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Milton council transmits 2025 impact-fee update showing $630,000 available for projects
Summary
The Milton City Council unanimously approved a resolution to transmit the draft 2025 Capital Improvements Element annual update for regional and state review, a required step to maintain eligibility for certain Georgia Department of Community Affairs programs.
The Milton City Council unanimously approved a resolution to transmit the draft 2025 Capital Improvements Element annual update related to the city’s impact-fee program to the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for regional and state review.
The update, presented Aug. 18 by principal planner Shuba Jangam and consultant Paige Hackley, summarizes fiscal year 2024 impact-fee collections and the near‑term capital project schedule. "About $660,000 in impact fees were collected as of the end of last fiscal year," Jangam said, and "about $500,000 was spent. The majority of that was for Deerfield Park improvements." She added the fund balance available for future impact‑fee projects was "about 630,000."
The nut graf: the annual report is a procedural requirement under the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for communities that collect impact fees; transmitting the draft begins the DCA review that preserves the city’s eligibility for certain state loan and grant programs under the Qualified Local Government (QLG) program.
Hackley told council the report is a financial accounting and a status update of projects in the long‑range CIE. "Part of the procedural requirements state that a public hearing must be convened before the draft document can be transmitted by resolution for required DCA review," she said. The report maps long‑term projects from the 2024 CIE and then identifies a rolling five‑year near‑term list. Those near‑term priorities, based on departmental input, include additional Deerfield Park components, a new fire station, build‑out of vacant space in the public safety building for police use, and road projects such as intersection improvements and widenings.
Councilor questions focused on timing and next steps. Jangam said the hearing that evening would be followed by the transmittal for state review and that the city expects to return to the council before the required local adoption date of Oct. 31 (Halloween was cited in staff remarks). She also confirmed the city’s QLG status "is good for another year."
No public comment was received on the item. Councilor Cranmer moved to approve the transmittal and Councilor Johnson seconded; the motion passed unanimously.
The city will incorporate any state or regional comments and return the revised CIE to the council for final local adoption, preserving eligibility for DCA programs tied to qualified local governments.
