. – I’m sorry, Fire Chief Robert Edgar.
Chief Edgar: Good evening, mayor and council. This is one of my last official
meetings here at the City of Milton, and I’m pleased to – as soon
as I can get my PowerPoint to come on – to present the early
design of Station 42, and this was put together with a team of
firefighters from our department, as well as the direction and
coaching of Bob Buscemi, the city architect, who has really
brought this thing really together for us. So, I’m gonna ask Bob to
come up. I’m gonna talk about all the pretty pictures and I’ll let
Bob talk about some of the unique features of the building and all
that. Bob, come on up.
Station 42 – as you can see, this is the building that we’ve been
living in for the last 13 years now, and this building was built in
the early ‘70s, and I think we did a presentation on this back in
July. So, we are still there and will maintain occupancy there until
we’re ready to take this building down and start construction of the
new facility.
The details of the existing building is it’s 3,800 square feet, has
five parking spaces, has five sleeping cubes – and, those are
literally cubes – and it’s a back-in design where the fire truck has
to pull out on Thompson Road and has to back into the fire station.
The new station is approximately 6,500 square feet, it has 12
parking space, eight bunkrooms, two drive-through bays, an
exercise room, a turnout gear room, a station office, and a decon
room.
Here’s the site plan, and Bob, if you wanna jump in here at any
point, but here, you’ll see how the most important feature of this is
the drive-through bay. The fire truck can pull off Thompson Road,
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go around back, and pull right into the fire station and ready to go.
The firefighters don’t have to get out, back the truck in, and
possibly – that’s probably one of the most dangerous things, is
backing a fire truck up and putting firefighters in traffic. Not that
Thompson Road is a major thoroughfare, but it still has its hazards.
And, you can see the layout. The bay is on one side and then the
living quarters on the other side, where the bunkrooms are all on
the east side, and then, in the center core is the dayroom, where the
firefighters can relax, as well as the kitchen area, and then, towards
the front of the building is the office, and it has a small lobby area
for any of the residents or visitors that may wanna come by.
Here is the initial front elevation, and Bob, if you wanna touch on
some of the uniqueness of this –
Mr. Buscemi: Okay. I’ll just add that initially, we thought we were gonna have a
potential of having a two-story building with a back-in, similar to
what they have now, and we really worked hard to get it to be a
one-story building and a drive-through structure, which I think the
safety reasons and a lot of community concerns about two-story
visibility – is it gonna have more of a community impact – so we
really try to keep it low-scale, and unlike 44, which is on the
Deerfield form-based code, this is in the rural Milton overlay, so
we’re trying to keep it much more rural-looking. It’s got a barn
feel to it, keeping the same bifold doors, got a lot of gabled roofs.
Hopefully, we got the cupola, right?
Ms. Cookerly: I was just getting ready to ask you – what are the dimensions of
that cupola?
Mr. Buscemi: [Laughs] Visually, hopefully, it’s pretty good.
Ms. Cookerly: It’s pretty good and balanced on here. I don’t have your eye, but
I’m happy. It looks great, thank you.
Mr. Buscemi: You’re happy with it? Okay. We really put some effort into that to
make sure – and, we really try to break up the roof lines to
decrease the scale. We kept it board and backing, with one a table.
We have outdoor space on the back. I don’t know if you wanna
show them the back view. We have, of course, the Milton brackets.
You’ll see we have a stone fireplace that goes right through
between the dayroom and the kitchen, so it’s a real vertical element
that actually pierces through the roof, and you’ll see the back has
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the patio with the kitchen area in there.
And then, this is an interior pictorial of the kitchen area and the
dayroom, so we have open trusses, and then you can see the
fireplace. We try to make that into a real main element in the
middle of the space that actually pierces through the roof, so it
kind of gives it that break in the room, and it would be open from
both sides. So, I think it gave it a nice feeling internally. Any
questions?
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions for Bob or Chief on this?
Mr. Jamison: It’s great.
Mr. Mohrig: It’s good.
Ms. Cookerly: Looks pretty practical.
Ms. Bentley: Is the dog on the windvane – is that up for any discussion? I think
it needs to be a dachshund.
Ms. Cookerly: Is that a dalmatian?
Chief Edgar: Dalmatian.
Ms. Bentley: All right, a dalmatian. It looks beautiful.
Ms. Cookerly: It looks wonderful.
Mayor Lockwood: Yeah, I think – and, it’s exciting with the new – the new facility
that we just opened up. I’m hearing great reviews from our other
peers and other departments and citizens, and this is just moving
forward on that, so, both with Bob’s help and Chief, it’s kind of
exciting that – I’m sure it’s been great for your career here getting
to be involved with all new facilities and whatnot, so thanks for
everything both you guys have done.
Chief Edgar: And, we do need to mention that Croft Associates, the architect
firm, is on track, and most of it was Bob.
Mayor Lockwood: Two Bobs.
Mr. Buscemi: It was the chief.
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Mayor Lockwood: Now you can always point the finger. “It was Bob’s fault,”
“Robert’s fault,” whatever.
Mr. Buscemi: We will miss the chief. I’ve worked really closely with the chief on
all of these projects.
Mayor Lockwood: I think – Ken, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think we do have one
public comment on this item. It’s okay to have that read into the
record.
Mr. Jarrard: It is.
Mayor Lockwood: Tammy?
City Clerk: Thank you, I do. I need to read this into the record. It is from Mr.
Gary Jablonski, residing at 2680 Grassview Drive here in Milton.
“Mayor Lockwood and distinguished members of the council, the
packet literature available online prior to the 11/2/2020 council
meeting gives very little detail regarding the design of Fire Station
No. 42. I’m sure I will learn more once the presentation is
complete.
