City Council

1 CITY OF COLLEGE PARK 2 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL 3 REGULAR SESSION 4 August 15, 2022 5 6 MINUTES 7 8 Present: Mayor Bianca Motley Broom; Councilmen Ambrose Clay, Joe Carn, Councilman 9 Roderick Gay and Ken Allen; Interim City Manager Jackson Myers; City Attorney 10 Winston Denmark; City Clerk Shavala Ames. 11 12 Absent: None. 13 14 Mayor Motley Broom called the executive session to order at 6:00 p.m. 15 16 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to take up an executive session to discuss real estate 17 litigation, and personnel, seconded by Councilman Carn and motion carried. 18 19 Executive Session ended at 7:08 p.m. 20 21 1. Opening Ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. 22 23 A. Pledge of allegiance to the flag. 24 25 B. Invocation by Chaplin McKenzie 26 27 2. Additions, Deletions, Amendments, Or Changes To The Agenda. 28 29 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to remove from the agenda item 6a. Request to Set a 30 Public Hearing to consider a Conditional Use Permit at 2510 W Point Ave in the 31 M2 - Heavy Industrial Zoning District, and item 8b. Consideration of and action 32 on a request to renew an agreement between the City of College Park and Phase: 33 3 Marketing and Communications, Inc., for public relations/marketing services; 34 replace item 7c. Discussion of proposed Millage Rate and approval of 35 recommended rate for advertisement for Fiscal Year 2022- 2023 with 7c. 36 Clayton County LOST, adding item Fulton County LOST as 7d, and add 4a. 37 Naming of pedestrian bridge – Congressman David Scott, seconded by 38 Councilman Allen and motion carried. 39 40 41 3. Presentation Of Minutes Of City Council. 42 43 A. Regular Session held on August 1, 2022. 44 45 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve Regular Session Minutes dated August 1, 46 2022, seconded by Councilman Carn with corrections and motion carried: 47 Packet Page 25, Line 841 – s/b nor not or 48 s/b doing it, too 49 50 B. Work Session held on August 1, 2022. 51 52 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve Workshop Session Minutes dated August 53 1, 2022, as presented, seconded by Councilman Carn and motion carried. 54 55 4. Proclamations, Resolutions, Plaques, And Announcements. 56 57 A. Naming of Pedestrian Bridge – Congressman David Scott 58 59 ACTION: Councilman Carn moved to approve the naming of the pedestrian gateway 60 bridge after Congressman David Scott, seconded by Councilman Clay and 61 motion carried. 62 63 5. Remarks Of Citizens. 64 65 a. Renee Peterkin said good evening Mayor and Councilmembers. I am here today to inform 66 you of an exciting program coming to the residents of College Park. I am the Deputy 67 Director of the Georgia Reliance and Opportunity Community Fund otherwise known as 68 the Grow Fund. We are launching our 3rd site for our guaranteed income program in 69 College Park. To be eligible for this program residents must be 18 or older, a woman, live 70 at or below the 200% federal poverty line, and live in College Park. The full details 71 regarding the eligibility can be found on the application website at www.inherhands.us. 72 The application for this program opened on August 8th and closes this Sunday, August 73 21st. Over 200 eligible women in College Park will be selected by lottery, so they have to 74 apply. We are here to get this information out to your constituents that this program is 75 coming to the area and looking to provide no-strings-attached cash assistance for two years. 76 Those selected will receive $850 a month. This is the third site that we have launched. We 77 launched in the Old Fourth Ward and Southwest Georgia in the Clay, Terrell, and Randolph 78 counties, to make sure we had a rural and urban area. Now we are here in College Park to 79 provide assistance to a suburban community. This is not the first guaranteed income in 80 America. There are over 300 studies worldwide that talks about what the impact of direct 81 cash assistance can provide to communities that are most in need. This was talked about 82 by Martin Luther King in his last published book. I just wanted to let you all know again 83 that the In Her Hands Program is in College Park looking to provide 200 income-eligible 84 women $850 for two years with no-strings-attached. You can follow our social media at 85 grofund on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. We have been featured in the Atlanta Journal 86 Constitution, 11 Alive, and some other media outlets. We just wanted to share our 87 information with you and your constituents. 88 89 b. Jamelle McKenzie, 2447 Odell Way said, good evening. I wanted to express my gratitude 90 and appreciation to Councilman Ambrose Clay, Councilman Joe Carn, Councilman Ken 91 Allen, and Councilman Roderick Gay and not only for our four councilmen but to 92 Mercedes Miller and her entire staff at the GICC, the Ignite team, volunteers and our 22 Page 2 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022  93 plus corporate sponsors for helping to bring a phenomenal citywide back to school resource 94 fair and Kids Fest to the citizens of College Park on Saturday, August 6. This collaborative 95 effort took place in less than three weeks of planning and the event was nothing short of 96 amazing. We had over 1,000 families come through. We gave away 1,800+ backpacks, 97 school supplies, groceries, and resource information. We had partners there, vendors, and 98 attractions for the children. I’m still hearing from parents whose children had a wonderful 99 time. In addition, Ignite was also able to provide 240 sets of book bags and supplies to 100 families in the College View Apartments. We're grateful for the opportunity to serve as we 101 are continuing in our commitment to creating a culture wherein every person can thrive 102 and not just barely survive. Again, we want to thank you and we’re looking forward to 103 more collaborative efforts. I just believe that teamwork makes the dream work. 104 105 c. [Read Verbatim by City Clerk] Stephanie Harper said greetings Mayor and Council. I have 106 resided on Hopewell Road in Ward 4 for over 15 years. My husband Carl Harper worked 107 in the Water and Sewer department for years until his untimely passing. Carl and his tractor 108 assisted in the construction of many of the amazing streetscapes throughout our Ward on 109 Skyline Drive, Greenspring Road, and the Herschel Road / Riverdale Road entranceway 110 streetscape and garden. The beautiful flower beds and streetscapes were the vision of 111 Councilmember Roderick Gay. After Carl passed Councilmember Gay along with Water& 112 Sewer supervisor and Building & Grounds supervisor designed and installed a beautiful 113 memory garden in my late husband's honor. The garden thrives in Charles Phillips Park 114 and park visitors can sit on the bench and reflect. Years after my husband's passing we can 115 call on Councilmember Gay. It truly takes a village to raise a child. Carl's daughter now in 116 high school has found it challenging to be with her dad. Dealing with some school issues 117 it was again Councilmember Gay who goes out of his way to show his manhood, by 118 contacting the school board and school principal to make sure Carla has the best outcomes. 119 We truly miss our husband and dad Carl, but it's confronting to know that there are real 120 men and devoted unselfish elected officials who love their community and its people. 