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Cities, county squabble over new formula for sales tax Fulton County seeking 60% increase in share By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Johns Creek Police Department Lt. Deb Kalish speaks to a crowd at the police department’s active shooter response training class July 19 at City Hall.
Police brief public on proper reaction By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Sounds of gunfire, screams and chaos rang through John’s Creek City Hall on July 19. But there wasn’t any danger. The gunshots and screams were all recorded or reenacted, and the chaos was all on video, played to a about 50 people in the City Council chamber
assembled for a John’s Creek Police Department course on how to respond to an active shooter event. Police Public Information Officer Lt. Deb Kalish, who served as instructor, said last week’s class was one of the best turnout’s they’ve had. “Normally, I might get half of the people that show up, that actually sign up,” Kalish said. “It was a packed house, and people were really interested. The more people I can teach how to respond, the better.” Kalish said they always have a bigger turnout when there are active shooter events in the recent months, as people
become more concerned about the safety of their family and coworkers. “I always say, ‘it doesn’t matter until it does,’” she said. The class is based on the nationally recognized Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) system, which prioritizes action by all involved in an active shooter situation. It differs from other, more conservative systems taught nationally in the past. Here are some of the top takeaways from the John’s Creek Civilian Response
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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Area mayors fired off statements last week decrying a bid by Fulton County to keep a larger share of the countywide local option sales tax. At stake is $252 million collected countywide each year that cities rely on to help fund hundreds of expenses, from park maintenance to light bills and almost everything in between. In 2020, the city of Alpharetta received $15.5 million, or 5.8 percent of the total LOST collected in the county. Milton received $8.8 million, 3.3 percent of proceeds. Every 10 years, the county and its cities – now 15 in number – renegotiate how money collected from the
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Police nab theft suspect following foot chase JOHNS CREEK, Ga. –– A Snellville man was charged theft by shoplifting and disorderly conduct July 8 after allegedly stealing equipment at the Home Depot on State Bridge Road. When police arrived on scene of the reported theft, the suspect ran out of the store. Police then chased him. He then fell in front of a local business and was taken into custody. The hardware store manager showed video footage of the suspect, who had a DeWalt blower and Shark Navigator vacuum in his cart, did not pay and then walked out of the store with the shopping cart of items. Police transported the suspect to Emory of Johns Creek due to medical issues. He was later released on copy of charges and a court date.
Four vehicle break-ins logged on same street JOHNS CREEK, Ga. –– Police were notified of a vehicle break-in on Surrey Park Trail sometime overnight July 5. When they arrived on scene, however, police were alerted that neighbors’
PUBLIC SAFETY vehicles had also been entered. The first victim told police the front doors of his car had been left slightly ajar when he walked to his car the morning of July 6. His car had multiple items inside that had been moved around and scattered over the dashboard. The only item reported missing was a Milwaukee measuring tape worth $29. Nearby, police were alerted to three other vehicles, all left unlocked, that had been entered overnight. The owner of a pickup reported the loss of a wallet containing cards and $10 in cash. Another car owner reported signs that someone had entered his vehicle, but nothing of value had been taken. The owner of the third vehicle reported the loss of a hammock.
Cleaners discover AR-15 under hotel mattress ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– Alpharetta police were called to a hotel off Old Milton Parkway July 14, after hotel staff reported cleaners had found a firearm sticking out of a mattress in one of the rooms. Authorities learned the room’s occupant had been arrested the night before on warrants out of Gwinnett County, and he had not recovered items from the hotel room he had rented. Upon investigation, officers removed an AR-15 rifle from underneath the mattress and recovered several stolen credit cards, mail stolen from an address in Milton and a bike also reported stolen in Milton.
The stolen items were transferred to the Milton Police Department and the AR-15 rifle was placed into evidence in Alpharetta.
Man’s information used to open line of credit JOHNS CREEK, Ga. –– Police responded to an identity theft call July 7 when a John’s Creek man reported his name and Social Security number were used to open a bank account. The victim told police he actively monitors his credit and had received an email alerting him that a line of credit had been opened in his name. The individual that had opened the account has a Jonesboro address the victim is not familiar with. No money had been taken from any of his other accounts.
iPad and wallet stolen from parked vehicle ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– Authorities say that an Alpharetta woman’s vehicle was burglarized July 17, and several items were taken. Thieves reportedly broke into the woman’s Infinity SUV between 3 p.m. and midnight, punching out the door’s lock and stealing the woman’s iPad Pro, her wallet, credit cards, drivers license and Social Security card. The vehicle was parked at a residence on Davis Drive. No cameras were in the area at the time of the break-in, the report states.
