Marietta City Council will meet for an agenda work session Monday, Feb. 11 beginning at 5:15 p.m. An agenda review session will take place Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. and be followed by Council's regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. All meetings take place in the City Council chamber located on the lobby level of City Hall, 205 Lawrence St. Agenda BLW Report: Council Member Johnny Sinclair gives the Board of Lights and Water (BLW) report for the meeting held on Monday, February 11, 2013. Legislative Update: Legislative update from Legislative Liaison, Steve Tumlin, to include HB176, HB153. …
All meetings are held at the Marietta City Schools Administrative Offices located at 250 Howard Street in Marietta and are open to the public. Public Hearing - Charter System Renewal Tuesday, October 9, 5 p.m., the Board will hold a public hearing regarding the district’s Charter System Renewal application. Combined Work Session/Regular Meeting Tuesday, October 9, 6 p.m., the Board will hold a combined work session/regularly scheduled monthly meeting.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners are expected to approve a contract that will allow advertising to be placed on the windows of Cobb Community Transit (CCT) buses to generate additional revenue for the county. As reported by The Marietta Daily Journal, the process to approve a contractor for this project has taken roughly a year due to the lack of competitive bidding. In May, the county invited representatives to examine the dimensions of CCT buses, which caused two more companies to submit bids. The contract was won by Signal Outdoor Advertising, of Orlando. The ads are expected to …
Marietta City Council will meet for a special-called meeting and an agenda work session Monday, Aug. 6 beginning at 4:30 p.m. An agenda review session will take place Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 6 p.m. and be followed by Council's regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. All meetings take place in the City Council chamber located on the lobby level of City Hall, 205 Lawrence St. The public is invited to a reception at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 6 for new Ward 4 City Councilman Andy Morris, who will be sworn in at the special called meeting. Meetings Public invited to attend Agendas posted online before meetings …
The Board of Education of the City of Marietta will hold a special called meeting Tuesday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m. to set the school district millage rate (property tax rate) at 19.157 mills, a rate that maintains the current millage of 17.97 flat for the thirteenth consecutive year. The new millage includes a reclassified millage of 1.187 of School Bond Debt as part of the property tax rate effective Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13). The overall millage rate is not increasing and City of Marietta taxpayers will see no change in their property tax from last year, according to Thomas Algarin, Director of…
The Marietta City Council is expected to vote at its meeting tonight to create a Vision 20/20 Committee to study improvements to the Marietta Square. The council also is expected to hear from resident Kristen Pickens, who plans to talk about backyard poultry, and to approve several intersection improvements at Maxwell and Durham streets. The full agenda for tonight's meeting is attached.
Resident's requests for a stop sign the intersection of Maxwell and Durham streets will be one item up for discussion at the Marietta City Council's work session today. The council also is expected to discuss the creation of a Vision 20/20 Committee to look at improvements to the Marietta Square. The entire work session agenda is attached to this article. The City Council meets at 5:15 at the council chambers at City Hall.
The Cobb county commissioners are set to enter an agreement with federal officials Tuesday night to help ensure all county employees are in the country legally and are eligible to work. Cobb is the first municipality in the state to use the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Mutual Agreement, or IMAGE program. Commissioner Bob Ott, who pushed for the program, said he hopes the county can be a leader for others. The county has used the federal E-Verify program to check on worker status since 2006, but Ott said the IMAGE program will go a step further. Though it will initially be used …
The Cobb County Board of Education will seek public feedback on the new map of the board's seven districts at its next meeting. Board Chairman Scott Sweeney on Wednesday added the school board's reapportionment to the agenda for the board's April 26 meeting. Gov. Nathan Deal had not signed H.B. 1208, the legislation redrawing the election districts in Cobb, as of Thursday morning, but he is expected to do so. The legislation uses a map that's different from what the school board itself proposed, so board members are anxious about what the map shows. Do you like the changes in school board …
In the last few years Cobb County has tried to save money anywhere it could. Due to these budget constraints, available funding for contracted shoulder maintenance, median mowing and street sweeping services has been significantly reduced, according to Faye DiMassimo, director of transportation. The fiscal year budget for these services is $233,000, which represents a 78 percent decrease from 2009. Because of this, the intervals between mowing and maintenance have been significantly lengthened. In 2010, the services were re-assigned to road maintenance crews in-house. But it is too much for …
The county commissioners will be meeting in the morning, and have a light agenda. They plan to take up several items including: ∗ The board will vote on changing the county code to clarify the difference between “for sale” condominiums and ones “for lease." The move would suspend the use of the “urban condominium” zoning until at least July, giving staff time to review other options, County Community Development Director Rob Hosack told the Marietta Daily Journal. There has been some concern about the time limit in which condominium builders are allowed to lease, instead of selling, units. ∗ …
The state House of Representatives voted a week ago to accept new district lines for Cobb County. But the issue is on the commissioners agenda Tuesday night. Commissioner Woody Thompson is upset because Mableton, which was in his district, will now be split into two different districts — his and Commissioner Bob Ott's. Thompson was joined by Commissioner JoAnne Birrell at the last meeting, Feb. 14, in adding a new map to the agenda at the last minute. The new map would keep all of Mableton in Thompson's district. Birrell told the Marietta Daily Journal that revisions could be made to the map …
The Cobb County commissioners have before them Tuesday a proposal that could help redevelopment efforts in the county. The Cobb County Development Standards code has been written through the years for new development, said Commissioner Bob Ott. He explained at last week's District 2 Town Hall Meeting that these measures were originally intended to protect undeveloped land and that when the code was being written officials hadn’t considered redevelopment. Over time he said it became more expensive for developers to redevelop an old site than it would be to construct a new one. “So what happens…
Residents will get to weigh in Tuesday on plans for a mass transportation study that could improve traffic along the I-75 and U.S. 41 corridors. A public hearing will be held prior to Cobb County hiring a consultant to provide an environmental impact statement for the Northwest Atlanta Corridor Alternatives Analysis Study. The county commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the government complex at 100 Cherokee Street in Marietta. Development of an environmental impact statement will provide a detailed description of the proposal, purpose and need, reasonable alternatives and…
Voters in Smyrna, Acworth and Kennesaw are deciding Tuesday whether Sunday retail alcohol sales will be allowed in their cities. The Marietta City Council has already put Sunday sales on the March 6 ballot. Voters in unincorporated Cobb may get to make the same decision in March. On the agenda of the Cobb Board of Commissioners Tuesday is a proposal to schedule a Sunday sales referendum on the same day as the March 6 primary elections. Cobb voters will go to the polls that day to elect party nominees for national, state and local offices, including president, the Georgia legislature, Cobb …
Following a city council agenda review session at 6 p.m. in the council chamber of city hall, the Marietta City Council will hold a meeting. The meeting is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. The Marietta Youth Council will be sworn in, the Emphasys Software Pioneer of the Year award will be presented to Daphne Bradwell and Hilda Bishop and the winners of the fire safety poster contest for fire prevention week will be recognized. The rezoning request for the RaceTrac located at 1400 Powder Springs Rd. is on the agenda tonight. The council meeting will air the last Saturday in November at 3 p.m. on …
