City of Dunwoody Capital Committee Meeting, Friday 8:30 a.m.

Agenda & Documents

At our last City Council meeting, Mayor Deutsch created a short term committee to review a list of unfunded capital improvements to the City of Dunwoody as a starting point for our citizens to discuss & provide feedback (add/delete items); as well as comment on the feasibility of a bond referendum to fund those desired projects.  Several informational sessions will be held around the city in the coming month to discuss these items with the citizens in order to obtain feedback.  Mayor Lynn assigned myself, Catherine Lautenbacher and Joe Seconder to the Capital Prioritization Committee to revisit a list scored by council previously and she assigned Stacey Harris, Tom Lambert and Rob Price to review Federal Covid Grants (American Rescue Plan) of which a small amount may be used to fund other city infrastructure projects that are not appropriate for a bond.

Those capital lists currently have both parks projects and transportation projects that will need to be discussed and importance weighted.  If after public feedback the will of the citizens is to move forward for a bond on both topics, the bond questions on parks and transportation will need to be separated as I am told the law requires separate ballot questions.

Our Capital Committee Meeting is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall in the City Manager Conference Room where we will be reviewing the original list with Council scoring (white & yellow) against the staff list (white & grey) that provides feedback as to the feasibility and appropriateness of the projects.  In reviewing these lists we will need to think about shovel ready projects on land that we currently own or could own in short order, long term / short term funding feasibility for each project, attempting to fund amenities to serve all aspects of the community including geographic spread, serving citizen groups that are currently under-served and over all attempting to put forward a draft project list that the community can discuss at future meetings.

Friday's meeting is a preliminary starting point for discussions that will be had by the community and ultimately it will be the citizens of Dunwoody making the final decisions as to funding what projects they so desire.