Roswell murder suspect killed by Colorado police By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police say murder suspect Fabien Perry was killed in the early morning hours of July 19 following an armed confrontation with law enforce-
ment in Colorado. The 27-year-old man had been wanted for nearly two weeks. Roswell police said it is likely Perry fled the state soon after he shot and killed his girlfriend, Johana Cabrales-Hernandez, 23, inside their Roswell home on July 6. PERRY Roswell police spokesman Tim Lupo said their search for Perry led to Aurora, Colorado, where information was gathered that he was at a home in the area of North Oswego Street. That’s when they requested help from the Aurora Police Department, which immediately sent resources to apprehend Perry. According to Aurora police, officers located Perry at the home around 12:45 p.m. on July 18, and SWAT responded to the scene. Other occupants of the home, thought to be acquaintances of Perry’s, exited the house, but Perry remained inside,
refusing orders to come out. The Aurora Police Department Crisis Negotiations Team also responded to the scene and team members were able to initiate communications with Perry. Over the next several hours, negotiators continued to try and convince Perry to exit the home, unharmed, police said. Aurora police then requested help from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, and deputies responded to the scene. They also received assistance from the Littleton and Englewood police departments. At 9:45 p.m., officers reported hearing multiple gunshots from inside the home, but they did not return fire. Instead, they allegedly continued to try and communicate with Perry using the public address system on the Armored Response and Rescue Vehicles at the scene. Aurora police stated Perry remained uncooperative and fired several more rounds throughout the night. Then, at
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Triple Crown tourney swings into Alpharetta, Cumming By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — More than 115 girls’ fastpitch softball teams packed into Alpharetta and Cumming July 14 -17 to compete in the Triple Crown Softball Southeast Nationals. Tournament officials, coaches, players and families came to area parks from 14 states including California, Illinois and Michigan. Games took place at North Park in Alpharetta and Central Park, Fowler Park, Sawnee Mountain Park and Sharon Springs Park in Cumming. The event consisted of brackets for players aged 18 and under, 16 and under and 14 and under. The Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates that the tournament brought around 3,500 people into the city over the weekend, driving an estimated economic impact of nearly $200,000 with visitors patronizing the city’s hotels, restaurants and attractions. “Alpharetta is grateful for the 8 years we have had the opportunity to host the Triple Crown Southeast Nationals event,” Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO Janet Rodgers said. “3,500 individuals associated with the event also shopped, dined, visited attractions and stayed in Alpharetta hotels making a large economic impact on the tourism and hospitality industry in our community. We hope to secure many more years of this wonderful tournament.” Alpharetta has hosted Triple Crown events since 2014 and is in negotiations for another multi-year contract with the sporting organization. Local teams had mixed performances through the four-day tournament. Georgia Fire and Georgia Intensity KOD, both 16-and-under teams from Alpharetta, were unable to pull out a win during their three days of play at Sawnee Mountain Park. GA Power Fastpitch ‘07, a 14-and-under team from Cumming, pulled out two wins in their six games at North Park. The Atlanta Vipers 18-and-under team from Buford was one of Metro Atlanta’s highest performers, losing only to the top-ranked Rock Gold team from North Fort Myers, Florida during two games at Fowler Park. On July 13, just before the tournament kicked off, Triple Crown Sports partnered with the nonprofit Beautiful Lives Project at Fowler Park to hold a “Field of Dreams” event which gave individuals with disabilities the opportunity to join players on the field to learn softball basics.
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A pitcher for Alabama Impact faces off with an Atlanta Vipers batter during the Triple Crown Softball Southeast Nationals at Cumming’s Central Park July 14. The weekend event, held at select parks in Alpharetta and Forsyth County, drew an estimated 3,500 people from across the country to the area.
A pitcher winds up a throw during the Triple Crown Softball Southeast Nationals at Cumming’s Central Park July 14.
A sign welcoming Triple Crown players hangs on a fence outside Central Park’s baseball field complex.
Spectators surround the fields at Cumming’s Central Park to watch the Triple Crown Softball Southeast Nationals July 14.
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Sales Tax: Continued from Page 1 tax is distributed. Most often, the pot is generally apportioned based on each city’s population, with the county keeping a small portion for administrative fees. But now, Fulton County has announced is wants to increase its share of LOST proceeds from 4.9 percent to 35 percent – a move some mayors say will cost municipalities millions in funding for city services. The LOST one-penny sales tax is used by local governments to fund services like public safety, parks and recreation, libraries, courts, and other services, and by county governments to fund statemandated services like county courts, jails, health departments, elections and other services. Cities in Fulton County include Atlanta, Alpharetta, Chattahoochee Hills, College Park, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Johns Creek, Milton, Mountain Park, Palmetto, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Union City, and South Fulton. County and city officials launched 2022 LOST negotiations July 15. During the meeting, Fulton County proposed returning to a pre-2000 LOST distribution rate split of 35 percent to the county and 65 percent the cities. County officials said the revised formula would
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Funding received in 2020 City LOST Atlanta $107,554,863 Alpharetta $15,526,976 Johns Creek $20,700,605 Milton $8,814,352 Mountain Park $146,133 Roswell $23,833,539 Sandy Springs $25,318,830 return the split to a fair and equitable distribution. Fulton County claims it has lost more than $668 million in funding because of incorporations over the past 10 years, and added that those incorporations have not reduced the need for funding to provide state-mandated services. The county contends its service responsibilities have grown over the last 10 years, but the reduction in LOST revenues due to incorporation, “has made the current distribution irrational to meet those needs.” “The current distribution inequity is causing real and current pain to city residents on their county tax bill,” county documents said. “The county taxpayer is paying an additional $157 in property tax
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on a median value home in Fulton County due to the reduction in LOST from 35 percent to 4.9 percent.”
Cities unite in opposition
In a joint statement after the July 15 meeting, city leaders declared their opposition to the county’s proposal and said that the increase is not in line with shifting trends within the county over the past 10 years. The cities’ statement argues that over the past 10 years, the county’s service area has shrunk from 90 square miles to less than 2 square miles, “in which less than 1,000 residents live.” The statement claims the cities provide essential services like police, fire and sanitation to nearly all Fulton County residents. “No one anticipated anything like the jump from a 5 percent share to a 35 percent share, a six-fold increase, especially since the county’s service delivery area has decreased significantly while their revenues have increased greatly,” John’s Creek Mayor John Bradberry said. If the LOST distribution proposed by Fulton County was enacted, the effect on local municipalities would be devastating, city officials say. “It would significantly – and negatively – impact the city’s budget and our ability to deliver the services expected and deserved by our citizens,” Milton Mayor Peyton Jamison said. North Fulton officials fear that a
disruption to LOST revenues in their city would either necessitate a cut in services or an increase in property tax rates to make up the lost funds. “That’s millions of dollars that we’ll either have to cut services, which I don’t see us doing, or increase property taxes,” Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin said. “I mean, that would be a third of the revenue that’s generated by the sales tax. And the sales tax is critical, especially in a city like Alpharetta.” For smaller municipalities, like Mountain Park in Northwest Fulton County, the effects would be even more pronounced, due to the substantial portion of their budget LOST revenues contribute. “We’ve always had to operate since 1927, with limited resources,” Mountain Park Mayor Jim Still said. “We feel like we’ve done a pretty good job, but there are some things that would just be hard to recover from … and that would be a hard, hard pill to swallow.” Mountain Park, with a population of about 583, received $146,133 in LOST fund distribution in 2020. That constitutes 0.06 percent of the total.
