Modular Classrooms, Retirement Amendment, and Road Prep for Repaving
Decatur Metro | June 18, 2012
A variety of items on the Decatur City Commission’s agenda for this evening…
- Vote on amendment to City of Decatur Retirement System to provide a Postponed Retirement Incentive (PRI). According to a note from Asst. City Manager Andrea Arnold “This amendment will provide the option for retaining long-term, experienced employees who could otherwise retire from city employment.”
- CSD looking for approval of three modular classrooms at Oakhurst Elementary
- Master Site Plan Approval for Public Works renovation
- Proposed extension of agreement with Latham Home Sanitation, with a 2% ($1.50) increase in the amount paid to the city per ton of recycling from $74.50 to $76.
- Avery Street, Fayetteville Road, Oakview, Pinetree, Cemetery path system and East Trinity in front of Fire Station #1 to be prepped for GDOT repaving
- Revisions to city fees include: increase non-resident pool fees from $2-$300 to $3-$350. Reducing fee for production of a city-wide tax file from $500 to $100. Increasing film permitting fee to $150 from $100.
Decatur Public Works rendering courtesy of Commission Agenda
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From $2 to $300 and from $3 to $350. (whistling sound) I guess we don’t want non-residents in the pool.
Oh and can I get an English teacher to let me know if that counts as a double negative? Thanks.
Site plans for public works includes re-zoning to become classified as “institutional.” What is an example of something that would fit within institutional zoning?
I would guess a school.
It is a change in the daily fee from $2-$3 and the annual fee from $300-$350.
Hope that clears things up
I haven’t seen it for myself yet, but I’ve heard a lot of stories of tremendously over-crowded city pools. If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t mind seeing fees go up more than $1 for non-residents.
Here’s the report and discussion regarding the over-crowding issue…
http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/01/17/decatur-pool-admissions-increased-24-last-year-prompting-overcrowding-concerns/
Now I’m just confused. The city’s website doesn’t match that at all for non-residents.
http://www.decaturga.com/index.aspx?page=179
Yesterday, I paid $8 for my 19 month old and myself to visit the McKoy Pool. $3 for her and $5 for me. We are nonresidents. The desk worker asked if I had a resident card and I told her we weren’t city residents. She asked everyone in line when I was standing there for a residency card.
What’s a resident card? I have a driver’s license. Does that count?
The pools website says theyll issue a resident card when a resident presents a tax bill. A license isn’t good enough since people like me have a license that says Decatur & 30030 but live in unincorporated Dekalb.
You can a resident card at Glenlake Tennis Center. You have to present proof of residence inside the city limits – a tax bill would be the easiest, I would think, that’s what we brought.
The resident card will let pay the daily resident fee to get into a city pool. You can also get a pool pass (for the whole summer) at the tennis center the same way. Proof of residency will let you pay the lower rate for the pass or you can get a non-resident pass for the higher fee.
(Thanks to the poster above who clarified the increase in fees, by the way. That was confusing to me as well.)
With over $4,000 a year in city taxes I am glad they are finally charging residents more than no-residents. City of Atlanta, DeKalb & Gwinnett have been doing this for years
GDOT is repaving residential streets? LIke Pinetree? As a bicycle rider, I’d say Pinetree shouldn’t get repaved before East and West Parkwood which are literally patches touching patches. Pinetree is a bowling lane compared to some of the others around here.
City doesn’t get to pick the streets to get repaved. They send a list of worst streets to GDOT and GDOT tells City which ones they’re willing to do. They only do a few (repaving funds have declined massively the past few years) and City never has known why (or how) they pick from the list. You’d think they’d do the top 3 or something like that. Gotta hand it to the the GDOT – they keep you on your toes!
In this issue of Decatur Metro we have the “lost” generation of educated folks not being able to find jobs and in progressive Decatur, we have a keep the retirement generation working. Really!! How about not doing that and hiring some of the graduates with student loans to pay back? Let the retirement age folks go do something else and volunteer for a change to give back.