“Lacking details, I do wish to express my desire to provide the
city’s highly trained, very capable, and dedicated firefighting staff
with the very best equipment and accommodations. The budget
looks like $1.4 million. I would like to welcome someone to
contact me to explain impact fees. My main point is that I would
like to see Station 42 built as a two-story structure for maximum
efficiency and comfort of the firefighting staff.
“It is my understanding that the current plan is for a single-story
unit. This may not be possible under the budget constraints to add
this luxury, but I challenge the council to rethink their budget.
Remember, the structure will be in use long after the current
councilmembers are gone. The residents served by Station 42 will
benefit for many years from a well-designed structure. Thank
you.”
FIRST PRESENTATION
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, thank you. Now, we’ll move on to our first presentations.
Tammy, if you’ll please sound those items.
City Clerk: That first item is consideration of RZ20-17, Section 64-395, Uses
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Prohibited in All Zoning Districts (Temporary Consumer
Fireworks), Agenda Item No. 20-306. The second item is
consideration of RZ20-18, to create a new use permit for farm
winery consumption on premises of beer and/or liquor.
Our third item is consideration of RZ20-19, to amend Section 64-
1121, Allowed Use Chart within the rural Milton overlay as it
relates to the proposed use permit in RZ20-18, Agenda Item No.
20-308. Our fourth item is consideration of an ordinance to amend
Chapter 4, Section 85, Farm Wineries, of the Alcoholic Beverages
Code of the City of Milton, Georgia, Agenda Item No. 20-309.
And, our fifth and final item is consideration of an ordinance
revision to Chapter 46, Article 2, Section 46-24, for Prohibitions of
Public and Private Littering, Agenda Item No. 20-310.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Questions on the first presentation items?
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I’d like to make a motion to approve the first presentation
items as read by the city clerk.
Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Bentley with a second
from Councilmember Jamison. All in favor, please say aye.
Several: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve the
First Presentation items. Councilmember Jamison seconded the
motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Moore was
absent for the vote.
Mayor Lockwood: That’s unanimous. Okay, we don’t have any items under public
hearing or zoning agendas tonight, so we’ll move to unfinished
business. If our city clerk will please read our unfinished business
item.
PUBLIC HEARINGS (None)
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ZONING AGENDA (None)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
City Clerk: That item is consideration of an ordinance to amend Appendix A,
Parks and Recreation Fees and Other Charges, Chapter 34, Section
24 of the Milton City Code to allow the collection of fees to rent
the Birmingham United Methodist Church baseball/softball field,
Agenda Item No. 20-297. Interim Manager of Parks and
Recreation, Mr. Tom McKlveen.
Mr. McKlveen: Good evening, mayor and council. What you have before you is an
amendment to Chapter 34 of Appendix A in the Code of the City
of Milton. In January of 2019, the city began leasing the
Birmingham United Methodist Church baseball field. It’s been a
very successful partnership and given our baseball program a
much-needed field, especially in the spring. This fall, though, we
got approached by multiple softball teams in the Milton area
loaded with Milton residents looking for a space to practice.
We tried to find space at Bell Park, but Bell Park was occupied by
Hopewell baseball, and there wasn’t much space available,
especially space that these softball teams were looking for. So, I
approached the individual that we leased the fields through
Birmingham United Methodist Church, and he agreed to allow us
to rent the fields during our allotted times that the city has access
to the field, but in order for us to collect these fees, we need the
Birmingham United Methodist Church listed as a rentable facility
under Chapter 34 of Appendix A.
The rates that are proposed here are in line with the diamond-
shaped rates that we do at Bell Park. That’s what we used as our
guideline – $25.00 per hour for the fields, $37.50 if you need
lights, a $75.00 fee for lining the fields, and $100.00 security
deposit that’s refunded after the rental is over. At this point, I’ll
take your questions.
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions or comments on that? All right. We don’t have any
public comment, do we?
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City Clerk: We do not.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. If there are no other questions, I’ll open it up for a motion.
Mr. Longoria: Mayor, I move that we approve Agenda Item No. 20-297.
Ms. Cookerly: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Longoria with a
second from Councilmember Cookerly. All in favor, please say
aye.
Council: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: It’s unanimous. Thank you, Tom.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve
Agenda Item 20-297. Councilmember Cookerly seconded the
motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Moore was
absent for the vote.
Mr. McKlveen: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, we’ll move on to new business. If the city clerk would
please call the first item, which was added from our consent
agenda.
City Clerk: That first item is approval of a subdivision plat. The name of the
development is Crossroads at Birmingham Highway – I’m sorry,
Crossroads at Birmingham Highway and Birmingham Road, Land
Lot 380, 381, 413, and 414. It is a final plat. It’s 35 single-family
lots, 10 lots per AG-1 and 25 lots per MIX, and two commercial
buildings. The total acres is 22.119, and it’s 0.65 lots per acre, 3.77
lots per acre in density. Agenda Item No. 20-304. Land
Development Manager Tracie Wildes.
Ms. Wildes: Mayors, councilmembers, tonight, I am presenting to you the final
plat for Crossroads at Birmingham. It is located in the southeast
quadrant of Birmingham Highway and Birmingham Road, so,
across the street from Birmingham United Methodist Church and
south of the public shopping center.
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It is a final plat, 35 single-family lots and two commercial
buildings off of 22.119 acres. This shows the – a couple of slides
of the plat. There are several sheets, so I just wanna highlight a few
of the plats – of the sheets.
