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A Place Where Mou Belong Spend the day or evening on the Town! Stop by for a bite to eat or use curbside and delivery services! DINE-IN CINEMA (OPENING FALL 2022) IOOK TOWN BROOKHAVEN A Place Where You Belong www.townbrookhaven.net Conveniently located on Peachtree Road adjacent to Oglethorpe University. BROOKHAVEN Residents can adopt pets at no charge BY SAMMIE PURCELL Brookhaven residents can now adopt pets for free through Lifeline Animal Project. At an Aug. 9 meeting, the Brookhaven City Council ap proved an agreement with Life- Line, who manages the DeKalb County Animal services loca tion at 3280 Chamblee Dun- woody Road. Through the agreement, Brookhaven agrees to sponsor LifeLine’s adoption fees for pets that are adopted by Brookhaven residents. “Brookhaven and LifeLine have a long history of collaboration to encourage and facilitate adoption of unwanted, stray, or abandoned animals,” said Mayor John Ernst in a press release about the agreement. “We promote animal adoptions from Life- Line at the beginning of every single City Council meeting since I have been mayor.” The agreement went into effect after a kickoff event on Aug. 18 at the DeKalb County Animal Services location, accord ing to the city’s website. The regular adoption fee is $85 for dogs and $65 for cats, according to Brookhaven’s website. Those fees cover the pet’s spay or neuter, vaccinations, microchip, and other screenings. “Brookhaven is taking it up a notch, and it’s my hope that other local governments will step up to the plate and enact similar partnerships to promote adoptions of these deserving pets,” said LifeLine Animal Proj ect CEO Rebecca Guinn in the press re lease. Serendipity Labs Inspiration at Work." Love where you work. 121 Perimeter Center West, 2nd Floor, Atlanta A professional full-service workplace with the flexibility you need. One Free Month of Coworking + $199/Month Unlimited Coworking For 3 Months 770.679.6379 Serendipitylabs.com Private Offices | Coworking | Drop-In Plans | Meeting b Events •1 Project list approved for special tax district BY SAMMIE PURCELL Brookhaven will start moving forward with projects funded by its new special tax district. At an Aug. 23 meeting, the Brookhaven City Council approved a list of projects to be funded by its Special Service District (SSD), including $60 million for its new City Hall. In 2021, the council approved the SSD, which has certain business owners pay more in property taxes to help fund infrastructure improvements, and approved a millage rate of 4.0 mills for the SSD at a June meeting. The SSD lines up with the area for the city’s Urban Redevelopment Plan for poten tial redevelopment of designated “blighted” areas of the city, which the city approved in June. The resolution that the council ap proved designates these projects for the city’s Urban Redevelopment Agency. The city matched the Urban Redevelopment area with the SSD so that the city could use fu ture funds from the SSD to make improve ments within the Urban Redevelopment ar eas. City Manager Christian Sigman said the SSD projects were chosen to promote con nectivity in the city. The city first presented the list and held a public comment session at its Aug. 9 meeting, and held a second pub lic comment session at the Aug. 23 meeting. Lauren Kiefer, the executive director for the Peachtree Creek Greenway, spoke in fa vor of the list and thanked the council for in cluding greenway funding. City spokesper son Burke Brennan said the city received one email from a resident who spoke against the SSD project list and recommended a defer ral. In an email requested by Reporter News papers, Michael Runestad recommend ed deferring the SSD project list, saying he thought the city had not provided an ade quate explanation of why they chose specif ic projects. The council approved the list unanimous ly. Councilmember John Funny said he be lieved the list fully encompassed all corners of the city. “It includes a comprehensive list of proj ects that really touches every corner of the city of Brookhaven,” Funny said. “It’s not about the neighborhood. It’s not about the district. It’s about the city as a whole.” Sigman said the city will come back at later dates with more information about contracts or financing for specific projects. See the full project list at reporternews- papers.com. 10 SEPTEMBER 2022 | REPORTER NEWSPAPERS reporternewspapers.com
