City Council Tables DDA Resolution

The city council has decided to table the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) resolution and board memberships until they can attend a workshop next week to review the list of names recommended to be on the board.
Subcommittee member and council member Al Fuller motioned to table the matter and expedite the process to a workshop after the council reviewed the business of the DDA resolution and board memberships. Council then approved the motion and Mayor Al Hoyle decided to schedule the workshop for next week.

Council will review the list of names that will make up the seven-member DDA board at the workshop and then adopt a resolution at the next city council meeting that will be sent to the state to officially legitimize the authority. Fuller said during the review that he wanted to make sure all members of the council had time to review the list of names before making a decision. Monday night was the first time that the council had seen the list of names.

Paul Kreager of the Heart of Town, Inc., and consultant for DDA’s all around Georgia told FYN after council made the table decision,

“It’s a decision that can be postponed at anytime. It doesn’t have a critical slot time. It is important simply because there is work to be done, and it is not something that you are not going to finish in six months, a year, three years, or five years. It’s an ongoing process. It’s important when you start, but it isn’t critical to have a date certain…It’s not something that needs to be rushed or hurried. It’s something that requires a great deal of thought that says if I start this it doesn’t need to be stopped.”