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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes CC - 06/07/2007 - MINS 06 07 07 REG (Migrated from Optiview)Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 1 of 12 Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton was held on June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM, Mayor Lockwood presiding. Mayor Joe Lockwood stated he would like to welcome Reverend Seeke who will lead us in our invocation. INVOCATION - Led by Reverend Scott Seeke from the River Church. CALL TO ORDER Mayor Joe Lockwood called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Recognition of Fulton County Commissioner Lynn Riley Mayor Lockwood recognized Commissioner Lynn Riley from Fulton County and thanked her for being at the meeting this evening. ROLL CALL City Clerk Marchiafava called roll and reminded those in attendance to please silence all cell phones and pagers at this time. Additionally, those attending the meeting who would like to provide public comment either during the public hearings or during the call for public comment you are required to fill out a public comment card. Those need to be turned in to City Clerk staff and they are available at the front and back tables. City Clerk Marchiafava called the roll. Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Karen Thurman, Councilmember Bill Lusk, Councilmember Neal O’Brien, Councilmember Tina D’Aversa, and Councilmember Rick Mohrig. Councilmember Absent: Councilmember Julie Zahner Bailey PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Lockwood led the Pledge of Allegiance. APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA City Clerk Jeanette Marchiafava called Agenda Item No. 07-268. Approval of the Meeting Agenda She stated that staff was requesting to add an item to amend the City Council Meeting Schedule and Work Session schedule in the month of July. Additionally, staff was requesting that they move Agenda Item Number 07-274, Consideration of Nominations and Approval of a Resolution appointing members to the Citizens' Advisory Committee for the Comprehensive Plan after the Consent Agenda. Mayor Lockwood asked if there were any other changes to the agenda and there were none. Motion and Second: Councilmember Thurman moved to approve the meeting agenda as amended. Councilmember Lusk seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. PUBLIC COMMENT Mayor Lockwood stated that the next item is public comment. Public Comment is the time for citizens to share information with the Mayor and City Council and provide input and opinions on any matter that is not scheduled for its own public hearing during today’s meeting. There is no discussion on items on the consent agenda or first presentation from the public or from Council. Each citizen who chooses to participate in public comment must complete a comment card and submit it to the City Clerk. Please remember this is not a time to engage the Mayor or members of the City Council in conversation. When your name is called please come forward and speak into Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 2 of 12 the microphone stating your name and address for the record. You will have five minutes for remarks. Mayor Lockwood asked if there were any public comment. City Clerk Jeanette Marchiafava said she had not received any public comment cards. CONSENT AGENDA City Clerk Marchiafava read Agenda Item No. 07-269, Approval of the March 8, 2007 Work Session Minutes and Agenda Item No. 07-270, Approval of the March 15, 2007 Regular Meeting Minutes. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the Consent Agenda. Councilmember Lusk seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. City Clerk Marchiafava read Agenda Item No. 07-274, added by motion and vote. Consideration of Nominations and Approval of a Resolution Appointing Members to the Citizens' Advisory Committee for the Comprehensive Plan Update. Resolution No. 07-06-45 Community Development Director Tom Wilson stated that the item before them tonight would be to appoint the last of the remaining seven members of the sixteen member Citizens' Advisory Committee to solicit input and collect data and actually be the chief authors of the Comprehensive Plan. The other members of the committee are the seven members of the Planning Commission, Chairman of the Design Review Board, and the Chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals. He said that tonight they were being asked to appoint the last seven members of that sixteen member board and to select a Chairman for that Board. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment. Councilmember Mohrig was prepared to make a motion. City Manager Aaron Bovos asked if they could stop for a moment. He stated that they needed to make public nominations. He asked the Mayor to begin with his nomination and then request each District Member to make their nominations. He stated that they would then take a vote or a motion to approve those nominations.. Mayor Lockwood nominated Martin Locke. Councilmember Karen Thurman nominated Alicia Anderson. Councilmember Bill Lusk nominated Al Travillion. Councilmember Neal O’Brien nominated Todd Chernik. Councilmember Tina D’Aversa nominated Joelle Cochran. Councilmember Rick Mohrig nominated Lisa Fiondela. City Manager Bovos said in the absence of Councilmember Julie Zahner Bailey, they did receive an e-mail from her today requesting that her nominee was Kim Horne. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment on this item. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 3 of 12 Mayor Lockwood asked for a motion and second. