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WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Atlanta City Council that the Mayor shall include the following City officials in his renegotiation team:

 

Chief of Staff (or designee) 

Chief Operating Officer (or designee)

Chief Strategy Officer (or designee)

Chief Financial Officer (or designee)

City Attorney (or designee)

Chair of Atlanta City Council’s Finance/Executive Committee

Chair of the Atlanta City Council’s Transportation Committee

Vice Chair of the Atlanta City Council’s Transportation Committee

 

WHEREAS, it is the desire that following the renegotiation of the IGA by the Mayor, that the renegotiated IGA shall be presented to the Atlanta City Council and the MARTA Board for consideration of approval for execution and delivery by no later than November 1, 2026; 

Speaking on the Sun Belt Developers podcast, Chris Eachus, founding partner at CP Group, said his firm is actively working on a potential observation deck at Bank of America Plaza in Midtown — a concept he described as "one of the worst kept secrets."

Since the new fare gates went online June 1, MARTA police have arrested 40 people accused of damaging the gates and have issued 29 outstanding “be on the lookout” alerts for additional suspects.

Atlanta Department of Watershed Management says another fish kill is being investigated, this time south of the South River Water Reclamation Center.

Vendors are paying 30% of gross sales to CVM Worldwide, the event organizer.

City of Atlanta Performance Audit: Tax Allocation Districts Follow-Up

Atlanta Beltline paid $16.5M for 746 Willoughby Way NE — a 60K SF office building about a mile south of Ponce City Market and next to the Historic Old Fourth Ward Park.

- Seller paid $23.8M in 2019 for the property

- Fulton County valued property at $11.9M last year, down from $12.9M in 2022

- Willoughby‘s asking rents at $38.50 per SF triple net vs $50+ per SF for Ponce City Market and New City

Tensions flared between transit agency and train company Stadler over delays in $707 million project, records show.

Days away from the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Atlanta, MARTA’s new trains have not yet passed critical safety tests — a delay that threatens to undermine the agency’s promise to upgrade the transit system in time for the city’s showcase on the international stage. 

It’s the latest setback in a $707 million project that’s already led to finger-pointing behind the scenes as the transit agency struggles to bring its first new railcars in more than two decades into service.

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After midweek floods, a Friday boil water advisory and a fish kill, it would be an understatement to say last week was eventful for the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management.

And when a City Council committee convened Tuesday to dissect the events, things got heated as exasperated council members grilled city staff about their response to the trio of problems. In particular, council members took issue with the city’s communications about the boil water advisory.

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Council member Liliana Bakhtiari, who filled in Tuesday as the committee’s chair, said the city’s messaging last week about the need to boil water was again murky and too slow. Bakhtiari said it took hours for the department to get out a news release, then said the message itself was unclear about which parts of the city were under the advisory.

“We can collect their money,” Bakhtiari said about the DWM, which bills customers for water use. “Why can’t we give them updates that can impact their lives?”

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Things grew tense toward the end of the meeting, when the city’s Chief Operating Officer LaChandra Burks unexpectedly took the podium. Burks took issue with council’s questions, saying she would not allow staff “to be spoken to as less than the adults that they are.”

“We’re all humans,” Burks said.

“Everything is not perfect on the council side either.”

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But Eyerly indicated his agency was taken aback by the torrential rains Wednesday and seemed to cast at least some blame for the flooding issues on weather forecasters.

The National Weather Service’s Peachtree City office said on the morning of May 20 that thunderstorms were “possible along and north of the I-85 corridor in the afternoon.” Still, isolated cloudbursts like the one that drenched Atlanta are extremely difficult to predict.

“Rain was not forecast and certainly not forecasted in the type of event that we saw,” Eyerly said. “That’s critical for our operations.”