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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - CC - 10/04/2021Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 1 of 62 CALL TO ORDER Mayor Lockwood: Good evening, everyone. If 1 could have your attention, please. Good evening. Okay, I would like to, uh, call the regular meeting of the Milton City Council for Monday, October 4's, 2021. to order. The city strongly recommends that you review tonight's agenda carefully, and if you would like ... wish to speak on any item on the agenda, 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. Now, will the city clerk please call the roll and, uh, make general announcements? ROLL CALL City Clerk Lowit: Good evening, Mayor and Council. I will be happy to call roll for the October 4s , 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 period 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 Lowit: Councilmember Peyton Jamison? Mr. Jamison: Here. City Clerk Lowit: Councilmember Paul Moore? I Mr. Moore: Here. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 2 of 62 City Clerk Lowit: Councilmember Laura Bentley? Ms. Bentley: Here. City Clerk Lowit: Councilmember Carol Cookerly? Ms. Cookerly: Here. City Clerk Lowit: Councilmember Joe Longoria? Mr. Longoria: Here. City Clerk Lowit: And for the record, Councilmember Rick Mohrig is absent. Would everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? Mayor: Mayor Joe Lockwood present. Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Peyton Jamison, Councilmember Paul Moore, Councilmember Laura Bentley, Councilmember Carol Cookerly, Councilmember Joe Longoria Councilmember(s) Absent: Councilmember Rick Mohrig PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE All: 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. Mayor Lockwood: Good evening. I want to welcome everybody here tonight. We appreciate you being here. Also, a special welcome to our Hopewell Mustangs. Glad you guys are here tonight. So, looking forward to our Proclamation. So, if our City Clerk will please call the next item. APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, that item is Approval of Meeting Agenda, agenda item No. 21-293 — Mayor Lockwood: Okay. City Clerk Lowit: ...and. Mayor Lockwood: I'd like — I'd like to make a couple of changes. I'd like to move Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 3 of 62 General Public Comment until after, uh, Reports and Presentations, if — City Clerk Lowit: [Inaudible—crosstalkl. Mayor Lockwood: ...that's okay... City Clerk Lowit: Okay. Mayor Lockwood: ...as well as, add an executive session to discuss land acquisition personnel, and potential litigation. City Clerk Lowit: Thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Anybody else? I'll open up for a motion. Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda as read. Mr. Moore Second. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. I have a motion from Councilmember Bentley, with a second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Aye. Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. All right. So, as we change the agenda on Public Comment, we'll come back to Public Comment and we'll move on to the next item. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve the Meeting Agenda with the following amendments: - Move General Public Comment to immediately follow the Reports and Presentation items. - ADD an Executive Session to discuss land acquisition, personnel, and potential litigation. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. City Clerk Lowit: Okay, Mayor. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 4 of 62 , CONSENT AGENDA Mayor Lockwood: Consent agenda. City Clerk Lowit: Hold that spot for future. Are you ready for Consent, Mayor? Mayor Lockwood: Yes. City Clerk Lowit: Thank you, Mayor. Our first Consent item is approval of the September 20'^, 2021, City Council meeting minutes. It's Agenda Item No. 21-294. Our second item, Approval of the Financial Statements and Investment Report for Period 11, August 2021. It's Agenda Item No. 21-295. Our third item, Approval of an Agreement between the City of Milton and Global Music Rights, LLC Granting the City Legal Authorization to Play Shares of the Music that Global Music Rights, LLC Represents in City Spaces. It's Agenda Item No. 21-296. Our next item, Approval of a Construction Services Agreement between the City of Milton and AAA Tree Experts Group, LLC for the Removal of Hazardous Trees at Providence Park. It's Agenda Item No. 21-297. Our next item, Approval of a Construction Services Agreement with Peek Pavement Marking, LLC for Thermoplastic Striping and Raised ' Pavement Marking Project. It's Agenda Item No. 21-298. Our next item, Approval of a Professional Services Agreement between the City of Milton and Data Media Associates, Inc. for Property Tax Billing Services; Agenda Item No. 21-299. Our final consent item, Approval of a Subdivision Plats and Revisions. The name of the development's Jackson Farms at 2000 Birmingham Road. It's land lot 387, 406, at District 2, Section 2. It's a minor plat, subdividing one parcel into three tracks, ranging in size from three acres to 3.87 acres. It's a total of 9.878 acres with a density of 0.30 lots per acre. Mayor Lockwood? Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Do I have a motion on the Consent Agenda? Ms. Cookerly: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve the Consent Agenda as read. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Do 1 have a second? Mr. Moore: Second. Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion from Councilmember Cookerly for approval, with a second from, uh, Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please I say, "Aye.,' Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 5 of 62 All: Aye. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Cookerly moved to approve the Consent Agenda as read. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Okay, we'll move on to Reports and Presentations. City Clerk Lowit: Thank you, Mayor. That first Reports and Presentation is the proclamation honoring the 7U Hopewell Mustangs baseball team, for winning the Dizzy Dean World Series Championship. Mayor Lockwood? Mayor Lockwood: Good evening. It's, uh, an honor and ... and a privilege to present this proclamation to, uh, our Dizzy Dean World champions... Series champions, the seven and eight, seven and ' under Hopewell Mustangs baseball team. And we are glad you guys are here. We are, we are really proud. So: Whereas, baseball requires skilled hand -eye coordination, mental awareness, physical endurance, and teamwork... And whereas, the sport has long been woven into the fabric of our community, spearheaded by the hopefully — Hopewell Youth Association, which has run baseball programs out of Bell Memorial Park since 1986... And whereas, Hopewell players represent Milton well, year in and year out, with their exemplary talents and ... and attitudes, with one ... with one team, in particular, having recently risen to the ...to great heights... And whereas, in the summer of 2021, the seven and under Hopewell Mustangs finished their regular season with an incredible 24-2 record... And whereas, following this great season, the team advanced to, and went undefeated at, the state Dizzy Dean Tournament, to win the Georgia State Championship... I And whereas (not done yet!), the seven and under Mustangs Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 ptn Page 6 of 62 ' traveled to South Haven, Mississippi, and defeated every team they played from the Southeast, including the state champions from Alabama and Mississippi, to be crowned Dizzy Dean World Series champions... And whereas, Milton is proud of the players on the 2021 seven and under Hopewell Mustangs, for being champions on the field, as well as off, in the classroom, and the community... Now therefore we, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Milton, honor the Dizzy Dean World Series champions, seven and under, Hopewell Mustangs baseball team. And this is given under our hand and seal of the City of Milton, Georgia, on the 4' day of October 2021. And again, I want to reiterate, how proud we are of you guys, and I know your parents, your coaches, and your friends, and your teachers, and the whole community is. And with that, I want to ask the team to come forward, and meet us up here. And PII have the Council ... um, we'll get a picture after I make these presentations. [Crowd applauds]. ' Unknown Speaker: [Whispered] Congratulations. [Scattered laughter and indistinct conversation] City Clerk Lowit: If you'll take the extra, yeah. [Indistinct conversation, more applause] Mayor Lockwood: Thanks, again. And congratulations, guys. All right. So, Tammy, if you'll please call the next item. City Clerk Lowit: That next item, Mayor, is the Presentation of Proposed Stormwater Quality at Former Milton Country Club, Presented by Sara Leaders. Sara Leaders: Good evening, Mayor and Council. So, tonight we have a presentation on the hydrology study, to all this proposed stormwater improvements at former Milton Country Club. Start with reviewing the master plan, and the work that's currently underway. Uh, then I'll turn it over to Pond and Company, to present the I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 7 of 62 results of the hydrology study, and the possible improvements that did ... they identified through Tasks One and Two of their contract. And then they'll, also discuss recommendations for, um, the next phase, which is Task Three. Uh, then, uh, I'll take back over and discuss some possible funding sources that have been identified for stormwater projects. And finally, we'll conclude with getting direction on the future design services for that Task Three. And so really, this presentation's a checkpoint, um, to ... to review what we've done so far, and make sure we're on the right track, before we proceed with design services on the, uh, stormwater projects. So, the Master Plan was adopted in August of 2019, and it included conceptual proposals for the active area, for trails, and for land management. As part of the land management concept, included recommending a hydrology study to guide the process for removing drainage pipes and structures, and restoring natural swells. And so, this is a segment from the Master Plan, again, that ' highlights the, um, the description of the hydrology study. Also, part of the master plan, and the guiding, um, principles of the Master Plan, which is what laid out the community vision for the property... um, there's this... this section that talks about restoring nature throughout the passive preserve, and one of the key items in that is also looking at naturalized stormwater, removing drainage structures, and looking at that through a hydrology study. So, we have two studies that are underway right now, in addition to the construction of the... Phase One of the trail. Um, we have on the right, talks about the planning services that are being provided by the Southern Conservation Trust. And what they're doing is looking at a baseline study and identifying both man-made and ecological features of the property, as well as plants and animals that they identify on the property. They will be providing a permanent vegetative planting plan for the west side of the property, where we're currently building the trail. And then, they will provide a future stormwater planting plan, for the results that come out of the, um, Pond and Company study, as well as habitat restoration. ' Now, on the left side, I highlighted some of the items with Pond's study, the hydrology component. Um, their baseline looks at the Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 8 of 62 ' drainage patterns. They're gonna look at the drainage systems, and recommend improvements, identify those drainage systems which are necessary. And then they're gonna identify drainage systems which are isolated and can be removed. And then, finally, concept locations for stormwater Best Management Practices. Um, BMPs, as they're referred, are considered measures that improve water quality. They're used to treat, or reduce, water pollution as stormwater runs across a property. In May of this year, we issued a notice to proceed, to Pond and Company, for the hydrology study, as well as the stormwater, um, infrastructure concepts. And so now, I'll turn it over to the consultants, um, from Pond and Company, that are here, to present the next couple slides. We've got Kevin Hendrix, and Tanya Norman. Kevin Hendrix: Hello, everyone. Um, as Sara said, Pond and Company has been working with the City over the last couple months, to perform two tasks. The first task was the site hydrology study. The second task was the stormwater management hydraulics, where we took the ' findings of the hydrology study, and turned them into actual concept designs. And then we will talk about Task Three a little later, um... So, the goals of our — [laughs]... Our goal throughout this process was to recommend improvements for providing natural flow paths, and low -maintenance infrastructure, with a focus on modifications to existing drainage systems; to restore natural drainage; and also, to identify stormwater BMPs that can be put in place to improve both, water quality, and the quantity of water that is leaving the site. So, our fast task was to perform the hydrology study, to analyze current conditions on the site. The first step of this task was to delineate the individual drainage basins. You can see them in the, it would be, red lines in this photograph on the right. Um, so, using these basins, we were able to look at existing land covers and land use, and create a computer model that gives us a lot of data on what's happening with the stormwater on the site, currently. So, through delineating these basins, we learned that the study limits are approximately 350 acres. Of this 350 acres, approximately 81-82 acres is the Wood Valley subdivision. ' Approximately 140 acres is what we're calling the Park Area; it's Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 9 of 62 the former golf course. And approximately 128 acres is offsite area, that flows through the golf course. So, this ... this is the water that would need to be accommodated in whatever we do, so it can pass through and get to the Creek. This study area is bounded by Chicken Creek on the east side, which is page -south on the plan you're looking at, Freemanville Road on the west side, Dinsmore Road on the north, and some residential properties on the south and southwest corners. Here's a little better -detailed look at — -- the individual drainage basins. Um, you'll see that we have 28 individual basins. These range in size from approximately three- quarters of an acre to approximately 60 acres. And these represent the areas that flow to a particular point of interest. So, it could be a existing pond, a culvert, a piping system, a ditch. Basically, anywhere we would want to know how much flow, and how much water, is going through. Um, ultimately all of these basins flow into Chicken Creek. We have identified 13 different study points, or study lines. This basically means there's 13 different distinct places where water enters Chicken Creek from this site. So, we were able to take these basin delineations, and our computer model, and start putting together some concepts for stormwater management for the site. So, we looked at... In addition to removing the existing piping systems, which was a big part of this study, we also looked at the different Best Management Practices or BMPs, that we could install to improve water quality, and the quantity of water that is leaving the site. We focused on five