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Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council
Monday, May 24, 2021
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CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Lockwood: I would like to call the Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council
for Monday, May 24`h, 2021 to order. The City strongly
recommends that you review tonight's agenda carefully and if you
wish to speak on any item on the Agenda, then please bring your
comment cards to the Clerk as soon as possible. While the Milton
rules allow a speaker to turn in their comment card up until the
Clerk calls the agenda item, once the agenda item is called no more
comment cards can be accepted.
So if the City Clerk will call roll and make the general
announcements.
ROLL CALL
City Clerk: Good evening Mayor and Council, I will be happy to call roll for
the May 24, 2021 regular meeting. I would like to remind those in
attendance to please silence all cell phones at this time. Those
attending the meeting who would like to make a public comment,
you are required to complete a public comment card prior to
speaking on the item. Your comment card must be presented to the
City Clerk prior to the agenda item being called. All speakers
please identify yourself by name, address, and organization before
beginning your comment. If you are representing an organization,
an affidavit is required stating you have the authority to speak on
behalf of that organization.
Please review tonight's agenda and if you would like to make a
comment please bring your comment card to me now.
Demonstration of any sort within the chamber is prohibited. Please
refrain from any applause, cheering, booing, outburst, or dialogue
with any person speaking. Anyone in violation will be asked to
leave. As I call roll this evening please confirm your attendance.
Mayor Joe Lockwood.
Mayor Lockwood: Here.
City Clerk: Councilmember Peyton Jamison.
Mr. Jamison: Here.
City Clerk: Councilmember Paul Moore.
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Mr. Moore: Here.
City Clerk: Councilmember Laura Bentley.
Ms. Bentley: Here.
City Clerk: Councilmember Carol Cookerly.
Ms. Cookerly: Here.
City Clerk: Councilmember Joe Longoria.
Mr. Longoria: Here.
City Clerk: And Councilmember Rick Mohrig.
Mr. Mohrig: Here.
Mayor: Mayor Lockwood present.
Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Peyton Jamison, Councilmember
Paul Moore, Councilmember Laura Bentley, Councilmember Carol Cookerly,
Councilmember Joe Longoria, and Councilmember Rick Mohrig.
Councilmember(s) Absent:
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
City Clerk: Would everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance?
All in unison: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA
Mayor Lockwood: I want to welcome and thank everybody for being here tonight.
And if our City Clerk will please sound the next item?
City Clerk: That item is Approval of the Meeting Agenda. Agenda Item No.
21-148. Mayor?
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Do I have a motion for approval of the agenda or is there
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anything that anybody needs to change or add? Okay, I'll open up.
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the Agenda.
Mr. Moore: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Bentley
and a second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please say
aye.
All in unison: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve the Meeting
Agenda. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (7-
0).
CONSENT AGENDA
Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Do we have any general public comment
tonight, Tammy?
City Clerk: I do not have any, no sir.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, then I spare you the rules. We'll move onto the Consent
Agenda, if the City Clerk will please read those items aloud.
City Clerk: Thank you, Mayor. First item is Approval of the Financial
Statements and Investment Report for the Period Ending March
2021, Agenda Item No. 21-149.
Our next item, Approval of an Agreement for Outside Providers
and Facility Use Agreement between the City of Milton and
Rhythm and Shoes Dance to Provide Dance Classes and Camps,
Agenda Item No. 21-150.
Next, Approval of a Professional Services Agreement between the
City of Milton and Heath & Lineback Engineers, Inc. for Clarity
Road Bridge Analysis, Agenda Item No. 21-151.
Our fourth item, Approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement
between the Fulton County Board of Education and the City of
Milton for a Five -Year Agreement to Use Friendship Park, Located
on the Crabapple Crossing Campus for Recreational Purposes,
Agenda Item No. 21-152.
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Our fifth item, Approval of the Submittal of an Application by the
City of Milton for a Potential Internship Opportunity with the
Atlanta Regional Commission's Sustainable Connections Program,
Agenda Item No. 21-153.
Our sixth item, Approval of a Services Agreement between the
'--City of Milton and 5 Seasons Mechanical, LLC for HVAC
Maintenance and On -Call Services, Agenda Item No. 21-154.
Our seventh item, Approval of a Contract with Ten -8 Fire &
Safety, LLC for the Provision of a Ladder -Pumper Fire Apparatus
(or.Quint) to the Milton Fire -Rescue Department, Agenda Item No.
21-155.
Our next item, Approval of Subdivision Plats. The first
development is Kilarney Investment, LLC at 610 and 620 Dorris
Road, land lot 920 and 953 at district 2, section 2. It is a Minor
Plat subdividing one parcel into two tracts with a total of 5.14
acres and 0.39 lots per acre in density. Our second development,
Dog Trot Farms, Hopewell Road, land lot 534, district 2, section 2.
It's a Minor Plat subdividing one parcel into three tracts, a total of
7.531 acres with a density of 0.40 lots per acre. Our third
development is Yarbrough Property at 15330 Hopewell Road land
lots 474, 475, 534, 535, district 2, section 2. It's a Minor Plat
platting of property the City acquired and deeded for the Hopewell
Road at Thompson Road intersection round -a -bout a total of 10.25
acres. Agenda Item No. 21-156.
Mayor Lockwood.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Do I have a motion on the Consent Agenda?
Mr. Longoria: Mayor, I move that we approve the Consent Agenda as read.
Mr. Mohrig: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion from Councilmember Longoria with a second from
Councilmember Mohrig. All in favor please say aye.
All in unison: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve the Consent
Agenda as read. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. The motion
passed (7-0).
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Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Tonight we don't have any Reports and
Presentations items so we'll move onto our First Presentation.
Tammy if you will please read those out.
FIRST PRESENTATION
City Clerk: Thank you, Mayor. That first item is Consideration of a Zoning
Text Amendment RZ21-0505 — Sec. 64 Article XIX Crabapple
Form Based Code, 6-1 Definitions, Table 9 (As it relates to
breweries/distilleries), Agenda Item No. 21-157.
Our next item, Consideration of Zoning Text Amendment RZ21-
06 — Sec. 64 Article XX Deerfield Form Based Code, 6-1
Definitions, Table 10 (As it relates to breweries/distilleries),
Agenda Item No. 21-158.
Our third item, Consideration of RZ21-07 -14140 Freemanville
Road by Vio Hodis to Rezone from AG -1 to CUP (Community
Unit Plan) on 9.079 Acres to Develop a Six (6) Lot Single Family
Residential Subdivision. — Applicant has Requested
WITHDRAWAL and Planning Commission (PC) Recommended
WITHDRAWAL, Agenda Item No. 21-159.
Our fourth item is Consideration of U21-OINC21-03 - 2105
Bethany Way (containing multiple parcels) for a total of 18.07
acres by The PFAJ Revocable Trust dated 2/17/2019 to request a
Use Permit for "Agricultural Related Activities", Sec. 64-1797 and
a two-part concurrent variance.
The first is to allow the existing parking areas, wood pavilion,
horse arenas, and driveways within the 100 -foot activity setback
(Sec. 64-1797(d)).
The second is to allow the structures housing animals to be located
within 100 feet of a property line (Sec. 64-1797(e)), Agenda Item
No. 21-160.
Our fifth item is consideration of U21-02 — 2105 Bethany Way
(containing multiple parcels) for a Total of 18.07 Acres by The
PFAJ Revocable Trust Dated 2/17/2019 to Request a Use Permit
for Rural Event Facility, Sec. 64-1842, Agenda Item No. 21-161.
Our sixth item, consideration of U21-03NC21-04 — 2105 Bethany
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Way (containing multiple parcels) for a total of 18.07 acres by the
PFAJ Revocable Trust dated 2/17/2019 to Request a Use Permit
for Festivals or Events, Indoor/Outdoor, Sec. 64-1812 and the
following 7 -part concurrent variance.
Number one to delete the requirement for an eight -foot -high 100 -
percent opaque fence adjacent to residential districts or AG -1
Districts used for single-family dwellings (Sec 64-1812(b)(2)).
The second one, to allow the existing parking within the 100 feet
from a residential district or AG -1 districts used for single family
dwellings (Sec 64-1812(b)(4)).
The third, to eliminate the three-year period from the date of the
city council's approval (Sec 64-1812(b)(6)).
The fourth item, to allow the 10 -foot -wide strip along all public
streets to be planted with the existing landscaping/vegetation along
Bethany Way and Hopewell Road (Sec 64-1142(a)(1)).
Fifth, to reduce or eliminate the 75 -foot -wide undisturbed buffer or
alternative screening design, with a ten -foot improvement setback
adjacent to all AG -1 zoning districts where existing structures,
driveways, activity areas, and parking are shown on the site plan
(Sec. 64-1142(a)(3)b.).
Sixth, to eliminate sidewalks along Bethany Way and Hopewell
Road (Sec. 64-1142(e)).
And seventh, to allow for a lighting plan without light pole
installation (Sec. 64-1142 (f)), Agenda Item No. 21-162.
Mayor.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, do I have a motion on the First Presentation?
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the First Presentation
items as read.
Mr. Moore: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion from Councilmember Bentley with a second from
Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please say aye.
All: Aye.
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Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve the First
Presentation items as read. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The
motion passed (7-0).
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Mayor Lockwood: It's unanimous. Okay, we don't have any Public Hearing or
Zoning Agenda items tonight so we are going to move on to
Unfinished Business. If the City Clerk will please call the first
item.
