Cobb
Smyrna kids to have New Year’s Eve party
Smyrna will hold a New Year’s Eve dance party for kids 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village. Radio Disney AM 590 and the city are sponsoring the annual party with games, contests, prizes and a balloon drop at noon.
Information: www.smyrnacity.com.
Tucker McQueen for the AJC
DeKalb
Brookhaven passes 2014 budget
Brookhaven recently adopted a $26.34 million budget, keeping the millage rate at 2.85 and offering raises for city employees, including the city manager.
The 3.5 percent pay raise applies primarily to police officers, since most of the county work is done by private contractors. However, the city remains in negotiations with City Manager Marie Garrett, whose office is seeing a 122 percent increase, to $771,000. That money will go to hiring an assistant manager and part-time assistant, as well as a raise still being negotiated with Garrett. She has been making $170,000 a year. Information: www.brookhavenga.gov. April Hunt
Public housing project to be demolished
The DeKalb Housing Authority is ready to move residents so it can raze the 50-year-old Tobie Grant Manor housing project and so it can be developed into a mixed-use development.
About 600 residents are being relocated in January so demolition can begin by spring. The new $34 million development will be a mix of public housing and market apartments and single-family homes on the Scottdale site. April Hunt
Forsyth
Ga. 20 overlay district hearing Thursday
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Forsyth County Administration Building, 110 E. Main St., Cumming, on a proposed Buford Highway Overlay District. The district would stretch along Ga. 20 from the Cumming city limits to the Forsyth-Gwinnett County line and would establish minimum landscape, signage and lighting standards. Those would be in addition to existing zoning standards. Mark Woolsey for the AJC
Gwinnett
Snap! Suwanee deadline is today
Photographers may submit up to five Suwanee community photos to the Snap! Suwanee photo competition through today, December 31. Photos submitted to the competition should represent the Suwanee community in some way and ideally be taken within the city limits. Additional guidelines and applications available at suwanee.com. Winning photos will be exhibited, beginning in March, for a one-year period at City Hall. For the first time, the City is inviting photographers to share their entries with the community via Instagram. Use the hashtag #snapsuwanee.
Karen Huppertz for the AJC
Fayette
Fayette zoning appeals board has opening
The Fayette County Zoning Board of Appeals has an opening for a volunteer member.
Members of the board serve three-year terms and meet monthly to hear and decide challenges to decisions made by the county zoning administrator.
Applications, available from Floyd Jones at fjones@fayettecountyga.gov or by calling 770-305-5102, are due Jan. 10.
Jill Howard Church for the AJC
