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By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Parks and Recreation Director Tom McKIveen asked the Milton City Council for guidance March 21 to draft an ordinance that would allow the city to rent out the former Milton Country Club clubhouse. The city acquired the property, which was previously a golf course and club, in February 2018 using a portion of the voter-approved $25 million greenspace bond. The property consists of two components –an active component for recreation programs and facilities and a passive area for undeveloped land. The former clubhouse will be home to recreational activities and a community center. Community Development Manager Bob Buscemi said the city is waiting for the furniture to be delivered, and then the city will be ready to host a grand opening for the public in April. In the meantime, McKIveen recommended drafting an ordinance to rent out all three rooms inside the clubhouse for a rate of $150 an hour for Milton residents and $225 an hour for non-residents with a two-hour minimum and $500 security deposit. The total capacity of the building is 216 people. The city already has three rental facilities – Community Place at City Hall, Broadwell Pavilion and Bethwell Community Center. Residents are charged

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The former Milton Country Club clubhouse is set to reopen in April. The city acquired the property in February 2018 using a portion of the voter-approved $25 million greenspace bond. $50 an hour for a two-hour minimum and non-residents are charged $75 an hour. The security deposit for each varies between $50 and $350. By comparison, McKIveen said the City of Alpharetta rents out its Arts Center for $500 for a three-hour block and $100 for each additional hour. It has a capacity of 200 people, and the security deposit varies on the type of event. McKIveen said the community room at the Pinckneyville Community Center in Gwinnett County is also rented out for $115 an hour with a capacity of up to 180 people. Additionally, half the room is available for $65 an hour with a capacity of about 60 people. McKIveen recommended going through an application process to rent out the former Milton Country club clubhouse rather than having individuals

reserve the property. He added that the space will come with rental tables and chairs, and if a cleaning fee is required, it will be charged to the renter. “It’s a beautiful building, and we want to really encourage our renters to take care of it,” McKIveen said. In other business at the meeting, Communications Director Greg Botelho presented a game plan on naming cityowned properties, beginning with the former Milton Country Club. He said that in recent years the city has purchased and opened several properties that have yet to be named in an effort to lay out a clear, defined use for each. But by naming them, Botelho said he hopes it will help create a sense of place in the community that reflects

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ATLANTA — With the passing of “Crossover Day,” the roster of remaining legislation before the 2022 Georgia General Assembly is clear. Crossover Day, the 28th day of the legislative session on March 15, marked the deadline by which legislation can pass between the House and Senate. The bicameral body will adjourn on April 4, called Sine Die. One issue of shared support is H.B. 1013, called “The Mental Health Parity Act,” which would require healthcare plans to treat mental health and substance abuse disorder the same as a broken bone or heart attack. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Todd Jones (R-Cumming) and Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur). A Senate Health and Services subcommittee is reviewing the bill. “Not any one bill is going to fix everything, but in terms of taking a good first bite of the apple, this is an ambitious and laudable piece of legislation,” Sen. Michelle Au (D-Johns Creek) said at a March 20 town hall. The subcommittee is tasked to review the 77-page bill. The budget bill, signed by Gov. Bri-

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Police add skills in de-escalation tactics By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The Milton Police Department has received nearly $160,000 in grant funds over the past year for use of force and de-escalation training. Milton Police Chief Rich Austin presented a short video to the City Council March 21, in which Capt. Shawn McCarty said the funds have gone toward the purchase of a use of force simulator, defensive tactics training, jiu-jitsu mats and officer wellness training. In 2021, the Milton Police Department was one of over 60 agencies across the state to receive a grant from the Georgia Criminal Justice Council to bolster their de-escalation and defensive tactics knowledge, skillset and philosophy. The Milton Police Department was awarded $119,323, and after re-applying for the grant late last year, it received an additional $39,000 to continue with its training. In the video, Lt. Chris Ward, who oversees the Milton Police Department’s training, said the simulator is at the newly formed Milton-Alpharetta Training Center on the corner of Crabapple Road and Broadwell Road. Ward said both police departments share the use of force simulator to practice realistic scenario-based situations. While the simulator also provides firearms training, it mainly serves to show officers how their use of force decisions can lead to different outcomes. Ward said that by sharing resources, local law enforcement continues to take a more regional approach to their training efforts. “They (Alpharetta) had the facilities, and we had the equipment, so we have a dedicated room to where the simulator is set up 24/7, 365,” Ward says in the video. “Instructors can take officers in at all hours. We can even take officers in there in the middle of the night while they’re on shift one at a time and