City Clerk: That first item is Consideration of an Ordinance to Amend Chapter
46, Article III of the Milton Solid Waste Ordinance to Provide
Additional Standards for Companies Seeking to Provide Waste
Hauling Services in City Limits, Agenda Item No. 21-163, Ms.
Teresa Stickels.
Ms. Stickels: Good evening Mayor and Council. I have some minor updates to
bring before you for your consideration tonight for Chapter 46 of
the Solid Waste Ordinance. You'll recall that last week Bernadette
was in front of you to discuss infrastructure fees. I'm going to
mention those a couple of times, but that is not anything that is in
this update, so that was a totally different discussion and anything
proposed in that discussion is not included in this so if you can
totally silo those two things. And I say that and of course I am
going to mention infrastructure fees a couple of times here.
So just as a reminder, our Solid Waste Ordinance has three articles.
The first one is just general definitions. The second article is litter
control and you all updated that. I believe Robert Drewry was in
front of you in November of 2020 and you did an update to that
portion of the Solid Waste Ordinance. Then article three is what
we are going to talk about tonight and that has to do with
collection services. It talks about what's expected of the waste
haulers. It primarily talks about the City's relationship with the
waste haulers. So the reason the update is even happening is that
there have been issues for years about administering this
ordinance. It just needed some tweaks and we do understand that
CPAC has that there has been a lot of feedback and maybe we
need to review Solid Waste as an entire subject in the City. But
that will take a little time and we don't know what the outcome of
that would be, don't want to presuppose that. So in the meantime,
I spoke to Sarah VanVolkenburgh about whether there are ways
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we can tighten up the ordinance to help improve the oversight of
the haulers.
So the way it is administered now, this third article, there is the
infrastructure fee part of it and that is handled out of Finance and
Bernadette talked a little bit about that last week at the Work
Session. The other part of it is the contract renewal between the
City and the individual haulers and that originally back in the day
oddly enough Matt Marietta used to do that. I don't know if any of
you all remember him coming before you with issues related to the
Solid Waste Ordinance. But once the Sustainability Coordinator,
my predecessor, was hired, it was given to her. And then when I
took the job I inherited it so that portion of it, the annual
paperwork, resides in ComDev.
So the changes that I am bringing before you are administrative in
nature. I think they are very minor and I hope they will help me,
help the City staff, administer it, but they are not that controversial.
But since it is an ordinance change, of course you to review it and
you weigh in on it. In' the redline that you have there are some
sections that I will go over, but in addition to that there are
occasional words that are changed and that was just Legal's
review, they can't help themselves to want to make it better and
more concise. So some of those changes, just a word here and
there, Sarah suggested those just to make it more concise or more
consistent in language. I'm not going to talk about any of those
changes. If you want to ask me about any of those, that is fine.
The proposed changes, the first one is in section 46-65. It will
improve the collection of the annual paperwork by having the term
of the contract begin each year July 1St and end on June 30th of the
following year. And I know this is not gripping, but the way it
works now is I send them paperwork after the first quarter
infrastructure fees are due, just to make sure everybody is paid up
through the previous year and its renewal paperwork. Some of
them reply right away, some of them I have to give them a notice
or sometimes a second notice. It can be an ongoing game to chase
the paperwork down. So I may have some renewals that are done
in March and some that aren't done until August. So we have this
sort of moving slate of contracts. And we're intending to tighten
up the oversight of the ordinance and that's also related to the
infrastructure fees so we want everybody to have a drop dead date,
actually that's probably not a good term. We want them to have a
hard and fast date of July 1St for their paperwork. If their
paperwork is not in on July 1St, then the ordinance will give us the
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ability to start the clock right then, they will get a notice from our
attorneys that they're not in compliance and we are going to try to .
train them to be more responsive to us.
One of the things that the annual paperwork contains that I think is
the most important part of it, is their proof of insurance. So we
need every year to make sure those big trucks that are barreling
around the City are properly insured under our ordinance.
The second addition allows a mutual termination of the contract.
This didn't exist in the ordinance before and may not seem like
that big a deal, but if a company decides that it doesn't have
enough customers or for whatever reason wants to pull out of
Milton, the intention here, first of all, was to give them a process to
do that. So we would come before Council and let you know that
they ask to leave the City, to end the contract. But also the hope is
that we would be able to give all the customers 30 days notice. So
that exists to give them a timeline if they decide it's not profitable
for them to operate in Milton, for whatever reason, then they
hopefully would come before us and would allow 30 days notice
for their customers.
Now there may be a scenario where there's some dramatic change
of circumstance and say the company simply goes bankrupt or
something like that, you know then 30 days notice may not be
possible. We recognize that but we just put it in here to sort of
encourage the best behavior. I think in talking through this with
Sarah VanVolkenburgh it's very hard to create an ordinance that
can stop all the bad actors from misbehaving because you have to
write a million things and think ahead of them. But we can write
toward probably the average behavior and so this is one of those
instances where we're trying to just encourage them to think about
their customers and give them that extra time if they decide they're
not going to operate here.
So the last three really that's been that will allow us to collect
additional information from haulers so that we can improve our
ability to serve notices as well as collect unpaid fees.
So if we have a company that leaves Milton and has unpaid fees
and they desire to return or they return with a different company
name, but the same principles we have mechanisms they have to
now tell us their previous four years of company names and all the
principles and they would not be allowed to come back to the City
unless they paid all those unpaid fees from before.
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So again it's just this is supposed to improve the oversight of the
administration of the ordinance, that is my intention. That was my
intention of coming to Sarah to try to tighten it up a little bit. I
can't promise that's going to be the ultimate outcome, but I think
this is a step in the right direction. Any questions about this
incredibly gripping subject?
Mr. Longoria: Hey, it's important.
Ms. Stickels: It's very important.
Mr. Longoria: Teresa, the method of renewal. Are we allowing the people who
are signing up to get that done either in person, by mail, or online?
Ms. Stickels: You mean the haulers?
Mr. Longoria: Yes.
Ms. Stickels: Historically we've done it by mail.
Mr. Longoria: Do we give them the option to do it online?
Ms. Stickels: You know we don't collect email addresses for the companies.
Mr. Longoria: There's not an automated form through our website that allows for
the collection of the information that we need, if we have all of the
process to be automated?
Ms. Stickels: We have the form online that they can fill out. Even the quarterly
infrastructure fee form that Bernadette was talking about is not
generated online.
Mr. Longoria: So we do it by mail or they come into the office and do it in
person.
Ms. Stickels: And some do that because they don't have
Mr. Longoria: You were talking about training. I like the term incenting good
behavior. Do you have a penalty if they file late? Do we ramp that
up the later they get?
Ms. Stickels: Well we don't in this version. Basically that was the idea by
making July Is` that hard deadline. There are two components.
I'm not talking about the infrastructure fee in any of these changes,
but in order to be compliant they have to both complete the annual
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paperwork from me and I have to check with Finance and make
sure there are no outstanding fees. So the idea would be, if July 2"d
I don't have that paperwork or they still owe money, then Legal
sends them a letter that lets them know they are out of compliance.
The ordinance actually tells you what you have to do if you want
to call a hauler in. They get a 30 day notice.
Mr. Longoria: We have two competitive haulers. One does everything by the
book, on time and the other is always late and we never get all the
information that we need out of them. Why would this person
want to be this person other than they have some kind of internal
rigor that requires it.
Ms. Stickels: Sleep well at night, yeah. That's a great point.
Mr. Longoria: My point is if there is no penalty, there's no incentive for them to
comply. I'm not a guy who likes to penalize everybody like if you
deal with that behavior and there's real liability for the hauler if
they are operating without some of the requirements and there's
problems that are associated with that. It could be difficult for our
citizens and we don't want to allow that.
Ms. Stickels: There's a late fee and entrance charged when they are overdue on
their infrastructure fees. That's already in the ordinance. And the
ordinance says basically if we consider someone in material breach
of the ordinance, that would be late on fees, not providing service,
not doing
Mr. Longoria: Does it happen very often?
Ms. Stickels: That they are in material breach?
Mr. Longoria: How many people are late? We've only got 25 companies that we
deal with, right?
Ms. Stickels: Yeah. We have one or two chronic late haulers. One or two
chronic ones.
Mr. Longoria: Okay, you also mentioned this idea of we need to make sure they
are covered from an insurance point of view. Is there an umbrella
type policy that we really concern ourselves with? We're not
really looking to make sure every one of their vehicles is insured,
right?
Ms. Stickels: They send us a Certificate of Liability and the City's name is an
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additional insured. There is one in particular that's chronically
behind on paperwork and I have twisted arms, I typically get that
from him. Even if he doesn't give me anything else, because like I
said I view that as the most important thing that they give me.
Mr. Longoria: I have one other question; you're going to think it is strange. Does
any of the paperwork that they turn in, does it have to be
notarized?
Ms. Stickels: There's an affidavit that they do notarize. And what the affidavit
says is that this company agrees to be bound by the terms of our
Solid Waste Ordinance. So when they sign that they are saying
that they will do everything that the Ordinance requires them to do,
which includes recycling.
Mr. Longoria: This is just a renewal of a contract that they sign years ago
potentially.
Ms. Stickels: Using the word contract is a little odd because it's not like there
was a contract that was brought before Council like the normal
contracts that you see.
