City of Fayetteville, Georgia Bi-Weekly Report - October 1, 2018

City Manager’s Bi-Weekly Report 240 South Glynn Street • Fayetteville, Georgia 30214 770-461-6029 • fayetteville-ga.gov

October 1, 2018

Police or Fire Emergency 911 Police Non-Emergency 770-461-4441 Fire Non-Emergency 770-461-4548 City Hall 770-461-6029 City Manager 770-719-4144 Water & Sewer 770-460-4237 Water & Sewer After-Hours 770-997-5189 Public Works 770-460-4230 Main Street Fayetteville 770-719-4173 Code Enforcement 770-719-4150 City Court 770-719-4277 Building Permits 770-719-4062 Burn Permits 770-719-4051 Job Line 770-719-4182 Public Information Officer 770-719-4147

Community members step up to clean up A hard-working group of volunteers assembled Saturday morning, Sept. 29, at the Lane Brown Gazebo to attend a safety briefing, pick up route sheets, and go litter picking along many of the main sidewalks in Fayetteville. The group included members of the Fayetteville Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Fayetteville Rotary Club, The Fayette County High School Interact Club, and City of Fayetteville staff and elected officials.

City Manager

Fayetteville sails home with Mayor’s Cup

Ray Gibson

Mayor

Ed Johnson Mayor Pro-Tem Council Member

Paul Oddo

The Fayetteville Police Department with the help of Mayor Ed Johnson rowed their way to the finish line ahead of the Peachtree City Police Department Sept. 22 and picked up the coveted Mayor’s Cup during the annual Dragon Boat Races. It was a first for Fayetteville.

Our Vision

Council Members

Fayetteville shall be a city of innovation and opportunity that fosters a vibrant and welcoming community for all.

Harlan Shirley

Our Mission

To provide efficient and effective municipal services to the community through a culture of transparent leadership, excellence and teamwork.

Our Values

Kathaleen Brewer

The City employees, the City Council and all of our City-related boards will always function in a way that reflects well on the City and is in alignment with our vision and mission. The Core Values we will use to make decisions and guide our behavior are to: Be responsive; Act as one team; Act with integrity; be fully accountable.

Monthly Meetings

Rich Hoffman

Scott Stacy

Fayetteville City Council: 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 6 p.m.

Fayetteville Planning & Zoning Commission: 4th Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Downtown Development Authority: 3rd Wednesdays, 8 a.m.

Main Street Tourism Association: 3rd Tuesdays, 8 a.m.

City Council and P&Z meetings are held at Fayetteville City Hall. DDA and MSTA meetings are held on the 3rd Floor of the Old Fayette County Courthouse.

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Cool Runnings International breaks ground for Fayetteville headquarters

Left: Mayor Ed Johnson accompanied executives from Cool Runnings International for their Sept. 25 ground breaking. Above: The banner depicts what the company’s new international headquarters will look like.

Cool Runnings International, Inc., a leader in worldwide cold storage solutions, broke ground Sept. 25 in Fayetteville on their 24,000 square-foot headquarters that will be located along Hwy. 85 just north of North 85 Parkway.

This project represents the beginning of a long-standing business objective to bring economic development to the community and cold storage solutions to the world. Upon the project completion, expected in late 2019, the new 13,855 square-foot, three-story building will house Cool Runnings

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Headquarters and International Distribution Center with an additional 10,000 square feet of warehouse space.

“This is an exciting time and we are honored to be a part of the Fayetteville community.” said Bill Harms, President and CEO of Cool Runnings International.

“We are proud to invest in a city that is forward-thinking and has been so welcoming to us and look forward to being active and responsible members of both the social and business communities.

We had a choice to build in many different areas but chose the

City of Fayetteville as our home, because we feel this is the place for our employees to have a safe and economically sound place to work and raise their families.”

Mayor Ed Johnson said having Cool Runnings and its partner firm Allied Buildings come to Fayetteville will increase the community’s quality of life.

“We are excited and delighted that Cool Runnings and Allied have decided to build here in Fayetteville,” Johnson said. “It’s a beautiful site.”

Learn more about the company at www.coolrunningsint.com.

