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Minutes March 9, 2010

Accepted Minutes from Feb 9, 2010 meeting

B. Treasurer’s Report – The website bill was paid. We have a balance of 1633.16. At the next meeting we will present quotes for Liability Insurance.

C. Meeting Reports

City Council Feb 18 – no significant issues

March 4 – One Garbage Franchisee (Republic) was granted the right to have recycling pickup every other week for a 6 month trial. They will give 65 gallon recycling bins if requested. Also the paving of the city hall parking lot was approved

Planning Commission March 8 – the only issue was a workshop on the Cell Tower Issue

b) FCBOE workshop March 2 – Major topics was the budget and the Superintendent Search

D. Old Business

a) Animal Control Ordinance Update – This is on the April 6th planning commission agenda and Council April 15th agenda– the idea currently is to update the leash law to be in line with the county ordinance which does not include the voice command

b) Cell Tower – There have many discussions both public and private – David Rast and Bernie are the lead city staff on this issue. There are currently 7 areas identified by the study as needing increased coverage. Many are heavily residential and there is a need for a 6 acre site according to current zoning. They are probably looking at 2 of these sites. There does not appear to be any movement by the planning commission to move on the rezoning request from St. Pauls until the ordinance is amended and/or zoning changes are implemented. Current ideas are lowering the height max to 200 ft, mandating stealth towers, and including E911 capability on the towers. There is a joint workshop with planning and council on April 6th. Our committee will continue to watch this issue and may cement our position paper if the time seems right.

c) Budget Suggestions- City Council Retreat March 12-13 good venue for this – Encourage your members to attend part of this and Council is really going to be looking at budget issues. The agenda with time is online.

d) Membership recruitment assignment update- Monique
We have about 50% of the list updates. Please send Monique any updates you have from the lists given in February.

e) Website update – The website is functional now. There were some bugs that we hope have been corrected. Suggestions that we will follow up on are providing a small amount of webspace for our members that do not have a formal website. Gathering ads to help defray the monthly cost. It was also suggested that possibly we could be a mirror site for Council webcasts if needed. We need to look at our hosting agreement to see if that is feasible. Everyone was impressed with the redesign and think it is an excellent step forward for our organization. The address is http://www.ptcca.org Please share it with your member and friends.

E. New Business

a) FCBOE Superintendent selection process – The School Board is using the Georgia School Board Association to assist with the search. They will be holding a public hearing on March 15th at Fayette High School to gather public input on the selection criteria.

b) Mayor request that we work with DAPC, should we pursue?
We will be inviting the Development Authority to the next meeting to discuss how we can assist. The DA works almost exclusively with retail space in the city and we think they are looking for input on what to pursue.

c) Norsouth request to lift multifamily moratorium for age restricted apartments in Lexington Circle
This request did not receive favorable comment from Council. There was concern in the group about the lack of coordination with the other proposed senior housing in the city. There was also concern that the city might be short sighted in their initial opposition to this type of housing. Seniors typically shop local and are not a drain on city services.

d) Sponsor an HOA seminar-What are benefits and how do you form an HOA? In cooperation with Weismann, Nowac, Curry and Wilco P.C.
This idea received favorable response from the group and we decided to tentatively plan an event for September. We will look for a venue to hold it and the Towne Club was mentioned. We will try to also include an accountant and some of the management companies in PTC as well as the lawyer mentioned above. More planning will be done in the next couple of months.

e) PTC Tourism Association director resignation
There was spirited discussion on the Tourism Association and many suggestions were brought up. We did not have a good handle on the organization and how it functions in relation to the city. We will be pursuing this knowledge in the future. We discussed that possibly a name change would help to clarify the mission such as Visitor and Meetings Association. Also discussed was a possible linkage with the Development Authity as there may be some overlap in the mission. More on this in future meetings

F. Other

1. We had an inquiry from a 7 home subdivision if they could join since our bylaws state our members must have 12 households. The Board will researcht a bylaw amendment which addresses this type of situation.

2. The Google Fiber survey was discussed and Beth will contact Matt Robinson to lend our organization's support to the survey.

3. A question was raised about the fate of the Recycling Center and Beth will contact AL Yougel to find out the plans.