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Residents ask Gwinnett commissioners for transparency on roughly $35.5 million in housing subrecipient funds
Summary
Two residents used the public-comment period at the April 1 Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners meeting to urge legal and financial accountability for county subrecipient grants, naming several nonprofit and for-profit developers and citing a total of about $35.5 million in recent awards.
Marybel Hodges and Lisa Rutherford used the public-comment period at the April 1 Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners business session to raise questions about use of county and federal funds passed to subrecipient organizations for affordable housing.
Marybel Hodges, who identified herself as a county resident, cited the Georgia Constitution and urged officials to ensure public money is spent only for authorized public purposes. "The welfare of the people is the supreme law," Hodges said, referencing Article I, Section II of the Georgia…
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