Marietta city council members discussed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Atlanta United FC for more than two hours in a closed-door executive session on Monday, before coming out and unanimously voting to place the agreement on Wednesday’s regular meeting agenda.
Mayor Steve Tumlin said there were no “substantive” issues debated in the long executive session. Then what took so long?
“There are two too many lawyers on this council, and I’m one of them,” he said.
Tumlin will hold a town hall meeting Wednesday to go over the terms of the agreement with the public. That session will be from 5-6 p.m. in the council chambers.
The city council will then vote on a preliminary agreement with Arthur Blank’s professional soccer team for a new development that will include the team’s headquarters and six lighted practice fields off Franklin Road.
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