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the nominations above. Councilmember Lusk seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Mayor Lockwood said that he wanted to thank these citizens for their time and service, and that it was certainly appreciated. Nomination of the Chairman Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk nominated George Ragsdale as Chairman of the Citizens Advisory Committee. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. Mayor Lockwood asked the City Clerk to call the next agenda item. Administration of Oath of Office City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the Mayor would now administer the oath of office to the new members of the Citizens' Advisory Committee who have not taken an oath in the past. City Clerk Marchiafava announced that this was the second Public Hearing. Public Hearing on the FY2007 budget as amended. City Treasurer Carol Wolfe stated that tonight would be the second of two required Public Hearings on the budget amendment that they had before them. There had been one change since the first Public Hearing, and that it was a very minor change. She said they had received the official contract from the Department of Community Affairs regarding the restroom renovation grant received during the legislative session. They originally budgeted $80,000.00 for that grant and indeed the grant amount is $70,000.00 so they reduced the revenue and expenditure in the capital grant account $10,000.00. She said there had been the only change and she would be glad to answer any questions. . City Clerk Marchiafava stated that there was no public comment on this item. FIRST PRESENTATION City Clerk Marchiafava read Agenda Item Number 07-271. Approval of an ordinance amending the Rules of Procedure for the City Council Meetings and Public Hearings for the City of Milton. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thurman moved to approve the First Presentation of an Ordinance Amending the Rules of Procedure for City Council meetings and Public Hearings for the City of Milton. Councilmember Mohrig seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion was carried unanimously. Mayor Lockwood moved on to any unfinished business, and asked the City Clerk to sound the next item. UNFINISHED BUSINESS City Clerk Marchiafava stated that Agenda Item Number 07-261. Approval of an ordinance to adopt adjustments to the fiscal 2007 budget for each fund of the City of Milton, Georgia amending the amounts shown in each budgeted expenditures, amending the several items Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 4 of 12 of revenue anticipation, prohibiting expenditures to exceed appropriations and prohibiting expenditures to exceed actual funding available. Ordinance No. 07-06-30 City Treasurer Wolfe stated to the Mayor and Council that this was the ordinance that would adopt the budget amendment as it was presented at two public hearings, both tonight and at the last council meeting. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment on this item. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment. Motion and Vote: Councilmember O’Brien moved to approve the Ordinance to adopt adjustments to the fiscal 2007 budget for each fund of the City of Milton, Georgia amending the amounts shown in each budgeted expenditures, amending the several items of revenue anticipation, prohibiting expenditures to exceed appropriations and prohibiting expenditures to exceed actual funding available. Councilmember D’Aversa seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. City Clerk Marchiafava stated she would like to pass out a handout for 07-271 on the First Presentation at this time. City Clerk then announced the next item on the agenda this evening is Item Number 07-262. Approval of a Right-of-Way Ordinance for the City of Milton. Ordinance No. 07-06-31 Community Services/Program Director Tami Hanlin stated that Abbie Jones would be making the presentation. Transportation Engineer Abbie Jones informed the Mayor and Council that before them tonight was the second reading of the right-of-way ordinance, and following there were various policies. She read the main policy questions. Categories: 1) Road Abandonment. 2) Should city require payment for auctioning of land? 3) The staff had recommended that everything be in compliance with OCGA or should relocation of roads meeting abandonment and vegetation be allowed in the future, and that was also included in this document. 4) Privatization. One of the questions about that was should HOA’s be able to speak for each resident legally. 5) Reserve Right-of-way. Make staff require reserve of right-of-way at plan review and not just at rezoning. 6) Inter-connectivity. 7) Traffic calming. She stated that all of these items have to do with the rules regarding streets and the right-of-way regarding streets. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment on this item. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment. Mayor Lockwood asked if there were any questions or comments and there were none. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 5 of 12 Motion and Vote: Councilmember Lusk moved to approve a Right-of-Way Ordinance for the City of Milton. Councilmember O’Brien seconded the motion. There was no Council The motion was passed unanimously. Mayor Lockwood asked the City Clerk to call the next agenda item. City Clerk Marchiafava called Agenda Item Number 07-263. Approval of an Ordinance adopting Community Services Policies for the City of Milton. Ordinance No. 07-06-32 Transportation Engineer Jones said they had been talking mostly about the policy type decisions that they were adopting by an ordinance such that they will be part of the City Code and would be enforced through Code Enforcement activities. She believed it would be recorded as a departmental policy where major decisions would be coming to Council for major rewrites of the document at a policy level to be brought by Council in the future, so this would be to create and bless a departmental set of policies. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment on this item. City Clerk Marchiafava requested that Travis Allen come forward. Public Comment Travis Allen, 13095 Regent Trace, Milton, Georgia, 33604 stated that his main concern on this is looking at the local street definitions that a small neighborhood like the Hermitage or Devonshire Farms (his neighborhood and the neighborhood next to him). They do not have vehicles per day up to 400. We just do not have 400 cars per day. He stated, however, his neighborhood, which includes townhouses, is a connection from Webb Road to a larger neighborhood and that neighborhood was also directly across the street from Cogburn Elementary and Hopewell Middle School. He said they see a lot of cars in the morning speeding through their neighborhoods to get around the traffic problem and there is still not a count of 400 so they feel that right out of the way they are being eliminated from the process of even applying for a traffic calming devices. To be honest, they would be willing to pay for it and he mentioned that was not recommended that public funds be used for VPD or less than 400. They were asking for some kind of reconciliation that would allow for private funds to be used from their homeowner’s association to pull this in. They are finding it hard to quantify to our homeowner’s to save a few of their children. He stated that they had several children and the other neighborhood had quite a few children that play in the neighborhoods when the cars are speeding through there. He asked was that the type of thing you would really have to have for a police officer to come and sit in your neighborhood and use radar detection on a speeding car. He said they also had children that walk home from school from the Milton High School bus that stop in their neighborhood. Sometimes on Alpharetta Highway they would drop off the children in his neighborhood and they would walk through that area, so that was a danger to kids of all ages. He said that they were having some issues with that because they did not feel they could give a price for this matter given the fact that they did not have the required vehicles per day at 400. They would like to see that either decreased or an allowance made for the issuance of private funding for traffic calming devices. Mayor Joe Lockwood thanked Mr. Allen and asked if there were any questions. Councilmember D'Aversa asked what would be the recourse with Mr. Allen’s question based on the approval of this issue. Transportation Engineer Jones said the document that Mr. Allen quoted, did say that public funds should not be allowed and they are talking about a policy document. We would want the Council to clarify what they would like the policy to be. She said that right now it is kind of silent whether homeowner’s can pay 100% of the Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 6 of 12 installation underneath the 400 vehicles per day, but basically if Council wanted to make a modification to this policy, she believed they would find staff support for that if the amenities were funded by the HOA’s. Councilmember Thurman asked how would they do that and would they still then have to come through staff and get the proper approval or would it be done the same way it would be if it was funded publicly. She asked if it would just be funded privately. Transportation Engineer Jones replied yes, and they would still have to complete an application process and have documentation of why they are being installed and what problems they are trying to solve. She said that because they had already had open records requests regarding why they did something on right-of-way so this would be required. Mayor Lockwood asked if there are any other questions. Councilmember O'Brien said he wondered if Mr. Allen would have a suggestion on that. He said that he appreciated his thoughtful comments. Mr. Allen is very involved as a volunteer with the Milton Pacers and so forth, but asked if Mr. Allen could perhaps offer a suggestion that would fit the very reasonable comments that he made that they could support or assist. Travis Allen said that in regard to the number of vehicles per day, these were his thoughts and the members of the board for his homeowners' association agreed with him. He said they were thinking maybe a ratio could be in placed based on a number of houses along the street. He stated his neighborhood had 40 houses, so the assumption would be that there is an excess of 80 vehicles per day, maybe two per house. He further stated that the neighborhood next to them had 80 ranch style houses and they felt that they would be in excess of that because they had the school transportation vehicles also passing through the neighborhood. Councilmember O'Brien said he would have a follow-up maybe for Abbie Jones. He asked if they did modify this, would every case that they as the existing Council had to address have to suit the business case in each event anyway. He asked would each case be reviewed as they would expect from staff and the Council. Transportation