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| Meredy & Denny Shortal |
My
fellow citizens ... the following are some update items of interest ...
1.
Storm ...
First,
our thoughts and prayers go out to our one citizen, that I know of, who was
injured and to all of you who sustained damage especially to those who had
their homes damaged ... some were damaged severely. We had approx. 38 trees
down in our streets around our city and by Friday at 6 AM approx. 30 of those
tree had been removed from the streets to provide for safe passage. The 8
remaining trees all had live electric, etc., wires entangled in the trees. FYI,
for the safety of our crews they are not allowed to touch the trees that are
entangled with wires. We owe a word of thanks to our crews that worked thru the
night, in trying conditions, to open our streets. Also my thanks to the GA
Power crews that worked around the clock to restore power. The lost of power
bring up a security item .... I highly recommend that those of you with land
lines have at least one of the "older fashion phones" that plug
directly into the wall ... as soon as you lose power those portable phones are
inoperative. This storm brings to mind that "mother nature" is
bigger, stronger and tougher than us.
Secondly
... Lets call it tree debris pick-up. We have talked to DC Sanitation Dept. and
I just got off the phone with the Dep Director. For a Standard Pick-up
that is properly prepared ... this basically means (1) cut in 4' or shorter
lengths, (2) tied and bundled or in containers and (3) of weights that can be
lifted by the man on the truck ... there will be extra pick-ups this Friday
and Saturday. For those bigger items ... large limbs, tree trunks. etc.
this is called a Special Pick-up and to have these items picked up you
have to call DC Sanitation @ 404-294-2900 to schedule someone to come out and
give you an estimate of cost (there are actually DC Sanitation Reps touring our
area as I write this giving estimates w/o being called). They tell me the cost
is roughly $50 to $100 / truck load (that appears to be a very fare price to
me). If you are not home when the DC Rep comes out they will attach the
estimate to your front door or mailbox. If you decide to have DC pick up the
items than you must prepay via one of the following four methods (1) auto phone
method, (2) on-line method [(there is a $4 charge for methods (1) & (2)]
... here is their website http://www.co.dekalb.ga.us/publicwrks/sanitation/index.html ... (3)
you send a check to ... DC Sanitation Division, 3720 Leroy Scott Dr, Decatur,
GA 30032 or (4) you can drive down and pay in person. Please keep in mind folks
there is a lot of yard debris around our city so your patience will be
required.
2.
Events ....
Earlier Tonight
(6/20) the Brook Run Food Truck Concert goes from 6 - 9 PM. My thanks to the
DHA for taking the lead of this wonderful community spirit building event.
Friday Night (6/21) "Dunwoody at Dusk" at the Park Place Shopping Center
takes place for 5:30 - 8:30 PM. Restaurants and retailer will be offering
special promotions. My thanks to our Chamber of Commerce for leading this
community building event.
June
22 - June 29 is Dunwoody Restaurant Week .... Consult this current week's Crier
for a list of all our outstanding restaurants that are offering special
deals.
June
25 ... City Council Work Session and Meeting .... 6 and 7 PM respectively. Note
this is a Tuesday!
June
29 ... Summer Concert at our Dunwoody Nature Center Park from 7 - 9 PM. My
thanks to all the folks at the DNC for putting on their summer concert series.
Come join us for a relaxing evening.
July
4 ... Dunwoody 4th of July Parade. The biggest Independence Day Parade in the
state of GA. Come view the parade with 30,000 plus of your fellow
citizens!
3.
Your Security ... In the last five days we have had 12 car break-ins
where items of value were in plain sight of the thief. These items were of
value from $50 to $4,000. Folks we just have to do better than this with
keeping items of value out of plain sight. If you have items of value that can
be easily seen from the outside of your car you might as well put a big
flashing neon sign on your car reading "Please help yourself to my
valuable items that you can see." FYI, it takes a theft about 30 seconds
to break into your car, take the items they see and be gone. Lets all takes
proper precautions and put this problems behind us.
4. That
is all for today. Thanks for all your support and words of encouragement.
Please pass this on to your friends, neighbors, members of your HOA or anyone
you think maybe interested. If you would like to be added to my update email
list just let me know and I will make that happen. Wishing each of you a
relaxing and rewarding summer months. Look forward to seeing you at some of our
"community spirit building events."
Denny Shortal
Dunwoody City Council, District One, Post-1
Mayor Pro Tem
PH (O) 678-382-6700 (C) 678-246-9006
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