MARTA officials are to meet the public Thursday evening to discuss the Campbellton Road transit expansion proposal for the first time since the Atlanta City Council questioned MARTA’s handling of the project.
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Atlanta to ask MARTA to account for spending of More MARTA sales tax
The Atlanta City Council is poised to ask MARTA to account for money it’s spent, and plans to spend, from the 0.5 percent More MARTA Atlanta sales tax city voters approved in 2016.
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Atlanta City Council, mayor agree on inspector general post
Now to find the funding.
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Atlanta City Council set to vote on inspector general legislation, amid doubts
Atlanta City Council is set for a Tuesday showdown over independent supervision of city government.
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Shorthanded city trust task force meets; mayor says it’s a challenge to enlist folks generally
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said people are second-guessing their decisions to work with Atlanta, and called on the media to do more good news.
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Cancer patients to gain options, non-profit hospitals to disclose assets under pending law
A for-profit cancer treatment center in Newnan will be allowed to treat more Georgia patients and non-profit hospitals will be required to highlight their expenses – ranging from the cost of naming rights for an amphitheater to salaries paid to C-suite executives – under breakthrough changes to Georgia’s healthcare laws passed by the Legislature amid support from the governor and lieutenant governor.
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As health care revisions loom at Capitol, credit rating cut for system near Macon
As state lawmakers look “revolutionize” health care delivery in Georgia, a hospital authority in a rural part of the state has faced a double whammy of a credit downgrade and a reaffirmation of a negative outlook on its ability to repay about $72 million of borrowing in 2007 to finance an expansion.
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Posting CEO pay of non-profit hospitals part of proposed reform of health system
Five CEOs are paid a total of more than $9 million a year to run non-profit hospitals in metro Atlanta, according to the hospitals’ latest available tax returns. These salaries, and other hospital financials, are to be made more readily available to the public as the part of a proposed effort by the state House to “revolutionize” health care delivery.
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With online “checkbook” register, Atlanta aims to get ahead of public, media questions
With a new website that shows Atlanta’s spending down to the checkbook level, city leaders are hoping for many things, including to head off the many folks writing in to ask questions about city spending.
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Atlanta councilmembers, mayor’s staff to discuss ‘honest government’ legislation
The Atlanta City Council intends to repair breaches in the city government’s protocols on transparency and honesty, and on Wednesday a council committee agreed to meet with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ staff to work out the details. A meeting date was not set.
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Can’t get a Georgia public record? Blame fees, laws, rulings, lack of knowledge.
There are a lot of reasons why critics say there’s a heavy curtain that stands between between Georgians and some public business.