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Tree removal and replacement project has begun at Patriot Park on Redwine Several Bradford pear trees have been removed recently at Patriot Park on Redwine Road, partly because they were brittle and were shedding limbs, and partly because open space is needed for upcoming park improvements.

Some of the trees will be replaced with other more suitable trees.

Patriot Park, which is owned and maintained by the City of Fayetteville, features walking trails, exercise stations, and a military veterans memorial, which is an oft-used setting for remembrance ceremonies throughout the year.

City officials have been working with local military veterans organizations to expand the memorial section of the park, and more recently talk has begun about adding a playground and other park equipment through a public/private partnership.

The City’s Patriot Park on Redwine Road has become a popular place to honor veterans as well as to get some exercise.

“A local resident approached the City in early September about putting together a committee that would help raise funds for and help build new family-friendly park amenities at Patriot Park,” said City Manager Ray Gibson.

“We are excited by the partnership idea, not only because it will help the City save money, but also

because it will be another way for residents to engage with the City.”

Public Services Director Chris Hindman said plans have been in the works for a few years to further develop Patriot Park. He said funding from the 2017 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (S.P.L.O.S.T.) is now being put toward the work.

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Fayette Idol 2018 winners dazzle judges

Four Fayette Idol 2018 category winners and one overall winner were announced Saturday night at Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Amphitheater in Historic Downtown Fayetteville. Pictured (l-r) are 19 & Over winner Shunrodney Rosser, Jr.; 14-17 winner Lydia Campbell; overall winner Emma Skaggs; 12-13 winner Di Di Stone; and 9-11 winner Gracyn Thompson. Around 350 people attended the event featuring dozens of vocal competitors. Because scoring was so close, the judges decided to award the 14-17 prize to Campbell and the overall title to Skaggs.

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Is ‘Doc Holliday’ a myth or a real man? The Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum holds the answer Was “Wild West” legend Doc Holliday really a man, or is he a myth? The answers lie within the walls of Fayetteville’s Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum.

In fact, Doc (actually John Henry) Holliday was a real man born on August 14, 1851, in the nearby town of Griffin. His parents were Henry Burroughs and Alice Jane Holliday.

Doc’s Fayetteville connection came partly through his uncle, John Stiles Holliday, who built the house now used as the City’s museum. Doc’s uncle was a medical doctor, who practiced his trade in the house. Doc’s uncle may have inspired him to go to dental college in Pennsylvania, where Doc earned a dental surgery degree.

In the summer of 1872, Doc worked for a dental practice in Atlanta. Some say he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis and shortly afterward left for the West’s drier climate.

Some also say before Doc left Georgia, he fell in love with his cousin, Fayetteville’s own Martha Anne “Mattie” Holliday (18491939). Mattie would eventually join a convent.

Most Americans are probably at least somewhat familiar with Doc Holliday in no small part due to all of the Western films and television shows spanning the 20th Century.

In 1993, Val Kilmer played the role in the still-popular film “Tombstone”, which starred Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp. Dennis Quaid the next year would portray Doc in the film “Wyatt Earp”, which starred Kevin Costner as the title’s namesake.

Because so many historians and storytellers have told so many stories about Doc Holliday, it’s not easy to know what’s fact and what’s fiction. And that’s where folks like Fayetteville Historian

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John Henry “Doc” Holliday is pictured here with his mother, Alice Jane. This is one of a few verified pictures of Western legend Doc Holliday. There are others that are more difficult to verify.

John Lynch come in. As the founding manager of the Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum, Lynch enjoyed several years of helping people discover local history, including the bits of fact that could be known about Doc Holliday.

For example, some storytellers have said Doc Holliday wasn’t a qualified dentist, but rather that he picked up the skills from observing his Fayetteville uncle. Not true, says Lynch, who points to a copy of a genuine Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery certificate verifying Doc’s enrollment and participation.

“He was definitely a real dentist,” says Lynch, who noted it was a short-lived career. He said Doc’s tuberculosis caused him to suffer coughing fits, which made it difficult to work around dental patients. And that’s why he took up a new line of work.

“I think what he did was he fell back on the only other thing he knew how to do,” said Lynch. “He knew how to gamble.”