main practices for this. The first two, bioretention ponds and enhanced wells, are primarily for water quality. They ... they help a little bit on peak -flow reduction, but they're more for infiltration and water quality. Revegetation is another practice. It's where you take a previously - developed piece of land, and return it to ...a more of a wooded condition, more of a natural condition, which will result in less water leaving. ' And then, we also looked at two different kinds of detention ponds, which will reduce the peak flows that are leaving the site, and Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 10 of 62 ' provide some water quality benefits. In addition to new practices, we also looked at the existing detention ponds and lakes that are on the property, and how they could be modified to provide additional benefits. So, the first thing we did, are ... was put together kind of a ... I guess, a wish list of everything that could be done, on every basin on the, on the study area. So, this results in approximately ... the removal of approximately 3,000 feet of storm -sewer piping, and 37 drainage structures. In addition, we are adding, or modifying, 17 existing, or excuse me, 17 Best Management Practices, which you can see, is the bright green on this slide. As you can see, this is quite a bit of work. And implementing this all at once is probably not really realistic, when it comes to budgets, and practical reasons. So, we... we'd looked at ways to prioritize what we wanted to do. Left hand, you take over. Tanya Norman: Good evening. So, under, uh, Task Three, is when we'll start developing more of the construction document phases, prioritizing, um, which BMPs, or which areas, that will be treated first. And so, ' as we work through this task, we'll be working with the City on how we develop these BMPs, in ... in phases for the ... for these, um, um, stormwater facilities. Um, in this task, we'll be focusing on, um, new or ... new BMPs, or improving existing detention facilities, to provide some additional, um, water quality and treatment, and, uh, quantity control, for the ... for the facilities. And this includes pond upgrades and repairs; uh, enhancing, uh, pipe crossings, across the trails and boardwalks and providing boardwalks; um, and also a future bi... bridge location being evaluated as part of Task Three. This task will also include, providing more natural swales so it will remove piping along... in areas, we would warm transition those into natural swales; um, also improving existing structure drainage systems, like the detention facilities that are out there. And then, um, we'll look at removing these, as I mentioned, the uh, the storm structures that are isolated to the golf course area. So, these ... these uh, isolated storm systems, they don't connect to the residential areas. Um, they're just primarily drain... providing drainage in the, um, in the greenspace. ' Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 11 of 62 Um, this task will also include, um, providing a cost estimate and budget for each phase of the project. Um, here you'll see a map of the proposed focus areas, um, which could be broken down into phases for ... urn, the ... um, BMPs, or the, uh... each construction project. So, um, Active Area One ... um, No. 1 is the Active Area. And this one would be, taking the existing piped drainage system that's carrying the water from that impervious area into ... um, it flows toward the residential area. So, we would avert that, we ... and change that, so that it would be treated by a BMP, um, and then, uh, routed through a system of BMPs that goes into, uh, the No. 2 low point on the west side. So, on that west side would be a system of BMPs that would be, uh, in parallel, um, potentially, that would then discharge into the ... if there is an existing, uh, detention facility at No. 2. And that provides some, um, quantity control there. Um, as we move to No. 3, um, phasing area, we will be, uh, providing, uh... uh, a pipe crossing, the ... uh... pipe crossing for the trail. And that also will be providing some BMPs that take, and treat water as it flows to that area. All of these systems drain, um, around the system into a ... uh... a wet, an existing wet weather ditch. And our primary goal is to treat as much of that water, uh, as it flows into that area, before it enters, uh, Chicken Creek. Um, also as we m... uh, go around on the south side, there's, uh, Phase No. 4, which is a low area, a future boardwalk, and Southern Lake. So, that's another existing ... a large detention facility that we would propose ... like proposing improvements on, and also, so that it also provides some additional... additional treatment and quantity control for the amount of water on the peak flows that leave the, the ... the site. Um, and as we moved to the west ... I'm sorry, the east side ... uh, we would continue to provide, a system of BMPs, bioretention areas, um, wet and... detention pods, uh, through that area, um, and ... uh, along that ... also proposing a future bridge, uh, across a large ditch, drainage ditch there. Um, that area, it's been explained to us, has some corrosion issues, now. So, that will be part of looking at improving that condition there. Um, and ... uh, also adding the BMPs on this, um, east side; but also mitigating some of the flows and corrosion issues along that ... along the creek back, there. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 12 of 62 ' Um, as we continue around to No. 6, that's also an existing detention pond. That's on the city's property, so that would be ... we will be looking at that as well, as part of, uh, the improvements that will be made to provide some additional water quantity control, and quality control, there. And these ... um, these phases will be in line with the trail phases ... uh, of construction of those trail phases, as well. Sara Leaders: Yeah. So, we wanted to show this slide, that ... that showed the, the trail, um, phases that are under way, and what's... what's upcoming and how these, um, relay with those. On to some possible funding, uh, for stormwater projects. First one I want to talk about is the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program Grant. Um, the City's application, for this, uh, program and grant would include multiple elements of the project on ... at the Former Milton Country Club. It, it would be the trails, stormwater, uh, replanting and revegetation, as well as habitat restoration. All that could work into, um, that grant application. It will be discussed later in the meeting tonight. Um, that grant's set up for up to $3 million with the proposed 50% , match. So, the graphic on the right of the screen, shows what that funding scenario could look like. Um, stormwater could be up to $1,500,000 of that grant. Um, the other ... other elements of it: the trail would be about $1,000,000; $300,000 for the Dinsmore Road, uh, side path phase; and then $200,000 in plantings and restoration. Um, what we're looking at with this grant, as well, is possibly stacking some of the funding sources. So, the Dinsmore side path could be paid for with TSPLOST money. So, that could be our local match, um, that would count towards the ... the 50% local match. That could be funded with TSPLOST. For the hydrology and stormwater improvements, uh, there's two different op ... [audio cuts out] [00:27:31] ... [inaudible] [00:27:341. Okay, sorry. American Rescue Plan Act — the ARPA funds. Um, so, those have been distributed to the states, and then to the cities, individually. The state right now has an application period open for distributing those funds for stormwater projects. So, we could apply for that money, that could then be used as our local match on the Outdoor Stewardship Grant. Um, that could also solely fund the hydrology, if we did move forward with the Outdoor ' Stewardship Grant. Um, the other option for the ARPA is the ... the Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 13 of 62 money that the city has received, that as we start looking at that, um, stormwater is an eligible category for that funding. And finally, we have, uh, local capital funds. We have, um, money set aside for funding the future phases of Former Milton Country Club. So, in summary: um, Task One, we looked at, again, the entire property and how stormwater flows on and off the property. In Task Two, we started looking at those possible BMP improvements, that would reduce flow and volumes, and improve water quality, leaving the property. And finally, we recommend addressing the structure drainage systems, and then a Focus Area approach to new BMPs. So, tonight 1 would like to see if there's any questions, comments, or other considerations we need to take into account, before we proceed with the ... the design based on the recommendations. Like I said, this is a ... a checkpoint just to make sure we're on the, on the right path and going the right direction before we proceed with, um, further design work. ' [No dictation] [00:29:18 — 00:29:48] Uh, over 3,000. Yeah. Ms. Bentley: It's a lot, so I just want to make sure that ev... an ... anything that we're doing now is not going to be disturbed by the hydrology study, which... Sara Leaders: Right. I want to point out two areas on this slide. Um, the first is this Area No. 2, the low point. So, we're actually bringing the trail ... urn, currently the, uh, old ... golf cart path actually crossed this area. There was a ... almost a 6' diameter pipe — couple pipes here, where water flowed underneath the path. But with our new trail alignment, and bringing it up close to the road, we actually have no crossings in that area, which will make any improvements, um, we do in that area, not conflict with the ... the trail as it's going in. Uh, the other area I'd point out is No. 3. Um, that's where we discussed a ... a few weeks ago about the pipe crossing, versus the boardwalk. Um, the pipe crossing was needed to, to elevate the trail and just to provide a ... an area for water to flow underneath ' the trail. Um, so the BMPs we're looking at there, actually upstream of that pipe crossing. Um, once it crosses under the pipe, Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 14 of 62 ' it enters a ... really a, um, kind of a wet ... wet area, as it then drains towards the, the Southern Lake. So, um, for the work that's going on, on the west side, the ... there would be no impacts to the trail, and the proposed systems that are ... are going in. Ms. Bentley: Thank you. Also, um, as I recall, we have — or not we, the ... the, the Country Club had piped all the way into Chicken Creek. Were there not pipes that, um, enter into the Creek? Sara Leaders: I don't have the map that shows the exact endpoints of those, but we did identify, you know, the beginning and endpoint of those systems, to ... to determine if they were, um, unuse... or they could, uh, be removed if they weren't serving a purpose, other than just draining the ... the golf course. So, we did look at it from, from that standpoint. Ms. Bentley: So, those'll be removed? Sara Leaders: Correct. Ms. Bentley: Okay. Because, you know, our neighbors, North Valley, they're very, very mu ... because they are remediating their, their side of ' the bank. And I just wanna make sure that, that's part of our plan, is to do our part to make sure that we're not eroding the bank, and if ..1, I can't imagine being able to pull that pipe out, without having some damage. So, we would restore the bank, and make sure that it is back to its natural state, as much as possible, so that we are all working together to restore the natural stormwater, um, of the ... of both sides of Chicken Creek. Because it doesn't do any good for one ... one side to be done. Sara Leaders: I'll, I'll let Pond, too, speak a minute to this, but there —that was where there's 13 different points along Chicken Creek where, where the water, water enters, and... Do you have anything else to ... to add about how those, maybe... Tanya Norman: Um, so here... Um, the 13 points along the, uh, the borders of Chicken Creek along, just upstream. So, uh, all along the edge, there were, uh, pipes that discharge as you mentioned, into Chicken Creek. So, what we would propose is, to remove those, and convert that concentrated flow, as much as possible, to a sheet flow, so that it would, um, reduce the erosion along the edge. And in some areas, we are proposing to revegetate along the bank there. ' So, that also provides some additional protection of the, uh, stream Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 15 of 62 banks, uh, there. Um... Ms. Bentley: Thank you. That answered my question. 1 appreciate it. Mr. Moore: So, while you're still at the microphone — I'm sorry, if I could ask a follow up question to that. So, I just want to make sure I understand. The 13...13 spill points that are going into Chicken Creek... Tanya Norman: Yes? Mr. Moore: Those, today, are serving the golf course. And, if I heard you correctly, the reason we're extracting that is, to take out that concentrated flow, and, you know, reduce the ... um, the erosion... Tanya Norman: Yes. Mr. Moore: ...the potential for that. Tanya Norman: Mm-hmm. Mr. Moore: So, does it have to come out? Or can there be a point where, ' further upstream, further up -pipe, that that concentration is, either redirected, or does it have to go all the way to the streambank? The reason I'm asking that is, per Laura's questions, too, this is a disruption of the stream bank. If we can avoid that, is there a point up -pipe, where that can be stopped, instead, and not have to actually get to the streambank? Tanya Norman: There are, in some cases, where there are structures that are just upstream of the discharge point. Um, I believe that's what you're asking: if, instead of taking them out, we ... we can, uh, modify them, so that they don't actually discharge. Is that... Mr. Moore: Yes. Tanya Norman: ...what you're asking? Mr. Moore: Yep. Tanya Norman: So, there, basically, would be abandoned in place, except for, um, um ... uh, the upstream ends of the pipes, that actually carry the flow to the — to that connecting point? ' Mr. Moore: The water flow, in my mind, is still achieved with what you're after, when you change it from the concentrated pipe -flow that Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 16 of 62 ' goes directly into the stream. You still ... you still would accommodate that part of your plan... Tanya Norman: I... Mr. Moore: ...but without necessarily extracting pipes, that it would be so disruptive to the — the stream barrier. Tanya Norman: Well, we can look at, maybe abandoning some of them in place so that we can, um, convert some inlet tops to... Mr. Moore: Mm-hmm. Tanya Norman: ...junction boxes, and then just close those off, so that they don't receive that flow. And then, the upstream ends of the pipe, that are beyond the ... the, uh... the stream, uh, the stream buffers, would be what we could remove, so that it's not carrying anything. We could remove those pipes, as we provide improvements along that, that, um, eastern edge. Mr. Moore: Okay. Yeah, that's ... that — that doesn't significantly change the cost of the study, but also potentially saves money, without having I to do that extraction, and then reclamation. I'd ... I would love to see some, at least some consideration of that. Tanya Norman: The only other concern, I believe, was that the condition of some of these pipes, um, could be, you know, in ... in the... into the shape that it, it — if they're not removed, then they could create further erosion. Mr. Moore: Right. Tanya Norman: So, that would ... that's something that we would need to look at, um, as we make that determination. Mr. Moore: Okay. That's where I wanted to go with my second question, is: with the extraction of over 3,000 linear feet of other pipe, that is ... currently exists, is that absolutely necessary as well? And is it for that reason? Is it because the deterioration of the pipes are such, that we're probably cost saving by removing it now, rather than having a failure later, in extracting it? Tanya Norman: That's my ... based on discussions that we've had, um, with the City, that there are number of pipe systems out there that are ' deteriorated, and that ... that need to be removed, to prevent further Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 17 of 62 issues. Mr. Moore: And I recognize it's, it's going to be an evolving process, because when you ... when we're starting over, with what the natural end result will be, it will take us awhile to get there. So, you're going to have more runoff to deal with, in the early phases of the project, then you will a couple of years from now, when the natural habitat begins to reclaim itself, um, there. So, I'd ... but ... I guess, okay. You've answered my question. Thank you. Appreciate that. Tanya Norman: Mayor Lockwood You're welcome. Okay. Anybody else? Ms. Bentley: Just one last comment, if there's no one else; that, Sara, I like the ... the side path on Dinsmore? I ... I think that's a great idea, to try to seek the TSPLOST funding for that. Seems like it is exactly what it is earmarked for, so... Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Sara Leaders: Thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Thank you very much. And thank you, Pond, for being here tonight, too. All right, Tammy, if you'd please call the next item. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, that next item is Presentation on New Restroom Design Options for the Providence Park Area. It's presented by Mr. Tom McKlveen, Parks and Rec manager. Tom McKlveen: All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, this evening, I'm thrilled to talk to you about restrooms at Providence Park. Mayor Lockwood: [Chuckles]. Tom McKlveen: Let's see here, all right. So, currently out at Providence Park, uh, when it was opened, um, we had just an ADA portable restroom that was utilized as a restroom facility, um, at Providence. Uh, with all the improvements that are going on at the Park now, uh, with a new trail, and the new pier, um, we also had a restroom, as part of that new Park design. Um, we applied for a grant in 2018, uh, for $100,000; and it was awarded. Um, bids were collected back in April. Um, we solicited for, uh, the restroom, pier, and trails. And, um, unfortunately the Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pro Page 18 of 62 ' restroom came in over $1,300,000. Uh, so 1 kind of went back to the drawing board. [Chuckles]. So, I ... I went back to the DNR, and, uh, you know, asked for a revision of scope, if...if they would be willing to go down that road. Um, and, uh... it, it — it was well -received. Um, and we put the amendment through, uh, back, uh, in September. And, uh, the scope was approved, to ... to go from a stick -built structure, to something more, uh, prefabricated, essentially. Um, I put two restroom designs in that bid, just in case. Uh, I did a, uh, four -stall restroom, and then a two -stall, as a backup. Um, and we moved from composting toilets, in the original design, to just a septic system. Um, I had a percolation ... I had a perc test done, and, uh, it was able to accommodate septic. And I also requested, um, the project, uh, completion date get moved, uh, in ... in, in lieu of the time that we need to change everything. Um, so, I have for you two simplified concepts. Um, and I'm looking for some guidance, as to what would be preferred. Um, here's concept number one. Um, this is the larger restroom. Uh, it's got ... uh, two stalls in the men's, two stalls in the women's. , Um, it...it looks real nice. It fits that Milton architecture. Um, it's got a storage room in the middle, you can't see on this view. But in the next slide you'll be able to see, uh, more of a schematic shot. And, uh, it will have water fountains, uh, in between the two doors. And it is ADA accessible. Um, the cost for this restroom, $546,000. And here's... here's, kinda, your design. You've got — this is the men's room on the right, with the urinal and the stall, here. And then, here's the women's room. Any questions before I moved to two? Ms. Cookerly: Square footage? Tom McKlveen: I don't have it here. Um, in fact it wasn't even provided. Uh, but 1...1 believe it's around 500 square feet. I can get that. Ms. Bentley: Tom, sorry. Going back, and so... Tom McKlveen: Sure. Ms. Bentley: ...what, what's the roof material? Is that shingle, or metal? Shingles? Thanks. Tom McKlveen: Here's concept two. Uh, it's more of a simple prefab design. Uh, it's , Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 19 of 62 got one stall in the men's, one stall in the women's. Um, a storage and mechanical closet, just like the other. Uh, there are no water fountains on the building, but we can tuck it in, to like a freestanding unit, um, down the road. And, uh, it is ADA accessible as well. Um, this image here is just a plain, gray ... it's a stock image. But, we choose our own colors, going down the road. Um, and it's cost is $385,000. Here's kind of a, more of...of a layout for this one, as well. [Cough]. So, both of these restrooms currently can be funded. Um, currently in the Providence Park Grant account balance, where this would be coming from, uh, we have $127,140. Um, but funds can be transferred from the Pay -go, um, Capital Fund project for, um, Providence Park. Uh, and there is plenty in there, to cover either restroom. Um, so what I'm looking for today is, you know: do we want to proceed with concept one? Concept two? Uh, or, we could not proceed at all, and, um... ' [Cough] ... you know, just, at this time, stick with the portable restrooms out there. And, um, we'd, we would have to forgo the grant, uh, at that point. [Inaudible] 100:43:171 Mr. Longoria: Um — Tom McKlveen: Yes, sir? Mr. Longoria: So, $1,000 a square foot sounds a little expensive to me. But, I don't have enough background in every single facility that the City's — [Cough] — ever built. Do you think that falls within the realm of being in line with other construction projects? Does that price -per -square - foot, fit into the realm of being reasonable? ' Tom McKlveen: It, it is rath...uh, a good bit higher than what we had anticipated. Um, double what we anticipated, I would ... I would say. Uh, but, Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 20 of 62 uh, you know, this, this is what the bids came back at. Mayor Lockwood: Could you just, maybe, get a $500,000 house, and put the — Tom McKlveen: [Chuckles] ... I was gonna say ... [Chuckles] [Crowd chuckles] Mayor Lockwood: —take the rest of the house off of it? [Crowd laughs] Tom McKlveen: Don't say that. [More laughter] Ms. Cookerly: Hey, Tom? Uh, who is your bid audience? I happen to do a lot of construction stuff, and I've really never seen, I'm not sure, numbers like that. I would ... who, who are you asking for bids from? Just commercial builders? Mr. Krokoff: We put them out publicly. Um, we don't solicit bids. They go out publicly, and this was an ITB right? Tom McKlveen: Uh, it was RFP. Mr. Krokoff: RFP. So, it...it goes out, and we get the responses. It goes out through something called BidNet, and from there we get the responses off that. Um, we have to, obviously, run ... go by specific, uh, purchasing guidelines. And, uh, it prohibits us, generally, from going out and soliciting those. Ms. Cookerly: Are we prohibited from using local homebuilders? Because this is a very simple project. It's on a slab, it's simple. Mr. Krokoff: Nothing pre... nothing prevents anybody from bidding it, so long... in — in RFP, they have, they have... obviously, have to be able to show they have the capability to be able to, uh, complete the project. But, other than that, no. A shed builder can come in, and ... and ... and submit a bid. Mr. Jarrard: But, but we can't require or designate it. Ms. Cookerly: Right. And I understand that. But we just got an idea, that ... is the RFP still fresh? Or are we going to go out with a new RFP, or we just got an indication at this point, early stage? Or are we done? Is Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 21 of 62 RFP done? Mr. Krokoff: It's done. Is ... this is ... was this the, uh... how many di ... did we get more than one back? Tom McKlveen: We did not. Ms. Cookerly: Well, that's a problem. Mr. Krokoff: No, we only got one. Tom McKlveen: We only got one. Ms. Cookerly: Yeah, that's a problem. Mayor Lockwood: Yeah, that's probably — Tom McKlveen: There were — [inaudible — crosstalk]. There were upwards of 25, that downloaded the RFP. But we had one response. Mayor Lockwood: Is this ... this includes utilities to it, and — ' Tom McKlveen: It does. Mayor Lockwood: ...does that keep that am ... number one, Male Speaker 2: Well, square footage... yeah. Mayor Lockwood: On a small ... with restrooms, it's gonna be extremely high... per square foot. But also — Male Speaker 2: Yes. [Inaudible — crosstalk]. Tom McKlveen: On running the septic, you've gotta run the plumbing from the street, all the way down — Mayor Lockwood: Yeah, so that ... that could he the majority of the cost right there. So, I don't know what the breakout is. But that may be something you wanna look at. Ms. Bentley: The — Mayor Lockwood: Sorry. ' Ms. Bentley: The question about the grant. How ... how much more time do we have on it? Did they extend the time? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 22 of 62 ' Tom McKlveen: Yes. March 31 ',of 2022. Mr. Moore: Does that just mean the grant has to be awarded by then? Or does it mean that — Tom McKlveen: No, no, no. The project — Male Speaker I : —the project has to be... Tom McKlveen: The project has to be completed; all the paperwork's done. So... Ms. Bentley: So, I just have a couple comments about... I, I'm there — I used to be there three times a week. So, right now, the park is very ... I mean, it's pretty lowkey. I've never been there, when there were more than four people there at the same time. So, I don't think the first concept is needed. If we warm use the grant, um, I mean ... I mean, I think you're right. I think that getting the water there, um, from the ... and then putting a septic and a drain field in, is probably... minus, what? 100? [Inaudible — crosstalk]. Yeah, so anyway. I mean, it just is ... do we want to utilize this grant, to ... you know, in ... in a ... in the fashion that we need to, in the time frame, ' SO. Mayor Lockwood: When is ... when is the latest that you need a decision, to move forward? Tom McKlveen: I would think, in the next few weeks, because the ... if...if we were to go with concept two, um, the smaller one, um, it needs to be ordered, and delivered. And, uh, the last conversations I had was — [Loud cough] ...we need ... they need to get the order in soon, so it comes in on time. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, let me ask a question, process -wise. It ... this still would have to come ... I mean, we could give you a nod, but we're not voting on this tonight, anyway. So, give me direction. Um, is it possible to go back and relook at it, look at what the site cost numbers were for the utilities, and whatnot, and kinda... you guys go through, and see what's fair, you know? And come ... maybe you can come back to us and say, "Well, we double checked this, this, and this. And this is fair, and it's worth ' getting the grant money," or not. Or ... or, if we may not want to. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 23 of 62 And then, bring it back to us before, um, you know... obviously, you'll have to bring it back before us formally... before we would approve it. But, you know, in the next few weeks, if you could clarify a bunch of stuff, and communicate with the Councilmembers what you found. And then, you know, when you bring it back before us. Would that...? Tom McKlveen: Absolutely. Mayor Lockwood: Does that make sense to you guys? All: Yeah. Mayor Lockwood: It's a lot, now. But, maybe, you know, with some more information on it, we could make a ... an informed decision — Peyton Jamison: And Mayor... Mayor Lockwood: ...have to be brought back. Peyton Jamison: I would feel much more — much more com... comfortable making this decision, if I knew there was more than one UP back. [Chuckles] I'm... I was under the impression we had multiple bids, so... Ms. Bentley: The kit ... sorry, the kit was not included in the RFP? Mr. Krokoff: It is. That's the ... that's the all -in price on the... that... that's a prefabricated building. But as time goes on, getting back one bid is becoming more and more common, on ... just, just like all of the other businesses, they're having trouble getting staff. And materials are an issue: the cost of materials, the lead time on materials, and it's driving up cost. Mayor Lockwood: How much is it ... was it specced as a prefab unit? Tom McKlveen: Yes. Mayor Lockwood: It ... and ... maybe 1 missed something. Does it have to be a prefab unit? Tom McKlveen: No. It does not. Uh, I was... I was going prefab, to try to drive the cost down. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 24 of 62 ' Mayor Lockwood: I would almost think that... I mean, depending on what the sitework costs, or the utilities of it, it shouldn't be that of.. expensive of a building. So, I don't know if we can relook at that? I know that would, that would totally change the whole process and probably take a lot of time, wouldn't it? But... Mr. Moore: Um, Tom, are the —are the portables that were there, were those ADA, um, compliant? Tom McKlveen: Yes. Mr. Moore: Where do they ... do they sit on a slab today? Tom McKlveen: They are — Mr. Moore: Or they were probably removed during the process, right now, weren't they ... during the construction? Tom McKlveen: Yes. I had the ... I had it removed. It ... it sits in the pavement, on... in the parking lot. Mr. Moore: And so, if we were to just pause, and stay with the portables, to a ' point in time where we, maybe, have materials, uh... a change in the materials cost, and we recovered from some of these things, to whatever extent that's going to be possible in the future ... uh, maybe just the portables are sufficient for the time being — we've gotten along for a while, with that — if there is an accessible, and reasonable, place for them, without having to incur hundreds of thousands of dollars. I ... I would propose, that we contemplate, um, at least measuring the option of staying with the portables for an extended period of time. Mayor Lockwood: And I think that, the only thing to that ... you'd lose the grant. Mr. Moore: Yeah, and I understand that. Mayor Lockwood: But, you know, to lose 100... but to waste 100, you don't wanna do that, either. Mr. Moore: Right, that's — Mayor Lockwood: Or 200. I want to — Mr. Moore: Is your grant paying for the ridiculous cost of materials? I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 25 of 62 Mayor Lockwood: Um, but again, I think... if you guys could get us more information, because ... I'm just making up numbers, but let's say that the utility part was $225,000 of it. Then we could realize... but, if it's $22,000, or $50,000, then we realize this is, just, crazy money to be spending. Tom McKlveen: I can gather that information. Mr. Moore: The breakdown would be really important to us, Tom, I mean, just ... just as the Mayor has said, to, uh, understand where those hard costs are coming in. Ms. Cookerly: Thank you very much. Mayor Lockwood: Yeah, and then if you guys can bring it back to us, and... Ms. Bentley: And ... and the cost of the portable. Was ... isn't that... it's a lot, a month, ADA compliant. Yeah. Because we've had them at the Milton Country Club. Tom McKlveen: They'd be ... for this — Tom McKlveen: Yeah, it's a different unit than what's at the Club. It's a typical portable restroom you'd see at a construction site. And it's $105 a month. Ms. Bentley: Okay. Not the air-conditioning ones? [Councilmembers chuckle]. I didn't know there were differences. Ms. Cookerly: On the door it says, "Anywhere but here." [Laugh]. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. All right, thank you, Tom. Mr. Moore: Okay. Thank you, Tom. PUBLIC COMMENT (General) Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Tammy, if you would please call the next item. And I believe we moved, a couple of comment, correct? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 26 of 62 ' City Clerk Lowit: We did, Mayor. Do you want to — Mayor Lockwood: Okay. And then we do have General Public Comment — City Clerk Lowit: We do. We do, Mayor. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, the next item is General Public Comment. And I appreciate you guys being patient. Um, Public Comment is a time for citizens to share information with the Mayor and City Council, and to provide input and opinions on any matter that is not scheduled for its own public hearing during today's meeting. Each citizen who chooses to participate in Public Comment, must complete a comment card and submit it to the City Clerk, prior to the Agenda Item being called. Um; now, obviously if it's just General Public Comment, there's not an agenda item. Please remember that this is not a time to engage the Mayor or members of City Council in conversation: When your name is called, please come forward and speak your name and address, um, at the beginning, just to ... for the record. You'll have 5 minutes for remarks, and the city encourages you to review the agenda. And if you wish to speak on any ... uh, speak, bring your comment card to I the clerk right now. Uh, so I will open up now for General Public Comment. City Clerk Lowit: Ah, thank you, Mayor. Uh, Mr. Morgan, welcome back. Did you decide that you would like to speak? Mr. Morgan: [Inaudible] 100:53:111 City Clerk Lowit: Okay. Yes, like I had said, just ... you had your comment. Thank you so much. I would then like Mayor to call Brent Beacham to the podium. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Brent Beacham: I wanted to ... to make a comment, tonight about the first presentation — Mayor Lockwood: Can you just give me one second? Would you just — Brent Beacham: Oh, sorry. Mayor Lockwood: Name and address, for the record, please. I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pro ' Page 27 of 62 Brent Beacham: Uh, Brent Beacham, and I'm representing Market District Crabapple, which is at 12655 Birmingham Highway, Milton. Sorry. So, I wanted to talk about the, um, the next item that's coming up, which is the Agenda Item 21-301. I know that's First Presentation and you're not going to vote on it tonight. But, um, I wanted to ... to bring some comments up about, which I think are ... are critical to your deliberation, when it comes time to, to vote on this item. Um, every meeting I ever go to, whether it's Roswell or Alpharetta, they always start, "I grew up here, and I've lived here longer than you have." Um, I ... I, uh, moved to Roswell in 1871. My family built our horse farm on Birmingham Road in, uh, two... in 1982. It's the Shannondale Farm, now. Uh, we built, tun, many homes out here: Providence Road, Dorris Road, Coleman Road, etcetera. So, we've been invested in, uh, in the city of Milton, long before it was — became Milton. And, uh, we came to Milton, to invest our money, and our investors' money, in a project, the Market District Crabapple. Um, I've looked at, uh, over time, how mixed -use developments, uh, ' come to be. Or how, uh, certain areas become, um, areas... districts of interest. Uh, I ... my, uh, office was on Canton Street. Canton Street was a really small, tiny, uh, very laidback, a few restaurants. And it became, overtime, um, a ... a restaurant district. And how'd that happen? You know, they had this "Alive After Five" thing. People started showing up. It was an ... there was an ...an outside input that created that as a destination. And you can see now, it's a self-sustaining, uh, destination, spot. One restaurant goes out, another one comes in. There's no problem, uh, filling up that. Uh, Alpharetta had the same situation, where, you know, you had one street with three or four restaurants, nothing there. The city came in, they put in City Hall, a parking lot, put in the infrastructure, and the library. And that was an impetus to bring, uh, new, uh, businesses to Alpharetta. Over time, what's the big driver in Alpharetta? Restaurants. Uh, The Roaring Social's new. All these places that are, um, they're really, they can ... make it a destination. You don't go to a specific place, necessarily, in, uh, Alpharetta. You go there and park, and say, "Hey, let's go put our name in a few restaurants, and go look around." Alpharetta is a destination. Crabapple, at this point in time, has not been a destination. I live Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 28 of 62 ' here, and 1 think about, "Do 1 need to go, uh, for an anniversary dinner..." I go to Milton's, because that's a great place to go. Milton's a great place. But, it's not something that's on the forefront. I'm not gonna go to Crabapple tonight, and walk around, figure out what's going on. Because there's really, just not that much, in terms of destination -quality restaurants. Uh, so when we looked at, um, locating at Crabapple, it was, um ... we looked at all the things that you all, uh, put together, 2009. Uh, Charette, 2012, um, plan that... that, uh, showed what that was gonna look like. 2017, there was a placemaking plan. Uh, they identified 105,000 square feet of retail, and other -type, businesses, of which 50% were designated for full -service restaurants, specialty food, and drinking establishments. So, that's ... I think you understand that ... that to make this a successful town, you have to have those kinds of places. Um, to me ... uh, and I look at this new, uh, proposal. There ... the plan is to eliminate... establishments that are limited -services restaurants; to closing 11:00 p.m., where you let full -service restaurants, uh, will stay open `til 2:00 a.m. So, Olde Blind Dog, which I'm ... I'm pretty certain that nobody's going there to eat I dinner at 2:00 a.m. But, we have a, uh, sp... uh, spe... uh, a limited -service restaurant, and we're gonna open up ... which, he's gonna speak after — Billy Allen, who wants to have a live -music venue, with good food, quality food, But it's... it's a place that you, um, you gave him a license for 70/30. And ... and he came with ... with a set of rules, that he understood, that that was gonna allow him to stay `til 2:00 a.m. You know, nobody ... I don't know that anybody expects anybody's gonna stay up every night till 2:00 a.m., but the ability to be able to do that, was part of his business plan. And to close at 11:00 is going to highly impact his business. In fact, I don't know this for a fact, but, um, I'd ... if I were him, I'd be thinking twice about opening, because if he's not going to be successful, then how is that gonna ... why would he continue to invest into a project? And frankly, for, I think this, to become a destination for Crabapple, to have an establishment like that ... again, he — he's ... I ... we looked around town. He's the most ... one of the most successful, um, establishment owners from Buckhead, Atlanta ... a longtime guy. We brought him, because we knew he would bring quality to this I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 29 of 62 area. And he will draw people who, in the past, would drive past Crabapple Comers and keep on going to Alpharetta, or go to Roswell to Canton Street. They're gonna come here... City Clerk Lowit: One minute. Brent Beacham: ...at night, and there gonna, uh, go to his club, and listen to live music, gonna have good quality craft drinks, you're gonna have a good, uh, menu. And they're gonna stay there. If he has to close early, but the restaurants can stay opened to 2:00 a.m., I ... I don't see the logic in that. And it's critical for our business, and ... and I believe for others, to bring, um, the restaurants from Buckhead, which he's helping me bring. They're going to need to know that, uh, that there's a place... that they are going to be drawn to this area, specifically. And, and I believe Billy Allen will do that. Um, it's the last comment, is if he spent all this time and effort, and came with a set of rules, and those rules can be changed arbitrarily, after he's already been, uh, given a license, then how can any ' business come to this city, and expect that, if it's written in the rules, that they can, um, build their business plan around that. If, if they can change that quickly, then, um, I don't see how anybody would come invest their ... this kind of money. Thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Thank you. Please call the next speaker. City Clerk Lowit: I'd like to invite Mr. Billy Allen to the podium, please. Billy Allen: Hi. I'm Billy Allen. I'm here in reference to the address 12655 Birmingham Highway, also known as 3000 Heritage Walk. Um, I am Billy Allen. I'm the guy, I'm the face on the banner. Um, I have been so excited to be a part of this. I've spent my ... my life in this business. I remember telling my father I wasn't going to law school. That was a real slap in the mouth for him. But I've spent 37 years, and I've had 16 other successful venues; none of which, have I ever been cited; none of which, have I ever had a tax implication; none of which, have I ever done anything, but build and draw to the community that, uh, I so chose. And I've done various types of entertainment, of venues. Uh, this one we carefully planned, designed, to cater to this chetrypicked, Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 30 of 62 apple pie community, which I refer to it as, fondly. All the people ' that I've met, the thousands, over 1,000 people have supported me on Nextdoor, on Facebook, on all these ads, telling me they can't wait to be entertained. They look forward to late night breakfast on Friday and Saturday, live brunch on Saturday afternoon. Uh, the support is immense. I could stand here and read it all to you, but it's not necessary. I ... you can look it up on Nextdoor for yourself. But, again, I just... I, I'm very concerned, now. Uh, my wife and I have done this successfully together, for 37 years. And, I've never made an enemy. I've never made a public enemy. Uh, I'm a consultant right now with the city of Atlanta, as to what to do with the ... with what has so poorly happened to that poor city, and its residents of Buckhead. You know, I don't come here with me on lights and pool tables. Uh, I come here with a ... a 27-year-old, very excited chef, who was trained out of Barnsley Gardens, who I happened to coach. When I was listening to those Little League kids, uh, I spent six years going 72 and 8, and my last win was against Milton, I unfortunately, in 2012 — [Mayor and Councilmembers laugh]. -- to go to the state football championship. my, your tailback was Peyton Barber, who, tomorrow night tomorrow night, or Monday, will run for the Oakland Raiders. I coached him for six years. I've contributed to communities, fundraising children, dogs, homeless shelters. And my ... my opportunity up here is to be a destination location. Very much more important than myself, 1 have been asked by the Folia group and the Beachams, to help select carefully, the people that line the five buildings that they're gonna build in in hospitality. I have successfully brought three that are going to just wow Milton. I mean, wow you, with a beautiful steak house; and a beautiful Asian -infused rooftop, by a family that I've known for 30 years, that does it so exquisitely well; uh, a Mediterranean restaurant's coming. You know, these things ... and — and it's not easy to get them without a little bit of vision. So, the ... the Market District Group, ' agreed to, to recircle... recircle the, the way that they get these J Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pro Page 31 of 62 people up here. And so far, our recipe's working. Now for me, uh, I'm the Red Roof Inn guy. I'm the guy that says, "Hey, I'll leave the light on for you." Okay? When you come off the airport at 11:30, and you didn't get any dinner, your kids are home, whatever, and you wanna stop and have something to eat and something to drink, I'm your guy. Uh, the reason that 1 initially asked for the 70/30 — which I was unanimously voted in, and ... and given the license to — the reason I did that was because I understand the constraint of 50/50. City Clerk Lowit: One minute. Billy Allen: And I am certainly not Milton's. You know, that General Manager has known me for 20 years. He works right next door. You can ask him about me all day long. But what I bring you, is, uh, a secure amount of tax dollars, uh, security in knowing that, I'm not gonna do anything to embarrass you, ever; or myself, nor have I ever in my lifetime, in this business. I'll ... I'll bring you crooner, a 33-year- old girl singing at dinner on a Tuesday night, okay, with a 14-year- old virtuoso piano player in a tuxedo, who's gotta be home by 9:30. [Mayor and Councilmembers laugh] Okay, I'm... this is the truth. They're, they're fabulous. I have singer/songwriters. I have been singing for 40 years, myself. I've got a band that consists of members of, uh, Wet Willie, and ... and Starbucks, and... and... and we do four decades worth of music, that you request, and you want to hear. Um, the piano players are fabulous. Their singing components are fabulous. They don't just sit and play like the mall. They entertain: "Hey, Paul. How are ya? Nice to see ya, today. Hey, Joe. Nice to see you, too. Hello, Ken. Nice to see you. Come on in, have a seat. Have something to eat, have something to drink." I'm not saying that I won't sell more food. I'm just saying that my hours, and my business plan, were approved. Okay? And, and ... and I thought that I was open -arm welcomed to come in. And now, 1 get, a ... a friendly phone call from, from miss Bernadette saying, "well, you know, would you consider this or that?" and, if I do, my business plan sinks. I can't afford the entertainment that you want. ICity Clerk Lowit: Time has expired. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 32 of 62 ' Billy Allen: OK, I can't. So, I urge you to think, uh, about this as hard as you can. Uh, if...if you didn't want anyone else to have what I have, that's okay with me, too. [Mayor and Councilmembers chuckle) You know, I'd surely appreciate that. And ... and, you know, we have turned away — as I leave you, and thank you for your time, generously — uh, we've turned away people that didn't fit your mold, or fit mine, or anyone else's. We've already turned away... he could have leased tons of space, but we said, "No, thank you." So, I thank you for your time. Please give it careful consideration. And I'll see you on the 18th. I appreciate you very much. Mayor Lockwood: Thank you. Tammy, please call the next speaker. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, that concludes the Public... the General Public Comments. I have more, but those are other items. Yes, sir. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. So, we'll close Public Comment. Thank you. Um ... we'll move on. Let's see, we have no - I FIRST PRESENTATION City Clerk Lowit: First Presentation, Mayor? Mayor Lockwood: Gonna say, we'll move on to, uh, First Presentation. City Clerk Lowit: That item, Mayor, is Consideration of an Ordinance to Amend Chapter 4 and Appendix A of the Milton Code of Ordinances (Alcoholic Beverages) to Update Various Sections to Clarify Intent. It's Agenda Item No. 21-301. Assistant City Manager Miss Bernadette Harvill. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. City Clerk Lowit: Ah, it's just Presentation. Mayor Lockwood: Yeah — City Clerk Lowit: My apologies. Mayor Lockwood: We'll open up for a motion on First Presentation. I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 33 of 62 Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 21- 301. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, do I have a second? Mr. Jamison: Second. Mayor Lockwood: All right. I have a motion from, uh, Councilmember Bentley, with a second from Councilmember Jamison. All in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Aye. NEW BUSINESS Mayor Lockwood: It's unanimous. Okay, we have no items under, uh, Public Hearing, Zoning Agenda, or Unfinished Business. So, if, uh, Tammy, you'll please call the first New Business item. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, that first item is Consideration of a Resolution to Enact a ' Moratorium — for 120 days — on the Acceptance of Alcohol Applications for Craft Beer and/or Wine Markets, Limited Top ... Tap Establishments, and Limited -Service Restaurants in the City of Milton. It's Agenda Item No. 21-302. Assistant City Manager Bernadette Harvill. Ms. Harvill: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before you tonight, is a moratorium related to the acceptance of new alcohol applications, for craft beer and/or wine markets, limited tap establishments, and limited -service restaurants. On September 20°i, we had an in-depth discussion regarding recommended updates to Chapter Four, Alcoholic Beverages. During that discussion, Council mentioned interest in finding a way to consider some of the newer concepts that we have been seeing, that do not currently qualify as the traditional 50/50 eating establishment, without having to change Chapter Four each time. Community development staff suggested potentially utilizing the warrant process, as a tool to accomplish this. As the process to implement these changes to Chapter 64 will take time, including advertising and conducting a community zoning information meeting, and a Planning Commission meeting, staff has put ' together this resolution, to place a moratorium on new applications for such establishments, while we go through that process. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 34 of 62 Should you approve this moratorium, it will not impact renewals for currently licensed businesses, or those who have already been working with staff on their alcohol applications, prior to this evening. Should you choose not to approve this moratorium, businesses who have not applied to date will be allowed to do so, while staff works over the next few months to make changes to Chapter 64. Now, I'll he happy to answer any questions for you. Mayor Lockwood: First off, Bern, just to clarify: so, this ... if this moratorium is, um, passed, it does not affect anybody that's in ... existing, in the process, or has applied? Ms. Harvill: That's correct, sir. We have a list of businesses that we've been working with for some time now, and they would not be included in this. Mayor Lockwood: And, also; how about just a ... a no ... when it comes to a regular restaurant, or a ... does ... does that have any effect to that? Ms. Harvill: Anyone else, who is not called out specifically, and qualifies under any of the other types, would be allowed to move on with the process while we work on this. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Anybody have any questions or anything? Mr. Longoria: So, Bernadette, the ... the inflight applications that we have right now, we're confident we can process those, and provide them with some kind of results? I think we heard, at the last meeting, about people's frustration related to feeling like they're in purgatory, because we keep working to better things, but it's... it means delays on their side. How does ... how does this not further delay the process they are going through? Ms. Harvill: So currently, two of the four open applications are now in compliance, according to the last updates you approved. So, they are moving forward. They are just getting their own concepts, and understanding exactly which licenses they will ... how they want to structure it. So theirs should be before you soon. Um, The other one that has had some discussions with you, is still working to fit the model, as it stands. So, this won't change that. Um, they would still be able to apply, under that 60/40, or anything else they could 11 Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 35 of 62 come up with in that concept area, that would conform with some of the other licenses. license to therapy move on and then so they're OK to move on. And then come with the last one, I believe, that has the concern, is outside of any of this, which is our brewery. Um, that is separate from any of these discussions, and working with legal diligently each day, to try to figure out how we can finally fit their concept. Mr. Longoria: Okay, thank you. Ms. Harvill: Absolutely. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, and Ken? You're good with all that? Ken: With everything Ms. Harvill said. Yes. Mayor Lockwood: Licenses already granted, and all ... all... Ken: Yeah, they ... this is the hard stop for applications. If they've already entered an application, they're in process, they keep going. If they've got a, uh, a permit already, they keep going. This is only new stuff. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Anybody else? I'll open up for a motion. I ... I'm song. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor? Mayor Lockwood: We have Public Comment. City Clerk Lowit: We do. We have two. Mayor, I'd like to invite Mr. John Zaworski to the podium for his comment. John Zaworski: Evening. Um, my name is John Zaworski. I'm a Milton resident. And, uh, here to discuss a property I'm an owner on, twelve 875 Arnold Mill Road, in the city of Milton, obviously. Um, it was purchased by my family in 1982. It's about 10 and a half acres. And I'm here to kind of discuss some concerns about the treatment of our property in the 2040 Comp Plan. Male Speaker: You know, Mayor — Mayor Lockwood: We're just talk ... on the — ICity Clerk Lowit: My apologies. He... he put the wrong number down. I thought... Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 36 of 62 ' Mayor Lockwood: No worries. We may, if you don't mind, when we move to the next agenda item, we invite you to come back. Perfect. Thank you. City Clerk Lowit: the next one, then, is Mr Brent Beacham for the moratorium. Would you like to continue? Okay. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. City Clerk Lowit: Okay. Mayor Lockwood: Great. I will close — City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, that completes — Mayor Lockwood: ...Public Comment on this item, and open up for a motion. Mr. Jamison: All right. Uh, Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 21-302. Mr. Moore: Second. Mayor Lockwood: OK, I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Jamison, a I second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please say, "Aye.,, All: Aye. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Jamison moved to approve Agenda Item No. 21-302. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Okay. Now, Tammy, would you please call the next item? City Clerk Lowit: The next item is Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the City of Milton 2040 Comprehensive Plan. It's Agenda Item No. 21-303. Mr. Robert Buscemi, Community Development Director. Mr. Buscemi: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh, we're here before you tonight, to request the Council's vote to adopt the 2040 City of Milton Comprehensive Plan update. It's been a long journey, and I want to kind of pull the Council up, um, back up to about 80,000 feet, if i can. Wing your way up. Uh, it's a Comprehensive Plan. We're looking at what the City I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 37 of 62 should be in 20 years, in the next 20 years. That's a big cycle. Um, most of us probably won't be here in 20 years. Um, but the vision of what the City should be, where it has been, and where it's going, was all factored into this plan. And, uh, it has received DCA and ARC approval. So, I have... Jackie's going to do a short presentation, just to kind of give you a brief remembrance of the journey. The journey's been quite a journey. A lot of people, there's a lot of people that we need to bring, and give credit to. Because this is not something that any one person has done. I think it's citizens and staff and the Council. It's just been really a collective effort. And I think it shows the strength of Milton, the citizens of Milton and the kind of input that we have from the citizens. And the CPAC board, and everybody really contributed. So, I just want to give you a quick recap of where we've been, but at the end we will need a vote to adopt the plan. Jackie Lim: Mayor and Council, this is really an exciting and proud time for the City of Milton. Finally, we are adopting Comprehensive Plan 2040. Allow me to take you back in time. About this time last year, t the planning process was underway. I'd like to acknowledge our former principal planner. Michelle Ross MacIntosh spearheaded, she's right now in the audience, who spearheaded the effort. Michelle, thank you for leaving the early stages of the planning process. Laura Richter, our partner and consultant from TSW is also here tonight. Laura, you lend your leadership and expertise in comprehensive planning; CPAC and steering committees are also formed. Some of the members are here tonight. The members are passionate about ensuring a bright future for Milton, and the fulfillment of the City's mission. So, these groups are committed to accomplishing the goal, and I'm fortunate to have worked with them in the last six months, and witness an exemplary kind of leadership, teamwork community. So, as I said earlier the planning process had begun: a public kickoff meeting, we had also public engagements, transmittal of the plan to DCA and ARC happened two months ago. And then tonight is the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan. As mentioned earlier, I'd like to highlight our community engagement process. We know that excellent comprehensive planning requires the involvement of the community. The level of community engagement involved in this planning process is Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 38 of 62 ' rigorous, and collaborative. We ensured that community members were involved every step of the way. There were numerous opportunities available for collaboration to gather the public's input. So like, for example, we had eight CPAC work sessions, two virtual public workshops, two popup events, three education sessions, and a draft plan open house. This shows that our Comprehensive Plan entails a highly engaging process. We established, also, new forms of engagement, and various participation techniques to gather feedback from the community, such as online surveys, educational forums, informative videos, virtual meetings, and in -person public comment events. I'd like to thank our communications department, who ensured that any events or news related to the Comp Plan were relayed to the public. We utilized social media platforms, such as Facebook. We also had our website, where we published our meetings, and at the same time, the newspaper to inform our citizens of the development of the Comprehensive Plan. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank various stakeholders for ' their involvement in all phases of the creation of the Comprehensive Plan, from inception to its completion. So first, our citizens for sharing your stories, feedback, and their time to review the plan. The people of Milton are the reason why we public servants are a dedicated to making Milton a better place. Laura Richter, you and your team at TSW instrument were instrumental in the success of Milton's Comprehensive Planned. You demonstrated dedication, hard work, and leadership. You're an expert on this field, and I've learned a lot from you... actually, everyone. CPAC team, for the countless hours they devoted to this project. Their commitment to accomplishing this project is highly commendable. Many hours of deliberations and interactions took place in this chamber. Please know that your time and inside recommendations are appreciated. Of course, the leadership of Todd Chemik, who is the chair of CPAC, who also led the planning development of the Comp Plan. He gave us direction and guidance to the team. Thank you for your valuable time, knowledge, and leadership that you contributed. ' You embodied what leadership is about. You really, truly lead by Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 39 of 62 example. The City Administrators: we have Steve, Stacy, Bernadette, also Bob, our director... Community Director, Development Director. You kept us motivated and inspired us to keep going. And of course, the City Councilmembers, Paul Moore and Laura Bentley, the Joint Steering Committee, and the CPAC Committee. You both were very supportive and encouraging and dedicated to accomplishing this project. And thank you so much. And lastly, the members of the Steering Committee, and the City staff, for helping with the logistics, technology needs, advertising, and for helping the team get to the finish line. So, it has been a year -long process; indeed, a long journey. The level of commitment, incredible engagement, valuable insight and recommendations from stakeholders, finally produced an extraordinary document. So, what's next for us? We're going to implement the projects, as outlined in the short-term work program. The adoption of the plan ' is just Part One of our story. We still have work to do. And this time, our focus will be the implementation of the short-term work program. We are planning to create a calendar, an assignment for a team or staff member. That's going to be our next step. Our visions are clear. But before that, I'd like to share the total projects of our short-term work program. 27 of those projects is associated with land use, 13 for economic development, 23 for transportation, 22 for sustainability, natural and cultural resources, and 14 for placemaking and branding. So, that's what we're gonna do, after the adoption of this Plan. We make sure that we have a project schedule and ensure that all of these projects will be accomplished in the next, maybe five years. Our visions are clear, and we want to preserve rural heritage, promote a high quality of life, build a strong sense of community, and be the best place to call home. And that's it. Thank you. And we'll try our best, turning our visions into reality for future generations. And if you have any questions, Miss Laura Richter's here to answer questions that you may have. I Mayor Lockwood: Okay, do we have any questions? Laura? