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Vietnam War veteran Michael Dowda is one of 33 residents who live at 199 Grove Way and are being asked to relocate because their building has been deemed structurally unsound by the City of Roswell. They have until August to leave.

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By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Vietnam War veteran Michael Dowda slept in his car, hotels, even a warehouse before calling 199 Grove Way home in December 2020.

He had been on the waiting list for an apartment at the complex for more than two years.

The building, formerly known as Pelfrey Pines, consists of 40 units built in the mid-1980s. It sits within a half-mile of Roswell City Hall.

The property is owned by the Roswell Housing Authority and is managed by the Gainesville Housing Authority through a mutual agreement. The Roswell agency owns 55 other income-

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ATLANTA — Teachers were heading for the exits long before the COVID pandemic spurred the Great Resignation across all sectors of the workforce. And a new report provides further evidence that educators still have one eye on the exit.

State and local education officials say they are focused on slowing the continued exodus.

“It has always been a top priority of my administration to support those who directly support students – Georgia’s hardworking teachers,” State School Superintendent Richard Woods said. Woods first ran for office in 2014 on a platform of recruiting and retaining teachers.

“Unfortunately, we are going to lose many of those highly-qualified educators if we do not address the issues leading to burnout in the

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Cumming man charged in hit-and-run incident ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police cited a Cumming man June 30 for a hit-andrun he allegedly committed four days earlier.

The reporting officer went to the suspect’s address listed on his vehicle’s registration. The suspect told the officer that he did not think he struck another vehicle, but they did “get close.”

The officer told the suspect that the other driver attempted to flag him down after the collision, but he did not stop.

The suspect said he did not stop because “the other driver seemed aggressive,” according to the report.

The officer noticed a dent and scratch on the passenger side of the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect said he had bought the car within the past week, and the damage was present when he bought it. The officer went to the dealer who sold the car, who said the damage was not there when the car was sold.

Police cited the 30-year-old driver for hit-and-run and following too closely.

Truck driver stops in front of police car ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police cited an Alpharetta man July 2 for not having proof of insurance after he allegedly stopped his truck directly in front of a police officer.

The reporting officer was on patrol around the intersection of Old Milton Parkway and South Main Street around 11 p.m. when he saw a pickup truck sitting in front of Zaxby’s, which was closed. The officer drove around the building to ensure it was secure, and when he came back around, the truck backed up in front of the officer’s car

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The truck remained stopped in front of the officer’s car for about 20 seconds before the driver pulled forward toward the exit, according to the report. The officer ran the truck’s tag while waiting for it to pull forward. The truck’s information returned as having no valid insurance.

When the truck drove away, the officer pulled the driver over in the parking lot of Crust Pasta & Pizzeria. The driver showed the officer an insurance card on his cell phone, but the card only had coverage dates and no vehicle information. When the officer asked, the driver displayed another card that had the vehicle information but no coverage dates, according to the report.

The officer checked the Department of Revenue website, which displayed that the vehicle did not have valid insurance. The officer cited the 30-year-old Alpharetta man for having no proof of insurance and told him not to drive the vehicle until he obtained the insurance.

Woman cited in theft of Macy’s merchandise ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police arrested a Roswell woman after she allegedly stole $1,100 in merchandise from Macy’s at North Point Mall July 1.

A loss prevention employee told police the woman had entered a dressing room while carrying a backpack, shopping bags from other stores and merchandise from the Macy’s. When she left the dressing room, she did not appear to have the Macy’s merchandise anymore.

The employee checked the dressing room and said the woman had not left the merchandise there.

The employee then began watching the woman on the security camera to see if she would take anything else. He told police he saw the woman conceal items in her bags. Employees then confronted the woman inside the store and retrieved the store merchandise from her bags.

The report lists an Apple Watch and an iPhone among the items stolen.

Police arrested Pooja Shah, 35, of Roswell, on a felony shoplifting charge.

Man cited for theft of perfume gift set ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police cited and released a Lithonia man July 1 after he allegedly stole a $138 perfume gift set from Dillard’s at North Point Mall.

While working a security job at the Dillard’s, a loss prevention employee told the officer he saw the man pick up the perfume set and enter a dressing room.

The man then left the dressing room and exited the store into the main mall area.

The loss prevention employee checked the dressing room and did not see the perfume inside. The police officer located the man outside the store and asked him to give back the perfume set.

When the man gave the officer the perfume set, the officer escorted him back into the store.

The officer charged the man with misdemeanor shoplifting. The man also had a shoplifting warrant out of Chamblee, but Chamblee police did not want to extradite him, according to the report.

The officer released the man on a copy of his charge and barred him from Dillard’s.