The development has two entrances, the main entrance off of
Birmingham Road – so, across from the public shopping center –
and then, another entrance off of Birmingham Highway across
from Birmingham United Methodist Church. This entrance will
divide two commercial buildings, but both of these entrances will
lead to the larger lots toward the rear of the property.
There are site elements that are still under construction at this
development. Those items include a pedestrian footbridge that’s
gonna be between an upper and lower pond, walking paths, a
larger lawn/green area on the development, and then, of course,
street trees, and sod, and mulch, and plantings throughout the
whole development.
All of the items that are still under construction or have not quite
started have bonds that have been posted for all of them.
There are some items that have been completed, one being the
entrance off of Birmingham Road – so, again, across from the
public shopping center. In the upper picture, you will see a
conceptual rendering that was done during the design phase to give
some ideas of what the signage might look like. The two pictures
on the bottom were taken this morning, and this is the signs that
have been installed, the entrance sign, of course, new sod that has
been installed, landscaping, and mulch.
There’s also a village green that has been completed and installed
onsite. This is the village green closest to the main entrance. The
upper left-hand picture is a conceptual rendering that, again, was
done at design stage, and then, the photos on the bottom and to the
right of the screen were taken this morning, so they show the
sidewalks that have been installed, landscaping, mulch, and
plantings.
So, this development is moving along. There’s a lot to continue,
but they’re making progress and they’re moving forward, so it’s
gonna be exciting in the next several months to watch the
development go vertical and some of these other amenities be
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installed. Staff has reviewed the plans that were submitted. They
have approved the plans that have been submitted thus far, and it
does meet all the applicable codes. Any questions?
Mayor Lockwood: Are there any questions? Laura?
Ms. Bentley: Just wanted to – I noticed the landscaping too. It looks great, and
it’s very helpful to see the concept drawings compared to what’s
going in, so thank you very much for that, and I know you’ll be
keeping track of the conditions of zoning because I remember we –
it’s been two years, but I know we had quite a few on this one, so
thank you.
Ms. Wildes: Yes.
Mayor Lockwood: Anybody else? I do wanna clarify one thing to Laura’s point about
two years – this was not only – this was approved two years ago.
This is just a final plat just to make sure that the developer is
complying with what was originally required or approved, so it’s
not that we’re – we’re not approving a new development or
whatever.
The other thing I just wanna comment on, too – a couple things –
is that this property itself was zoned prior to the City of Milton
with the density on it, and when it came before us, the developer
actually submitted something different, which I believe – and, I
think most everybody else thinks – it was much more improved. It
was less homes, larger homes, less actual rooftops, and then, plus,
some of these amenities you see on it.
So, as a side note, I had to go speak – it was about the time of this
zoning – I had to go speak to a group of – go to a career day at one
of the elementary schools, and so, I had to go to all the different
classrooms to talk about city stuff, so myself and two
councilmembers took two plats – the plat of what was approved
versus what was originally zoned and allowed – and let all the 3rd
graders look at them, and we explained each of them and let them
all sit down and vote on – pick their one or two – and out of all day
long, at every class, all of them picked the one that is submitted
and being built now, so it was obviously a nicer plan.
And, the other thing I might wanna maybe suggest for city –
because obviously, no one likes to see raw dirt, but when you do
look at the renderings and the finished product, it is beautiful, as is
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all of the amenities and the green space, walking trails, and all that,
so maybe moving forward, we might wanna – as part of our zoning
conditions – allow the developer to put up maybe some rendering
signs on the front, and that way, people driving by don’t just see
trees going down, they see what’s gonna be there to replace it and
the greenery and whatnot.
Anyways, that’s just my comments. So, is there any other
questions or comments on that? I think the property owner is here
if there is any questions. Is there any public comment? Okay, I’ll
open up for a motion on this one.
Mr. Jamison: Mayor, I’d like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 20-
304.
Mr. Mohrig: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Jamison with a
second from Councilmember Mohrig. All in favor, please say aye.
Several: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: Any opposed? That’s unanimous. Thank you. Okay. If we will
move on to our next new business item, Tammy, you would please
read that item.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Jamison moved to approve
Agenda Item 20-304. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the
motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Moore was
absent for the vote.
City Clerk: Our second item is consideration of a resolution adopting the
Capital Improvements Element – known as CIE – 2020 annual
update relating to the city’s impact fee program, Agenda Item No.
20-311, Ms. Michele McIntosh-Ross.
Ms. McIntosh-Ross: Good evening, mayor and council. So, this is a required element
for communities that charge impact fees, which we are. We
adopted an impact fee ordinance back in 2015, and every year
since then, we have been doing our annual CIE update, which is
the Capital Improvement Element. It’s a list of projects that we’re
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able to spend impact fee moneys on, and we need to update that
financially every year with the State of Georgia and the Atlanta
Regional Commission.
We had a public hearing here on September 9th, and a consultant
here, and we talked about the CIE. We sent it off, you guys
approved resolution to send the draft document to ARC and DCA,
and they have since approved it – October 13th – so we are free to
adopt this document, which we are here today with a resolution to
adopt a document and keep our qualified local government status
moving forward. So, that’s what we have before you today, is to
adopt the Capital Improvement Element, known as the CIE.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, are there any questions on this? Any public comment?
City Clerk: There are none.
Mayor Lockwood: I close the hearing – not that there’s a hearing, but close that. If
there’s no council discussion, do I have a motion?
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I’d like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 20-
311.
Mr. Longoria: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Bentley
with a second from Councilmember Longoria. All in favor, please
say aye.
Several: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: That’s unanimous. Thank you, Michele.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve
Agenda Item 20-311. Councilmember Longoria seconded the
motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Moore was
absent for the vote.
