Milton’s City Council is set to recognize outstanding young artists as well as vote on a measure aimed at protecting horses and the barns they call home from explosive fireworks when it next convenes on Monday night.

This Regular Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in City Hall’s Council Chambers (2006 Heritage Walk). All are welcome to attend in-person or watch online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46T1DICSi8A.

As is customary, this meeting’s agenda is made up of distinct sections that have their own ground rules. They are:

• The CONSENT AGENDA, which is the place for routine items that the Council considers collectively (so a single vote to covers all items)
• REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS, the home for proclamations and presentations during which the Council can offer guidance but cannot cast votes
• PUBLIC HEARING, a part of the agenda that features special opportunities for public comment (followed by a vote on the item)
• UNFINISHED BUSINESS, which is where you’ll find items that have appeared on past Council agenda under First Presentation that can now be decisively voted upon
• NEW BUSINESS, for items appearing on an agenda for the first time that can be discussed and voted on conclusively

Below are summaries of every item on the June 16 meeting agenda.

• Approval of the June 2, 2025, Regular City Council Meeting Minutes.

  This is to approve the “minutes,” or official written record, from when the City Council last convened on June 2. During that Regular Meeting, Fire Chief Gabe Benmoussa highlighted several of his department’s impressive achievements last year, including a significant 1-minute reduction in average response time and astounding 153% increase in cardiac survivability rates. The Council also approved two text amendments to the City Code, one requiring those seeking to have an Assembly All/Event Facility to get a Use Permit for all traditional zoning districts and the other a housekeeping matter to clean-up references to stormwater detention in six parts of the Unified Development Code. You can read a recap of this meeting at https://www.miltonga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/3007/1351/.

   

• Approval of a Services Agreement with Avalon Motor Coaches, LLC to Provide Bus Transportation for Milton Summer Camp Field Trips.

  Camp Compass and Camp Joyful Soles – both run directly through the City’s Parks and Recreation Department – offer weekly field trips to enhance campers’ experience. This is an agreement for Avalon Motor Coaches to bus campers and staff to local destinations.

   

• Approval of a Recreation Provider Agreement Between the City of Milton and Music in the Beat Hive, LLC to Provide Recreational Music Classes for Toddlers.

  With approval of this agreement, Music in the Beat Hive will offer music classes to children from ages 0 to 5 at Milton facilities as the City’s newest recreational program partner. Music in the Beat Hive instructors will lead participants while focusing on simple songs, movement, and hands-on instruments.  

   

• Approval of a Recreation Provider Agreement Between the City of Milton and Rush Union Soccer to Provide Recreational Adult Soccer Programming.

  Rush Union Soccer has partnered with the Parks and Recreation Department to run an adult soccer league out of Legacy Park, the City’s athletic facility off Cox Road. Approval of this item will continue that relationship.

   

• Approval of a Recreation Provider Agreement Between the City of Milton and Newtown Recreation, Inc. dba North Georgia Recreation to Provide Youth Boys Lacrosse Programming.

  This agreement is for North Georgia Recreation to continue providing boys lacrosse programming – including camps, leagues, clinics, and tournaments – as a City partner. Participants would continue to play on fields at Bell Memorial Park, Legacy Park, and the campuses of Fulton County schools where the City has an established agreement.

   

• Approval of a Recreation Provider Agreement Between the City of Milton and Eagle Stix Atlanta, LLC. to Provide Youth Girls Lacrosse Programming.

  Eagle Stix is a girls lacrosse program with a long history in Milton and partnership with the City. This agreement would continue that relationship, with Eagle Stix practicing, playing, and hosting clinics and tournaments out of Bell Memorial Park, Legacy Park, and affiliated Fulton County school fields.

   

• Approval of a Professional Services Agreement between the City of Milton and TerraMark Land Surveying, Inc. for Survey Services to Support Replacement of a Box Culvert and Downstream Headwall at Providence Lake Drive.

  With approval of this agreement, workers from TerraMark Land Surveying will conduct surveying to support the development of construction plans for needed repairs of a box culvert along Providence Lake Drive that discharges into Providence Lake.

   

• Approval of a Construction Services Agreement between the City of Milton and Lagniappe Development Company for the Heritage Walk Speed Table Construction.

  This is an agreement for crews from Lagniappe Development Company to install traffic calming and pedestrian-focused safety improvements along Heritage Walk, including a new speed table and raised crosswalk near Parkstead Lane, a new speed table (without a crosswalk) between Crabapple Road and the Crabapple Market parking deck entrance, as well as the removal and replacement of a speed table and raised crosswalk near the Market District. A new sidewalk along Cortland Road, connecting to Heritage Walk, would be installed as part of this same project.

