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SNELLVILLE – Funding for a sidewalk leading to Oak Road Park was approved by Mayor and Council last week.

A sidewalk will connect Scenic Highway at the RaceTrac gas station to the 5-acre passive park and then to Mountian View Road. The sidewalk will be built by Multiplex, LLC using $738,000 in 2014 Special Local Option Sales Tax funds.

Construction is expected to begin mid-May and a pre-construction meeting for interested parties will take place at 6:30 p.m., May 3 in City Hall.

This is the first of two sidewalk projects funded with 2014 SPLOST dollars, according to City Manager Butch Sanders. The other sidewalk project will be built in front South Gwinnett High School and travel east to Rockdale Circle.

Construction began on Phase 1 of the park which was purchased in 2003 with Governor's Green Space Program Funds in December 2013.

The park was part of the city's original master plan completed in 2006.

"This project is part of a bigger plan," Mayor Tom Witts said. "As most of you know, in 2003, Oak Road was promised a passive park. Not much was done until 2014. This is the last step, the last hurdle, to complete our passive park – 13 years after its inception. The park is coming."

SNELLVILLE – Newly appointed Assistant Police Chief Greg Perry attended the Chief Executive Training Class for newly appointed chiefs of police and heads of law enforcement agencies at the Dr. Curtis E. McClung Training Center in Duluth April 4-13.

The 60-hour course, administered and provided by the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, is required by state law for all newly appointed heads of law enforcement agencies.

The curriculum is designed to give newly appointed law enforcement administrators and command staff personnel training on police management, as well as inform them of laws and policies affecting their departments.

"The Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police is pleased to provide executive level training for the professional development of Georgia's new law enforcement leaders." said GACP President George Turner of the Atlanta Police Department.

Perry was among 50 law enforcement administrators attending the course.

SNELLVILLE – The Snellville Police Department has received a $10,000 grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety to help finance equipment for traffic safety operations and law enforcement activities.

There were 25 small agency incentive grants given across the state including SPD's. These grants are awarded based upon the partnership with the Governor's Office of Highway Safety in helping to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities across the state.

The grant will continue through September of 2016.

"The Governor's Office of Highway Safety is committed to keeping everyone safe on our roads and highways, from the smallest precious cargo to the most seasoned drivers," said GOHS Director Harris Blackwood.

"The Snellville Police Department is honored to receive the funding from GOHS to improve our traffic safety activities, and look forward to working with GOHS in the future," said Chief of Police Roy Whitehead.

SPD will continue its efforts to protect and serve by using effective and proven standards of excellence, with a positive and progressive attitude in every aspect of public service.

For more information on the Snellville Police Department's award, contact Lt. David Matson at 770-985-3555, dmatson@snellville.org. For more information on GOHS and its highway safety programs visit www.gahighwaysafety.org.

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SNELLVILLE – The Snellville Police Department will be participating in the National Drug Take Back event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 30 at the Snellville Police Department, 2315 Wisteria Drive.

The event is designed to allow residents a safe way to dispose of prescription drugs that would be dangerous in the hands of children and potentially abused by others.

Officers will set up a drive-thru style drop off so residents can drive up to the designated drop off area to participate in the event. No needles or syringes can be accepted.

During the last Drug Enforcement Administration sponsored drug take back event, SPD collected more than 309 pounds of old medication.

This is also the Saturday of Snellville Days this year but the event will still take place at the police department.

For more information about the event contact Lt. A.L. Sullivan at 770-985-3555 or asullivan@snellville.org.

SNELLVILLE – City Hall will be the site of a meeting to discuss the county's Comprehensive Transportation Plan.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., March 29 in the City Hall Community Room, 2342 Oak Road.

A Comprehensive Transportation Plan, or CTP, serves as a roadmap for how a community would like to see its transportation networks develop to serve their current and future needs, according to county officials.

To best prepare for the future of the county's roads, it is important to look at the changes that have occurred in Gwinnett County's population, employment, land use and development since the adoption of the previous plan. Knowing what has happened or is happening can help the planning team guide the county to where it wants to be in the future, which will influence the overall development of the CTP, officials said. The resulting updated CTP will set a direction for transportation in Gwinnett County moving forward, with a horizon year of 2040. Ideally, a CTP is updated every five to seven years.

For more information on the plan and meeting visit www.gwinnettcounty.org.

SNELLVILLE – City Hall will host the art of a trio of abstract artists for two months.

