Bob Pepalis

6 days ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Bob Pepalis

Fulton County Schools rejected a $10 million offer for Spalding Drive Elementary School from a community charter school group, instead proposing to turn it into a teaching museum after school ends this year.

6 days ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Bob Pepalis

An Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) grant award ballooned to $18 million to construct a middle section of the PATH 400 trail in Sandy Springs. Allen Johnson, the city's TSPLOST (Transportation Special Local Option Sales Tax) manager, said the city got the opportunity for the larger grant award when other local governments were unable to use funds available through the ARC. That freed the federal funding for redistribution, he told the council during its May 6 meeting.

1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Bob Pepalis

Candidates for mayor of Sandy Springs have collectively raised more than $300,000 so far through campaign contributions as of April 30. The six city council seats and the mayor's position are up for election on Nov. 4 in a non-partisan election. Andy Bauman, who announced his campaign on April 3, raised $109,396 in a little more than a month. Bauman currently serves as the District 6 city council member. Candidates in municipal elections were required to file a campaign contribution report Jan.

1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Bob Pepalis

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners will fund quarterly $1.8 million in overtime funding for sheriff's office staff providing detention services at the Fulton County Jail, but with strings attached. A one-time $1 million fund to assist in recruiting and retention of detention officers was also approved in the resolution passed during the commissioners' May 7 meeting.

1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Bob Pepalis

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park and Preservation District and International World Peace Rose Gardens selected North Springs High School Freshman Academy student Zoe Allen as the winner in its Inspirational Messages of Peace contest. Allen's poem, "The Flower of Love," was chosen from more than 4,100 student entries nationwide, according to a news release from the school.