Mayor and Council Meeting
Video Transcript
Duration: 12 minutes
Speakers: 5
Good evening and welcome to the City Of Roswell mayor and special call at City Council meeting of 06/30/2025.
I am Mayor Curt Wilson. I'd like to introduce my colleagues
and council members present.
Council member Sarah Beeson,
Council Member Christine Hall,
Council Member Ampro Tam Lee Hills,
Council Member David Johnson,
Council Member William Mortland,
Council Member Alan Sells.
At this point, I'll now turn the meeting over to our city administrator
city administrative officer and city administrator, mister Randy Knighton, to explain how the meetings run. Mister Knighton. Thank you, mayor, and,
glad to be back. Glad to have you back. Thank you.
In accordance with section chapter 3.7,
the city council will hold regular public meetings. Of course, the mayor can call a special called meeting,
which we are in,
this evening.
And, of course, these meetings are designed for the public to participate and speak on agenda items which constitute formal decisions by the elected body. And these items, of course, are listed on the published agenda prior to the meeting. This is a public meeting, and these items will require public hearing.
To ensure an accurate record of the meeting, any resident who is here and that would like to speak,
we ask that you complete a comment card so we can, ensure an accurate record of the meeting. And, of course, we ask that everyone,
employ the principles of mutual respect
and display the appropriate meet demeanor during the course of the meeting,
this evening evening. The mayor is the presiding officer and will will ensure,
the orderly exchange of comments, questions, and discussion leading to decisions by the elected body. And as always, we invite everyone to,
roswell365.com
for a calendar of events.
There are a number of events upcoming in the city of Roswell, which promote community,
physical activity, and leisure as we all make Roswell the number one family community in America.
Mayor Wilson. Thank you, mister Knighton. Welcome back. It is a great privilege and pleasure to have you back with us. Thank you, sir.
City clerk, miss Nancy Long, would you please read the first item on the regular agenda?
Yes, mayor. The first item is approval of a resolution for the regulation
and issuance of general obligation
bonds series 2,025
a and approval of budget amendment
b a three one four six two
zero zero
zero zero six three zero two five to set up appropriate bond proceeds.
This will be presented by Chief Financial Officer, Bill Godshall.
Thank you, Nancy.
There we go.
Good evening.
Good evening, sir.
And let the deafening noise take you over.
So a quick timeline of what brought us here today.
In November of twenty twenty two, our voters approved,
a $179,600,000
in, bond issuances
spread across three questions, public safety,
parks and recreation, and the parking deck.
We issued our first charge of bonds of 86,200,000.0,
in April of twenty twenty three,
related to all three of those questions, including the complete issuance for the parking deck.
In,
April of twenty twenty five,
this body approved,
the initiation of the second tranche to raise 93,400,000.0
related to the public safety question and the parks and recreation question.
And this tranche will satisfy the remainder of the,
questions on the ballot, back in November 2022.
So we initiated the, the bond offering process,
with help from a lot of people, including
Jim Woodward, our bond counsel, who's attending tonight in case we have any additional questions.
The bond offering started this afternoon at noon.
By 12:05, we had 14 bids submitted. We had expected eight to 10 I'm sorry. 14 bids,
submitted. We expected eight to 10. So it was excessively high interest in our in our bond offering.
We had expected a bid rate of 4.5.
We came in at 4.39%,
so much, much lower, which is a interest rate world a good a good result.
So the purpose of the meeting tonight, obviously, is to get your approval to, accept the bond proceeds and then to approve the budget amendment that will allocate the bond proceeds and
projects.
In our first slide,
we raised 54,500,000.0
par amount,
for the recreation parks, bicycle, pedestrian paths, and sidewalks.
We received a premium of 1,400,000.0,
and we are also going to recognize 1,500,000.0
of earned interest in the bond account that's accumulated since the previous issuance.
That will get us a total source of funds of 57,400,000.0,
After costs associated with capitalized interest, issuance and underwriters discount,
that will leave us with project funds of 55,300,000.0.
As you may recall,
we had a balancing of the bonds because we had some opportunities arise in public safety,
that requires to move quicker than we had originally anticipated.
So we are rebalancing the two questions with the 10,700,000
which will give us proceeds to appropriate for parks of $66,000,000
These are the projects that will be included in the budget amendment, for the funding of the $66,000,000
related to parks, recreation, bicycle and pedestrian paths and sidewalks.
For the public safety question,
we raised $38,900,000
including
as as well as a premium of $1,000,000.
