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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.
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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
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