Milton's money, your Monday: the July 6 council cheat sheet

City Council meets Monday at 6 p.m., and the agenda is heavier than a summer Monday has any right to be. The headliner: the first public discussion of Milton's Fiscal Year 2027 budget, which will govern city spending from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. Staff will walk Council through the budget timeline, new operating initiatives, capital requests, and pay-as-you-go program updates, then take direction. A quick correction from Thursday's issue: we said the budget was up for adoption Monday. It isn't. Monday starts the conversation; more budget sessions, public input opportunities, and the millage-rate vote come over the next few months.

Also on the agenda: a vote to extend Milton's data-center moratorium through July 21. Council enacted the 30-day pause on data-center applications June 15, and this short extension buys time to legally notice a public hearing on a longer one at the July 20 meeting. The city's planners will also present progress on the 2026 Comprehensive Plan Update, the every-five-years rewrite of Milton's guiding vision, which heads to state and regional review before Council votes on final adoption in October.

And one more sleeper item with a ballot attached: Council will consider the intergovernmental framework for distributing TSPLOST III revenues, the potential third round of the 0.75-cent transportation sales tax. If it moves forward, Fulton County voters will decide it this November. The first two rounds paid for much of what's reshaping Milton's roads right now, including the Morris Road widening we covered Thursday.

Smaller but very Milton: alcohol licenses for the new owners of the New York Butcher Shoppe & Wine Bar in Crabapple and the Extra Mile Chevron on Arnold Mill, plus an agreement letting Basil Family Farm teach agriculture, gardening, and nature programs out of city facilities. Attend in person at City Hall or watch live on YouTube.