Roswell man attacked after ATM withdrawal ROSWELL, Ga. –– A Roswell man was attacked July 4 after he withdrew money at a Wells Fargo ATM on Old Holcomb Bridge Way. The victim told police he withdrew $200 from the ATM, then drove home and parked in his usual parking space near his apartment.

As he approached his apartment door, he told police he heard movement behind him but assumed the noise to be a neighbor.

When he opened his door, a man pressed what he thought was a gun held to the back of his head.

The victim was then pushed into his apartment where he grabbed an empty beer bottle nearby and swung it at his attacker.

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Alpharetta ends glass recycling contract

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– The Alpharetta City Council voted unanimously July 11 to discontinue the city’s glass recycling contract with Republic Services, citing pickup reliability problems that have allegedly plagued residents for years.

Finance Director Thomas Harris said Alpharetta entered its current glass recycling contract with Republic in December 2017, hoping for a white glove pickup program that would collect glass recycling from local homes each week.

That hope was not fulfilled, Harris said, leading to massive complaints by city residents.

“They would take their bucket of glass to the curb, and they would not know when to bring it back from the curb, whether somebody would be there the next day or the day after,” Councilman John Hipes said. “If you’re going to do something, then you should do it. No service is better than bad service, and our residents were getting bad service on

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Alpharetta Finance Director Thomas Harris speaks to City Council members about the city’s glass recycling contract at the July 11 council meeting. this one item.”

In addition to complaints they have received, Harris reported that the glass recycling participation rate has been underwhelming, ranging from 15-20 percent of residents during most months

and 30 percent during the holidays.

Councilman Doug DeRito said the city has reached a crossroads with the waste hauler.

“We’ve attempted to work with (Republic Services) to address the issue of

glass collection, and I’m just going to be perfectly blunt: Republic has failed in their contractual obligations to pick up glass on a weekly basis throughout the

See COUNCIL, Page 15

Roswell sets qualifying period for vacant City Council seat

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell City Council signed a resolution July 11, calling for a special election to fill the unexpired term of Councilman Marcelo Zapata.

Zapata’s wife, acting under power of attorney, submitted his resignation letter in an email to Mayor Kurt Wilson on June 28 after the councilman had been absent from his post all year for medical reasons. Zapata’s term expires on Dec. 31, 2023.

Because the special election will be held in conjunction with the state and

federal elections on Nov. 8, the city will incur no additional costs for adding the Post 1 seat to the ballot. State law and the Roswell Charter require a special election within 60 days after the office becomes vacant.

The City Council set a qualifying fee of $540 for the seat. The qualifying period runs from Monday, Aug. 1, to Friday, Aug. 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at City Hall.

The agenda states, “time constraints did not allow for this item to go to committee.”

In other business at the July 11 meeting, the City Council agreed to abandon and sell about a quarter acre

of city-owned right of way near Gray Hawk Lane for $17,600.

Roswell Transportation Planning Manager Dave Cox told the City Council in March that a resident who lives adjacent to the parcel offered to buy the property because she had already been maintaining it for several years.

See SEAT, Page 15 Roswell City Clerk Marlee Press informs City Council members that the city is required to send all information for the November ballot to the Secretary of State’s Office by Aug. 10.

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Georgia ends fiscal year on a strong note

By DAVE WILLIAMS Capitol Beat ATLANTA — Georgia closed out fiscal 2022 last month with a bulging budget surplus fueled by a significant increase in tax revenue.

The state Department of Revenue collected $2.85 billion in taxes in June, up 14.2 percent over June of last year, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office reported.

During the full fiscal year, which ended June 30, the state brought in $33.09 billion in tax receipts, an in-

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A healthy surplus allowed Georgia lawmakers to adopt a $30.2 billion fiscal 2023 budget in April, just shy of the $30.3 billion fiscal 2022 mid-year spending plan, including pay raises for teachers and state employees as well as a $1.1 billion tax refund.

With tax collections still going strong, the outlook for the next state budget appears promising. However, inflation and the threat of a recession loom as reasons for concern.

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crease of 23 percent over fiscal 2021, as Georgia’s economy continued to rebound from the pandemic.

Individual income taxes last month rose 14 percent over June of last year, with payments up 6 percent and refunds down 32 percent.

Net sales tax collections in June increased 12 percent over the same month in 2021.

Corporate income taxes, typically more volatile than individual income or sales taxes, rose 47.2 percent last month over June 2021, with both payments and refunds up substantially.

Due to Kemp’s decision to suspend collections of the state sales tax on gasoline, gas tax revenues plummeted by 99.5 percent last month compared to June of last year.

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ATLANTA — Georgia’s new mental health parity law went into effect July 1.

