Invest Atlanta to ask City Council for $3 million

Invest Atlanta, the city's economic development agency, plans to ask Atlanta's City Council for $3 million in the upcoming budget year. During a lunch meeting in downtown Atlanta, Invest Atlanta touted several business expansions in Atlanta that amounted to nearly 600 new jobs. But City Councilwoman Felicia Moore said she wanted more information earlier in the budget process. "The Council needs to be at the table," she said. "We need to be a part of the conversation." Councilman Ivory Lee Young Jr. recommended airing the agency's board meetings on public television to explain its work to the public. "The public at large, they're watching Channel 26 like a soap opera, depending on what committee it is," Young said.