Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A former Supreme Court Justice is looking to mediate a dispute that Mayor Mike Davis asked Councilwoman Adrian Bonser to step down, while she faces charges she leaked privileged information.
What began as probably the most public brawl in Dunwoody's short history could be solved behind the closed doors of the conference rooms of Dunwoody's inauspicious City Hall. In case you've been under a rock, Councilwoman Adrian Bonser has been very publically defending herself since the spring from charges that she leaked confidential city information related to the city's largest redevelopment project to date - "Project Renaissance." The 35-acre project could be a signature redevelopment on the city's eastern gateway. Bonser was accused of talking about the project because she wanted to help undermine it, according to a May independent investigation commissioned by the city. Fast forward to now. Every single city council member has had …
Monday, September 17, 2012
The ethics board is scheduled Tuesday and could decide on ethics complaints against various council members.
Dunwoody's ethics board could meet Tuesday for the first time with city council members, all of whom face an ethics complaint. Councilwoman Adrian Bonser was named as the source of a leak in a city investigation from a closed session about "Project Rennaissance," a redevelopment project in Georgetown. The city released the report in February and all of the other council members named Bonser in a complaint that went to the ethics board about the breach of executive session. Bonser then filed a counter complaint naming every other council member for participating in closed sessions about "Project Renaissance" that should have been open to the public. The ethics board prepared at their last meeting to hear from council members who wanted to …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The historic farmhouse has become a city park in need of donations.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The historic Donaldson-Banister farmhouse in east Dunwoody will be open to the public for a fundraising event from noon to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30, according to the Dunwoody Crier. The house, a designated city park, is following up on a June event that was hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation Trust. The public can see the house and tour the grounds, according to the report. The fall event will again be funded by a $5,000 donation by City Councilwoman Adrian Bonser, her husband Brian, and the Gendell Family Foundation. The Bonser led events have been pushing hard to open the house and public park to the public.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The council voted to approve the position during its meeting on Monday night.
The Dunwoody city council has approved the appointment of a hearings officer, a position that has stemmed from an ongoing ethics complaint against another city councilperson. The Neighbor Newspapers is reporting that the council approved the position during its meeting on Monday night. Councilwoman Adrian Bonser has been the focal point of ethics charge when a spring investigative report named her as a leaker of confidential city information. Since then, she has filed counter complaints naming all other members of the city council for meeting in an unauthorized closed session. Now that the position has been approved, the hearings officer will rule on evidence that will become a part of the ethics process if it moves forward through the …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Bonnie Brucker released a letter recently that says she discussed confidential information about a city property deal with Councilwoman Adrian Bonser prior to Bonser's vacation. Bonser speculates Brucker may have snooped through files.
Speculation about who leaked information about a major Dunwoody redevelopment deal has raged for months. In a March investigative report, written by former DeKalb DA Bob Wilson, it named former City Attorney Brian Anderson and Councilwoman Adrian Bonser as the leakers. Well, things just got more complicated - or more simple? Bonnie Brucker, a former house sitter for Bonser, has come forward with a letter (attached to this article) that claims Bonser discussed details of the confidential "Project Renaissance" property deal at Bonser's home. Brucker claims the conversation came the night after a Feb. 3 executive council session where the deal was discussed. Brucker writes she had no real idea what she was getting herself involved in. "For …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Dunwoody is using two legal standards to shield public documents in ongoing ethics probe.
An Atlanta-area lawyer associated with the Georgia First Amendment Foundation says Dunwoody could be applying the state's open records law unevenly in its ongoing ethics case. The investigative findings, commissioned by former DeKalb District Attorney Bob Wilson, was publicized and widely released in May to the public through the city's website. The report named Councilwoman Adrian Bonser and former City Attorney Brian Anderson as leakers of confidential city information gleaned in city executive sessions about "Project Renaissance" a redevelopment deal in Georgetown. Since then, as the city's formal ethics process has moved forward, officials have turned off the spigot of public information related to the case. The ethics case now …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Bonser's attorney says they could seek depositions of city council members and Mayor Mike Davis in the event of a hearing.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Counwilwoman Adrian Bonser is calling for the dismissal of the ethics complaint against her, and says she might seek depositions from members of the city council and a city development partner to defend herself if an ethics hearing moves forward. Bonser is alleged to have leaked information about the development of what is now know as "Project Rennaisance" a 35-acre redevelopment planned for Georgetown with John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods. "While dismissal of the complaint is clearly warranted at this time, if the board precedes to a hearing, Dr. Bonser requests the opportunity to conduct discovery beforehand," according to a response filed with the city by her attorney. "She would like to send a request for production of documents to…
Friday, July 13, 2012
The city's position is that Councilwoman Adrian Bonser's response can be held private under a part of the state's Open Records Act.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser on Friday filed a response to an ethics complaint against her in the required time frame. Officials with the city of Dunwoody, however, said they will not release the response, citing an exception to the state's Open Records Act. Specifically, the section of the state's Open Records Act that the city cites says that "records consisting of the material obtained in investigations against public officers" is exempt from inspection by the public for a period of time. City officials said that the records would be available 10 days after the "conclusion" or "termination" of the city ethics investigation, which is now in front of the city's ethics board. The move seems to be a change of course. City officials recently …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
A number of procedural issues need to be handled before a complaint against Councilwoman Adrian Bonser or her counter-complaint against city council members could be heard.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The ethics board was scheduled Tuesday to discuss a complaint that Councilwoman Adrian Bonser leaked confidential information from city executive sessions. The board was also set to discuss a counter complaint from Bonser that the rest of the city council members called an unauthorized executive session from which she is alleged to have leaked information from. It discussed neither. The ethics board put the brakes on handling the substantive parts of the complaints, while they began to set up the process for how they could eventually be heard. First, the board will need to adopt specific bylaws for the board to follow. The board had requested a set of rules in 2010, but the document was never finalized by then-city attorney Brian Anderson…
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser asks independent attorney and city ethics board members to recuse themselves in a complaint alleging she leaked confidential city information. "Closing the books on this matter without further time and expense" is the right thin
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Councilwoman Adrian Bonser is asking the city's newly hired independent legal counsel and members of the city's ethics board to recuse themselves in a case alleging that she leaked confidential city information. The four-page letter - written by an attorney representing Bonser - says that outside attorney Richard Carothers was hired to protect the members of the city council who made the ethics complaint against Bonser. The complaint, signed by every member of the city council except Bonser, alleges she talked outside of executive session about "Project Renaissance," a land redevelopment deal in Georgetown. The letter also claims that the Carothers hire was tainted by the involvement of City Manager Warren Hutmacher, who Bonser filed a …
Mr. Bill
2:26 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
The bottom line is that Bonser has proven once again she is not to be trusted. She talked out of school on the original issue. Tried to cover it by attacking the rest of the Council with totally false charges, and tried to destroy the reputation of one of her few friends, Ms. Brucker, who came out and told the truth. This run to the press before the mediation is even complete is just another … more ›