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Ebenezer United Methodist Church on Arnold Mill Road recently cleared another hurdle in its plans to build an activity center for church and community activities. The Milton Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of two variance for the project that now go before the City Council for final consideration. Read more, Page 2 2020

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MILTON, Ga. — Plans for a new activity center at Ebenezer United Methodist Church moved one step closer June 24 when the Milton Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of two variance requests.

One member, Marty Lock, was not at the meeting.

The church, on the corner of Arnold Mill Road and Cox Road, seeks to build a 23,000-square-foot activity center, which includes a pavilion and outdoor fireplace, on its existing property. That center would be used for numerous church and community activities.

“There’s a rich history with Ebenezer within the community,” said applicant representative Regie Elkins. “The goal that the church gave us is to make sure that we keep the character of the church and of Milton in the design. Because of that, the activity center is designed similar to a barn. It’s also a design with the intent to not only use it for church activities but a place for community activities as well, such as weddings, barbecues and funerals.”

The application was previously deferred at the February Planning Commission meeting to allow the applicant to revise the site plans. All of the subsequent monthly planning meetings through May were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At issue at the June meeting was activity center parking.

The applicant asked for two vari-

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The proposed activity center at Ebenezer United Methodist Church would require 144 parking spots, as recommended by the Milton Planning Commission. ances: to reduce required parking from 220 to 144 spots and to allow for parking in the front of the building.

Currently, the church property has 27 parking spots.

City Zoning Manager Robyn MacDonald said the church had analyzed the parking needs of its congregation at its busiest times to help determine the number of required spots. She added that at any time, staff usually tries to reduce the number and intensity of variances requested.

MacDonald said in the event that the church needs overflow parking, it has an agreement with Porter Academy across Cox Road to use its parking as needed.

The proposal was accepted as presented with one change: deliveries to the facility would be limited to from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

The Milton City Council will have final say on the variances when they consider them at a meeting in the coming weeks.

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Fulton County prepares for return to school Aug. 17 District officials unveil plans

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Fulton School System leaders are touting a “culture of clean” as they prepare schools to re-open Aug. 17 with enhanced safety measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Social distancing, reworked classrooms and face masks are among the long list of issues to be addressed in the next six weeks.

“It is our intent to offer a face-to-face [instruction] for families willing to send their children to school,” Superintendent Mike Looney said. “There is a way for us to have school in the safest way possible that respects the different perspectives in our community.”

Hundreds of comments had been posted to the district’s Facebook page in the past week, some divided between those ready for schools to open and those hesitant to send their kids to schools until the “all clear” is sounded.

Looney said a return to the classroom is the optimal choice, however remote learning options will be offered for those unwilling, or unable, to return to the classroom.

“We are responding to a community health crisis, and I don’t want to mislead a single person [that] there is an adequate replacement for teacher and students in classroom, learning and working together,” Looney said. “[However] we are going to do the very best we can with remote learning.”

The school district has expanded the portfolio of online learning to include remote options for grades 1-8 and virtual high school for grades 9-12. Students in high school remote learning will be able to remain enrolled in their home school, but they will not be allowed to participate in non-virtual extracurricular activities.

Kindergarten parents only have the option of in-school learning. Georgia law does not mandate students attend kindergarten. Pre-K classes will not be offered.

Looney explained remote options are fulltime programs with no “mixed” enrollment, some in school and some virtual. All students must actively engage in a full school day, five days a week.

Significant parent involvement will likely be needed for younger children.

“Families have to make a semesterlong commitment for face-to-face or virtual because we have to staff appropriately,” Looney said.

Parents have until July 17 to register their child for remote learning. The application is on the district’s website

District faces criticism for face mask guidelines

Six weeks from the planned opening of Fulton County schools on Aug. 17, district leaders acknowledge much of the decision-making is based on current risks and directives.

The education landscape may look much different by then, but decisions still must be made now.

One issue garnering attention is the decision to mandate face masks for all employees, but only for students while riding on buses.

In the classroom and in the hallways, students are encouraged, but not mandated, to wear face masks.

That decision could change.

“Families and teachers have been communicating various opinions about this subject, and we are listening,” said Fulton Superintendent Mike Looney. “Between now and August 17th, we will continue to monitor whether public health agencies or the governor change recommendations for masks.”

Gov. Brian Kemp recently concluded a statewide tour to encourage people to wear masks, but he did not indicate a mandate was in the works.

Parents and staff, however, have taken to social media weighing in on the discussion, with opinions strong on both sides. On the Fulton Schools Facebook page, hundreds of comments were logged, including one saying the decision to mandate masks only for teachers is “reckless and unethical.”

