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Buckhead, citywide council reps discuss future issues

By Laura Braddick
lbraddick@neighbornewspapers.com
Northside Neighbor

Atlanta City Council members representing Buckhead and the entire city shared their top issues for 2011 with the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods at its monthly meeting Thursday at Peachtree Presbyterian Church.
Council members Yolanda Adrean (District 8), Felicia Moore (District 9), Michael Julian Bond (Post 1 at-large), Aaron Watson (Post 2 at-large) and H. Lamar Willis (Post 3 at-large) talked financial stability, public safety and pension reform.
“We’re already starting to talk about budget proceedings for [fiscal] 2012,” said Adrean, who is chair of the finance committee. “While the private business sector seems to be emerging from this recession, it takes the municipalities two years to catch up.”
Moore, who voted against the fiscal 2011 budget that passed in the spring, said she continues to be concerned about the city’s financial future.
“I’m even more concerned since that budget has been passed that we continue to spend money that we don’t have,” she said. “I will not be one to vote for a tax increase.”
Watson said the biggest issue of the upcoming year will be reforming the pension plan, which currently consumes 20 percent of the city’s entire budget.
“[The mayor’s blue ribbon commission on pensions is] going to make reports to us the first quarter of next year with recommendations that should be substantial,” said Watson. “They will include everything from playing around the edges to something that really affects the core.”
Adrean pointed out that a state law forbids Atlanta from rolling back pensions for people that are already vested and that Mayor Kasim Reed planned to work with the state Legislature to change that.
“You all could weigh in on this with e-mails to the mayor,” she said.
The council members discussed the current police beat redesign proposed in the summer by Police Chief George Turner. Zone 2, which in includes Buckhead, is the largest geographical zone in the city and the proposal would make it even bigger, but with more police cars.
“You all need to start calling 911,” said Adrean. “One of the big drivers of allocation of resources is 911 calls.”
She said she would be asking Turner to reconsider the size and resources for Zone 2 before the plan is finalized.