Lynch says there have been several people over the years to ask if Doc is a real person or just a myth like Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill. Others mistakenly think Doc lived in Fayetteville.

“Some people would come in here thinking this is Doc’s house,” Lynch said. “He never actually lived here. Did he ever sleep here?

Probably.”

Lynch says John Stiles Holliday seems to have had a big influence on Doc, and not just in the way of profession. “Supposedly, this uncle also gave Doc his first gun,” Lynch added.

Also located within the Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum is the “Gone with the Wind” Room bedecked in dresses and other memorabilia that make a Fayetteville connection to author Margaret Mitchell. What many people may not know is that Doc Holliday also had a family connection to Margaret Mitchell through a mutual cousin, the very same Mattie Holliday thought to be Doc’s major love interest.

Lynch notes that Mitchell knew Mattie Holliday, and he says Mattie was the inspiration for one of the characters in her worldfamous book.

Folks interested in exploring more about Doc Holliday, Margaret Mitchell and other important historical figures with Fayetteville connections are invited to visit the Holliday

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More verified photos of Doc Holliday at the Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum in Historic Downtown Fayetteville.

Dorsey Fife Museum located just off the Courthouse Square in Historic Downtown Fayetteville.

The address is 140 West Lanier Avenue, Fayetteville 30214.

Opening hours are 10-3 Tuesdays through Saturdays.

Contact the museum by calling 770-716-5332, emailing hdfmuseum@gmail.com, or

visiting hdfhouse.com.

[A version of this article originally ran on Sept. 28, 2006 in the Fayette County News.]

‘Cemetery Spirit Walk’ set for Oct. 19-20 For the eleventh year Fayetteville’s Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum is proud to present its annual Cemetery Spirit Walk. This unique opportunity for visitors to meet some early citizens of Fayette County will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19-20, 6-8:30 p.m., at the Historic Fayetteville Cemetery on Stonewall Avenue.

Tickets will be on sale at the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum from Tuesday, Oct. 9 to Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 770-716-5332 during those hours.

Remaining tickets will be available on tour evenings at the Historic Fayetteville Cemetery from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour tickets are sold in half hour segments (i.e. 7 to 7:30 pm) starting at 6:30 p.m.

The walk lasts about an hour.

Costumed “spirit guides” will lead small groups through the cemetery to meet 12 Fayette County citizens who lived sometime in the past 200 years and are buried in Page 7

the cemetery. Each costumed historic character will speak to the visitors about their life and times.

A local volunteer group from Fayette County will provide light refreshments to visitors.

The program will contain a voucher that will allow visitors to tour the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum free of charge through Nov. 3. During this period, the museum will host a special

“Mourning Exhibit” about 19th Century customs of how people mourned the deaths of family and friends.

This year funds raised by the event will be used for conservation of cemetery markers that have fallen into disrepair in cases where no descendants are left in the county to take care of them.

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Water Department Meter Installs

1

Water Meter Maintenance

1

September 14-27, 2018

Total Water Department Work Orders: 66 12

Water Leaks Lift station maintenance

52

Building Department Demolition Foundation Only Low Voltage Impact Fee Plumbing Electrical

Total Inspections: 289

1 1 3 4

6

Building Mechanical

9 11

Code Enforcement Disposal of Garbage

1

Inoperable Vehicle Nuisances

1

Occupational Tax

1

Prohibited Parking

1

Trash Containers

1

Illicit Discharge

2

Parking on Grass

2

Property Maintenance

2

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Initial Inspections: 62

Code Enforcement Cases

1

2

Prohibited Signs

September 14-27, 2018 Total Inspections: 237

General Maintenance

Working w/o a Permit

Foundation Only: 17 Plumbing: 48 Electrical: 65 Mechanical: 50 Building: 102 Land Disturbance: 5 Fence: 1 Pool: 1

Total permits: 44

1

Complaint Investigation

September 14-27, 2018

Follow-Up Inspections: 2 1st Re-inspections: 106 2nd Re-inspections: 6 Verbal Warnings: 5 Written Warnings: 52 Violation Notices: 3

3

Stop Work Orders: 1

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Regional burn ban is over, but conditional restrictions apply As of Oct.1, the Atlanta Metro Area’s seasonal burn ban, which is mandated by the State of Georgia, is over until May 1, 2019, but there are still restrictions on what can be legally burned outdoors, even with a formal, state-issued permit.

