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Roswell massage-school owner brings licensing dispute to council; staff schedules follow-up meeting
Summary
A local massage and massage-therapy school owner told council she believes the city's business-license classification for her school is incorrect and cited Georgia massage therapy rules; city staff offered a follow-up meeting to review the matter.
Dr. Cynthia Seabacher told the March 31 open forum she believes the city mistakenly coded her Academy of Clinical and Integrated Massage as a massage establishment rather than a trade school and asked the city to reconsider the license classification.
Seabacher said state massage-therapy rules and Georgia statute language allow students in approved programs to provide supervised, unpaid hands-on instruction as part of an education program. She cited specific regulatory text (presented at the meeting as Rule 3405-581 and Rule 3405-562 in her packet) and referenced Georgia code sections on student status and supervised instruction while asking the city to restore a trade-school classification so the school can operate according to state licensing rules.
Jamie (city staff) offered a follow-up meeting and said the city attorney and licensing staff would review the materials. Mayor Wilson invited the school owner to meet with city staff next week to resolve the classification. Seabacher said she had written several emails and received a denial without a full response; staff apologized and agreed to set up a meeting.
No formal action or vote occurred; officials said they would follow up directly with the school owner and review the state rules and the city's license classification process.
