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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes CC - 11/29/2006 - MINS 11 29 06 SC (Migrated from Optiview)Special Called Meeting of the City of Milton Wednesday, November 29,2006,6:00 PM Page 1 of 10 POW Special Called Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton was held on November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM, Mayor Joe Lockwood presiding. WON Call to Order Mayor Lockwood called the meeting to order. Roll Call City Clerk Marchiafava called the roll. Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Karen Thurman, Councilmember Julie Zahner Bailey, Councilmember Tina D'Aversa-Williams, and Councilmember Rick Mohrig. Pledge of Alleeiance Mayor Lockwood led the Pledge of Allegiance. Auuroval of Meeting Agenda: City Manager Bovos requested that the order of agenda items be switched. He would like to move the ordinance on annexations first and move discussion of pending litigation to the end of the meeting. City Clerk Marchiafava asked for a motion on this amendment and the meeting agenda. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to Amend the Meeting Agenda switching the order and considering the Ordinance on Annexations first. Councilmember Zahner Bailey seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Public Comment City Clerk Marchiafava asked if there was anyone in the audience that would like to address the Mayor and Council. There was no public comment. New Business Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12215 King Circle Property. (First Reading) City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12215 King Circle property. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 12215 King Circle Property. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12530 Arnold Mill Road Property. (First Reading) City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is 12530 Arnold Mill Road property. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 12530 Arnold Mill Road Property. Councilmember Zahner-Bailey seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. mono Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 13070 and 13080 Arnold Mill Road Property. (First Reading) how City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is an Ordinance Annexing 13070 and 13080 Arnold Mill Road property. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 2 of 10 Motion and Vote: Councilmember Zahner-Bailey moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 13070 and 13080 Arnold Mill Road Property. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Now Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12560 Arnold Mill Road Property. (First Reading) City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12560 Arnold Mill Road property. Motion and Vote: Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 12560 Arnold Mill Road Property. Councilmember Thurman seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12775 King Circle Property. (First Reading) City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12775 King Circle property. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 12775 King Circle Property. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Approval of an Ordinance Annexing 12305 King Circle Property. (First Reading) City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item is approval of an Ordinance annexing 12305 King Circle property. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the First Reading of an Ordinance Annexing 12305 ,,,.,,Arnold Mill Road Property. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the City Attorney to commence litigation against the City of Roswell, Georgia. City Attorney Scott talked about what transpired at the Roswell meeting last night. He stated he sent a letter to David Davidson this afternoon. He stated the memo in front of the Council is still a matter of confidentiality. Councilmember Thurman asked would it be appropriate at this time to go into a closed meeting to discuss this litigation. City Attorney Scott stated there were different thoughts about closing a meeting for this issue. It was the Council's call and an affidavit must be signed stating the purpose of the executive session. Councilmember Mobrig stated that they needed to be careful about what was said and be focused on just these few things. City Attorney Scott stated that he has come up with a litigation plan. Currently, he has drafted a Complaint for a Temporary Restraining Order, Permanent Injunction, and Declaratory Judgment. It will seek three legal remedies. It would ask the Court to use its power to fashion a legal order equitable remedy. A temporary restraining order is handled mon an emergency basis where you get an almost immediate hearing. It is designed to maintain the status quo. You have 'o show there is irreparable harm and you have a reasonable likelihood of success on your merits in the underlying case and that the Order is necessary to maintain status quo. It was his opinion that the City had good grounds to get a "emporary restraining order when certain parcels had been annexed by two cities. He asked for different scenarios from the Council that could go wrong when you have two cities exercising their jurisdiction over the same property. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 3 of 10 Councilmember Zabner asked did we include the collection of taxes on these properties. City Attorney Scott stated he did include the collection of taxes. Councilmember Mohrig asked if fire safety was included also. City Attorney Scott stated he included that first and foremost. He believed the Court should say the County maintains jurisdiction until they decide which municipality gets the annexation. A permanent injunction will follow if we prove that we have met the grounds for a temporary restraining order. He thought the most likely scenario is the City would file a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), and we are automatically assigned to a judge on an emergency basis. A hearing would be scheduled within a few days and we would have to be prepared to present witnesses. But, more than likely, the judge will make the cities work it out. The practical difficulty both cities face is that legislation has only given them the authority to annex by limited means. The case law he read today made it more clear that you can not go beyond that expressed authority the legislature has granted. However, with the intervention of the courts, the judicial branch could do that. Hopefully, we both can sit down and have lines drawn out that the citizens and Council can live with and have that signed off on as a Consent Order by a judge. Councilmember Thurman stated that the important thing to remember was that area was left out for the residents to decide where they wanted to go. She was confident that what the City has done is by the book. Councilmember Mohrig stated that the goal in presenting this case was to look at the facts and say which annexation was valid. City Attorney Scott stated that we would ask for a permanent injunction because if we could not come to an agreement, we would want the judge to issue a permanent order saying that Roswell's annexations were invalid. Declaratory Judgment would declare those annexations invalid because they were procedurally defective. 