121 Thank you Councilman Gay for all you do. 122 123 d. [Read Verbatim via City Clerk] Paul Dorn, 1858 Harvard Avenue said I represent 124 seventeen business owners in the building at the south west corner of Harvard and Main 125 Street. I live in a loft on the second floor. A petition will be presented at council meeting 126 tonight for the closing of Harvard Ave from Main Street to College Avenue on September 127 10 from 2-8 for a block party to celebrate the opening of a sandwich shop on the opposite 128 corner. Closing would shut down the parking lot on Harvard that serves said business and 129 myself and the owner, 19 people who oppose this block party. Two of the said business 130 owners signed the petition, but they were not told about the closing of Harvard Avenue, 131 they were only told that the sandwich shop planned to put some tables on the sidewalk. 132 One of the two business owners. I’ve contacted wants her name removed from the petition. 133 As a practical consideration, Saturday is the peak day for these business owners. At the 134 start of the block party, the parking lot would be full of double-parked cars that would be 135 trapped in the lot. New customers would be shut out. We support the opening of the 136 sandwich shop but suggest the owner find a way to celebrate the opening that does not 137 damage 19 other business and property owners. Paul L Dorn Jr. 138 Page 3 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 139 e. [Read Verbatim by City Clerk] Latitia Jackson said we live on Charleston Drive in College 140 Park. Mr. Roderick Gay is our Council person over Ward 4. My entire family voted for 141 Mr. Gay both times he ran. He and his beautiful wife Pam Gay are always involved in our 142 community. Our mom passed last year and Mr. Gay was supportive during the time she 143 was sick. Once he and his community officers lifted her down the steps to the ambulance 144 to go to the hospital. Mr. Gay support my two sons with their college and now my daughter 145 is attending college. He serves as a role model for our young black men. The city doesn't 146 realize what a blessing it is to have someone who loves their community and goes out of 147 their way to help and support people. Our apartment complex has had a lot of owners who 148 raise our rent and force us into new leases. During COVID for two years Mr. Gay would 149 bring food and meats to the people in the apartment even using his own car. He was very 150 generous with the families. Mr Gay always contacts the leasing managers and negotiates 151 and talks on our behalf. Thank you Mr Councilman Roderick Gay for what you and your 152 family do for our community. I wish more politicians were like you. 153 154 f. Isis Royster said hello, my name is Isis Royster. I just purchased my property from Paul 155 Dorn, the one that made the email to you guys. My building sits on the corner of Harvard 156 and Main Street. Two of the tenants in our building did sign a petition allowing these people 157 to do a block party from 2 to 8. I just wanted to continue to advocate for them. One of the 158 tenants did want to come off that petition. Also, my parking lot sits there and so my tenants 159 will not be able to park and conduct business properly if y'all block it between 2 to 8. Paul 160 also wanted me to come to communicate this to all the tenants. 161 162 g. Valerie Lee said good evening. My name is Valerie Lee and I am a business owner in 163 College Park. I own four businesses and four buildings in College Park on Main Street; 164 3391, 3393, 3395, and 3397. If you are familiar with Brake Pad, which I know everyone 165 is, we are at the Wellness Spot which we talk about a lot when we come to the council 166 meetings. I wanted to share my appreciation, particularly for the Wellness Spot and for 167 Councilman Carn who came to our men's health huddle a couple of weeks ago which was 168 phenomenal. We had several men there and we talked about health issues. There was some 169 yoga, strength classes, and bonding. It was amazing and I also want to thank the Mayor for 170 being a member of the Wellness Spot. We renovated the space and we thought it was going 171 to take six weeks, but it took one year. We are happy to be in College Park. We also had 172 “Pink Goes Jazz” last month where members of the community came out and enjoyed jazz 173 and food. It was wonderful as we had over 125 participants. On August 27th, not to leave 174 the women out, we have pop-ups for Zumba at 8:30 a.m. and a pop-up for belly dancing 175 class at 7:30. We are trying to do different things in the community. The other business 176 that I don't talk much about is VB Consulting, which is a business that has been in existence 177 for over 20 years as an IT consulting firm; and we work with colleges and universities as 178 well as municipalities. Some of our clients right now are Emory, Harvard, University of 179 Central Florida, Arizona State University, and a host of other universities. We are most 180 proud of our work with the City of Saint Paul where we have engaged in digital 181 transformation. We are a certified minority-owned women's company and I want to make 182 sure that everyone is aware that we are right here, headquartered in the City of College 183 Park. 184 Page 4 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 185 186 7. Other Business 187 188 A. Consideration of and action on a request from Monique Simms with The Bodega on Main 189 Street to a hold a block party/grand opening event on September 10, 2022, from 2:00 p.m. 190 until 8:00 p.m. between on Harvard Avenue (between College and Main Street). 191 192 City Clerk Shavala Ames said this is a special event request from Monique Sims. She is the owner 193 of the new sandwich shop, Milk and Cheese. She is having her grand opening on this day and she 194 also wants to have a block party on this day. Jade Moore is her representation this evening. 195 Representative for the Bodega on Main Street Jade Moore said I oversee the Milk and Cookies 196 exotic shop, as well as The Collab which is a content creator studio. We are looking to do all three 197 grand openings of the business on September 10th from 2:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m. I personally went 198 around to the businesses to grab the petition to sign and get approval. We are looking to include 199 the community as well. As far as the parking, as the other young lady was speaking about, we can 200 definitely work out something to ensure that everybody can have their regular business during that 201 Saturday as we understand that it is during peak time from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. With this, we 202 are looking to bring in vendors, have something with the community, and kind of bond with our 203 fellow business neighbors for this event. As well as bring in a few jobs to the City as well. 204 Councilman Clay said I'm really concerned about this, to be honest with you. Normally, I like to 205 support these kinds of things but the material that we got had a number of businesses signing up 206 saying, yes this is great, we support this, but the businesses that Mr. Dorn talked about, only two 207 of those businesses were on the list. According to Mr. Dorn, they said they were under the 208 impression that they were not going to close the street as it was just to put tables on the sidewalk. 