Ms. McIntosh-Ross: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Tammy, if you would please sound the next item.
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City Clerk: Our final new business item is consideration of an amended
emergency ordinance of the mayor and council of the City of
Milton, Georgia under Section 3.18 of the Charter of the City of
Milton, Georgia to provide for the operation of the City of Milton,
Georgia during the public emergency known as the Novel
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Global Pandemic, to become effective
upon adoption by the council to supersede the existing emergency
ordinance and for other purposes, Agenda Item No. 20-312, City
Attorney Mr. Ken Jarrard.
Mr. Jarrard: Mr. Mayor, members of the council, we are currently within the
confines of the existing emergency ordinance, as the council is
aware, since roughly March. We have had a series of emergency
ordinances adopted pursuant to the emergency management
section of the Milton Code. That code really anticipates two
different sorts of actions.
First of all, the charter Section 3.18 authorizes the city council to
engage and entertain emergency ordinances to – the language it
uses is “meet an emergency situation” – to address emergency
situation, and then, of course, the city’s code anticipates that the
mayor has certain powers with respect to handling of emergency
situations, and as this pandemic has gone on, we have become a
little bit more refined in how we have handled these, and while we
had originally done some emergency declarations under the city’s
emergency power ordinance, most of them were – I think all I can
say would be business impact mitigation declarations, and we can
discuss them if we need to – waivers of fees, allowances for to-go
alcohol, things of that nature to mitigate business concerns.
The city itself has also exercised its power under the ordinance to,
on a 30-day cycle, declare [inaudible] [00:31:09], and we’re not,
of course, alone in this. Most jurisdictions are doing the same, and
of course, State of Georgia vis a vis the governor is continuing to
do the same.
So, this is a continuation of the emergency ordinance. Now, it
would not become effective until November 9th because, as I said,
we are in the middle of one right now, and they are tending to run
coterminous right now with the governor’s statewide ordinance –
order, not ordinance. This one, however, does something different,
so I need to bring that to your attention and call it out to you with
respect to what this does because the last few of these ordinances
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have been fairly the same – pretty much the same.
They have, for instance, done things like implemented the city’s
reopening plan, et cetera, but this one does something different,
and that is this: Live performance venues. By any measure, I think
it’s safe to say the live performance venues, which typically
involve assemblies, have been uniquely affected by COVID-19.
They were one of the first to fall, if you will, and in fact, in the
ordinances I have drafted, I walked through some of that history,
but as early as March 23rd, the governor’s order prohibited
assemblies of 10 individuals, and then, by April 2nd, the governor’s
order made it manifest that live performance venues are shut down.
It wasn’t really until July 1st that live performance venues began to
get any sort of traction at all to be able to open back up, and of
course, as I think is self-evident, their reopening was very, very
regimented and restricted.
So, to the extent that there are live performance venues in Milton –
and, I believe that there are and I believe that we will all
acknowledge that there are – they have been uniquely affected. For
instance, to the extent that they are outdoor live performance
venues, particularly with restricted seasons, if you will – and, I’m
thinking particularly of the season that occurs during the warm
weather months of roughly May through the end of October – by
way of just the orders I told you about, their season was
significantly limited because they simply couldn’t function.
And so, one of the things that this ordinance does that is in front of
you this evening would effectively extend any local rules or
impediments or codes that would affect a live performance venue
for the term of this additional ordinance.
So, that would be for from November 9th to December 9th. In other
words, if an entity like Matilda’s was required to close down at the
end of October, it would allow – effective November 9th – it to
continue operation up until December 9th, trying to do what we
have been doing in Milton since the epidemic or pandemic
occurred, which is to mitigate the impact of it on business. It’s not
a change to any conditional use permits or zoning – we can’t do
that – but it is, in fact, a police power exercise extending that
season by simply allowing the entity to exist and not enforcing our
codes against it during that period. That’s what this does.
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Again, it’s only for the term of this additional 30 days and it’s only
a business mitigation measure. Otherwise, the ordinance is what
you see, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Just a quick question. A live music venue or –Matilda’s –
that is allowed – with the governor’s or state orders, that was
allowed to operate, correct?
Mr. Jarrard: They are – yeah, the governor’s order contains some fairly
significant restrictions with respect to live performance venues, but
under those exacting restrictions, yes, they have some degree of
allowance to reopen them. I would never bring to you anything that
was gonna be in derogation of the governor’s order because the
governor’s order controls, but to the extent that, for instance,
Matilda’s can operate under the governor’s order, this would also
allow it to operate under the City of Milton code.
Mayor Lockwood: And, that’s obvious, I knew you wouldn’t, but I just wanted to
clarify to make sure –that’s correct. Any questions for Ken or
comments on this? Laura?
Ms. Bentley: I just need to make a statement. I have recused myself from all
votes on Matilda’s in the past, and as you advised, into the future
as well, so I will continue to be recused.
Mr. Jarrard: This doesn’t exactly speak to Matilda’s – I don’t put the name of
private companies – but I understand your point. Obviously, that is
an entity that would be a direct benefactor of this, so I get that. I
think that’s fine. I think that’s consistent with past actions.
Mayor Lockwood: Anybody else? Joe?
Mr. Longoria: So, when we first discussed this in the past, I guess the very first
version of this ordinance or the instance of the ordinance that was
back in the end of March – it might have been early April,
whenever it was that coincided with the governor’s actions – we
needed to take certain steps to make sure that we could do the
thing that we needed to do, not knowing what we were gonna be
facing.
