Committees of Council Meeting
Video Transcript
Duration: 14 minutes
Speakers: 7
2025.
The elected body present, council member,
Christine Hall, council member, Alan Sells,
council member, David Johnson, council member,
Sarah Beeson, council member, Gee Wee Hills,
Council member,
William Morthland.
I'm Randy Knighton, the chief administrative officer along with chief legal counsel,
David Davidson, and
deputy city clerk, and,
assistant to the council,
Michelle Miller. Purpose of committee meetings are for city departments to convey information
to the mayor and city council and discuss initiatives listed on the published agendas
and provide updates of vital information
essential for the operation of city government.
The,
committee consists of the council and mayor, as well as the city administrator who serves as chair of committee meetings. And this is a public meeting, not a public hearing.
Therefore, while we certainly welcome members of the public and the viewing audience,
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The first item on the agenda is the approval of the committee meeting minutes for 07/29/2025.
We'll entertain a motion motion by council member Hill, second by council member Beeson. Further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor? Alright. That passes unanimously. Thank you very much.
On our regular agenda,
item number two as listed,
Consideration of the final plat for Little Lakes Estates,
two zero two five two one two one,
presented by
Angela Rambo.
Do I see Angela?
Do I see the community development department?
Alright. Alright.
Alright. I'll tell you what with alright.
With,
what we'll do with the committee's,
consent,
we'll move to item number three.
Item number three, consideration
for the approval and budget authorization
from mayor and council to apply
for the Georgia Council for the Arts Facilities Grant
that will be presented by, Stephen Malone, director of recreation parks, historic and cultural affairs.
Good evening. This opportunity is a grant that's being, hosted to the Georgia Council for the Arts.
We are proposing that this grant, which is a one to one match,
go towards the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.
We currently have 96
dimmers located within that cultural arts center,
that are beginning to fail and become inoperable. They are the original,
dimmer switches that came with the sensor when it was developed.
And unfortunately,
we've run into some challenges when it comes to repairing and replacing,
the current
dimmers and the company that used to service and manufacture the product
is no longer in business, and therefore, we are running into some challenges even just with keeping
it ongoing and operable.
So we are proposing
a, $80,000
project. It would be a one to one match that'd be 40,000
from the Georgia Council for the Arts grant with a 40,000
matching from the city's grant contingency
fund.
This is a grant that we have had success
in receiving approval from at least in the last
two out of three years. This was the same grant opportunity in which we were able to escalate
our AV and lighting,
kind of retrofit at the Cultural Arts Center. And we were able to take it from a three year phased approach to a two year,
implementation because of this specific grant that we were awarded, I think, in 2022
and 2024.
So we're gonna go after it again. We hope that the success that we've had in the past is actually gonna help us,
as we move forward with this grant request.
Happy to answer any questions.
Alright. For illustrative
purposes,
we'll
we'll slide through, no pun intended, slide through the slide deck.
So again, this is all the details that we just went over. This gives you a
little bit of the description. This is all the information,
within the grant itself.
Here's the financial commitment that we discussed, $80,000 project, 40,000 for the grant, 40,000 for the match out of the grant contingency fund. Here's just a visual
just to show you right now the, dimmers and the panel on which it's situated in sits in a,
a very kind of one of our outbuildings,
which has poorly maintained as far as, like, the airflow in that. So we're trying to move it inside, which will be helpful in sustaining it long term. Just to give you a little bit of a visual.
Alright. Thank you, mister Malone. Do we have any questions or comments from,
the council committee?
Alright. Seeing none, we'll entertain a motion.
Motion by council member Hills, second by council member Beeson. Any further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor?
Alright. Thank you. We'll move back to item number two. Chief legal counsel David Davidson will present the item.
Consideration of the final plat, Little Lake Estates.
He said he wanted to present it. No. I thought I would.
I know. Alright? Consideration
of the final plat for Little Lake Estates, 20252121
present presented by our chief legal counsel, mister David Davidson. You should have a illustration in your packet with the details of the proposal.
Yes. This is a final plat, which means the construction of the roads and the infrastructure for which the city will,
be responsible for are included on the plat.
The approvals from staff are included in your packet on pages
packet page
20 through 22.
There's some conditions in there that need that will
obviously have to be met. But with those conditions, we recommend approval
to move it to council. Alright.
Thank you, mister Davidson. Any questions or comments from council? Yes. Council member
Hall.
Thank you, mister Naim.
My question is regarding the multiuse trail that's been installed in front of this property. Will that multiuse trail,
stay in place as we go through the Pine Pinegrove Road corridor improvement project?
That's a good question.
In other words, will it stay in place What before the or during the construction of the of the multi of the multi use trail?