Mr. Longoria: That's okay. The reason I was asking that question is believe it or
not I've gotten calls from business owners in our City that
complain about the fact that everything that they did with the City
has to be notarized and that they they show up sometimes and if
they don't have it notarized, then they have to leave and come
back, we don't have a notary that can operate, it's a mess so that's
the only reason I really wanted to know that.
Ms. Stickels: It was a real problem in 2020. It really was. When my paperwork
went out it was in the thick of the early days of the lockdown. I
had these big companies who are usually very responsive and they
understand the importance of this kind of paperwork, they were
calling me saying we're not allowed in the office. We can't figure
out how we can get this notarized.
Mr. Longoria: Hopefully we never have to revisit 2020 again. Thank you.
Ms. Stickels: You're welcome.
Mayor Lockwood: Any other questions? Laura?
Ms. Bentley: So if they are late with their application for the next year currently
there is no penalty.
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Ms. Stickels: There is no penalty, like fee, like a dollar amount. The penalty is if
we choose to tell them they are in material breach of the
Ordinance, it starts this big long clock. We have to give them a 30
day notice to respond and if they don't at that point then they get a
20 day notice of a hearing before Council. Then you all can, I
always tell them they can come in and explain to you all why they
aren't paying their fees or submitting their paperwork. At that
point, you can choose to give them more time or you can terminate
their contract and kick them out of the City. Within memory we
have had to do that for previous hauler.
Ms. Bentley: The things that you propose seem very reasonable and thanks for
your expert insider information. Hope they can get their stuff in. I
don't remember any one coming before us in the past.
Mr. Longoria: Like eight years ago.
Ms. Bentley: Okay, sorry.
Ms. Stickels: Ten years ago you removed one hauler and maybe two years ago
there was another one. I don't know if you remember. Only two
in the history of the City.
Mayor Lockwood: Any other questions?
Mr. Longoria: I just felt compelled to ask questions. Anybody who supplies us
with that deserves one or two questions.
Mayor Lockwood: Tammy, do we have any public comment?
City Clerk: Not on this item, no sir.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I'll open up for a motion.
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 21-
163.
Mr. Longoria: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: All in favor, say aye.
All: Aye.
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Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve Agenda Item No.
21-163. Councilmember Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed (7-
0).
NEW BUSINESS
Mayor Lockwood: That passes unanimous. We'll move onto New Business if Tammy
will please sound the next item.
City Clerk: That item is Consideration of an Intergovernmental Agreement
between the City of Milton, Georgia and the City of Alpharetta,
Georgia Regarding Joint Use of Municipal Court Facilities and
Shared Municipal Clerk Services, Agenda Item No. 21-164. Ms.
Stacey Inglis.
Ms. Inglis: Good evening Mayor and Council. I'm here to talk to you tonight
about the IGA you have before you to share our Municipal Court
facilities with the City of Alpharetta and to share our Municipal
Court Clerk. A little bit of background, back in September of 2020
the City Administrator of the City of Alpharetta approached our
City Manager about forming a partnership to collocate Court
services in our brand new Court facility that has just recently
finished and to also share a Municipal Court Clerk. Their Court
Clerk retired and so they were and they also potentially looking at
building a new facility. And they thought now would be a great
time to talk to the City of Milton about forming a partnership. We
started to do a feasibility study. We entered a short-term
agreement to give us some time to explore the feasibility of
collocating and sharing and that is just what we did.
So we looked at several focus areas that needed to be satisfied in
order for us to deem this a feasible project. First we looked at
space and furniture needs, spatial needs. We wanted to make sure
we had enough room to house their personnel as well as, the
Courts wanted to make sure the days they hold Court were
different from our days, that there was no rearranging of the
schedules. We wanted to figure out if we had to purchase
additional furniture, which we do. Alpharetta has four Deputy
Court Clerks or Record Clerks and a Court Clerk. We have space
for two so we would need to purchase two additional work
stations. We already had Court Clerk office space and the Judges'
furniture that is in the office that we currently have is a couch
basically so we needed to put a desk in there for better use of that
space. We contacted the same company that furnished the new
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buildings and got a price quote of $18,300 there about. Just
confirmed actually today right before I walked into the meeting
that that price is still good and is good through the end of June. So
that was great news.
The next thing we looked at was IT needs, the infrastructure needs
that we needed to make sure that their employees were able to
work in our facility. So we currently have a point-to-point
connection between the Public Safety Complex and the Alpharetta
911 center because they do our 911 services. So we looked at
possibly doing a fiber connection. Currently Alpharetta has a
connection at the Windward/Highway 9 intersection and so we
would be running a fiber down Highway 9 into the Milton Public
Safety Complex. Milton would also be able to tap into that. We
would get rid of the point-to-point connection and utilize this fiber
connection.
As far as other infrastructure needs, they would not be housing any
of the servers or anything in the City of Milton. We talked
between the IT departments about any Help Desk support or
anything that would be needed, hashed through who would be the
first point of contact for any kind of Help Desk support, how that
would go through and determine if that was feasible with
everything that was discussed.
The next thing we looked at was cashiering requirements. We
wanted to make sure that collocating two Court services in one
building and collecting payments on behalf of both Courts would
work well. And so we talked between, Brooke Lappin is here, we
talked between Brooke and our Finance department and went
through some of the processes of how payments would be handled,
who would handle them, would it be their employees, would it be
our employees? And we determined that each Court would be
handling their own payments, but there would be some cross -
training involved because if there's any needs, if our Deputy Court
Clerk is out one day and Brooke isn't available to take a payment
in the front, then one of the Alpharetta employees would stand up
in the front and vice versa. As far as banking requirements, both
Cities utilize the same bank, which is nice, and so we would be
able to take the deposits at the same time to the bank. The
software system that both Cities use is the same E -Court. I believe
Alpharetta is in the middle of implementing E -Court in their
facility right now or in their Court services. So both utilize the
same system. There could be dual sign -ons on one computer. And
the case numbers are different enough that you can't confuse the
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two. Credit card payments, the credit card machines can be
configured for each system so there is no comingling of funds
there and each City would operate their own cash drawer.
For personnel, since we are collocating in one facility there would
not be any additional personnel needed. With Alpharetta
employees coming into our facility, Alpharetta has agreed to
follow our personnel policies. We already talked about each Court
would handle their own Court operations, but there would be some
cross -training.
The last thing we looked at was cost considerations. We looked at
rent calculations, what would be a reasonable amount that we
could charge the City of Alpharetta for collocating in our facility.
So we talked to a leasing company that manages class A office and
found out in that area the average cost per square foot is between
25 and 28 dollars per square foot. We figured the square feet of
the new Court area and you can see there is 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The
only thing we did not include in the square footage calculation was
number 5 which is basically a shared lobby between Police and
Court. We thought that was fair to just use 1, 2, 3, and 4 Court
areas because those would be utilized the most. And then the
space allocation because Alpharetta operates three days a week for
Court and Milton operates two days a week for Court, a 60/40 cost
allocation is reasonable.
So if you apply the total square footage to the lowest average
square footage per class A office space in that area, $25, you come
up with $135,000 annually for the whole space. When you apply
the cost allocation 60/40, 60% would be Alpharetta's share. The
amount for the total rent for a year would be $81,300, per month
that would be almost $7,000 per month.
Looking at a cost -benefit, we wanted to apply what the annual rent
was and to what the cost would be for sharing Brooke with
Alpharetta, because now Brooke is an Alpharetta employee. Her
salary plus benefits would be roughly $156,000 per year. Our 40%
of her allocation would be around $62,000 per year. We do have
some budgetary savings because we did budget for a full-time
Clerk for the whole year at $112,500 and then we would do away
with that point-to-point connection which is about an $8,400 per
year cost. And so annually we would actually gain about $140,000
by doing this.
Of course there's budgetary concerns there, but annually we would
still work out to be the better. If you go forward it's about $13,000
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annually that we would gain.
The other cost -benefit to this is actually fulfilling the current Comp
Plan. There is a Plan priority in there that talks about partnering
opportunities with neighboring jurisdictions and the first objective
is to identify opportunities to share facilities and services, so this
fulfills that priority.
We did look at alternatives. We can return back to our normal
operation where we employee a full-time person, a full-time Court
Clerk. The pros would be complete control over court operations,
limited wear and tear on the new facility, no dependence on
another municipality. And the cons is the cost is higher, obviously
to employee a full-time Clerk versus sharing a Court Clerk.
Other cons I didn't list here would be a potentially damaging
relationship with the City of Alpharetta. You are about to actually
consider another IGA coming right after this item. And I don't
know how that would work out. I'm just saying, you could
damage future partnership opportunities. The other alternative is
to continue to share the Court Clerk, but not collocate, but we just
determined that was not feasible for Brooke to have to go back and
forth between the two facilities is just not feasible.
My recommendation is to move forward with the IGA being
considered tonight. This has already been approved by the City of
Alpharetta last Monday. And I'll be happy to answer any
questions.
Mayor Lockwood: Are there any questions?
Ms. Cookerly: I just had a comment. Thank you. I am very much in favor of this,
I appreciate this kind of streamlining which is in the benefit of all
the citizens. Well done.
Ms. Inglis: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: And also, Brooke, thank you for being here tonight. I assume it
will all work out good as far as physically for you and (Ms.
Lappin inaudible) all right, good thank you for working together
with us.
If there are no other comments, do we have any public comment?
City Clerk: No sir.
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Mayor Lockwood: I'll close the hearing and I'll open it for a motion.
Mr. Mohrig: I'll make a motion that we approve Agenda Item No. 21-164.
