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SNELLVILLE — In an effort to safely discard unused and expired medication, there will be a Drug Enforcement Agency Drug Take Back hosted by the Snellville Police Department Oct. 24.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at both the Snellville Police Department, 2315 Wisteria Drive, and at Eastside Medical Center's Main Campus, 1700 Medical Way.

Each location will be a contactless drop off. Participants can drive or walk up and drop discarded medication into the drop boxes. Medication may be left in its original containers with or without the labels as all items discarded are burned.

Please follow Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidelines related to COVID-19 during the drop off process - wear a mask and remain six feet from officers and other participants.

Please do not bring needles or sharp objects for disposal.

Contact Lt. A. Sullivan at asullivan@snellville.org or 770-985-3555 for more information.

ATLANTA – The Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) is announcing the Snellville Police Department is one of 21 law enforcement agencies in Georgia to receive a Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic grant for the 2021 grant season. Referred to as a H.E.A.T. grant, the Snellville Police Department's award totals $209,816.76.

The goal of the H.E.A.T. program is to combat crashes, injuries and fatalities caused by impaired driving and speeding, while also increasing seatbelt use and educating the public about traffic safety and the dangers of DUI.

The Snellville Police Department H.E.A.T Unit will use the grant from GOHS to develop and implement strategies to reduce local traffic crashes due to aggressive and dangerous driving behaviors. GOHS H.E.A.T. grants are funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

"The loss of one life on our roads is one too many, and the fact almost all fatal traffic crashes can be prevented is one reason why we are awarding this grant," Governor's Office of Highway Safety Director Allen Poole said. "The target of zero traffic deaths in our nation is achievable, and we will continue to help develop and implement educational messages and enforcement campaigns aimed at bringing our state one step closer to that goal."

Totaling $6.7 million for 2021, H.E.A.T. grants fund specialized traffic enforcement activities in counties throughout the state. The program was designed to assist Georgia jurisdictions with the highest rates of traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities with grants awarded based on impaired driving and speeding data.

"The Snellville Police Department is excited to receive the HEAT grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety. The grant will enable us to increase our enforcement efforts allowing us to impact impaired driving, distracted driving, speeding and other serious traffic offenses occurring in our city. This will help us achieve our goal to significantly reduce injuries and fatalities resulting from these violations while improving the safety on our roadways for the motoring public," said Police Chief Roy Whitehead.

As law enforcement partners in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over DUI and Click It or Ticket seatbelt campaigns, the Snellville Police Department will also conduct mobilizations throughout the year in coordination with GOHS's year-round waves of high visibility patrols, concentrated patrols, and multi-jurisdictional sobriety checkpoints.

The grant will continue through September of 2021.

For more information about the H.E.A.T. program or any other GOHS campaign, visit www.gahighwaysafety.org or call 404-656-6996.

Snellville's skyline will look a bit different by 2023.

The lollipop-shaped blue water tower, which peeks over the tree line of the Nob Hill Subdivision west of Scenic Highway, will be removed in late 2022 or 2023 to make way for a new pump station.

The Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources is currently in the midst of a multi-phased project involving the removal of the water tower. The project's design phase will be complete by early 2021 and the project will go to bid by mid-2021, county officials said. Construction on the new required pump station will begin in the first quarter of 2022.

County officials estimate it should only take two to three weeks to remove the tower.

SNELLVILLE — Mayor and Council voted to accept up to $2.13 million in Coronavirus relief funds from Gwinnett County Monday

Gwinnett County made available the Coronavirus Relief Funds awarded by the U.S. Department of Treasury, through the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act to Gwinnett cities. The county's amount to distribute between the cities, based on population, totaled $25 million.

The city can use the funds to reimburse Coronavirus expenses including personal protective equipment, cleaning supplies, vehicle modifications, employee hazard pay, software, small business assistance, etc.

Also on Monday, Mayor and Council, approved a $215,064 contract with CHA for design plans for the intersection of Highway 124 and Wisteria Drive as part of The Grove at Towne Center development project.

The intersection reconfiguration is a key part of the city's Towne Center infrastructure improvements and calls for a three-way intersection with right-in, right-out access to Harbor Oak Drive.

The contract calls for the development of concept layout, preliminary plans, right of way plans and final plans. After taking over project management from Gwinnett County, the city received Georgia Department of Transportation approval to move forward with the work.

The contract amount is to be paid from city/county joint Special Local Option Special Sales Tax funds. The city/county percentage split is 81-19.

The City of Snellville, along with co-developers CASTO and MidCity, is pleased to announce that the City Market Construction and Leasing agreement between the City and Mid Cast Snellville has been approved by City Council. The Grove's $85 million first phase is still scheduled to commence construction in 2020 and begin to deliver in 2022.

"The continued progress is exciting to see," said Kirk Demetrops, President and Founder of MidCity Real Estate Partners. "Every advancement being made brings us closer to breaking ground and being able to provide visible progress of this highly-anticipated development."

The approval of the agreement for the City Market is an important development, as the city will utilize Mid Cast's expertise in construction and leasing for the anticipated mixed-use building. Additionally, the city also approved $366,603 to Winter Construction for completing the pre-cast concrete engineering by Metromont Precast Building Solutions for the city's new parking deck.

