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City invites residents to plant more trees By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The City of Milton launched Plant! Milton last month to help keep Milton green. Plant! Milton, a multi-pronged initia-
tive, came about after the City Council passed amendments to the Tree Canopy Conservation Ordinance in 2020, which focuses primarily on tree removal requirements. City Arborist Sandra Dewitt, who heads up Plant! Milton, told the City
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is working with school officials and local law enforcement to focus on three major issues affecting North Fulton County – gangs, human trafficking and gun theft. While meeting at the Fulton County government office in Alpharetta March 3, Willis asked community leaders to collaborate with her office so they can begin cracking down on crime in schools. In a joint effort with Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney, Willis said she is assigning one of her prosecutors to visit several schools this year and teach a class that targets at-risk middle and high school students. Willis said that will be the prosecutor’s only job once the program kicks off. “I really applaud [Looney] for asking that we come together for this,” Willis said. “We’re going to be doing
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Resident reports attempt to access credit account MILTON, Ga. –– Milton police were called last week on a report of stolen mail at a residence on Deer Trail. The victim told police she had just recently moved, and her bank had sent her a new credit card and other documents to her old address in Florida. She said her mother forwarded the correspondence to her new address, but she never received it. The victim then received an alert from her bank that an individual was attempting to make a $1,364 purchase at a Target store on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs using her card. She said she was able to decline the purchase. She contacted Truist Bank, received a report number and canceled the card.
Man’s RV burglarized at Ga. 9 storage facility MILTON, Ga. –– A Milton man reported a vehicle burglary March 5 at Midgard Self Storage on Ga. 9. He said he discovered that his RV had been entered during the two-day period it was unattended Feb. 14-16. Various items of value had been taken sometime during the 10 days prior to the date he called in the report. He said other items in the vehicle had been tossed about. The RV had been locked with a deadbolt in place. An officer observed a partial shoe print on the back bumper located near the window, where the suspect might have entered the RV. There are no security cameras within the facility near where the RV was parked. The victim was advised to obtain trail cameras in order to add additional security to the RV while parked within the facility.
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CORRECTION In its March 10 edition, the Milton Herald reported that Bryan Keene, of Providence Ridge, was arrested for DUI on Feb. 18. This was false, and we offer Mr. Keene our deepest apologies. The error is unacceptable, and we will look internally at methods to ensure that it never happens again. reported he was contacted Jan. 11 via WhatsApp by a company operating under the name discountworldus.com offering to sell a gift card valued at $400 for $200. The victim conducted the transaction, then used the gift card to make a payment to his Atlanta Gas Light account. He later was alerted by Atlanta Gas Light that the transaction was invalid, and the payment was reversed. He then stated he began to feel like the whole thing was a scam and contacted discountworldus.com demanding a refund. The company agreed, but said it would take 7-10 business days. The victim reported he wanted the incident investigated by the Milton Police Department for potential fraud.
Dunwoody’s tab for police legal issues: $400,000 By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — The City of Dunwoody paid more than $400,000 for legal services to address personnel matters within its police department which surfaced in 2020. Invoices from Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson show the city paid the law firm about $407,000 for employment matters within the Dunwoody Police Department from May 2020 to November 2021. An internal report released by the city in 2020 allege internal strife within
the department has been going on for years. The report cited nearly 50 allegations of sexual harassment and professional misconduct against senior officers. Many of the allegations centered around former Lt. Fidel Espinoza, who resigned before the probe concluded in July 2020. Some officers said Espinoza had been harassing them for years. Determining the legal costs to the city wasn’t cheap. Most of the legal invoices, obtained through an open records request initially filed by Reporter Newspapers, are heavily redacted and do not specify whether the costs are related to cases involving
Espinoza. The city charged Reporter Newspapers $115 for the redacted invoices. The city and Espinoza have faced two lawsuits from former officers since the probe, the first filed in July 2020 by Roger Halstead and the second filed Feb. 17, 2022 by Bryan Castellanos. Castellanos’ suit alleges that Espinoza repeatedly sent unsolicited and sexually explicit messages to him on “countless occasions.” It alleges the city “condoned, adopted and ratified” Espinoza’s behavior by failing to intercede.