Under the state’s new law, Georgia health insurers must cover mental health treatment at the same level they cover physical ailments “Parity kicks in immediately,” Rep. Todd Jones, R-South Forsyth, said about the new law.

Jones, along with Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur, co-sponsored the omnibus bill in the State House earlier this year.

“Georgia families hopefully have a greater opportunity to receive treatment they’re entitled to,” Oliver said.

“Folks that have not been getting adequate treatment: new funding is coming, new attention is coming.”

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Oliver – along with several other mental health advocates – pointed out that Georgians can report suspected parity violations to the state Insurance Commission. Reports of violations from residents would be key to ensuring the law is enforced, Oliver said.

Georgia’s new mental health law sends the message that “mental health matters and is just as important as your physical health,” Kim Jones, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Georgia, said.

Jones said that, under the parity law, a health insurer that offers out-of-network coverage for urgent medical services must also cover outof-network urgent mental health and substance abuse treatment.

The Georgia insurance department will soon hire a new mental health parity officer to help oversee the law, said Weston Burleson, director of communications for the agency.

Down the line, the department will collect and publish detailed information about how health insurers perform on mental health parity, Burleson added.

The mental health law also sets up a new MATCH (Multi-Agency Treatment for Children) team.

The team will start meeting soon and look carefully at the problem of Georgia children in state custody who lack stable placements, Oliver said.

“The issue of emergency placement for these children needs a lot of atten-

tion,” Oliver said, noting that some of these children are staying in hotels or offices.

The new law also helps set up mental health co-responder programs, Oliver said, with funds provided by the FY 2023 budget.

Co-responder programs pair mental health professionals with law enforcement officers to help respond to mental health and substance use crises. The programs often provide follow-up services as well.

Later this year, the state will solicit proposals from communities that want to set up assisted outpatient treatment programs. The new mental health law provides for five such programs on a “pilot” basis.

In these programs, courts – working with community mental health and law enforcement agencies – can require people to get treatment for mental health and substance use disorders.

Meanwhile, Georgia’s Mental Health Commission is planning another round of recommendations and sub-committees are meeting monthly, Oliver said.

The commission is keeping a close eye on the progress of the new law’s provisions.

“There’s a lot of work going to make sure that our oversight creates a successful implementation,” Oliver said.

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Georgia Power plans 12% hike in rates over next three years

By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — As Georgia consumers reel from rising grocery and gas prices, another aspect of everyday life may soon become more expensive: electricity.

Georgia Power announced in late June that it plans to increase its prices on electricity by about 12% over the next three years, with the biggest jump in costs planned for 2023. The company filed a request for the increase June 24 with the Georgia Public Service Commission, which must give its approval before the price jump can go into effect.

Georgia Power’s request, which consists of hundreds of documents and spreadsheets, contains a written testimony from Larry Legg, the company’s director of pricing and rates. The testimony states that if the rate hike is approved as written, a typical residential customer would pay an extra $14.32 per month — or about $172 for the year — in 2023.

Average monthly residential rates would then rise another $1.35 in 2024 and about 62 cents in 2025. The total three-year increase would add up to $16.29 per month, or $195.48 per year. The company defines a “typical” residential customer as one using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month.

Georgia Power says it will use the money it gains from the rate increase to invest in “strengthening and further securing the electric grid” and expand-

ing its use of clean and renewable energy.

“As our state continues to grow and the energy landscape rapidly evolves, we recognize and respect our customers’ focus on the reliability and resiliency of Georgia’s electric system, the expansion of our clean energy resources and Georgia Power’s continued ability to safely and reliably meet their energy needs,” Georgia Power CEO Chris Womack said in a statement.

“This request reinforces our commitment to meeting those needs while continuing to provide clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy for generations of Georgians.”

The company also said it plans to improve customer service and energy resource management systems, as well as increase its investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In total, the company says it plans to invest nearly $700 million in these initiatives.

The Public Service Commission will begin hearings on the proposed rate increase in September and is scheduled to make a final decision on Dec. 20.

The commission live streams its hearings on its YouTube channel.

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Evidence of a statewide teacher burnout epidemic first appeared in a 2015 a study from the Georgia Department of Education which found that nearly half of all new teachers hired since 2008 had left the profession.

Teachers cited “burnout” as the greatest factor in their decision to leave the classroom, according to findings in the Georgia’s Teacher Dropout Crisis study.

Further troubling was that nearly a third of the 53,000 teachers surveyed in 2015 said they would likely quit teaching within five years. A majority said they would not encourage their students to go into teaching.

“Unfortunately, we are at risk of losing many highly qualified educators if we do not take a careful look at the factors contributing to burnout in the profession,” Woods said.