Engineer Jones said they would come through staff. She explained that the reason for the 400 vehicle level is that the City was trying to best use City funds. She said to give an example; if you do not have 100 vehicles then you may not be required to add left turn lane in certain instances on certain speed roads. She stated that 100 is kind of a threshold for a lot of things, but dropping below 100 is a very small impact to a roadway network. They used 400 based off of lots of engineering studies, so staff would not recommend dropping the threshold. She said that staff would support the ability to do privately funded items. Councilmember D’Aversa asked if staff was suggesting that the policy be if a homeowner’s association votes, let us say unanimously, to put in traffic calming devices at their expense that Council would be in support of it. Transportation Engineer Jones said yes, if they had completed the application process and had proper permits. Councilmember Thurman asked how Council needed to change the policy or document before us in order to reflect that. Transportation Engineer Jones stated that she knew Mr. Allen had some pages marked so they would just go ahead and state that information. Councilmember D'Aversa said she was all for simplicity and that sounded like that was the simplest way to amend this. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 7 of 12 Transportation Engineer Jones said page 12, Section 8, the Neighborhood Cost Share, would be the appropriate place to add something or change something. Councilmember Thurman asked Abbie Jones if she recommend a percentage of support from the community change at all or did she just want to leave it at 75%. Transportation Engineer Jones said honestly, she had spoken with several different homeowners' associations so far and especially the fact that there are some very well managed homeowners associations, she has had multiple homeowners association’s volunteer to pay 100%. Councilmember Thurman said that on the bottom of page 10, it states that only roads with an average daily traffic of 400 to 4000 vehicles per day should be considered for traffic calming. She asked if that amount needed to be adjusted or was it just they needed to be considering them or just not going to be paying for them. Transportation Engineer Jones said yes, and there was another section where it talks about that as well, but you could clarify it in that section. Councilmember D’Aversa said that Ms. Jones had stated that 100 was the typical threshold and asked how the number 400 came to be. Transportation Engineer Jones said that 100 is the minimum threshold for lots of other things, and that 400 was the appropriate threshold for this type of application. She said that basically there is a public safety component that is involved with traffic calming as well. Traffic calming does not always lead to being tabled. She stated that frequently it may need to be tabled and that has a direct affect with your public safety response. She knew that Mr. Millican and Mr. Lagerbloom would have lots of ideas about how to approve the safety response time. Councilmember Thurman asked if it would be possible then to just add that phrase at the end of the sentence where it says only roads with an average daily traffic of 400 to 4000 vehicles per day should be considered for traffic calming device installation with maximum of City funds or something at the end of that so that it clarifies that only those would be considered for City funds, but others would be considered if they are paid for independently. Transportation Engineer Jones said she thought that this could be part of the solution. She said she believed it was important to just put in another consideration that traffic calming installations do not just have an initial cost, but they also have lifetime costs associated with them. Because when you resurface the road, you have to remove those devices and then you have to reinstall them. So, you are looking at a lifetime perpetuity type of agreement and if you look into the right-of-way ordinance, the difference between a standard installation, and she is making a parallel here, to a decorative sign post. She said if you want to have decorative stop signs then you can pay the difference and your association is going to maintain the decorative level from there on. If you were going to be privately funding traffic calming devices, her suggestion is that that would be the same type of agreement for in perpetuity that would probably be suggested. Councilmember Mohrig asked if there was something they could do to maybe have staff work up something where they could cover all these things and incorporate them. He said he would be in favor of what Mr. Allen brought forth. He stated he himself lives on a smaller road also and sometimes just the way the neighborhood streets are, you get cars accelerating and it does become a danger. The neighborhood would be saying that they do not necessarily need any stop signs, but a traffic calming device may slow down the traffic and actually make it safer. Councilmember Thurman said what she was asking for was to give them the proper verbiage to accomplish this goal. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 8 of 12 Councilmember Lusk asked City Attorney Scott how they would handle this. Traffic Engineer Jones said how about if they added at the bottom of page 10, another bullet point… however local streets with less than 400 vehicles per day may be permitted provided the community pays 100% of the initial cost and continued maintenance. Councilmember Mohrig said what that does is it affords them the opportunity to go through with applying and through the normal review process, and if staff recommends it and says yes with full funding by the community and in perpetuity, then it would come forward and they could get it passed. Councilmember D’Aversa said she did not get the last phrase in the written agreement, and asked if the application called for a certain percentage of the homeowners to be in approval of this. Travis Allen said 85% of them. Councilmember D’Aversa asked if that was in the application portion. Councilmember Thurman said she had a Point of Information for the City Attorney. She said they had a motion for this, so how did they need to handle this amendment. City Attorney Mark Scott said he was about to make a Point of Order for that very purpose. He said that they could do it one of two ways because there was no motion pending yet, they could actually make that as part of the motion. He stated that they could say that they moved to approve the ordinance as presented with the following change added to it at this page and state the amendment. He said that the other possibility would be just to move it as it was before them and then for someone to offer an amendment. It was probably cleaner to just go ahead and offer it with that amendment if that was the consensus of the Council, and it certainly sounded like it was and state that that they were moving the item before them with that change. Councilmember D’Aversa asked Abbie Jones if there was anything else that she thought would be of a similar issue or consequence because it would limit a smaller subdivision. Transportation Engineer Jones said she had had concerns voiced by larger subdivisions actually. She said Crooked Creek has asked is it possibly going to be hard for them to get 85% of the people in the area affected in order to do traffic calming on their main road which is Creek Club Drive. Councilmember D’Aversa said she had heard that one too, but if you look at the surrounding areas, there was such precedent for surrounding cities with the 85% and even 100% in a lot of instances. She asked Abbie Jones what her recommendation would be there. Transportation Engineer Jones said that the staff's recommendation is as presented. Councilmember Thurman asked how they were handling items that are not actually in the subdivision, but may be cut-through roads like Wood Road was where they have traffic calming devices on a dirt road. Transportation Engineer Jones said that is provided for. Councilmember Thurman said so as long as they had the same 85% requirement? Transportation Engineer Jones replied yes. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 9 of 12 Councilmember Lusk said he had not gotten through the entire ordinance yet, but he would assume, if not, correct him that all of these traffic calming devices would conform to the traffic design standards and be approved before they are installed. Transportation Engineer Jones said correct. Mayor Lockwood asked if there were any other questions. Councilmember O'Brien asked Mr. Wilson and Mr. Scott if there were any concerns that they might have about such a modification, otherwise, he thought they should go with staff's recommendations. City Attorney Scott said he did not have any issues. Community Development Director Tom Wilson said no, he did not think there was a problem there. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was a motion to adopt the Community Services Policy for the City of Milton as amended and if the amendment could be clarified. Transportation Engineer Jones stated with the additional bullet: however, local streets with less than 400 vehicles per day may be permitted provided the community take 100% of initial costs and continued maintenance in a written agreement. Motion and Vote: Councilmember O’Brien moved to approve of an Ordinance adopting Community Services Policies for the City of Milton and adding the additional bullet: however, local streets with less than 400 vehicles per day may be permitted provided the community take 100% of initial costs and continued maintenance in a written agreement. Councilmember Thurman seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. NEW BUSINESS Mayor Lockwood called for new business and asked the City Clerk to please sound the next item. City Clerk Jeanette Marchiafava read Agenda Item Number 07-272. Approval of a Resolution Amending the FY 2007 Work Plan. Resolution No. 07-06-46 City Manager Bovos said the resolution was a result of discussion that was held at May 6th and 7th retreat at Lake Burton. He stated they had two amendments before them this evening to the fiscal year 2007 work plan. The first was residential development standards sponsored by Councilmember Zahner Bailey, and the second was red light camera photo enforcement sponsored by Councilmember O’Brien. Councilmember Thurman stated it was her understanding that this will be put on the work plan agenda, and at the time of the budget process they would determine priority of all of the items that were on the work plan. City Manager Bovos replied that was correct and asked if there were any other questions. Mayor Lockwood asked if there was any public comment. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was none. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 10 of 12 Motion and Second: Councilmember Lusk moved to approve a resolution amending FY2007 Work Plan. Councilmember O’Brien seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. City Clerk Jeanette Marchiafava read Agenda Item Number 07-273. Approval of a Resolution Amending Resolution Number 07-04-29, Appointing Members to the City of Milton Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals for Districts 4 and 6. Community Development Director Wilson asked if there were any nominees tonight from Districts 4 or 6. Councilmembers from Districts 4 and 6 responded, said no sir, not that this time. Community Development Director Wilson said he was looking for those members and said he would give any names to them as soon as find them. He said they were reviewing some of their building permit applications and looking at the people who were doing work up in this area trying to find somebody in the districts. They were working on it, but it may take a while. Mayor Lockwood said thank you and called for any public comment. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to defer approval of a Resolution amending Resolution No. 07-04-29, appointing members to the City of Milton Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals for Districts 4 and 6. Councilmember O’Brien seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. City Clerk Marchiafava stated that the next item was added to the agenda this evening. Approval to Amend the City Council Meeting schedule and Work Session schedule. City Manager Bovos stated that during discussions earlier this week they had presented to them the new schedule for the July council meetings. Based upon meeting schedules and some challenges with vacations, we were proposing canceling the July 19th City Council Meeting and having a combined work session on July 12th with the City Council Meeting following that work session. He said the current structure that we have proposed which we are seeking approval for is a work session that begins at three o’clock in the afternoon on July 12th. That work session would end on or about seven o’clock in the evening. They would take a 30 minute break during the work session, and that would include a working dinner type scenario. He said at 7:30 we would then convene the City Council meeting and meet for a traditional business meeting. He will be happy to answer any questions that anybody has at this time. Councilmember Thurman asked what items will be on this work session and would this be part of the budget process? City Manager Bovos said there were very few items on the work session. Two if he recalled correctly. The first being updates from City Council on anything that they would like to discuss about from the GMA conference and then move directly into budget. The budget work session will be prioritization of the work plan, initiatives, and capital improvement projects. City Clerk Marchiafava stated there was no public comment on this item. Mayor Lockwood called for a motion to approve, amend the city Council meeting schedule and work session. Schedule as follows: Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM Page 11 of 12 Cancel the July 19th, 2007 regularly scheduled City Council meeting as a result of vacation schedules during the month of July and conduct City Council Work Sessions beginning at 3:00 p.m. on July 12th, 2007 and concluding prior to the City Council meeting beginning at 7:30 p.m. on the same day. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to approve the amendment to the City Council meeting and Work Session scheduled stated above. Councilmember D’Aversa seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS Councilmember O’Brien said that a week from tonight, at their work session, he was fortunate to have had the opportunity from staff and the Mayor to talk about senior issues as well as some Public Safety issues which will include Neighborhood Watch and continuity into a Milton watch format in Milton and some interface with the Public Safety folks, police and fire. He looks forward to having a briefing that he can construct a presentation on that and he appreciated the opportunity. Councilmember Lusk said he had to report that next Thursday prior to their work session meeting they would have a flag raising ceremony out in the backside of City Hall where the owner of the property had allowed them to install the flagpole. They should have pretty good representation with the veterans and he would encourage their entire veteran friends to be present at that time too. He stated the event will take place around 4:30 just prior to the Work Session. Mayor Lockwood said he would like to thank Councilmember Lusk for the work he has put in for this flag. STAFF REPORTS City Manager Bovos said there were no staff reports this evening. EXECUTIVE SESSION City Clerk Marchiafava read Agenda Item Number 07-275. Executive Session: The purpose is an Executive Session and the purpose is to discuss pending litigation. Mayor Lockwood called for a motion to adjourn to an executive session. Motion and Vote: Councilmember Mohrig moved to adjourn into Executive Session. Councilmember Lusk seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned into Executive Session at 7:41 p.m. RECONVENE Mayor Lockwood asked for a motion to reconvene. Motion and Vote: There was a unanimous motion and second and it was unanimously approved. Mayor Lockwood stated that concluded their regular meeting and asked for a motion to adjourn. Regular Meeting of the Milton City Council Thursday, June 7,2007 at 7:00 PM Page 12oft2 Motion and Vote: Councilmember Thusman moved to adjourn the regular meeting at 8:28 PM. Councilmember O'Brien seconded the motion. There was no Council discussion.. The motion passed unanimously. Approved August 16,2007. -I '-7 I L~ --Jeanette R Marchiafava, City Clerk Joe Lockwodd, Mayor