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Milton sees steady employee retention rate By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Milton Human Resources Director Sam Trager says the city was able to hire nearly as many employees as it lost in 2021, a period known as the Great Resignation. According to data issued by the U.S. Department of Labor March 9, nearly 4.2 million people quit their jobs in January. This comes off a year in which almost 48 million people quit their jobs. A new Pew Research Center survey found that low pay, a lack of opportunities for advancement and feeling disrespected at work are the top reasons why Americans quit their jobs in 2021. The survey also reported that those who quit and are now employed elsewhere are more likely than not to say their current job has better pay, more opportunities for advancement and more work-life balance and flexibility. Trager told the Milton City Council March 7 that while workers were resigning in records numbers around the country in 2021, Milton had a retention rate of 86%, compared to the national average of 81%. Overall, Trager said the city lost 23 full-time employees in 2021. Six left with less than a year of experience. However, during that same year, the city filled 21 positions. Trager said the city currently has nine vacant positions and one police officer who is in the final stage of the hiring process. One of the open positions is for a Community Development Manager after Courtney Spriggs left the position in February. According to LinkedIn, Spriggs worked for the city for seven years, starting in 2014 when she began as a public
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Halstead’s lawsuit was dismissed in federal court on Feb. 23, 2022. Another officer, Brian Bolden, is currently on administrative leave after he alerted news media about the arrest of Sgt. Robert Parsons for DUI on Jan. 26, 2022. Bolden had also spoken out against Espinoza during the probe. Parsons resigned a day after the DUI arrest. City of Dunwoody spokeswoman Jennifer Boettcher said the city has so far been reimbursed $98,900 of the legal fees by its insurance carrier, and that “reimbursement efforts continue.” She said the city could not comment further on the cases.
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Secretary of State talks election security By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger touted Georgia’s election security March 1 in a meeting with the North Forsyth 400 Rotary Club at the Coal Mountain Community Center. Raffensperger, who is up for reelection this year, has faced criticism from fellow Republicans since the 2020 general election saw President Joe Biden win the state, giving Democrats their first presidential win in Georgia since 1992. Some Republicans have accused Raffensperger of complicity in voter fraud, though the claims have been almost entirely debunked. Gubernatorial candidate David Perdue — who was seeking re-election to his U.S. Senate seat and lost — even called for Raffensperger to resign in the wake of the 2020 election. In his talk with the Rotary Club, Raffensperger was quick to dispel any rumors of electoral fraud among the crowd of about 25. He emphasized that the state had recounted by hand every ballot cast in the November 2020 election, and the state never found any significant variance in the numbers. He said there was a miniscule number of voter fraud cases in the state, but that every offender was facing consequences. The Secretary of State largely attributed former President Donald Trump’s loss in the state to the 28,000 voters whom he said voted in their state or local elections but did not vote for a presidential candidate. Raffensperger also touted Senate Bill 202, also known as the Election Integrity Act, the sweeping elections reform bill the state Legislature passed last year. The bill passed amid widespread criticism from Democrats, who argued the bill’s provisions would lead to voter
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks to the North Forsyth 400 Rotary Club March 1 at the Coal Mountain Community Center. Raffensperger spoke on Georgia’s election integrity and rumors of electoral fraud during the 2020 election. suppression. Raffensperger said that while there was no widespread fraud, some areas did face challenges in running the election. He pointed to Fulton County, where thousands of voters faced hours-long lines, both during the 2020 primary and general election. Raffensperger said the law introduced measures to hold county election departments accountable for such “meltdowns.” Opponents argued that the measures constitute a state takeover of local elections. “The number one thing that voters hate, we found, is long lines,” Raffens-
perger said. “So they think that all voting should be like going to Chick-fil-A: keep those lines short.” Raffensperger pointed out that The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative policy think tank, ranked Georgia as the no. 1 state for election integrity this year. In his closing remarks, Raffensperger said he wished for more honesty from political candidates who lost their elections. He noted lawsuits had been filed against the state by organizations associated with Stacey Abrams after her
MILTON, Ga. — Fulton County is looking for additional manpower to work the polls for the 2022 election cycle. The Fulton County Registration and Elections Department will host a poll worker recruitment fair from 4-7 p.m. March 16 at Milton City Hall. Interested individuals can drop by at any time during those hours to learn about the job and its requirements. The fair is open to all qualified individuals, not just Milton residents. Temporary positions include advance voting poll workers, Election Day poll workers, absentee ballot processing team members, warehouse personnel and couriers. All positions require reliable transportation and the ability to read and write English. This year’s election cycle will start with a general primary on May 24 and could end with a runoff on Dec. 6. Milton City Hall is at 2006 Heritage Walk. For more information or to apply, visit fultoncountyga.gov/pollworker.
