Upsetting News From Stockbridge

Mr. Britt, if you would please print this information on your blog.  I am a resident of the City of Stockbridge and attended the June 8th meeting of the city council.  After they finished releasing Ms. Buschman from being investigated about wrong doing towards the charter and being an elected official on the DDA which she explained was the case and if she weren’t one of them would have to be according to the rules of the DDA.  I have also noticed that since a new DDA board was seated that nothing of any worth towards getting the property or money returned to the city that was given away by out going Mayor Alarcon on December 30, 2013.  This should have never occurred.  Then we learn that the old bank building that is known as the Stockbridge Multiplex was bought for $750,000 and renovations were completed at a cost of over $200,000 which gives it a price tag of about one million dollars of tax payer money involved.  Former mayor Alarcon and city
 manager Milliron  put the theater company in there from Avondale where Mr. Milliron is a resident.  Then, this property was given to the DDA.  The theater group is paying $10 dollars a year for a lease.  That’s right only $10 a year. That is roughly 83 cents a month.  Now if this sweet of a deal can be made for other residents let’s go for it.  I am in agreement with Mayor Thompson that the property should be returned before anymore tax money is spent on the building and that it should be as originally proposed as the senior and youth center for Stockbridge and named for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his honor since his father is from Stockbridge.  These are  the facts that we know presently and I am sure there are other revelations that will come forward.  And also one other thing if I might, Mr. Houston Nelson is the new head of the DDA placed in this position by the current council and mayor.  It would seem appropriate that any committee or
 board created and seated by a mayor and council these people should answer to them or be replaced.  The mayor told Mr. Nelson in open session that he is in his office 3 days a week and that he should be reaching out to the mayor not the other way around.  If this person cannot do the job effectively as seems the case then replace him and any other members that are placed there by this council or even dissolve the DDA and create a better program for the citizens of Stockbridge.  This is what I saw and anyone can view on the Stockbridge City website.  Thank you to Mayor Thompson and those who on the council are trying to do the right things for us the people.

W. G.
Stockbridge, Georgia

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