BROADCAST VIA FACEBOOK LIVE SITE: CITY OF HIAWASSEE

OPEN TO PUBLIC – June 4th, 2024 6 PM

Hiawassee City Hall 50 River Street

CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA

1. Call to Order

1.1 Invocation – Amy Barrett

1.2 Pledge of Allegiance

1.3 Mayor’s Introductions of Guests and Announcements

1.4 Approve the Agenda as distributed

2. Approval of Consent Agenda:

2.1 Minutes from May 7th City Council Meeting

2.2 Minutes from May 16th Special Called Meeting

2.3 Minutes from the May 22nd, Special Called Meeting

2.4 Minutes from May 28th Budget Public Hearing

2.5 Minutes from May 28th Work Session

2.6 Financials for April 2024

3. First Reading/Formal Approval of Insurance Company License Fee ordinance for 2024

4. First Reading of the amendment to the Sign Ordinance (Temporary Signage/Banners)

5. Approval of Budgets

5.1 Amendments to Fiscal Year 2023-2024

5.2 Fiscal Year 2024-2025

6. Approval of paving work at the Water/Sewer Plant-Fortner Paving $80,000

7. Approval of the Utility Adjustment policy

8. Approval of Service Line Inventory Project – Michael Denton $55,000

9. Approval of Big Bear Package Store license

10. Executive Session

11. Adjournment

CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES 

The City of Hiawassee June Council meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm on June 4^th, 2024, in Council Chambers by Mayor Liz Ordiales.  The meeting was open to the public and broadcast over FaceBook Live.

Present in addition to the Mayor, were Council members Jonathan Wilson, Patsy Owens, Amy Barrett, Nancy Noblet, and Jay Chastain.  Staff present were Economic Development Director Denise McKay, Police Chief Jeremy Parker, Court Clerk Sheryl Branson and City Clerk Bonnie Kendrick.

The Invocation was given by Council member Amy Barrett and was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mayor Ordiales stated that the agenda needed to be amended to remove the approval of the Utility Policy, add the approval of the minutes from the May 1st, 2024 City Council/DDA retreat to the consent agenda, and add the acceptance of the resignation of Mayor Ordiales effective June 14, 2024.

Motion to approve the agenda as amended was made by Council member Amy Barrett, seconded by Council member Nancy Noblet with all present in favor.

Council member Amy Barrett requested the removal of consent agenda 2.4 and 2.5 – the May 28th Budget Public Hearing and the May 28th Council Work session minutes respectively from the Consent agenda.  Motion to approve the consent agenda as amended, which consisted of the minutes from May 1, 2024 Council DDA retreat, May 7th City Council Meeting, minutes from May 16th Special Called Meeting. minutes from the May 22nd, Special Called Meeting and the April Financials was made by Council member Nancy Noblet, seconded by Council member Patsy Owens with all in favor.  The May 28th Budget Public Hearing and the May 28th Council Work Session Minutes were amended to add the times each began and when the public hearing ended.  Motion to approve the minutes with those edits was made by Council member Amy Barrett, seconded by Council member Patsy Owens with all in favor.

The approval of the Insurance Company License Fee ordinance for 2024 was made by Council member Jay Chastain, seconded by Council member Amy Barrett with all in favor.  As all Council members were present and in agreement, the ordinance passed in one reading.

The motion to approve the first Reading of the amendment to the Sign Ordinance (Temporary Signage/Banners) was made by Council member Patsy Owens, seconded by Council member Amy Barrett, with all in favor.

Motion to approve the amendments to Fiscal Year 2023-2024 budget was made by Council member Jonathan Wilson, seconded by Council member Patsy Owens with all in favor.

Motion to approve the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget was made by Council member Jonathan Wilson, seconded by Council member Patsy Owens with all in favor.

Motion to approval of paving work at the Water/Sewer Plant to Fortner Paving for $80,000 was made by Council member Nancy Noblet, seconded by Council member Jay Chastain with all in favor.

Motion to approve the adjustment to the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds utility bill to remove $39,500.00 for sewer charges as well as the penalties on the sewer to day – this will cover through the June bill (for May usage) for $48,000 was made by Council member Patsy Owen, seconded by Council member Jay Chastain with all in favor.

Motion to approve the Service Line Inventory Project to Michael Denton for approximately $55,000 was made by Council member Nancy Noblet, seconded by Council member Jonathan Wilson with all in favor.

Motion to approve the Big Bear Package Store license was made by Council member Jonathan Wilson, seconded by Council member Jay Chastain with all in favor.

Motion to accept Mayor Ordiales’ resignation was made by Council member Jay Chastain, seconded by Council member Amy Barrett with all in favor.

Council member Patsy Owens asked to speak and stated that she had enjoyed her time working with Mayor Liz over the past 7 years and said that she felt Liz had done a great job and the City was in a much better state than when she started.  Mayor Liz thanked Council member Owens for her comments.

There being no need for executive session, motion to adjourn was made by Council member Nancy Noblet, seconded by Council member Jay Chastain with all in favor.  Meeting adjourned at 6:09pm.