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do scenarios with them whenever we have some extra time.” Additionally, Ward said, the Milton Police Department has partnered with a Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym to use their facility, techniques and training for the defensive tactics portion of the grants. Ward said the department plans to use these skills to build officers’ confidence in situations where they are forced to engage others in hand-to-hand confrontations. “The end goal is to give our officers

[the] abilities and skills so if they have to protect themselves, they can protect themselves using their hands versus having to escalate the situation into other force options,” Ward says in the video. In 2020, the Milton Police Department instituted changes to its guidelines on how and when officers may use force in the line of duty. The new policy was modeled after the Camden County, New Jersey, Police Department’s use of force policy, which was produced in conjunction with the New York University School of Law’s Policing Project. The program emphasizes that officers must do everything possible to respect and preserve the sanctity of life and avoid unnecessary uses of force. According to the City of Milton, that same year and amid heightened public scrutiny of policing nationwide, the department had zero excess force complaints.

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Milton joins National Opioid Settlement By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The Milton City Council signed a memorandum of understanding with the State of Georgia March 21 to join a $26 billion National Opioid Settlement with four major drug firms for their roles in creating and fueling the opioid epidemic. The first of the two settlement agreements are intended to resolve all the opioid litigation brought on by states and their local political subdivisions against the nation’s three largest pharmaceutical distributors – McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen – and opioid manufacturer and marketer Johnson & Johnson. The settlement requires the companies to provide substantial funding for opioid treatment and prevention and to implement significant industry changes that will help prevent a similar crisis from ever happening again. According to the Office of the Attorney General, Georgia and its local governments stand to receive approximately $636 million under the settlement, which will be distributed among state

and local governments over a series of years pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement. Of that amount, Milton City Attorney Ken Jarrard said at the March 21 City Council meeting 75% will be put in a state-administered trust, and 25% will be allocated directly to local governments. While the final settlement amount remains contingent on the number of local governments that choose to opt in, Jarrard said the city’s portion “could be sizable,” ranging from several hundred thousand dollars to as much as seven figures. Jarrard said the city could use the funds on a number of prevention and mitigation efforts, including purchasing resources and offering additional training for first responders and faithbased communities interested in helping people who suffer from opioid use and disorders. “Let me just suggest to you, in this respect, that city management will be able to use this, I am very comfortable, in a way that is meaningful to the citizens and residents of Milton and in a way that affects what we don’t like to think of but certainly issues we have,

even in Milton,” Jarrard said. The next step is for Georgia to adopt a litigation bar by June, stating that no other governments may sue the four pharmaceutical distributors and manufacturer on their own, Jarrard said. City Councilman Paul Moore said he didn’t see a downside to Milton opting in. Moore said the money is there, and it could be used to address the devastation wreaked by the opioid crisis by funding programs to support fire, police and other emergency personnel. “I think this, as sad as the situation is, is an opportunity for us to capitalize on things that might not have otherwise been available to us,” Moore said. Milton police Lt. Andrew Noblett told the Milton Herald in an email March 24 the city has not been hit as hard by the opioid epidemic as other communities, but it’s still something the department deals with regularly. Noblett said all officers and public safety partners in Milton carry the lifesaving opiate-reversal drug Naloxone or Narcan because police officers are often the first to arrive on the scene of a medical call.

So far this year, Noblett said, Milton police officers have yet to administer the drug, but it was used in one case last year. He said officers participate in the Drug Enforcement Agency Prescription Drug Takeback every April and October and recently received a free drug collection unit from a program sponsored by CVS Pharmacy and The Partnership at Drugfree.org. The receptacle will be placed in the lobby for citizens to drop off unused and unwanted prescriptions as well as over-the-counter medications. The program offers citizens a way to dispose of items that may lead to opioid or other prescription drug use or substances that could contaminate water supplies without proper disposal. “This newly created program will be implemented at the Milton Police Department in the next few weeks,” Noblett said. “We realize that it’s often not the person who is prescribed the medication who may abuse it, but others who may have access to it. By providing a safe place for people to drop off their unused medications, we are taking steps toward reducing overdoses in our community and our nation as a whole.”

