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ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council approved legislation on Monday (May 1) to authorize the mayor or his designee to amend a contract related to widening Concourse D at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The amendment would allow the city to increase the contract’s not-to-exceed amount to $365 million and fund the initial construction phase of Concourse
D North in the amount of $200 million (23-R-3519).
Other items approved during the meeting include:
• A resolution urging the representatives of Georgia state government to mandate body-worn cameras for all responding Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Georgia patrol officers (23-R-3427). • An ordinance to ratify the City of Atlanta’s submission of an application for the Research Improving People’s Lives, or RIPL, Opening Workforce Doors grant program for pro bono system and staff support from the grant program to be utilized to develop a platform that has tracking and reporting capabilities as well as applicant registration and job matching functionality to support the summer youth employment program (23-O-1204).
• A resolution authorizing the City of Atlanta to donate as a sub-recipient American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Health Resources in Action in an amount not to exceed approximately $1.3 million for the purpose of administering grants to youth-serving nonprofits for the provision of outreach and life coaching services to city youth disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic that are at high risk of violent injury and death (23-R-3413).
• An ordinance to ratify the mayor’s April 2023 executive order imposing a moratorium on the acceptance of any new rezoning applications, building permit applications, land disturbance permit applications, special use permit applications, special administrative permit applications, subdivision applications, replatting applications or lot consolidation applications for parcels that are part of the current Atlanta Medical Center footprint (23-O-1202).
• A resolution authorizing an agreement to conduct a cost study for street-based sanitary services and general common good sanitary services, including solid waste collection and other services to include a review of existing and previous methods for fee assessments to ensure the City recovers the costs of the street-based and general services (23-R-3511).
• A resolution to find and declare that City of Atlanta Tax Allocation District No. 4 – Princeton Lakes is substantially complete based on achievement of the significant objectives of the Princeton Lakes Redevelopment plan (23-R-3419). Proclamations and recognitions were presented in honor of Juanita Baranco, Dr. Helene Gayle, and Arndrea King; Older Atlantans Month; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Strong4Life Raising Resilience Day; Tyrone Spears, president of Jardine Spears Autism Foundation; and the Anti-Gun Violence Campaign – Say Their Name Remembrance.
Items were introduced for consideration in committee, including: • A resolution requesting the Fulton County tax commissioner no longer sell the liens that are recorded by the City of Atlanta to private entities. • A resolution requesting the Atlanta Police Foundation provide quarterly in-person reports to the Public Safety and Legal Administration and Finance/Executive committees.
• A resolution requiring all City of Atlanta in-rem review board hearings to be added to the Channel 26 live broadcast schedule. • An ordinance to amend the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances so as to insert the words “criminal history status” in various code sections referencing non-discrimination and listing the bases upon which discrimination is prohibited.
• A resolution urging Congress to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament a centerpiece of the national security policy of the U.S. • An ordinance to amend Chapter 110, Article III, Division 1 of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances related to parks rules to add Section 110-78 to be entitled “Guidelines for Alcohol Consumption in City Parks” to make it lawful for any person over the age of 21 to possess or consume alcoholic beverages in public parks within Atlanta subject to certain conditions.
• An ordinance to amend Chapter 22, Article III, Division 7 Section 162-118 of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances to increase the taxicab fares and to repeal the provisions related to the flat rate zones. • An ordinance to request the issuance by the City’s Urban Residential Finance Authority of its taxable Series 2023 Revenue Bonds totaling $100 million for the purpose of assisting Atlanta Housing Opportunity Inc. in financing, on behalf of the City, additional elements of the Housing Opportunity Program and to authorize a third amended and restated intergovernmental housing cooperation agreement with Atlanta Housing Opportunity Inc.
• An ordinance authorizing the City of Atlanta to acquire from the Conservation Fund four parcels comprising approximately 46 aggregate acres of real property located within South River Forest for development as a park at a total purchase price not to exceed approximately $1.6 million. • An ordinance authorizing the mayor or his designee, on behalf of the City of Atlanta, to execute all documents necessary for the acquisition of certain property interests necessary for the Monroe Drive Complete Street Project.
