Columbus, Georgia

Georgia's First Consolidated Government

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Columbus, Georgia, 31902-1340
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Council Members

Pre-Council Briefing

Minutes

July 11, 2006



Present: Mayor Bob Poydasheff and Mayor Pro Tem Jack Rodgers. Councilors Nathan

Suber, Wayne Anthony, Charles McDaniel, Berry H. Henderson, Evelyn Woodson,

Evelyn Turner Pugh and Gary Allen were present. Also present were City Manager

Isaiah Hugley, Deputy City Manager Lisa Goodwin, Assistant City Attorney Jamie

Deloach, Chief Administrator Liz Turner, and Recording Secretary Tameka J.

Colbert.



Others Present: Angela Cole and Rufus Riggs.



Absent: Glenn Davis and Julius Hunter, Jr.



Location: Council Chambers Conference Room, on the Plaza level of the

Government Center.



Meeting began at 8:25 a.m.



Cherokee Avenue:

City Manager Hugley began the meeting by distributing and reading from a

handout titled ?Cherokee Avenue Safety Improvement Concerns?. (A copy was

filed here in the office and attached for the records). After reading the

handout, City Manager Hugley said he would like to recommend that Cherokee

Avenue be resurfaced immediately after the open cuts are taken care of. He

said his recommendation is to resurface it for four lanes with rumble strips in

areas where it may be necessary. City Manager Hugley informed the Council that

he had spoken with Ron Hamlett and also the Chief of Police; the Chief assured

that he was in full support of the four lanes with zero tolerance for

speeding. City Manager Hugley stated he will contact all law enforcement

agencies including the Marshal?s and Sheriff?s Office to run radar and have

zero tolerance for speeding along Cherokee Avenue.



Councilor McDaniel said the problem is speeding and at the curve, where the

Country Club entrance is located, is where most of the car accidents occur.

Councilor McDaniel said he agrees that there should be rumble strips placed in

that area or either a caution light. City Manager Hugley said we would do this

and consider it an interim solution and monitor it for the next year to see how

it works. He said if there is no problem with what he has recommended it will

be brought back next week with a resolution. He also said we want the record to

reflect that a concern was expressed by citizens along that area and the

Council has taken some action to deal with the safety concerns.



UGA Pay Plan:

City Manager Hugley said we have a schedule for department implementation and

we will provide copies of the schedule for all Councilors. City Manager Hugley

informed the Council that the following departments would receive the pay

increase according to the UGA pay plan as follows: July 14, 2006 - Marshal,

Coroner, Metra and Civic Center

July 28, 2006 - Police, Fire, Elections, Tax Assessor, Community Reinvestment,

MCP, Engineering and Planning



Mayor Pro-Tem Rodgers asked City Manager Hugley how would the issues concerning

the appeals process be resolved. City Manager Hugley informed Mayor Pro-Tem

Rodgers that he had spoken with Dr. Condry in terms of moving the appeals

process up and he did not agree to move the appeals process up. Mayor Pro-Tem

Rodgers said from his understanding any employee with any kind of issue should

go through their supervisors and be heard. City Manager Hugley said that is

correct, all department heads were contacted after the last meeting and were

advised to meet with their employees and brief them on the UGA Plan and

implementation, as well as the appeals process.



Animal Shelter (PAWS):

Mr. Rufus Riggs said in 1999 there was a tax referendum where the community

voted to allocate 2 million dollars to an animal shelter. He said a group of

concerned people felt that we needed to enhance and improve the quality of

service; the group of people wanted to add additional funds and PAWS stepped

forward to do it. Mr. Riggs said the initial plan was to build a facility that

would house both PAWS and the City. He said we went back looked at it and

decided that we would build 2 facilities, PAWS would have a facility and the

City would have a facility. He then said, we will use the money that we have

allocated to build city facilities and PAWS has acquired a little over 11 acres

of land on Milgen Road adjacent to Cooper Creek Park. Mr. Riggs said in this

memorandum of understanding, PAWS will convey some of the property that they

acquired to build a city facility and a parking lot and also provide an

easement with ingress and egress. He said the two would work together to

improve the quality of services that we provide and to decrease the number of

animals that are killed each year. He said the MOU that you will receive next

week will point out our duties, how we will formulate groups for operation such

as: ways to settle disputes, agreements on maintenance of the grounds and the

building and the length of the agreement.







Meeting adjourned at 9:01 A.M.







___________________________

Tameka J. Colbert

Recording Secretary

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