GwinnettForum | Number 23.07 | Jan. 19, 2024
WITH GWINNETT COUNTY anticipating a referendum on public transit this fall, Ride Gwinnett will be more visible should the question be approved by voters. Check out this possibility since Gwinnett commissioners have taken the first step in calling for the referendum. For more details, see Today’s Focus below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: County plans for a transit referendum for November
EEB PERSPECTIVE: It’s a better way to provide housing: condos, not apartments
SPOTLIGHT: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Norcross
ANOTHER VIEW: Both of our political parties are big spenders
FEEDBACK: In ten years, luxury apartments can be crime-ridden
UPCOMING: Bi-annual count of homeless scheduled January 22
NOTABLE: Explore Gwinnett offering grants to nonprofits
OBITUARY: Nicki Leritis DeVillier
RECOMMENDED: A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Amos Tappan Akerman was zealous U.S. Attorney
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s Mystery Photo is not a pretty picture
LAGNIAPPE: GGC students take King Day for campus improvements
CALENDAR: Lilburn Town Hall will be January 22
County plans for a transit referendum for November
By Deborah Tuff
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved calling for a referendum on transit at its recent meeting. The transit referendum is to be placed on the 2024 November ballot, if it is approved as expected by the Atlanta Regional Commission, and officially voted on again by the Commission.
It’s the necessary step that sets the stage for us to place the power in the hands of our residents to determine the future of transit in Gwinnett. Over 18 months, we received input directly from our residents, business leaders and municipalities and the result is a Transit Plan that enhances access to job opportunities and education, improves health and well-being and fosters economic development through enhanced mobility options.”
An integral aspect of the plan proposes a shift in the county’s current mobility funding model to a one percent dedicated sales tax. A Transit SPLOST aims to distribute financial responsibility more equitably among all residents, businesses and visitors, alleviating the burden on Gwinnett’s property owners.
In September, the Board approved its Transit Plan which aims to expand the county’s current transit system, Ride Gwinnett. The new Transit Plan provides 100 percent transit coverage across the county, including two connections from Gwinnett County to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the expansion of its shared-ride service. Additional projects in the plan include county ride, quick ride, rapid ride and new transit transfer facilities that allow for greater connectivity and mobility across the county.
In the next steps, the county will submit the referendum project list, taken from the Atlanta Regional Transit Plan to the Atlanta-region Transit Link Authority for approval during the ATL Board Meeting on February 1.
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It’s a better way to provide housing: Condos, not apartments
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
(Part two of two perspectives)
JAN. 19, 2024 | Is there a better way to provide housing for people of Gwinnett than apartment complexes?
There is, and it is so simple that you wonder why the various cities do not implement it.
These officials giving the green light to new apartments should simply OK the plans that are being presented by developers … with one caveat: make the proposed complex one of condominiums, not apartments.
That’s right, approve the multi-family housing that developers present, only require that those wanting to occupy the units, purchase, not rent, their units.
I can hear officials now saying “but……but…but.”
Yes, there are a few hurdles to get around.
But look what happens. Those people buying these condos, as they pay for them over time, will be building equity in their unit. This is the great American way toward financial stability for families, as solid housing seems always to appreciate in value. (That contrasts with mobile homes, for instance, which begin to depreciate when new and first move off the seller’s lot.)
And while building equity, and since they own their housing, these people will take care that their home is properly maintained and does not deteriorate. They will continually improve their units and keep it tidy. Over the years, there will be little deterioration. Such diligence will mean that the entire area’s housing will retain a higher value over the years.
Yes, there is one major problem: many potential apartment renters do not have a down payment to purchase a condo, that is, put down approximately 20 percent. Yet with creative thinking, this can be overcome.
How? Look for governments to create financial opportunities to help people get a down payment. Or develop a 501c3 non-profit to help potential condo owners get into the property without a down payment. That is what the Veterans Administration has been doing for years, essentially making it easy for our veterans to become substantial members of the community through home ownership without having to fund a down payment. It would usher in a new element (former renters) benefitting from home ownership.
Let’s turn to those who propose new housing for our nation: the developer. Essentially, there is very little cost difference in erecting an apartment complex, or building units that will be sold as condos. You take land, buy building materials, and hire a bunch of construction workers and you start building. Oh, you might upgrade the appliances in condos, or come up with distinctive designs, but essentially it merely uses the same level of materials in both types to be built. The developer makes money when the complex is sold, whether to an apartment owner, or to individuals as condos.
