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City OK's raise in mayor's salary
Council members nix own raises in final approval of charter amendments
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
The Dawsonville city council
voted 3-1 Monday night to amend
the city charter and increase the
amount of base salary allocated to
the mayor position.
The council voted with coun
cil member Mark French
opposed to increase the com
pensation from $600 to $1,000
per month.
The raise cannot go into effect
for current Mayor Mike Eason
and will instead go into effect
after this year’s election cycle,
or in other words become effec
tive on Jan. 1, 2020.
The approved version of the
ordinance nixes any mention of
increases to the base salary of
city council members, which
were included in the initial draft.
Language that would
increase council member pay
by $100 a month was removed
and the current base salary of
$500 remains.
Also removed was a pro
posed increase in compensation
for each city council meeting
other than the first regular city
council meeting of the month
from $100 to $150.
The mayor and council mem
bers are each paid a monthly
salary plus $100 for the second
See Mayor 18A
Grogan to run
again after
state court
rules on case
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
Former Dawsonville Mayor James
Grogan has announced his intention to run
for office again this fall after a Monday
Georgia Supreme Court ruling on his case
vs. the city of Dawsonville.
The court issued a unan
imous opinion Feb. 4 stat
ing that while Grogan
should not have to pay
back the salary and bene
fits he accrued during the
months he spent appealing
the city council’s decision
to remove him from office,
it would not reverse the
decision of the Dawson County Superior
Court that denied Grogan’s appeal and
request for a new trial after his removal.
Grogan, 76, was removed from office
May 15, 2017 by a 3-1 vote of city council
after an investigation into allegations he
had misused city funds and violated the
city charter.
Grogan appealed the decision and contin
ued to act as mayor until Oct. 9, 2017, when
Superior Court Judge C. Andrew Fuller
ruled in favor of the city and dismissed
See Grogan 18A
Grogan
3 kids among 5 hurt
in wreck on Hwy. 136
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
A single-vehicle wreck last week left
five people injured including three chil
dren.
The wreck occurred Jan. 31 on Hwy. 136
just west of Eagle Creek Farm Road in
Dawsonville.
According to Georgia State Patrol
spokesman SFC Curtis W. Bradshaw, state
troopers were called to investigate the
scene of the crash around 2:30 p.m. Jan.
31.
Bradshaw said that a 2005 Buick
LaCrosse, driven by Michael Don Land,
38, of Dawsonville, was traveling west on
See Wreck 18A
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Photos for the Dawson County News
Trucks were filled with more than 750 daylily plants last spring when a production team from Clint Eastwood's new
film "The Mule" purchased unique hybridized daylilies from Jungle Paradise in Dawsonville to be used in the film.
Jungle Paradise Daylilies featured in Clint Eastwood blockbuster
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
When Suzanne Franklin got a
phone call in early spring 2018
from a production crew working
for Clint Eastwood’s upcoming
film, she didn’t know what to
think.
“At first I was in shock. I was
like ‘how do I know you’re really
from the Clint Eastwood movie
production?’ You know, you get
scammed,” Franklin said.
The man identified himself as
Luke Castleberry. He said the pro
duction team wanted to purchase
hundreds of Franklin’s unique
daylilies to be used in Eastwood’s
2018 film “The Mule.”
After a quick Google search,
Franklin, who owns Jungle
Paradise Daylilies in Dawsonville,
realized that she was actually in
talks with Eastwood’s team.
See Paradise 17A
The crew in charge of picking up hundreds of daylily plants and transporting
them to "The Mule" movie set take a break to enjoy the gazebo at Jungle
Paradise in Dawsonville.
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