Three factors cited

The 2015 study pinpointed three areas that led to burnout: number of and emphasis on mandated tests, the teacher evaluation method, and teacher participation in decisions related to their jobs.

Since the release of the 2015 report, state officials have responded by reducing the number of state-mandated tests, providing a $5,000 pay raise for teachers and adding the Georgia Teacher of the Year to the State Board of Education.

Last month, the GDOE released a follow-up report to the 2015 study, titled “Teacher Burnout in Georgia…

Voices from the Classroom.” A team of teachers from across the state was tasked with identifying root causes of teacher burnout.

Cherie Goldman, the 2022 Georgia Teacher of the Year from Savannah, served on the task force and said burnout exists across all grade levels.

“The data is clear, and I have seen it personally,” Goldman stated. “Every year Georgia is losing talented teachers to burnout.”

The group convened in 2021 and surveyed nearly 5,000 Georgia teachers. Based on the data collected, the task force presented recommendations for education policymakers on ways to mitigate teacher dissatisfaction.

The concerns are clustered around five areas: assessments, preserving and protecting time, pressures and unrealistic expectations, teacher voice and professional growth and mental health and wellness.

The reality behind the burnout

Treating teachers as valued partners with the best view of the classroom emerged as a key factor in stemming burnout.

“So many decisions are made [by people] who are no longer in a classroom, have been out for a long time, or who have never been in a classroom,” one 10-year elementary school teacher noted in the report.

The 35-page study includes recommendations teachers are hoping will help stem the tide of resignations.

A Georgia Department of Education spokeswoman said the department is working to develop ways to address the issues teachers cited in the survey.

“Some of our initial areas of focus will be classroom supply support for teachers, statewide mental health support, addressing the teacher evaluation system, and measures to address excessive local testing,” said Meghan Frick, GDOE communications director.

The fixes cannot come quick enough for one Fulton County teacher with more than two decades of classroom experience. Otherwise good teachers will continue to leave the profession, she said.

“It happens over time with teachers who are overworked, disrespected, and under-supported,” said the middle school teacher who asked not to be identified. “It shows in the form of stress, anxiety, lack of motivation, personality changes and other health issues.”

Though she is still in the classroom with no immediate thoughts of leaving, she says many teachers continually ask themselves, “Is this job worth it? Is this that for which I really signed up?

Or am I ready to quit?”

While pay is important, the focus on money alone is not enough to keep teachers motivated to keep teaching, she added.

In Fulton County Schools, teachers are among the top paid in the district, thanks to regular salary increases and bonuses. Yet, the district began the last school year with 143 vacancies, despite hiring 568 new teachers. The district ended the 2021-22 school year with more than 200 teacher vacancies.

During a presentation at the start of the last school year, Chief Academic Officer Cliff Jones noted teacher hiring is a year-round process to address persistent vacancies.

One recommendation from the Teacher Burnout Task Force is to provide annual pay raises along with step raises based at stages of a teacher’s career. In many districts, including Fulton, step raises based on years of teaching experience are more focused on the early and later years, with fewer increases in the middle years.

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Continued from Page 2 The victim stated he was possibly struck in the face with the gun. The attacker then demanded his money and if he had CashApp or Apple Pay. The victim was struck unconscious and when he woke up, his nose was bleeding.

The victim could not identify his attacker and stated that there may have been more than one person involved in the assault.

Caller fails in attempt to fool savvy woman ROSWELL, Ga. –– A man impersonated a police officer on the phone attempted to convince a woman that a warrant had been issued for her arrest June 27 because she had failed to appear for jury duty.

The caller identified himself as Deputy Wheeler, and he said she had the option to pay a fine in order to avoid arrest. The caller instructed her to drive to Atlanta to pay the warrant, but she realized it was a scam and reported it to police.

The victim did not lose any money in the incident.

Money taken from car while parked at bank ROSWELL, Ga. –– A total of $820 was stolen from the passenger seat of a woman’s vehicle while parked in the lot at Wells Fargo on Alpharetta Highway July 5.

The victim stated to police she had parked her car in the lot, and when she returned, a white plastic container she had left on her passenger seat with $820 in it was missing. The victim was going to deposit the money when she returned to her car.

The bank did not have security cameras outside and informed her to contact the police.

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Veteran journalist joins Appen Media as Forsyth County, Alpharetta reporter ALPHARETTA, GA – Appen Media Group announced July 7 that North Georgia journalist Alexander Popp will join its staff as a reporter. Popp will cover local government and public safety in Forsyth County and the City of Alpharetta.

Popp will report to Carl Appen, director of content and development, and will be based in Alpharetta.

