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Votes at a glance: minutes, ordinance for canine 'Stormy', licenses, appointments and executive session approved
Summary
Council approved meeting minutes, declared police canine Stormy surplus to allow officer adoption, approved two alcohol licenses, increased arts funding to $30,000, reappointed two board members, extended the StreetScan contract and agreed to enter executive session for potential litigation and personnel.
At the meeting the council approved several routine and substantive items by voice vote. Key outcomes recorded in the meeting transcript:
- Approval of November 19 meeting minutes: motion seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Ordinance No. 1463 (surplus designation): council approved an ordinance declaring personal property owned by the City of Conyers as surplus to allow adoption of police canine Stormy (full name given in the meeting as "Bring on the Storm") by Officer Paul Oberholtzer. The motion included a request to waive the second reading and passed by voice vote.
- School Resource Officer agreement: the revised multi‑year SRO agreement with the Rockdale County Board of Education was approved (covered in a separate article).
- StreetScan USA agreement: approved to continue pavement inspection and management services (automatic street and sidewalk scans and added trail scanning).
- Conyers Rockdale Council for the Arts agreement: council approved increasing the annual contract from $25,000 to $30,000 as already budgeted in the current fiscal year.
- Alcohol licenses: council approved a new retail beer and wine license for MD Nazmul Islam (Extra Mile, 597 Stigman Road) and approved a consumption on‑premise license for Hooters of Conyers 2025 LLC at 1099 Iris Drive.
- Appointments: George Levitt Jr. was reappointed to the Conyers Downtown Development Authority for a four‑year term beginning 01/01/2026; Tamika White was reappointed to the Conyers Planning Commission for a four‑year term expiring 07/01/2029.
- Executive session: council voted to enter executive session for potential litigation and personnel matters, to include the city attorney, city manager and COO; the motion carried.
Where the meeting recorded voice votes, the transcript records "all in favor say aye" with no roll‑call tallies; no recorded votes against or abstentions were noted in the transcript.
