METRO ATLANTA — The Fulton County Board of Commissioners dropped its plans to remove Bob Cheeley as its appointee on the True North 400 board after legal staff determined the resolution had no grounds.
At a Board of Commissioners meeting Nov. 1, County Attorney Y. Soo Jo said the resolution was removed because of a legal misunderstanding.
“This was a resolution brought forward by Commissioner Barrett based on my initial legal advice that only one Fulton County seat was warranted on the CID under current conditions,” Jo said. “Upon realizing there was a mistake in the analysis, I reached out to Commissioner Barrett to obtain her permission to remove the item, and that is why it is being removed.”
At the meeting, Commissioner Bridget Thorne read a letter written by True North 400 Executive Director and state Sen. Brandon Beach criticizing the resolution.
In the letter, Beach said the effort to target Cheeley was “misguided,” and the CID board should have the chance to address its composition before the Board of Commissioners attempts to alter it.
“’Innocent until proven guilty’ is a bedrock, a principle of justice, and this applies no less to our board members,” Beach wrote in the letter.
The resolution, which was shared in the agenda packet for the meeting Oct. 27, sought to remove Cheeley as one of the County Commission’s two appointees.
True North 400, formerly the North Fulton Community Improvement District, is a self-taxing business district dedicated to community, transit and road improvements between Mansell and McGinnis Ferry roads. Its coverage area encompasses parts of Roswell, Milton and Alpharetta.
The resolution held that because the percentage of unincorporated Fulton County land has fallen below 50, one of the county’s two appointees to the CID board, Cheeley and Al Nash, were no longer needed.
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