4.._ .A Councilmember Zahner Bailey asked if one typically would have a Permanent Injunction with a Declaratory Judgment. City Attorney Scott stated they went hand in hand. The likely issues would be the success on the merits. Our argument was simply that Roswell was required, as we were, to advertise a public hearing once a week for two consecutive weeks immediately preceding the adoption hearing. When they changed their hearing date from December 4 to November 28 on or about November 22, it was physically impossible for them to advertise the new hearing date for two consecutive weeks immediately preceding an adoption in a newspaper circulation. They have stated in their ordinance they advertised in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Councilmember Thurman, at his request, looked at all the copies of the AJC last week and did not find any advertisement in the legal notices. Councilmember Zahner Bailey asked if there was a way for the City to validate with the AJC office if the advertisements were ran. City Attorney Scott stated that was an important thing to do and we would proceed with that before filing anything. Roswell's Neighbor stated the hearing was on November 27 and December 4. Cities do not have to designate a legal organ. The statute only talks about newspaper of general circulation, but we do not have any evidence at the moment that they advertised in the AJC. That is the statutory argument. He read up on a case from 1967 in which the Georgia Supreme Court declared an annexation the City of Augusta attempted by the method of resolution and referendum to be invalid. What happened was the statute in effect at the time required that they advertise in all newspapers in the city for at least thirty days preceding the referendum election. There were two newspapers and they only advertised in one. In that case, the election was invalidated along with the annexation. Our case is even more extreme because our case could have deprived the people the right to be heard. Another thing that helps is an Attorney General's opinion that asked whether the Mayor of the City of Dublin had the authority to change an annexation application ordinance after it had been accepted between the first and second readings. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 4 of 10 At Roswell's meeting last night, they shrunk the borders of the annexation between the first and second readings. The Attorney General said you could not do it and based it on case law that said the legislature granted power to municipal authorities was to be construed so the powers included in the grant were expressly limited and given and necessarily Ow implied. Nowhere did the governing authority expressly get the power to make a territory change to the annexation. The City Council only has the authority to accept or reject the annexation by either adopting it or failing to adopt it. Roswell made an amendment between the readings and also during the course of the meeting. Both of those amendments invalidated the annexation. Councilmember Mohrig asked if Roswell left George Baker's field out of the annexation. City Attorney Scott stated they put it back in. There was one amendment by the staff and then a second amendment on the floor. Councilmember Mohrig stated that in reviewing our annexations, it has been done by the law. City Attorney Scott stated the only thing left we have not done is sending a certified letter to the county within five days concerning the annexations performed yesterday. Also, within the first thirty days of an annexation, we have to notify the Attorney General's office and Justice Department to get the pre -clearance. Mayor Lockwood stated his main concern was the City looking like we were litigating. We may damage our image in the meantime. City Attorney Scott stated that he had a conversation with Susan Mays about this and the point that needed to be made was that our entire guiding principle in this whole process was that we only wanted to give the people a choice and we only wanted to do what they wanted us to do. He asked the question about were we totally giving the people the choice they would like to make in our 60% application. City Manager Bovos stated that he is opposed to passing a resolution for litigation. He stated two things happened today that the Council needed to know about. First, he was able to have a conversation with David Davidson about where Roswell was in regards to the annexations. Mr. Davidson stated that Roswell felt they had met the advertisement requirements because they did advertise in the AJC on two consecutive Sundays and he had proof of it. Secondly, they were not interested, despite belief, of taking things where people did not want to be in Roswell. Mr. Davidson stated that he and Kay Love were willing to sit down and talk from a staff to staff level about what the goals of Milton were along Arnold Mill Road and what Roswell goals were. He talked about two parcels in particular, the church on King Road in which they apparently annexed last night, and another property in which the applicant signed our petition and signed their petition. He said that if Milton wanted King Road in that area and if Roswell had to relinquish the church property, he was fine with that. A second conversation was with Bob Wiggins and he asked where we were with the Highway 9 annexation. Mr. Wiggins said their Council met with their City Attorney and was told that Milton did not have the power to perform any annexations before December 1 and they were willing to sue Milton on the Highway 9 annexation. Mr. Wiggins convinced the Council that would not be a good avenue to go especially if the property owner wanted to be with Milton. Lastly, he wanted everyone to think about the public perception. It was not December I" yet and we were potentially filing litigation with a sister city that we would have to be with. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams asked why we did not send a letter last night. It was suppose to be hand - delivered. lowCity Attorney Scott stated that there was not enough time to get it done. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams stated that we agreed yesterday in a meeting to send this letter before heading down the path of litigation. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 5 of 10 .•. City Attorney Scott wanted to make it clear that he did not ask for this resolution to be on this agenda. City Manager Bovos stated that the unofficial opinion from 1967 really concerns him. Ordinances are changed all the time between first and second readings, such as budgets and franchise agreements. We can exclude ordinances concerning annexations from being changed between the first and second readings. He stated that $110,000 was budgeted for legal fees. If the amount exceeds that, other departments and funds will be cut because we do not have a reserve to draw from. He asked for a second opinion. City Attorney Scott stated that he is not telling the Council they should take this litigation step. He is just answering the questions proposed to him and laying out the options. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that we now need to wait for the letter to be received and for them to contact us or we call them to follow up on the letter. Councilmember Thurman asked a question concerning the legal means of the City doing annexations. She stated that prior to starting this process we did get an opinion that we could perform annexations because our Charter allowed us to make legally binding decisions and the annexations do not become effective until December 0 City Attorney Scott stated that if it is upheld, then everything that has been done to date is null and void. Councilmember Mohrig stated that from an image standpoint, he thought it needed to be clarified. He did not want it to look like we had done something sneaky when we had not. We moved forward to protect and meet the will of the people who wanted to come into the City. Councilmember Zahner Bailey believed the issue at hand was that we had chosen to do what the residents requested of us and we had followed every piece of legal advice we received. We should wait for the letter to be received and Mayor Lockwood should contact Mr. Davidson or Mayor Wood. Councilmember Thurman asked if the Mayor of Roswell was the right person to be speaking with. City Manager Bovos stated that his course of action would be to set up a meeting. If Mr. Davidson could get the four votes needed from his Council to overturn the annexation, he would not need Mayor Wood's input. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that it was important to be proactive and be the one to make the contact. Councilmember Thurman stated that unfortunately this was a game because of what happened with the Johns Creek - Roswell situation at the time of the election. Mayor Wood may be seeing this as a similar situation. Councilmember Mohrig stated that he was hearing that the Council wanted the City Manager to go forward and have a conversation with Mayor Wood. There were meetings that were held where this Council was deliberately excluded and this started the whole thing. Now, we are at the point where people want to come in and there is a conflict we need to resolve. City Manager Bovos stated that one thing that shocked him during a previous conversation was the fact that when they begun this process, they made the assumption that Milton would not be organized enough to do any of that so they proceeded. w•. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams stated that Roswell has mistreated the City and disrespected our Council. However, she was looking for a win-win. She believed that if the Council stood by the fact that they were doing this r.. because the residents had requested to be in the City of Milton, then it was our obligation to make this happen. Councilmember Thurman stated that Roswell and Alpharetta did not think Milton would be this organized and that residents would choose to annex with a brand new city over an established city. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 6 of 10 now City Attorney Scott stated we may have a limited ability to draw lines by agreement. He is not saying that we cannot jointly seek judicial intervention to do that, but we have to keep in mind that we can only de -annex by 100% signatures as well. Councilmember Mohrig suggested that if we were meeting the residents' desire when we go forward and look at the intent of this, then we should look at how to legally get an agreement between the two cities. City Manager Bovos stated although we cannot draw boundaries, there may be some parcels that cannot go where they want to go because of where they are located. Councilmember Mohrig stated that when he and Councilmember Thurman met with people at their homes, they explained what was going on and asked if they were interested. Mayor Lockwood stated that Roswell had been out soliciting and talking to people about annexations. Comments had gotten back to him that residents who wanted to be a part of Milton were intimidated and scared into going with Roswell. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that her core values were to stand high ground, be positive, and always communicate positively when we could. We needed to determine what values were going to drive our mission and personal behavior as a Council. She felt that we were being premature in pursuing litigation. If we decided that after the conversations with Roswell that this is important then we will pursue it, but she hoped that it did not have to happen. Councilmember Mohrig stated he did not want this to become political. He agreed with Councilmember Bailey. City Manager Bovos stated that Mayor Lockwood would contact Mayor Wood and also schedule a meeting with Mr. Davidson. He requested a motion to defer this resolution. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to defer the Resolution Authorizing the City Attorney to commence litigation against the City of Roswell, Georgia. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS Mayor Lockwood stated that on Monday at 10 AM, the first sign for Milton would be installed, along with a photo shoot, at Hopewell and Philip Circle. He invited everyone to attend. City Manager Bovos stated the signs actually go up Friday, but since the Mayor will be out of town the photo shoot was moved to Monday. Councilmember Thurman asked when the new city hall would be completed. City Manager Bovos stated he received an update today that it will be the end of December. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated she met with Georgia Transmission today and 10 to 15 citizens were there along with Mike Tuller. The premise of the meeting was to allow citizens to voice their concerns about the substation. They agreed to the suggested landscape aesthetics and also would look into burying transmission cables. They would work with the citizens to satisfy them to the best of their ability. A summary from the meeting will be provided to the Council and Mayor and to the citizens that were present at the meeting. She would keep the Council and citizens updated. son STAFF REPORTS City Manager Bovos stated that he was hearing from homebuilders in the area. Acting Community Development am Director Tom Wilson meets with the North Fulton homebuilders on a frequent basis to address issues such as permitting and regulations. One issue they had was the bonds - land disturbance bonds, vegetation bonds and performance bonds. For example, Sandy Springs does not do bonds. The thing they accept for security for performance is cash. Under the Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 7 of 10 w.•. Chatham development, there are eleven communities under construction in Milton. Each community could potentially have up to $2.5 million bonds. The builders will not place that much money on a bond for each community under construction. They met again recently with the understanding that permits was truly an exchange revenue. We could not charge more than it costs us to issue the permit. Our goal is to have an alternative in place by December 22Nd that will allow them to provide us with non-cash bonds. He stated that he received a notification late last night from the Georgia Department of Revenue that Bart Graham signed the letters that had to be done before November 30th that allowed us to qualify for LOST. He received a call from Georgia Department of Transportation concerning the widening of Arnold Mill Road. They were in the process of putting together a plan on widening the road and were anticipating right-of-way acquisition in 2009. They were aware of the public process that would take place and a plan would be received by staff on how we get from today to the right-of-way acquisition, including the public comments and how we would advertise for that. He announced that Mayor's Day is January 20-22 in downtown Atlanta. He asked everyone to inform the City Clerk of their attendance to this event. The newly elected officials training will take place in Macon on February 10 and 11. The City Clerk will register all unless she is told differently. A GMA meeting dealing with legislative agendas will occur in Sandy Springs on December 7. He will attend this meeting. Council is free to attend this meeting also. Public Safety Director Chris Lagerbloom stated that next Tuesday, December 5, at 6:00 PM, an event called Shop —with A Cop will take place at Wal-Mart. The actual shopping will take place around 6:30 PM. Everyone is welcomed to attend. As of tonight, the Public Safety webpage is up and running. It shows the style of employees we are looking for and the vision we hope to bring forward in this department. The applications for employment are being held until it is decided if they could go online as is or if changes need to be made. Two open houses will be held for Police on January 9 & 10, and two held for Fire on January 16 & 17. An email has been established for Public Safety: safety@cityofmiltonga.us. He stated that a public release will be done about the open houses. City Attorney Scott asked about the discussion with Bob Regus concerning Alpharetta. City Manager Bovos stated that he told Mr. Regus that in the event that we receive a letter from the property owners wishing to go to Alpharetta instead of Milton, the Council will consider the letter. Mr. Regus acknowledged that he has received no letters and more than likely will receive none. Therefore, the annexation could move forward. He felt his council will not pursue any legal ramifications. Councilmember Thurman stated that Roswell and Alpharetta have an agreement to keep each other informed of annexations within the jurisdictions. She asked are there other agreements they have with each other that Milton needs to be a part of to become involved in this communication process. City Manager Bovos stated the City Managers of North Fulton cities meet once a month at the GMA facility downtown and through these conversations, cities share information between each other. City Attorney Scott stated that the Love Shack in Johns Creek was trying to open without a permit today. We needed to keep our ears open for adult entertainment that may be trying to open. We have to have a public hearing to determine what the community standards are before adopting an adult entertainment ordinance. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 8 of 10 m� He stated that is a great development to put this litigation issue off and continue to talk with Roswell. Also, there are three more applications for annexation on the low end of Arnold Mill Road. Milton now has four out of five parcels on the lower end of Arnold Mill Road except for the castle. Councilmember Thurman stated that we will have a large portion of Arnold Mill Road on both sides which will help with planning the business corridor that will be there. City Attorney Scott stated he has talked with the property owners that are wishing to go commercial and has made it clear to them that we are looking into that for the future. Councilmember Zahner Bailey asked if we have made any promises to landowners about rezoning. City Manager Bovos stated that we have not made such promises. Councilmember Zahner Bailey asked City Attorney Scott about references being made to conversations about landowners who currently have land that is not commercial and what his response to landowners was. City Attorney Scott stated his response to them was that the City knew Arnold Mill Road will be four-laned and that it could be a logical place for a commercial corridor. Councilmember Thurman stated that the property owners have all been in favor of it being a commercial corridor. She stated that she personally did not want to see any more single family residences on Arnold Mill Road. A few people have expressed interest in helping to draw up a business plan for the area with the people who live on the corridor. „.... Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated the corridor is bounded by other residential areas and she felt certain that the citizens who lived on New Providence and within that area will want to be a part of the discussions. We have to be careful and involve everyone's input. City Attorney Scott stated that when he has been asked those questions concerning the corridor, he stated that he could not make any promises and the decisions were up to the Mayor and Council. Councilmember Thurman stated that she has told residences that she does not want to see it zoned commercial here and there. If it is decided the corridor will be commercial, a master plan should be in place so it is developed properly. Councilmember D'Aversa Williams stated that we should concentrate on Highway 9 first before focusing on this corridor because our citizens have requested that we do that. Councilmember Mohrig stated we must think about how to make the corridor a beautiful entryway into the City now that we have a chance to do it. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that with all the clear -cutting that is occurring in Crabapple, she is continuing to receive emails and comments of concerns from citizens in which a lot of it has to do with rezonings that occurred within Fulton County. Mayor Lockwood stated that the City of Milton is not in existence yet and we probably will catch backlashes. Many things have been permitted and bulldozers are ready to go. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that if you were to go into Kensington Farms or Crabapple Road, it is scorched earth with miles and miles of open land and she felt we needed to manage that method. There were people who had no idea what was coming their way. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 9 of 10 Councilmember Thurman stated that she has a copy of the Crabapple Master Plan and maybe they would like a copy of the plan as well for reference so everyone will know what is going on. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that perhaps it would be beneficial to get the latest rezonings including those that did max out the Crabapple neighborhood node. The unfortunate part for the community that may not have been aware of the reality of the master plan was that they are now faced with buffers that are no longer there that they thought were going to be there. It gets back to managing the expectations and managing what they now are seeing and that they do not presume those are decisions this body has made. Councilmember D'Aversa Williams stated they should still be contacting Fulton County and complaining. She stated the same problem was occurring with the paving of the roads. She has been contacting Fulton County everyday to make sure they are moving along. Councilmember Zahner Bailey recommended talking directly to Angela Parker. Councilmember Mohrig asked if there was someone on staff who could act as liaison with Fulton County to stay in contact with them and advise the Council on updates. City Manager Bovos stated that we have a transportation engineer already in place. Councilmember Thurman asked if we could request road repairs from Fulton County if there was a road that the Council saw that needed to have repairs done to it before the end of the year. City Manager Bovos stated that we could and he already has identified two roads that need improvements. The Public Works Superintendent over North Fulton County has been working very well with us. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that at Birmingham Crossroads, there is a new interior landscape island in which the barrels were removed and a few car tires were damaged. She went back out this morning and made sure they were put back in place for the time being. She wanted to know if during the transition period the Council should speak with Angela Parker or anyone else with these concerns. City Manager Bovos stated that we do not take over Public Works until January 1. Therefore, anything between now and January 1 will be taken care of by Fulton County. Councilmember Thurman stated that Public Works have been working at the Crabapple intersection seven days a week. Councilmember Zahner Bailey asked if we should come up with a collective list to provide to Angela Parker. City Manager Bovos stated that we already have a contact with Fulton County that is providing us with responses in respect to transportation issues. John Drysdale is our contact and he meets routinely with Angela Parker on transportation issues and to get updates on capital improvements and on-going issues within the City. Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that concerning speed reduction, there are a few roads being looked at. She said the speed on a state highway cannot be reduced. She wanted to know the process for speed reduction and do we take over those decisions January 1 in conjunction with Public Works. City Manager Bovos stated that we do have a process, but it is not just a matter of taking down a sign and putting up a new one. too Councilmember Zahner Bailey stated that the speed on the stretch of road coming up to the crossroad was to be reduced. They have done it at the crossroads. From there it was supposed to be consistent with surrounding roads, but one road's speed was not stepped down. Special Called Meeting of the Milton City Council Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM Page 10 of 10 O„„ City Manager Bovos stated that if she is aware of anything like that, just email him. ADJOURNMENT Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to adjourn. Councilmember D'Aversa-Williams seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. After no further business, the meeting adjourned at 8:04 PM. Date Approved: December 21, 2006 iF an tte R. Marchiafava, City Clerk (; r Joe Lockt9d, Mayor