Negotiations to resume
County and city officials will return to the table for negotiations on July 29 at 10 a.m. During this meeting, city representatives will present their proposed distribu-
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August 12 Movie in the Parks: The Croods “A New Age” Newtown Park - 7 p.m. August 14 Free Outdoor Fitness - Yoga Newtown Park - 10 a.m. August 15 City Council Work Session City Hall - 5 p.m. Free Outdoor Fitness - Yoga Newtown Park - 6 p.m. City Council Meeting City Hall - 7 p.m. August 16 Free Outdoor Fitness H.I.T.T. Newtown Park - 9 a.m.
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Sales Tax: Continued from Page 4 tion LOST funds. Despite the rocky start, city officials are confident the parties will reach a resolution and distribution that benefits everyone. “We’re early in the process,” Gilvin said. “I think all of us understand that it’s in the best interest of everybody in Fulton County to successfully negotiate the deal we can all live with.” Fulton County District 2 Commissioner Liz Hausmann declined to comment on the negotiations for Appen Media. Bob Ellis, Fulton County District 1 Commissioner did not immediately respond to Appen Media’s request for comment on Friday. But on July 19, Ellis released a statement concerning the growing cost of judicial services in Fulton County. According to Ellis, county financial requirements for judicial services has grown more than 45 percent since 2016. “The county was also fortunate to earmark $75 million in additional funding through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that will be deployed through the end of 2024 to address the court backlog created by COVID,” Ellis said. “Unfortunately, even with these additional funds, the pace of increased funding needs to support the system is not showing signs of abating.”
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about 2:18 a.m., Perry allegedly exited the home, armed with a rifle. “Shots were fired by one Aurora police officer and one Arapahoe County Sheriff’s deputy,” the Aurora Police Department stated. “Medical care was provided by Aurora Fire Rescue, and the suspect was transported to the hospital. He did not survive his wounds.” The police officer and sheriff’s deputy who fired their weapons are said to have been equipped with department-issued body cameras, which will be now used in the investigation. They have been placed on paid administrative leave, per each department’s policy. The Critical Incident Response Team for the 18th Judicial District responded and will be investigating the officer-involved shooting incident. The CIRT Team conducts independent, multi-agency investigations into officer-involved shootings in Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert counties. Cabrales-Hernandez’s family has started an online fundraising campaign to cover the costs of her funeral and help support her two children. To donate, visit gofundme.com/f/help-for-samys-funeralexpenses.
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Deadline approaches for elderly to vacate building Roswell residents seek city’s help By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Sheila Richards is living among carboard boxes stacked across her living room. At 75, she says she’s ready to move out of her apartment at 199 Grove Way if only she could find a landlord willing to take her government-subsidized Section 8 voucher. Richards is one of 33 residents at the complex who has until Sept. 1 to relocate after the City of Roswell deemed their building structurally unsound four months ago. The property, owned by the Housing Authority of Roswell, is managed by the Gainesville Housing Authority through a mutual agreement. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, hired the Leumas Group to provide administrative support. A staff member is supposed to be on-site every weekday to answer residents’ questions, help them find housing and explain to potential landlords how the government-subsidized Section 8 voucher program works. Richards moved into her apartment in 2002, a couple years after her husband died. Before that, she was a university professor with a PhD and costume designer, a calling she says she answered when she was in high school. Richards said she’s open to moving outside the area, but it isn’t feasible because she has friends nearby who help her get to her doctor’s appointments in Atlanta. She said she gets so “violently sick” afterward, her doctors won’t let her take an Uber or taxi home. “In 2000, I was given two years to live by Emory University Hospital,” Richards said. “They had a guinea pig program that they were asking those of us that were waiting for a transplant to take. I signed the contract that I would do all eight [procedures], and that’s how my liver started regenerating. I’m the lucky 1 in 10,000. All the rest of them are gone and dead.”
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Sheila Richards has carboard boxes stacked across her living room at 199 Grove Way so that she’s ready to move out at any given moment. The City of Roswell has deemed the property structurally unsound and given the residents until the end of August to relocate.
A futile, costly search
Richards said she’s already spent hundreds of dollars on rental application fees, only to discover that management won’t take a Section 8 voucher. While she and many of the other residents at 199 Grove Way are eligible for up to $1,300 for moving expenses, only $100 of that money can be used for application fees. She thought she found an available unit at the 1660 Peachtree Midtown Apartments, but Richards said it differed from the ones advertised online and so dirty and small she would have had to rent a storage unit to cache the rest of her belongings. Richards said she is No. 161 on the waiting list at the Renaissance affordable housing community and three months out on another. Her neighbor, 74-year-old Michael Dowda, has had his own troubles finding housing. Richards said she used to cook him dinner, but she’s had to stop because all her things are packed away. These days, she eats off paper plates.
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Areas around the 199 Grove Way apartments are held up by metal supports after being deemed structurally unsound by the City of Roswell in March.