I think we’ve been educated quite a bit in the meantime. Ken, is
there something about us continuing to pass this ordinance that
enables the city to access government services – government levels
that are higher than the city’s – services, or funding, or emergency
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funds, or anything like that that if we were to not pass this, all of a
sudden, we would be an outlier with regards to that?
Mr. Jarrard: Well, I would definitely say that we would be an outlier because
most of the jurisdictions that I’m dealing with are doing this as a
matter of course as well and running coterminous with the
governor’s orders, just like we are. It’s the smarter play.
The answer to your direct question is I don’t know, but let me
answer all of it. I don’t’ know, but I will tell you this: GEMA and
FEMA funding is something that we cannot risk not having the full
rights to get reimbursement, and so long as we are in a state of
local emergency, that makes our hand stronger to be able to drive
that local – that funding from GEMA and FEMA, and my fear
would be is that if we do not take this pandemic – from a local
perspective – just as seriously as the state is taking it, then we
could, in fact, imperil our ability – if, in fact, additional state or
federal dollars become available, we could imperil our ability to
retrieve those funds.
It is true that CARES Act funding has put a little bit of a different
spin on this. The federal government particularly has responded to
COVID in a way that has been extraordinary from the amount of
funds they have made available, but I still continue to believe it is
the smarter play for governments to continue to declare these local
emergencies just to make sure that if there is FEMA or GEMA
money at the end of this that we otherwise would have had access
to but for not continuing a declared emergency, I don’t want us to
be on the other side of that and say, “Gee whiz, I wish we had
continued to run coterminous with the State of Georgia.”
Mr. Longoria: All right, thank you. Steven, another part of this had to do with –
I’m gonna say the seeming potential to remove a layer of
transparency that normally exists with decisions that the council
makes, right? So, part of this ordinance has to do with our ability
to make decisions outside the council chamber and outside of the
council itself that need to be made in order to keep the city
functioning and keep the city operating. We didn’t know what
those things might be, we just knew we needed to be prepared.
That was one of the reasons we passed that.
I know we’ve got examples. For the life of me, I don’t know how
many there are, and I don’t think there were any that somehow
weren’t followed up with discussions that we had or votes that we
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followed up on, but do you know, number-wise, how many times
we’ve had to exercise the ordinance?
Mr. Jarrard: It just so happens that I have a feel for that, and no kidding, I did
wanna be prepared for that because obviously, this has gone on a
while, and you already intimated that in your previous question to
me.
But, with respect to what the City of Milton has done, there have
basically – as I mentioned, there’s two tracks. There’s the
ordinance track under the charter, and then there’s the mayoral
declaration track under the code, and we have sort of merged
those. We have specifically tried to bring this out of the council
chamber and adopt these things as part of an ordinance. So, yes, it
is true, with respect to mayoral declarations – for instance, there
was to-go alcohol sales. That was done by way of a mayoral
declaration. It finally made its way into the ordinance as well, but
it was done as a mayoral declaration – to-go alcohol sales.
Everybody’s doing it.
We allow the ability of some additional signage. Retail got hit
hard, retail which needed to let people know, “Hey, we’re open,
and here are our unique hours of business.” This was – many
jurisdictions did this. And so, we allowed additional retail signage
by way of a mayoral declaration.
To further mitigate impact on businesses, we did allow a deferral
of occupation tax renewals and payments for a time. We also
allowed a brief deferral on penalties related to alcohol excise taxes
– again, business mitigation – and we also allowed those that had
private catered event venues to sell to-go meals, and that’s what
my review this afternoon found.
And again, all of this – I believe – has been brought to this
chamber, all of this has been discussed in this chamber, and again,
I don’t mean to speak for the mayor, but I will say there was a
decided position taken that it was his hope that the council would
sign off on everything that he has done or had been asked to do.
Mr. Longoria: Okay. So, in terms of answering potential questions that we may
get from our citizens – because I know there was a lot of concern
about this, there was a lot of talk in the city about this particular
topic when it first came up – we had had opportunity to use the
powers that were part of this ordinance. It’d be hard to say that
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we’ve overused it because you just listed the five opportunities that
we have over the last eight months or whatever it’s been, so it’s
sort of rare – a lot of this occurred early on, and at the end of the
day, it hasn’t had any impact to our transparency because all of
these things have been items that wound up being discussed again
and passed by the council. That’s fair, Ken?
Mr. Jarrard: It is.
Mr. Longoria: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: I might wanna add, to Joe’s point and to Ken’s too, basically, these
powers – this ordinance was adopted early on in case there was
emergencies, and Ken, as you read the items we or I used them on,
but as Ken said, in being transparent, everything we did, my first
priority was to brief the council on it and make sure that the
council was on board, and then bring it before in a public meeting
to confirm.
So, to Joe’s point, there was people thinking, “Well, it’s the
mayor’s executive power orders,” and I was gonna steal their land,
raise taxes, and do all this kind of stuff, but all our staff, and Ken,
and you guys working together, we made sure that everything was
transparent, and if it was done under the guise of a timely – having
to do something timely, it was always discussed and brought back
before, just like this, to council to make sure that they approved it
or got feedback on it.
Mr. Longoria: I think it’s important for us – because we’re gonna pass this tonight
because it’s the thing to do, it makes sense, it’s the right thing to
do, but I’m worried that we’re gonna continue to pass this, and it’s
gonna go out until summer of next year, and so, I wanna make sure
people understood that it’s, again, not just a sinkhole or a black
hole, whatever you wanna call it, in terms of information going in
and nothing coming out. We’ve been very open and transparent
about what’s going on.