Last week Looney aired his own public service announcement asking the public to do their part by wearing a face mask in public to help stop the spread of COVID-19. He said lowering the threat would allow the district to resume school in greater safety.

Current CDC guidelines recommend face coverings in public for those over 2. At the same time, the CDC recognizes that “younger children (preschool or early elementary aged) may be unable to wear a cloth face covering properly, particularly for an extended period of time.”

— Candy Waylock (www.fultonschools.org).

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Fulton County will begin construction on major upgrades to the Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility on Marietta Highway.

Water reclamation facility expansion nears construction

By JULIA GROCHOWSKI julia@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Preliminary construction on expanding the Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility is expected to begin this year, according to project leaders who participated in a June 25 virtual meeting.

The plant property located at 1030 Marietta Highway serves the Big Creek watershed in North Fulton — including Roswell, Alpharetta and portions of Johns Creek and Milton — as well as areas of Forsyth and Cobb counties. It is the largest water reclamation facility in North Fulton and discharges treated water back into the Chattahoochee River.

The expansion, which comes with a nearly $300 million price tag, will increase the plant’s efficiency and capacity while addressing noise and odor issues that plague the current facility.

The upgrades call for replacing aging equipment, an enclosure for new treatment processes, and demolition of older and underused facilities.

The plant was originally built in 1971, and the expansion will be the largest improvement it has seen since its last expansion in 1991.

The current facility’s treatment capacity is 24 million gallons per day.

The new facility will bring that up to 38 million gallons per day to meet the demands of the area’s growing population, said Fulton County Public Works Director David Clark.

Design plans are now about 80 percent complete for the project.

The new plant will have comparable technology to that used in the Johns

Creek Environmental Campus, Clark said.

Water running through the plant will be treated through several treatment processes, including pore screening, grit removal and primary clarifiers.

“One of the unique things about this site is that it’s configured so everything is pumped to the site,” said Brown and Caldwell Design Manager Kelly Comstock. “The new design accommodates a gravity flow through the entire thing. That was one of the key things we wanted to do during design, and we were able to accomplish that. That’s exciting, because you don’t have to pump flow on the site, where you’re talking about large volumes of water and large operating costs to continue to pump.”

The new facility will help further reduce waste in the Chattahoochee River by removing contaminants, ammonia and suspended solids.

“By doing this project, we’re actually going to be making the water quality in the river better than it is now, even though we’re discharging ultimately higher flow rates,” Comstock said. “That really shows you the power of these technologies that are going to be implemented.”

Clark said the team is nearing the completion of Phase 2A of the project, which included structure and utility demolition as well as rerouting utilities. Preliminary construction for the next phase, which includes building construction, is expected to begin in the coming months, he said.

The new facility is expected to be complete and in use by 2024.

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Milton’s 2020 Freedom Bowl stays local amid pandemic

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — The full extent of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the 2020 high school football season is yet to be seen, but at least one major local event will have a drastically different look this year.

The Freedom Bowl, a Labor Day weekend slate of games at Milton High School, will not feature a collection of teams from around the nation this year.

Instead, the competition will feature two games pitting local teams against one another instead of six games that included several nationally ranked teams.

The Freedom Bowl was first held in 2018 with the aim to create a premier high school football showcase for some of the nation’s top programs while simultaneously raising awareness and financial support for military veterans.

Over the last two seasons, it has featured around two dozen teams, many nationally ranked and state champions.

This year’s event might not have the same pageantry as years past, which included military vehicles on the sidelines, sparks and smoke flying as teams entered the field and other pomp and circumstance. However, Milton Athletic Director Gary Sylvestri said it is still

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Both Hapeville Charter and Johns Creek were set to play teams from other states, but with COVID-19, both programs recently had to fill holes in their schedule. Now, the two teams will compete in the Freedom Bowl.

Milton and Johns Creek will play Thursday, Sept. 8, and North Forsyth is set to face Hapeville Charter on Friday, Sept. 9.

North Forsyth was already scheduled to compete in the Freedom Bowl.

The schedule changes for Johns Creek and Milton go beyond the event.

Milton will no longer travel Washington, D.C. to take on St. John’s College High School on Sept. 12 as originally planned. Instead, the Eagles will play Hapeville Charter at home.

Another Milton game against an outof-state opponent was cancelled with Life Christian Academy of Virginia no longer traveling to play in the Eagle’s Nest in September. Instead, Milton will host McEachern on Sept. 25.