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Continued from Page 6 They admit their apartments are in bad shape. Richards said her screen door doesn’t close unless she forces it, and she can no longer place an egg on the countertop without it rolling onto the floor. The brick wall outside Dowda’s apartment is cracked, filled only with a small piece of cardboard. Richards and Dowda say they’re running out of time, but that Leumas isn’t being very helpful. “They won’t even tell us how much our vouchers are worth,” Richards said. “And to be truthful, [Leumas] is only here about three hours a day.” Dowda said there’s a list of phone numbers outside the complex’s office door, but nobody ever returns his phone calls. At the July 11 Roswell City Council meeting, Dowda asked for help, saying he had experienced homelessness before, for almost four years. “I’m not going to be homeless again,” Dowda told council members. “I’ll soon get my home in heaven, but we’ve got to solve this problem.” Dowda said no one from the city has reached out to him since. He said he’d like to see the mayor and City Council tell him and the other residents, “This is how we’re going to get you from point A to point B.” “We’re running against a brick wall, and the brick wall just doesn’t want to collapse,” Dowda said.
Mayor shares frustration
Mayor Kurt Wilson said at the July 11 City Council meeting he’s been working with the Housing Authority of Roswell since he was sworn into office in January, because he quickly realized he had “inherited dozens of years of issues” with the agency. “The first thing that was very apparent to us – to myself and the city administrator – was that we had [approximately] 40 residents that we considered to be in immediate peril from a potential collapse of a building,” Wilson said. “To your point, why wasn’t that addressed in the years past is part of the story that should be written.” Wilson said because the Housing Authority of Roswell is a HUD program, the city does not have purview, except to deem the building unsafe. He said the pleas for help are not falling on deaf ears. “I’m responsible for the fact that your building got condemned,” Wilson said. “That was a matter of safety. It was a matter of I was concerned that building would collapse, and I would lose 40 Roswell residents.”
No money to move
Meanwhile, another resident, Wanda
The first thing that was very apparent to us – to myself and the city administrator – was that we had [approximately] 40 residents that we considered to be in immediate peril from a potential collapse of a building.” KURT WILSON Mayor of Roswell
• Records track building’s downward path, Page 10 Wilbanks, 86, said she’s been given a unit at one of the duplexes across the street, where she previously lived for 37 years with her kids, but that she’s not eligible for the funds to hire movers. “They said I wasn’t eligible for it, but I still have to move,” Wilbanks said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” Wilbanks retired in 1999 after driving a school bus for 45 years. She moved to 199 Grove Way in 2011 but said her apartment was never painted, and when the carpet was replaced, it was installed on top of the old one, making it difficult to clean. In 2017, her ceiling fell, breaking her dining room table and ruining her furniture. Wilbanks said she never got reimbursed and the ceiling has started to crack again. The Housing Authority of Roswell and Leumas have told residents that once the property is redeveloped in a couple of years, they will have first dibs on the new apartments. Wilbanks said she doesn’t think she’ll still be alive when that happens. Karen Parrish, chairwoman of the Housing Authority of Roswell, said the goal is to have everyone placed by Sept. 1. Anyone who has not secured housing by that date will be addressed on a caseby-case basis. “We have residents with specific special needs that we know will be difficult to place and are hopeful to find suitable housing for each resident as soon as possible,” Parrish said. “This timeframe has been established through working jointly with HUD and the City of Roswell as well as the Marietta Housing Authority who is issuing the vouchers.”
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– Data and dedication to process may not seem like a big part of running a successful car wash, but for Jimmy Tester of Mammoth Detail Salon, they’re everything. From his offices at the luxury car wash on Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta, Tester can track everything that happens at his business, from the number of cars his employees service per hour and current wait times, to the number of memberships they’ve sold this month. But no matter what the data shows, Tester says he’s built customer loyalty for 26 years by providing consistent, exceptional service to every customer. “I think what would separate us from everybody else is just doing a better job than everybody else,” he said. After years of running a successful valet service in Atlanta and small hand-
wash car wash in Roswell in the ’90s, Tester knew he was ready for something more permanent close to home that his family could rely on in the future. He always loved hand washing his cars, was good at it, he said, and regularly washed and waxed his car in the middle of the night when business was slow at the club he valeted for. “I did that all the time, so I thought, well I’ll just do my own thing,” he said. “I didn’t really have a background in anything, and I was making probably $80,000 a year in cash parking cars … so I was making a lot of money, and my wife got pregnant and I started worrying, ‘what am I going to do if the club closes, clubs don’t last forever.’” With a partner’s help, he was able to open the first Mammoth Detail Salon in 1996, on a small wedge-shaped lot at Main and Roswell Street in Alpharetta, where business took off like a rocket. Within nine years, Tester said his team had built a following of loyal customers and outgrew their Main Street Alpharetta location. So, they began looking for a new location in Cumming, which Tester thought would be the logical next step for Mammoth. But instead of Cumming, they quickly found a perfect location in Alpharetta that was already zoned for a car wash and ready for construction. The only catch – it was practically right next door to his original location. One might think that having two identical businesses just a few blocks
Jimmy Tester has owned and operated Mammoth Detail Salon in Alpharetta for 26 years and has built a following of loyal customers using data, hard work and dedication to great service.
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Business is amazing at Mammoth Detail Salon on Old Milton Parkway, according to owner Jimmy Tester. The Alpharetta location opened in 2007. away from each other wouldn’t work, but since they opened the Old Milton Parkway location in 2007, it’s only boosted his brand recognition and customer service, Tester said. With the real-time data the business collects, the two locations can easily support each other, he said. And on the company’s app for smart phones, customers can see which of the two locations is busiest at any time. “I would do better profit wise if I just had one, like everybody thinks,” he said. “But I think for the convenience of the clients it helps because I have the app.” But they weren’t always able to make use of all the data Tester has at his fingertips, that’s a recent development.