209 Then again you heard tonight that one of them wants their name taken off of the petition. So, based 210 on the objection of all the different businesses around there that will be impacted by it, I can't 211 support it. I'm sorry. It's my Ward but I can't. We have block parties sometimes in the residential 212 area and some other places but right in that location at that time during the busiest busy part of the 213 week for a lot of those businesses, I have great difficulty supporting it. 214 Councilman Carn said it sounds good. I took a look at what you want to do. We love to see new 215 businesses open up. We're glad to receive you and we want you to do business in College Park, 216 but we can't have anyone doing business at the expense of hampering the other businesses from 217 their ability to do business. I would like to come to your grand opening. We’ll support, we'll 218 patronize you and I think you can still have a successful grand opening without taking the whole 219 street for that many hours. I hope you can work with us and understand working with your fellow 220 neighbors is a big part of being in business as well. They're only so many Saturdays in the year 221 and that's a big day for business obviously for you as it's your first Saturday. We want to be fair to 222 everybody, but we want you to be successful also. 223 Councilman Allen said I echo the same thing. I have some concerns with the number of hours as 224 it'll affect the businesses but also the fire department. I don't know but that's one of the main 225 thoroughfares coming through. I don't know if that would slow down getting to a fire or the police Page 5 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 226 coming through that area, but I love having you there. I will definitely come. I think it's a great 227 business and I will support it, but I can't support it for six to eight hours closing Harvard. 228 Councilman Gay said thank you for doing business in College Park. I don't know enough about it. 229 I will make a recommendation. You could probably talk with our City Manager to maybe do a 230 smaller version across the street at our depot on the corner. I've seen events there that won't tie the 231 street up. 232 Councilman Carn said City Manager, one question, is there something else that y'all can come up 233 with that doesn't block the street, take a look at it. 234 Interim City Manager Mr. Myers said Councilman Carn, they've got the little pocket parking that's 235 back there that they could probably utilize. It's down the alleyway that we own. Then we've got 236 that cover place and a picnic table back there. 237 Councilman Clay said that's a really good idea. 238 Mayor Motley Broom said we have options. 239 Interim City Manager Mr. Myers said those other little parking spaces if they had a food truck, 240 they could park in that's between the public safety and the pocket park. All those parking spaces 241 belong to College Park. 242 Councilman Clay said there's something you might want to consider. We certainly love the fact 243 that you have a business here, it's just we just can't disrupt everything else. 244 245 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to deny a request from City Clerk Shavala Ames to 246 allow Monique Simms with The Bodega on Main Street to a hold a block 247 party/grand opening event on September 10, 2022, from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 248 p.m. between on Harvard Avenue (between College and Main Street), seconded 249 by Councilman Allen, Councilman Gay abstained, and motion carried. 250 251 B. Consideration and action on amendments to the Purchasing Department Policies and 252 Procedures Manual, Section XII (Bonds & Insurance). 253 254 City Attorney Winston Denmark said this is an amendment that the City Attorney's office is 255 proposing to the purchasing policy section 7, which deals with bonds and insurance. This provision 256 will offer additional requirements and clarify when a payment and performance bond is required 257 on construction projects for the City of College Park. We would propose that all construction 258 projects over five thousand dollars require a payment and performance bond and that those bond 259 payment/performance bonds be approved by the City Attorney's office to ensure that we're fully 260 in compliance with state law. We've discussed in other forums, state law requires that when we 261 have a construction contract that the city requires the general contractor to obtain a payment and 262 performance bond to ensure that all subcontractors who may be on the project are paid. To the 263 extent we fail to require the general contractor to obtain the payment and performance bond, and 264 the subcontractor is not paid, then that subcontractor has a viable cause of action against the City. 265 To ensure that we avoid that regrettable situation, we wanted to clarify this policy to involve the Page 6 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 266 City Attorney's office in approving these payment and performance bonds and to make all of the 267 changes outlined in the policy before. 268 Councilman Clay said we've had a couple of incidents over the years where we've become liable 269 for things like this. I've read it and it sounds great, but from your legal perspective, if this would 270 have been in place for a couple of incidents that have happened in the last couple of years or several 271 years, would this policy have prevented them? 272 Mr. Denmark said I think it would have made things less likely to have occurred. So, I think that 273 what we have here puts us in a much better place in terms of our policies and protocols. It adds the 274 City Attorney's office into the process and so now you have another layer to ensure that we don't 275 miss a step. I think it puts us in a far superior place but if you're asking can I sit here and say that 276 we're in an infallible place, well no. 277 Councilman Clay said nothing's infallible, but from a probabilistic standpoint does it increase our 278 probability by several times? 279 Mr. Denmark said yes sir, order of magnitude. 280 Councilman Carn said I've got a few issues with this. We want to make sure the City is covered so 281 that the incident that happened did not happen. My other understanding is that this is something 282 that does not occur very often in the City necessarily. There's a lot of business that goes on in 283 College Park and we want everyone to have the opportunity to do business in College Park while 284 at the same time, we do not want folks doing business with the City of College Park to threaten 285 the financial situation with the City. When it comes to minority firms and particularly female 286 business enterprises, one of the reasons they're not able to share in procurement with cities, 287 municipalities, county governments, or school boards, is the bond requirements are too 288 surmounting financially for those businesses starting. We spend a lot of money every year with 289 contractors and bidders. We want responsible builders and we want responsible contractors, but 290 there's a glass ceiling that keeps a certain group out. We have a lot of big shots that can come in 291 and do the projects, but you can’t become a big shot unless some of the little shots get a chance. 292 We did lower that bid by requiring 5% so that other businesses do have a chance. Many businesses 293 over the years successfully did have a chance and had their first opportunity to participate in 294 government contracting, projects, and development projects because we considered it an asset for 295 minority businesses and female business enterprises. 296 Mr. Denmark said I would direct you to packet page 195. There's a chart on 195 and it shows 297 there's a big bond requirement at 5% which will not be changed but then there's a difference. This 298 is a payment bond. 299 Councilman Carn said that's what goes to 100%. 