Mr. Mohrig: If I may, very quickly, to your point, there’s been other things in
the ordinance – for instance, the ordinance in its early iterations set
forth a standing declaration that we could have Zoom meetings, so
sort just the operations – you may recall early on, we shut down
some of the policymaking that we did to make sure that we did not
do anything that the citizens could not come and be a participant
in, so it even went into things like that, and even the ordinance
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now basically provides some flexibility with respect to citizen
engagement remotely.
For instance, at the beginning of this meeting, just to see a
manifestation of that, there was an email that got to be read. I don’t
know that the individual is actually here physical – it was on
Zoom, okay. The simple point, though, is I think we’re leaning
forward, trying to allow unique action in an extraordinary time,
and that is also bound within the four corners of this ordinance.
Mayor Lockwood: Any other questions? I’ll open up for a motion with –
Councilmember Bentley has recused herself, so I’ll open up a
motion.
Mr. Longoria: Mayor, I move that we approve Agenda Item No. 20-312.
Ms. Cookerly: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Longoria
with a second from Councilmember Cookerly. All in favor, please
say aye.
Several: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: Any opposed? That’s unanimous, with Councilmember Bentley
abstaining. Okay, if our city – let’s see. We’ll move on to council
discussion. Do we have any council discussion? Councilmember
Jamison.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve
Agenda Item 20-312. Councilmember Cookerly seconded the
motion. The motion passed (5-0). Councilmember Bentley
abstained from the vote. Councilmember Moore was absent from
the meeting.
COUNCIL REPORTS
Mr. Jamison: Mayor and council, I had an issue that came up last week with a
resident, and I talked to staff, and I feel it’s appropriate to talk to
y’all to maybe get your blessing and talk to staff. The issue was –
I’ll have Bob come up and maybe help me on this, but this was a
second time in two months where a resident tries to put in a pool,
and the way their property is platted, their front yard is actually
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their back yard and their back yard is actually their front yard, and
so, for them to put in a pool in their back yard, it has to get a
variance.
And so, trying to explain that to a resident is extremely frustrating.
For them to have to go through the variance process, it takes
another two months – time, money – and I think, talking to staff,
there is a few of these instances that have been coming about to
where it’s really taking more time and energy for something that’s
extremely easy, and it’s something to where it shouldn’t be going
to the Board of Zoning Appeals for something like that, and maybe
you can help me explain a little better, since –
Mr. Buscemi: Mayor, council. So, there are several items that come in repeatedly
over the years that we’ve been tracking. One of them is this
particular kind of flag lot – what constitutes front yard regarding
where they actually end up putting their swimming pool. If they
actually put the swimming pool in the place that the code requires
it, it would literally be in the front yard – literally visually in the
front of their house, and everybody realizes that that’s just not
really what the code is intended to do.
We have others that come repeatedly, like playground structures –
do we really need to keep them 50 feet from the rear yard? People
are trying to – So, a lot of these items come in front of the BZA,
and they repeatedly get approved, and this being one of them. So,
with that, Councilmember Jamison is, I guess, suggesting that we
look from a staff perspective at these items that maybe are
repeatedly coming in and come back and maybe a presentation,
maybe, in a work session, and show you what they are, and how
often they’ve been repeated, and what the voting has been.
And then, maybe if the council thinks that they’re viable, they can
come up with a text amendment to clean them up so we don’t have
to keep having citizens go through this whole process and staff and
you all getting phone calls.
Mr. Jamison: I understand where they’re coming from, and you explain it very
well, Bob.
Ms. Cookerly: That’s clear, and why don’t we just go straight to a text – why do
we have to do a work session on it?
Mr. Buscemi: Oh, it’s fine.
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Ms. Cookerly: Why don’t we just go to a text amendment? That is a clear, easy
problem to understand.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. I’d like to call it a common-sense – give staff the ability to
have a common-sense text amendment, and to this point in the
situation you’re talking about, in a nutshell, it’s like Bob
explained.
Technically, the property is reversed, but the reality is to put the
pool behind the house in the back yard in what everybody knows
and perceives as the back yard is technically the front yard because
of the way the lot was platted, so in those type situations, it would
be nice if staff had the ability administratively to say, “Aha, this is
obvious common sense as is,” versus having a citizen – to Peyton’s
point – have to explain to them why they have to go through
months of this and expense and all that of going through a variance
when they’re gonna put the pool in the back yard instead of the
front yard. So, it’s the opposite, so I think that’s the point you’re
trying to make.
Mr. Jamison: Yeah, and I think – maybe Carol’s point was the work session
might be not really for this, but I think there’s multiple ones, so
maybe council might not be in favor of some of the other ones, but
I think this one is easy.
Ms. Cookerly: Maybe we can deduct this one from that.
Mr. Buscemi: We can proceed with this one right away, and if we need to, we
can always come back to some of the other ones and just have
council take a look at them and see if they – most of them are like
this. They’re pretty cut and dry, and pretty simple, and they’re just
– I mean, common sense. When you look at them, I don’t think
anybody would disagree, and it’d still be subject to some sort of
administrative approval by staff.
Mayor Lockwood: I agree, and this is similar to – a few years back, we looked at
some of the agricultural-type things, and we asked staff, “Bring to
us what you guys are seeing that comes before us that really
doesn’t make sense and is really working against what the vision
that we had,” i.e. we’re looking for agricultural, equestrian-looking
properties, but our ordinance is saying you can’t put a barn here,
you can’t do this and that, so it’s frustrating people and they’re
splitting lots and building houses instead. This is the same kind of
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example. If you can be looking at other things that are working
against what I think the city’s vision is and whatnot, then we can
look at those things too.
Mr. Buscemi: So, what I’ll do is I’m gonna proceed right away on this particular
item, and then we’ll make a list of some of the other ones.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, thank you. Anybody else in council have any –? Okay.