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Milton to survey the public Enrollment jumps in Fulton County as students head back to classrooms about golf carts in Crabapple District still foresees population drop ahead By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA, Ga.— Fulton County Schools experienced a “COVID bounce” in enrollment this school year as students gradually returned to classrooms after months of virtual learning, homeschooling or private school education. The slight uptick won’t bring numbers back to pre-pandemic levels or slow a decade-long drop in enrollment, according to district officials. “Last school year we saw a substantial decline of more than 3,500 students due to challenges faced [in 2020] during the onset of COVID-19,” said Yngrid Huff, executive director of operational planning. “While some regions are seeing a bounce back of enrollment, population lulls continue this year, especially at the primary grade levels.” This year the district enrolled a total of 90,415 students, up 39 students from the 2020-21 school year totals, but still well below the expected 92,000 students. Huff noted even though the increase was small, it did mark the district’s first increase in enrollment in five years. Next year Fulton County Schools expects to drop below 90,000 students – a threshold not seen since 2008. Huff pointed to a number of factors which contribute to declining enrollment, aside from pandemic disruptors. These include housing shortages which have elevated home values and prices, a declining birth rate coupled with an aging population, and increasing educational options outside public schools. Within the metro area, Fulton and Cherokee county school systems are the few districts with declining enrollment. Cobb, Dekalb, Forsyth, Gwinnet and Henry County school systems are expected to grow in the 2022-23 school year. Forsyth County Schools with its booming population will likely be the state’s fourth largest school district next year. Some of that growth is tied to Fulton County departures. Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney said housing affordability and availability play a significant role in where students attend school. “I had staff analyze [student movement], and it was somewhere around 150 students coming in from Forsyth and about 500 [leaving] for Forsyth…so

I do think housing prices impact [enrollment],” Looney said during the March School Board meeting.

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More than half of the student population in the Fulton County Schools System attends school in the North Fulton region. This year 46,534 students were enrolled in the 47 schools within the region – a decrease of 230 students from last year. Breaking down the numbers, elementary enrollment increased by 306 students, while middle and high schools decreased by 388 and 148 students, respectively. Huff said the “cohort” growth in the region is a positive sign. A cohort number is established in kindergarten and tracked through graduation. If 500 kids enroll in kindergarten, and 500 kids graduate that represents zero cohort growth. In recent years, the number of students graduating was far above the number coming into kindergarten. This is the root of the enrollment decline over the past decade in Fulton County Schools, explained Huff. “Last year cohort growth in the [North Fulton] region returned to positive, growing more than 1500 students…the most growth experienced in the last 10 years,” Huff said. “This signals a return of students who may have exited the school system last school year due to COVID-19.” This year the incoming 9th grade class was much larger than the number of exiting 8th graders, a sign that new families with older children are moving into the region. Huff noted there were 200 new home closings in North Fulton just in the third quarter of 2021 alone. The greatest impact to public school enrollment, especially in elementary grades, is private school attendance. Huff noted a recent private school report showed about 11,800 Fulton County students attend private school, nearly 6,300 of them residing in North Fulton. As this information is selfreported, the numbers could be even higher. While home-schooling increased considerably during the pandemic, Huff said those numbers are starting to turn around. “This year homeschooling has declined [below] pre-pandemic levels,” Huff said, noting in North Fulton home school enrollment decreased by 522. That was more than South Fulton and Sandy Springs numbers combined.