   

• Approval of Subdivision Plats & Revisions. 

These minor plats, if approved, would:

• Split a 13.92-acre property off Arnold Mill Road, just south of Sweetapple Road, into four lots (each of which is between 3.03 and 4.81 acres in size)
• Combine two existing lots also along Arnold Mill Road, this one further north just past Holly Road, into a single 19.02-acre parcel
• Enlarge a lot along Freemanville Road, between Providence Road and Hipworth Road, so that it is 22.97 acres
• Combine two parcels just north of that along Freemanville Road into a single 10.66-acre lot
• Increase the size of a lot in the Investors subdivision off Providence Road to 12.07 acres
• Divide a 21.46-acre lot off Rowe Road in northwest Milton into three large lots ranging in size from 5.87 to 8.33 acres

   

  REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Recognition of Milton Arts Council Scholarship Award Recipients.

The Milton Arts Council is a non-profit dedicated to providing opportunities and advocacy for local artists, as well as showcasing their talents around the city. Connecting and supporting young artists is part of that mission, and includes the awarding of the Hogan Family Arts Scholarships. These are given annually to select high school seniors who live or go to school in Milton and plan to major in an area of the arts at an accredited college or university. On Monday, Mayor Jamison will join Milton Arts Council leaders in bestowing such scholarships to recent high school graduates.

• Proclamation Recognizing Milton Historical Society Friends.

  Volunteers from the Milton Historical Society have worked untold hours to preserve our area’s history as well as share foundational information with their fellow citizens. (Those wishing to learn about and connect with this non-profit organization can do so at https://www.miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia.org/.) This proclamation is an opportunity to recognize key accomplishments and people tied to this ongoing enterprise.

   

• Discussion of changes to UDC Figure 10.7.3.A (Milton Trail Blueprint).

  For the past year-and-a-half, the Milton Trails Advisory Committee (MTAC) has convened with a focus on considering revisions to the City’s Trail Plan Blueprint. Citizens have participated as well by offering their own suggestions for how Milton’s trails network might be improved. This Blueprint, which has been updated twice previously, serves as an aspirational guide to where future related capital projects could be. It can also guide private developers to require them to build wider sidewalk/multi-use paths for properties along one of the trail segments.

  During Monday’s presentation, Public Works staff will present on MTAC’s proposed updated Milton Trail Blueprint. The Mayor and Councilmembers can ask questions and offer opinions on this proposal, though they can’t vote on the Blueprint’s inclusion in the Unified Development Code until a future meeting.

   

  PUBLIC HEARING

• Consideration of the Issuance of an Alcohol Beverage License to Red and Green LLC dba Red Chillez Indian Cuisine, 610 North Main Street, Suite 100, Milton, Georgia 30004

  This is a request for an alcohol beverage license for the new owners of an Indian restaurant (now named Red Chillez) in Watercrest Village off Highway 9. The “public hearing” on this item will be immediately followed by a Council vote on whether or not to grant this establishment’s owners an alcohol beverage license.

   

  UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Consideration of an Ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton, Georgia, to Adopt Amendments to the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget for Each Fund of the City of Milton, Georgia Amending the Amounts Shown in Each Budget as Expenditures, Amending the Several Items of Revenue Anticipations, Prohibiting Expenditures to Exceed Appropriations and Prohibiting Expenditures to Exceed Actual Funding Available.

  The City budget – which is dynamic, rather than a static plan – requires amending from time to time. This item refers to proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2025 budget that runs from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. This Ordinance reflects recent changes recommended as a result of certain circumstances, opportunities, and recommendations. This same item appeared under First Presentation on the June 2 City Council agenda and, because of that, can be conclusively voted upon Monday.

   

• Consideration of an Ordinance to Restrict the Use of Fireworks Near Equine Facilities, Section 11.7 Noise Control to the Unified Development Code for the City of Milton, Georgia.

  On May 14, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation crafted and co-sponsored by Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones of Milton that gave local governments authority “to prohibit the use or ignition of consumer fireworks in proximity to certain facilities housing equines.” This ordinance, if approved, would enact a corresponding measure within Milton City limits. Such expanded fireworks restrictions – which would be in affect every day of the year and involve loud and silent fireworks – would aim to protect horses and other equines as well as the barns they call home.

   

  NEW BUSINESS

• Consideration of a Resolution Appointing or Reappointing Members to the City of Milton Sustainability Advisory Committee by Appointing a Board Member for District 1/Post 2 and District 2/Post 2.

This resolution would appoint two new members to the Milton Sustainability Advisory Committee (MSAC) representing the districts and posts of Councilmember Doug Hene and Councilmember Carol Cookerly.