But look also at the tremendous difference for the neighborhood when condos are being built! People buying into a community will be much more stable, will take care of their housing unit, and become long-time members of the community. After all, this is their long-term home. Condo owners do not have to mow and upkeep their yards, like individuals living in single-family homes. They only live closer to their neighbors.
Hair-brained idea? Not really. We have enough faith in the business and government that they will create financial arrangements for more people to buy condos with little or smaller down payments. It is a plus-plus situation, creating a community of new owners, keeping current single-family owners happy, and improving the communities.
All planning and zoning officials (and elected government leaders) have to do is get developers to propose condos, not apartments. And then listen to the coming applause.
- GwinnettForum adds “Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett” to its List of Continuing Objectives.
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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Norcross
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Both of our political parties are big spenders
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Both of our American political parties are big spenders
Let’s be clear. There is only one thing that both parties agree on: spending money we do not have. The main difference is that the Republicans are currently irresponsible, but deny it, pointing to the Democrats and saying they are worse.
I’m a social liberal, but I want a balanced budget. Decades ago, I easily fit into the Grand Old Party, evaluating public expenditures based on costs versus benefits. The old GOP cared about waste, but also about addressing the needs of our citizens. No more.
For decades, the GOP has ignored fiscal responsibility, advocating tax cuts (especially for corporations and the wealthy) while constantly urging more military spending. These Republicans worried little about the deficit their policies created.
We all know by now that former President Trump’ was no fiscal conservative, slashing taxes but not programs. His record from 2017-2020 proves that he was a big spender. That is not my opinion; it is fact. Check the deficit, which went from $665 billion in 2017, to $3.7 trillion in 2020. That’s an increase of 556 percent in just the four Trump years! GOP apologists must accept responsibility for this fiscal irresponsibility and not just say “but look at the Democrats.”
Often, the primary group pushing the GOP was the military-industrial complex, that is, big corporations wanting cost plus contracts, corporate welfare, regardless of the lack of need for more tanks, more planes and so on. It’s a little late for the Republican House to suddenly advocate for the concept of fiscal responsibility with the Democrats in the White House.
On the other hand, the Democrats have traditionally been the big spending party. Democrats have been for big ticket things like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. But they have not raised the revenues needed to pay for these and other programs.
President Joe Biden pushed through his massive $1.9 trillion COVID relief package with no GOP support. It addressed needs (such as targeted help for businesses hurt by the pandemic), but also had some questionable areas (like sending $2,800 checks to couples making $149,000 annually). There were few revenue raising measures included in the package.
There’s no question that our nation’s infrastructure is collapsing. Both parties agree on that much. Biden initially proposed an infrastructure bill. But the bill also had funding for education, environmental issues, childcare and a wide range of other items. Even the bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), compromise bill ended up with a $1.2 trillion price tag.
This bill was weak on the payment end, failing to raise corporate taxes or taxes on the wealthy. Instead, it proposed better tax collection by the Internal Revenue Service, a convenient ploy to avoid making key lobbies angry. Plus, it repurposed Covid money and issued bonds. Even then, the Congressional Budget Office believes that the deficit will go up $256 billion over 10 years.
There is plenty of blame on budgets to go around. Our national budget has not been balanced since Bill Clinton was in office. The only way that we will have fiscal responsibility is for both parties to construct a bipartisan budget proposal, which would both raise revenues (taxes) and cut expenditures (programs). Pointing fingers is not the answer.
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In 10 years, luxury apartments can be crime-ridden
Editor, the Forum:
You have hit the nail on the head of the problem with luxury apartments. In ten years they become affordable housing and are run down and eventually crime-ridden.
I remain opposed to construction of them in Lilburn and will continue to vote against them. Thanks for your insight to this problem. Also: many so-called townhouse projects are nothing more than rental properties.
– S. Scott Batterton, DDS, Lilburn
Regional planners seek higher density for the area
Editor, the Forum:
Regional planning agencies seek higher density to avoid sprawl. This has led to the row homes and apartments that are turning our suburban atmosphere to an urban area. A house on a half acre yard with trees in the back and lawn in the front is not to be found for less than $600k in new homes. Average homes are over $400k. Packing more people into less space, they say, is the desire to supposedly relieve our highway congestion. We are still growing in the metro area and in the state. Millions more will come here to live.
The county and the new cities will need revenue. The result will be that the remaining homes will have higher taxation to sustain the growth, so the ad valorem taxes will rise. Government will always find a way to raise money. It may not print the money, but it can take it away. We consent for protection and it always takes our money.
– Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Enjoyed review of Man’s Search for Meaning
Editor, the Forum:
My thanks to Susan McBrayer for her excellent review of Man’s Search for Meaning. One of my favorite books.
– Billy Chism, Toccoa
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Biannual count of homeless scheduled January 22
Affirming its commitment to ending homelessness, Gwinnett County will serve as the lead coordinating agency for the 2024 Homeless Point-in-Time Count.
Every other year, Continuums of Care countrywide are tasked with taking account of the homeless population on one night in January to get a snapshot of homelessness in their respective communities. As a requirement of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Continuums of Care plan, coordinate and execute a count of the unsheltered, as well as those who are sheltered in emergency shelter, transitional housing and safe havens.
The 2024 PIT Count will be held overnight on January 22, bringing together local officials, community partners and residents to volunteer. Volunteers for the PIT Count will be placed into teams, provided with a list of sites to visit and be paired with a Gwinnett Police Officer. Teams will be asked to conduct surveys with homeless individuals identified during their site visits. To learn more about the 2024 PIT Count and register to volunteer, visit GwinnettCounty.com/2024PITCount.
Explore Gwinnett offering grants to nonprofits
Explore Gwinnett is opening applications for its newly launched Gwinnett Hospitality, Arts and Entertainment Recovery Grant Fund. This initiative will provide limited funding to support Gwinnett County-based organizations including, 501(c)(3) arts and cultural organizations, as well as for-profit hospitality, arts and entertainment businesses.
Lisa Anders, executive director of Explore Gwinnett, says: “We have witnessed significant growth in our non-profit arts and cultural organizations since the launch of the Gwinnett Creativity Fund in 2020 and are thrilled to expand our funding support to include for-profit organizations that serve our vibrant community. As we recognize the challenges these talented organizations have faced since the pandemic, it brings us immense joy to see this reimbursable grant program come to fruition to provide additional aid in overcoming these financial obstacles. We are so fortunate to partner with Gwinnett County to manage and distribute these funds, fostering a collaborative effort to strengthen our local arts and cultural landscape.”
Eligible participants for this reimbursement grant include hotels, restaurants, breweries, inbound tour operators, receptive operators and film/TV production studios. 501(c)(3) and arts and cultural organizations. They can seek reimbursement for rent, utilities and venue rental expenses, while for-profit hospitality, arts and entertainment organizations of less than 50 employees can seek reimbursement for rent, utilities and payroll expenses.
Open now through January 30, 2024, the program will reimburse applicants for eligible expenses incurred in 2023 with American Rescue Plan (ARP) federal grant funds. Received by Gwinnett County, the funds are part of the final distribution of COVID-19 recovery funds and will be administered, determined and disbursed by Explore Gwinnett Tourism + Film.
- For additional information on eligibility and to apply for the Gwinnett Hospitality, Arts and Entertainment Recovery Grant Fund, visit GwinnettARPA.com.
Nicki Leritis DeVillier
Nicki Leritis DeVillier, 79, passed away gracefully and peacefully on January 15, 2024, in Hoschton. Nicki was born on June 22, 1944, in Houston, Tex., to the late Harry Leritis and Lena Mae Leritis.
DeVillier
Nicki graduated from Lamar Senior High School in Houston, Tex. in 1962 and went on to earn a degree in mathematics from Southern Methodist University in 1966. She started her career as a mathematics teacher and went on to work for 39 years. For 25 years of her career, she taught in Dekalb County Schools at Peachtree High/Junior High and Middle School. She retired from Dekalb County and went back to teach part-time in Gwinnett County Public Schools for three more years. While teaching and caring for her family, she earned two graduate degrees, a Master’s degree and a Specialist degree in mathematics from Georgia State University.
Nicki married Ronald Coulon (Ron) DeVillier on August 12, 1967. They had one child.
Nicki was best known for her love of and her dedication to teaching and serving others. In addition to being a career educator, she led church and neighborhood initiatives to provide for the underserved. She facilitated fundraising for initiatives at Christ Church Episcopal and led the Sewing Guild and the school backpack initiative. She volunteered weekly at the Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries in her longtime home of Norcross.
In her active adult community, Village at Deaton Creek, she volunteered at a local elementary school, and she made sure the service staff received holiday and summer bonuses. She taught water aerobics and quilting and organized many social events for her friends.
It brought her such joy to entertain and cook for her family and friends. Her baklava was the best you have ever had! She was a gifted seamstress, and she shared her quilts and crafts as gifts to friends and family and fundraisers for her church.