For the longest time, his team at Mammoth Detail Salon had to rely on handwritten tickets, less advanced computer tracking and a dedication to the process of providing a perfect hand wash every time. Tester said that his love of the process is something he’s always had from the very start of his valet business in Atlanta. His employees have an optimized way of doing everything from washing cars to detailing interiors they use with each car. The prices that Mammoth charges are high for the industry, Tester freely admits. But he said that’s only because customers in the North Fulton area
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Calls for rehabilitation extend back to 2017 By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com
ROSWELL, Ga. — Karen Parrish, chairwoman of the Housing Authority of Roswell, said she’s in discussions with the mayor and City Council to redevelop 199 Grove Way, but their focus right now is on the safety of the residents. “That’s why we’ve been fighting so hard since we found out about this to try to help them land a new place the best way that we know how, given the circumstances,” Parrish said. The board, she said, learned about the building’s structural issues in 2019, a year after she became chair. The complex, formerly known as Pelfrey Pines, includes 55 other income-based housing units owned by the Housing Authority of Roswell. Parrish said because the agency is so small and has faced numerous challenges over the years, a previous board called on the Marietta Housing Authority to help the complex pass inspections. The Marietta agency is providing the Section 8 vouchers to help the residents relocate. Parrish said the board also commissioned an engineering report in 2017, which revealed several structural issues at 199 Grove Way, but it wasn’t until 2019, when the Gainesville Housing Authority got involved, that it was brought to her attention. “After that, we just got to work as quickly as we could,” Parrish said.
Report reveals issues
In a March 9 letter to Beth Brown, executive director of the Gainesville Housing Authority, Roswell officials stated multiple reports on the facility’s conditions have been produced between summer 2017 and this past January, all citing deficiencies that affect the viability and safety of the building. Appen Media obtained a copy of the March 9 letter from Roswell Community Development Director Jason Gaines and Chief Building Official John Boland through an open records request. It states the most concerning deficiency is advanced corrosion at exterior stairways, which was
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Roswell resident Michael Dowda addresses Mayor Kurt Wilson and the City Council July 11 about the challenges he’s faced trying to find an apartment to relocate to after 199 Grove Way was deemed structurally unsound. identified in a July 7, 2017, letter from Norton, Schmidt & Warden Consulting Engineers LLP with the recommendation they be removed and replaced. But, as of March, the letter states the recommendation had not been followed and was even cited in a subsequent Sept. 30, 2019, report by NOVA Engineering and Environmental LLC as being in “immediate need of removal and replacement due to severe corrosion.” It states NOVA identified it as a “life safety item.” The letter also states each of the buildings on site have multiple instances of distress to the exterior brick veneer, cracks and displacement of elevated balconies and interior walls, displacement of entry porch concrete floors and other visual signs indicative of “significant structural deficiencies.” However, none were deemed as being in “need of immediate attention or as a life safety issue.” A NOVA geotechnical report, dated October 2019, alludes to potentially under-compacted soil beneath the building foundations that may be contributing to settlement issues, requiring further, in-depth investi-
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gation of its footing and support systems to determine the long-term stability of the structures and any need for immediate repairs, the letter states. On Feb. 28, city staff toured the property, which they said corroborated much of the information in the reports. The letter states that during the tour, staff also noticed one of the two on-site elevators was out of service, “leaving but one functioning elevator in a complex that houses 100 percent senior citizen and/ or physically disabled tenants.” To date, the elevator has not been fixed. Then, on March 8, Parrish and the Housing Authority of Roswell’s attorney, Stewart Duggan, met with city officials to review a new report from NOVA. The report reiterated concerns with the structural integrity of the egress paths and recommended that maintenance staff perform monthly inspections of all the stairs to ensure they were safe. It also recommended for soffit finishes to be re-
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Apartments: Continued from Page 10 moved from all the walkways and stairs to expose the underside framing so a structural inspection could be conducted and for shores to be installed to temporarily support any deficient walkway and stair components for 120 days. In a letter from city officials to Brown, dated March 23, the city agreed to a deadline extension beyond the initial 14 days it had to set to implement the recommendations.
Board members resign
Andrew Leonardi and Trent Perry were appointed to the Housing Authority of Roswell’s six-member board last year. They resigned months later because they disagreed the building had to be demolished, based on their understanding of the NOVA reports. Leonardi and Perry said they tried to convince Parrish to repair the building so the residents wouldn’t have to move, but they were turned down. “The thought process was to replace all of the buildings at Pelfrey Pines … and everything was going to look great, but there was never an option, really, to repair what was going on,” Leonardi said. HUD then called one Friday afternoon in April, Leonardi said, and announced the complex was unsafe, and everyone needed to get out within 72 hours. Leonardi said that caused a mass panic, but the board quickly began calling around to try to find a hotel for the residents. Parrish said HUD backed off after the housing authority did further research. She said the agency was very open to working with them to try to find a proper solution. But, Leonardi said, he took issue with Parrish meeting with the mayor and City Council in private, allegedly leaving the board “in the dark.” “That freaked me out to be honest with you,” Leonardi said. “That was one of the reasons I resigned – there was a huge lack of transparency. … I love helping people. That’s why I volunteered to be on the board, but then I [asked] why is the board not being told information?” Leonardi resigned one month after Perry. They said that while on the board, they don’t remember ever voting on any course of action for 199 Grove Way. Parrish said that they did but did not go into detail. Perry, a 35-year resident of Roswell, previously served on various other committees and even authored the final report of the East Roswell Economic Action Committee. He said Parrish recruited him based on his experience. But, when he read the technical reports and learned that the housing authority was applying for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program to enter into contract with Penrose development to demolish and replace its existing housing stock, he thought “none of them, in my opinion, defined a catastrophic situation.” The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program provides tax incentives on new construction and substantial rehabilitation on existing properties with an eye toward the underprivileged. It would have provided the Housing Authority of Roswell with about $18 million to redevelop, Parrish said, but it failed to meet the requirements by half a point. Perry said his time on the board should have been very fulfilling and satisfying, but it wasn’t “The housing authority has the power to do a lot of
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good and meet a lot of needs for mid- and low-income disabled and elderly residents,” Perry said. “I just don’t think, in my personal opinion, that it has met its goals … or that they have the right idea of what they’re there for. It’s not a real estate business. It’s a residential rental business for the people that need the most help.”
