Council to consider funds for widening airport’s concourse
The Atlanta City Council will consider legislation Monday to authorize the mayor or his designee to amend a contract related to widening Concourse D at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in order to increase the not-to-exceed amount to $365 million and to fund the initial construction phase of Concourse D North in the amount of $200 million (23-R-3519).
Other items on the agenda 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 №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 will be 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.
The Council’s Committee Chairs briefing will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the Council Chamber. 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.