Heart of South DeKalb

DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond will give an update on progress made toward addressing the water billing crisis on Tuesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., in the Maloof Auditorium, 1300 Commerce Drive, Decatur, GA 30030. CEO Thurmond will discuss the most recent steps the county has taken to resolve the county’s water billing crisis. This meeting is part of CEO…

“Place does Matter, and Blight is a Public Health Issue”, with those words from Commissioner Larry Johnson, along with the CEO, the Code Enforcement, the DeKalb Police and the Conley Business District Association launched a historic campaign against blighted properties in the Commercial District of Conley CID. Commissioner Johnson recognized that blight may not go away…

Commissioner Larry Johnson is eternally grateful to the army of volunteers who disregarded their last minute Christmas Shopping to participate in the 2017 Random Acts of kindness. The team visited all the fire stations in the South DeKalb area along with the DeKalb Fire Chief Fullum, DeKalb County School Superintendent Dr. Greg, Judge Mike Jacobs,…