From the
beginning of the cityhood movement, some of us were lobbying for road
maintenance as a top priority. Unfortunately,
the City Council and most other city activists were pushing for disruptive UN
Agenda 21 implementation code adoption, excessive design work, transit village
development and fluff. The problems we experienced at Manget Way and Dunwoody
Club Forest are traceable to the still broken and abusive Zoning and Land Use
Plan.
From the
beginning in 2009, it looked like the consultants and vendors were running the
city and the city council obeyed their every command.
Roads
The
report of 25% road completion by Bob Mullin suggests that we have completed 75
lane-miles of 300 lane-miles total. The
6 lane-miles completed each year from 2009 suggests we have completed 48
lane-miles. The excess must be in the
intersections.
The
$34.301 million anticipated revenue and the decision to use the surplus of
$11.150 million for Public Works is good news.
We should have been spending $4 million a year on roads since 2009. Instead, we spent $2 million a year to repair
the base, mill and resurface 6 lane-miles a year and at that rate it would take
50 years. This $16 million roadwork shortfall
can be made up with surplus, like $11 million in 2016.
Dunwoody
reported spending $10 million on roads since 2009. 7 years at $2 million a year
would be $14 million. Was the other $4 million for sidewalks? See below:
2016
Proposed Budget Packet 8-29-15 pdf
“Dunwoody, Ga. June 17, 2015 – The City of Dunwoody is currently engaged in several
beneficial and exciting infrastructure projects in different phases of active
development and construction.
SUMMER STREET PAVING HEATS UP
The 2015 street
paving and street resurfacing program is starting to get underway and the city
is anticipating work beginning the week of June 15 and continuing for
approximately 10 to 12 weeks. The city intends to work on a total of 48
streets, which equates to more than eight (8) road miles of paving and
resurfacing.
(Since 2009, the city has invested over $10,000,000 in
repaving its roads. Each year, approximately 70% of the funding is directed
towards high traffic volume roads. The remaining 30% is applied to the lowest
rated neighborhood streets.)
In 2015 the City concluded the Request
for Proposal (RFP) process to rebid the City of Dunwoody Split Contract Service
model by which the City staffs a majority of government service functions. At
the conclusion of the RFP selection process, the City decided to bring in-house
five formerly contracted positions (Community Development Director, Parks and
Recreation Director, Economic Development Director, a part time Economic
Development Retention Manager, Human Resources Director and a Human Resources
Specialist). These new City employees, along with one new contract service
provider chosen from the RFP process presents a change in the makeup of
previous staffing structure which will be sensible to monitor and assess for a
customer service and performance standpoint.”
Source:http://dunwoodyga.gov/index.php?section=government_news_room&prrid=163
I agree
that the city’s department managers should be employees of the city and not
employees of the vendors.
Potential
Problems
The
Police budget increases look too high.
The City of Dunwoody GA 2016 Budget Report shows increases in Police
costs going from $5.862 million in 2014 to $8.160 million in 2016 or 35% of the
Budget. We think crime is up and Dunwoody
Police turnover is high.
If Clark
Patterson Lee receives 70% of permit fee revenue, I would question that
practice.
Wieland Georgetown
subdivision construction seems stalled.
It just sits there. It looks like Wieland can’t find enough 70 year old
bikers who can’t climb stairs to buy these homes.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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