Video and short recap of the October 11th Dunwoody City Council Meeting

Video of Part 1 (3 hours)

Video of Part 2 (1 hour 10 min)

Abbreviated meeting recap. Original Docs.

We allowed more signs for the Run Dunwoody Race and approved the repaving of Dunwoody Club.  I was conflicted on spending the money early for the repaving above higher rated streets and wanted more room for bike lanes but in the end I couldn't pass up the price for the work nor the $70,000 in LARP funds that with the state's financial issues might not be available next year.  The sign ordinance was back with another first read, I was completely thrown for a loop that only now the city's contracted sign attorney publicly gave input.  I personally asked for this previously, was told that it was done and glad I pushed again after the last deferral.  Though I am thankful for the public presentation; her points needed to be incorporated months ago before drafts were sent to Community Council and Planning Commission.  The reworked item will be published for public for review by next Monday and then possibly voted up or down on the 25th (again without the official review of several committees of the final product).  We deferred Accessory Buildings.  We discussed the budget and are dropping three additional officers but look to be adding the two requested Sargents (Day & Night shifts) to alleviate the lack of managerial backup. The City is also implementing a one time policy whereby in late 2011 officers could sell back 40 hours of vacation time if they have accrued 80 hours of leave; whereby this will put additional man hours on the street without any additional overhead of equipment.  We discussed the proposed audio visual system that will be streaming and archiving video of all future city meetings.  911 was a huge topic, DeKalb is non-responsive to our requests, Chattcom is a fixed price with a nice service package whereby we can use them as a short term fix and/or we are still exploring starting our own 911 system.  Parks Master Planning process is about to start and we heard that seven benches will be installed at the Brook Run playground this Thursday. (Smile, it has been a long time coming.)  Sidewalk policy was discussed and though most of Council still wants to make school areas a priority; we also need to find solutions for Happy Hollow, Valley View and Mount Vernon which are away from schools but still have a great need.  The suggestion of a divided list was proposed and Public Works will be getting back to us with a possible solution.  We dismissed the street seal coating idea and decided to keep the same Council meeting schedule of one work session and one voting session per month.  Hopefully not all of our meetings are as long as tonight.  The meetings started at 7 pm and at 11:30 we then went into Executive Session to discuss real estate, law suits and personnel matters and I wasn't off the clock until 12:30 am.  If there are typos above please forgive me.