Monday, June 25, 2012
City Council meetings also have been moved to 6:30 p.m. start time.
Suwanee's elected officials are scheduled to vote on the fiscal year 2013 budget at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Also on the agenda is adoption of the 20/20 Vision planning effort. Also, City Council meetings now will start at 6:30 p.m., a half-hour earlier than previous meetings. A public hearing on the budget is also part of the meeting. How do you feel about the Suwanee 2013 budget? Tell us in the comments below. The FY 2013 budget is $12 million, about the same as the current budget. The new spending plan includes a $660,000 payment from Gwinnett County as a result of the settlement of the Service Delivery Strategy (SDS). The city has decided to put this money into the general fund with the idea of lowering the millage rate. As in …
Friday, February 3, 2012
Leaders are spending the weekend in Chattanooga to learn from that city's revitalization efforts.
Several Suwanee City Hall officials are on a "road trip" to Chattanooga, Tenn., to help carry out the city's strategic vision, which includes citizen input. The three-day retreat began Thursday and concludes Saturday. City Manager Marty Allen said that Chattanooga (population: 167,000) was chosen because of its track record in reviving areas. Suwanee officials have gotten strong feedback from citizens that indicates reviving the Gateway area is high in their thoughts. Those on the retreat are the elected leaders and Allen. They selected the city because it has a "good reputation for revitalizing older areas," Allen said earlier this week. The Gateway area is a four-square mile stretch along Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road that includes I-85. …
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Current mayor to preside over final City Council meeting.
The changing of the guard at Suwanee City Hall will take place Tuesday at the City Council meeting. Mayor-elect Jimmy Burnette and Council members-elect Dick Goodman and Doug Ireland will be sworn in. Their terms will become effective Jan. 1, 2012. Also, the council will honor outgoing Mayor Dave Williams, who is leaving the post after one term. Tuesday's meeting will be his last as mayor. Burnette has been on the council since 1996. He received 65.8 percent of the vote in the November election. He also is on the executive committee of the Gwinnett Municipal Association. Goodman will be entering his first full term. He was elected in 2009 to fill an unexpired term. Ireland, a Suwanee business owner, will be entering his first term. …
Monday, October 17, 2011
Races for mayor, City Council and Sunday alcohol sales are on the municipal ballot.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Voters can begin casting votes for municipal matters in Suwanee as soon as Monday, Oct. 17, according to the city's website. Voting will be done at City Hall, 330 Town Center Ave., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. Races will be for mayor, one City Council post, and there will be a public referendum on whether to allow sales of alcohol for off-premises consumption on Sundays in the city limits, per the new Georgia law. Council member Dick Goodman has no formal opposition for a full term, but his name appears on the ballot with write-in votes allowed for other candidates. The formal Suwanee election will be Tuesday, Nov. 8, also at City Hall. The races: The alcohol referedum formally reads: "Shall the governing authority of the City of Suwanee…
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Pittman to face Burnette, Spiro to run against Ireland in November.
Two of the three political races at Suwanee City Hall in November will have opposition, including mayor. Dan Pittman, a local businessman, qualified Wednesday to run against Jimmy Burnette for mayor. And Jimmy Spiro qualified Wednesday to run against Doug Ireland for City Council. Dick Goodman, a current City Council member, is assured of a full term since no one qualified to run against him. He was elected to the council in 2009. Pittman, 49, is a 14-year Suwanee resident and DeKalb County native. He will be facing an incumbent council member and a member of one of Suwanee's oldest families. Pittman is opposed to the current direction of City Hall, which he feels has a big-goverment, big-spending approach. "When I first moved to Suwanee, …
Monday, August 29, 2011
Candidates have three days to register for the November municipal election.
Anyone who wants to run for public office in Suwanee this year now has three days to make it official. Qualifying opens Monday and ends Wednesday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. for mayor and two City Council positions that will be on the November ballot. The mayor post requires a $450 qualifying fee; it's $270 for council posts. Three people have indicated they will run: -- Jimmy Burnette, a Suwanee City Council member, wants the mayor post. Mayor Dave Williams is not seeking re-election. -- Dick Goodman, elected to City Council in 2009 to fill an unexpired term, is running to succeed himself. -- Doug Ireland, a Suwanee businessman and Gwinnett Chamber member, said he wants to be elected to the council post that Burnette is vacating. So far, no …
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The city approves a millage rate of 5.65, down from last year.
Suwanee city officials approved a lower tax rate for the current fiscal year Tuesday, as had been discussed. The mayor and council voted unanimously to set the millage rate at 5.65 for Fiscal Year 2011-12. The new rate represents a cut of about 2 percent, according to city documents. The city previously approved a budget of $11.8 million with the lower rate in mind. Suwanee has dealt with the recession better than many municipalities; it has an unemployment rate of about 4 percent, well below that of metro Atlanta and Gwinnett County as a whole. Also, its varied entertainment activities regularly draw visitors (and their money) from surrounding cities. And city government has made it a priority to continue to attract new businesses to the …
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Smithtown Road makeover on council agenda.
A six-figure expansion project to a major Suwanee street is likely to be approved by the City Council at Tuesday's meeting. City officials recommend paying about $477,000 for asphalt repair work and resurfacing of a portion of Smithtown Road, which stretches from Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road to Satellite Boulevard. E.R. Snell, the same company that is heading up the McGinnis Ferry Road/I-85 project in Suwanee, is in line to receive the project. It submitted the lowest of nine bids. The next lowest bid was $501,000, according to city records. The bid process had been delayed because fluctuations in oil prices had an effect on asphalt prices, and thus cost estimates for the overall project. Work on the project would begin in late September or …
Monday, August 22, 2011
Ireland says he'll run for position being vacated by Burnette.
Suwanee has a third announced candidate for a City Hall post for this election season. Doug Ireland, a business owner and a Gwinnett Chamber member, has said he will run for the City Council post being vacated by Jimmy Burnette, who is running for mayor. Ireland, 38, has been a Suwanee resident for eight years. He already is involved with city government as a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission. That has been something of a stepping stone, as current council members Dan Foster and Jace Brooks also served on that panel. Ireland said Sunday that he characterizes himself as a political independent who leans toward the conservative end. "It's a natural progression," he said of running for City Council. "I want to help to continue to …
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
UPDATED: City Council votes 3 to 1 in favor of Dar-E-Abbas' rezoning request to expand its mosque.
With opposing chants of “recall” echoing immediately afterward, the Lilburn City Council approved a rezoning application by a local mosque that seems to have ended a two-year battle over the issue. The Council voted 3 to 1 for approval Tuesday night during a special-called public hearing on the issue at City Hall, allowing Dar-E-Abbas to move forward with its plans to build a 20,000-square-foot mosque at Lawrenceville Highway and Hood Road. Mayor Pro-Tem Tim Dunn and Councilmen Scott Batterton and Eddie Price voted in favor of the mosque's latest rezoning request on approximately 4.05 acres inside the city limits. Councilman Johnny Crist voted against the proposal. The meeting drew a standing-room only crowd, more than half of whom were …
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4:44 pm on Monday, September 19, 2011
The City of Suwanee, using E. R. Snell Contractor, will be conducting a road re-surfacing project beginning Friday, September 23, 2011. The project will involve milling, patching, resurfacing, restriping and shoulder reconstruction along Smithtown Road., from Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road. to Satellite Boulevard. The project is projected to take 3 to 4 weeks to complete. During the project there … more ›