2026-09-10 - Mall Area TAD Advisory Committee
Summary
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- The agenda and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved. The committee has five members, with four needed for a quorum.
- Mall overlay: staff relayed that the Planning Commission tabled the mall area special overlay district item on September 3 and gave staff and the developer a punch list, with a return tentatively set for November 5 (October 1 is possible). See Mall Area Overlay at Atlanta Highway.
- Account balances: leadership has asked staff to list TAD account balances on each agenda. The figure shown was as of July 20, with no change since, and balances for all six TADs are on the county website.
- Vacancies: staff had no update on filling committee vacancies. Appointments are made by the mayor, and the committee is meant to have seven members.
- Meeting schedule: with no projects or funding requests coming in, and the mall project described as officially terminated as of December, a member asked about meeting only as needed instead of quarterly. Staff said a county work session on the TADs is expected later in the month, and the committee would have to vote to change its schedule. The committee agreed to keep the December 10 meeting on the calendar and revisit it by email vote if guidance changes.
- A member asked how people should submit a project for the mall TAD; staff and members pointed to the county website and the economic development staff.
- No other business; the meeting adjourned by voice vote.
Agenda
Agenda listed in the Agenda Center; see Sources.
Sources
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/YPS4gSDunbw (Athens-Clarke County YouTube channel)
- Agenda Center: https://accgov.com/AgendaCenter
Video
Transcript
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Transcript
02:11Okay.
02:15Welcome everyone um to the September
02:1910th meeting of the mall area tax
02:22allocation district meeting.
02:25um call the meeting
02:28to order. And our first order of
02:30business is to approve the agenda
02:35um which we
02:38have in front of us.
02:49motion to approve.
02:55And if we can
02:59also um
03:04view our minutes from our December 16th
03:06meeting which also been provided to us
03:10and
03:38Oh, sorry. I'll approve the agenda and
03:43the minutes.
03:45>> Yes.
03:50Um
03:53and then staff report on
03:58special
03:59sorry we have two items the special
04:01overlay district that is in process and
04:04an update on our committee vacancies.
04:07Okay.
04:08>> So I'll hand it over to you.
04:10>> Thank you. I'm actually uh trying to
04:12mess with the audio because
04:15uh Miss Caitlyn is in and she says she
04:18can't hear anything.
04:19>> I can hear you now, Daniel. I can hear
04:21you a lot better than I can hear Susan.
04:24>> Okay, thank you. I uh I just hit the
04:26volume button a lot, so [laughter]
04:29that's Yeah,
04:30>> great. That sounds better.
04:32>> Thank you. And I'm sorry I'm not there.
04:36>> All right. Uh, so if I can, so I have
04:38notes on here for the special district
04:40overlay and according to uh an email
04:44from planning director Bruce Lonnie. Um,
04:47he sent to me on September 4th, uh, the
04:50planning commission had met the night
04:52before, uh, Thursday, September 3rd, as
04:54they do, the first Thursday of every
04:55month. Uh, he said they tabled the mall
04:58overlay item uh, and provided staff,
05:01being ACC gov staff, planning staff, uh,
05:04with a punch list. Uh Bruce did not
05:06specify what items were on this punch
05:08list, but a punch list to work between
05:10staff and the developer uh to look at uh
05:13with a tenative uh date of returning to
05:16the planning commission on Thursday,
05:18November 5th. He said there is a
05:21possibility they will meet the first
05:22Thursday of October, which is the 1st,
05:25but most likely it's going to be uh
05:27November 5th. So, unfortunately, there's
05:30going to be uh nothing to update here
05:32today uh other than the overlay is still
05:35in process.
05:39Um,
05:41real quick, I did want to just
05:42interject. Uh, there's a new item on the
05:44bottom of your agenda. Uh, I have been
05:47asked by my leadership uh to start
05:49putting the account balances
05:52uh on the agenda.
05:54Uh, typically finance has helped me with
05:56that because this is going to be a more
05:57regular ask. I am learning how to do it.
06:01So, the note on there says it's adds of
06:03July 20th. That information is also on
06:04the TAD web pages by the way. Uh, so if
06:07you ever go to accgov.com and look up
06:09the TADS, uh, it is at the bottom with
06:11all six TADs um, with their balances.