Ms. Cookerly: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion from Councilmember Mohrig and a second from
Councilmember Cookerly. All in favor please say aye.
All: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve Agenda Item No.
21-164. Councilmember Cookerly seconded the motion. The motion passed (7-
0).
Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous.
Ms. Inglis: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Thank you, Stacey. All right, Tammy if you will please call the
next New Business item.
City Clerk: That next item is Consideration of a Memorandum of
Understanding Between the City of Milton and the City of
Alpharetta to Waive Non -Resident Fees Associated with Youth
Football, Youth Softball and Therapeutic Summer Camps, Agenda
Item No. 21-165, Mr. Tom McKlveen.
Mr. McKlveen: Good evening Mayor and Council. What you have before you here
is a proposed MOU for your consideration with the City of Milton.
This MOU is a little different or a lot different than the previous
MOU that we had from 2012 to 2019. When I met with the
Alpharetta staff we were looking for an agreement that was
beneficial to both Cities without all the reporting and the transfer
of funds from City to City. So we were looking at specific
programs where it made sense. Those three programs were
Softball, Football, and our Special Needs Summer Camps that we
offer.
First up, we have the Youth Football program. Under this
proposed MOU, Milton would take the football programming for
both Cities. Right now, the way it is currently constructed our
football provider NAFL they have a contract with Alpharetta and
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they have a contract with us as well. Alpharetta would not renew
their contract and we would take the football programming. And
then the MOU would allow the Alpharetta residents to participate
in our football program. Alpharetta would not allow one of the
fields at North Park. Right now they allow two fields for football,
they would remove one of the fields from their usage and the City
of Milton would take on one field, an additional field.
Then we move into Youth Softball. Alpharetta would retain the
softball program and City of Milton residents could participate in
that program at the resident rate. We don't have any softball fields
right now so we wouldn't be able to contribute any softball fields
at this time, but the big kick is the Milton participants would be
considered residents in the travel softball program which really got
hit hard when the MOU expired because there was a lot of Milton
participation on the travel softball side.
And then the last is the special needs summer camps. Camp Joyful
Soles is the Milton program. We offer ages 13-22. Camp Happy
Hearts offers ages 6-12 so it was a no brainer marry there, we
could offer programming for both Cities at that resident rate to
help those families.
There is a minimal fiscal impact to this proposed MOU. And it's
the loss of non-resident fee collection. Roughly, a little bit less
than $6,000 per year between those two programs. And all the
reporting we had to do in the previous MOU took weeks for
multiple staff members so saves time on the staff level. And the
Milton residents and Alpharetta residents would be able to enjoy
all these programs at a more affordable rate. Any questions?
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions for Tom? Laura and Joe.
Ms. Bentley: I have a question just to help my memory. If I recall, girls softball
is dependent on the Cities really making up those teams there's not
enough really in just our City to make a viable softball league and I
do remember getting a lot of emails from softball parents. Is that
correct?
Mr. McKlveen: Yes, it's a rather small program even when the MOU was in place.
It wasn't a huge program and when it got broken up it made it hard
on Alpharetta to keep it going.
Ms. Bentley: Right, sounds good. Thank you.
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Mayor Lockwood: Okay, Joe.
Mr. Longoria: I appreciate you pointing out the amount of revenue the City looses
because we don't charge non-resident fees. Obviously there is a
portion of that or Alpharetta experiences the same thing for softball
and whatever the other program was. Is there any chance, because
we seem to be taking a baby step which I think is great, but we're
recognizing the fact that the close proximity of our Cities it leads
to not only some confusion, but some opportunity in terms of
providing service to everybody because there's obviously some
programs that the City of Milton has that Alpharetta citizens want
to use and there are some programs that the City of Alpharetta has
that Milton citizens want to use. Why don't we do away with this
residence fee all together? Non -residence fee rather. Rhetorical
question, you don't have to answer it. Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: All right. Anybody else? Paul.
Mr. Moore: Tom, in the first part of the presentation you talked about one
football field coming out of the equation. Can you help me
understand what's the rationale behind that? Why is it not going to
be used?
Mr. McKlveen: The NAFL program right now is very heavily Milton residents as it
is, roughly two-thirds of the participants are Milton residents and
only one-third of the allocated fields are in Milton. So part of
making it work with Alpharetta was if two-thirds of the program is
Milton residents, let's have two-thirds of the field allocation to
Milton fields.
Mr. Moore: So the three fields that will be used will be sufficient to
accommodate, nobody will be turned away from the program
based on the number of fields being used?
Mr. McKlveen: No.
Mr. Moore: Is that fourth field going to sit vacant?
Mr. McKlveen: There isn't a fourth. Two fields were Alpharetta, one was
provided by Milton so we're just flip-flopping who is providing the
fields. So there's still three fields being used.
Mr. Moore: Explain that to me again please.
Mr. McKlveen: In previous years, this past fall that just happened, two fields at
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North Park were being used for football and one field at Bell Park
was being used for football.
Mr. Moore: Right.
Mr. McKlveen: If we move forward with this MOU the amount of fields that each
would provide City would be flipped.
Mr. Moore: Yes, so there's one field then in Alpharetta that is not going to be
committed to the program.
Mr. McKlveen: Correct.
Mr. Moore: So my question still stands then. What is that field going to be
used for? You already answered there is no kid who won't be able
to play because of lack of space. The three fields should be
sufficient. Is the fourth field available if there is a make-up
practice or a make-up game if they get some sort of inclement
weather situation and they need to make up a game? Can that
fourth field come into play?
Mr. McKlveen: Potentially, yeah.
Mr. Moore: So it's not just off the table for some unusual reason.
Mr. McKlveen: And the amount, with the three fields we would have there would
be a lot of space available.
Mr. Moore: Great, thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Peyton.
Mr. Jamison: To Joe's point, I think this is a step in the right direction. I applaud
Alpharetta and Milton coming together and getting this done. I
think it's great.
Mayor Lockwood: I think it's beneficial to all of our citizens, Alpharetta and Milton.
Okay, do we have any public comment on this?
City Clerk: We do not, sir.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I'll close the public hearing part and open up for a motion.
Ms. Cookerly: All right, I'll do it.
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Mayor Lockwood: Okay, and thank you guys for working together with Alpharetta on
this.
Ms. Bentley: And the PRAB, the Parks and Rec Board who also vetted this, so
thank you.
Ms. Cookerly: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve Agenda Item No. 21-
165.
Mr. Moore: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Cookerly
with a second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please
say aye.
All: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Cookerly moved to approve Agenda Item
No. 21-165. The motion was seconded by Councilmember Moore. The motion
passed (7-0).
Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Thank you, Tom.
Ms. Cookerly: Thanks Tom.
Mr. Moore: Way to go, Tom.
Mayor Lockwood: All right, if our City Clerk will be please sound our third New
Business item.
City Clerk: That item is Consideration of a Transportation Special Purpose
Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST II) Project List, Ms. Sara
Leaders, I'm sorry Agenda Item No. 21-166.
Ms. Leaders: Good evening Mayor and Council. Tonight we want to review a
few of the highlights from the Work Session and present the
proposed TSPLOST II Project List for consideration. So as you
know, Fulton County is preparing for a Transportation Special
Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum this November. And
then related to developing our project list we've held a couple of
events for public input. Held a develop project list development
forum on May 11 h, did that in a in-person and virtual and recorded
format. We held a project list comment form on our TSPLOST
project website, that began on May 6t'. And then we had
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discussion at the May 171 Work Session on the project list. And
tonight we're presenting a vote on the proposed project list.
So once all the project lists are submitted to the County, they will
develop an Intergovernmental Agreement with all the cities. And
then once that Agreement is approved, there will be a resolution
for adoption by the County Board of Commissioners, that would
be for the election. And the election would be November 2nd.
On the right-hand side of this slide is the latest funding estimate.
I'll show on the next slide that data that came from Fulton County.
And we're looking at a project 546 million dollars for TSPLOST 11
and the latest Milton estimate is 6.6% of the County population.
And so then we look at how that splits out into three tiers, with
Tier 2 being 100% of the projected collections. Tier 1 is 85% and
then Tier 3 is 115%. Collections would begin April 2022 and run
for five years.
Here is the slide I showed at the Work Session as well. It's the
latest funding scenario estimate from Fulton County. They also
looked at the projections for TSPLOST I that's underway currently
and have shown Milton to collect an estimated 32 million for
TSPLOST II a projection of 36 million.
And highlighting where we are with TSPLOST I that's currently
underway, collections began April of 2017. The right-hand side is
the project list that was part of the IGA with TSPLOST 1. So you
can see the three tiers of projects and then the project funding
amounts are listed only for the project purpose with the individual
projects just listed underneath of those. Show what we have
underway with the check mark and then the portions we have
completed are marked on this list. So we have most of Tier 1
underway at this point. Tier 2, it started concepts on two of the
intersections listed in the Operations and Safety category. So those
are just in the concept stage. And then the remaining projects on
the TSPLOST I list that we haven't gotten to are all primarily
programs and we've wrapped those programs into the proposed
TSPLOST II list.
And then these are just roughly the highlights of what is underway,
what is planned with TSPLOST I as far widening, new roadways,
sidewalk/trails, six roundabouts, some turn lane projects, the three
intersections that are in concept phase, and one bridge.