MILTON, Ga. — The City of Milton is collecting public opinion to develop a strategy for golf carts and other personal transportation vehicles in the Crabapple area. Motor vehicles with at least four wheels that cannot exceed 20 miles per hour, do not weigh more than 1,375 pounds and cannot safely transport more than eight people at a time qualify as PTVs. Power wheelchairs and all-terrain vehicles do not. Communications Director Greg Botelho said March 23 the information the city collects from the brief survey will feed into a PTV plan for the Crabapple District that could lead the state to allow PTV drivers to cross Crabapple Road and Birmingham Highway on Ga. 372. It could also include the addition of PTVfriendly features like parking and lighting and changes to the city ordinance on PTV driving. While the state has laws regulating PTVs, Botelho said local governments can enact their own ordinances that make PTV driving safer and better for the community. The state currently requires PTV drivers to have a valid driver’s license to

drive on a public road and prohibits drivers from driving on federal highways. Using the survey results, Botelho said city staff will look at streets in the Crabapple area that may be suitable for PTVs, recommend parking and other amenities, suggest ideal crossing sites and develop a signage and road-marking strategy. He said the city will also explore the prospect of golf carts and other PTVs sharing multi-use paths with pedestrians and bicyclists. PTVs, Botelho said, have become increasingly popular as a smaller, alternative, “cooler way” to get around confined areas like Crabapple, which has a growing number of restaurants, shops, parks, schools, City Hall and the Milton Library. For questions about the survey, upcoming plan and PTVs in Milton, email Engineering Project Manager Robert DellRoss at Robert.Dell-Ross@cityofmiltonga. us. Related law enforcement questions can be directed to the Milton Police Department at PDInfo@cityofmiltonga.us. To complete the survey, visit surveymonkey.com/r/MiltonPTV. — Chamian Cruz

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Crossover: Continued from Page 1 The budget bill, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp March 16, received bipartisan support. The spending plan includes a $2,000 pay raise for teachers, $5,000 per year for state employees and will restore $380 million to K-12 education funding. Both parties also supported a temporary suspension of the gasoline tax, codified in H.B. 304. The tax – $0.29 on gasoline and $0.32 on diesel – will be suspended until May 31, 2022. With election primaries on the horizon, Republicans are mindful to deliver a bounty of red meat to their voting base, often with a direct nod to conservatives. One example is H.B. 1084 and its companion S.B. 377, which take up the issue of “diverse concepts” related to how race is presented in school curriculum. The House version identifies nine concepts and restricts their use. These measures are Republican efforts to address critical race theory, even though it is not taught at any Georgia K-12 public school. The curriculum is taught in Georgia law schools and in some university courses. The “Safe Communities Act,” S.B. 171, seeks to increase punishment for people who commit crimes during protests. As a fractured Republican Party continues to litigate the 2020 elections amid unproven voter fraud claims, H.B. 1464 emerged. The bill cleared the House 9873. If adopted by the Senate, it would give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation origi-

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nal jurisdiction to investigate voter fraud along with subpoena power to expand investigations. County elections boards would be limited to receive election funds from the county, state of Georgia or the federal government. Any gifts from a person or nongovernmental organization would have to be approved by Georgia State Board of Elections. The General Assembly passed S.B. 202 last year as an election overhaul plan, after Democrats won two U.S. Senate races and scoring 16 electoral votes. The “Quality Basic Education Act,” S.B. 226, would address efforts to ban books deemed inappropriate for students. If passed, it would require local school boards to develop a complaint resolution process to resolve parent concerns. A principal or designee has seven days to investigate parental concerns and 10 to deliver any findings. The current version of the bill seeks to apply “prevailing standards in the adult community” as to what is harmful to minors. A similar measure, S.B. 613, was introduced on March 8 – well into the session – and did not advance from the Senate Education and Youth Committee. The “Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2021,” passed the Senate 34-22 on Feb. 28 and was referred to the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee. The bill would eliminate the need for a concealed carry permit, which costs $75 and requires approval by county probate judges. An extended background check amendment was voted down. for the portion of King Road in Roswell rather than requiring Milton to get its own and compensate Roswell for its portion of the work. At a March 1 Roswell Transportation Committee meeting, Roswell Interim Director of Transportation Dan Skalsky said the entire project should be completed by the end of August and cost no more than $105,000. Actual compensation will be made on a unit-price basis based on the actual work that’s completed. Lastly, the City Council voted to replace Top Shelf Food and Beverage Management with Between Wanna Play Baseball Inc. to run the concessions stand at Bell Memorial Park due to Top Shelf’s inability to staff the facility on time for spring activities. According to the city, Between Wanna Play Baseball was the secondlowest bidder for the project and has run Bell Memorial Park’s concessions stand for the past six years. The company will share 3% of its revenue with Milton’s Parks and Recreation Department, compared to the 15% that Top Shelf had promised. The next City Council meeting is slated for April 11 at City Hall.

