Q: Based on the article in the AJC concerning punishment for cheating Atlanta’s pension funds, who in the administration gave the go ahead to invest in Gray Financial?
—Mike Cosgrove, Mableton
A: The mayoral appointments on all three city of Atlanta pension boards are the city's chief financial officer Jim Beard and human resources commissioner Yvonne Cowser Yancy.
Q: A recent Q&A about Emory University’s annexation into the city of Atlanta said state law allows annexations without a referendum of voters if all property owners in the area petition for it. In this case, those property owners included Emory and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To be clear, does that mean the 2,500 voters in the area to be annexed are not property owners?
—Jay Brower, Atlanta
A: Correct. The approximately 2,500 voters in the Emory annexation area are not property owners. Some are students.
There are no residential property owners in the annexation area. The property owners are all nonprofit organizations or businesses.
Fast Copy News Service wrote this column; AJC staff writers Dan Klepal and Mark Niesse contributed. Do you have a question? We’ll try to get the answer. Call 404-222-2002 or email q&a@ajc.com (include name, phone and city).
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