Superintendent names school construction oversight committee
DeKalb County schools Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson has named a dozen people to serve on a committee monitoring school construction.
Voters in November approved another five-year Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, and in June Atkinson began soliciting volunteers with relevant expertise for a Citizen’s SPLOST Oversight Committee.
The panel will oversee nearly a half-billion dollars in construction projects, which will be managed by San Francisco-based URS Corp. The committee members: Christine Avers, Paul Baisier, Cathy Blakeney, Wyvern Budram, Narwanna D. el-Shabazz, B.R. “Billy Ray” Jones, Kimberly Mitchell, Kirk A. Nooks, Charles Rogers, Kerry Williams, A. E. “Gene” Wise and Delilah Wynn-Brown.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