She was a fixture at her grandsons’ schools and sporting events. She fostered their academic success beginning at an early age by reading to them and challenging their math skills, which they loved. In all weather conditions, near and far, she wore their names, numbers, and team colors with love and pride. Win or lose, after each competition, she hugged them and told them that she enjoyed seeing them play. Her grandsons brought her so much joy.
She will be remembered for her ability to organize and lead without ever seeking recognition—a servant leader, always.
Nicki is survived by her daughter, KimberlyAnn (Kim) DeVillier Glass of Suwanee. She is also survived by her son-in-law William Anthony (Tony) Glass, Jr., her grandsons William Anthony (Liam) Glass, III and Ewan Padraig Glass, her sister and brother-in-law, Kathryn and Robert (Bobby) Whiten, her niece and family Julie and Dave Denman, Taylor Denman and Matthew Denman.
Nicki is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Ron DeVillier, and nephew, Robert Whiten. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at 11 a.m. at Christ Church Episcopal. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Christ Church Episcopal, 400 Holcomb Bridge Road, Norcross, Ga.30071, or Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries, 500 Pinnacle Park, Norcross, Ga. 30071, or a charity of your choice.
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
From Raleigh Perry, Buford: This author did not write a novel. He was a journalist who could make you laugh, cry or throw the book across the room while you were cussing like a sailor. There are many volumes of his writings. He was published by Knopf which was partnered with Random House and I worked with Random House and Knopf. I would suggest that you start with this book. It is his own selection of the choicest of his writings. It is divided into 31 categories, each having several articles. I will suggest two articles. The first is The Sahara of the Bozart, which is a diatribe of the South. He thought most of us were a bunch of louts. The second is In Memoriam W.J.B. (William Jennings Bryan) for whom he had no positive feelings. And this article would be his obituary for Bryan. Get your dictionary out! You’ll need it to read Mencken.
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Amos Tappan Akerman was zealous U.S. Attorney
Amos Tappan Akerman was a Georgia lawyer who rose to prominence as U.S. attorney general during Reconstruction. He was born in Portsmouth, N.H., on February 23, 1821. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, in 1842, he went south to teach, first in North Carolina, then in Richmond County, Ga.
In 1846 Akerman accepted a position as tutor in the Savannah home of John Macpherson Berrien, U.S. senator and former attorney general. As he taught the Berrien children, Akerman studied law in the senator’s library, and he was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1850. He practiced first in Clarkesville, then in Elberton. In 1864 he married Martha Rebecca Galloway, with whom he had eight children, one of whom died.
During the Civil War (1861-65) Akerman supported the Confederacy and enlisted in a home-guard unit. He joined the Republican Party after the war (he had not been politically active before) and served on the state convention that drew up the Constitution of 1868, with its guarantees of equal political rights for African Americans. That autumn, over Akerman’s protests, the white majority in the state legislature expelled twenty-eight duly elected Black members.
President Ulysses Grant appointed Akerman federal district attorney for Georgia in 1869 and in June 1870 named him U.S. attorney general. The appointment was a surprise to everyone, including Akerman. He took office as head of the newly formed Justice Department, which had been created to handle all of the federal government’s litigation (previously, each department hired its own lawyers on a case-by-case basis), and he began the department’s first investigative unit, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
One of the biggest issues Akerman faced was that of federal land subsidies to railroad companies constructing lines in the West. Akerman’s ruling that the railroads’ commitments had to be fulfilled before the land could be granted earned him the enmity of the railroad “robber barons.”
The problem that most consumed Akerman, however, was the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to deny African Americans their newly gained rights. Akerman prized the stability of the law above almost everything else, and he resented the fact that some southerners so easily disobeyed the U.S. Constitution, which by then, through the 14th and 15th Amendments, recognized that Blacks and whites had the same civil and political rights. As attorney general Akerman strenuously investigated and prosecuted Klan activities, and under his leadership the Klan was effectively ended. According to the historian William McFeely, “Perhaps no attorney general since… has been more vigorous in the prosecution of cases designed to protect the lives and rights of Black Americans.”
Not everyone in the Grant administration shared Akerman’s anti-Klan zeal, however, and some, such as Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, were actually put off by it. That, in addition to the criticism of powerful railroad interests, led Grant to ask for Akerman’s resignation in December 1871. Earlier that year Akerman had moved his family from Elberton, where whites opposed his active support of Black suffrage, to the milder racial climate of Cartersville, where he resumed practicing law.
Akerman died after a sudden attack of rheumatic fever on December 21, 1880, and is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cartersville. In 2019 the Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker commemorating Akerman’s legal career at the site of his former home in Cartersville.