Ms. Bentley: I just wanna make a comment about what the city went through
this past week and our response to it. Several people are in the
room – public works, fire, the city manager was boots on the
ground on Friday, and I really appreciate it. It was worse than I
think we thought it would be, but our response was extraordinary,
so, thank everyone that had –
Ms. Cookerly: Yeah, it was great. Thank you, Laura.
Mayor Lockwood: Yeah, thank you guys, and everybody behind the scenes, and
everything they did. I think basically, in talking to the power
companies, Georgia got hit the hardest – I think overall, the hardest
state out of any of the states, just the spread and depth of it. All
right, we’ll move on to staffers’ reports, and we’ll start with public
works.
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
1. Public Works
Mr. Drewry: Good evening, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Lockwood: Evening.
Mr. Drewry: That is actually the first thing I wanna talk about, is Tropical Storm
Zeta response. Obviously, this was a public works, police, and fire
response, but I wanted to specifically talk about public works
tonight. I certainly don’t wanna take anything away from fire and
police. But, you’re absolutely correct, that was a big surprise to us
when they came. We knew it was coming, we were expecting the
winds, and I do believe that Public Works stepped up and was
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phenomenal.
We only had four staff that really responded, and unfortunately, I
was out of town, but I’ve gotta give credit to Mr. Roddy Motes,
Matt Fostrum, Sarah Lieders, and Jay Hadid of our staff. They
were just outstanding. Add to that, we had Parks and Recreation –
the whole staff of Parks and Recreation – help us, and at least the
first night of the storm, that would be Tom McKlveen and Thomas
Rodes.
Gotta give a shout-out to Tri Scapes, Incorporated, our
maintenance and operation contractor. They were just phenomenal.
They supplied all the equipment needs that we had, and at one
point, I think they had 12 employees just for Milton alone, so it
was just a tremendous response by staff, and quite frankly, I’m
very proud of them.
We’ve estimated over 60 trees fell in the City of Milton. One of
my staff members said it was way over that, but we seemed to be
around 60-65 trees. Forty of those trees actually blocked roads, and
17 of those 40 actually had the power lines wrapped up in it, which
was a lot of the delay, as you know. We’re gonna be picking up –
the roads are clear, you know that as well, but we’ll be picking up
the debris for some time to come. We’re also gonna find some
leaners and some hangers out there. Please let us know if you see
any of those, particularly over the roadway, but they’re gonna be
out there. We’ll see those in the coming days.
Traffic signals fared very well. We obviously lost power to most
our signals – I think we had about 15 signals. The battery backups
engaged, but they only held for a certain period of time before they
completely went out. We did have a little internal damage to one of
our signals, but that was relatively minor and not uncommon –
very common.
This was not a rain event, although we did get over three inches of
rain from Thursday to Sunday, but I don’t think – other than
saturating the ground, I don’t think it really was a stormwater
event. Our gravel roads held up very well. As a matter of fact, I
don’t think we got any calls for gravel road washouts. I’m sure
they happened, but they were very minimal. So, I just wanted to
throw those out there just to let you know that Public Works stood
up to the plate.
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Currently, we have contractors starting – as you can probably see,
they’re going to start clearing the Hopewell roundabout projects,
and they’re gonna start underground utility delivery locations, so
it’s gonna take some time, but you’ll see some activity out there.
The Cogburn Road sidewalk should be starting this month as well.
The resurfacing projects – Hopewell looks beautiful. The full depth
reclamation went very well. We got a few punch list items on
Hopewell, but for the most part, they’re done there on Hopewell
and have been moving over and working on Providence – New
Providence now – for a few days, and they’ll be out there for a
couple more weeks, but they’re doing their thing and they’re
moving right along. The storm did delay them a few days, but they
should be fine. The resurfacing work at the Hopewell Place and
Sunnybrook Farms is completed as well as part of that project.
The mobile app – you know we have a Milton app that you can
download for work orders. Just to give you an update, we’ll be
rolling out an updated Milton app. It’s gonna be a little bit easier to
use for the residents, and it’s probably gonna have a lot more
capabilities than just reporting a work order, so our software
vendor is working on that, and we should be seeing those come out
fairly soon, so I’ll give you a report, and I’m sure we’ll roll them
out to the public as well.
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve updated our kiosk in the main lobby.
It’s well over time – it’s been several years – and new information,
so just when you walk by, just notice that. That was actually a
Dennis Miller project. You know Dennis is retired from the City of
Milton.
Finally, we have one project out to bid, and that is the street
sweeping. Actually, they opened this afternoon – the bids opened
this afternoon – and we’re evaluating those, but I will tell you it
appears that the bids are gonna be within budget. Any questions?
Mayor Lockwood: Not a question, but again, just to Laura’s point, thank you for your
team all they had to do. I was talking to a citizen, and they were
complimenting the city on response, and I also brought up the fat
that even when we occasionally have the snowstorm or the ice
storm, and we usually get, generally, a lot of compliments versus
our peers from our citizens, I had to explain – you guys do a really
good job at using what you have to deal with a situation like that,
whether it’s this big storm or a snow and ice thing or whatever
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because as I explained to the citizen, you’ve gotta appreciate you
guys working hard with what you have, but the fact that you really
– as a taxpayer, we really wouldn’t want you to go out and buy 20
snowplows and have them sitting idle for three years and paying to
maintain it for just that one time, and same kind of thing with a
storm like this.
We’re not prepared to handle this every month or whatever, but my
point is I wanna thank you guys and compliment you on the ability
of what you can do when the going gets tough. Y’all really stepped
up, so thank you.
