Meeting Minutes – January 8, 2020

NPU-T GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING

Date & Time: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 – 7:00 PM

Location: Lee & White St. Community Room 1020 White St.,SW Atlanta, GA 30310

CONTACT INFO

• Kimberly Scott, NPU-T, Chairperson: kimscottmanagement@gmail.com Lisa Stines, NPU-T, Vice-Chairperson: lisa.stines@evrealestate.com

• Angela Clyde, NPU-T, Secretary: aclyde1@yahoo.com

• Tony McNeal, NPU-T, Recording Secretary: president@atlantawestend.com

• Terry Ross, NPU-T, Sergeant of Arms: (770) 369-3389 or t-ross01@hotmail.com

• Lori Leland, City of Atlanta, Planner: (404) 330-6143 or lleland@AtlantaGa.Gov

• Leah LaRue, City of Atlanta, Assistant Director: (404) 330-6070 or llarue@atlantaga.gov AGENDA

1. Opening Remarks/Introductions

2. Moment of silence

   1. Shawn Walton lost his mom they are apart of the NPU community funeral arrangements will be made available this week

3. Approval of Agenda

   1. Adding Swearing In Ceremony by Council President Felicia Moore to the Agenda after approval of Minutes

   2. Motion by Kon Maiwan. Second by Alan

   3. Favor 13 Oppose 0 Abstentions 0

4. Approval of Minutes

   1. Motion made by Alan. Second by Reggie

   2. Favor 12 Oppose 0 Abstentions 0

5. Chair Report

   1. NPU was started by Mayor Maynard Jackson in 1974 to serve as a liaison between the Community and City offices.

   2. Encourage community residents to consider becoming more involved in 2020

   3. Meetings going forward will go as follows: Public Officials first, Voting matters, then non-voting matters

6. Reports from City Departmental Representatives (Please allow representatives of public safety agencies to report first)

   1. Atlanta Police Department (Zone 1, Zone4, C.O.P.S/PATH)

   2. Zone4–Lt.Scheck

      1. Still great number leaving cars running at gas stations causing theft need community to be more cautious

      2. New Major will be at next meeting to introduce themselves

      3. Kelly Collier kcollier@atlga.gov new major zone 1, Carven Tyus @atlantaga.gov

   3. Zone 4

      1. Cops – Not Here

      2. Path–NotHere

      3. Atlanta Fire Department – Not Here

      4. MARTA Police Department – Corporal Newsome

         1. Rise during holidays for snatch & grab crimes by youth, but have made a lot of arrests in regard to this

         2. Continuing patrol efforts

         3. Auto related crimes have decreased so continue to ensure vehicles are secure and no items are visible

      5. Community Prosecutor – Shari Scales-Jones – Not Here

      6. Code Enforcement – Officer Brayboy 404-205-1238 kubrayboy@atlantaga.gov

         1. Stats for October there were nine not found violations, November there were three not found, December there were10 not found

         2. When using 311 if unsure of address please contact Officer Brayboy first. No address or wrong address causes a delay in your complaints being addressed

         3. Register vacant homes as vacant which allows quicker evacuation for any homeless person that takes up residency in the house. It is a $100 yearly fee to register home

         4. Question: Can get a copy of the list? ANS: Kim Scott will have list emailed out

         5. Question: Who picks up tires? ANS: Charm at WestEnd

      7. Watershed Management – Aisha Brown 404-546-3230 aibrown@atlantaga.gov

         1. Toilet Rebate Program has made some changes flyers available and can be found on the website

         2. Weather causing issues to pipes so please protect as best possible by letting drip, locate shut off valve and disconnect hoses from outside to allow proper drainage

         3. MOST – Municipal Option Sales Tax vote on March 24th sales tax used to finance federal clean water program, it is a .01 cent sales tax

      8. Morehouse School of Medicine – No Report

      9. Chief Officer from Antonio Brown Office

         1. January 27th New Mural honoring Boone

         2. Antonio Brown was at the Fulton County Commissioner’s meeting this morning to speak about the 117 spoke during the presentation so reconsidering those grants. Arts Center West End is not going away are putting money toward redeveloping

         3. Legislation to repeal their code to have rent control, provide incentives to developers contribute to affordable housing

         4. Working on Homeless Legislation

1. Committee Reports

   1. Zoning & Land Use – Walter Slaton

   2. Transportation – Alan Babilinski

      1. Introduction of new chair made by Lisa o GDOT is doing their rail survey for their new rail plan. Survey is available until this Friday

      2. Will work to Improve pedestrian infrastructure, attend Marta Meetings, speeding within neighborhoods, looking for new committee members

      3. Look for form to provide feedback you would like looked at

   3. Public Safety- Kon Maiwan

      1. January 21, 2020 Police Citizen Class will be graduating at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College

      2. Shari Jones, provided information on person who was convicted to five years

      3. 1107 RDA from 2015 – until 2019 there have been over 300 criminal incidents. Using that information to go before the license review board to revoke the license in which we voted against initially o

   4. Education- Sharifa Jackson

      1. Survey from Atlanta Board of Education for new Superintendent has to be completed by tonight. Link was sent by Kim Scott

      2. Open Forum tomorrow at 4:15

      3. 1550 Hosea Williams

      4. Looking for people to join committee

   5. Finance – No Chair

      1. Tony McNeal is New Chair

2. Planner’s Report

   1. Matters for Vote/Review and Comment (See attachment)

      1. Calendars available for 2020 tonight

      2. Atlanta Beltline SW Study Group having a meeting January 16th about the beltline from Salvation Army Krog Center 967 Dewey Street 630 -8 pm

3. Announcements

   1. We will have a new space, new signs, next month

   2. Dr. April Hane – New pharmacy by Krispy Kreme come out support. Sunday workouts are from 2-3 an open to the community

4. Adjournment – 8:35PM