APRA's, use of funds, that leaves project funds
38,400,000.0
with the rebalancing of the 10,700,000.0
that allows broad proceeds to be appropriated at 29,200,000.0
for the various projects,
which include,
these projects,
as previously approved
and allocates the actual budget amendments,
to utilize the funds raised.
Our recommendation
is to approve the resolution before the mayor and council tonight,
and I'm more than happy to take any questions.
Thank you, chief financial chief finance officer, mister Bill Gottschall. Does the council have any thoughts, comments, or questions on the matter at hand?
Thank you very much. Do any Roswell residents have any thoughts, comments, or questions on the matter at hand? Thank you very much. I'll bring it back to council.
Is there a motion to approve this item?
Motion made by council member Allen Sells. Is there a second? Second.
Seconded by council member Christine Hall.
All those in favor of approving this motion, please raise your hand. Do so by raising your
hands. Let the record state that the vote is six to zero. It is unanimous and the motion is approved. Thank you very much. Thank you, mister Godshall, very much. Thanks for your hard work and thanks for bringing in that 4.39
rate as well as 14 bidders. Well done, sir. Thank you.
City clerk Nancy Long, would you please read the next item on the regular agenda?
Item is approval for the mayor and or city administrator to award a contract with Native Instinct LLC for the water treatment plant generator
in an amount not to exceed
324,802
and 56¢.
This will be presented by director of environmental public works, Brian Watson.
Welcome, Brian. Thank you, sir. Good evening, mayor. Good evening, council.
In October of twenty two, EPW submitted a grant to FEMA and GEMA for a backup generator for a water treatment plant.
In March of twenty five, mayor and council approved receiving about $573,000,
from FEMA and GEMA.
And due to the federal regulations,
under this grant, the city was required to solicit quotes, in the open market.
The city advertised,
the generator,
on the city's website.
And on May 29, we received 11 quotes,
for the generator ranging from $313,307.25
to $565,000
with a quote submitted by Native Instinct to be the most responsive and
Staff recommends awarding the contract to Native Instinct in an amount,
$324,802.56.
And I'll take any questions. Thank you, mister Watson. Does counsel have any thoughts, comments, or questions on the matter at hand?
Do any Roswell residents have any thoughts, comments, or questions on the matter at hand?
Being, that they're not, I will ask for a motion to approve this item. Motion made by council member David Johnson. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by council member in Pro Tem Lee Hills.
All those in favor of approving this motion, please so do so by raising your hands.
Let the record show that the the vote is six to zero and in a minute unanimous, and the motion is approved. Thank you, mister Watson. Appreciate it. All your hard work. Congratulations, sir.
City Clerk Nancy Long, would you please read the next item? Or actually, the last item on the regular agenda.
Yes. This is approval for the mayor and or city administrator
to award a contract with Kendall Supply Inc to relocate AMI equipment in an amount not to exceed $99,500.
This will be presented by Brian Watson, director of environmental public works.
Thank you. Still good evening.
The Roswell Water Utility will be relocating the equipment that is currently located on the Community Circle water tank. The equipment is part of the water utility's advanced metering infrastructure system.
Staff recommends awarding the contract to Kendall Supply in an amount of $99,500
to relocate
to the existing equipment.
Staff also recommends allocating 25,500
for this project for any unforeseen circumstance.
That'll take any questions. Thank you, Brian. Does council have any thoughts, comments, or questions on the matter at hand?
Do any Roswell residents have any thoughts, comments, or questions?
Thank you very much. I'll ask for a motion. Is there a motion to approve this item?
Motion by council member David Johnson. Is there a second? Seconded by council member William Mortland.
All those in favor of approving this item, please do so by raising your hands.
Let the record show that the vote is six to zero zero and unanimous, and the motion is approved. Thank you, mister Watson. Congratulations. Thank you, sir.
Last on the agenda is the city attorney's report, chief legal officer, and city attorney David Davidson. Would you please read the item? Thank you, mayor. The only item I have is recommendation for closure to discuss personnel litigation in real estate. Thank you, mister Davidson. Do I have a motion for closure? Motion for closure by council member Sells. Is there a second? Seconded by council member Johnson. All in favor of going to closure, please do so by raising your hands. Let the record show that the vote is six to zero, unanimous,
and we go to closure. I appreciate it be very much being that there are no other items. This special call, mayor and council meeting of 06/30/2025
is adjourned. Thank you.
Thanks, Shiv.