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Trees: Continued from Page 1 So, Dewitt, along with Milton’s Department of Communications, Parks and Recreation Department and Economic Engagement, partnered together to create Plant! Milton. She said it aims to not only ask people to plant DEWITT trees but give them the resources and information they need about how to plant a tree, where to plant it and what to plant. Now, the city hopes Plant! Milton and the ordinance will complement each other and help support the preservation of forests, tree-lined roads and green city views, increasing Milton’s tree canopy and overall quality of life for residents. Cookerly said she’s appreciative of the city staff’s efforts. “I did not know that this idea had taken flight and I am very appreciative,” Cookerly said. “Thank you to all of staff that got busy with this. It’s very well done.” Later in a post on the City of Milton’s Facebook page, Mayor Peyton Jamison echoed those thoughts.
“Trees can add character, color and much more to any community, particularly one like Milton, where so many of us enjoy the outdoors,” Jamison said. “Plant! Milton is a terrific, living testament to this fact and trees’ special importance to our city. I look forward to seeing this initiative grow, along with more Milton trees.” According to the city, Dewitt’s job includes working closely with city staff and community partners. “Whether in your yard, along our roads or around public spaces, trees are very much a part of Milton’s identity and why so many of us love this city,” Dewitt said. “We hope that Plant! Milton will nurture that love so that it grows – much like we hope that we’ll have more trees growing and thriving here.” Other efforts include hosting events, showcasing the Mark Law Arboretum at Bell Memorial Park and offering Plant! Milton-themed merchandise for residents involved in tree plantings. Dewitt will also be featured once a month on the City of Milton’s Facebook page under “Ask the Arborist,” where she will address tree-related questions from residents. To ask a question or show proof that you’ve planted a tree, email askthearborist@cityofmiltonga.us. For more information, visit cityofmiltonga.us/PlantMilton.
