Dunwoody Council to Address Parks Bonds, City Contracts and Paving

The Dunwoody City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on a on the November ballot to acquire and improve parks across the city.

The resolution splits the financing package into halves: $33 million would improve parks that already exist and $33 million would be raised to acquire and remediate additional parkland.

The bonds would be assessed for 30 years and cost homeowners an estimated $60 per year for every $100,000 in value.

Tonight’s meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall, 41 Perimeter Center East.

The Council has considered the bonds since early spring. A financing package for transportation improvements had also been discussed around that time. However, the Council put the brakes on city financing for transportation funding, awaiting the outcome of a .

City Contracts

The Council will consider a host of new contractors to perform essential city functions starting in January 2011. The contracts will last three years.

City administration has recommended the firm Clark Patterson Lee perform numerous city functions, including; planning and zoning, public works, parks and recreation, and permitting and code compliance. The total contract is estimated to cost the city $8.3 million.

JAT Consulting and Calvin Giordano & Associates is recommended for a $4.9 million finance and administration contract.

Jacobs is recommended for a $760,000 public relations and marketing contract.

InterDev is recommended for a $1.2 million information technology contract.

Paving Roads

The Council is expected to award a $1.4 million paving contract to , Inc for resurfacing roads in Dunwoody.

The city has more than $1.8 million to treat city streets in 2011, according to a city report.

Any excess money leftover from the contract would go to repave city streets that are not on the 2011 schedule but are priorities for the city. Sixteen roads are scheduled for paving this summer.

 Other business

• Heather Chlup, a resident in the 4600 block of Brierwood Place, has applied for a special use permit that would allow her to teach music in a room above her garage. The city’s administrators have recommended a permit be issued to operate the business, with certain exceptions. For instance, no drum lessons would be allowed at the home nor recitals.
• The city will consider changes to the city’s zoning map to include new concepts for redeveloping Dunwoody Village and its distinctive precolonial-architectural style.

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