My question is k. Knowing that we had this project,
the Pinegrove Road project that typically
a builder would put funds into the sidewalk fund. And in this case,
they built a multiuse trail, and there's some topography
things. And I just wanna find out
would like to know if
it's going to stay there or if it's gonna have to be
torn up. Typically, it would be integrated into the larger project, but we'll make sure we have clarity prior to coming to council.
But, very good point to be made. I wanna make sure that it's, incorporates the future
prospects of the multi use trail on Pine Creek. Okay? Thank you. And dedicated right away as well if you need it.
Alright. Thank you. Any other questions? Yes. Council member Beeson.
This might be a question for if this comes to council.
Is there any shared amenities throughout this property? Because I'm not seeing anything that an HOA would control. So will there be an HOA as part of this plat?
And it looks like there's eight
lots.
Yes.
So there are nine lots with Lot 9 being the common area.
I don't think there's any amenities.
It looks like that is going to be the
just this common area. It's just a so we don't know if there's plans for that common area then at this time. Right. Okay.
So that's gonna be the,
detention.
So You said it's gonna be
detention. Jamie. I'm really gonna throw you into this because you just came in hot.
Given that it's a eight lot property and there is the ninth area or the ninth,
parcel is gonna be allocated towards green space.
Mister Davidson's guess, but it's gonna be allocated to detention. If that is the case, do they have an HOA that stipulates that that is shared,
amenity amongst all eight property owners for the maintenance of that property? I just wanna make sure that's not falling back on the responsibility of the city to enforce where whoever the adjacent homeowners are. I cannot answer that question right now. That's fine. So it might be the question for the applicant whenever they come in, I guess, for the final plat approval.
Mister Knighton, may I weigh in on that? Sure. Yes. Council member, Hill. Thank you, sir. I remember us talking about this early on when they came and presented, and they've talked about an HOA for that, specifically. Okay.
I think they started with 11 lots and couldn't make it work with what we what we're requiring out of it, if I'm not mistaken. Yes. And I believe they came back. There was a denial and then a lot frontage reduction was Correct.
So they came back with the eight. But
I'm relying on memory and not facts. So but I remember an HOA being discussed because of that common area. Correct.
But, yes, if we could add some
Yes. I will the official ruling on that.
On that, we don't generally
demand it or require it, but I can get clarification. Yeah. I I just say speaking from experience with a a
living in an HOA where HOA is not necessarily wanna take responsibility for shared spaces and wanting to put it instead on adjacent homeowners or it falls to whoever is gonna have the nuisance impact the most,
making sure that it's a shared responsibility of the HOA to maintain that space, especially if it's a smaller homeowners association.
And then making sure that if it is a detention area that that's
it's allocated as such or at least we know what the green space is for that area. Yeah. It is underground detention, but I what I'm hearing you say is you wanna ensure that should the HOA not be present at a later time, you wanna make sure that the homeowners are
also included. That they're evenly dividing the responsibility of the detention. Because otherwise, if the detention fails or there's an HOA, like, they lapse their bylaws and the HOA falls apart,
whatever the reason is, I wanna make sure that those eight homeowners are equally responsible for that shared detention as opposed to what just falling on whoever the adjacent property owners. I will check that out. Thank you.
That's it on my end. I am about 95%
sure that we require them to have their have it in their covenants,
that they
will maintain it.
Perfect. Just making sure. And I say this as somebody who my neighborhood predates city of Roswell involvement.
We are good old grandfathered in from Fulton County. But, yes, wanting to make sure that that is not the case moving forward, especially for these smaller neighborhoods where you're having a lot of cost incurred across just a few homeowners. And I understand that you want us to go beyond the covenants and make sure that it's evenly divided should the HOA not exist,
or would that satisfy your I believe what mister Davidson is saying is that it should be satisfied within the city. Satisfied. Okay. That's the normal course that we require. Perfect. Just making sure. Thank you. I'm good. Very much. Thank you. Any other questions or comments regarding this item?
None. All in favor?
Motion. I'm sorry. Motion. Motion by council member Johnson. Second by council member Hills. Any further discussion?
Seeing none. All in favor?
Alright. That passes unanimously.
Thank you very much.
Relatively short meeting this evening.
We hope everybody has a wonderful,
evening as well. And for those in the viewing audience, I would,
direct you to, last night's council meeting as well as last,
two weeks ago, last committee meeting. If you want to,
have a,
an extensive presentation on the city's finances, financial position,
and economic development plans as well. Alright?
With that, seeing no further business,
we'll entertain a motion of adjournment. Motion by Councilmember Johnson, second by Councilmember Beeson. Any further comments or questions?
All in favor? Thank you. Passes unanimously.