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DeKalb town hall meetings set for February

By Mark Niesse
Jan 29, 2015

Interim DeKalb County CEO Lee May is meeting with residents in a series of town hall meetings about government operations, budgeting and the proposed transition to one-day-a-week trash pickup.

The meetings will be held at various locations across the county at 7 p.m. through the month of February.

They’re scheduled for Feb. 5 at Dunwoody City Hall, Feb. 10 at University Heights United Methodist Church in Decatur, Feb. 11 at the Central DeKalb Senior Center in Decatur, Feb. 17 at Brookhaven City Hall and Feb. 26 at Lithonia City Hall

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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