Wanted to show you the importance of planning documents in
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developing our project list, as well as the public input through this
TSPLOST II process. We have the 2016 Comprehensive
Transportation Plan, the 2018 North Fulton Plan, the
Comprehensive Plan, the Trail Prioritization Plan, the Strategic
Plan. And then too to highlight in particular here are the upcoming
2022 Milton Comprehensive Transportation Plan and the Local
Road Safety Plan. And those two documents will really play into
help laying out the specifics of projects that we have identified in
general categories.
Looking at our Strategic Plan, one of the goals is to implement
transportation infrastructure that meets current needs, accounts for
future growth, and allows residents to traverse Milton in a calm,
safe, and efficient manner. And those objectives under that
Strategic Plan goal really fit the Operations Safety category and the
Bicycle and Pedestrian category of TSPLOST project types. The
bottom three project types really support more of that
infrastructure focused projects as far as maintaining and improving
our infrastructure. So these are the five project types that we are
proposing on our project list and we have some general project
descriptions under those.
This graph really shows those project types and how they
breakdown across the funding tiers. So Tier 1, these are the
different projects proposed and I'll show them in more detail on
the next slide. But this is just a breakdown of what percentage of
overall tier funding each of these type represents.
And this is the same slide I showed at the Work Session. I did
have one math error that I corrected, but looking at Tier 1 the quote
will show up on the IGA are the bold project types with the
funding and then the projects underneath will not have the funding
breakdown, but I've shown this as an estimate of what this could
look like. And those planning documents that are underway would
really provide the specifics of what we move forward with under
some of these categories. So for Operations and Safety, we did
call out Cox Road Intersection Improvements and that could
include Cox at Etris Ebenezer and Cox at King as well as Cox
Road at the Athletic Complex driveway. City of Roswell is
considering contributing a portion of funding to these
improvements because they have one leg of those two intersections
is in the City of Roswell. So they're considering their list this
week and if they don't contribute, funding still will be enough to
fund those intersections. And if they do provide funding the
additional could go into the Efficiency or Safety categories.
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We have the Bicycle/Pedestrian Improvement category. Under
that talked about bicycle accommodations and what that really
looks like will come out of the Local Road Safety Plan and
Transportation Plan as far as which roads are designated for what
type of bike facilities. Then pedestrian enhancements, streetscape,
that could be used on the State Route 9 project enhancing some of
those walls or streetscapes. And then Community Trail
Prioritization Plan funding to further implement the
recommendations out of that plan. We have the Bridges category
and Maintenance and Safety. Maintenance and Safety includes a
line item for specific strategies from the Local Road Safety Plan.
Quick Response is those low cost, operational minor improvement
projects and then Program Management to help us track and
manage the program. Tier 2 just adds in these two categories
Operations/Safety and Bike/Ped. Tier 3 Operations/Safety,
Bike/Ped and Quick Response.
So the next steps of the project list are the consideration of
adopting that project list tonight. We then submit that to Fulton
County and it would be included in the IGA and it would expect to
see the IGA as a Council agenda item in July. I'll answer any
questions.
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions for Sara?
Ms. Bentley: Sara, thank you very much. I know we're keeping the list at kind
of a high level, but I did have someone ask about neighborhood
paving because some of our neighborhoods are getting a little bit
older. Of that five million in Tier 1, do we have any of that
allocated for paving of neighborhoods?
Ms. Leaders: We could look at a specific residential program and it could be part
of that is a preservation program that helps extend the life of some
neighborhood streets so we're not spending all of the five million
right on resurfacing of neighborhood roads, but maybe partial is to
preserve and to extend the life and some resurfacing and then
possibly some of that could go to some of the collector roads or it
could free up some general funds that go to the paving program
too. So we've got a couple options.
Ms. Bentley: Whatever the percentage is to be sure that we don't forget about
them and preserving sounds good because I know that they don't
have the volume of traffic that if you live in a big neighborhood
that's starting to see some wear and tear I know we've heard from
some folks and then of course trails are big priority as we
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discussed last week. Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, anybody else? Do we have any public comment, Tammy?
City Clerk: We do not.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I'll close the public hearing part. Thank you, Sara. I'll open
up for a motion.
Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No, 21-
166.
Mr. Moore: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion to approve from Councilmember Bentley
with a second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor please
say aye.
All: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve Agenda Item No,
21-166. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (7-0).
Mayor Lockwood: It's unanimous. Okay, we can move on to our next New Business
item.
City Clerk: That item is Consideration of an Agreement between the City of
Milton and Strategic Materials, Inc. to Provide a Collection Bin
and Associated Hauling Service for the Purpose of Glass
Recycling, Agenda Item No. 21-167, Ms. Teresa Stickels.
Ms. Stickels: Good evening Mayor and Council again. This is a little bit more
exciting than my earlier presentation, I think you all have been
anticipating this as much as I have been.
Mayor Lockwood: So are you saying I might not get some of these calls saying they
are going to dump their stuff on my property?
Ms. Stickels: I can't actually promise that, but let's hope they reduce in number.
This is glass recycling. Just going to go over quickly, you've
heard this spiel from me before and those of you who are on CPAC
have heard this several times. Prior to 2017, Milton residents were
able to get rid of their glass in their curbside recycling. Around
2016-2017 materials recovery facilities, which are also called
MRFS, stopped accepting glass in the mixed recycling, comingled
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or single stream. So glass, in 2017 I came before the Council and
painfully asked that glass be removed from the list of required
recyclables. At that point, people who were committed to
recycling glass found it pretty convenient to drop it off at the
Roswell Recycling Center. And that continued up until March
2020 when it closed to all but Roswell residents. Now initially,
that closing was due to COVID and much like we behaved here at
City Hall, Roswell needed to find how to keep both their visitors
and their staff safe so they decided to close the facility entirely.
And then they opened it up to Roswell residents only so at that
point it was a little bit beyond just the COVID protocol. It was
probably a budgetary issue. We've been a little surprised that they
haven't reopened to the community at large because the facility
depends on the recyclables that come in. They are sold and that's
revenue for the facility. Now my understanding is that facility is
never really broken even, Roswell still subsidizes it, but if you
think about it now they are getting even less recycling coming in
so it really is hard to understand how their numbers are working
out. But regardless of that, it is closed to the general community.
Only open to Roswell residents.
So that leaves the Keep North Fulton Beautiful Recycling Center
in Sandy Springs as our only option for our residents who are
committed to recycling glass. So you can imagine that we went
from sticking glass in the curbside recycling, to having to drive
over to Roswell recycling we probably saw a decrease in glass
recycling rates. So then March of last year we lost an opportunity
to go to Roswell Recycling and we're having to send our residents
down to Sandy Springs. I can only imagine that we've seen a
dramatic drop in glass recycling in the City of Milton. Now at the
same time I'm hearing from people how very much they want to
recycle. It's just in order to make this work, it really has to be
more convenient than driving down to Sandy Springs. And if you
think about the environmental cost, you know if you're recycling
glass, but you're driving down to Sandy Springs to do it, it's not as
cut and dry. It's something we want to be able to help our
residents do what they want to which is recycle glass.
So in 2020, the City actually Councilmember Jamison was
approached by two Milton High School students. They had shown
a great deal of initiative. They went to a glass recycler and they
said we want to see if you'll donate a collection bin and the
emptying of it to the City for free. And I love that. That's a lot of
initiative and very gutsy, but it turns out that the glass recycling
industry is desperate for glass. In fact, in Georgia they are
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importing recycled glass from other states in order to create
product here.
Mr. Moore: What?
Ms. Stickels: Yes, that is true. So this glass recycler, which is Strategic
Materials, Inc., they are a leader in glass recycling. They said
yeah, we'll do that if the City of Milton will come up with a
location, we'll give them a bin and we'll handle the associated
hauling. So initially the students had wanted to site the bin at
Milton High School cause they have a club there, the Clean and
Green Club. And they were interested in overseeing, they wanted
to the City involved in it, but they were interested in sort of
overseeing the dumpster, having their club do it. So the principal
at Milton was very supportive, but the decision had to be sent to
Fulton County Board of Education for approval. And there it has
languished in the interim.
So the kids could see that was happening so they said, in the event
that we can't put it at Milton, at the high school, does the City have
any places? And of course, they're young and enthusiastic so
they're thinking the City has lots of places to put the bin. And it
turns out, you know when you're trying to find a location for
anything, it is never just a matter of saying well here let's put it
here. So there was a lot of give and take, but I am proud to say
that our process has been quicker than the Fulton County Board of
Education because we were able to come up with an agreement
with Strategic Materials. We were able to come up with a location
and, Tom is back, so I want to say a special thanks to Tom
McKlveen in particular, and the Parks and Rec department in
general for agreeing to let us have the pilot location at Bell
Memorial Park.
So it's going to be in this, this is the gravel overflow area of the
parking lot. So we'll have it back here. I did learn more about the
needs of a glass collection bin than I had ever imagined needing to
know. It needs to be visible, it needs to be easily accessible, but it
needs to be well lit and locked up at night so you don't get illegal
dumping.
If we get a lot of contamination in these loads, they will stop
collecting. They will say it's a broken agreement and we won't
have a local glass drop off point. So that's where we're going to
put the first one and this is an image of what their bins look like.
They were quite eye catching as you can see. It is huge. It is not
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just a regular size dumpster like you would see behind a business.
It's got those three openings. They actually send a really large
truck, will bring an empty one and pull this one away. So they will
be side by side, one will go in the corner and then when they
switch it out, it will be in the next spot the next time and so it will
be back and forth. So it will occupy that entire area at the back
corner, which Tom assures me they can donate the space for that.
