MINUTES

WORK SESSION MEETING OF THE PERRY CITY COUNCIL

May 06, 2008

5:00 P.M

 

  1. Call to Order:  Mayor James Worrall, Presiding Officer called to order the work session meeting held May 06, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

 

  1. Roll:

 

Elected Officials Present:  Mayor James Worrall, Presiding Officer.  Council Members Joe Kusar, Willie King, James Moore and Riley Hunt.

 

Elected Official Absent:  Mayor Pro-Tempore Phyllis Bynum-Grace.

 

Staff: City Manager Lee Gilmour. Departmental Staffing:  Brenda King - Director of Administration, Mike Beecham - Director of Community Development, George Potter – Director of Public Safety, Deputy Chief Joel Gray - Fire Department, and Joni Ary - Recording Secretary.

 

Guests:  None.

 

Press:   Ms. Charlotte Perkins - Houston Home Journal and Natasha Smith –

Macon Telegraph.

 

3.         Items of Review/Discussion:  Mayor James Worrall.

 

3a.       Proposed Ordinance for implementing Impact Fees.  City Manager Lee Gilmour reviewed the proposed ordinance for implementing Impact Fees for the City of Perry.  City Manager Lee Gilmour started off by stating that Impact Fees is not a tax, Impact Fees are a flat amount.  City Manager Lee Gilmour reviews the system improvements information was as follows:

·        Fire Station No. 2- total costs $1.3 million with impact fees $655,000. 

·        Fire Station No. 3 – total costs $1.3 million with impact fees $655,000.

·        Passive Park – total costs $1.8 million with impact fees $905,000.

Total development Impact Fee District Collection - $2,215,000.

 

Development Impact Fees would be as followed:

·        Single Family Residential – Site built ($964.00/unit cost). Manufactured ($482.00/unit cost).

·        Commercial, Institutional (per square foot) - $0.41/unit cost.

·        Industrial (per square foot) - $0.01/unit cost.

 

                        The money collected for Impact Fees would be placed in a separate bank account from all other monies. Impact Fees would be collected for only ten (10) years, if we pass the ten (10) year mark, then it would have to come back to Council.  Any credits/exemptions/refunds would have to be approved by Council.  If a building permit is rescinded or in the event development construction is otherwise denied, the City shall retain three (3) percent of the fee paid as an administrative fee and shall refund ninety-seven (97) percent of the development impact fee.  Mike Beecham – Director of Community Development outlined the comparison of the proposed Impact Fee Ordinance with the surrounding counties: Roswell County, Henry County, Walton County, Fayetteville, and Alpharetta. The findings were that in general all of the ordinances were very similar.  City Manager Lee Gilmour stated that if Council concurs with the suggested proposed impact fee ordinance, the next step would be to have two (2) public hearings for the ordinance with Council voting on the ordinance at the second public hearing.  The first proposed public hearing would be at City Council’s June 3rd meeting and the second public hearing on Jun17th.  Council concurred unanimously with proposed impact fee ordinance with the incorporation of what was suggested and presented included into the ordinance to present to Council for consideration of an ordinance. 

 

3b.       Consider program to designate local hero sites. City Manager Lee Gilmour presented for consideration a program to designate local hero sites.  The recommendation would be to designate sites with sign that highlights the achievements of the local hero’s.  City Manager Lee Gilmour presented a local hero Al Thornton who grew up in Perry who became a professional basketball player.  These local heroes’s would be role models for the City of Perry.  The people can be nominated by anyone and presented to Council for approval.  The people nominated have to be a person who has lived or still lives in the City, a person who works in Perry, an organization or institution. Council concurred unanimously with procedures to prepare outline for review.   

 

3c.       Report to Council relative to Old Field Foundation.  City Manager Lee Gilmour presented to recommendation relative to the Old Field Foundation are as follows: Continue with the housing survey authorized by the Council.  Authorize contracting with the Middle Georgia RDC to conduct a historic survey in those communities identified by the Foundation. Authorize a street lighting survey of the communities identified by the Foundation and improve according to City policy if needed. Direct that any other presentation by the Foundation proceed through the appropriate Council committee’s.  Council concurred unanimously with the recommendations of the Administration.

 

Item not listed on the agenda:

·        City Manager Lee Gilmour presented to Council for review the information about fuel consumption in efforts to reduce fuel usage and the cost incurred by the City of Perry’s Fleet.  City Manager Lee Gilmour stated that this information is for Council to consider implementing a fuel consumption reduction plan.  This information would come back before Council before implementing a fuel consumption reduction plan.

 

4.         Other items as needed: 

 

5.         Adjournment.  There being no further business to come before the Council Mayor James Worrall adjourned the meeting at 6:00 p.m.