Tucker’s Mayor and City Council met three times during the month of June, focusing primarily on issues of budget and taxation. At the meeting on June 14, they approved an approximately $16 million budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The budget was approved on a unanimous vote following a public hearing on the subject.
They also voted unanimously to adopt a model ordinance from the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District. The ordinance will put requirements on new or redeveloped commercial car washes in Tucker pertaining to the recycling of water. They then voted unanimously to approve a rezoning and concurrent variance that will allow an 80-townhome development along Northlake Parkway directly behind the Tucker Meridian Shopping Center.
Other votes on June 14 included:
- approval of a resolution to make a small change to the mandatory distribution language for city employees’ pension plans
- approval of an amendment to the contract with staffing and service provider Jacobs
- awarding a contract for capital project management consulting to Griffith Project Management
Council then met twice on June 28, holding two public hearings on the millage rate before eventually voting unanimously to set the rate at 0.9 mills. The rate, which is allocated to Parks and Recreation, remains unchanged year over year but, because of changes in DeKalb County’s tax digest, this unchanged millage rate would actually represent a small tax increase.
After a handful of smaller votes, Council ended their meeting and opened a work session to discuss a strategy to spend funds from the federal American Rescue Plan. Tucker is projected to receive around $11 million from the federal government to be used between now and 2024.
The next meeting of the Mayor and City Council is scheduled for Monday July 12 at 7 p.m. at City Hall (1975 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 350B).
