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Committee approves several contracts, settlements and resolutions; overview of votes, Feb. 10
Summary
The Public Safety Legal Administration Committee adopted the agenda, approved multiple second-reading ordinances and resolutions, accepted contract renewals and authorized settlements and a retiree reemployment during its Feb. 10 meeting; this summary lists each item and the recorded vote.
The Public Safety Legal Administration Committee took a series of procedural and legislative actions at its Feb. 10 meeting. Key votes recorded in the transcript included routine committee business, contract renewals, budget amendments and settlement authorizations.
Votes at a glance
- Adopt agenda: Motion moved by Councilmember Mary Norwood, seconded by Councilmember Isha Collins. Vote: 5 yeas, 0 nays. The agenda was adopted.
- Approve minutes: Motion moved by Councilmember Isha Collins, seconded by Councilmember Byron D. Amos. Vote: not specified in the transcript. (The motion to open the vote was recorded but no final tally was printed in the transcript.)
- Unfavorable claims (adverse the unfavorable claims): Motion moved by Vice Chair Dustin Hillis, seconded by Byron D. Amos. Vote: 6 yeas, 0 nays. The unfavorable claims were adverse.
- Ordinance (second reading) 2501046 — intergovernmental grant fund amendment for Atlanta Fire Rescue car-seat fitting station program: Moved by Vice Chair Dustin Hillis; seconded by Chair Andrea Boone. Vote: 5 yeas, 0 nays. Item recorded as favorable.
- Ordinance 2501051 (substitute adopted and item favorable) — retroactive renewal of agreement FC119058 for private-property abandoned/stolen vehicle record services with South Metro Towing Inc. (APD): Committee approved the substitute and the item as substituted. Vote on substitute: 5 yeas, 0 nays. Final approval vote: 6 yeas, 0 nays.
- Ordinance 2501052 (substitute adopted and item favorable) — retroactive third renewal of agreement CP-SD-122051 for E911 network system administration services with Mission Critical Partners LLC, not to exceed $70,000: Substitute adopted and final item approved as substituted. Final vote recorded: 6 yeas, 0 nays.
- Ordinances/readings and first-read donation item 2501076 (donation of Rivian vehicles to Atlanta Fire Rescue): Presented at first reading; no committee vote required at first reading.
- Resolutions 25R3132, 25R3133, 25R3100, 25R3135, 25R3136 (settlements): Items 5–9 were taken as a block and approved. Motion to approve the block was seconded by Vice Chair Dustin Hillis. Vote: 6 yeas, 0 nays. The items authorize specific settlement payments and charge them to stated fund and account lines in the transcript.
- Item 19 (communication from Atlanta Bar Association re: appointment to the Citizen Review Board): Committee motion to file the communication. Vote recorded as favorable in the transcript.
- Resolution 25R3137 — reemployment of retiree investigator Paul Bignola (APD) under charter section 3-505(b) for annual compensation not to exceed $72,259: Motion moved by Vice Chair Dustin Hillis, seconded by Councilmember Mary Norwood. Vote recorded in transcript as favorable (tally reported as recorded in meeting). The committee approved reemployment.
Several items were described as "favorable as substituted" after committee substitutions and ratifications. Where the transcript records a specific vote tally, that tally is listed above. Where the transcript did not print a final tally for a particular procedural motion (for example the minutes approval), the transcript text shows the motion and an opened vote but does not include a printed final tally.
