FBCC to consider final action on tax rate & budget, allowing microbreweries in CBD

A lengthy agenda for Thursday night’s meeting of the Flowery Branch City Council (FBCC) includes final action on the city’s 2024 tax rate and FY 2024-2025 budget.

In addition, the council will consider allowing microbreweries in the Central Business District (CBD) and authorizing the mayor to sign the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax (TSPLOST) Intergovernmental Agreement. Hall County and its cities and towns are planning a referendum on TSPLOST.

Also on the agenda: Consideration of a real estate agreement with Blessing Traders, Inc. for the Purchase of property for the roundabout at Gaines Ferry Road and McEver Road.

The full agenda and detailed information on each item on it can be found here: ed22a166-d485-41de-9e08-3f0b460915e4-8a7c3c74-303a-4a6e-aaf9-5d7ff405cd9f-1718725061.pdf (d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net)

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Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.