![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also cost the volunteer commissioners no small amount of angst. If we go over (the annual attorney budget) we’d have to cut back somewhere, or if we can’t cut back we’d dip into reserves.” “I don’t know how much we’d have to spend if this goes to court. “We don’t have the millions DeKalb has,” Brown said. Decatur, in contrast, budgets $160,000 for legal services, that city’s assistant city manager said. The city’s annual budget for the city attorney is a modest $35,997. Handling the ethics complaint has cost the city nearly $10,000 in staff and attorney fees to date, and that may eventually climb to $12,000, City Manager Clai Brown said. Although the sewers are owned by DeKalb County, he believes Avondale will wind up paying for a lot of the repairs. He thinks Stratford Green could cost Avondale “millions of dollars down the road” because of complaints that leaking sewers have spilled waste into the neighborhood since 2013. “This is purely my opposition to foolish government,” he told the AJC shortly after filing his complaint. Mandarino said politics was not his motive and he is not necessarily against all annexation. Mandarino’s complaint was filed two weeks before a mayoral special election, as Avondale was seeking a legislative sponsor for a much-larger annexation including commercial and residential properties. ![]()
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