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Fulton County drops resolution to pull Cheeley from CID board By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com
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Milton City Councilwoman Carol Cookerly and inductees Les Kuykendall, Dylan Cease, Korinne Raby Muller, Bridget Deehan and Kyle Farnsworth gather for the unveiling of this year’s Wall of Fame additions.
City adds five names to Wall of Fame MILTON, Ga. — This year, five individuals were inducted into Milton’s Wall of Fame, a recognition of athletes, performers, coaches and contributors who got their start or made their mark in the city. Scores of people attended the ceremony at Bell Memorial Park Oct. 28, celebrating two Major Leaguers, softball and lacrosse standouts, and an impactful coach. The five inductees: • Dylan Cease is a Milton product who, after being drafted 169th overall in the 2014 pro baseball draft, ended up breaking into the Major Leagues five years later with the Chicago White Sox. Cease has been one of the best pitchers, not just for the White Sox, but in all professional baseball in recent years. He
finished second in the 2022 American League Cy Young voting after sporting a 2.20 earned run average, or ERA, with 14 wins and 227 strikeouts. • Bridget Deehan also spent lots of time at Bell Park and others around Milton, albeit on different shaped fields. She’s one of the most celebrated goalies ever in Georgia girls’ lacrosse history, having been part of three state championship teams at Milton High School plus being named High School South Player of the Year and Under Armour Senior All-American before moving on to a celebrated collegiate career at Notre Dame. • Kyle Farnsworth got his start
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METRO ATLANTA — The Fulton County Board of Commissioners dropped its plans to remove Bob Cheeley as its appointee on the True North 400 board after legal staff determined the resolution had no grounds. At a Board of Commissioners meeting Nov. 1, County Attorney Y. Soo Jo said the resolution was removed because of a legal misunderstanding. “This was a resolution brought forward by Commissioner Barrett based on my initial legal advice that only one Fulton County seat was warranted on the CID under current conditions,” Jo said. “Upon realizing there was a mistake in the analysis, I reached out to Commissioner Barrett to obtain her permission to remove the item, and that is why it is being removed.” At the meeting, Commissioner Bridget Thorne read a letter written by True North 400 Executive Director and state Sen. Brandon Beach criticizing the resolution. In the letter, Beach said the effort to target Cheeley was “misguided,” and the CID board should have the chance to address its composition before the Board of Commissioners attempts to alter it. “’Innocent until proven guilty’ is a bedrock, a principle of justice, and this
applies no less to our board members,” Beach wrote in the letter. The resolution, which was shared in the agenda packet for the meeting Oct. 27, sought to remove Cheeley as one of the County Commission’s two appointees. True North 400, formerly the North Fulton Community Improvement District, is a self-taxing business district dedicated to community, transit and road improvements between Mansell and McGinnis Ferry roads. Its coverage area encompasses parts of Roswell, Milton and Alpharetta. The resolution held that because the percentage of unincorporated Fulton County land has fallen below 50, one of the county’s two appointees to the CID board, Cheeley and Al Nash, were no longer needed. “… the Board of Commissioners finds that it is in the best interest of the CID Board, Fulton County, and the general public that Mr. Al Nash continue to serve as its appointee,” the resolution read. The resolution also stated the proposed removal came after Cheeley attempted to undermine Fulton County’s elections. Cheeley was one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, who were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in August for alleged attempts to overturn 2020 election results.
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