From Planned Parenthood Southeast:

Set your calendars - it's time to Paint the Village Pink again! Our sixth annual fundraising event will take place in EAV on Friday, June 23.

Our goal is to raise mission-critical funds for Planned Parenthood Southeast and our very own East Atlanta Health Center. As you know, it takes a village. That's why we're asking for your help as event sponsors. 

This year, we're promoting PTVP as an all-day event and raffle. Daytime sponsors, we'll stage our raffle prize boxes at your business. Supporters can drop in, check out the prizes at each location, and enter to win. We'll also offer early t-shirt sales in the village. Then, we'll move the raffle prize boxes to our nighttime sponsor locations for our bar crawlers. We'll also include your bar or restaurant on our bar crawl map. 

All sponsors will be featured on our printed promotional materials for the event as well as online in social networking posts and on the fundraising website. You'll also receive a decor package, including posters, postcards, balloons, and swag for the event.

Ready to be a sponsor?

• A donation of $100 or more gets you in! And if you donate $200 or more, you'll also receive 10 event t-shirts for you and your staff. SIGN UP HERE

• Consider donating a prize for the raffle. Ideas include a gift basket that showcases your products, gift cards to your business, or a cash donation toward the cost of a big raffle prize. Additionally, if you have any relationships with places you think might be willing to donate a prize for the raffle, please let us know! It doesn’t have to be a business in EAV.

• RSVP by May 19, 2023

If you have questions or need additional details, please reach out to Tony Kearney, Director of Strategic Relationships at PPSE, at tony.kearney@ppse.org.

In solidarity,

PPSE East Atlanta Advisory Council

This past week, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2024 which starts July 1.

At $2.5 billion, this would be the largest operating budget in Atlanta history.

$790M is in the General Fund–– which is the City’s principal operating fund and has the most flexibility on how it gets spent.

Other funds — such as those for the airport, water, and E-911 — have restrictions on where and how the money can be spent.

Each of the City’s department will meet with City Council regarding their proposed FY2024 operating budgets.

Departments will present their requests for operating funds included in the budget in the Council Chambers at City Hall. All sessions are open to the public (also broadcast on Channel 26 and livestreamed on the council’s social), but there is no public comment.

BUDGET HEARINGS SCHEDULE + MORE INFO

Are you a small business in Atlanta? Interested in generating extra foot traffic on a Wednesday? Have a spot where someone could perform on Make Music Day Atlanta 6/21/23? Keep reading !

Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to host musicians from their outdoor space, sidewalks, backyards, storefronts, small business, restaurants, cafes, bars, cultural institutions; community gardens; even your own porch, stoop, driveway, or lawn.

This year Make Music Day Atlanta is collaborating with the Atlanta Main Street Cohort. We highly encourage you to consider participating if you have a business in @sweetauburnworks @eastatlantabiz @l5pbiz @westendmerchants or @virginiahighlanddistrict

The only rule? ALL Make Music Day events must be free and open to the public.

Sign Up Here

Sign up by May 24th at midnight EST!

May is historic preservation month!

Explore East Atlanta's unique historic character and challenge your neighborhood knowledge and observation skills this May with EABA's Architectural Scavenger Hunt brought to you by EAV Main Street and FOMO (Friends of the Madison Organization).

SUBMIT ANSWERS ON THIS FORM

All of the architectural details photographed on the scavenger hunt appear on built resources within this BOUNDARY MAP. All are commercial or community landmark resources- no residences. Find the architectural features shown and record the corresponding address or current business name on this form. Each week through June 9th, we'll announce one winner from the entries with the most correct answers! ShopEAV gift cards will be awarded to a winner each week.

Enter each week for the most chances to win! Answer sheet will be provided to all participants at the end of the month.

Questions? Email us at hello@eastatlantabiz.com. Follow us on FB and Insta @eastatlantabiz.

For more historic preservation celebrations, check out our Whispers of History Event.

Happy historic preservation month from EAV Main Street and Friends of the Madison Theatre!

Filming update from EABA's Film Liason, Armando Celentano of Argosy:

Hello, business owners. Netflix has applied for a filming permit for Monday, May 1 with the Mayor’s Office of Film and Entertainment. This will close Flat Shoals to through traffic between Metropolitan and Glenwood from 9am until  early to mid afternoon. The permit will say 5pm but for their lighting purposes the filming will need to be done no later than 3. Their locations team is currently out in the neighborhood making sure any businesses within this and possibly outlying areas will be compensated. Please have a few months of your Monday daytime sales reports available to show. They are arranging for parking lots to be made available at both ends of the block and behind 463-485 Flat Shoals.

PUBLIC PARKING MAP

Please reach out to Taylor McPherson if you have not been notified:  taymacloco@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone who came out to support the East Atlanta business community at our April General Meeting last week!

Take Aways:

• View the MINUTES HERE.
• View the Zoom Recording HERE.
• View the NC-17 Bouldercrest Triangle Presentation HERE.
• View ATL InBusiness Website HERE.
• View the Zone 6 APD Contact Information HERE.
• • Kia + Hyundai owners can reach out to Lt. Carroll (contact info at link above) for a free wheel lock. 

THANK YOU to Waffle Bar, MikChan's EAV, AtlantaPurus, Village Church + Mint Mobile Detail  for the meeting support! And thank you to all attendees - your engagement in East Atlanta's business community is so appreciated.

We had a great turnout and hope to see even more of you at next month's General Meeting on May 16, 6 PM at Village Church!

Sponsor our next meeting!

 

Below are the contacts for the Lieutenants, the shift they work and their area of responsibility. Thank you to Lieutenant Butler for providing this information!

Main Precinct:  404-546-5700 | Officer is available from 7 a.m. – 11 p.m.

