The Canton mayor and council on July 3 approved a series of motions covering housing, public safety, water infrastructure and intergovernmental partnerships. The following is a summary of formal actions recorded during the meeting; these items were moved, seconded and voted on during the July 3 council meeting.

- Canton Community Land Trust: Council approved a motion to create a Canton Community Land Trust and directed staff to return with final articles of incorporation and subsequent appointments. Mover: Councilor (identified in transcript as the councilor who made the motion); second recorded. Vote: all members present voted in favor. Outcome: approved. Notes: Council asked that articles of incorporation be reviewed by city attorney and returned for final action; no property transfers were authorized at this meeting.

- Public Safety Building renovations: Council approved a contract award for interior renovations of the Public Safety Building to JP Painting and Carpenter (contract award presented by Chief Farrell). Funding sources reported: impact fees and SPLOST. Motion to approve renovations as presented passed with all members voting in favor. Outcome: approved.

- Ridge Pine elevated tank and booster pump station project: Council approved awarding the Ridge Pine elevated tank and booster pump station contract to Phoenix Fabricators & Erectors LLC in the amount of $13,237,000. The project schedule was described as roughly 580 days (about 20 months). The motion passed with all members voting in favor. Outcome: approved. Notes: Project funded through water and sewer funds; included decommissioning of the existing Ridge Pine tank and removal of the Kmart booster station.

- Tax Allocation District (TAD) intergovernmental agreement with Cherokee County: Council approved an intergovernmental agreement accepting Cherokee County’s participation in the city’s downtown/Etowah River Corridor TAD. The agreement uses the county base value as of December 2022 for increment calculation and allows financing using TAD proceeds for up to 15–20 years (per agreement limits described). Vote: all members present voted in favor. Outcome: approved.

- North Street master intergovernmental agreement (city, Downtown Development Authority, Cherokee County): Council approved a master IGA to support development of a new county annex, parking deck and a mixed‑use project along North Street. Approval carried with the contingency that county execution of both the IGA and the county’s TAD approval occur; motion recorded with one “nay” and the motion passed. Outcome: approved (contingent on county IGA and TAD documents).

- Emergency pump replacement for Ridge Pine Booster Station: Council approved an emergency replacement purchase of a pump for the Ridge Pine Booster Station in the amount of $65,685.71 after staff reported the installed pump was obsolete and parts were unavailable. Outcome: approved.

- Amicus brief update in support of City of Milton: Council approved updating an earlier amicus brief submission to the Georgia Supreme Court in response to the Court’s acceptance of Chang v. City of Milton; the mayor was authorized to sign the updated brief. Outcome: approved.

Other routine approvals recorded at the meeting: approval of the agenda as amended (motion passed), approval of draft minutes from June 5 (motion passed) and approval of various informational items. Several items discussed but not acted on included the West Main pedestrian bridge concepts, zoning map amendments (public hearing set for July 17), FY 2026 proposed budget presentation (public hearing set for July 17) and a proposed cell‑tower lease at Lake Canton (no action requested).

Where motions included explicit movers/seconders in the transcript, those names were retained above; several votes were recorded in the minutes as “all members voted for the motion” without a roll‑call tally of individual councilor names in the transcript.