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Today’s Mystery Photo is not a pretty picture
Today’s Mystery Photo is not a pretty site. It reminds us that other areas of the world do not live as we do in the United States. That might be a hint as to where this scene comes from. Figure it out and send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and tell us which town you live in.
Scott Mullennix of Peachtree Corners hit the hammer on the head with his response to the most recent mystery. He wrote: “Those are the railroad tracks leading into Birkenau at Auschwitz, Poland. They were used to transport Jews and others to the concentration camp where they were slaughtered by the Nazis. Hilary and I were there in September, 2023 on an overcast and cold day. It was a somber visit. It stands as a reminder of how cruel and inhumane man can be to those in their care –men, women and children.” The photograph came from Ross Lenhart of Stone Mountain.
Also recognizing the photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Steve Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Dale Burns, Duluth; Tom Merkel, Berkeley Lake; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Lou Camerio, Lilburn;
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. provided some further information on the concentration camp:
- “Auschwitz I: The first and oldest was the so-called ‘main camp’ that incarcerated from 15,000 to 20,000 prisoners.
- “Auschwitz II: The second part of the complex was the Birkenau Camp, the subject of today’s mystery photo, held over 90,000 prisoners in 1944. Auschwitz II was both a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, with the vast majority of the captives being executed.
- “Auschwitz III: This was the largest of the three camps, with more than 40 sub-camps. It exploited the prisoners as slave laborers that fueled German military and industrial plants and farms needed to maintain the war efforts.”
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GGC students take King Day for campus improvements
From left are GGC students Jewelle Primo and her sister, Jasmine, along with their mother Jenelle Primo, participating in a “Bags to Mats” project, where plastic bags are turned into mats, which will be given to local homeless shelters.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is a day of rest for some. But for more than 125 Georgia Gwinnett College students, it was a day of service as they participated in four different service projects on campus. The day started with a rousing performance by the Phi XI Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
The performance was followed by guest speaker Melvin Everson, vice president for economic development at Gwinnett Technical College. Everson, a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives and an Alpha Phi Alpha member, provided remarks about Dr. King’s service and challenged the audience to serve their communities.
The students participated in a seed packaging project, cleanup efforts around the campus and also worked on the campus microfarm.
Lilburn Town Hall will be Jan. 22
Visit the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth on Saturday, January 20, from 1 to 3 p.m., for an Artists’ Talk with the arts collective, Contrapunto. The talk will mark the final day of this inspiring exhibition in the Hudgens’ Fowler Gallery. Light refreshments will be served. Admission and parking at the Hudgens is free to visitors.
Housing Resource Expo will be held January 20 at the Aurora Theatre, 1218 East Pike Street, in Lawrenceville. Time will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is sponsored by the Gwinnett Housing Corporation and Lawrenceville Housing Authority.Over 20 housing agencies will provide information and resources on emergency housing, home ownership, rental, and home improvement opportunities. This will be the fifth housing expo with the goal of connecting Gwinnett residents with all existing resources.
Lilburn Town Hall meeting will be January 22 at 7 p.m. Mayor Johnny Crist will hold his first town hall meeting since being re-elected. The event will be in the Preston Room of City Hall.
Free open house at Pinckneyville Park on January 27, from 10 a.m. until l p.m. Find your creative spark in an array of arts programs. Enjoy a complimentary lunch with pre-registration. To register, call 678-277-0920. The address is 4650 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Berkeley Lake.
Writing Workshop on “Remembering Black Food Traditions” will be held February 1 at the Centerville Branch Library at 11 a.m. Come write about your favorite memories tied to Black food traditions!
Author Karen Eber will be at the Lawrenceville Branch Library on February 3 at 11 a.m. Learn about the science of storytelling as author and professional storyteller, Karen Eber provides a sneak peek into her book, The Perfect Story. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Tickets are available for the February 3 concert by the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra. Center Stage Rhapsodies will feature Pianist Awadagin Pratt in the concert at the Johns Creek Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m. Pratt will be the featured soloist on Florence Price’s “Piano Concerto in One Movement.” The Symphony will also perform William Grant Still’s Festive Overture, Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World. Secure your seats by calling 678-748-5802, or go to https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/johnscreeksymphony/1822/event/1334365
Historic Cemetery Tour of Norcross City Cemetery will be held on Sunday, February 4, at 2 p.m. Join Gene Ramsay for a historic tour. Discover Norcross’s history, decode street names, and hear captivating stories. Don’t miss this chance to connect with Norcross’s past! For details, visit here.
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