Lt. Carroll | Jcarroll@atlantaga.gov

Day Watch – 6 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Lieutenant Capell | ntcapell@atlantaga.gov | 678-618-9013

Evening Watch – 2 p.m. – 11 p.m.

Lieutenant Butler | cdbutler@atlantaga.gov | 470-218-5001

Morning Watch – 10 p.m. – 6 a.m.

Lieutenant Crosby | rcrosby@atlantaga.gov | 470-543-1743

Crime Suppression – Typically begin at noon but shifts vary

Lieutenant Mercado | nmercado@atlantaga.gov | 404-709-1735 

Bike Patrol/Quality of Life: Lieutenant Carroll | jcarroll@atlantaga.gov

Cameras: Looking at the map it appears there is a functioning camera at these following locations:

Flat Shoals / Glenwood – Covers the intersection

1242 Glenwood – Points towards the Bagel Store

Flat Shoals and May – Points south on Flat Shoals

Code Enforcement: Lieutenant Cotter | mcotter@atlantaga.gov

Code Enforcement Section
818 Pollard Blvd. SW 
Atlanta, GA 30315 
Tel: 404-546-3800 
Fax: 404 658-7084 
Fax: 404 525-6614 
codesrequests@atlantaga.gov

Public Safety Chair: Micki Silvestros | East Atlanta Copy Center publicsafety@eastatlantabiz.com

• ALWAYS copy Public Safety Chair when communicating incidents in EAV

Public Safety Committee Meetings

• 2nd Wednesdays, every other month: April 12, June 14, August 9, October 11, December 13

Zone 6 Commander:Major Andrea Webster | awebster@atlantaga.gov

Lieutenant Chris Butler, Atlanta Police Department Zone 6 Evening Watch

Cell: 470-218-5001 cdbutler@atlantaga.gov

GOAL OF THIS MEETING: Create a Public Safety committee of volunteer business owners dedicated to shifting negative perceptions of the commercial districts of East Atlanta.  Volunteers will spearhead an area of concern below: 

East Atlanta Village Emergency Contact Map (Brick & Mortar businesses): See map here

• Create a database of public facing cameras with contact information that will assist APD in obtaining video footage that pertains to issues. This will be shared with APD. No camera footage is shared. 

• • How many cameras do you have at your business that face public sidewalks, parking lots or streets?

  • Who is your emergency contact at your business if something happens? Break-in, fire, tagging, shoplifting??

  • ACTION: Gather all camera data and emergency contacts from EAV businesses. Determine a process for notifying all emergency contacts of an incident. Text service sponsorship needed. 

East Atlanta Village Clean-ups:  The best way to shift a negative perception of a commercial district is to have litter free, well maintained landscaping and with no graffiti. 

• Georgia Works can provide services.  

• ACTION: EABA needs to raise the $500 per month and have someone be the main point of contact for crews progress and needs. 

• Commercialharassment@atlantaga.gov - goes to city solicitor Bert Hopkins - for all of COA

• • If you’re getting a lot of tagging, drug dealing, prostitution, panhandlers, crime, defacement, anything you need to involve legal eye of COA, email the above email short synopsis of the issue, location and your contact info and cc hello@eastatlantabiz.com.

GA Power Light Audits: Making sure EAV is properly lit provides for a safe environment. 

ACTION: Identifying burned out lights and reporting them to Georgia Power. Following up to ensure they are fixed. Ongoing activity. 

Outreach Services for Unhoused Community

911: Life Threatening 

PAD: 311-1 for quality of life issues

Partners for Home: Encampments

• PAD:Download this Resources Guide, Print and Post at your Business

• Partners for HOME, the Atlanta Continuum of Care (CoC), and the ClearerPath Strategic Planning Committee to End Homelessness would like to invite you to an NPU Virtual Listening Session on Homelessness in Atlanta. These sessions are an opportunity to engage with Partners for HOME to learn more about current and future solutions surrounding homelessness in the City of Atlanta and to provide input regarding the next five-year strategic plan to end homelessness. REGISTER HERE   SUBMIT QUESTIONS BEFORE HERE

• 1. Four sessions via Zoom (dates below). These sessions will also be recorded and posted to the Partners for HOME website. https://partnersforhome.org/

Monday, April 17th, 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, April 19th, 8:00 – 9:00 AM

Monday, April 24th, 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, April 26th, 8:00 – 9:00 AM

• DOWNLOAD THIS INFORMATION ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS

Create a EAV Disaster Preparedness Plan

ACTION:  Utilize Georgia Main Street resources and create a specific plan for the East Atlanta Village. Enroll all business owners. Use an emergency text system. 

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A MEMBER OF THE EABA PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, PLEASE EMAIL PUBLICSAFETY@EASTATLANTABIZ.COM WITH THE AREA OF CONCERN YOU’RE MOST INTERESTED IN WORKING ON. 

Thank you to everyone who came out to support the East Atlanta business community at our March General Meeting on Tuesday. You can view the minutes here.

THANK YOU to Argosy + Coffyn Pyes + Brandon Byrd Your Local Mortgage Expert + A Sound Proposition + East Atlanta Kids Club for the meeting support! And thank you to all attendees - your engagement in East Atlanta's business community is so appreciated.

We had a great turnout and hope to see even more of you at next month's General Meeting on April 18th!

Sponsor our next meeting!

   

EABA President and owner of ScreenFixing, Nate Minor,  joined Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari on  WABE 90.1 FM's Closer Look with Rose Scott at Joe's East Atlanta Coffee Shop on 2.23.23.

Topics included East Atlanta Business Association, Atlanta Main Streets, and other things East Atlanta Village.

Check out photos from the event below!

LISTEN TO THE RECORDING