06:15Um, I did check this also last week and
06:18as of that that check, uh, and based on
06:20the numbers I have, everything matched
06:22what I was last given in July 20th. So,
06:24there's been no updates the last month
06:25and a half.
06:28Uh, returning to the actual agenda, um,
06:31committee vacancies. Frankly, I do not
06:33have an update. Um, historically, uh, I
06:37will bring the information to the
06:38manager's office and the manager's
06:40office will notify Mayor Girtz. Uh it is
06:42a mayor appointment uh pretty much
06:44exclusively uh to keep six committees um
06:49uh full with seven people. Um I think
06:52that the mayor has asked for assistance
06:53for recommendations
06:56and and I know that some me some
06:59potential members have reached out to
07:00the mayor specifically. It's it's always
07:02funny to talk to people and they say
07:03I've got Kelly on on uh in my contacts
07:07because I don't um and I shouldn't. But
07:10I think some people are are taking the
07:11initiative and reaching out to him. I
07:14have not heard anything about no
07:15appointments. Um, this committee has
07:17five members and four is necessary for a
07:19quorum.
07:24U ma'am, unless there was anything else
07:26you would like me to cover, that's all I
07:28had.
07:29>> Okay, that's it for you. Um,
07:33on our agenda,
07:35I don't see that we have any old or
07:37unfinished business.
07:39Unless someone else knows of any.
07:43>> Um, did we want to talk about the
07:45possibility of moving these meetings to
07:48an ad hoc basis? I know we talked about
07:50that over email and then that kind of
07:51fizzled.
07:53I don't have strong opinions, but I
07:55didn't know if we wanted to take this
07:56opportunity to make any decision on
07:58that.
08:02>> Daniel, I think you might have more
08:03information about what the um discussion
08:06might be.
08:09higher level about the meetings and
08:14>> so yeah I'm not sure if I'm going to
08:17cover exactly what you might have in
08:18mind I do know that uh each committee uh
08:21by ordinance has been given leeway to
08:24determine how it to operate its its own
08:27pace its own bylaws um also uh mayor
08:31elect Fiser uh has recommended a work
08:34session uh with the other commissioners
08:36or at least a portion of them again I'm
08:38not for sure uh who's attending that,
08:40but there's going to be a work session
08:42sometime later this month uh to discuss
08:44the TADS uh and how they're moving
08:46forward. So,
08:48uh it's kind of the same old thing we
08:50did this last year where
08:52we we don't know what to expect. Um but
08:56business as usual. Um there is no
08:58official business to to vote on other
09:00than approving your your minutes and
09:01your agendas at this time. There are no
09:03projects coming in. There's no requests
09:05for tag funding. uh and the mall project
09:08is uh officially terminated as is as of
09:12December.
09:14So
09:15there is no action.
09:16>> So I understand that when they do this
09:20work session and under a new mayor they
09:22may change the rules but as of now
09:25we would be able to
09:29change our meeting schedule from every
09:31three months to when they're you know as
09:34needed basis. So when someone did
09:36request funds, you could let us know and
09:38we could schedule a meeting for that
09:39purpose. I just don't know if there's a
09:41lot of point in meeting every three
09:43months just to approve the minutes and
09:45then not. But if people feel differently
09:48or if we have to do that, I'm fine with
09:50it.
09:54When is Dexter when is Dexter plan on
09:57calling that? You don't know?
09:59>> Uh I don't know that I have the exact
10:01date. Let me see.
10:04Um
10:09I'll tell you my boss has been reaching
10:10out to a lot of
10:13departments for supporting documentation
10:14about this meeting uh upcoming retreat.
10:17That's that's all I have. And then
10:21it's not it's not super exact, but I can
10:23tell you that I have been asked to be in
10:26a follow-up meeting on Monday the 21st
10:30>> of September.
10:31>> Yes. Okay. So I assume sometime in the
10:33next week or two.
10:34>> Okay.
10:35>> So could you after you've had that
10:37meeting maybe just send us guidance,
10:39anything that changed or anything like
10:41that and maybe we can take that up at
10:42our December meeting.
