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October 31, 2013 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 13, No. 44
Meter stops on probe
At nearly $100K investigation appears ended; Now council must decide what to do with it By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com
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Laura and Greg Stalemark with their daughter Sarah pose with some “adopted” family members.
Stalemark family has spookiest house in town By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Turn down Pinewalk Court in the Pinewalk subdivision and you will find out why neighbors
call Laura Stalemark “The Cat Woman.” You can’t miss the 35-foot inflatable black cat in her front yard. That is just a small clue to how much she likes to celebrate Halloween. One
year, it made the Google map of her house. Eleven months out of the year, Laura is as normal as apple pie. But come Oct. 1, her entire house goes through a transformation of vampire
See SPOOKY, Page 32
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – With an estimated $100,000 spent, the City Council’s four-month probe into allegations against Mayor Mike Bodker is apparently over. The big question now is what will council do with it? Apparently they are not sure. City Councilman Randall Johnson, who has been the council’s point man on the investigation, said the City Council will have to meet on what to do next with investigator Robert Wilson and City Manager John Kachmar. “Some of the questions are still open, and right now we are still waiting for the mayor, who has yet to turn over documents that were requested months ago,” Johnson said. “But we will look at our options. We have to decide whether to send [the report] to
the district attorney’s office, to state Attorney General Sam Olens or to the FBI,” Johnson said. “All our options are on the table.” Bodker’s attorney Michael Cross said the report is worthless as an investigation and that it is more likely any council action taken with it is only face-saving. “If there were any actionable items of ethics violations in the report, and there are none, the statute of limitations have long run out. And the members of the council must know this,” Cross said. “And as noted, it is an interim report. It has not been completed. There is nothing for any agency to act on.” As for the three main allegations the report singles out, none are serious enough for those agencies take up even if there were any proof.
See METER, Page 6
CH2M Hill cancels city party after owner speaks out Owner says retaliation for comments at council meeting By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Residents may wonder what it might cost them to speak their minds at a City Council public comment section, but Chris
Cupit, whose family owns Rivermont Country Club, says he knows how much it cost him when he spoke at the Oct. 22 City Council meeting – about $15,000. CH2M Hill, the company that handles much of the
outsourcing of jobs for Johns Creek, has cancelled the annual Christmas party for city employees and CH2M Hill employees who work for the city. Rivermont had hosted the party for eight years in a row and CH2M Hill had hosted the
Christmas party. The company had put down a $5,000 deposit for this year. They said the reason for the sudden change is employees had been asking a change of venue for the party. Cubit stood up at the council meeting to add his concerns about the inappropriate behavior of City Manager John
Kachmar and Councilman Randall Johnson. He related his experiences in his personal dealings with Kachmar. Weeks before the incident involving Kachmar in an altercation with two citizens critical of the city’s lack of response to information requests, Cupit
See CH2M, Page 4