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District: Continued from Page 1 something that I don’t think has ever been done anywhere in the country.” Through this initiative, Willis said she hopes to reach teenagers who could otherwise end up dead or behind bars by the time that they turn 28. Another initiative she plans to start is sending some of her staff to point out safety concerns at schools so they can be addressed before major incidents occur. The biggest problem schools face right now is with guns, Willis said. Not only are students bringing guns to school, but Willis said many of the auto break-ins that have been reported in North Fulton in recent months can be traced back to youths who are part of a greater scheme with local gangs. Willis urged local law enforcement to continue to warn residents against leaving guns in their cars, saying that many of the stolen guns are ending up at crime scenes. “[North Fulton] is where they come to break in cars to steal and get weapons,” Willis said. “It’s really a pandemic of adults leaving guns in cars.” Willis said gang members are also using social media to recruit girls so they can turn around and recruit other girls from middle class families. At least 85% of the human trafficking victims that the district attorney’s office deals with met their trafficker on social media, Willis said. Additionally, 65% of human trafficking victims are under the age of 17, another reason the partnership between the district attorney’s office and the school system is so important, Willis said. Beginning next month, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office plans to “really start attacking gangs.” “They know it’s coming,” Willis said. “It’s no secret we’re coming for them, and we’re coming full force ahead.” Willis said 2021 was a record year for Fulton County, because the district attorney’s office began running two grand juries. With the additional
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, at right, meets with community leaders March 3 at the Fulton County government office in Alpharetta to talk about how they can collaborate to make their communities safer. manpower, she estimates it will take her office about two-and a-half years to get through the case backlog. So far, Willis said her office has cleared most of the cases from 201617 and is now dealing with cases from 2018 forward. Fulton County receives an average of 10,000 felony cases each year. Willis said that of those cases, 710 defendants have been indicted for murder and 67 are believed to be domestic violence homicides. Willis said this shows that crime extends beyond Atlanta, because while the murder rate has increased by 64% in the city, it has
risen by 48% in Fulton County. “They do not care if they are in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs or Atlanta,” Willis said. “They don’t care.” Also at the meeting, Roswell City Councilwoman Lee Hills asked Willis about the future of the Alpharetta jail annex on Old Milton Parkway, which has been closed since March 2020. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office stopped staffing the Alpharetta jail annex to staff the county’s main jail on Rice Street. That left some police departments with a 30-mile drive to transport suspects to the jail.
In the meantime, Fulton County has been paying Cobb County to house 300 to 400 of its inmates. Willis said Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat plans to open the Alpharetta jail annex “very soon.” Reports state it could be as soon as June. “That’s going to do two positive things,” Willis said. “The first thing is it’s going to give us the space we need, but the second is with officers who are losing half a day of their shift driving down, doing the process and coming back up. During that time, there’s probably somebody out there doing something they could arrest.”
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Development authorities deserve closer monitoring By TOM BAXTER SaportaReport One of the most mind-boggling things about economic development authorities in Georgia is just how many of them there are. Few people have studied the subject as closely as Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, but in testimony before a House subcommittee Monday morning, even she couldn’t say precisely how many economic development authorities there are in the state — the number is somewhere between 700 and 900 — or even exactly how many there are in her county of DeKalb — around 30, she said. We don’t know, either, how much debt all the authorities have generated in bonds. Even the question of who has the responsibility for that debt if an authority defaults is somewhat fuzzy. In Georgia, “development” and “transparency” are concepts that have had an uneasy relationship with each other. Development authorities can engage in negotiations with private companies, issue bonds to pay for their projects and pass out tax breaks to developers, with much less scrutiny than other governmental bodies.
The substitute bill which Oliver spoke for before the subcommittee combines elements of three bills she introduced earlier in this session, all aimed at bringing these concepts into closer alignment. They apply only to Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb counties because that’s where the most problems have come to light and because Oliver represents part of DeKalb. But that doesn’t mean the authorities in the other 150 counties couldn’t use some more transparency as well. One section of the bill would set a cap on the per diem expenses authority board members can claim so that it could not exceed the expenses members of the Legislature can claim, which currently is $16,200 a year. That is likely to be the easy part. Only the big four metro counties can pay authority members for their expenses, and Fulton is the only one that does so. This came to light last year when an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 investigation revealed that Fulton authority members were being paid by the agenda item at each meeting, resulting in hundreds of thousands in expenses, some of which involved payments to companies in which members had a financial interest. J. Scott Trubey, who broke that story, reported later on an internal investigation of the financial dealings between a mem-