10:45>> Uh yes, ma'am. And then uh to kind of a
10:47point you were sort of making the um the
10:50committee would have to vote the
10:51committee voted on the schedule. So the
10:53committee would have to vote on
10:54modifying the schedule. So right now
10:56we'd be sticking with December unless
10:58something happens
11:00uh here today.
11:08Why don't we leave the December meeting
11:10on the calendar and then if need be, we
11:12could send out maybe a a vote to change
11:17that based on your meeting that's coming
11:19up.
11:20>> Yes, ma'am.
11:21>> That works.
11:23>> That work?
11:24>> Sounds good. Okay, let's do works for
11:27me.
11:30Okay. Any new business? Anyone?
11:34>> Um Danny, is that million dollar figure
11:37just for the Maltad or for Altad?
11:40>> That is for the mall area.
11:42>> That's the Maltad.
11:43>> Yes, that is your one. Yes, sir.
11:47>> Um and I I just had a question that I
11:49have been receiving some questions on.
11:52Um,
11:54is there is there um people are kind of
11:57wondering like if they want to submit
11:59something for the mall tag, what's the
12:02process to do that? And so I was just
12:06kind of wondering given the change with
12:08the mall status and all of that if there
12:11is a way that I should direct people
12:14>> like a development project.
12:16>> Yes. So they're interested in you know
12:18just doing something in the mall area
12:20like is there are there certain where
12:22are the requirements and all that well
12:25the ACC website is that the best place
12:27to direct them to currently
12:28>> there's a whole process with the
12:31>> uh under the tad
12:33>> okay that's what I've been saying is go
12:35to the it's it's yes
12:37>> and I found the best way to find what
12:38you want on the acc.com website is to go
12:41to chatgpt
12:43and ask it to look on the acccc.com
12:46website for information regarding blah
12:48blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
12:48blah blah blah blah and it boom
12:49>> okay
12:50>> all right
12:50>> I can't navigate the website
12:52>> find that that was the best location
12:54>> Daniel you might want to try it sometime
12:56>> you're right maybe I will sometime
12:57>> it's an efficiency move
13:00it helps me a lot because the
13:02information is great I just can't figure
13:04out how to wait you know
13:05>> cipher through it sift through it
13:08>> thank you Clark County has some
13:10excellent people that are can help you
13:12help people walk through that and answer
13:14questions as elves. So, the contact
13:17information is all there.
13:18>> Okay.
13:19>> I know economic development and Daniel
13:22and a lot of people are there to help.
13:24Daniel's done some great presentations
13:25to some groups I've been sat in on about
13:29the process.
13:31>> Excellent. Thank you.
13:32>> Okay. Thank you so much. [laughter]
13:35>> No, I mean you have found billers and
13:38some other grapes.
13:38>> Thank you.
13:39>> You got to up that to 48 498
13:43compliment. Stay
13:43>> current with this.
13:46joke. So, um
13:51any other um questions or discussion or
13:57that y'all have?
14:09>> No.
14:10>> Good to hear. No,
14:14>> we've already discussed the next meeting
14:16which is Thursday, December 10th, unless
14:19we hear something different after your
14:21meeting with Dexter and the other others
14:26that will attend.
14:27>> So, my meeting is not with Commissioner
14:29Fisher. It's I'm going to meet with
14:30manager's office following their their
14:33>> following their meeting
14:34>> conservation retreat. Yeah.
14:36>> Okay. Well, then after after your
14:38meeting, after their meeting.
14:40>> Still want to inflate my rule.
14:42>> Okay. Well, you'll let us know and then
14:45we'll know if we are still meeting in
14:47December or if we need to change that.
14:53Any other business of information for
14:56the good of the group or
15:03no?
15:05If not, then I guess we can uh
15:12consider ourselves adjourned. If someone
15:15make a motion,
15:16we adjourn the meeting. Motion to
15:19second. All in favor?
15:23>> Opposed?
15:27Yes, that is it.
15:30>> All right, Miss Caitlin, we're going to
15:32log off.
15:33>> Okay. Thank you. and I'm sorry that I'm
15:35not there in person.
15:37>> Thank you for joining us. Hope you feel
15:40better.
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