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 40 of 62 ' Ms. Bentley: I just have a couple comments. So, thank you so much for ... I can't think of any staff member who didn't have a hand in this, at some point. But one of the things that I think we need to remember is, when we first kicked this off, we learned a lot. Because we started to ... we started to ... we forgot what our foundation was in this city. And we got a lot of information about how much demand there is, for folks to come here and live. And I just ... the most important thing, is ... I mean, I had the privilege of serving on this committee, and 1 really enjoyed it. But we must never forget why Milton is special, and how we got here. The foundation of our community is high standards. And we have done a great job on land use, and we've held the line. And so, part of our learning process was to remember that, and not forget it, that we didn't build to demand. We have a land use policy that is very predictable. And our property owners love that, because they invest a great deal in our community. So, I am ... I was very ... even though the beginning of this process was a little bit rough. And I just want the whole room to know that if you want Todd Chernik to do anything for you, just take him to I Dunkin' Donuts. [Laughter] Because he just, all he needs is a donut. Todd was great, but also, I have to credit Ron Gilbert for holding this team to that high standard and helping the CPAC to remember what has kept Milton special. So, I'm extremely proud of everyone that had a hand in this, and that contributed to that. I can't wait to get started in the next month, of prioritizing for 2022, what we're going to get started on. Can't wait to do it. So, thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Paul? Mr. Moore: Well, thanks Joe. I would just echo what Councilmember Bentley has just shared. It was a remarkable process that we went through. As just as Laura said, every individual who touched this project, and there were many across the board, rose to a height of, I think, heretofore unseen contribution. Because we were in trouble in the beginning. Because we seem to have lost our way. But through some dedication and leadership of our consulting ' team, our city managers leadership, some key to tutelage from Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pro Page 41 of 62 Todd Chemik and Ron Gilbert, and many others, that I won't name this evening, we were able to rise like a phoenix from the fire, and now have delivered, I think, a tremendous product. I think it is in keeping with where Milton is intended to go, but also prepared us for this stage of Milton. There was a lot of years in our Comprehensive Plan, where we were building the foundation of what we were going to be. And now we've become some of those things. We're at an interesting point in our career as a new city, where we can now become some of the things that you want to be next, that are more aspirational. We've put some of those core cornerstones in place. But I think to touch on a key point that Laura just said, is the vision here is not necessarily the City's vision; meaning the people that you see around this room. It's been the vision of our community that has driven us all too often. All too often, you talk about market demand. And we heard a presentation from a consulting team, as a matter of fact, that contributed to that. And we decided, "You know what? A lot of that is really nice information, but it is absolutely not Milton." ' And we took the best of what he had to offer, and massaged it, and turned it into what is really the citizen -centric vision for what Milton was going to be. So, we're not necessarily market driven. We're Milton -citizen driven. And I look forward to those things being realized, with the tremendous work that you guys have put forward on all of our behalf. And I can't thank you enough for having the chance to be a part of it. It was a great honor to have a chance to play a piece in that. Thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Does anybody else have any questions or comments right now? I'll go ahead and take Public Comment, and then... City Clerk Lowit: Thank you, Mayor. We have two, Mr. John Zaworski. If you would like to come back up to the podium, please. John Zaworski: All right, you're ready for me now, here. Like I said, my name is John Zaworski, Milton resident, one of the property owners of 12875 Arnold Mills Road, the property my family is owned for going on 40 years. And I have some concerns, we do, along with some of the adjoining property owners, about how our properties are treated in this 2040 Comp Plan. And just kind of to go back a little bit, on some history, since 2016, Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 42 of 62 ' or 2006, since this thing was established, we've been engaged in the future zoning development and use of our property. One of those big moments was the 2014 visioning study, which we were heavily engaged in, and heavily involved in. And what kind of came out of that study was a couple commercial nodes that were identified, one of them being the... What was the specific name of it? The area around Arnold Mill and Cox Road, which our property is located in. Kind of the conclusion of that report was, that that node should have a mix of uses, included neighborhood serving retail, restaurant, office, live, work, residential, education. In 2015, the forum -based code was drafted by the City community development staff consultants, consultants. It was proposed, officially proposed in public comment that prescribed T4, for that node. The 2030 Comprehensive Plan stated the honorable character area. These are areas appropriate for non-residential development in the future, or non-residential development; small, separate areas along Arnold Mill Road, to create employment opportunities in the western portion of the community. This node has been identified, it's always been commercial in ' character, acknowledged by land use policy documents, city officials for a significant amount of time as a commercial node. And it's actually only become more commercial in recent years. The City purchased the athletic fields. There was the approval of the 23,000-square-foot activity center directly across the street from the node. The DOT has slated the Arnold Mill to be widened to four lanes. So, the history of the property has always been commercial. It's been identified as commercial. It's been discussed as commercial. And so, it was somewhat surprising to see the property now identified on Pete Trelaney's map as AEE, which is, as you all know, Agricultural Equestrian Estate, which is acre lots, typically larger 3-acre tracts, horse farms. And it's just not in keeping with the history of the property, with significant amount of work that was involved in these studies, just like these studies that currently took place: staff, community involvement, to arrive at these conclusions that this is a commercial mode, and kind of would be treated as such. And so, I guess our concern is that now, it is not being identified ' that way. And so, we've engaged with some folks, with some city Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pro Page 43 of 62 officials, and offered some comments and edits. And to date, these suggestions and edits have not, kind of, been adopted. And really, I'm here just to kind of ask the Council to either adopt some of these edits that we've suggested, or delay this vote to a point or we can have some time to, you know ... delay to the next meeting, to have additional time to kind of discuss this specific node, how it's identified, what specific language edits can be made within the Comp Plan, to kind of, be a better representation of how this property's been treated, this corridor's been treated for the last eight years, and... City Clerk Lowit: One minute. John Zaworski: ...through three different studies. It's just a little concerning. And I'm hearing talking about 2040, this is kind of, what we wanna see that vision in 2040 of properties in Milton, and discussions we've had over this past 7-10 years. The vision of this location, the vision of this corridor is not AEE, so just a little bit of a disconnect, there. And I don't think, given the history of the property, and the current use of the property ... Roswell's adopting a mixed -use zoning, directly across the street. It's not gone more residential; it's not ' gone more rural. You know, it's been identified as commercial for that longstanding period of time, on multiple studies, multiple documents, group documents, and then now it's not. And so, here we kind of, are obviously concerned with that. Because I think a lot of people agree here, that that's not the nature of that stretch of... City Clerk Lowit: Time expired. John Zaworski: ...of road, Arnold Mill, Cox Road. It's just commercial in nature, and that's been identified and well documented. So, there's obviously some concerns about how it's treated in this 2040 plan. Mayor Lockwood: Thank you, sir. Tammy, please call the next speaker. City Clerk Lowit: I'd like to next invite Mr. Ben Thorp to the podium, please. Ben Thorp: Thank you, ma'am. And thank you, Mayor and Council, and staff, for your time. I'm speaking on a similar issue. I actually speak on behalf of my mother, who has an ownership interest in 12895 Ann 12915 Arnold Mill Road, which is at the intersection of Cox Road ' and Arnold Mill Road; the same case that Mr. Zvorski was just talking about. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 44 of 62 ' Mayor Lockwood: Excuse me [inaudible] [01:33:561. Is it Thorp? Ben Thorp: Yes. My last name is Thorp. Mayor Lockwood: State that for the record. Ben Thorp: Sure, absolutely. My name is Ben Thorp. I'm speaking on behalf of my mom, Dr. Barbara Williams, who has that ownership interest in that property. And I'll take a slightly different angle than Mr Zaworski took, which is that history is very helpful to understanding where the concerns of, and I'll just speak for my mom, us as property owners come from. Which is that, we understand that this Comprehensive Plan is about many, many things. It's a huge collaborative effort. The document alone requires a huge amount of collaborative work, and I want to acknowledge that and all the work that goes into that, by staff, citizens, Council, Mayor, etc. This is a tiny piece of that puzzle. But, from our perspective, an important one. And what matters to us at this time, is to have a clear understanding of what it is that's being adopted, means for us, ' as individual landowners. Right? So, the future land use plan identifies various zones as retail and services, for example. Or agriculture, for example. But I don't think necessarily renders a final determination about every individual property. I think we're all sort of on the same page about that. And so, to have the Council, or the staff speak to us in a way that explains that and says that this plan isn't designed to impose a constraint or a restraint that is final, or in perpetuity on your property, and the potential use of your property, I think would he very helpful, for us. Right? Because there's a degree to which, I think we have been talking past each other. Right? And we are maybe assuming too much, from the way this is spoken about in the Comprehensive Plan, and in reality, we still have a lot of room to cooperate, enter work with the city. No, that's my hope. Right? So, that's the optimistic tone. If that's not the case, to be honest. It would be helpful to understand that as well. Right? So, if the effect of the future land use planned used is to constrain the use of property going forward in a final or determined way, that's awesome that's also helpful to understand and have clearly stated. ' Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 45 of 62 And so, while I agree with Mr. Zaworski, there's certainly an opportunity to have more discussion, and to edit or alter the Comprehensive Plan, I'm not overoptimistic about that. I understand how much work has gone into this, and I know that a vote is likely to happen tonight. That said, I think the next set of communications to the property owners combat and we may not be the only ones that feel similarly affected here drive up would be helpful coming to help us understand what the effect of the final land use determination, that appears in the Comprehensive Plan, is. And more than that, how we can have a productive dialogue going forward. Right? How we can talk about, if there are one or two nodes within the Arnold Mill plan, that would be appropriate for nonresidential use, how do we participate in that discussion? How do we have a productive involvement in that discussion? And so, that's really the impetus of my commenting at all. Right? There is this document, 1 believe this document is likely to be approved. It reflects a tremendous amount of work. Where we go from the document, I think is what I'm trying to speak to tonight. ' And certainly, what my mom, as a property owner, in that corridor, is concerned with. And to the extent I can be helpful, or have further conversations with any of you, or with any staff about that, I really welcome the opportunity. Thank you. Mayor Lockwood: Thank you, sir. Do we have any other...? City Clerk Lowit: That concludes the comments, Mayor. Mayor Lockwood: Laura, do you have a... Ms. Bentley: Yeah, I'd like... I just want to make another comment. So, the Comp Plan is the first step in creating a work program item. I can say for sure that, in the Comp Plan, is a work program item for a small area plan, for the Arnold Mill area. So, you know, a small area plan is when you really dive into the details of notifying the adjacent property owners. That means, I was able to participate in a similar plan for the Cambridge area. So, it is a step in the process of considering a change. So, but everything goes before Council. Council can determine whether they will adhere to the Comp Plan, or they will not, so I guess I just wanted to clarify some of the process that, you know, as it relates to planning in the Comp Plan, ' and then small area plans. They are identified in the Comp Plan, and then those plans can be approved, or upheld by the Council, Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 46 of 62 ' whatever Council is in place then, or not. So, I hope that helps clarify some of where we are in the planning process, and how it goes to implementation. Male Speaker: And just to follow up on Laura's point: Steve, could you explain maybe what we would expect out of the small work programs and the timeline, or something kind of like that? And the prioritization? Steve: So, the Arnold Mill small area plan is actually listed as land use No. 1. It's the first one listed in there. And that, with the anticipation that you would look at this within, I believe, if my recollection is correct, either 22 or 23. Fortunately, I'll be before you one week from today, talking, should this be adopted. I'll be before you, anyway, talking about our strategic plan. And, should this be adopted, I'll also be talking about opportunities to start funneling some of those short-term work plans into the next quarter for the strategic plan, so it's at that time, you as a Council will prioritize, when we'll start looking at those. As far as what a small area plan does, I know what it does, but I'm never going to be as eloquent as Bob may be in this, so I may ask Bob to come up for that, if that's all right. I Mayor Lockwood: Sure. Robert Buscemi: So, with a small area plan what we're gonna do, is we're going to, first, we're doing everything in-house. We're not going out with any consultants. So, staff will start to look at the corridor, do some studies. There's been a lot of change in that corridor since the last plan. The last plan, I was here for. It was in 2014. And since then, that corridor has significantly changed. There's been development, there's been water lines been brought in. They didn't even have water back then. It doesn't have any sewer in that area. So, there's things that haven't changed. And there's a lot that has changed. But, so, with a small area plan, we're going to sit down, we're gonna study it, and go through that whole cycle that we did the last time, all over again. I mean, we can look back at things that were studied prior, but I don't really want to tell the Council that we're just going to take those and run with them, because I think there's been significant change in that condor, the staff really needs to analyze. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 47 of 62 And then we bring back recommendations to the Council on what we think it should be. And then, if Council thinks that those recommendations are good, we start to adopt codes, like a forum - based code in that area, to start to show how we implement that zoning in those areas. Ms. Cookerly: So, as you know, we all participated last week with this gentleman, Mr. Zaworski, did I pronounce that correctly? Mr. Memick, and, Mr. Thorp, your mother. It was very nice to speak with her, about this subject. And to crystallize it, the change in language, that we are not carrying forth prior history in 2014-15, is of concern to the property owners; because, whether that will tilt the scales one way or another, perhaps disadvantageously to the property owners, is an issue. So, I can appreciate... we could pick through the Comp Plan, and find a lot of inconsistencies, or other things and that could delay moving forward on the study. So, I understand that. But my question is, is there any penalty in the fact that, that area was characterized a different way then it currently is? Is there any ' penalty, going into the study, that there might be a prejudice eye, and that we've forgotten history back in 2014, with the Planning Commission, and two bodies of the Planning Commission, then? Robert Buscemi: Yeah, I would that there is not. So, what happens is, I can't sit here before you tonight, and say, "Yes, what they've done before will even have an impact on what it will look like." Because without doing the study comma we really don't have any idea, how that study's gonna end up, and what recommendations we're going to bring forth. It might look similar. It might not. But I will assure the land owners, and the Council, that this Council, future Councils, whatever is on that land use map, if we do a study and the Council chooses to adopt or modify that land use, they have the ability to do so. So, it would not inhibit this Council, or future Councils, from changing that land use map. Mr. Longoria: So, Bob. Based on the 2014 planned, or whatever the previous plan was, because I was thinking it was later than that, but maybe you're right. Is it a true statement, that that particular area was characterized differently that it is, in the plan that we are getting ' ready to vote on? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 48 of 62 Robert Buscemi: Uh, there was a visionary study. And there was some forum -based code texts that were recommended, and the Council, and it was 2015, we brought that to Council. And at that time, the Council chose not to adopt it, and to just table it indefinitely, was the outcome of that meeting. So, yes. Mr. Longoria: I guess, let me rephrase my question. If we went to a comprehensive land plan that was already approved by the Council, the properties that we've been talking about ... what does the future use look like for those properties? Steve Krokoff: Bob, can I jump in a minute? Would that be all right? Robert Buscemi: Yeah, yeah. Jump in. Steve Krokoff: So, I don't want to confuse the Arnold Mill visioning study come up with the Comprehensive Plan. Our Comprehensive Plan never incorporated the 2014 visioning study. While it's mentioned in it, we've never changed our future land use map to indicate any changes associated with what out of the visioning study. The visioning study was done in 2014. I was not here for that. But, I was here for the 2015 update, for the Comprehensive Plan, at which time the CPAC looked at every ... all of the plans, just like we did this time, to determine, "Okay, what changes should be made in this 2015 update?" At that time, the future land use map, at least as far as Arnold Mill was concerned, did not change. And now, subsequently, in this review now, it still did not change. So, there is no change in the Comprehensive Plan. The 2014 plan is, what it was. It was a visioning plan, like we've done in many other areas. But the Council chose, in 2015, not to implement, via zoning, which is your planning tool to be able to change an area, to change Arnold Mill. You opted not to. However, working with our CPAC this time around, they still voiced a very strong desire to reexamine what Arnold Mill could be; but through a lens that's appropriate in 2021, not necessarily 2014. Whether that ends up being the same, that will be up to whatever comes out of the visioning study, and ultimately, of the Council. But nothing is really changing, as it pertains to the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Moore: That's a really important clarification. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 49 of 62 Mayor Lockwood: Okay? Mr. Longoria: Okay. I just ... because what you said, just made me think that, you know ... that we're going to approve something tonight, that ... I didn't want to potentially change something, that we're just going to revisit, and then vote to change again. In other words, it seemed like we were creating a conflict for ourselves. But if that's not the case, then I'm okay with that. My secondary concern is really more about our citizens. And that is, you know, if they went to sleep one night thinking that an appropriate use of the property is one thing, and then wake up the next day, and all the sudden, all that's changed, and they didn't really get to voice their proper opinion on how that could change, I just, you know, worry about that kind of thing. But that's okay. All right, let's keep going. Ms. Bentley: I just — Mayor Lockwood: Okay, yeah. I ... first off, I want to thank everybody who's involved, ' from our CPAC, to the staff, Councilmembers, citizens, property owners, everybody. I guess, is it safe to say, Bob, the Comprehensive Plan is a road map to get us from point A to point B, a destination. But that's not necessarily to say, if it's a 3,000- mile road trip, we may pull off in some small town and get gas, and decide to, you know, stay here an extra night, and visit this, and explore, and whatnot. So, my concern is the same thing as Laura and Joe's different points; is, you know, because I know over the past years, that's always the thought process that I've had, and heard everybody talking about, that was a corridor and a node. That was between Crabapple there, you know, Birmingham, that was a node, or a commercial area, or what not. So, that's my concern, too. I didn't want to totally change, but I guess what you're saying, then, and Steve, that the overall plan, if approved, didn't necessarily change that that area, but nothing ... we did not adopt anything different from the past, in 2014-15, with a visioning study and the property owners involved, and citizens, we can't come up with some changes, or that area can be defined differently, or... Robert Buscemi: Well, CPAC did identify it again, to be eligible, to have staff look at it, to do another small area plan for that corridor. So, I thought that was... they said, "Look, a lot of things have changed over the years. We realized that there was a plan prior, but it was never Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 50 of 62 ' adopted. You know, why don't we look at it again? Let's see what it is.,' Now, I just don't wanna... I can't stand here before you tonight, and say, okay, without studying it, you know, yeah ... we're gonna go back to the old way. Or, yeah, it's going to be retail, or you know, it's going to be, you know, commercial nodes. I mean, we're going to restudy it, and give staff the opportunity to do at CPAC has directed us to do, which is go back through the plan, we'll come back with recommendations, we'll show you illustrations, we'll have more community involvement. I don't know if other land owners have changed over the years. Maybe they have, maybe they have not. We'll reach out to everybody in the corridor. We'II see what makes sense for that corridor. Personally, I think it's a good corridor to look at, so I was in full agreement with CPAC, that we analyze that corridor, and see what we can do with it. But without doing it, it would be difficult. But I do what to say, the Council can change land use. There were no land use changes proposed in this Comp Plan, today. Mayor Lockwood: So, quick question, just — ' Robert Buscemi: If we needed to do it in the future, yes the Council would be able to do it. Mayor Lockwood: 1 don't want to put Sara on the spot, back there, but you know, it was mentioned tonight about DOT widening, making that a four - lane highway. Do we ... you know, of course, 20 years ago, I was told it was 10 years. Then 10 years went by, and it's another 10 years, and all that. But is there any, Sarah, do you have any update of when, you know ... what DOT's schedule is, on that ... or plan? Sara Leaders: The latest date is 2037. [Councilmembers laugh]. Mayor Lockwood: All right. Mr Moore: That's a great example, of some of the things that come into play in this consideration. You think about just some of the remarkable things that are, likely, or have happened, or are likely going to happen. Number one is the continuous moving of the target from Fulton County, or the Georgia Department of Transportation, on ' that road widening. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 51 of 62 There's been conversation, more recently, about what's gonna happen with the waste management, landfill, that could comprehensively change some of the use patterns of some of the land over there, depending on what the outcome of that is. You look at what's happening in today's global economy, about how we're using fossil fuel, versus electric fuel, and other solutions in the future. Gas stations that may have been contemplated in the last several studies, maybe something very different in the next couple years. So, I think it's great that we didn't take any significant change action in this comprehensive plan. We've set the stage for fresh review on that, and I look forward to being part of that. Sara Leaders: and just a quick... so, we keep using the words "visioning" and "small area plan." It's the same thing. And so, we, in the Comp Plan, decided to update that. And when we do, do that, because it is in there, and I'm sure we will, you will give notification to the property owners and the stakeholders, as we... ' Robert Buscemi: Absolutely. Sara Leaders: So, that's... I hear you, and that's very important to us, too, to make sure the stakeholders are involved in this area of planning, specific to Arnold mill, which has been supported in the Comp Plan. Robert Buscemi: The current land owners, that would be affected, and the City at large, I mean citizens at large, should get all the input. Get input from the City, at large, and see what the City thinks. We'd be doing a lot of advertisement, that way, engagement, getting people involved, showing them presentations, what things could look like, visions, how things would be built out. It's not an easy corridor, because it doesn't have any real sewer base to it, so it's going to have some limitations with that. So, we gotta really look at it, and see what we can do to that corridor, if we want to enhance it, or not. Until we go through the study, it's a little difficult, for me to really give you any conclusive evidence on what I think it should be tonight. I'd like to go through that study, and really show the Council what we came up with, what it looks like. How is it gonna get affected? Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I think... but, what I'm hearing some question out there, is ' an opportunity for a study, moving forward, and whatnot, on that. So, okay. 1 think I closed the Public Comment. So, any other Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 52 of 62 questions, staff, or comments from the Council, before I open up for a motion? Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the resolution adopting the City of Milton's 2040 Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Mr. Moore: Second. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Bentley, with a second from Councilmember Moore. Again, before I call the vote, I do want to take the opportunity to, not only to thank the citizens that were involved with the committee, thank you for your effort, obviously, and time; and our staff, and our staff here in Milton, and our former staff here, thank you all for everything; Michelle, and all. So, we appreciate all the hard work and, again, that goes to everybody. And, with that I'll ask all in favor, please say, "Aye." Aye. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Bentley moved to approve Agenda Item No. 21-303. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Okay, thank you. All right, if our City Clerk will please call the next item. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, our next item is Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the Capital Improvements Element, the CIE, 2021 Annual Update, Relating to the City's Impact Fee Program. Agenda Item No. 21- 304. Community Development Director, Mr. Bob Buscemi. Robert Buscemi: Good evening, Council, again. The CIE Annual Update 2021 was transmitted to ARC and DCA for their review, back in August. Just like the Comprehensive Plan, these agencies also determined that the CIE Update for the City of Milton adequately addressed the Development Impact Fee compliance requirements. That means we're spending our Impact Fee money correctly. And that's really what the annual CIE update is telling us. And it gets reviewed by the DCA and ARC, to make sure that we are doing that, and we are in full compliance. And they think we're doing a great job with that. So, we're going to need another vote tonight to adopt that Annual Update. Mayor Lockwood: Is there any questions for Bob on that? Sure? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 53 of 62 [Councilmembers laugh] Sure? [Councilmembers chuckle] All right. Thank you, Bob. At this point, I will ask for a motion. Mr. Longoria: Mayor, I move that we approve the Resolution Adopting the Capital Improvements Clement, CIE, 2021 Annual Update, Agenda Item No. 21-304. Ms. Bentley: Second. Mayor Lockwood: Okay. I have a motion from Councilmember Longoria, and a second from Councilmember Bentley. All those in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Mayor Lockwood Aye. That's unanimous. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Longoria moved to approve Agenda Item No. 21-304. Councilmember Bentley seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Robert Buscemi: Thank you... [laughter]. Mayor Lockwood: All right, thanks, Bob. You know what? I want to make sure ... do we have any Public Comment on that? City Clerk Lowit: We do not, sir. Mayor Lockwood: So, I'll close out the Public Comment on that. Tammy, if you'll please call the next item. City Clerk Lowit: The next item is Consideration of a Resolution of the City of Milton Authorizing a Pre -Application for a Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program Grant with the Department of Natural Resources. It is Agenda Item No. 21-305. Parks and Recreation Manager, Mr. Tom McKlveen. Tom McKlveen: Good evening, Mayor and Council. What 1 have for your consideration is a Resolution to authorize city staff to complete a Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 54 of 62 pre -application for the 2021 Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program Grant. This grant program is funded by the State, and administered through the Department of Natural Resources. A percentage of sales tax on outdoor sporting goods, funds the program. Staff is recommending that, if approved, we utilized Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program to fund the future phases of the Former Milton Country Club trails, hydrology, and land management plan. This grant will support projects up to $3,000,000. For pre -application scoring, allocation of points is based on a percentage of match. A 50% match, awards the highest possible points. Staff is recommending matching that 50%, to take advantage of the most possible points. This match could come from a variety of sources, depending on funding received from the state TSPLOST, and other grants as highlighted earlier in Sara Leaders' presentation. This identified project includes work that we already intend to do. The grant will help support it financially. Again, this resolution is simply authorizing staff to pursue the grant, and complete the pre - application. Any official approval from the grant, will come at a future date, in 2022. Any questions? Mayor Lockwood: Okay, any questions? All right, do we have any Public Comment? City Clerk Lowit: We do not, Mayor. Mayor Lockwood: I'll close the Public Hearing on that, and open up for a motion. Ms. Bentley: Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Agenda Item No. 21- 305. Mr. Moore: Second. Mayor Lockwood: Okay, I have a motion for approval 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. 21-305. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4. 2021 at 6:00 ptn ' Page 55 of 62 MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Thank you. All right. Move on to Reports. Is there anything the Council would like to report on? Laura? Ms. Bentley: I just want to ... there was a great article about a farm here in Milton, Tony and Sarah Rich; how they have employed folks from Lionheart WORKS. And if you didn't get to read it, it is really what Milton's all about. It's a special needs program, kids come on the farm, and they learn skills, so that they can go off and use those skills to work. And anyone that has a farm, really wants to ... needs help on their farm. And it's a great, great effort. And it's great to see Tony and Sarah doing this. They're new farm owners... well, fairly new, within the past three years, to Milton. So, it was a great article. I just wanted to... Ms. Cookerly: Thanks. I haven't seen it. STAFF REPORTS ' Public Works Mayor Lockwood: Okay. Anything else? We'll move on to Public Works with Sara. City Clerk Lowit: Mayor, while we're waiting, can I just mention that we want to say a happy birthday to Sara Leaders? [Laughter]. Mayor Lockwood: Sara, do you want us to, or... [Laughter]. Sara Leaders: It's a fun way to spend a birthday. [More laughter]. Mayor Lockwood: See, it's supposed to make the meeting a lot shorter. [Laughter]. Sara Leaders: Thank you all. What I wanted to do tonight with the Public Works update, was to give an update on our TSPLOST program. We're ' coming up on the vote for the next round of the referendum, so just wanted to highlight what we've done so far, under the current program; and how the funding and projects are looking on that Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 56 of 62 ' program. So, this is for ... the collections began April of 2017, and they will end with one more check in March of 2022. So, it will end by April 2022. If you remember, we set up the original budgets for TSPLOST based on projections. And tiered projects, based on expected projections. So, our Tier One projects were $31,500,000; Tier Two were $5,500,000; and Tier Three were another $5,500,000. So, looking at what we've received to date, we've received 88.33% of the distributions. And, looking at what we are expected to receive over the next seven months, minus our program management expenses, because those aren't specifically tied to a certain project, we're looking at a total of $32,650,000. This is a map I showed with another presentation; just in our history as a city, where we've spent money, where we've had federal and state match money on projects, some federal projects underway, and then local -funded projects. And just to highlight, in the five years of the TSPLOST, what all we have done, and what is being planned to be done, as far as improvements and how those ' are spread out throughout the city. So, this breaks down the projects by type, from congestion relief to operations and safety, bike/ped bridges. And then looking at starting those Tier Two projects we talked about a few weeks ago, that is, Freemanville at Redd, and Bethany at Providence. Those were our Tier Two intersections. So again, this is just showing where those fall on the map, and how the funding falls across those different categories. In congestion relief, we've completed two projects. The Morris at Webb roundabout, and the Northeast Crabapple, the new road, the roundabout at Charlotte Mayfield, and then some sidewalks on Mayfield Road. So, we spend $3,815,000, and we're estimated with the Morris widening, to be spending another $9,760,000 in congestion relief. In the operations and safety category, these are the projects list of better under that category, and what we spent to date. We've substantially completed Hopewell Hanby and Hopewell Thompson. We do still have some final billing on those, to close those out. Hopewell Bethany, we have the construction award, so ' we know what the remainder of that one is going to cost. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 57 of 62 Freemanville Birmingham is in design, moving into right of way acquisition. And then, 140 at Green is just starting design. So, we've spent $4,658,000, and estimated remaining expenses for all these projects is $6,290,000. Bridges, we had one project. We just have kicked off preconstruction activities. We're doing some survey, and then the design package to put it out to bid, as well as the right of way acquisition. So that one's estimated, remaining at $2,800,000. Under the bicycle and pedestrian category, the Cogbum sidewalks is nearly completed. That's what the graphic on this picture, or this slide, shows. We do still have some final expenses to come in on that one. We funded the Trail Master Plan study. We're funding the local portion of the Big Creek Greenway connection. We have federal money, for the majority of that project. But the TSPLOST has funded the local share. And then, we're just kicking off the Mayfield sidewalk that's connecting the lakeside development over to Freemanville Road. So, we've spent $669,000, with the estimated remaining at $1,140,000. ' So, we had some additional funding. We began concept work on the Tier Two operations projects. So that was Bethany Providence, and Freemanville at Redd. We spent $68,000 so far. And the estimate from those concepts is $3,000,000 to complete those. So, in summary, we've spent about 30% of what we're projected to receive. That's $9,210,000. Estimated remaining expenses on those projects is $22,990,000, which brings our total for the program to $32,200,000. And back to referencing the number from the first slide, our total revenues is $32,650,000. We do still have several projects, essentially seven, that are in preconstruction phases, so we won't know official construction estimates until those move into construction. So, there could be some change with our fatal numbers. But, just wanted to share. We are in a good position with our projects and funding, we're a successful program. And, I'll answer any questions on TSPLOST or any other Public Works items. All right. Thank you. STAFF REPORTS Community Engagement I Mayor Lockwood: All right, thank you Sara. Courtney? Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 58 of 62 ' Courtney: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh, since we last spoke, our department has met with various community members to discuss the great ideas they have for engaging with known citizens, organizations and businesses. I'm friends with and met with Deviche Kamar, a Milton High School student and volunteer from Team Teach Technology, a nonprofit that was founded during the pandemic shutdown, that connects teenagers to senior citizens to learn how to use social media, emails and online conferencing platforms such as Zoom to stay connected with their families. I'm will be working to see how we can connect this group to Milton senior citizens. Our event coordinator, Anita Jupin, has worked with some of our parks programs, such as the Photo Creative, Go Yoga, excuse me, and choose to promote their programs and increase enrollment. She has also worked with Steve Cory, with the Milton Fire Corps, and Dr. Sundak Ganesh from the Centers for Disease Control to provide outreach opportunities for the CDC's Mobile Health Unit, including Crabapple Fest, where they were positioned with Milton Fire. She also works with other departments within the city to establish ' opportunities to provide regular health services to Milton health — citizens through that program. In August, we heard from former Milton citizen and volunteer, Charlie Fisher, who in 2016 helped the city obtain an artifact that was recovered from the World Trade Center after the attacks on September 11, 2001. I helped plan a visit to Station 44 where Mr. Fisher could meet Chief Gabe Benmoussa, and see the artifact in its new home. He had not seen Station 44. So, he was excited to do that. In August, we also wrapped up our summer internship program. Um, our interns, Aiden and Chloe, who you met, learned about every city department, and completed over 20 different projects, including a financial metrics comparison of surrounding cities, and reorganization of the community development website. Finally, in August, we celebrated Anita Jupin, our event coordinator's, second work anniversary in Milton. She continues to work extremely hard, bringing unique ideas and innovative community partnerships to the city. This leads me to September, when Anita and I honed in on the I Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 59 of 62 final details for planning Crabapple Fest. After the work and disappointment behind two cancellations in 2020, and while all of us still worried about COVID and grieved what it had taken from us, Anita and I worked as a team from March through September to plan Milton's largest and signature event. She worked on negotiating sponsorships, which connected potential and long-time Milton businesses to our signature festival, helped with recruiting and communicating with vendors, booked new unique food vendors and local entertainment. And the addition of new, interactive kids' activities, nonprofit participants such as K9 Assistance, and other booths such as Milton Equestrian Committee, with signature souvenir horseshoes, were a huge hit. With help from nearly every city staff member and tons of volunteers, Crabapple Fest this past Saturday had record crowds. Vendors and visitors alike told us multiple times what a great time they had. Two projects also came together as Birmingham Park Trails, which were marked by Anita and her family this summer, were named and had beautiful new signs made for them by Girl Scout Troup 16217, led by Ginger Lightbum and Cindy Tipett in partnership with Milton Equestrian Community. These signs will ' be installed very soon, so please visit the park and see Appaloosa Alley or the Blue Trail, Trotter Trail, or the Red Trail, and Palomino Path, the Pink Trail, as well as all the other trails in Birmingham Park. Later this month, Milton will be hosting the greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce's Leadership North Fulton Hearing Council Chambers, at what will be their first class of the new session. They will be learning about Milton, North Fulton demographics, leading staff and working associates to learn about new development in Crabapple, and hearing about North Fulton community charities. Coming from event lives, we have a special Halloween market and ribbon cutting at Milton Farmer's Market on October 13th from 3:00-6:00. In addition to the farmers and other vendors there will be music, costume contests and more. The final market day for the Milton Farmer's Market is Wednesday, November 3`d. The Farmer's Market continues to grow and evolve, building relationships with volunteers, vendors, local businesses and a growing customer base. The vendors at that market are thrilled to be in Milton, and especially in the beautiful space at Broadwell ' Pavilion. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 60 of 62 Just a few days later in October, we have Carbon and Crabapple on Sunday, October 24`^ from 2:00-5:00. Then, Veteran's Day in November. And then, if you can believe it, it is Christmas and we will have those events. Also in November, we will be showing our gratitude for all of the amazing volunteers in Milton as we celebrate Milton's Volunteer Appreciation Month. Groups like National Charity League; CATS, which is a Cambridge High School volunteers; Young Men's Service League; and engaged citizens like Mark Barrington who did all of the recycling at Crabapple Fest on a volunteer basis. The volunteers on Milton's boards and committees, and so many others in Milton are a big reason our community has such a strong sense of place and belonging, and we will be showing them gratitude throughout the month. As winter and the holidays roll in, we will also be getting ready to host another cohort of our Citizens Government Academy in January. We will be working during these next through months to get with all the departments to plan their curriculum and hands-on projects in recruiting Milton citizens to take part. As always, we are grateful for the opportunity to work with every department, connecting to all Milton's citizens. Thank you, Mayor and Council, for your time and trust ... and goodnight. [Laughs] Mayor Lockwood: All right, thanks Courtney. Okay, let's see. Next, we've added an executive session to discuss land acquisition and potential litigation and personnel. Do I have a motion? [Crosstalk ADJOURNMENT TO EXECUTIVE SESSION Mr. Jamison: Motion to adjourn to the executive session. Mayor Lockwood: I think ... Okay. I have a motion. Adjourn into the executive session from Councilmember Jamison, with a second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Aye. Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm ' Page 61 of 62 Motion and Vote: Councilmember Jamison moved to adjoum into Executive Session at 8:16 PM. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. RECONVENE: Councilmember Longoria move to reconvene the Regular City Council Meeting at 8:32 PM. Councilmember Jamison seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Mr. Jamison: Move to readjourn. Male Speaker: Reconvene. Mr. Jamison: Reconvene. Male Speaker: Second. Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion and a second to reconvene. All in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Aye. Mayor Lockwood: That's unanimous and a motion to adjourn. So moved. Mr. Jamison: Second. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Lockwood: I have a motion with second to adjourn. All in favor, please say, "Aye." All: Aye. Mayor Lockwood: [Inaudible] that's unanimous too. [Laughs] Male Speaker: Good night. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm Page 62 of 62 ' Motion and Vote: Councilmember Moore move to adjourn the Regular City Council Meeting at 8:33 PM. Councilmember Longoria seconded the motion. The motion passed (6-0). Councilmember Mohrig was absent. Date Approved: t D 2021