Johns Creek has begun a tradition of traveling to play an out-of-state opponent and hosting a non-Georgia team under head coach Matt Helmerich.

However, the pandemic has paused that practice, at least for 2020.

The Gladiators were scheduled to play Travelers Rest of South Carolina on Aug. 28 before travelling to Ramsey, New Jersey, to face Don Bosco Prep. Both games were nixed though, and Johns Creek will stay in state to host Dutchtown on Aug. 28 before battling Milton in the Freedom Bowl.

Aside from the prestige of having the event staged in Milton, the Freedom Bowl supported the local economy. Last year, 10 of the 12 participating teams were from out of state and patronized local hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues. The Alpharetta Convention and Visitor’s Bureau estimated visiting players and coaches provided a $162,000 boost for the local economy, and that figure did not include families or fans making the trip.

With just four teams, all located within 50 miles of Milton, the economic benefits of this year’s event is bound to drop compared to 2019 figures.

But beyond financial factors, Sylvestri is ready to put on the altered Freedom Bowl this year and get back to some sort of regularity.

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Deadline nears for transit projects list

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The metro region’s transit planning agency will close entries July 10 for a Call for Projects it issued last month to give project sponsors the opportunity to submit new or make updates/changes to existing projects.

The Atlanta Region Transit Link Authority (the ATL) is studying close to 200 projects for funding in the 13-county metro region, including DeKalb, Fulton and Forsyth counties. The newly submitted and updated projects will form the basis of short-term (six-year) and long-term (20-year) transit priorities for the region. The prioritized project lists are designed to give the agency a strategy to help target additional state and federal investments, according to Deidre Johnson, ATL public information officer.

The final plan will be submitted to the Atlanta Regional Commission late this year for inclusion in the federally required short-range Transportation Improvement Program and the longrange Regional Transportation Plan. The documents guide allocation of federal, state and local funding for all regionally significant transportation investment in the Atlanta Region.

At its June board of director’s meeting, the ATL board reviewed a timeline that will allow it to finalize a regional transportation program report by the end of the year.

Over the course of the summer, projects will be prioritized based on the ATL’s Project Performance Framework as well as prioritized by the project timelines identified and submitted by individual agencies, cities and counties.

The schedule also calls for another series of “district downloads,” town-hallstyle information sessions that will be held in early fall at different locations throughout the region.

The latest list of projects range in cost and scope from CobbLinc’s $800,000 transit signal priority plan to MARTA’s $1.4 billion proposed heavy rail line to Stonecrest in DeKalb County.

Other projects with varying price tags include renovation of pedestrian bridges

at $6.3 million and MARTA’s North Fulton bus rapid transit service along Ga. 400 at $300 million.

Last fall, the ATL staff culled the original project list to 79 projects that have been identified as having assumed federal or state discretionary funding sources. The 79 projects were evaluated based on 14 criteria that basically rated their impact. Each project was then assigned a numerical value and charted based on how much bang it would provide for the buck, according to Lori Sand, planner with the ATL. The ATL has scheduled three meetings this month.

The Transit Planning Committee is set to hear a 2020 Legislative Session review and discuss a presentation on Gwinnett County’s plan to schedule another referendum on MARTA rail service.

Gwinnett County commissioners voted June 16 to lay the groundwork to give county voters the opportunity — possibly this fall — to adopt a special sales tax to fund incorporation into the transit system, which serves DeKalb, Fulton and Clayton counties.

Gwinnett voters rejected the idea in a referendum held in March 2019, but proponents say the issue might fare better if placed on the ballot during the presidential election.

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Finosec joins ranks of Innovation Center graduates Firm helps companies navigate cybersecurity, regulatory compliance

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Tech Alpharetta is celebrating the first graduate of 2020 from its Innovation Center program.

Finosec, a fintech startup that assists financial institutions in navigating cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, has established headquarters in the city on McGinnis Ferry Road. The company has eight employees Tech Alpharetta’s Innovation Center, launched in 2015, serves as a tech startup incubator in Alpharetta that provides education, mentoring and other resources to its startup members to help them grow and succeed. Finosec joined Tech Alpharetta’s incubator in early 2018.

Finosec President and founder Zach DUKE Duke built the company during its tenure at the incubator.

“Tech Alpharetta’s Innovation Center connected Finosec to essential resources that directly and positively impacted the company’s progress by accelerating our speed to market,” Duke said, adding that expansion may be in the future.

“Obviously, bringing on customers is the first requisite for adding additional staff, and having great technology is part of that process,” he said.