Paintings by Carol T. Vey, Tara Hanlon Hamm and Sherry Robinson will be on display April 8 through June 2 in the Art Gallery in the Community Room of City Hall, 2342 Oak Road.

The reception for the artists is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 8.

Vey said she is back to making art after a hiatus.

"Having worked mostly with fused glass in the past, I am excited to be concentrating on the mixed-media components that I favored with my glass pieces, in addition to the photographic images that I've either captured or come across in multiple ways," she said. "The design of my work has its beginnings from many sources, evolving as my life changes, adapting as my life sometimes complicates.

I am a collector of the unusual image, phrase, or idea; always on the lookout for something that I can use in one of my pieces. My pieces of art are fraught with the seemingly unrelated, which upon further close inspection might reveal to the viewer just how my mind works!"

Hamm, who grew up in upstate New York, attended both Maryland Institute, College of Art and Atlanta College of Art. Setting aside art, she moved on in the medical field but after 15 years she finally picked up her brushes again and hasn't looked back since.

She describes her art as "contemporary paintings (which) focus on the abstract and organic characteristics found in nature, combining dark and intriguing color with rich heavy textures."

Robinson is an Atlanta native and, for a brief period, was an art major in college while attending Georgia State University. Following a more than 30-year career in Computer Technology, she took to her art work once again. She is also director at Kudzu Art Zone Gallery and Studios.

"At this point in my art work I enjoy experimenting with all realms of techniques, mediums, and subject matters," she said. "For me the discovery of something new is as exciting as a beautiful finished work of art. Many of my art pieces are from photographs I have taken; so my art work is a memory of an adventure or a representation of a story or person I care about. I have created a company called Art a la Sherry in which to share my artwork with others."

REQUEST FOR SEALED BID
Operation of Commercial and Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Services Within the City Limits of Snellville, Georgia. (PW160315)
March 15, 2016

The City of Snellville (City) is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified vendors to provide all labor and equipment required for the Operation of Commercial and Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Services Within the City Limits of Snellville, Georgia.

Bids should be typed or submitted in ink and returned in a sealed envelope marked on the outside with the project identification, bid number and Company Name. Bids will be received until 2:00 P.M. local time on Friday, April 15, 2016, at the Snellville City Hall
Reception Desk, First Floor, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia 30078. Any bid received after this date and time will be marked as "late" and disqualified. After the time for receipt of bids has passed, each submitted bid package will be opened by the City
Clerk and selected staff. An initial bid tabulation documenting the Bid opening and listing Bidders will be available upon request on the next business day following the date of the Bid opening or viewed on our website at www.snellville.org.

A mandatory pre-bid conference is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2016 in Conference Room 145 of the Snellville City Hall. All interested contractors will need to attend. Questions regarding bids should be directed in writing to Melisa Arnold, City Clerk, atmarnold@snellville.org or fax at 770-985-3525, no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2016.

The Bids shall remain valid for a period of 60 days from bid opening. The City reserves the right to waive any formality and any technicalities, and to reject any or all bids if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the City to do so.

The information for bidders, scope of work, and how to obtain other related documents may be obtained at the following location:

Melisa Arnold
City Clerk/Administrative Manager
City of Snellville Administration Department
2342 Oak Road
Snellville, Georgia 30078
Telephone: (770) 985-3503
Email: marnold@snellville.org

CITY OF SNELLVILLE, GEORGIA
Butch Sanders
City Manager, Administration Department

SNELLVILLE – The once-dormant Development Authority of Snellville has been reactivated following a unanimous vote by the Mayor and Council Monday.

Current members of the Snellville Downtown Development Authority will fill the positions as directors of the reinstated Authority.

The move was made to create a body that has the development powers of the DDA throughout the city. The DDA can only work to develop the designated downtown area of the city.

After the Authority was reactivated, the Mayor and Council approved a measure which directs the Development Authority of Snellville to take title of the old police station on Lenora Church Road.

The first meeting of the Development Authority of Snellville is at 4 p.m. Thursday in City Hall.

A committee to review the City Charter was also created. The committee consists of City Attorney Tony Powell, councilmen Bobby Howard and Roger Marmol, former Mayor Emmett Clower, Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity Melvin Everson, City Clerk Melisa Arnold, former Councilman and member of the city's Planning Commission and Urban Redevelopment Agency Tod Warner and former Councilwoman Diane Krause.