Parrish turns to Roswell for help
As chair of the Housing Authority of Roswell, Parrish said the plan has always been to either significantly modify the complex or tear it down, with more units added to it. The agency had hoped to build a new complex across the street and have the residents move there while 199 Grove Way was being redeveloped, but those plans changed after their application for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program was denied. Then, in May, Parrish said the board found out their application for $9 million in American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, funds from the state had also been denied. The funds would have gone toward addressing some of the deferred maintenance needs of the property. That same month, the City Council awarded $450,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to city water line replacement projects instead of local nonprofits. Records show the Housing Authority of Roswell applied for $36,758 for security cameras, roofing repairs and an intensive after-school program targeting reading and math skills for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Parrish said none of it was for 199 Grove Way, because the board was already in conversation with the city “about getting millions of dollars.” She estimates the project could inject $40 million into the area. “In the meantime, we are still working and calling every legislator from the city, county, state and congressional representatives to help us in our situation,” Parrish said. “… I’ve seen some say we haven’t done anything, and that’s interesting because we may not be in the media, we may not be pounding podiums, but we’re definitely pounding doors and making calls to move the ball forward.” Parrish said the city is encouraging the board to move forward with a 4-percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit application due Oct. 14. If approved, the funds would come from the city and local charitable organizations to redevelop the property, add more units and even do some “significant rehabilitation” on some of the other units that house individuals and families, including a total gut rehab. As of July 18, Parrish said 18 residents are in the process of moving and 15 are still looking for units that meet their needs or wishes.
Elected officials get involved
Mayor Kurt Wilson said that until now, the Housing Authority of Roswell’s pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears, but he promised during his campaign to do whatever he could to help. Wilson said there has historically been little engagement between the mayor and City Council and the housing authority. That’s because while the housing authority has the city’s name in it, the City of Roswell does not have any purview. The agency is responsible to HUD. Roswell is the only city in North Fulton County with a housing authority. It was established in 1950. Wilson said unless the federal government under HUD takes action, the city is not allowed to, which is why it
In the meantime, we are still working and calling every legislator from the city, county, state and congressional representatives to help us in our situation.” KAREN PARRISH Chairwoman, Housing Authority of Roswell
cannot legally put up a loan to help finance a project. Wilson said the plan now is to help the housing authority attain enough points to qualify for a development deal under the HUD program, with the condition that there be a “higher level of engagement” between the city and the housing authority within all the legal boundaries. “I have lauded Karen Parrish’s efforts in the past as a resident who’s gotten highly engaged, highly informed and highly active in trying, in my mind, to save that housing authority single-handedly,” Wilson said. “… This is a person that’s doing superhero work with, frankly, almost no love or help from her city.” Wilson said some of the agency’s financial issues stem from a deal struck almost a decade ago with a local developer to build the Veranda Groveway apartments to the west of 199 Grove Way, which “basically bankrupted” the Housing Authority of Roswell. “The people that were perhaps knowledgeable about the system got an incredibly favorable, super profitable deal for themselves, and that includes local people here in Roswell, and took advantage of the housing authority and left it in a financial mess,” Wilson said. What he wants to avoid now, he said, is an incident like the 2021 Surfside condominium collapse in Miami in which 98 people died. “We don’t have a lot of legal jurisdiction here, but we’re not going to have a Miami where we have a building collapse and 40 people die,” Wilson said. “That’s not going to happen. … We got to find a way even if includes reaching out to the press, reaching out through churches and synagogues and mosques.” State Rep. Mary Robichaux said she only learned about the situation this month. Since then, she’s contacted Christopher Nunn, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and state senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to explore their options to help the residents. DCA serves as a state liaison to HUD. “I’m just opening as many doors as I can,” Robichaux said. However, Parrish said calls were placed to Robichaux’s office last year. She provided Appen Media with a letter, dated Oct. 28, from Robichaux’s office to state officials in support of the housing authority’s request for ARPA funds. Ossoff and Warnock’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment by press deadline July 19. The Housing Authority of Roswell meets at noon on the second Tuesday of every month in the Community Room at 199 Grove Way.
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Active: Continued from Page 1 Decisive action is your priority
Kalish said the most important takeaway from the ALERRT system is that it’s up to each of us, to break through the fear and stress that accompanies a disaster situation or active shooter event, to get people moving and out of danger. That decisiveness is hard to find sometimes, she said, because social proofing – the natural human response to look at what others are doing and model our behavior after them – can get in the way and make us wait for others to act. But as soon as you realize what’s happening in an active shooter event, it’s your responsibility to get people moving and out of danger. “When something happens, you need to get others moving, to stand up and say ‘let’s go’ and get them moving in the right direction,” she said. “Decisiveness. Get people moving and get them out.”
