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City manager highlights emergency response, arts initiatives and upcoming ribbon cuttings
Summary
City Manager Greer reviewed August highlights: conceptual planning for a performing-arts facility, gallery updates with Johns Creek Art Center, graduation of a joint public-safety academy, progress on a new roundabout at Sergeant at Ashwick and completion of landscaping at the Autry Mill amphitheater with a forthcoming ribbon cutting.
City Manager Greer gave the manager's monthly report summarizing August accomplishments across the city's strategic priorities, emphasizing arts and culture, public safety, economic development, public works, and parks.
Greer said the city has begun conceptual planning for a performing arts and cultural facility and completed interior and exterior gallery change-outs in partnership with the Johns Creek Art Center and Arts Guild. On public safety, Greer highlighted the graduation of the first joint public-safety academy and that staff are preparing bid documents for a new fire station and police substation. On public works, Greer pointed to construction milestones including a roundabout at Sergeant at Ashwick and an early ribbon-cutting planned; recreation and parks work included landscaping completion at Autry Mill amphitheater with an upcoming ribbon cutting.
Council followed with questions about the city's storm response; Greer said the city activated an emergency operations center at City Hall under NIMS protocol, coordinated regionally with AMR and Fulton County for ambulance staging and debris staging, and used GIS mapping (created by GIS analyst Kat Crowland) to track hotspots and prioritize field crews. "We were ready to respond," Greer said, adding the most common damage reports were downed limbs and short-lived power outages and that cleanup work orders remain in progress.