“Having Alex jump on board is pretty energizing for us all,” Appen said. “He’s a seasoned reporter who already knows the area. It’s exciting to have that skill and context added POPP to our newsroom.”

Appen Media leaders hope that Popp will bring a seasoned, community-based journalism perspective to its coverage in the North Georgia area.

“It is an incredible feeling to be back in my home city, doing the thing I love most – telling stories and reporting the news,” Popp said. “Forsyth County and the North Fulton areas are some of the most interesting places in the state right now, and I’m really glad that I have a chance to get an insider’s view of it.”

Originally from the Alpharetta area, Popp graduated from the University of North Georgia in 2016 and subsequently spent a 6-month sabbatical Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail before starting work as a Forsyth County crime reporter in 2017.

Since then, he has worked as a newspaper editor in Dawson County and co-founder of an outdoor tourism business in North Georgia.

To contact Popp with news tips or story ideas, email alex@appenmedia. com or call (770) 847-7404.

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Governor extends gas tax break through the middle of August

By REBECCA GRAPEVINE Capitol Beat ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has extended the state’s gas tax holiday through Aug. 13.

The General Assembly suspended the fuel tax in March as pump prices began rising above $4 a gallon. Kemp extended that break in May and again on July 1.

The state gas tax is around 29 cents per gallon.

Kemp also suspended the state sales tax on locomotive fuel, which he said would help fight rising consumer costs.

“I am committed to fighting to ease the economic burden hardworking Georgians are facing due to disastrous policies from Washington politicians,” Kemp said.

Kemp said President Joe Biden’s administration had not done enough to combat inflation and rising fuel prices.

In June, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax (18 cents per gallon) until the end of September.

Biden has also ordered releases of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s emergency oil stockpile.

Georgia’s gas prices are about 50 cents below the national average, according to AAA. On Friday, Kemp also extended an April executive order declaring a state of emergency in Georgia related to supply chain disruptions. The order prohibits price gouging by gas station operators and relaxes some rules on commercial trucking in Georgia.

Kemp extended that executive order until August 13.

This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.

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North Fulton Community Charities to hold Back to School supply drive ROSWELL, Ga. — North Fulton Community Charities will hold its annual Back To School supply drive in late July to aid local families who struggle to afford their children’s school supplies.

The organization will collect new backpacks filled with school supplies at Elkins Pointe Middle School in Roswell July 25-27 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Last year’s Back To School drive helped more than 900 children in need in North Fulton.

“Our Back to School program helps to ease the financial burden of a new school year for struggling families in our community,” NFCC Director of Development MORGAN Sherri Morgan said. “A backpack filled with supplies can cost as much as $125. That’s money that families can save to put toward food, gas and housing.”

The charity is requesting backpacks suitable for elementary, middle and high school students. Financial donations can also be made to support the program. Estimated costs for

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A link to donate, as well as a list of necessary supplies for each school level, can be found at nfcchelp.org/ back-to-school.

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Children’s Development Academy receives highest state quality rating ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell nonprofit child care center Children’s Development Academy has received a three star quality rating from the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for 2022.

Three stars is the highest possible quality rating for a child care provider, and only 10 percent of the nearly 4,500 eligible centers receive the distinction.

Children’s Development Academy has maintained its perfect ranking since 2015.

“We are so incredibly proud to once again be awarded a Three Star Quality Rating,” DECAN academy CEO and Executive Director Maggie DeCan said.

“As a nonprofit preschool serving lowincome families in our community, it is especially important to us that we are providing the highest quality early education possible. The Three Star Quality

Rating is a testament to our teachers and school staff who wholeheartedly give their best to our kids every day.”

The academy has provided child care and education to children whose parents may not otherwise be able to afford it since 1967. The nonprofit now serves up to 200 children between the ages of 1 and 5.

Gov. Brian Kemp issued a letter congratulating the academy, noting the important role early childhood education plays in a child’s later life. Fulton County School Board member Katha Stuart praised the academy for its service to the community.

“Fulton County is fortunate to have the Children’s Development Academy in our community”, Stuart said.

“The high quality early education that they provide to at-risk children helps ensure all kids start kindergarten with the tools they need to be successful, which benefits not only those children, but our entire school community.”

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Continued from Page 1 based housing units that require tenants to earn below 80 percent of the area median income.

In March, Dowda and his neighbors received notice the property had been condemned because of structural issues and they would need to find someplace else to live. Many of the residents have lived there for more than 20 years and are elderly and/or disabled. They have until the end of August to leave.

Dowda, 74, said he’s worried about his friends and himself. He is a retired attorney and served in the U.S. Air Force for two years. He lives alone in his apartment with his dog, Alfie.