Denial can be overcome
To start the class, Kalish played several clips from the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, some real and some simulated, to illustrate to the audience what being in an active shooter situation is like. One clip contained audio of a teacher who was on the phone with 911 and had been shot. Kalish said the teacher didn’t immediately realize she had been shot and told 911 that the shooting and guns were part of a film production, because she was in denial of what was happening to her. That sort of response is common, Kalish said. People should also expect a dramatic increase in their heart rate, tunnel vision, diminished hearing, a slowed perception of time, memory loss and false memories – all part of a person’s fight or flight response. In these situations, Kalish recommends using a technique called “Combat Breathing,” slow four- second inhales and exhales, to control heart rate. “You’re going to be scared, you’re going to be more scared than you’ve ever been in your life, rightfully so,” she said. “You have to switch that emotion, shift it to anger.”
Avoid, Deny and Defend
Kalish said that the ALERRT system is built on the principals of Avoid, Deny, Defend, which means that you aren’t going to hide and wait to be saved in an active shooter situation. “I do not want you getting down and getting under the table and hiding,” she said. “Playing dead is not an option in an active shooter situation. Hiding and holding is not an option.” Kalish said that your only options in an active shooter situation are to Avoid
When something happens, you need to get others moving, to stand up and say ‘let’s go’ and get them moving in the right direction. “Decisiveness. Get people moving and get them out.” LT. DEB KALISH Johns Creek Police Department – to get as far away as possible by whatever means possible; Deny – to deny the attacker access to victims by barricading them away; and Defend – to fight the attacker like your life depends on it. “I want pens and pencils coming out of eyeballs, their necks, their ears, their throat everything. You’ve got to stop them with whatever you have,” she said.
Have a plan
Kalish said that on average in the United States, it takes police three minutes to respond to an active shooter situation, so anything you can do to keep wounded people stabilized, will help save lives. Most important on that list, she said, is stopping serious bleeding however you can. Kalish recommends people get trained on how to use first aid kits, tourniquets and AEDs, and to keep them stocked in their homes and businesses. “Because if something happens, you only have a couple minutes to save your coworkers life, before they bleed out,” she said. “You can do things to save their life until we can get them the medical attention that they need.” Along with the equipment, you should also have a plan for yourself, your family and your business on what to do during an emergency, she said. That plan should be readily available and known to everyone. Kalish said it also doesn’t hurt to have pepper spray or another form of self-defense, but only if you know how to use it and train with it regularly. “If you’re going to carry any kind of weapon, you need to train,” she said. For more information on the John’s Creek Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events Class and sign up for the next session, follow the police department on Facebook and look out for event notifications.
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Moravians left mark in North Fulton County For years I have been intrigued by a Moravian star painted on the ceiling of the historic Thomas Byrd house in Milton built in the early 1800s. The former private home is owned by the City of Milton and serves BOB MEYERS as a senior activity center. The star is quite beautiful and has been a mystery for years. No one knows who put it there, but many people assume Moravian missionaries painted the star. It was painted using candle flecks on milk paint, a technique which creates the impression of marble. Other vestiges of possible Moravian presence appear from time to time. Marjorie Bates recalls a house she lived in 50-plus years ago in Midway that had a Moravian star covering an entire ceiling. The house was already old when she moved there, and it has since been destroyed. Another mystery. Moravian stars originated in Germany in the 1830s in Moravian schools which used them as classroom craft projects to help teach geometry to boys. The two- or three-dimension stars have anywhere
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This beautiful Moravian star adorns the ceiling of the 19th century Thomas Byrd house in Milton. The City of Milton purchased the historic property in 2011 from foreclosure thus saving it from demolition. It now serves as the Milton Senior Center. from six to more than 100 points, but traditionally have 26 points.
Like the Star of Bethlehem, the Moravian star represents the birth of Jesus.
The star is traditionally hung the first Sunday of Advent (the four Sundays before Christmas) and remains up until Epiphany (12 days after Christmas). So, who were the Moravians? Where did they come from, and how did they get to North Fulton? Did they leave any lasting traces of their presence? Moravians began as a Protestant denomination in Bohemia and Moravia in the 15th century in what is now the Czech Republic. From their earliest days, the Moravians emphasized sending missionaries throughout the world. The first small settlement in North America was established along the Savannah River in 1735. According to famed local historian Caroline Dillman, a remnant from the Savannah settlement bought a tract of land for $16 near the Chattahoochee River in the early 1800s and named it Warsaw after the city in Poland where some of the settlers originated. The Warsaw campground was located where Shakerag is today, off Bell Road in Johns Creek. The Warsaw Cemetery is a few miles away on Medlock Bridge Road hidden behind the Ivy Hill Animal Hospital. Early settlers are buried together with
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It seems we can’t get enough of lists It seems like only yesterday, but 22 years ago, we celebrated a new millennium. To commemorate the epoch, in December 1999, A&E’s “Biography” aired a two-part special profiling the 100 most PAT FOX influential people of Managing Editor pat@appenmedia.com the past 1,000 years. I’m such a history nut, that I drew up my own list in advance to see how my roster compared to the experts. Sadly, the producers also opened the polling to internet users, so some figures got on the list based on their popularity at the time and not on historical merit. For example, Princess Diana, who had died only a couple of years earlier, was ranked at No. 73, ahead of Marconi, Louis Armstrong, Jonas Salk and a host of others whose influence we still feel today. To be sure, the Princess of Wales was a towering influence in her brief reign. But, did she do more to change the world
