Newly-elected Atlanta City Council President Marci Collier Overstreet has only just started her first term, but she’s already made a major misstep. Overstreet assigned eight members to both the Community Development/Human Services Committee and to the Committee on Council – but committees are only allowed to have seven members (to prevent pesky ties, AND because eight members is a majority of the 15-member full City Council, which would create a quorum and open up a totally new can of worms). Overstreet walked the move back, reducing the committees to the typical seven members, but said she wants to introduce legislation to bump committees to eight members later this year, leaving the start to her tenure SINKING…
Bottoms ignored metro Atlanta counties
It’s shocking to learn that former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms never became a board member of the Atlanta Regional Commission because she never attended a single ARC board meeting during her tenure. Beyond missing the board meetings, the Democrat also refused to join ARC’s regional leadership visits to other metropolitan areas to examine city planning and technical infrastructure best practices. This contrasts sharply with her successor, Mayor Andre Dickens. He engaged with the bipartisan commission and later became ARC board chairman, emphasizing a desire for closer regional connectivity. A spokesman for Democrats for Jackson (GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson) queries: “She could care less about metro Atlanta but now she wants to be governor?” Bottoms is SINKING…
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