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Ponce de Leon Place (near intersection with West Ponce de Leon Ave), Decatur GA (pic submitted by Owlish)

As promised by the City Manager at Monday’s commission meeting, Decatur’s 2011-2012 proposed budget is now online!

There’s always lots of great little tidbits of information in this most-readable of city budgets around.  Here’s just one example that had me exclaim “Thank goodness!” out-loud.

It is anticipated that by the end of fiscal year 2011-2012, the City in cooperation with the Decatur Downtown Development Authority, will have facilitated the sale of the Decatur Holiday Inn to a new investment company who will provide significant upgrades to both the hotel and the conference center and will also be providing on-going management and maintenance services for the Conference Center.  This will allow the City to use some of the net assets accumulated from the hotel/motel tax and management fees for other purposes.  It is recommended that the City provide up to $200,000 in funding towards replacing the drainage and irrigation system and sod on the south side of the Courthouse Square as a match to stimulate funding from other sources to cover the cost of the balance of the project.

More interesting little snippets as I find them!

Both Rus (above) and Kevin (below) send in great photos of the demolition that’s begun at the old McKinney’s Apothecary building at 542 Church Street to make way for the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education teaching center, as we reported here in April 2010.