"With the approval of this Market construction and leasing agreement, we now have every piece of The Grove at Towne Center under design and moving toward construction," said Snellville Mayor Barbara Bender. "We are glad to partner with Mid Cast on this key piece of the entire enterprise and, together, we believe we will create a unique and sophisticated dining/entertainment venue, which will attract customers from all over our region.

The Grove at Towne Center will be a large scale, mixed-use town center property, comprising 18 acres between Oak Road, Wisteria Drive, North Road, and Clower Street, in downtown Snellville. The Grove at Towne Center's first phase will include over 50,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, office, and entertainment space, and approximately 250 multi-family luxury apartments. In addition, the new Elizabeth Williams Library will be constructed and include a 2nd-floor business development/accelerator space.

For more information and updates on the Grove at Towne Center project visit www.snellville.org/the-towne-center-snellville

The 14U Girls Tennis Team, based out of Briscoe Park, made it all the way to the United States Tennis Association Summer City Finals.

The team, coached by Shadisha Robinson, finished second in the tournament after a tough match against Crooked Creek.

The team had six regular season matches - three home and three away. Due to COVID-19, the summer season started a later than normal, said Team Captain Sondra Turnbough.

"When the girls were unable to practice because the tennis courts were closed, they did at home workouts given to them by Coach Robinson," she said.

The team won its first round match against the Fieldstone team. This team has been together since 2017. In The fall of 2017, the team won the 14U ALTA City Championship and in the Fall of 2018 the team was a 14U Alta City Finalist.

The Snellville Unified Development Code's six-week public review process concluded on Monday, August 31. Edits to the working draft will now be implemented based on the community input received, after which a formal draft will move towards review and adoption by the appropriate boards. Watch this site for a download of the updated draft as it becomes available.

Stay Engaged

Miss your chance to comment during public review? There are still opportunities to be heard. Make plans now to attend the following meetings:

Planning Commission
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 | 7:30pm
Council Chambers, City Hall

City Council
Monday, October 12, 2020 | 7:30pm
First of two UDO meetings
Council Chambers, City Hall

Monday, October 26, 2020 | 7:30pm
Second of two UDO meetings
Council Chambers, City Hall

Thank you for your interest and participation in this effort. If you've got any questions, submit them here.

REQUEST FOR SEALED BID
Lawn Care Maintenance for the City of Snellville (Bid# PW200826)
CITY OF SNELLVILLE, GEORGIA
August 26, 2020

The City of Snellville (City) is soliciting competitive sealed bids for
the lawn care maintenance in the City of Snellville, Georgia.

Please visit our Bid Page for more information.

SNELLVILLE — City officials broke ground on the Greenway Trail Monday, a project which will provide a trail system around the city's The Grove at Towne Center development.

"This is a great day for Snellville," Mayor Barbara Bender said. "The Greenway Trail will provide visitors and residents with a beautiful network of paths to travel to and through our downtown development project, The Grove at Towne Center. The trail system will provide a safe and convenient option to people who want to visit our city by walking and bike riding."

On July 27, Mayor and Council approved a $1.1 million contract to the Dickerson Group for Phase 1 of the Greenway Trail. City Manager Butch Sanders said about $400,000 of that money will go toward stormwater improvements in the Towne Center.

Phase 1 of the project, the Towne Center Spine, is a .7-mile trail running parallel to Wisteria Drive along a mostly dry creek bed. This greenway will serve as a "border" more or less to the rear of the Towne Center and will provide another connection from City Hall and the Senior Center to North Road, Scenic Highway and the neighborhoods abutting the north end of Snellville's downtown.

Phase 2 of the project, to begin at a later date, will travel from Oak Road to Main Street in front of First Baptist Church to Church Street to Fremont Street. It will then connect to a path off Fremont Street into the Briscoe Park public use area.

The Greenway Plan also calls for a 4.5-mile path from Snellville to Lawrenceville largely following North Road and Old Snellville Highway, which allows cyclists and pedestrians to travel on quieter roads away from the fast and heavy traffic on Highway 124 It also serves to provide additional connection to Alexander Park, just outside Snellville city limits.

There are also plans for a Main Street West / US-78 trail. At almost 5 miles in length, this is the longest and most ambitious of the greenways being planned by the city and Gwinnett County for the area. The goal is to give Snellville and the South Gwinnett area a connection to the existing trail network around Stone Mountain. This is a key connection for the future, as it links the growing Gwinnett County greenway network to the web of trails and greenways in the rest of the Atlanta Metro and beyond.

When completed, The Grove will offer luxury multi-family residential units, a parking deck, a unique City Market with special event space included, the new Elizabeth Williams Public Library and numerous dining and shopping options.

The Greenway Trail Master Plan can be viewed at https://www.snellville.org/snellville-greenway-master-plan-1

REQUEST FOR SEALED BID - RESURFACING & PAVING FOR FY 2020-2021
PW200819
Wednesday August 19, 2020

The City of Snellville is soliciting competitive bids from qualified vendors for the resurfacing and

paving of City roads for FY 2020-2021.

Please visit our bid page for more information.