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Chic Evolution brings international art to Alpharetta By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — In the heart of downtown Alpharetta, off Market Street, sits an unassuming, mostly unknown art gallery and store called Chic Evolution in Art. Surrounded by treat shops and trendy clothing stores, most passersby don’t give Chic a second look. Alpharetta isn’t known as a bustling community of art connoisseurs. Even so, the gallery displays the vibrant, passionate works of established and up-and-coming modern artists from around the world. Inside the small storefront sits Charlie Wilson, the gallery’s art director. He doesn’t try to play up the gallery’s popularity; he admits that foot traffic is low. But he said most who enter the gallery are buyers, and one sale can usually pay the gallery’s rent for the whole month. That stability doesn’t come cheap, of course. Pieces in the gallery cost up to tens of thousands of dollars, and even the lower-end pieces will run a customer $2,500. Despite Alpharetta’s limited visual art scene, Wilson said the city makes for a good gallery location. He said the gallery was formerly located amid the vibrant art community in Atlanta, but even then, customers would only buy one or two pieces in the city. “People have bigger houses here, more wall space,” Wilson said. “In Atlanta, people had apartments. They don’t have the space to hang a lot of art.” Chic’s Alpharetta location opened in 2019. The gallery also has locations in Milton and Fort Lauderdale, though the

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Art: Continued from Page 8 Milton gallery is by appointment-only. The gallery doesn’t just pick random pieces of art to sell. Wilson said the gallery fosters long-term relationships with each of the artists whose work it sells, having their pieces shipped from places like France, Brazil and Quebec. Wilson said artists are willing to pay to ship their own art, a process that requires special care. He said shipping can sometimes cost artists up to $5,000. While the gallery does well for itself, Wilson said he’d love to see more art lovers in the community stop in and to see Chic’s variety of paintings and sculptures. More photos of Chic’s artwork, along with artist profiles, can be found on the gallery’s website chicevolutioninart.com.

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Murals celebrate Women’s history Brook Run Park display continues city tradition By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Art is how Elma Orr connects with and serves her community. She’s been an artist for more than 20 years and a Dunwoody resident for 12. Orr is one of six artists who created a mural for the city to display at the Brook Run Park skate park as part of a Women’s History Month exhibit. It’s the fourth mural display the city has hosted and Orr has made a piece for each one. “The project just started last year, and it was one of those things that spurred out from COVID,” Recreation Program Supervisor Rachel Waldron said. “We wanted people to be able to go to the park and interact safely with our programming and we thought, what better way to do it than through art.” It began with a month-long exhibit of murals honoring Black History Month in February, then Women’s History Month in March. Both exhibits returned for a second year with all new artwork. The pieces, commissioned by the city, also get put on display in October for Dunwoody Arts & Culture Month, Waldron said. Alongside Orr’s piece, which features NASA astronauts Joan Higginbotham and Kathleen Rubins in front of the International Space Station, are five other 8 by 4-foot murals in varying artistic styles. “Every mural is so different from the next, it’s just a really cool way for everyone to get something out of each piece,” Waldron said. Before the art came to hang on the fence at Brook Run, the city put out a proposal and a call for artists. Interested individuals wrote a statement, shared their backgrounds and gave their pitch for a mural that would fit the Women’s History Month theme, Waldron said. From there, the artists were selected and given the canvas, a 32-square-foot wooden board and accompanying primer. Then they created their murals. Orr got her idea when she was reading technology news, she said. Before she became an artist, Orr worked in the technology field, and she likes to keep up on new developments in the industry. She stumbled onto the NASA website and astronauts Higginbotham and Rubins caught her attention.