300 Mr. Denmark said yes sir. We just need to draw that distinction between the two. I’m not altogether 301 certain that we can lower the payment bond amount but to the extent, the council could vote to 302 lower it to something other than 100% of the contract price. Page 7 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 303 Councilman Carn said I think a big part of our issue is the amount of oversight in making sure that 304 things go as advertised. There's also an alternative remedy of possibly adding additional fines or 305 steep penalties that would also increase our chance of this not happening. I'd like to look at some 306 other options before we would pull the trigger on this. We want to make sure the City is covered 307 and protected but again there's a human issue. 308 Mr. Denmark said Councilman, obviously the Council can do whatever you think is appropriate. 309 What I would say is one of the main reasons why a payment bond is a good option is because now 310 you have a third-party surety who comes in, because trying to collect the fine from someone might 311 be a daunting task. Yet, if you have a third-party surety, that's approved, they issue that bond now 312 there's no issue about whether this third-party subcontractor is going to get paid. A lot of times 313 the City doesn't even know that the general contractor hired a sub. So the requirement of a payment 314 bond will not be based on whether or not you have a sub or not. If you get any contract over a 315 certain threshold, you have to have that payment bond. I hear your concern loud and clear as it 316 relates to the payment bond being prohibitive for certain individuals. 317 Councilman Carn said is there any way we could make it less prohibitive. Is Purchasing here? 318 Purchasing Officer Willis Moody said no. We do that subsequent with the bid bond at 5%. 319 Councilman Carn said how would we accommodate minority vendors that may not have the 320 financial wherewithal with this in place? 321 Mr. Moody said we encourage everyone to participate but I don't believe there's a federal statute 322 that says we can just pass out bids to vendors of any section. Title 6, we do have to be mindful of 323 it. We do encourage everyone to make a bid on what's on the website or the State of Georgia 324 website when they go out for solicitation. 325 Councilman Carn said I know we normally have some type of a point system that we look at and 326 some of the criteria for points is the fact if you're a minority vendor, female business enterprise 327 vendor. 328 Mr. Moody said I’m not aware of a point system in the current policy. If you're located within the 329 city limits, in the case of a tie then we have to consider it. 330 Councilman Clay said that was declared illegal. 331 Mayor Motley Broom said we would need a disparity study. 332 Councilman Carn said that's something I think we also need to do but for me, I’d like to take 333 another look at it and see if we can come up with something if we're going to have to do this to 334 kind of even the playing field a little bit more. Even if it's a disparity study to make up for that 335 disadvantage financially. 336 Councilman Allen said you stated it's a state requirement that we have the performance bond? 337 Mr. Denmark said it’s a state law that requires that we make the general contractor get the payment 338 bond. Page 8 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 339 Councilman Allen said to me that's the problem. You know we can work with the general 340 contractors; we can set things for the general contractor and they, in turn, will subcontract it to 341 somebody else, and that person could in turn subcontract it to someone else; and it gets kind of 342 lost in the shuffle. So, we need to make sure that our City is protected, our money is protected, and 343 that we don't spend a lot of money paying back if we don't have a bond. 344 Councilman Gay said if the policy is going to be amended that the City Attorney reviewed the 345 payment bond, are we publicly saying tonight that his office is going to be like the custodian of 346 the record from this point forward? 347 City Attonery Mr. Denmark said no. What we're saying is that we'll review them. It would still be 348 Purchasing as it's still their process, it's still a procurement process within his sphere of authority. 349 We would be assisting by reviewing the payment bonds but at all times it would still be Mr. 350 Moody's process. Mr. Moody would still be in control of the documents and that would not change. 351 Councilman Gay said when we do the contracts, there's somewhere on there like lower tier 352 subcontractors, I recommend that we make it prohibited that no contractor can use any lower tier 353 or subcontractor that was not provided in their bid package. Make some kind of prohibitive clause 354 that if they do that then we're not liable. 355 Mr. Denmark said I think that we could say that but now we're coming up against the state statute. 356 The state statute says you the city shall make the general contractor get a payment bond and if he 357 doesn't and the sub doesn't get paid that, a sub can come after you. I don't think we can have a 358 policy that says the sub can't come against us because we have a policy that says you can't. 359 Councilman Gay said no, I wasn't saying that. I'm simply saying you can't use contractors that you 360 didn't put on your bid. 361 Mayor Motley Broom said Mr. Denmark, am I correct in the way that our policy currently stands 362 it violates state law? 363 Mr. Denmark said I think there are silences in our policy that could be deemed to be such, yes. 364 Mayor Motley Broom said this amendment would allow us to be aligned with state law? 365 Mr. Denmark said without a doubt, yes. 366 Mayor Motley Broom said this would apply to general contractors and not their subs, correct? 367 Mr. Denmark said the payment bond yes. The obligation falls on generals, not on subs. 368 Councilman Clay said this is very simple. We're asking to put another level of check by the City 369 Attorney to make sure that we have everything that the state says we're supposed to have. Is that 370 correct? 371 Mr. Denmark said yes sir. 372 Councilman Carn said it's not all that difficult. It just says we want to make sure what we've been 373 told to do by the state and that we want to do for our good, to put another check in. I think we all 374 want to do that and be aligned with the state, but I think we also don't want to make it more difficult Page 9 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 375 for more financially challenged businesses to meet the requirements. Obviously, it's a catch-22. 376 We have to look at a study to include minority and female business enterprises. 377 Mr. Moody said last time we talked about one I believe it started at half a million and tracked back 378 from the past 15 years moving forward. 379 Councilman Carn said if we do it would it cost that much money? 380 Mr. Moody said we looked at this in 2019 and that was the going cost. 381 Councilman Clay said but this was a different thing, right. It had to do with minorities and giving 382 them a break, but it was based on different, a totally different criteria. 383 Mr. Moody said it was all kinds of criteria mixed into that standing at that $500,000. 384 Councilman Carn said that sounds like something that's not doable right now financially, 385 obviously. 386 Mr. Moody said correct. 