“These are good folks here and they deserve better,” Dowda said. “A lot of people here, they don’t understand this [Voluntary Tenant Relocation Program].

They may or may not have the mental capacity to be involved in this. To them, this is their last place to live.”

About 20 tenants gathered at the housing complex’s Community Room July 6 to hear about RHA’s plans to help them relocate. But, Beth Brown, executive director of the Gainesville Housing Authority, said they have exhausted all their options in Roswell and Alpharetta, forcing them to look in Cumming, Atlanta or out of state.

“My heart breaks for where we are right now,” Brown said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen if you don’t jump on board and help us help you.”

A similar meeting took place in May, but because of the urgency and challenges they’ve faced in finding housing, a second meeting was arranged to meet with residents. The situation comes two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when a moratorium went into effect banning evictions for failure to pay rent.

Over the years, Roswell city officials have been redescent of building new apartments, saying the city already has its fair share in North Fulton. In May, the City Council approved a text amendment to the Unified Development Code banning the construction of new standalone apartments.

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Areas around the building are supported by metal framework. The City of Roswell has declared the structure unsafe.

I don’t know what’s going to happen if you don’t jump on board and help us help you.”

BETH BROWN Executive Director of the Gainesville Housing Authority

History of issues

Margaret Fancher, 75, said she has a friend who’s been living at the apartment complex for 20 years.

While the pair have known each other for nearly six decades, Fancher said her friend can’t move to Athens to live with her, because it would take about four hours to get her to her doctor’s appointments in Roswell and back.

“This is a mess,” Fancher said. “It’s a giant mess. … When you look at the building itself, her doors don’t shut anymore. There are cracks. The air con-

ditioner compressor runs all the time.

They won’t fix anything, and they’re not going to salvage any of this. I feel sorry for everybody. This is the worst time of the year to move, too.”

Another resident, who is blind, said her sisters live close by and visit her as needed, but her main concern is that she will lose access to public transportation if she moves. She’s lived in her apartment since 2001.

This isn’t the first time residents

have raised concerns either.

In 2017, a mother said she and her family had been forced to sleep outside in a tent because of mold inside their apartment. Neighbors said they had repeatedly asked management to work on the problem but to no avail.

Brown told Appen Media after the meeting she became aware of the building’s structural issues soon after she joined GHA in 2012. Around that time, they hired an engineering company to assess the building. Then, in 2021, GHA applied for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, but the application was denied. The program provides tax incentives on new construction and substantial rehabilitation on existing properties with an eye toward the underprivileged.

From there, Brown said the City of Roswell inspected the building, rendered it unsafe and condemned it. Brown said GHA has since been working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, to relocate the 33 tenants. Out of the 33, Brown said 20 are still in need of housing.

“This was a very proactive approach

from the housing authority’s perspective,” Brown said. “We’re the one that initiated all the engineering studies, we reached out to HUD, we reached out to the city, we’ve just been taking this very proactively in order to make sure the residents are living in a safe and stable community. Unfortunately, things beyond our control have led us down the path that we are right now.”

Landlords wary of vouchers

Brown said HUD hired the Leumas Group to provide administrative support.

A staff member is on-site every weekday to answer questions and help with their Tenant Protection Vouchers, which do expire but can be extended under extenuating circumstances.

The vouchers, which were issued by the Marietta Housing Authority, are good for the rest of the tenant’s life and can be used anywhere in the country as long as he or she remains compliant with the program requirements.

The problem tenants are facing,

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Continued from Page 12 Brown said, is that Georgia is not covered under the Income Protection program, meaning landlords do not have to accept vouchers and can set income requirements.

“We’re trying everything we can do,” Brown said. “We’re working and trying to convince landlords to take vouchers, but we cannot make something that doesn’t exist, and we cannot force a landlord to take a voucher. So, we’re just going to continue to work with them.”

LaToya Ellis, tenant relocation coordinator with the Leumas Group, told tenants at the July 6 meeting that they can receive up to $1,600 to pay for transportation costs to scope out potential apartments, application fees, background checks and moving expenses, plus the security deposit.

In a typical project, Ellis said tenants would be asked to move voluntarily or face eviction procedures. While that may not be the case with this project, Ellis said this is a new path the housing authority is pursuing by bringing in the Leumas Group.

Ellis told tenants she understands many of them have roots in the community.

“I know you’re familiar with the area, but because of where we are right now, this is, unfortunately, the reality,” Ellis said.

Brown said housing authorities redevelop their properties all the time, because their housing stock across the country is typically between 50 and 80 years old. But, she said, this is the first time in her career that a building has been deemed structurally unsound.

“I’ve relocated hundreds of people,” Brown said. “I know how stressful it is.

