October 2025 Meeting Highlights
Fire Dept:
- 25 new recruits started Monday, October 6, 2025
- 10 personnel promotions
- Completing the renovations to Station 6
Police Dept:
- No representative was present to share updates.
School Report:
- Graduation rates were announced for each high school in Sout Fulton
- Langston Hughes 94%
- Creekside 92.2%
- Westlake 91.9%
- Banneker 84.6%
- TriCities 86.1%
- Improvement gains for SAT scores
- $300,000 grant for Banneker HS
- School community meeting on October 20th at Cliftondale
Construction and Zoning Development
- Continued development along Riverside Dr. Apartments are being occupied. Ongoing negotiations for additional retail in area to include a parcel of land for medical space.
- Zoning update for land off Campbellton Road on Dove Street. Request to rezone from R3 to agriculture. This is a 4-acre lot. Owner wants to expand current garden to implement a farm to table garden for the community. Currently has muscadine grapes fields on property.
District 1 News
- Councilperson Rowell community meeting is scheduled for October 8th at Sandtown Rec Center 6-8 pm.
- Southwest Arts Center is undergoing renovations.
- Enon Road traffic speed reduction in progress. Reduce speed, law enforcement will ticket for speeding.
- Quik Trip under construction on Cascade Road
- New traffic signal on Kimberly and Cascade Roads
- Dunkin Donuts will be housed on Fairburn and Cascade (in front of old LT Wings)
- Construction is set for first home in subdivision on Wallace Road
Political Campaigns
- Roger Bruce announced his candidacy for State Senator