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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCalled Commission Meeting May 29, 2018 CALLED MEETING COMMISSION CHAMBER May 29, 2018 Augusta Richmond County Commission convened at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2018, the Honorable Hardie Davis, Jr., Mayor, presiding. PRESENT: Hons. Jefferson, Guilfoyle, Sias, Frantom, M. Williams, Davis, Fennoy, D. Williams, Hasan and Smith, members of Augusta Richmond County Commission. The Mayor Pro Tem called the meeting to order. 1. LEGAL MEETING A. Pending and potential litigation B. Real estate C. Personnel Mr. MacKenzie: -- motion to go into an executive session to discuss pending and potential litigation, real estate and personnel. Mr. Hasan: So move. Ms. Davis: We have a motion and a second. Please vote. Mr. Fennoy and Mr. Smith out. Motion carries 8-0. \[EXECUTIVE SESSION\] Mr. Mayor: All right. We’ll call this meeting back to order. The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. 2. Motion to authorize execution by the Mayor of the affidavit of compliance with Georgia’s Open Meeting Act. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to execute the closed meeting affidavit. Mr. D. Williams: So move. Mr. Fennoy: Second. Mr. Mayor: Voting. Happy Tuesday to everybody. Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie for a motion. 1 Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to approve a resolution to amend the 2018 Reynolds Street Parking Deck annual plan. Ms. Davis: So move. Mr. Fennoy: Second. Mr. Mayor: A motion and a proper second. Voting. Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: Mr. McDowell, can you come and sit next to Attorney MacKenzie? Yeah, you might need your notebook, just in case. And a calculator and a check book, no debit card. The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to approve the settlement of property tax appeal of COFO Properties, LLC for 2016 with the value of the appraised, value of the property being the same for tax years 2016, 2017 and 2018 with the interest and fees associated with the payment of taxes being refunded to the taxpayer in the amount of $3,881.00. Mr. Fennoy: So move. Mr. Sias: Second. Mr. Mayor: I’ve got a motion with a proper second. Voting. While you’re voting on that I want to draw everybody’s attention on the dias to Ft. Gordon briefing and windshield tour. This is a communication that came out several weeks ago but this is just a reminder that on Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m. to 1 in Darling Hall we’ve been invited by Colonel Turner and Command Sergeant Major Bryant from the Garrison Command team to come and get an updated briefing on what’s happening at Gordon. It’s an extremely important meeting for us to be a part of. If you have not, let Ms. Bonner know, please let Ms. Bonner know today of your attendance. Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to authorize the settlement of all claims of Mayer Electric Company in the aggregate amount of $55,500 associated with a sewer backup at 1259 Augusta West Parkway. Mr. Fennoy: So move. Mr. Sias: Second. Mr. Mayor: A motion and a second. Voting. 2 Motion carries 10-0. Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes Attorney MacKenzie. Mr. MacKenzie: That’s all I have. Mr. Mayor: All right, very well. Committee meetings. \[Public Services, Public Safety and a portion of Administrative Services Committees are held\] Mr. Mayor: We’re going to resume our legal meeting, our special called meeting that we had earlier, and address this one matter that is before us. What I’d like to do, Administrator Jackson, is you have the motion in front of you. I want you to articulate this motion just from the standpoint of the meeting that we had there and then we’ll take action on it, okay? Ms. Jackson: All right, I’ll review it for you and then be available to respond to any questions. This motion would authorize the Commission in connection with the Depot project to enter into an installment purchase agreement with the DDA of approximately $8.2 million dollars and an intergovernmental agreement or IGA for additional support of the project for a combined support level of $14 million dollars with the grant agreement between the DDA and Augusta Developers, LLC containing such reasonable due diligence mutually agreeable to Augusta, Georgia and Augusta Developers, LLC and provided to the Commission. This is to place us in a position where for the first $8.2 million dollars we would be in a position of ownership of those assets so that we would have options to pay that off through means other than our general fund. For the remaining $5.8 million dollars those would be obligations to our general fund, however, we expect that the project would generate enough revenue annually in order to make those debt service payments if not entirely at least as close to those debt service payments. I would estimate that our out-of-pocket expense would be a maximum of $100,000 that would have to come from our general fund as compared to much larger numbers that we were discussing earlier. This would also involve the DDA owning a portion of the project, i.e. being a public ownership so we’re much more comfortable, I think, with this deal. The other parties have seen this language and have agreed to it. In follow up to this obviously we would have to have a more detailed agreement to go with that but both parties understand that over the next several days we would have that more detailed discussion so that we would have the specific language of an IGA that is referenced here. st Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the 1. Mr. Fennoy: I’d like to make a motion to approve. Ms. Davis: Second. Mr. Mayor: I’ve got a motion and a proper second. Voting. Motion carries 10-0. 3 Mr. Guilfoyle: Mr. Mayor. th Mr. Mayor: The Chair recognizes the commissioner from the 8. State your inquiry. Mr. Guilfoyle: I would like to thank you as well as the colleagues up here, a special thanks to our Administrator, our Finance staff, Attorney Jim Plunkett, Margaret Woodard with the DDA and her board members as well. Thank you as well. Thank you. Mr. Mayor: Thank you. All right, the Chair yields to the Chairman of Administrative Services. \[MEETING ADJOURNED\] Lena J. Bonner Clerk of Commission CERTIFICATION: I, Lena J. Bonner, Clerk of Commission, hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Called Meeting of the Augusta Richmond County Commission held on May 29, 2018. ________________________ Clerk of Commission 4