I know how challenging this is. I know that your housing security is the most important thing in your life.”

GHA is working on a replacement plan for HUD to redevelop and bring the building up to code. The project is expected to take several years, and when completed, the tenants will be given the opportunity to come back.

“It would not only replace our existing housing but add additional affordable units to the mix as well,” Brown said. “… We’re working with the Department of Community Affairs, Roswell’s city government and other nonprofits to help us come up with the best plan, but as you can imagine, construction costs and the economy right now have had a major impact on the ability to build affordable housing.”

Brown encourages any owner or landlord who wants to work with GHA and is willing to take a voucher to email her at bbrown@gainesvillehousing.org, or call 770-536-1294, Ext. 205.

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Beth Brown, executive director of the Gainesville Housing Authority, and several staff members with the Leumas Group meet with residents at the apartments, formerly known as Pelfrey Pines, on July 6 to answer any questions about their relocation.

The 199 Grove Way apartments, formerly known as Pelfrey Pines, were built in the mid-1980s and sit less than a half-mile from Roswell City Hall. The property is owned by the Roswell Housing Authority.

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Alpharetta resident Margaret Culver speaks in favor of preserving some semblance of the city’s glass recycling program at a City Council meeting July 11.

Council: Continued from Page 3 city,” DeRito said. “That’s why we’re sitting here tonight talking about removing glass recycling from the city’s strategy.”

He said it was not for lack of effort from the city.

“We’ve been dealing with this issue since the day I got sworn into office on January 3rd, and we have not really had a glass recycling program instituted properly by Republic, and that’s a fact,” he said.

DeRito said the city has looked at other options to continue glass recycling and has heard many good suggestions from residents, such as scaling back collections to once a month or working with another municipality’s recycling program.

But those solutions would need to come after the current contract is terminated, according to council members.

“I’m not sure we completely exhausted all alternatives on that, I would personally like to see us try,” DeRito said.

Several residents spoke in favor of continuing the glass recycling program at Monday’s meeting, including Margaret Culver, who said she supports a monthly

Seat: Continued from Page 3 Cox said the city’s Unified Development Code required the developer of the Windfaire subdivision, where Gray Hawk Lane is located, to donate the parcel to the city during the planning and development process in case it later sought to connect the road to Woodman Place on Martin’s Landing. The city never pursued any such plans.

pickup option and thinks it would be unacceptable for Alpharetta to discontinue glass recycling altogether.

“I just feel like for a city of our resources, for us to not be environmentally responsible and recycle glass, is kind of a shame,” Culver said. “I think we need to find a solution before we just end this.”

Culver said that even though there are problems with the current arrangement, it makes no sense to put glass into the landfill when it can so easily be recycled.

“I just hope that we can consider all that and maybe come up with a solution before we cancel the program,” she said.

After voting to end their contract for glass recycling with Republic, many council members assured residents that this is not the end, and they promised to bring back a solution in the near future.

“While a decision of some sort will be made tonight, it’s not the end of addressing glass recycling,” Hipes said.

With the discontinuation of glass recycling in Alpharetta by Republic Services, Harris said residents should expect a refund from the city for prepaid services soon and should expect to see their waste management bill reduced by about $4 going forward.

In 1998, Roswell abandoned a sliver of right of way immediately north of the parcel via quitclaim deed at the request of several Martin’s Landing homeowners who wanted to prevent a future road connection.

Both residents on either side of the property have since expressed interest in purchasing the .2125-acre property.

Under the agreement, they will pay $8,800 each and split it evenly between them.

The next City Council meeting is scheduled for July 25.

ATLANTA –– A Johns Creek man has pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud after admitting that he defrauded a 79-year-old retiree of approximately $650,000.

Aziz Choukri, 59, pleaded guilty to wire fraud on June 16. Sentencing is scheduled for September 14 before U.S. District Court Judge Eleanor L. Ross.

“Fraud schemes targeting the elderly are a particularly egregious type of fraud that often deplete the victims’ entire life savings,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “This conviction affirms our commitment to prosecuting those who prey on our most vulnerable citizens.”

“The victimization of the elderly through financial scams represent one of the most significant types of cases the Secret Service investigates to combat fraud,” said Special Agent in Charge Steven Baisel of the U.S. Secret Service Atlanta Field Office. “Those who prey on the vulnerable and cheat them out of their life savings through their cunning lies and financial schemes must recognize that the Secret Service, along with our many law enforcement partners, will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and bring a measure of justice to the victims.”

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Of-

fice, in 2016, Choukri met the victim, then 79 years old, at a fitness facility in Alpharetta. Choukri cultivated a close relationship with the elderly victim to gain his trust. Choukri convinced the victim to invest almost $650,000 in his music management company, assuring him that the investment carried no risk and was guaranteed to earn a return.

