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Johns Creek City Council sets goals for 2023
By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — With a momentum-heavy approach, the Johns Creek City Council spent the Jan. 27 weekend nailing down strategic priorities for this year at its annual planning retreat.
City officials spent the weekend in a conference room at the AC Hotel in Greenville, S.C., to identify five priorities and 10 secondary focuses that will receive regular staff updates.
Johns Creek Assistant City Manager Kimberly Greer facilitated discussion, steadily keeping the City Council out of minutiae.
“I’ll just say I think you’re a morning person,” Mayor John Bradberry said of Greer, whose energy could have easily shaken sluggishness.
With a swift vote from the City Council, Greer wrote municipal elections and Creekside Park as the first two strategic priorities on a five-colored wheel posted on the dryerase wall.
After considering a host of other proposals, the City Council added Town Center, economic development and the “gigantic elephant” that is Recreation and Parks to complete the list.
Establishing municipal elections
Following Milton’s lead, city councils across North Fulton in the last week have discussed the potential of self-administering municipal elections. The Johns Creek City Council decided to investigate operating its own municipal elections at its Jan. 23 work session.
As she did at the work session, City Councilwoman Erin Elwood urged her colleagues at the retreat to await final word from Fulton County on the price it would charge to run the election as it has in years past. She said the county’s proposal is expected Feb. 1. She said if cost is a true factor, the City Council should examine the county proposal before deeming municipal elections a strategic priority.
“We will have said that we’re not going to do something else awesome because we’ve chosen to do [municipal elections] instead,” Elwood said.
But the option stuck. Bradberry remarked on the need for the City Council to have an aggressive posture on the issue of municipal elections.
“...For this point in time, it’s the posture of the Council,” Bradberry said. “And that’s where we need to be
