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A collaborative of nonprofit organizations, including Center for Community Progress, has released the comprehensive Georgia Land Bank Resource Manual to guide stakeholders through the process of creating new – and working with existing – land bank authorities.
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Georgia cities that have a prosecuting attorney's office for their municipal court are required to submit copies of the resolution or ordinance creating the office to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia.
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On February 8, 2012, Superior Court Judge David Barrett entered a 52-page final consent order in the service delivery litigation between Gwinnett County and the cities.
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During 2010, GMA and the Georgia Cities Foundation engaged the University of Georgia’s Fanning Institute to conduct a comprehensive study of downtowns in Georgia.
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Downtown development authorities are used in cities throughout the state as a mechanism to revitalize and redevelop municipal central business districts. City officials should understand how DDAs are created, what DDAs are empowered to do and the roles and responsibilities of DDA members.
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December 21, 2001
Ed Sumner, former General Counsel, Georgia Municipal Association
One of the frequent questions posed to GMA by city attorneys, city officials and, occasionally, news media representatives, relates to the legality and method of increasing the salaries of elected officials.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated economic insecurity for millions of people across the U.S., many cities instituted policies and programs aimed at providing some relief to individuals and families. These include policies that temporarily halted fines and fees collections, which disproportionately impact Black and Latino or Hispanic communities.
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Center for Community Progress
In varying degrees, vacant properties exist in virtually every community. Isolated to certain neighborhoods, they can represent the legacy of unjust race-based economic and land use decisions over decades that steered investments away from communities of color. Widespread vacant properties can represent the slow but profound economic shifts that saw industries flee major urban centers. In some communities, they are the wreckage of climate change and a warning of the new normal. If vacancy becomes systemic, it changes the character of a neighborhood, deepens racial inequities, and threatens future opportunities. Breaking this cycle requires policymakers and community leaders to identify warning signs of further destabilization and change state and local laws and practices to stabilize neighborhoods, reverse decades of injustice, and rebuild with a strong commitment to equity, inclusion, and resilience.
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Center for Community Progress
The 2022 Resource Guide for Georgia Land Banks is designed to provide new and updated documents for land bank leaders as their operations mature and become more complex.
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Here you’ll find the PowerPoint presentations from the 2019 Georgia Government Communicators Conference
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Social isolation is not a personal choice or individual problem, but one that is rooted in community design, social norms, and systemic injustices. In addition to a complementary action guide for local government leaders, this site offers a comprehensive report with five recommendations for creating socially connected communities, starting with public spaces, transportation, and housing.
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Here you’ll find the presentations from the 2022 Georgia Government Communicators Conference
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Here you’ll find the presentations from the 2022 Georgia Government Communicators Conference
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