387 Councilman Carn said but I would like us to look at what else may be out there and any other 388 possibilities or ways we can equalize this. We want to be in line with state statutes but at the same 389 time, we want to give everybody the legal advantages safely in terms of finances for the City. 390 Councilman Clay said I understand where Joe's coming from and I think it's fine if we can come 391 up with some. I'm not going to disclose it right now, but I had an idea of something we could do 392 but I want to think about it a little more. I don't want to delay this thing, I'd like to put it in place 393 and if we want to look into other ideas, I’m fine with that. I'll make that right we approve it with 394 the idea that we'll look forward look for some other ways that we can be supportive that does not 395 conflict with what the state has to try to do and does not put the city at significant risk. 396 397 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve amending the Purchasing Department 398 Policies and Procedures Manual, Section XII (Bonds & Insurance) with proviso 399 to look for other ways to support minority and women-owned enterprises that 400 do not conflict with any state statutes, seconded by Councilman Allen and 401 motion carried. 402 403 C. Clayton County LOST 404 405 Mayor Motley Broom said Clayton County has made a proposal to keep our LOST percentages 406 exactly the same but aligning the Service Delivery Agreement with LOST so that those two 407 contracts run in the same time frame. 408 409 ACTION: Councilman Allen move to approve the Clayton County LOST, seconded by 410 Councilman Clay and motion carried. (All voted yes). 411 412 D. Fulton County LOST 413 Page 10 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 414 ACTION: Councilman Clay move to approve the Fulton County LOST, seconded by 415 Councilman Carn and motion carried. (All voted yes). 416 417 E. Consideration of and action on a request for approval to purchase and install a 3-ton 418 Mitsubishi cooling system for the elevator equipment room at the Federal Aviation 419 Administration (FAA) Regional Headquarters. 420 421 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve a request from Director of Finance and 422 Accounting Althea Philord-Bradley for Colliers International Commercial 423 Property Manager Ron Wilkerson to purchase and install a 3-ton Mitsubishi 424 cooling system for the elevator equipment room at the Federal Aviation 425 Administration (FAA) Regional Headquarters in the amount of $312,713, 426 seconded by Councilman Carn and motion carried. (All voted yes). 427 428 F. Consideration of and action on a request for approval to perform a 5-year internal pipe 429 obstruction inspection on (2) wet sprinkler systems, including the replacement of two 430 gauges per system at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regional Headquarters. 431 432 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve a request from Director of Finance and 433 Accounting Althea Philord-Bradley for Colliers International Commercial 434 Property Manager Ron Wilkerson to perform a 5-year internal pipe obstruction 435 inspection on (2) wet sprinkler systems, including the replacement of two gauges 436 per system at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regional 437 Headquarters in the amount of $21,677, seconded by Councilman Carn and 438 motion carried. 439 440 G. Consideration of and action on a request for approval for support of the Ward 4 Festival to 441 be held at Charles E. Phillips Park on October 15th from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m. in 442 conjunction with the 2022 Fire Safety and EMS Expo. 443 444 Fire Chief Elmore said good evening Mayor and Council. We are seeking your approval for the 445 Ward 4 Festival to be held at Charles E. Phillips park on October 15th from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. 446 We're also asking for your approval for the funding of $10,000 for the festival and the festival 447 committee is also planning on collecting the balance of $15,000 go towards the festival. Also on 448 the same day is the end of our fire safety week which is October 9th through the 15th. Rather than 449 having two events, we're willing to partner with the Ward 4 Festival and have our event on the 15th 450 at the same time at Charles E. Phillips Park. That's something that has not been done before. 451 Councilman Clay said your Fire Safety and EMT Expo, where have we held them before? 452 Fire Chief Elmore said we've held it in the parking lot across the street from the public safety 453 building. 454 Councilman Clay said is this a budgeted item? 455 Fire Chief Elmore said yes is a budgeted event. 456 Councilman Clay said how much is in the budget for it? Page 11 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 457 Fire Chief Elmore said we have about $4000. 458 Councilman Clay said so presumably if we were to approve this, that $4000 then would be used 459 to be part of the $10,000. Is that correct. 460 Fire Chief Elmore said that will be in addition to the $10,000. 461 Councilman Clay said why would it be in addition to? 462 Fire Chief Elmore said because $10,000 will be going towards the Ward 4 Festival. 463 Councilman Clay said so you're going to have the fire safety event one way or the other? 464 Fire Chief Elmore said yes. 465 Councilman Clay said and so it has nothing to do with defraying the cost of the Ward 4 Festival, 466 is that correct? 467 Fire Chief Elmore said that's correct. 468 Councilman Clay said okay, I have a question for Althea. Is the Ward 4 Festival in the budget? 469 Director of Accounting Althea Philord-Bradley said not at this time. 470 Councilman Clay said so this is an unbudgeted $10,000.. 471 Councilman Carn said I get what you're trying to do here which is not a bad idea. I'm familiar with 472 your standard event and I guess the whole purpose of this is getting the word out to the residents 473 that you know it's a life safety issue. I understand why we do it, we want awareness, and we want 474 to show them the training as it's very important. the more things we have for the community the 475 better. Money's tight all the way around but if it's something that we can do, I certainly support it. 476 Councilman Allen said I think it's great that the committee plans to raise $15,000 for the festival. 477 I think this is good if they're willing to go along to find other people that will contribute. I'll go 478 along with spending $10,000 because they're going to be coming up with $15,000 and in addition. 479 Councilman Gay said thank you Chief for considering combining this year. I think it would be a 480 great effort to allow more of the citizens to come out. This year the festival is celebrating the 481 hospitality corridor, so they're looking to get a buy-in from the businesses because we have 482 renamed Roosevelt to Main down to Hershel Road. We absolutely want to make it more inclusive 483 of our hospitality. 484 ACTION: Councilman Gay moved to approve a request from the Fire Chief Wade Elmore 485 to hold the 2022 Fire Safety and EMS Expo in conjunction with the Ward 4 486 Festival to be held at Charles E. Phillips Park on October 15th from 12 p.m. to 487 6 p.m. in the amount of $10,000 additional funds to be allocated for the Ward 4 488 Festival, seconded by Councilman Allen, Councilman Clay voted no, and 489 motion carried. 490 Page 12 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 491 Councilman Clay said do we absolutely and positively know that we have $15,000 to go with the 492 $10,000. Or could we change the motion to say that after the event is over, we confirm that we did 493 raise the funds? 494 Mayor Motley Broom said Councilman Gay, Councilman Clay has made a proposal to amend your 495 motion. Do you wish to do so? 496 Councilman Gay said no. 497 Mayor Motley Broom said all right, we will proceed with the motion as stated. 498 499 H. Consideration of and action on a request to purchase a replacement vehicle for Unit 517 in 500 the Power Department. 