Duke, who lives in Milton, said headquartering in Alpharetta made sense.

“The technology talent in Alpharetta is really unparalleled,” he said. “We talk a lot about Fin-Tech Alley (tech firms specializing in financial services), but there’s just a lot of great, technical talent in Alpharetta. And being headquartered where the talent is is a critical concern for us.”

Finosec’s platform enables its customers to automate and easily validate labor-intensive tasks that are required to keep banking systems secure and meet regulatory expectations.

Duke said he has found strong traction in the market for Finosec’s platform. He also called Tech Alpharetta’s assistance invaluable.

“Building a company starting from nothing is extremely hard,” he said.

“Having an accelerator that makes it so you don’t have to start from scratch — wow, does it help you.”

Tech Alpharetta CEO, Karen Cashion said the Innovation Center is home to 48 tech startups currently receiving mentoring, coaching, investor relationships and other services.

“We try to provide the additional things all startups need to grow their companies,” Cashion said.

Tech Alpharetta, which receives some of its funding from the city, was challenged last year by the City Council to begin laying the groundwork for selfsufficiency. The nonprofit had received $125,000 in annual funding through the city’s Development Authority up to then.

Last fall, after the organization bolstered its board membership and met other benchmarks, the council approved a three-year funding contract for $100,000 annually.

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Tech Alpharetta’s Innovation Center, launched in 2015, serves as a tech startup incubator in Alpharetta that provides education, mentoring and other resources to its startup members to help them grow and succeed.

“It’s been a process,” Cashion said.

“Our organization was actually created by the city in 2013, and we’re really an economic engine for Alpharetta.”

Today, Tech Alpharetta has 30 tech companies represented on its board of directors. Its goal is to graduate at least two new firms a year from its incubator.

The Innovation Center has had 12 companies graduate since it began in 2015, nine of them are located in Alpharetta.

Job creation is simple to track by company, but some studies suggest that tech jobs have a multiplier effect on other jobs. Enrico Moretti, economist with the University of California, Berkeley, says each new tech job creates five additional jobs in the service section.

Tech Alpharetta uses a common algorithm that places the number at 4.3 new service sector jobs.

“Just on their own, our graduates have already created 111 high-paying tech jobs for the city — those nine companies that headquartered in the city,” Cashion said. “Using that algorithm, that’s 477 new jobs total for Alpharetta that our graduates have created.”

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State panel makes rules changes to cross-country, track and field

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com NORTH METRO ATLANTA — The Georgia High School Association has drawn cheers and jeers from its recent rules changes to cross-country and track and field running events.

The track and field rules updates, which have received high praise, are highlighted by the introduction of the 4x800 meter relay in 2020-21 and the phasing in of the 4x200 meter relay by 2022. Each school will also be permitted to enter more athletes in each of the 14 individual events at area or region qualifying track meets, and individual runners can compete in double the number of events.

Class 7A cross-country coaches are disappointed the GHSA chose to replace area competition, which has been used since the creation of the classification, with regions. The move was pushed by the GHSA and not its cross-country committee.

Class 7A coaches against this move argued that more schools from the classification will earn spots at the state cross-country meet. The state’s largest classification will include 45 schools in the upcoming season, and 32 will earn a spot in the state meet. That’s 25 percent more than in 2019.

Previously, schools earning a berth in the state meet were determined by four areas, a combination of two regions, in 7A. In 2019, the state cross-country meet had 24 schools compete for boys and girls competition.

Andy Carr, a cross-country and track and field coach at Milton High School, said he found it “kind of ridiculous” that over 70 percent of 7A programs will earn a spot in the state meet.

“For me, personally, that makes it too easy to make it to the state meet,” Carr said. “It is not that much of an accomplishment when you have a region [with] five teams and four go to the state meet.”

There are eight Class 7A regions in Georgia. Three of them consist of five schools, and one, Region 1 in South Georgia, consists of four schools. Under the new rules, schools in Region 1 are automatically given a berth to the state meet. Of regions with five schools, four will earn a spot in the state meet.

“No matter how fast or slow they are, they can just dress five people, run them and go to state,” Carr said.

Bill Marra, who has coached crosscountry and track and field for the last seven years at Milton, said having runners from 32 schools will make for a cramped state championship course in Carrolton.

“The Carrolton course is wide open for the first 200 yards, but often times it gets really congested after that,” Marra said. “When you have very competitive

runners all trying to get a good start, it can make things very difficult.”