Mr. Drewry: I’ll be sure to pass that along. Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: All right. Chief Edgar?
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
1. Fire
Chief Edgar: Mayor, council, normally, I would stand up here and tell you about
the number of babies we delivered or the number of puppies we
have saved, but tonight, I wanna say thank you. This will be the
last time I will stand up here as the Milton fire chief, and I have
proudly worn this uniform for 12 years. It has been my pleasure to
serve and work with this council, past councilmembers, the Milton
community, city employees and the men and women of the Milton
Fire and Rescue Department.
I believe we made great strides as a department. We’ve developed
an advanced EMS system with highly skilled medical
professionals, outstanding firefighters who understand teamwork
and who always go out of their way to serve this community. We
have improved our ISO rating, supported MDA, acquired state-of-
the-art equipment, and have built or are building amazing facilities.
We increased our educational requirements for the future leaders
of this department. We have diversified our staff. We have a great
community outreach program, a fire prevention program, and an
emergency management program. We have taken proactive
approaches for firefighter wellness and protecting our firefighters
against cancer, and most recently managed our response to the
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pandemic.
So, this may sound a little cliché, but you always wanna leave a
place better than when you found it, and I think we have done that,
and I say “we” a lot in here because it takes a team, and it’s not
one person, it’s not me, it’s the entire department that has come
together and really made this department outstanding. So, thank
you for your support, and thank you for allowing me to be a part of
this. I appreciate it. [Applause]
Mayor Lockwood: Chief Edgar, I just wanna again say thank you. I don’t think we
could have – City of Milton could have had a better fire chief for
the last 12 years. You’re great about saying “we,” which is
important, and I know there’s a lot of “we” in everything that’s
been accomplished, but you’ve certainly been the leader on that,
and have definitely left the City of Milton and the department –
and, again, as we look around, not only just the buildings, but the
culture, and when you look at all the guys on your team, it says a
lot.
So, we’re gonna miss you, but we’re also fortunate to have had you
this long, and we wish you well in your next phase of life, and
we’ll have to go down and go fishing with you sometime.
Ms. Cookerly: Congratulations.
Mr. Buscemi: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Greg, can you top that one?
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
1. Communications
Mr. Botelho: I’m not retiring today. I’ve only been here 10 months. But first, I
do wanna say thank you – I came here 10 months ago; people like
Chief Edgar and his team really have worked with me and been
just so generous, and I think everyone here – it’s not – speaking for
the city staff, I know everyone will say thank you for everything,
and also for just being a good guy and being there for us, and it
echoes throughout the team.
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One thing we do all have in common – while the firefighters and
Public Works were out there slaving through that storm, I was in
the basement, but we did put out – in a roughly 24-hour span, we
put out 22 tweets, 20 Facebook posts, not just road closure,
electricity updates, city status updates, things like that, thanking
Chik-Fil-A and utility workers, and also public service
announcements about safe burning, generator safety, and things
like that.
I bring that up partly because Communications is not just about the
bells and whistles and things like that; it’s to make sure people are
engaged and informed, and when they needed to do this – and, this
is not just the only example. The week before that, we had a water
main break, gas line rupture, [inaudible] [01:02:45] because a car
hit a fire hydrant. That’s the kind of stuff that people turn to us.
So, the thing about that, though, is it actually drives up our
audience. Just in the last 28 days, we had over 110% more – for
Twitter alone, tweet impressions over 160% more, profile visits or
mentions went up over 90%, so we’re actually building the
audience by being responsive, and that’s not just about me, that’s
about everyone on this team and everyone in the city who’s
feeding the information, sending me photos, giving me ideas for
public service messages, and things like that.
So, I wanna thank everyone, and really, one of the things we do
which is unique is we work really with all our departments, so just
now, we’re working with Parks and Rec about our wall of fame
honorees. We have daily posts about that. We’re showcasing our
new 911 alert learning system with Fire. We’re partnering with
Police on the Halloween event, and then, the book drive they’re
doing, working with Community Development on comprehensive
plan process, among other people. I have a really hands-on role in
the strategic plan process, and we’re teaming up with Public
Works on many things, including road reconstruction details, and
we’re gonna revamp our projects page, and there’s a lot more.
Another thing, too, is we’re just trying to showcase things in
different ways. So, this week, we’re gonna relaunch our YouTube
page, which has had 15 original videos in the last eight months or
so. By comparison, we usually have one or two a year, so we’re
trying to just reach people in the different mediums.
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So, there’s a lot going on. As anyone who’s been at my staff
meetings knows, I keep on saying all this stuff. There are a lot of
little things, but I just love it. Thank you very much for being
supportive.
Mayor Lockwood: Thank you very much.
Ms. Bentley: I have a remark on the generator safety. That one was shocking to
see how you could blow yourself up and whatnot.
Mr. Botelho: Yeah, and unfortunately, we have too many examples around of
some bad things too.
Ms. Bentley: Thank you.
Mr. Botelho: Thank you.
ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Lockwood: Thanks. All right, is there anything else, staff or council? Then, I’ll
open for a motion to adjourn.
Ms. Cookerly: Mayor, I make a motion that we adjourn.
Mr. Mohrig: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: All right. I have a motion from Councilmember Cookerly with a
second from Councilmember Mohrig to adjourn. All in favor,
please say aye.
Several: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: That’s unanimous.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Moore moved to adjourn the
city council meeting at 7:06 pm. Councilmember Cookerly
seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember
Moore was absent from the meeting.
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Date Approved: December 7, 2020
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Sudie AM Gordon, City Clerk Joe Lockwood, Mayor