Choukri promised that the victim would be compensated the full amount of any investment, plus interest, and even told him that he would guarantee him a $1 million return.

Rather than using the investment in a music venture, prosecutors say Choukri used the victim’s money largely on himself, for his daughter’s college tuition and sorority expenses, dental work for his girlfriend, payments to his girlfriend for tutoring and babysitting, and repayment of a personal loan. Choukri also transferred a significant amount of the victim’s money to his children’s accounts and withdrew thousands of dollars in cash.

Prosecutors say that Choukri’s accounts show that almost all of his income in 2016 and 2017 was from the victim.

This case is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service.

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Everybody knew Billy Bates: Part 1 Billy Bates was one of those rare individuals everyone in town knew or wished they did. Billy was a quiet man, devoted to his family, his country and community. He accomplished a great deal in his 95 years and helped many people. Here is his story.

William Shirley Bates (1926-2021) was born and died in Alpharetta. He graduated from Milton High School BOB MEYERS where he was senior class president.

In 1935, while a member of the Future Farmers of America Club in high school, he helped build a log cabin that today serves as a special event facility managed by the Alpharetta and Old Milton County Historical Society. It is one of the few original FFA log cabins remaining in the U.S. After graduating, he began his freshman year at Emory University. Then on Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Billy immediately joined the Navy. He served aboard the LST-1013 (Landing Ship Tank), one of hundreds of such vessels built to support amphibious operations during the war. He participated in the battle of Okinawa April through June 1945 and subsequent occupation. The Battle of Okinawa was the fiercest of the war.

Hacksaw Ridge, a famous battleground and later made into an award-winning movie, took place on the island during the Okinawa campaign. Kamikazes sank many U.S. warships and killed nearly 5,000 sailors during the operation which was the last major battle of the war.

Billy’s nephew Billy Bice recalls his uncle’s stories about Okinawa. Billy was assigned to 20 millimeter and 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and said that shells from Japanese fighter planes would fall at his feet when they bounced off the protective shield around his gun. He also served as a coxswain – the person in charge – of a Higgins Boat, a 36-feet-long plywood and metal boat that carried troops from the LST to the shore for battle. Higgins Boats were dubbed “the boat that won the war” and were frequent targets of Japanese kamikaze planes because of the troops on board.

Billy Bates was like a second father to Billy Bice.

“Uncle Billy taught me to fish when I was about 12 years old.”

Uncle Billy took his nephew to Alabama to Weiss Lake, one of Billy’s favorite fishing spots, known as the “Crappy Capital of the World.” Crappies are a mild-tasting fish prized by fisherman. Billy was also a serious fly fisherman and fished in numerous lakes and streams in Georgia for bluegills and similar pan fish. Florida was also a frequent fishing destination.

When the war ended Billy returned to Alpharetta. In April 1946, he and his father William Newton Bates (1900 – 1974) built the Bates Grocery store in a small cornfield across from today’s Salt Restaurant, in downtown Alpharetta, a rural community with a wartime population of about 650. Billy’s sister Peggy worked in the store and her husband William “Woody” Wood joined the business, making it Bates and Wood Super Market. Peggy and Woody are deceased.

Peggy worked in the store full-time beginning in 1968 handling the books and the cash register. She and Billy closed the grocery, the oldest market in Alpharetta, in 1986 after more than 40 years in business. Inflation was a problem back then just as it is today. When the store

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LST-1013 The Landing Ship Tank Billy served on during World War II. Here civilians enter the cargo deck of the LST which took them up the Okinawa coast to a refugee camp after the ferocious battle on the island.

Circa late 1945.

Every week before dawn Billy took his truck to the Farmers Market in Atlanta and brought back the best produce for his Bates and Wood Super Market in Alpharetta. Circa 1970s.

opened a loaf of bread cost 10 cents. It cost 85 cents when the store closed.

Billy’s son Bill worked in the store while in high school and every summer during college. He recalls getting up at 4 a.m. once a week and driving with his dad in his 1-ton stake bed truck to the Atlanta Farmer’s Market to arrive before daylight. They loaded the truck with potatoes, corn, grapes and many other produce items.

Billy had an amazing number of hobbies before and during retirement. Bill was a part of many of them. For example, they raised horses that Billy bought from a friend in nearby Lathamtown. One horse kicked Billy and broke his leg. Bill’s job was to break in the horses to bridle and saddle.

In a future column I will discuss some of his other family members and friends and describe the range of hobbies and contributions this amazing man made to our community.

Bob is the Milton Historical Society Director Emeritus.

You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.

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