If this is successful, then SMI will give us a second bin for a
second location, again free of charge with the associated hauling.
But we are letting this one be a pilot. We have to make sure that
people behave properly. We can only get glass in there, we can't
have any other misbehavior and so we are sort of taking this as the
pilot and I will be honest with you, I don't have a second location
at my fingertips. But if this works, then we will go back to the
drawing board and find another place to put it. Or maybe by that
time, Milton High School will have gotten permission to put the
second one there.
The second thing I wanted to tell you was that I'm going to have a
Proclamation before you at the next meeting, June P", to honor the
Milton students for doing this. It just with the craziness of the end
of the school year, I wasn't able to get it ready for this time, but
you will see them on June 7t' so you'll be able to let them know
how much the City appreciates their efforts. And wanted to
mention Mark Arrington is here tonight, he has as you know been
our recycling champion since the start of the City. He has been
fully supportive of this. In fact, when I first gave him a heads up
that this was coming down the pike, he was brainstorming for
locations where we could put it on City property. So we had a lot
of people bringing a lot of talent and enthusiasm to the project. I
guess finally I should say that staff recommends that you approve
this agreement because it normally would be under Consent, but
we though it was a shame to hide it there. We wanted to get a
chance to let you hear about it, so you will have to vote to approve
it if you so choose.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I want to thank you Teresa and staff. Obviously it's a great
service not only for your residents, but really for our environment.
Mark, thank you for all your hard work all these years. I'd like to
open up to any questions. Rick?
Mr. Mohrig: Just a couple. Do I understand this correctly, there is no cost to us
because they want the material?
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Ms. Stickels: That's right. They're doing it for the glass. We're paying them in
glass.
Mr. Mohrig: This is a great move then no cost and we're providing a service.
Also, will we will be putting signs up to kind of give the
recommendations or the rules of what you can put in there, what's
allowable recycling?
Ms. Stickels: Yeah, there will have to be signage there and we'll roll out some
notices when the bin is in place. We'll make sure we probably, I
would guess the Herald would have a piece and Greg will send
some information out an a blast letting people know.
Mr. Mohrig: This is great. Great effort, appreciate what you guys did.
Mayor Lockwood: Joe?
Mr. Longoria: Teresa, given this information that glass is actually in demand and
is needed, can we revisit the language that we have in our
recycling clause in our waste haulers?
Ms. Stickels: They can't send it in single stream to the materials recovery
facilities so the only way that it can be recovered is if there is a
third bin. That's what they are doing in Alpharetta and Roswell,
both of whom just have one hauler.
Mr. Longoria: So you're saying if we recycle glass, the glass has to be all by
itself?
Ms. Stickels: It does. It can't be with the other recyclables.
Mr. Longoria: All right.
Mayor Lockwood: Laura?
Ms. Bentley: I just want to make sure that we're good in we don't have any
breaches with contamination so who is going to get those bins
locked? What is the plan for that?
Ms. Stickels: So the park is locked. They have gates which if we need more
specifics, Tom can give us. That was part of the appeal of putting
it there was those gates are locked so nobody can drive in. I mean
I guess somebody could hop the gate and carry something over
there, but it's not going to be like a sofa or a tv, that would be bad.
Or even household garbage. Again, this is a pilot. We want
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people to behave well. I can't stand up here and guarantee you
that's
Ms. Bentley: So it would be good though, surveillance cameras are cheap and
that would be a huge deterrent. I love surveillance cameras so let's
do that.
Ms. Stickels: Are there already cameras out there?
Mr. McKlveen: Yeah, we a camera system at Bell, but that location is so far away
from the internet access that we use. We could put deer cams or
something.
Ms. Bentley: Deer cam will work. Let's do that.
Mr. McKlveen: Yeah and during the day the park will be staffed.
Ms. Bentley: It will be very convenient for the you know people going to the
back and making that trip. That's awesome. Thank you so much.
Ms. Stickels: And Tom's already talked to Tri Scapes about keeping an eye on
the dumpster. We'll have to monitor it, especially early on. I
anticipate there is a real pent up need so we'll quickly fill the first
few times. Once it's full, and I'll have to work with Greg, we may
have to put out a notice "It's closed" because it will take a couple
days to get it changed out. It's a big semi that comes and moves it
so we can't call and get same day service.
Mayor Lockwood: Do we have any public comment?
City Clerk: No.
Mayor: Paul.
Mr. Moore: Teresa, what's the targeted start date?
Ms. Stickels: Well if you approve this tonight, I hope we can have it in place the
first part of June. I'd like to say the first week of June. They're
ready to go, we're ready to go.
Mr. Moore: And we'll do probably social media?
Ms. Stickels: Yes.
Mr. Moore: Thanks Greg. I just want to say thank you I know you've been a
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champion of this for a long time and Teresa great job on this. And
Mark, for the role that you've played, Mark Arrington thank you.
You gave me a great education when I first stepped into this seat
and appreciate the education you gave me and you're willingness
to continue to poke at us to get this done. Good job, well done.
Ms. Stickels: I'll you there's been tremendous support from the Council, from
the City leadership. It wouldn't have gone anywhere if everybody
wasn't.
Mayor Lockwood: I'll just add that there's been tremendous support from our citizens
who want to recycle so all good. All right, if there's no more
questions. There is no public comment so I'll close the hearing.
Do we have a motion?
Mr. Mohrig: Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion that we approve Agenda Item No.
21-167.
Mr. Moore: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Mohrig
with a second from Councilmember Moore. All those in favor,
please say aye.
Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve Agenda Item No.
21-167. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (7-0).
Mayor Lockwood: Any opposed? That's unanimous. Thank you Teresa and
everybody else.
Ms. Stickels: Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: All right, City Clerk will please sound the final New Business
item.
City Clerk: That final item is Consideration and Possible Imposition of an
Immediate Thirty Five -Day Moratorium on the Acceptance of
Alcohol Applications, Building Permit Applications, and Land
Disturbance Permit Applications for Farm Wineries within the City
of Milton, while otherwise Modifying the City's Land Use Code
Regarding Farm Wineries as a By Right Use, Agenda Item No. 21-
168, City Attorney Mr. Ken Jarrard.
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Mr. Jarrard: Mr. Mayor and members of Council, thank you for very much.
This last item is a topic that I know has been on the Council's mind
of late which is the by -right availability to operate a farm winery in
the City of Milton. I believe, it will be up to the Council of course,
that there may be an interest in imposing a moratorium with
respect to the three items in the agenda header as they pertain to
farm wineries and this is important, while the City of Milton
otherwise modifies its code with respect to the as -of -right use of a
farm winery in AG -1. I know that I have spent some time as your
City Attorney engaged in these issues and I know that staff has as
well as citizens come forward. Want to know what sort of uses do
accompany the farm winery as -of -right use and that perhaps
Milton should have some additional regulatory controls over that
use.
Moratorium is just what it sounds. It is in fact a prohibition of the
three things that are caught up in this Moratorium would be the
acceptance of alcohol applications, the acceptance of a building
permit application, or the acceptance of a land disturbance permit
application. All of those being the sorts of things that someone
might want to come in and do to become vested with respect to a
farm winery use in AG -1.
You may ask why the 35 days. Thirty-five days is because we're
doing this without a formal public hearing, but I believe the better
play is to go ahead and get the moratorium in place. That is
intended to maintain status quo while we then have the luxury of
being able to modify our codes the thought being that if we don't
maintain the status quo, by the time we go through the somewhat
laborious task of modifying the code, individuals would have
brought in applications that would therefore become vested so we
would have effectively closed the barn door once the horses have
left. That's a Miltonesque expression. In any event, having said
that 35 days is about as long as I would really have a moratorium
until we have a public hearing, therefore should you in fact adopt
this item this evening, 35 day moratorium, which will line up to
June 28th On June 28`x' we will have a Zoning procedures law
public hearing, I will have advertised that in the legal organ, and
otherwise have a formal resolution that will extend the moratorium
much longer, probably at 120 days. That moratorium will in fact
expire on its own terms when we modify the code to build in those
regulatory controls that you all want to build in assuming you do,
but I suspect that you may want to. So Mr. Mayor, that's it, there's
no formal back up. There's no resolution. It's truly just going to
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be a motion inaudible That's my presentation.
Mayor Lockwood: I'll open it up for a motion.
Mr. Longoria: Mayor, I move that we approve Agenda Item No. 21-168.
Ms. Cookerly: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Longoria for approval
and a second from Councilmember Cookerly. All in favor please
say aye.
11: Aye.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve Agenda Item
No. 21-168. Councilmember Cookerly seconded the motion. The motion passed
(7-0).
MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS
Mayor Lockwood: That passes, unanimous. Thank you. We will move onto Reports.
Is there anything any Councilmembers have that they would like to
report on?
Mr. Moore: Okay, I've got one.
Mayor Lockwood: Okay, go ahead Paul.
Mr. Moore: It's actually just a thought. Steve, this is for you in particular. We
don't have a Steering Committee meeting for CPAC this week and
there's been a couple of weeks while some of the hard work is
being done behind the scenes. It occurred to me that as we are
thinking about some of the critical masses come to the vitality of
Crabapple and possibly Deerfield as well with some of the future
businesses that will be coming here. That I don't recall a
discussion, good, bad, or indifferent on the following topic.