• A resolution urging the representatives of Georgia state government to mandate body-worn cameras for all responding Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Georgia patrol officers (23-R-3427). • An ordinance to ratify the City of Atlanta’s submission of an application for the Research Improving People’s Lives, or RIPL, Opening Workforce Doors grant program for pro bono system and staff support from the grant program to be utilized to develop a platform that has tracking and reporting capabilities as well as applicant registration and job matching functionality to support the summer youth employment program (23-O-1204).
• A resolution authorizing the City of Atlanta to donate as a sub-recipient American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Health Resources in Action in an amount not to exceed approximately $1.3 million for the purpose of administering grants to youth-serving nonprofits for the provision of outreach and life coaching services to city youth disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic that are at high risk of violent injury and death (23-R-3413).
• An ordinance to ratify the mayor’s April 2023 executive order imposing a moratorium on the acceptance of any new rezoning applications, building permit applications, land disturbance permit applications, special use permit applications, special administrative permit applications, subdivision applications, replatting applications or lot consolidation applications for parcels that are part of the current Atlanta Medical Center footprint (23-O-1202).
• A resolution authorizing an agreement to conduct a cost study for street-based sanitary services and general common good sanitary services, including solid waste collection and other services to include a review of existing and previous methods for fee assessments to ensure the City recovers the costs of the street-based and general services (23-R-3511).
• A resolution to find and declare that City of Atlanta Tax Allocation District No. 4 – Princeton Lakes is substantially complete based on achievement of the significant objectives of the Princeton Lakes Redevelopment plan (23-R-3419). Proclamations and recognitions were presented in honor of Juanita Baranco, Dr. Helene Gayle, and Arndrea King; Older Atlantans Month; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Strong4Life Raising Resilience Day; Tyrone Spears, president of Jardine Spears Autism Foundation; and the Anti-Gun Violence Campaign – Say Their Name Remembrance.
Items were introduced for consideration in committee, including: • A resolution requesting the Fulton County tax commissioner no longer sell the liens that are recorded by the City of Atlanta to private entities. • A resolution requesting the Atlanta Police Foundation provide quarterly in-person reports to the Public Safety and Legal Administration and Finance/Executive committees.
• A resolution requiring all City of Atlanta in-rem review board hearings to be added to the Channel 26 live broadcast schedule. • An ordinance to amend the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances so as to insert the words “criminal history status” in various code sections referencing non-discrimination and listing the bases upon which discrimination is prohibited.
• A resolution urging Congress to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament a centerpiece of the national security policy of the U.S. • An ordinance to amend Chapter 110, Article III, Division 1 of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances related to parks rules to add Section 110-78 to be entitled “Guidelines for Alcohol Consumption in City Parks” to make it lawful for any person over the age of 21 to possess or consume alcoholic beverages in public parks within Atlanta subject to certain conditions.
• An ordinance to amend Chapter 22, Article III, Division 7 Section 162-118 of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances to increase the taxicab fares and to repeal the provisions related to the flat rate zones. • An ordinance to request the issuance by the City’s Urban Residential Finance Authority of its taxable Series 2023 Revenue Bonds totaling $100 million for the purpose of assisting Atlanta Housing Opportunity Inc. in financing, on behalf of the City, additional elements of the Housing Opportunity Program and to authorize a third amended and restated intergovernmental housing cooperation agreement with Atlanta Housing Opportunity Inc.
• An ordinance authorizing the City of Atlanta to acquire from the Conservation Fund four parcels comprising approximately 46 aggregate acres of real property located within South River Forest for development as a park at a total purchase price not to exceed approximately $1.6 million. • An ordinance authorizing the mayor or his designee, on behalf of the City of Atlanta, to execute all documents necessary for the acquisition of certain property interests necessary for the Monroe Drive Complete Street Project.