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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes CC - 11/10/2022 - Special CalledSpecial Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Page 1 of 7 I CALL TO ORDER Mayor Jamison: I would like to call the special called meeting of the Milton City Council for Thursday, November 10`h, 2022, to order. The city strongly recommends you review today's agenda carefully and if you wish to speak on any item of the agenda, then please bring your comment cards to the clerk as soon as possible. While the Milton rules allow a speaker to turn in their comment card up until the clerk calls the agenda item, once the agenda item is called, no more comment cards can be accepted. Will the City Clerk please call the roll and make general announcements? ROLL CALL City Clerk: Good morning, Mayor and Council, I'll be happy to call roll for the November IOth Special Called City Council 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 comment, you are required to complete a public comment card prior to speaking on your item. All speakers must identify themselves with name, address, and organization before beginning their comment. Please review your agenda and if you have 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 morning, please confirm your attendance. Mayor Peyton Jamison. Mayor Jamison: Here. City Clerk: Councilmember Andrea Verhof£ CM Verhoff: Here. City Clerk: Councilmember Moore. CM Moore: Here. ' City Clerk: Councilmember Juliette Johnson. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Page 2 of 7 CM Johnson: Here. , City Clerk: And Councilmember Rick Mohrig. CM Mohrig: Here. City Clerk: For the record Councilmember Jan Jacobus and Councilmember Carol Cookerly are absent. Mayor: Mayor Peyton Jamison present. Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Andrea Verhoff, Councilmember Paul Moore, Councilmember Juliette Johnson, and Councilmember Rick Mohrig. Councilmembers Absent: Councilmember Jan Jacobus and Councilmember Carol Cookerly. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE City Clerk: Would everyone please rise for the 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. APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA Mayor Jamison: Okay. Next is the approval of the meeting agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? CM Mohrig: So moved. CM Moore: Second. Mayor Jamison: All right. I have a motion from Councilmember Mohrig and a second from Councilmember Moore to approve the meeting agenda. All in favor, please say aye. Councilmembers: Aye. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the Meeting , Agenda as read. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (5-0). Councilmember Jacobus and Councilmember Cookerly were absent from the meeting. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Page 3 of 7 PUBLIC COMMENT Mayor Jamison: Any opposed? Okay. Next is general public comment. Do we have any public comment? City Clerk: We do not, Mayor. NEW BUSINESS Mayor Jamison: Okay. So, I will waive the public comment and I will ask you to call the New Business item that we have on the agenda. City Clerk: Mayor, that New Business item is Consideration of a Resolution that will Authorize the Mayor to Execute a Certificate of Distribution for Local Option Sales Tax known as L.O.S.T. Proceeds for the Next Ten Years. It's Agenda Item No. 22-347. Mayor? I'm sorry, Mr. Steven Krokoff. Mr. Krokoff: Good morning, Mayor and Council. Thank you all for arranging your schedules for this Special Called Meeting. It's a critically important meeting wherein we'll be seeking the approval of a resolution to allow the Mayor to sign the Certificate of Distribution for Local Option Sales Tax or L.O.S.T. for the next ten year distribution which will be from 2023 through 2032. As you all know, this has been a lengthy process and involved a significant of work to come to an agreement with both Fulton County and the fifteen cities that are within its boundaries. On November 2"d, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved their percentage of the L.O.S.T. proceeds. And on November 5`h the 15 cities tentatively approved the remaining distribution, which brings us to why we are here today. The resolution before you, if passed, will authorize the Mayor to sign the Certificate of Distribution containing the distributions percentages that were agreed upon and are identified in your attached Exhibit A. Please let me know if you have any questions. Mayor Jamison: Any questions? Rick. CM Mohrig: Yes, quick question. Did we end up, the negotiations come down for the cities where it's pretty much on a population basis based on the 2020 census? Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Page 4 of 7 Mr. Krokoff: It is mostly based on the 2020 census with a leaning towards a hold , harmless agreement that we're, it is based on percentages and while all cities in Fulton Countydid increase in percentage, in sheer numbers, over the ten-year period, some, like the City of Milton, increased more than others. And there was a small portion held aside to hold those cities that didn't grow as much harmless. And those were, there were several cities that were included in those, but overall, the amount that was, that we portioned out towards those cities is somewhat de minimis. CM Mohrig: Okay, so that was pretty much the methodology with the exception of maybe cities that didn't grow or actually decreased in population? Mr. Krokoff: Correct. And again, nobody decreased. CM Mohrig: Got it. Okay. Thank you. Mayor Jamison: Paul. CM Moore: I was with you to the very last comment you just made, Steve, where nobody decreased. If I look at the chart, the way I read that ' was, everybody takes a little haircut because of the way Fulton County's percentage grows over time. It's the only way to make the math work to get to the full 100%. Looks like Milton is in a great place because we stay basically, for the most part, consistent throughout. But it looked like a couple, like you suggested, were the smaller cities that may have experienced a decline, actually took a little bit larger haircut than some of the others. Mr. Krokoff: I think what you're seeing is that some of those cities, not just the smaller cities, they just didn't increase as much. So therefore, if you look at the mean of the increase across the fifteen cities, if you fell below that mean, if you went as a straight percentage population, they would have lost. But everybody did increase. CM Moore: Okay. Mr. Krokoff: And if you factor in, what was used was a three percent growth factor year over year to factor in the increases. And then we all shared proportionally in the increases to our population, which is really where Milton fared out well. CM Moore: Yeah, okay. And then the other question I've got is, Steve, is what ' happens after this duration expires. If there's another L.O.S.T. - Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Page 5 of 7 ' CM Mohrig: Ten years. CM Moore: - ten years from now, do we start with this current disbursement or these percentages as the new ground zero for the next round? Mr. Krokoff: You do not. CM Moore: Okay, you start all over again. Mr. Krokoff: The negotiations start over again and I'm hoping there are some legislative changes at the State level between now and then and hope is not a good strategy, so we plan on making that happen more sooner than later. CM Moore: Yeah, okay. Thank you. CM Mohrig: So that's where we could actually go forward to our legislator, legislative representatives and let them know we'd like to see, between now and then, some type of change in the law as far as the way it's written, if we wanted that? ' Mr. Krokoff: There is, yes, and there should be a more balanced approach to the negotiations than that currently exists. Mayor Jamison: And to your point, Rick, really having the County have a veto power is a real, real issue. So if the legislative, if it doesn't get changed this year, it might not ever get changed. So now is the time to really put the pressure on your elected officials. CM Mohrig: And you've got pretty much unanimous support within the cities for the changes? Mayor Jamison: Yeah, oh yeah, all fifteen cities. Which is good. CM Moore: We sure appreciate the cooperation that you got at the end from everybody to be able to make this happen. I know that you played a leadership role in that, and we certainly appreciate that as a city and as elected officials to thank you for the role that you played in securing this. Mayor Jamison: I appreciate it. We're in a good, good spot for the next ten years, but I want to make sure we stay in a good spot for the rest of our existence to say the least. So, any other discussion? Okay, I will open up for a motion. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, November 10, 2022 Paae 6 of 7 CM Moore: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve the Resolution as presented to us, it's Agenda Item No. 22-347, CM Verhoff: Second. Mayor Jamison: Okay. I have a motion from Councilmember Moore and a second from Councilmember Johnson to approve Agenda Item No. 22- 347. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Councilmembers: Aye. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Moore moved to approve Agenda Item No. 22-347 as read. Councilmember Verhoff seconded the motion. The motion passed (5-0). Councilmember Jacobus and Councilmember Cookerly were absent from the meeting. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Jamison: Any opposed? That's unanimous. Anybody have anything to report on? Saw y'all Monday. Okay. All right. I will have a motion for adjournment. CM Mohrig: Motion to adjourn. CM Moore: Second. Mayor Jamison: All right, motion from Councilmember Mohrig, second from Councilmember Moore. All in favor, say aye. Councilmembers: Aye. Mayor Jamison: That's it. Thanks y'all. See you Monday. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to adjourn the Special Called Meeting at 10:08am. Councilmember Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed (5-0). Councilmember Jacobus and Councilmember Cookerly were absent from the meeting. 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