Whether or not we should have consideration for street performers,
artists, like street vendors, food trucks, chalk artists, pop up corner
performers, anything of the kind, mimes. We might want to
consider, good, bad or indifferent, does that bring good or does it
bring somebody who's not desired for the vitality of this
entertainment area of this vitality that's coming to Crabapple and
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other parts of the City as well. So I just offer that for
consideration.
Mr. Krokoff: Is this something you want to see brought back before CPAC?
Mr. Moore: I do. I think it's worth consideration.
Mr. Krokoff: Absolutely.
Mr. Moore: Thanks.
Mayor Lockwood: Anything else on Council?
Ms. Bentley: I have a comment, just in light of our great progress with
Alpharetta and the MOU and the partnership on the Court. I mean,
it's great. I walk the trails over in North Park a couple of times a
week and one of our citizens who lives in your neighborhood,
Greg, is working tirelessly on those trails. And the City of
Alpharetta is North Park so my point of mentioning this is they're
beautiful. He's an engineer and he's putting wood chips down.
Citizens don't care about boundaries and who's park is this and
that. They just know it's part of their community so what we saw
tonight and the cooperation and moving forward and doing what's
best for citizens is really, it's very rewarding. So that was great to
see and I'm glad that was something we got to get done tonight.
Thank you.
Mayor Lockwood: Yes, good point. I had to participate as a panelist on a possible
new city formation and that was one of the big things I brought up
was to work together with your sister cities and all that so that it
really wasn't about borders it was about citizens and all and
serving everybody. Good job. All right, we'll open up Staff
Reports.
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
1. Police
Chief Austin: Greetings Mayor, members of Council. Looking at our crime data
year to date, we're showing through April an overall decline of
14% from last year's numbers at this time. Crashes as you know
have plummeted in 2020 due to COVID. However, we're well
below our three year average from 2017 data which is 45. So
through April we had a total of 40 crashes for a reduction of I I%
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over the last three year average excluding last year.
In the community, we had a busy month. We celebrated National
Police Week from May 9t' through the 15'' and we were very
happy to host several events and be involved throughout the North
Fulton community in some other events. We held a free shredding
event to give citizens an opportunity to destroy sensitive
documents with personal information.
I participated in a panel discussion hosted by St. James United
Methodist Church where members of the public came together to
discuss and ask questions about many topics involving law
enforcement. We also participated in a fallen officer ceremony
hosted collaboratively by the Roswell, Alpharetta, and Milton
Police Departments and this is something I'm proud to say the
North Fulton area began with the Milton Police Department a few
years ago. We held this outdoors this year at the Roswell area park
where we commemorated the lives of the Georgia officers who lost
their lives in the line of duty during 2020.
And culminated with the Milton Police Department's annual
awards ceremony where we took time to commemorate a number
of individuals both in our department and the community who
made a difference and significant contributions over the year and
helped the Milton Police Department fulfill our mission, vision,
and values.
Overall, it was a very busy week of celebration and
commemoration; it was a great week. Really enjoyed engaging
with our citizens. That's all I have tonight.
Mayor Lockwood: Thanks. Joe?
Mr. Longoria: Chief, depending on what channel you watch, it's easy to hear
headlines about rising crime rates and issues that we're having
from a, let's call it social management point of view. Are we
having any difficulty in that area. If you've seen any uptick, is
there any spillover from other cities that is impacting Milton in that
regard?
Chief Austin: No crimes trends that I've seen that would indicate that. One thing
that we do very well is we communicate with our other area Police
Departments. For instance, we will meet with all the area Chiefs
tomorrow as a matter of fact and we will talk about our different
crime problems. We address trends before they get out of hand so
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we deploy resources very intelligently and we stay on top of
things. So I think that helps. We're very proactive.
Mayor Lockwood: Rick?
Mr. Mohrig: I just wanted to say thank you also. I know we have a number of
volunteers who put up the markers, the crosses, for Veteran's Day
and Memorial Day and appreciate the Police being around this
Sunday making sure that that goes safely. Thanks to your officers
for that also.
Chief Austin: Glad to assist, absolutely.
Mayor Lockwood: Thank you, Chief.
Chief Austin: Thank you.
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
2. Parks and Recreation
Mr. McKlveen: Good evening Mayor and members of Council, again. Happy to
provide you all with a quick update on everything going on with
Parks and Rec. I'll start with Providence Park. The trail and the
pier contractor has been selected. We should have the construction
on those two projects beginning early to mid next month. We are
going to explore other options on the restroom. The price came in
very high so we are looking at other options to make it more
responsible.
With the Former Milton Country Club, we will have the bid
advertised this week so the renovation bid will be out sometime in
June, we should be looking at what comes in.
At the pool, it's opening this Saturday and we are rather fully open
again. We are going to encourage social distancing and sanitizing,
but the previous capacities will be back in place. We are keeping
that occupancy counter in place that we had last summer as well so
any folks that are leery still, you'll be able to see how many folks
are at the pool and decide if you want to go or not. I also
implemented on the City website, a live status of the lightning
detection system so it will show you if we're in a lightning delay at
the pool. It will show you that we're in a lightning delay. And it
actually has the countdown until how much longer until the pool
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full activities can resume. Good stuff.
Swim team is currently at the pool right now. They are practicing
Monday through Friday, actually right now, probably wrapped up
now since it's 7:30, and that's going very well. We have an ADA
pool lift, portable pool lift that's being delivered as we speak. My
staff did a great job of procuring that and keeping an eye on when
it's going to be coming.
Spring activities are all wrapped up with successful seasons in all
the programs. We had some rain right at the end of the season that
kind of hindered some of the baseball tournament and whatnot, but
we got the seasons in. Spring surveys have been sent out so I'll
have some feedback. We just sent them late last week so next you
hear from me, you'll have some survey results.
Rolling into summer programming, we've got Camp Joyful Soles
two weeks away. We've got a full staff and already at this point
all the weeks are between 88 and 100 percent filled. So that's
good.
Summer athletic and recreation programming. Hopewell Baseball
is doing, they started this new program last summer, they call it the
Sandlot League. That's just weekday games for recreational
players and it went well so it was an opportunity for those kids that
COVID hit and cancelled the seasons so they wanted to something
in the summer and it was successful so they are doing it again this
year. And they've got over a couple hundred kids playing in the
summer.
Rush Union, the adult soccer program, they start early June. Our
summer camps, we've got youth basketball, Steam camps,
photography camps, music camps, dance camps. They're all full
bore this summer. And we're looking at some potential new
programs too. Maybe some art and fitness by the fall, so stay
tuned there. Cox Road, we are very close to having an RFP
completed to see what we can get done on those fields and tennis
courts and potentially additional parking where one of the
buildings was. Lastly, Wall of Fame nominations are extended to
the end of this month for the Wall of Fame and we'll be gearing up
for another November Wall of Fame ceremony.
Any questions?
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions? Rick.
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Mr. Mohrig: Just a question, topic from in the past. I know we've had people
come before us to talk about an all-inclusive playground. Have
you heard anything more about that, is there a status update?
Mr. McKlveen: I don't have an update at this time.
Mr. Mohrig: Okay.
Mayor Lockwood. Okay. Thank you, Tom.
Mr. McKlveen: Appreciate it.
STAFF REPORTS
Department Updates
3. Community Development
Mr. Buscemi: Good evening Mayor and Council. They put me last, but I promise
I'll be quick. We are going to start with sustainability.
Ms. Stickels: They might be tired of hearing from me tonight. So this was under
Consent, but we just wanted to point out every year the Atlanta
Regional Commission offers, it's called Sustainable Connections.
It's a program where they place college students in municipalities
to do sustainability work. We have applied for one of those
interns. There's no guarantee that we'll get them, it's fairly
competitive. It will be a an unpaid position, but it would be, the
student would be getting school credit for it. Anyhow, you all did
approve that under Consent and I will let you know if we are lucky
enough to receive one. If we do get one, the plan is to have them
help us do research on hopefully moving from Green Communities
Bronze level to Silver. That would be the project. It's a whole
year long project that they would work on.
Mr. Buscemi: Let's hope we get lucky there cause they could really use some
extra help there and it's a nice program for them to work on.
We're really trying to get our status up to Silver.
CPAC, we had the draft plan Open House last Thursday evening.
It was pretty well viewed, a lot of folks came. We had a nice
turnout. We showed a video recapping the draft plan and the video
actually came out quite nice. It's really professionally done. We
got the Character Areas blown up on boards and we're looking to
put them into the lobby now because they came out real nice, lot of
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great feedback on those visuals. Future land use map was there
and the short term work programs. The next step here would be
we're going to be presenting the draft plan to Council on June 21St
So we'll be in here with the full draft plan. The goal is to get
everything out early so that everybody has a chance to read it,
adjust it, we're going to do an executive summary so it helps
everybody navigate through it. And then hopefully you can bring
any questions you may have to that meeting so we can just answer
questions at the meeting because it would be the draft plan
presentation.
On the Building department front, interviews are underway.
We've been interviewing last week and we have some interviews
this week. And we're -going through that cycle so the next time I
present a staff update, I'm .hoping to be able to tell everybody that
we have some really good key members that are looking to join the
City. We are being picky on who we're getting, of course. We're
really trying to vet everybody out and get the best we can. Might
be a little bit of a gap there, depending on if the offers are working
this week so even if we offer some folks this week, there might be
a two. week gap, but I'm going to manage that gap. So we'll be
okay. I don't think we'll be falling behind. We've been working
with all the real big, large key developers to make sure we get
everything that they need done this week or part of the plan for
next week so I'm starting to roll out a short term plan just to make
sure that transition is smooth and keep everybody moving along.