501 502 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve a request from Power Director Hugh 503 Richardson to purchase a replacement vehicle for Unit 517 in the Power 504 Department in the amount of $47,764, seconded by Councilman Carn and 505 motion carried. 506 507 I. Consideration of and action on a request to approve Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 508 Assistance Grant (JAG) funds awarded on September 25, 2019, and approval to utilize 509 funds to increase/enhance the devices in use by the City of College Park Police Department. 510 511 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve a request from Interim Chief of Police 512 Sharis McCray to approve Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 513 (JAG) funds awarded on September 25, 2019, and approval to utilize funds to 514 increase/enhance the devices in use by the City of College Park Police 515 Department, seconded by Councilman Allen and motion carried. 516 517 8. Bids, Change Order Requests and Contracts. 518 519 A. Consideration of and action on a request for approval to utilize WHW Local Government 520 Consulting for Department Recruitment Services National Search and to authorize the 521 Human Resources Director to negotiate an agreement with WHW Local Government 522 Consulting with substantially the same terms as the City's form services agreement. 523 524 Director of Human Resources and Risk Management Dr. Dwight Baker said good evening. This 525 is a request to gain approval for WHW Local Government Consultant to conduct recruitment for 526 our four director positions: City Manager, Director of Airport Affairs, Chief Building Officer, and 527 City Engineer. I have the representative here to entertain any questions you may have. 528 Councilman Clay said based on my comments and your responses to my comments, the fee is the 529 same no matter what group of people we end up with. The specific positions that are listed in the 530 paperwork that we have in the packet information we have are going to be different because we've 531 filled one of the positions. 532 Dr. Baker said yes sir. We're substituting the Economic Development Director position for the 533 Director of Airport Affairs. Page 13 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 534 Councilman Clay said right. The price is the same? 535 Dr. Baker said yes sir, the price is the same. 536 Councilman Clay said I'm just confirming that. I know we talked about that before. 537 Councilman Carn said welcome. My biggest concern was the experience. Apparently, you are kind 538 of a startup company of less than a year from what I was told. Is that right? 539 WHW Representative Mr. Hutbacher said that is correct. 540 Councilman Carn said I also understand that you were a former manager. The question I had for 541 Dwight was does that qualify someone because you've been a manager that you can handle 542 recruitment? With you being a new company and we're not being familiar with you our Director 543 Baker here is going to lead the charge. Yet, our questions are of boundaries of constraint; we want 544 to be able to do the things that we need to do to find out and get the answers to what we want. We 545 make sure that we are thorough. Especially this time around because we have learned lessons and 546 we don't want the same thing to happen again. 547 Councilman Allen said the only thing I have is I'd like to be and I think all the Council feels 548 hopefully the same way, which we'd like to be updated from time to time where we stand. Just 549 keep us updated as the progression goes along for each position. One might go faster than another 550 but just kind of keep us updated. 551 Councilman Gay said my only recommendation would be that they do a wider search, maybe a 552 national or even an international search for talent. That way we do our best to be as diverse in all 553 areas because that's a new organization, diversity. 554 Mr. Hutbacher said the proposal that we put forward clearly states that we've got an employee's 555 market out there. We’ve got to do a good job of really looking nationally for each of these positions 556 to get the best talent and my understanding is if you get a larger talent pool, you're going to have 557 a more diverse talent pool as well. 558 Councilman Carn said I don't know anything about HR necessarily, but we want good people 559 coming in here. Logically thinking we'd have the City Manager position teed up and ready to go 560 if possible before the others. 561 Dr. Baker said we will work together on strategizing with positions. 562 Councilman Carn said the second thing, I mentioned at the last council meeting I want to look at 563 and possibly touch up on the Director of Airport Affairs job description. There are some things in 564 there that are missing. There are hundreds of jobs that are available over there at that airport right 565 now that this city for the most part has no idea are available. I want that to be one of the additional 566 parts of duties for the Director of Airport Affairs to make sure they stay on top of this kind of stuff. 567 Councilman Clay said along that line, I think in the contract agreement, we will have an 568 opportunity to give input on the various positions per our previous discussion. 569 Page 14 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 570 571 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve a request from Human Resource & Risk 572 Management Director Dr. Dwight Baker to utilize WHW Local Government 573 Consulting for Department Recruitment Services National Search and to 574 authorize the Human Resources Director to negotiate an agreement with WHW 575 Local Government Consulting with substantially the same terms as the City's 576 form services agreement, seconded by Councilman Carn and motion carried. 577 (All voted yes). 578 579 9. Unfinished (Old) Business. 580 None. 581 582 10. New Business. 583 None. 584 585 11. City Attorney’s Report. 586 None. 587 588 12. City Manager’s Report. 589 590 Interim City Manager Mr. Myers said I think today was a great day for College Park and also for 591 all of our representatives. I think they can see how College Park, as you always say, is on the move. 592 Thank you all for coming today and I enjoyed all your comments. 593 13. Report Of Mayor And Council. 594 595 Councilman Clay said I'd like to highlight what Jackson said today. It was amazing to see that 596 we're finally there and it's taking a long time going back to 2013. It was a great day for College 597 Park. The other thing I'd like to mention is that Wayfields had their soft opening today and my 598 wife and I were there bright and early. It looks fabulous. I need to thank Ann the manager, now 599 she's regional manager, for all the efforts that she has put into bringing that store along to meet the 600 needs of the citizens. 601 Councilman Carn said I have a couple of things. Jackson, we talked about iNotify contact number 602 for residents. I did talk with Mr. Hicks about that, but I wanted to see where that was at. It's an 603 app but again I think there needs to be a hard line that residents can reach if they have a complaint. 604 Mr. Myers said Michael Hicks did come to me. He's working closely with Hugh Richardson and I 605 don't have a telephone number to give you because we didn't ever go that far in our discussion. 606 But, we're working with Hugh Richardson's office. We'll take the nighttime calls and as soon as 607 we get the numbers, you'll get the number. 