City Bringing In Investigator to Look Into Council Leak

The Dunwoody City Council is working to fix a leak.

Monday, Mayor Mike Davis announced that the city will investigate how information.

Davis said the city would be hiring an outside investigator to find out how the leak occurred.

“It isn’t the first time this information has been leaked out when it should have been held in confidence,” Davis said Monday. “This has to stop. I’m prepared to take the necessary steps to make sure we don’t have a repeat performance.”

The city is hiring Bob Wilson, an attorney who conducts independent investigations, to look into the leak. Wilson investigated the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal.

“Mr. Wilson has no dog in this fight and will conduct a thorough investigation,” Davis said. “It would be pure speculation to say what the council may do with that information at this time.”

According to information first reported by The Dunwoody Crier, the City Council met on the morning of Feb. 3 to discuss the possible sale of the ‘PVC Farm’ property. The 16-acre parcel .

The Crier reported that the city met with a developer who wants to purchase the land to construct single-family homes and condos on the property.

Executive session portions of meetings allow municipal governments to meet in private to discuss matters of personnel and real estate. Information from such meetings is supposed to be confidential.

Nobody has been identified as the source of the information. But WSB-TV, which also contacted a local source with first hand knowledge of the meeting, had a similar report a few days later.

The discussions with the developer have been criticized and not only because of the leak.

Dunwoody resident Bob Lundsten questioned whether the city council actually had the right to go to executive session to sell land it owns to a developer of its choice.

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