than, say, Lord Byron or Oliver Cromwell? Neither of them made the list. Thankfully, there were only a few objectionable entries based on internet polling. After the first 30 people or so, things began to get serious, say from No. 70 on down. It might interest readers to know that I guessed the person at No. 1 from the outset. I also completely overlooked some giants who deservedly ranked in the top 10. I got to thinking about this the other night while taking an antihistamine for my allergies. It has forced me to rethink that list. Somewhere on that roster of the most influential people of the last millennium, even one compiled in 1999, had to be the psychopath in Chicago who laced a number of bottles of Tylenol with cyanide back in 1983. The tampering resulted in at least seven deaths and led to major legislation on the packaging of over-thecounter medications. It didn’t stop there. Today, we endure the fallout of that idiot’s madness every day – every time we reach for the pliers to wrestle a pill from
an impregnable bubble-wrapped sheet, every time we open a jar of mayonnaise, a carton of half-and-half. So this guy or this woman deserves to be on that list. Hitler was. Another person overlooked was Willis Carrier, the guy most responsible for inventing air conditioning. Without the ability to cool buildings in scorching weather, do you really think cities like Atlanta, Houston or Phoenix could have risen to the prominence they enjoy today? What about Dubai in the United Arab Emirates? It has an average high in July and August of 106 F. And yet, it has the tallest building in the world and a population of 3.5 million people engaged in one of the fastest growing economies in the Middle East. One person who would not be on the list is the man or woman who invented the parking deck. That’s because no one really knows for sure that is. That leads me to another list – don’t we all love them? I keep an unofficial list of great leadins to news stories. It began 50 years ago when, fresh off
his Super Bowl win, Jets quarterback Joe Namath was paid $10,000 to shave his famous Fu Manchu in a commercial for Schick. The New York Times wrote: “Joe Namath shaved his controversial Fu Manchu mustache yesterday with a Schick electric razor for a reported fee of $10,000. That’s about $10 a hair.” I love stuff like that. Reporters work hard to make their first few sentences sing with impact. One of the best story leads on my list was about parking decks. It was on NPR and went something like this: “Henry Ford was the father of automobile assembly lines. President Eisenhower was the father of the interstate highway system. But the paternity of the parking garage is less clear. Like most inventions, its mother, of course, was necessity.” It may interest some to know that the best lead I ever wrote for a story, the one I’m most proud of, was buried on Page 3 of an inside section in a daily newspaper some years back. I won’t name the editor who made that decision. But, he’s on another list of mine.
Moravians: Continued from Page 12 more recent additions. The Moravians built the original Warsaw Church on the campground in 1822 and moved it to the cemetery after the Civil War. In 2004 the church was moved to the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center in Johns Creek. In keeping with the purposely small congregations typical of the Moravians, the church has only 16 pews. The Savannah program was not a great success. After a few years some missionaries returned to Europe. Some remained and ministered to Cherokee Indians and to slaves on plantations. Others traveled to Pennsylvania and North Carolina where large and thriving colonies were being established. Today, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the largest Moravian centers in the United States. Moravians purchased 100,000 acres in North Carolina near the modern city of Winston-Salem and named it Wachovia after a pasture near the Danube River in Germany. Wherever they settled they established numerous small congregations preferring to move to new places when other groups were capable of continuing their work. In that way they spread their influence and good works. Today, for instance, there are some 20 Moravian churches in Winston-Salem. The single Moravian church in Georgia
OPINION today is First Moravian Church of Georgia in Stone Mountain, founded by Pastor Jack Vaiden, who established the congregation in 1975. It is a diverse group with members from several countries. The Moravians and Cherokee Indians worked well together for more than 30 years. The most celebrated Cherokee leader was wealthy businessman and plantation owner Chief James Vann (1766 –1809). Between 1802 and 1804, he completed the most elegant home in the Cherokee Nation which even today is a major tourist attraction. It is located on the Moravian Springplace Mission which was active in Georgia from 1804 to 1833 in the northwestern part of the state. The Moravian missionaries even helped build the Vann house. Chief Van invited Moravian missionaries to the area to teach Cherokee children. The result was the first school for young Cherokees. Now getting back to the mysterious Moravian star in the Thomas Byrd house, I had the good fortune to have a discussion with Lew Oliver, urbanist, master planner, and designer of communities and residences. He owned and lived in the Byrd house from 1998 to circa 2002. He undertook much needed renovations and was determined to discover the origins of the star. Lew took paint chips from the Byrd House and compared them to the original paint in the Vann house and found a perfect match. Fireplaces in both houses have late Georgian and Federal designs with
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characteristically large delicate mantle pieces. The Byrd House foyer had Cherokee names scribbled on the walls which unfortunately someone painted over. The house featured two parson’s rooms for traveling preachers which very well could have included Moravian missionaries going from Savannah to Warsaw or to North Carolina or Pennsylvania.
So, while we may never know for sure who painted the star and when, available information strongly suggests that it was done by Moravian missionaries. Special thanks to Pastor Jack Vaiden, Judy Webb, Ed Malowney, Bill Lusk and Karen Fowler for their assistance with this column.
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co-workers could always count on his meticulous and thoughtful mind. He took great pride in being the “go-to” for Civil Engineers when they needed that exceptional mechanical understanding that only Joe seemed to have. Joe traveled around the world and went on many adventures throughout his life. Now he is on his final journey. He is survived by his wife Lisa, and his loving children Schuyler and Ashley (Ethan Fogus). Joseph Kauschinger’s Funeral Mass was held at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Johns Creek, GA, on Thursday, July 7, at 11:00 am.
DEATH NOTICES Linda Gail Gilbert Clark, 71, of Dawsonville passed Friday, July 15, 2022. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home and Crematory. Nancy Thompson Brown, 92, of Roswell, passed away July 11, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
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