While some jurisdicitons apply additonal regulations to outdoor burning, the City of Fayetteville defers to state guidelines, which are found at www.epd.georgia.gov/air.

State open burning permits may be obtained online by visiting www.gatrees.org/OnlinePermits or by calling 1-877-OK2BURN.

Take the Police Department’s 4th Quarter survey The Fayetteville Police Department is concerned and interested in the opinions of the citizens and their attitudes towards the Police Department.

We need your help completing this survey in order to provide the best services possible to all members of the community.

Please remember that your participation in filling out

this survey is 100% voluntary, you can even choose which questions to answer and which to leave blank. A new survey will be opened every quarter to measure any changes.

Thank you for your time and cooperation in this project.

Visit fayetteville-ga.gov/ police-survey to participate.

Hwy. 54 update: Crews complete main travel lanes, working on turn lanes and intersections Hwy. 54 repaving crews worked overnight Sunday to complete the last of the main travel lanes of the 12.5-mile project, which stretches from the Coweta County line to a point east of Fayetteville and just past the McDonough Road intersection. According to Georgia Department of Transportation District 3 officials, the several remaining turn lanes and intersections, including the one at North Jeff Davis Drive, will be repaved, weather permitting, in the coming nights.

Restriping work will commence when the repaving is finished, and crews will cut new timing loops into the necessary traffic-signaled intersections.

An adjacent Hwy. 54 widening project is underway as well, Page 9

stretching from the McDonough Road intersection area all the way to Tara Boulevard in Clayton County. That project is also owned by the Georgia Department of Transportation, and it runs through unincorporated portions of Fayette and Clayton counties.

While the City welcomes comments and questions on the Hwy. 54 repaving project, the public is being reminded that this is a state project. Communications with the City on the project are forwarded to GDOT. During all of this repaving, at least one through-lane will remain open, but expect traffic delays in the affected areas.

Please drive slowly and carefully past construction zones.

Visit the City’s website, www.

fayetteville-ga.gov, and social media channels for updates.

Anyone with questions or concerns about the project may contact the GDOT District 3 office at 706-845-4115 or by e-mailing amccart@dot.ga.gov.

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Fire Department Activity for September 13-27, 2018

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Recent stormwater pipe repairs at Station #91

Projects: Continued work on OKRs in 7Geese system Annual departmental physicals conducted by Summit Medical Continued to work with the State of Georgia on Image Trend Elite version for our incident reporting system. Some reports continue to be unavailable.

Attended monthly project meeting Chief Alan Jones, Deputy Chief Linda Black and Battalion Chief Chris Peacock attended meeting with CPS, Hogan Construction, and POH Architects for program pricing review Stormwater pipe repair work is close to completion on front of Station #91 Submitted departmental accomplishments for budget book Significant Events: Our department had our second site visit for our assessment from McGrath Consulting Group. During the site visit interviews were conducted with the City Manager, all Department Heads and senior staff from the Fire Department. The third site visit is scheduled for October 1st.

Our department hosted a Georgia Fire Academy course Practical Fire Ground Hydraulics course on September 2627th. In addition to our department outside agencies sent firefighters from City of South Fulton, Henry County Fire, Thomaston Fire, and Austell Fire.

Police welcome two more officers

The Fayetteville Police Department welcomed two new officers in September. Officer Maggie Murphy (above) recently completed the police academy. Officer Sydney Moore (left) joined the department with experience.

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Main Street Fayetteville cranking out another robust events season The Old Fayette County Courthouse nestled in the middle of Historic Downtown Fayetteville may look peaceful and quiet on the outside, but especially this time of year, it is bustling with planning activity on the inside.

The first floor of Georgia’s oldest existing courthouse is home to Main Street Fayetteville, which, among other duties, plans and manages most official City events.