What's happening, Fire Station 42. We're working on doing the
septic soil borings infiltration testing on the adjoining property, the
adjoining property already came to us and said they may be willing
to give us the land at no charge as an easement and we said okay.
So we're going to check to see if the soil is even suitable for it. If
it is, it would save us because we wouldn't have to go all the way
down the block to Bell Park, so that would be a big savings for the
City.
We already did the Former Milton Country Club, Tom did that and
Providence Park, you know that one too.
Okay, so we have four projects that we just wanted to show you
tonight, keep you up to date on what's going in the department as
far as projects. This one here is a large lot development. It's
known as the Homestead, it's really the old former Trophy Club
Golf Course. It's 190 acres total and they came in with a large lot
layout so we recently have increased the amount to an unlimited
amount of large lots under the program. So I want to thank you all
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because this one comes in and now we can actually utilize that.
We have 32 estate lots. They are ranging from around 3.5 to 10
acres. The smaller ones are a little bit around the lake so they're
more internal, but you know lake front is a definitely a premium so
they are trying to get in as many as they can around the lake. But
for the most part, I think they've done a really, really nice job in
laying out the roads, being sensitive to the environment out there
with creek crossings and such. Making all the intersections have
one way rise which I think really looks good and the cul-de-sacs
instead of just circles, they made them into loops and I really think
that landscape element is going to be very beneficial. So the way it
all looks, it really came out nice. Some of the out parcels that were
also part of this sale, on the one 6 acre lot what they did was they
sold one 3 acre in the back and then the 3 acres in the front that
fronts the road, the next door neighbor said oh, I want to buy it, so
he came in and I believe he's purchasing that so from the roadway
it will look visually very pleasing. They are coming in with an
entrance and fencing scheme which I saw some preliminaries that
look very nice and met the Milton standards. This came out very
nice.
The next one is
Ms. Bentley: Bob, I have a comment.
Mr. Buscemi: Okay.
Ms. Bentley: I'm sorry to interrupt, but that's just fantastic to see 190 acres that
could have been, something like that. That's a scary number.
That's what I think we've been all working so hard for, so that's
another high five. Thank you so much.
Mr. Buscemi: Yes, it's really coming out nice. They actually have a video and
they are doing really a great job on the marketing campaign for it.
It was a two -minute video, I'm not going to show it tonight, but I
saw it. They showed it to me and they've enhanced it since
they've even shown it to me. They have Fuller doing the
architecture so the concept is really coming along quite nice and if
you want next month I think I can show you, I think it's a two -
minute video and it really does show you the lots and the beautiful
vistas that you're going to see. They're doing it more for
marketing, but I think it'd be nice to share it so if it's okay with
you all, I'll show it you next month.
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developments and whatnot along with staff taking it from there.
Kudos to Council too.
Mr. Buscemi: Yes, it's a big Council initiative. It's a totally a Council initiative
and we just limiting the number of lots and then we came back and
said there is such a great demand, why limit them? So then
Council lifted that up. It's been working. Last month I showed
you three that went to the larger lots and people have been calling
me up and saying Bob, they're marketable, they're coming in and
they are really, really in demand so then we're working on some of
the large tracts in this size that potentially we can go to large lots
too and try to work with those potential purchasers. So it's really
been a win, it's working great. I do want to thank the Council, I
think it's great for Milton. It's really been working and it's totally
on a voluntary basis so it's really been working nicely.
This here is in Crabapple. They're calling it the Gateway. Milton
Library is to the bottom of the page so it's right across the street,
it's that corner lot that's there. So last month I showed you John
Gaston just to the left of that site that's right to the left is another
sister building to what he has now, so I showed you that last
month. This one would then finish that corner and the beauty of
this is the development came in and is working with us on
something that would be appropriate for the corner. He called it
the Gateway because I keep saying it's the gateway into Milton
and it's prominent and I want it to look really nice and we need a
nice investment there. I really wanted to have a nice impact when
you first pull into Milton, the first building that you're going to see
so he said, gee Bob, I'm just going to name it the Gateway. The
beauty is that he is putting in underground parking. He's got two
levels of structured parking. So you know a few years ago
everybody came and said geez why isn't the City building
structured parking and we did a full plan and came back and said
we just can't afford it. We'd have to buy the land, purchase the
property, we'd have to build the building and then maintain it for
perpetuity. And then everybody said, well, is it really going to be
something that people would utilize, just have big surface lots
because no body here is going to want structured parking. Well, I
just did an inspection this morning of the structured parking garage
Orkin and Associates is building right across the street. The lower
level is now open to the public and the upper level, they are just
holding off on because they have some tenant move in and out and
he doesn't want to conflict with traffic. But it's structured, it's all
buried behind, internal to the buildings so you don't really see if
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Then we have Beecham's over there is doing structured parking
underneath his buildings. John Gaston came in last month and said
he wants to build a sister building and he's going to do structured
parking as well. And now this building here, Dennis Powell is
actually working on this and he said gee Bob, the structured
parking is the best alternative for me to utilize. And the nice part
of this is the upper level will just look like surface parking from
the road, from Mayfield, but then when you come in from the back
side on Charlotte Drive or Heritage, when you come in the back
then you'll be able to pull into the back. So I'm sort of using the
same philosophy that I used for Orkin which is two tier no actual
inner connection within the parking. So it works out really nice. I
think this came out nice and it's going to be a nice addition to the
finish this off.
So then caddy corner on the other side are the two medical
buildings that we have and they just came in and secured their LDP
the other day so you will start to see where the old stone house is,
you'll start to see activity occurring there. And we have two
medical buildings initially they came in just looking for one and
because of form based code they had really had to build two. They
did, they built two separate buildings, they came out real nice. We
had two or three different iterations through DRB to get them
exactly the way we thought they should be, but the developer
really stepped up and it's a very prominent doctor and I think it
will be a nice addition to Milton.
Mr. Moore: I know at one point there was some discussion about trying to
reincorporate some of the stonework from the old house that was
there. Is that still part of the plan?
Mr. Buscemi: Yes, yes absolutely. We're taking the old stone. First we
documented it, we had drawings made, we took photos so that we
never forgot. And then we dismantled and maintain the stone and
the new architecture incorporates all of that stone into the new
exteriors. So I think it will have a nice historical content there,
something to talk about. It was a lot of work. We went through a
couple of iterations to get that just right.
This one here is right down the block. This is Crabapple First
Baptist, so this is right across the street from the school. And the
picture on the left is what it looks like now and we worked with the
architectural group to come up with a new fagade which is more
like a porch that comes out. The drawing on the left is going to
have new fagade, what you're seeing there on the left is almost a
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two story three arches and it's all going to all be made out of heavy
timber to mimic City Hall so you'll see this real heavy structural
timber. There will be a steeple, I'm putting a steeple on it so we'll
have our steeple in downtown Crabapple. I think it looks very
much like an old time religious institution building. So there will
be interior and exterior, the drawing you see on the bottom is
actually a drop off from the back. They'll have a covered drop off
so that they can have people coming and going without any rain
issues. And they're going to redo the signage so on the left, you're
seeing what that sign will look like from the roadway. So we're
keeping them very much in the same architectural character as the
rest of the signage of Milton. It's going to be wood timber and
have the old sign with the nice little roof and I think it's all
blending. So we're really starting to anchor the placemaking of
downtown Crabapple is the key here. We're really starting to
make it look like it's solid. So every little location, you're starting
to see, I think there's a big difference between the right and the left
photos.
All right, this one here is in Crabapple too. It's on Crabapple
Road. It's the last one I'm going to feed you tonight. If you
remember, if you look at the top of this picture on the left, that's
really the old Lee property that Ashton Woods came in and
purchased from the Lees. The Lees still own the site that runs
down on the left where you see the barn. And then the site owner
on the right side that's highlighted in yellow, somebody has come
in to purchase with the hopes of also purchasing the Lee property.
So what we did though, is instead of just looking at it as individual
lots, we're trying to look at this in its totality. I made them design
the whole thing as if they owned both, just we can see how this
looks when it's completed and developed fully. Right now you're
seeing this one on the left which has the same points of
interconnectivity just where they are. And then if you look at this
one, the photo on the left, then shows how the whole build out
would look if they acquire or the next person comes to buy the Lee
property in the future. Either way, it would have parks, lots of
greenspace, lots of pedestrian interconnectivity. You can see the
trail plan. I'm trying to get the trail plan that continues, so we'll
have the trail plan go all the way through here and make the
connection. I think it's looking pretty nice and the way it is, we
went through many iterations to get this as well. Just wanted to
show it to you. Steve has wanted to show you what we're really
doing.
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We're still working on all the other ones, like on Deerfield that are
coming in, but since we showcased those I don't want repeat
anything. I'll just wait for those to conclude.
Okay that's it, if anybody has any questions.
Mayor Lockwood: Any questions for Bob? No? Thank you, Bob.
Mr. Buscemi: Thanks.
Mayor Lockwood: If nobody has anything else, I will open up for a motion to adjourn.
Mr. Mohrig: Motion to adjourn.
Mr. Jamison: Second.
Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion and a second to adjourn. All in favor, please say
aye.
All: Aye.
Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Thank you guys.
Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to adjourn the City Council
meeting at 7:51 pm. Councilmember Jamison seconded the motion. The
motion passed (7-0).
Date Approved: July 7, 2021