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Council approves transmission of 2025 impact fee annual report and capital improvement element to state
Summary
City staff will transmit the 2025 Community Work Program and Capital Improvement Element, including the annual impact fee financial report, to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and ARC; council approved transmittal 5‑0 and staff said the submission does not itself commit city budget funds.
The Roswell City Council on July 14 unanimously approved city staff’s request to transmit the 2025 Community Work Program and Capital Improvement Element, including the annual financial report for the city’s impact fee program, to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for review.
Director of Community Development Michelle Alexander summarized the filing requirement under the Georgia Development Act and said the packet combines the annual financial report for the impact fee account, the capital improvements list and the five‑year community work program. “The balance as of December 2024 from our financials was $5,800,000,” Alexander told council. She added the report separates a full fiscal‑year accounting and a catch‑up six‑month reporting period because the city changed its fiscal year; staff said the six‑month period included roughly $200,000 in fee collections. For the reported fiscal period staff said expenditures totaled $859,009.49.
Alexander emphasized the transmittal is a statutory reporting step, not a budget appropriation: “This is not committing you to those costs. This is giving you a range of magnitude of scale of what the project needs.” If approved for transmittal, the documents go to DCA and the Atlanta Regional Commission for review; staff will return to council later for adoption and any related budget actions. Alexander noted the state review deadline is Oct. 31.
What it covers: the city’s impact fee program supports three categories — transportation, public safety (police and fire) and recreation/parks — and the packet lists projects and estimated costs by category. Staff also noted items added to the lists this year: certain vehicle types for fire and police made eligible for impact‑fee funding, as well as project entries from the Facilities Services master plan and North Fulton comprehensive transportation work.
Public questions and clarification: resident Courtney Rozier asked whether project start dates in the list indicate construction start or design start and whether transportation projects have an interactive map available. Staff said project start dates may reflect design start dates rather than construction and pointed residents to the transportation interactive map at rosvillegov.info/rdot for project‑level status. Transportation staff offered to follow up with residents to identify specific projects and timelines.
Council action and next steps: Pro Tem Lee Hills moved to approve transmittal; Council Member Sarah Beeson seconded. The council voted 5‑0. Staff will transmit the documents for DCA/ARC review and return with any required revisions and a final adoption resolution, plus any budget requests needed to implement projects.