Main Street staff organized the annual Fayette Idol event on Sept. 29 at Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Amphitheater (owned and operated by the City of Fayetteville), and now they are busy putting the pieces together for The Great Pumpkin Festival scheduled for Oct. 26-27 on the Courthouse Square. Along with that, Main Street staff and volunteers are also working on movie nights, the annual Veterans Day Parade and the increasingly popular “Christmas on Main Street”, which includes its own parade among other festivities.

The Great Pumpkin Festival It started decades ago with a courthouse lawn full of pumpkins decorated by local elementary school children, and it was simply called “The Pumpkin Walk”, but now “The Great Pumpkin Festival” is a two-day event. It still starts on the Friday before Halloween, this year Oct. 26, with the static parade of perfectly-placed pumpkins, but now it is followed by a free movie that night and a Main Street Market with trick-or-treating around the Courthouse Square the next day. The movie, “Hocus Pocus”, will start at sundown on the Old Courthouse Lawn. Main Street Market will run 10-5 on that Saturday, Oct. 27, also on the Old Courthouse Lawn. Trick-orTreat on Main Street takes place in connection with the market event, Page 11

Plentiful precious pumpkins were on display for the Pumpkin Walk during 2017’s The Great Pumpkin Festival.

and it includes traditional candy collecting as well as a fun costume contest.

Veterans Day Parade Nearby Peachtree City for years has been known as the place to go for a great parade while Fayetteville had none, but Fayetteville has picked up the pace over time and now hosts three: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade, the Veterans Day Parade, and the Christmas Parade.

This year’s Veterans Day Parade will once again be organized in coordination with the local Helen K. Denton Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 3650, and it is scheduled to commence on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m.

Christmas Movie Night Throughout the year, Main Street Fayetteville hosts free movie nights on the Old Courthouse Lawn, and the Christmas event is always particularly special. This year, the Free Movie under Stars series concludes with a showing of “Prancer” on Friday evening, Nov. 16. Guests bring their own chairs and blankets, and they

enjoy bringing their own picnics or picking something up from the many restaurants located in the Historic Downtown District.

Christmas on Main Street The crowning event on the Main Street Fayetteville calendar this year takes place on Saturday, Dec. 1. Christmas on Main Street begins with a twilight holiday parade that features a little bit of everything.

It concludes at Stonewall Village across the street from the Old Fayette County Courthouse, and then comes the musical entertainment, the visits with Santa Claus, warm treats, and the lighting of the Christmas tree.

To stay up-to-date with these remaining 2018 events, and to be among the first to get the 2019 Main Street Fayetteville Events Calendar, be sure to sign up for the City of Fayetteville’s E-Mail Updates by visiting fayetteville-ga. gov/EmailUpdates. Events are also posted on the City’s website and social media channels.

If you are interested in volunteering for any of these events, contact Joyce Waits at 770-719-4173.

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Wednesday, October 3 American Red Cross Blood Drive at Fayetteville City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 240 South Glynn Street, in the City Council chambers, register at redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code CityOfFayetteville Friday, October 19 Public Safety Fall Festival at Fayette County Justice Center, 5:30-8 p.m.

1 Justice Center Drive, Fayetteville, featuring Touch-a-Truck, SWAT K-9 demonstrations, ladder truck display, hayrides, face painting, food and more Friday and Saturday, October 19-20 Cemetery Walk at the Fayetteville City Cemetery, 6:30-9 p.m., Sponsored by the Holliday Dorsey Fife Museum, ticket information can be found at hdfhouse.com.

Friday and Saturday, October 26-27 The Great Pumpkin Festival in Historic Downtown Fayetteville, including pumpkins on the Courthouse Square, Free Movie under The Stars: “Hocus Pocus”, Trick or Treat on Main Street, Main Street Market and more, visit fayetteville-ga.gov/pumpkinfest Saturday, November 10 Veterans Day parade in Historic Downtown Fayetteville, details to be announced soon Friday, November 16 Free Movie under the Stars: “Prancer”, sponsored by Main Street Fayetteville, on the Old Courthouse Lawn, entertainment begins at 6:30 p.m.

Find more events: fayetteville-ga.gov facebook.com/fayettevillega.gov

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