608 Councilman Carn said I want to make sure someone is picking up that phone when our residents 609 call and have a concern or a complaint. The other thing and I talked to a Council Member about 610 this at one point, we are an international city. We're small but we are an international city, and a 611 lot of times the question comes down to what kind of city we are? I'm not a super high-tech guy 612 but there's a lot of data floating around the City of College Park. There's a mathematical Page 15 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 613 technological concept called predictive analytics where you use data that you have to identify the 614 likelihood of future outcomes based on your historical weekly data. The goal is to know what has 615 happened to provide the best assessment of what will happen, so that we're a little more prepared 616 in terms of how to handle things and manage things. There are tons of free data throughout this 617 city. I want us to figure out how we can take some of this stuff collectively and get some data 618 analytics to look at what we're dealing with. We're around 15,000 in population but we swell up 619 to somewhere between 150,000 to maybe 200,000 in a day. I want to get a more accurate picture 620 of what that means in terms of services. I think it'll give us a more accurate picture in terms of 621 what it means in terms of sanitation cleanup or if we're operating a department like we're only 622 15,000 people and we're flooded with a hundred thousand. We might want to tweak those 623 operations a little bit if we knew what we're dealing with. 624 Kids Fest, I think went very well. I talked to some of the Council Members and we came up with 625 a happy medium for Kids Fest; and I think we had a successful hybrid kind of a situation. We 626 saved a lot of money because those festivals were upwards of $90,000. We did this one for 627 considerably less and it was very successful. One of the things we need to work on if we do it next 628 year is outreach and communications. That's something we need to tighten up on but all in all, 629 considering we had four weeks, Mercedes and her team did a stunning job as well as today. That 630 event today folks, that's how you do an event, that's first class. We are a hospitality city and we 631 want to make sure that we roll out the red carpet when we have something going on. Congressman 632 Scott, I hope people can see how important it is for folks that have worked for decades to be 633 recognized. Some folks believe that you shouldn't do things like that and dedicate things to people 634 until they've passed on. Well, I believe that you need to give folks their flowers while they're still 635 here and recognize them while they're still here. Congressman Scott was absolutely in tears and 636 overjoyed with the amount of appreciation that we conveyed his way. It was a great day and a 637 great event. 638 Councilman Allen said let me chime in along with everybody else. The ribbon cutting of the 639 pedestrian bridge, Jackson, thank you for all your follow-through and your work on that. 640 Congressman Scott and other government officials that were there were very appreciative. It put 641 us in the limelight and we looked good. Mercedes your folks and everybody that was involved did 642 a fantastic job, so thank you for that. Kids Fest and Ignite, I give thanks to Councilman Carn 643 because you pushed for Kids Fest and it was very good. I've always said there's nothing better than 644 kids when they're laughing and giggling. We've waited forever for Eden Fresh to be here. I went 645 up there early and my wife went back later, the parking lot was full both times. I was coming in 646 tonight and the policeman out front indicated that it was totally full, so Councilman Clay you're 647 going to have another parking problem on your hands. Ann Brown and her crew have gone 648 overboard, so please go by and tell them thanks. 649 I know that the Mayor is going to talk about it, but Shavala and the Youth Council, I think it's a 650 great program where we can get youth involved. I'll let the Mayor talk about that but it's a great 651 program. If you have any kids out there you know go online, and get the young kids involved. The 652 last thing I wanted to mention, Bill Walker has been in the hospital and he's out and he's at home. 653 He's one of our chaplains for the Police Department and I just want to wish him well. I'm sure Page 16 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 654 everybody here feels the same way. He means an awful lot to this city when he comes around with 655 his bag of candy for everybody in all the different departments. 656 Councilman Gay said I have a few things. Some of you may know I had a concussion, so I'm not 657 allowed to get upset, so I’ll be very quiet. I agree with everyone today. It was an amazing day for 658 College Park, a historic day. So, congratulations Mr. Myers and all those who made it possible. 659 Also, shout out to Kids Fest, it was also an amazing day. Councilman Carn you push hard for it 660 and like Councilman Allen said it was good energy in the place. I saw a lot of elected officials out 661 and it was a good networking day and I think it was worth you being relentless for having it. 662 College Park is back and we're having our great events. National Night Out was a great event and 663 had good energy. Everybody was participating. Interim Chief McCrary, you did a great job as you 664 always do. We had Josh, our newest family member and I think he had a very successful event. I 665 also want to thank the women businesses that are here that stayed the whole night for your support 666 of doing businesses in College Park and hope that you'll have an opportunity to work with us even 667 more. So, thank you for doing business in College Park. 668 Mr. Myers, we had talked about the budget when we did the Rhodes Street bond that approximately 669 two million dollars would be for street paving and we submitted lists before Melissa the Public 670 Works Director left. We were considering a couple of streets but I'm speaking for the streets in 671 Ward 4. I know that other Council Members have their infrastructure projects, so can we get our 672 street paving consideration on the upcoming agenda, please? 673 Interim City Manager Mr. Myers said yes sir. I was working with her, but I didn't get her list before 674 she left but we did talk about it. 675 Councilman Gay said fantastic. I'll publicly tell you our number one is Lakeshore Drive. We want 676 that pretty bad to get paved. The tax exemption was a roller coaster and I just want to say publicly 677 that what asked for was that if you are exempt from Fulton County property tax, you'll be exempt 678 from the city tax. I don't know how it got to where is now, but my question is, you argued in your 679 brief that the city had discretion and that we didn't even have to go to the legislature and that the 680 Home Rule alone would have allowed us to amend our taxes. Why didn't we put the amended tax 681 on the November ballot? 