Carr said Milton’s No. 2 runner fell at the start of the 2018 state meet, which likely kept the Eagles off the podium that year based on that runner’s average times.

Based on number of schools, Class 2A was the largest in Georgia last season, and its state cross-country meet had 29 teams compete with over 180 runners on the 5-kilometer course. Class 6A had 30 teams earn a spot in the state meet with 209 total runners in the boys race and 214 in the girls event.

The changes also prompt eight sectional meets instead of four, which places an added burden on schools to either host meets or find and pay for an outside venue that can accommodate such races.

Earlier this year, a Hillgrove crosscountry coach began polling 7A coaches on their preferences for area or region competition when the GHSA first presented the potential rule change. Carr said all but one school replied to the survey. All who did respond favored retaining area competition.

Though displeased with the rule change, Carr said he can understand why the GHSA would want uniformity across the state. Only Class 7A and Class-A competed in areas, all others are divided into regions.

While the cross-country regulations were met with groans, the track and field community is pleased with the rules changes to its sport.

“The biggest change that I am excited for is the changing the athlete limit per team from two to three,” said Tim Feilen, Roswell High School head track coach. “(These) kids work so hard all season, and it has been unfortunate in the past to have kids not be able to participate in an event because they are the third best in that event on their team, even though they are better (than) some of the other competition from other teams in the region.”

Adding the 4x800 race this upcoming year and the 4x200 in 2022 is a “fantastic” way to allow more athletes to participate in meets, Feilen said.

Marra said adding the events is a “huge plus for distance running in Georgia.” He said it will allow more distance runners, including those who compete on their school’s cross-country team, to race in track and field events, which had limited spots for the 1600- and 3200-meter races.

The additional races, and the ability for athletes to compete in more events, will be a boon for standout athletes. Carr said athletes like 2018 Milton grad Sam Bowers, who racked up four individual state titles in cross-country and track and field, can showcase themselves further with the ability to participate in more events.

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The students from Cambridge High School developed a curriculum around “Skills for Adolescence” that included seven keys for success and seven dream killers that affect young people.

They mentored 120 Hopewell Middle School students to help prepare them for high school.

First, the high schoolers and staff collaborated to develop a curriculum.

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Students from Cambridge High School are recognized by SkillsUSA for their mentoring program.

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istrators at the middle school and launched the program to teach the younger students “Seven Keys to Success” to help them flourish in their transition to high school and young adulthood. The seven keys included: taking responsibility; setting goals; prioritizing; maintaining a positive attitude; listing; learning to recharge your mental battery; and utilizing synergy.

Alongside these “Seven Keys to Success,” the team also prepared the younger students for “Seven Dream Killers,” which included irresponsible use of social media; bullying; objectifying classmates; having unhealthy relationships; alcohol or drug abuse; disrespecting authority; and having unrealistic scholastic standards.

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Schools: Continued from Page 4 In a presentation to the Fulton County School Board, the district’s top health leader said there were some positive signs in the facts and figures.

“We all have the same amount of concern, but we need to put it in perspective,” said Lynne Meadows, coordinator of Student Health Services.

She said the rate of infection, primarily among young people under 40 is rising, but overall deaths and hospitalizations from COVID continue to trend down.

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Public Health, there has been one death from COVID under the age 18 as of June 30.

“Young folks can infect older folks, so we have to continue with social distancing and follow the CDC guidelines,” Meadows said.

Looney said the decisions regarding school opening lies with the community and the actions they take to control the spread. In a widely viewed public service announcement, Looney urged students, staff and parents to wear face masks in public and take every measure to keep themselves and others healthy.

“Please help us and your children return to school, and put yourself in a position that you are healthy and able to return when it is appropriate,” Looney said.

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Bowl: Continued from Page 6

ID-19 and what’s going on in the world today, anytime we can get athletics back somehow, some way, it can help to build community, heal things, and we can have some normalcy for the kids,” Sylvestri said. “We’re not selfish in wanting [football] back, we are being selfish because we want kids to have some normalcy, to compete, to be together, to talk to each other. You

can think back to 9-11 and beyond, and athletics is always a component of bringing people back together, and the Freedom Bowl will be a part of that.”

If the rest of the 2020 schedule goes according to plan, other local teams will still play in showcase events.

The 2020 season will kick off at West Forsyth for the Corky Kell Classic. The Wolverines are slated to host two games on Aug. 19 — Cherokee vs. Carver-Atlanta and West Forsyth vs. Mays.

On Aug. 20, Denmark will take on Tucker at Dacula in the second day of Corky Kell games.

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