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Finance and Executive Committee: votes, holds and first reads from meeting
Summary
The committee took a series of procedural and substantive votes including holding communications and audits, approving funding amendments and donations, adopting substitutes, and advancing multiple items to the council. Most votes were unanimous in committee; the Tree Protection Ordinance substitute carried with recorded abstentions.
The Finance and Executive Committee held its regular session and recorded a series of actions on first and second reads, donations, contract amendments and substitutes. Below are the principal actions taken and their committee outcomes.
Votes at a glance
- Agenda adoption (amended): adopted (procedural vote recorded by chair). - Approval of prior meeting minutes: adopted. - Communication 250034 (mayoral appointment of Candace Franklin to Atlanta–Fulton County Library System): motion to hold; held (vote recorded in committee). - Communication 25C0041 (performance audit report on Oracle Time and Labor): motion to hold to hear at next sitting; held (vote recorded 7 yeas, 0 nays). - H-251060 (Brighton Village annexation, 60% method): public hearing opened and closed; motion to add Brighton Village services delivery plan approved; motion to hold to allow companion legislation to catch up: held (7 yeas, 0 nays). - First reads presented (no final committee action required at first read): 25 O 11 47; 25 O 11 48; 25 O 11 49 (FY26 proposed budget adoption — first read); 25 O 11 50; 25 O 11 51; 25 O 11 52 (capital budget amendment – $10,633,015 – first read); walk‑in first read (fifteenth supplemental bond ordinance) recorded for next meeting. - Second read and approvals: corrected lease ordinance 25 O 11 15 (name change to UBBC LLC) — approved by committee. - Ordinance 25 O 11 16 (task order with Beatty Construction — Atlanta City Hall repairs; add $543,307.37): approved (committee vote recorded). - Ordinance 25 O 11 24 (Amend installment sale insurance provisions with Georgia Municipal Association to allow self‑insurance): approved (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Substitute 25 O 11 25 (donation to First African Community Development Corporation, not to exceed $6,000): approved on substitute (7 ayes). - Ordinance 25 O 11 30 (first amendment to Shelter & Services program contract with Cohen Resnick LLP — add up to $500,000): amended to add account information and approved (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Ordinance 25 O 11 31 (CFO write off water & wastewater accounts, amount not to exceed $5,610,847.98): request by department to hold; motion to hold approved. - Substitute 25 O 11 32 (donation up to $5,000 from District 6 carry forward to Piedmont Park Conservancy): approved on substitute (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Ordinance 25 O 11 34 (donation up to $1,000 from at‑large carry forward to Chastain Friends of the Arts): approved (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Resolution 25 R 3,222 (requesting mayor consider council priorities for FY26 budget): substitute brought forward; sent to full council with no committee recommendation (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Resolution 25 R 32 23 (donation to Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation for eviction defense program): approved (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Substitute 25 R 3,276 (exercise second renewal option for ADP implementation/integration with Automatic Data Processing Inc., amount not to exceed $177,793.33): approved (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Resolution 25 R 3,277 (issue task order #1 to HCR Construction for Ethics Office renovation, up to $383,631.62): approved (7 ayes, 0 nays). - Substitute 25 R 3,278 (refund to customer for water/sewer overpayment, $42,954.46): approved (7 ayes, 0 nays). - Substitute 25 R 3,279 (adjustments to water and sewer service charges on certain accounts, total $204,930.06): approved on substitute (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Dual referral ordinance 25 O 11 29 (exempting certain city infrastructure projects from Tree Protection Ordinance until new ordinance adopted): approved as substituted (committee vote recorded as 4 yeas, 0 nays, 3 abstentions); moves to City Council.
Several items were taken as first reads only and will return for further committee or council action, including the FY26 proposed budget ordinance and several bond/finance amendments. Where departments requested holds, the committee agreed to take those items up at the next sitting to allow companion or follow‑up materials to be prepared.
Motions and votes were recorded in committee minutes; most approvals were unanimous among the seven committee members present, with the exception of the tree ordinance substitute (recorded abstentions).