682 Mr. Denmark said I don't know if you saw my email response to you late this afternoon but I can't 683 answer the question as to why it wasn't put on the ballot, but I can certainly talk about what we 684 said in the brief and maybe it's my fault that I haven't been careful enough of what I’m saying. My 685 position has always been that in order to create a home state exemption under state law, a local 686 jurisdiction like College Park needs the approval of the Georgia General Assembly, and if I haven't 687 said that enough, I’ll accept responsibility for that. If you want to create a homestead exemption 688 whether it's for seniors, disabled persons, or veterans, you need the approval of the Georgia 689 General Assembly and so in College Park, that's why we did that. 690 Councilman Gay said the second quick question. The other question is about liens. We had asked 691 you to look into if the City had the authority to suspend the five failings. Page 17 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 692 Mr. Denmark said I thought the question was whether if we're to sell the liens, would we have to 693 go through the process in terms of how we treat delinquent taxes? I don't believe we have to sell 694 them to these third parties who collect, but in terms of enforcing the delinquent taxes, yeah, we 695 have to do that. 696 Councilman Gay said at some point in the near future before we can get to 2023 to get the amended 697 exemption on the ballot, I would like for us as a body to talk about how to not sell the seniors liens 698 until we can figure out a way to safeguard them. The daily report called me, and they think that 699 you publicly said that the City has discretionary authority to not go to the general legislature. You 700 may want to clear it then. 701 Mr. Denmark said I’ll do that because I read the daily report and I don't think that guy read my 702 brief because he said some stuff. I don't know whose brief he read but it wasn't mine. 703 Councilman Gay said the next thing I want to tell everybody is that the splash pad is about to be 704 open. Michelle Johnson, Lance Terry, and Mr. Hubert the engineer, much thanks. These people 705 have worked relentlessly, and they have put up with so many of my baseless emails, but they have 706 been so respectful. There will be a groundbreaking. Power has done their thing as always. You 707 have to be careful thanking people because you'll miss people. I even called Terrence today and 708 thanked him. Thank you Council for your votes and the Mayor for your votes. 709 City Manager one of the final two things, we have lots in our Ward that have not been cleared. 710 You and I had a conference call and we talked about hiring a vendor to clear the lots. No different 711 than giving a citation to a homeowner. Can you help us with that? 712 Interim City Manager Mr. Myers said I’ll take a look at it. I've not been as close to it as some other 713 things in the past, but I knew that the Building Department used to do those cutting and hiring 714 through the Building Department 715 Councilman Gay said I think if you talk with Philip Latona, he's familiar with the process and 716 issuing a lien. We had talked about getting a quarterly financial report from City Manager and 717 we've not. I've not seen that report, could we continue to get those City Manager spending reports 718 from Finance? The final thing is that we've gotten a lot of our big items out of the way and we had 719 talked about putting 25 percent of the deposits in a community or minority bank. I believe our 720 financial advisor has been talking with some banks, I would like for us to have that conversation 721 and bring it back to Council to see how that works out. 722 Mayor Motley Broom said a lot of what I wanted to cover has been talked about. It has been an 723 amazing day in this city and thanks to the entire team and our elected officials both on the state, 724 federal and local levels who have supported us in the construction. We're finally at the construction 725 of the David Scott Pedestrian Bridge. It's a really exciting moment for the City. As well as Eden 726 Fresh, and I’ve been there twice. I saw Councilman Clay and saw some other folks and got on 727 someone's live feed on Facebook because I was so excited about it. It’s a real addition to our city 728 and a real asset to not only College Park but the entire region because it's one of the ways in which 729 we're going to attract people to be here when they talk about what the amenities are. So, it's a great 730 thing that they made this investment in our community and I would encourage everyone to get out Page 18 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 731 and support them. I will be holding a town hall next Monday from 6:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m. on August 732 22nd at our public safety complex to catch up on some issues and talk about questions that people 733 have. I want to see everybody out. I want to encourage everyone to come with questions, and we 734 will get some updates on some great things that are going on in the City. I encourage everyone to 735 attend and if you can't make that event as you know I do one-on-ones every month. This month is 736 full but my upcoming one-on-ones for the remainder of the year; are September 12th, October 18th, 737 November 22nd, and December 6th. You can call 404-669-3755 if you'd like to schedule an 738 appointment. 739 Councilman Carn said Jackson, someone touched on the senior homestead exemption. One thing 740 that's going on in the community is a bit of confusion in terms of what the income amount is. I 741 understand it's tied to social security, but I’d like you to get with the Finance who can extrapolate 742 something simple and understandable at current social security rates payments so that the 743 community understands what this means if the legislature passes it. 744 Mayor Motley Broom said that’s part of the conversation we're gonna be having on Monday and 745 so we're gonna make sure that that information is laid out and it'll be available to share. 746 Councilman Carn said is excellent, let's make sure we get that out on the website and television 747 station so people can understand and if they qualify potentially. 748 Mayor Motley Broom said we're going to do that because we can never over-communicate. I want 749 to thank a gentleman in the back of the room, Mr. Wilson, for his event yesterday. His organization 750 Foster Foundation had Campaign College Park yesterday and a lot of kids had a great time. I 751 watched them do the obstacle course, but I wasn't about to do that. I appreciate Council Members 752 Clay and Carn for coming out as well it was a lovely event. I want to thank the Police Department 753 for all their efforts on National Night Out, it was amazing. I want to also encourage everyone who's 754 got a child who is in the 8th to 12th grade living in our city limits to join our Youth Council. We 755 are looking for folks and the deadline to submit that application is September 30th. You can scan 756 the QR code to get more information because we want to make sure that we are developing the 757 next generation of leaders here in the City of College Park. As a slight point of personal privilege, 758 I was not able to make Kids Fest because I was up in Canton, Ohio representing my family. My 759 grandfather was honored with a statue in Canton as he is one of the first four players to reintegrate 760 into professional football in 1946. He and Bill Willis, Woody Strode, and Kenny Washington were 761 honored with the Ralph Haye Pioneer Award. It was a really great opportunity to connect not only 762 with those families but just to get a better sense of how he impacted the game and the civil rights 763 movement. I'm super excited that Kids Fest was a success, so sorry I missed it, but it was a pretty 764 outstanding event in and of itself. 765 766 14. Executive Session. 767 768 15. Approval of Executive Session Minutes. 769 770 ACTION: Councilman Clay moved to approve Executive Session Minutes dated August 771 15, 2022, seconded by Councilman Carn and motion carried. (All voted yes). Page 19 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022 772 773 16. Adjournment. 774 775 Mayor Motley Broom declared the Regular Session adjourned at 9:16 p.m. 776 777 778 779 780 CITY OF COLLEGE PARK 781 782 _________________________ 783 Bianca Motley Broom, Mayor 784 785 786 787 ATTEST: 788 789 790 ________________________ 791 Shavala Ames, City Clerk 792 793 794 Page 20 of 20 Regular Session 08/15/2022