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Elma Orr stands beside the mural she created for Dunwoody’s Women’s History Month mural exhibit, March 17. Orr’s fourth commissioned mural for the city will be on display at Brook Run Park until the end of March. Orr said she wanted her mural to be inspirational for her 18-year-old daughter and other young women in the city. “To be a NASA astronaut, you don’t need to just be smart, but you also have to be very courageous,” Orr said. She hopes her piece will serve as the “extra push” needed to help them dream bigger dreams for themselves, Orr said. It took Orr between seven and 10 days to complete the mural, she said, but she had been working on the concept for longer. Dunwoody Mayor Pro Tem John Heneghan featured Orr and her mural as the subject of a recent blog post. In it, Heneghan calls Orr someone he admires and finds inspirational. The two met when Orr coordinated a homecoming dance for Dunwoody High School students after the school cancelled the event citing COVID-19 numbers, Heneghan said. When the city posted images of artists featured in the mural exhibit, Heneghan recognized her and decided to write about her in his blog. “Elma, Dunwoody is more beautiful because of what you do but we are all richer because of who you are, and

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I thank you for generously sharing your gifts and talents with the community,” Heneghan said in the post. “We are all better for it.” After moving to the city from Grenada, Mississippi, Orr said she had a hard time assimilating. She was seeking the same kind of art community she had before when she finally found the Dunwoody Fine Arts Association. The group opened her up to the rest of the Dunwoody community, Orr said. “I started to be more involved in the community because before then I was kind of lost,” Orr said. Since joining the DFAA, Orr has been involved with many art projects around the city including the murals and some picnic tables she painted for local organizations who needed more outdoor seating to mitigate virus spread. She said she has plans to continue to serve her community through her passion. And Dunwoody plans to continue its public art exhibits, Waldron said. The Women’s History Month murals will be on display at Brook Run Park skate park through the end of the month. For more information on the pieces, visit dunwoodyga.gov.

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Secretary of State continues campaign in Johns Creek By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger carried his campaign message of sound electoral practices to the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce at a March 22 breakfast meeting. Raffensperger, who is facing challenges in the May 24 primary, used the occasion to dispel rumors of electoral fraud in Georgia. The Country Club of the South in Johns Creek was the latest stop Raffensperger, a Johns Creek resident, has made on the campaign trail. Following a visit to Forsyth County at the beginning of March, the secretary of state has held talks in Dublin, Rockmart, Cordele, Newnan, Warner Robins and other cities. Raffensperger’s faces challenges from other Republicans, some accusing him of complicity in voter fraud during the 2020 general election, though claims of widespread voter fraud have been debunked. His recent campaign stops have strongly focused on combating these rumors and answering voters’ questions about the state’s election integrity. Raffensperger told the Johns Creek Chamber that he had asked the Legislature to introduce an amendment to the Georgia Constitution specifying that only American citizens can vote. He has called for the same amendment to be added to the U.S. Constitution. The constitutions state American citizens can vote but do not specifically restrict noncitizens from voting. The vast majority of states, including Georgia, do not allow noncitizens to vote. Around 15 munici-

palities across the U.S., including New York, allow noncitizens to vote in local elections only. Noncitizens cannot vote for state or federal offices anywhere in the U.S. Raffensperger said his office conducted a “citizenship check” on all 7.5 million registered voters in Georgia and identified about 1,600 he said could “potentially” be noncitizens. He said none of them have actually voted, but his office will investigate whether they are eligible to be on voter rolls. Raffensperger said there had been claims that more than 10,000 dead people, 66,000 underage people, 3,000 unregistered voters and 2,000 felons had voted. In truth, he said, there had been four ballots cast under a dead person’s name and 74 people had voted under a felony sentence. He said no minors or unregistered people had voted in 2020. Despite numerous investigations and lawsuits by allies of former President Donald Trump, Raffensperger said nobody ever found evidence of widespread fraud. He said Trump came up short because 28,000 Georgians who voted in the general election skipped voting for president. When an audience member asked Raffensperger for advice on how to bridge the gap between people with conflicting political beliefs, he said it came down to being kind to everyone. “People are basically good people,” Raffensperger said. “I think we can just get back about that and look for our common interest. It’s about freedom, it’s our family and it’s our faith. Just continue to be kind to people, and that’s what you’ve got to do.”

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CELEBRATING OUR TOP PRODUCERS

Representing the top of BerkshireHathaway HomeServices Associates Globally

THE BUTLER SWAYNE TEAM 770-241-9165 CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE DIAMOND

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