Council to consider adoption of budget
The Atlanta City Council on Tuesday will consider adoption of the City’s budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which begins July 1, 2023 (23-O-1217). The general fund budget totals approximately $790 million. The Council will also vote on the adoption of the millage rate for the fiscal year (23-O-1187).
Other items on the agenda include:
• An ordinance to amend the City’s Charter related to taxation to increase the millage rate associated with the Park Improvement Fund from half a mill to one mill to generate additional revenue to support park improvements and to revise restrictions on how such funds may be used (23-O-1258). The legislation seeks to bolster the parks fund by approximately $16 million annually. As a Charter amendment, this will be the third of three required readings.
• A resolution urging Atlanta parents and guardians to not allow unaccompanied minors age 16 or younger under their guardianship to loiter, wander, stroll, or play in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds, public places, public buildings, places of amusement, eating places, vacant lots or any place unsupervised by an adult having the lawful authority to be at such places between the hours of 9 p.m. on any day and 6 a.m. of the following day and 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays (23-R-3750).
• An ordinance to enforce and promote the City of Atlanta’s Code of Ordinances related to offenses by and against minors to remove provisions imposing a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment in the city jail for not more than 60 days and to add requirements for attendance at certain educational programs as a condition of any probation (23-O-1306).
• An ordinance to amend the Atlanta Zoning Ordinance in response to the Georgia General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 1405, which aimed to clarify the process for certain zoning decisions and disputes (23-O-1201).
• A resolution to expand the boundaries of the Fulton Industrial Community Improvement District (CID) as authorized by Georgia General Assembly in the Fulton County Community Improvement District Act (23-R-3688).
• An ordinance authorizing the chief financial officer to amend the Fiscal Year 2023 Water and Wastewater Renewal and Extension Fund budget in the amount of $1.4 million and add funds to the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project to help utilize smart meters to improve accuracy in meter reads (23-O-1275).
• A resolution requesting that the mayor or his designee direct the commissioner of the Department of Public Works to close the old William B. Hartsfield Incinerator site due to potential health hazard and nuisances it poses to residents in the surrounding neighborhood (23-R-3686).
• An ordinance supplementing the restated and amended Master Bond Ordinance of the City of Atlanta, originally adopted in 2000, as previously amended and supplemented providing for the issuance by the City of Atlanta of its airport general revenue and revenue refunding bonds and its airport passenger facility charge and subordinate lien general revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $976,885,000 (23-O-1296). This financing incorporates a new funding portion of approximately $550 million to help finance significant projects at the airport and approximately $150 million of refinancings of 2014 Series B and C bonds.
• A resolution authorizing the mayor or his designee to execute a special procurement agreement with the Latino Community Fund Georgia to provide services as part of the Mayor’s Office of International and Immigrant Affairs Community Navigator Program for a term of one year in an amount not to exceed $123,200 (23-R-3751).
• A resolution authorizing the City of Atlanta to donate a total amount not to exceed $205,000 to various organizations pursuant to the City of Atlanta’s Charter to support public safety patrols and other public safety initiatives in Atlanta and authorizing the mayor or his designee to enter into any necessary agreements to effectuate the donation (23-R-3752).
• A resolution to transmit the 2024–2028 Capital Improvements Element, which includes capital improvements that the City intends to fund, in whole or in part, with development impact fees, to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Atlanta Regional Commission in compliance with the requirements of the Georgia Development Impact Fee Act (23-R-3625).
• An ordinance authorizing the execution of all documents necessary for the acquisition of certain property interests necessary for the Campbellton Road Complete Street Project, authorizing negotiations with property owners for the acquisition of such property interests, and authorizing title searches, appraisals, surveys, and any other items necessary for the acquisition of such property interests (23-O-1303). This item will be considered in committee of the whole before full Council consideration.
• An ordinance authorizing the acceptance of funds and to amend the Fiscal Year 2023 budget by adding to anticipations and appropriations awarded funds from the 2020–2025 Regional Transportation Improvement Program in an amount not to exceed $1.1 million for the funding of preliminary engineering for the Stitch Project (23-O-1287). This item will be considered in committee of the whole before full Council consideration.
• An ordinance authorizing the acceptance of grant award funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation in an amount not to exceed $1.2 million for preliminary engineering for the Peachtree Street Streetscape Project and authorizing the chief financial officer to amend the Fiscal Year 2024 Intergovernmental Grant Fund Budget (23-O-1288). This item will be considered in committee of the whole before full Council consideration.
• A resolution authorizing the City to enter into a project framework agreement with the Georgia Department of Transportation and a Project Management Agreement with Atlanta Downtown Improvement District for the Livable Centers Initiative Grant for preliminary engineering for the Peachtree Street Streetscape Project in an amount not to exceed $1.5 million (23-R-3667). This item will be considered in committee of the whole before full Council consideration.
• An ordinance to amend the Fiscal Year 2023 general fund budget to create a Civic and Cultural Event Support Trust Fund to fund future civic and cultural events as may be authorized by the Council and authorize the chief financial officer to amend the Fiscal Year 2023 budget by transferring $400,000 from the general fund non-departmental account to the trust fund account (23-O-1289).
• An ordinance ratifying actions by the chief financial officer or his designee in applying for technical assistance and grant funds for the Bond Markets and Racial Equity Program and to authorize the acceptance of grant funds in the amount of $50,000 for Fiscal Year 2024 (23-O-1304). The program seeks to create a new framework that centers racial equity in municipal bond-funded projects and capital investment.
Proclamations and recognitions will be presented in honor of Parks and Recreation Month, Family Food Fest, Immigrant Heritage Month, and Rich Wilkins/Men’s Focus Week.
The Committee on Council will convene in Committee Room №1 at 11 a.m. The full Council meeting will be held at 1 p.m. in the Council Chamber.
The meeting will be simulcast on the Council’s website, YouTube channel, Facebook and Twitter pages, and Channel 26. Closed captioning will be available on the Council’s Facebook page.