ber of the authority, JoAnna Potts, and a company seeking to do business with the Development Authority of Fulton County. Potts resigned before the report was made public, but Oliver pointed out at the hearing that under current law she wasn’t required to do so. Her bill establishes a formal procedure for a board member to be removed and makes development authorities subject to ethics oversight by local governments. The hardest sell is likely to be the requirement that all local governments that could be affected when a development authority gives developers a tax break must be given seven days’ notice. Currently, only county governments must be notified, and a legal notice in the local paper is considered sufficient. Oliver said she believes the legislation will combat the growing practice of developers “shopping” their proposals around to different authorities so that they can get a deal with the easiest requirements on issues such as affordable housing. Kevin Shea, president of the Georgia Economic Developers Association, said the notification provisions could “stifle” economic development. His group also opposes the bill, he said, because of “concerns about local politics being injected into the process” in the removal of author-
ity directors. Oliver wasn’t successful last year in passing legislation that had some elements of her current bill. She said Monday she thinks she’s making progress. The problems in Fulton County and the $700 million fiasco surrounding the Stonecrest Development Authority in DeKalb County have focused public attention on the shadowy workings of development authorities so that legislators are under greater pressure to address the problem. Oliver is a Democrat, however, and although her bill has Republican co-signers, its fate still lies in the hands of the legislature’s Republican leadership. When a local government raises taxes, it gets people’s attention. When an economic development authority gives developers a tax break, everybody else pays a greater share of the tax burden, but the pain is veiled while the development is celebrated. And to repeat, there are a lot more development authorities in Georgia than governments that can tax directly. That’s why every taxpayer, not just those in the four metro counties addressed in the legislation, has a stake in what happens to this bill. This column was originally published on SaportaReport.com.
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Consideration of Primary Variances a. V22-07, 4060 Felton Circle Request(s): • To reduce the side yard setback from 10 feet to 8 feet for an existing detached garage. (Article XIX - Crabapple Form-Based Code, Article 5, Table 10, (f.3)) b. V22-08, 13424 Hipworth Road Request(s): • To encroach into the 75-foot impervious setback for a proposed pool and pool deck. (Sec. 20-426(1) (2)).
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Flooring
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“My Ultimate Goal is to Exceed Your Every Expectation”
EXPERIENCE — SERVICE — EXCELLENCE
Pam Gillig
Senior Real Estate Specialist C: 770-862-4408 | O: 678-461-8700 Pam.Gillig@HarryNorman.com PamGilligWeb.HarryNorman.com
• Phoenix Award Recipient - Top Producer • #1 Individual Sales Agent - North Fulton 2012-2021 • Accredited Buyer’s and Seller’s Representative • Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist • Certified Relocation Specialist
I SPECIALIZE IN THE MARKETING OF HOMES IN NORTH FULTON AND HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF ALPHARETTA FOR OVER 27 YEARS!
Please call or email me for a complimentary Market Evaluation. I look forward to the opportunity of working with you!
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Pam went above and beyond from before my property was listed to beyond closing. She couldn’t have done anything better. Thank you! — Gloria Kerr, Feb 2022. (Review provided by RatedAgent.com)
MARKET SUMMARY
Mar 2021
Feb 2022 (LAST 30 DAYS)
%CHANGE
Properties on Market
336
215
-36%
New on Market
207
88
-57.5%
Ave. Asking Price / Sq.Ft.
$208.00
$296.84
42.7%
Ave. Sales Price
$573,348
$639,893
11.6%
99.86%
104.13%
4.3%
$200.00
$245.86
22.9%
26
2
-90.4%
Ave. Sales Price as % of Asking Price Ave. Sales Price / Sq.Ft. Ave. Days on Market of Sold
11800 Amber Park Drive #100 Alpharetta, GA 30004 • HarryNorman.com The above information is believed to be accurate but is not warranted. Offer subject to errors, changes, omissions, prior sales and withdrawals without notice. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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First Monday of each Month from 7:30-9pm
Last Tuesday of each Month from 10am-12pm
Start your month off with lots of laughs from The Punchline Comedy Club featuring live comedy acts, drink specials, and more.
Bring your pre-school aged tot for playtime in The Plaza. Activities may include music class, story time, visits from characters, and more!
Wednesdays from 6-7pm Fridays from 6-8pm Unwind after a long week by enjoying live music with friends and family in The Plaza.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Come salute the sun every week for a special yoga, barre, or pilates class presented by various studios and instructors.