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ELECTION GUIDE
County considers increased funding for historic school
Meet the candidates: Cumming City Council FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Cumming voters will see one contested city race on their ballots in November. All council seats are at-large positions, and voters will cast votes for all three posts. Mayor Troy Brumbalow and Post 1 Councilman Chad Crane are running unopposed. Post 2 Councilman Jason Evans is facing a challenge by George Robert Notel II. All positions serve four-year terms. Residents can register to vote up until Oct. 6. Advanced voting will occur Oct. 14 to 31. Check your voter registration status and find more information at vote.gov. After soliciting input from residents, Appen Media and the Forsyth Herald sent questionnaires to the Post 2 candidates. They were asked the same questions and given equal amount of space to provide answers. Readers can see their responses to some of those questions, along with a short selfprovided biography, below.
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Commission discussed allocating additional funds to renovate a historic school building it bought in 2021. At their Oct. 7 work session, commissioners reviewed a request for more than $155,456 for the 8,100-square-foot Matt Schoolhouse, 5710 Namon Wallace Road in northwest Forsyth County. The money would pay for a roof replacement, toilet accessories, kitchen equipment and other features. Previously, the county worked to mitigate black mold and asbestos from the building, Commissioner Todd Levent said. The renovation is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Commissioners tentatively approved the request, which will be up for a final vote at an Oct. 16 meeting. Forsyth County already has spent about $4 million on the property. Dan Callahan, director of Public Facilities, said he estimates the building could be worth about $5 million. Named after Matison Martin, the schoolhouse, built in the 1940s, once held 75 students. Students sat on slab benches around an open fireplace and drank water from a nearby spring.
Evans: I grew up in Alpharetta and graduated from the University of Tennessee. I’ve lived in Cumming for 20 years and co-founded our family sandblasting and powder coating business here with my parents 22 years ago. My wife and I are involved in several local nonprofits, and we are caregivers for my grandfather. Notel: I bought my home in 2017 after renting for five years in the Cumming and Forsyth County. I started attending council meetings after buying my home. I have not seen the Council do enough to control development. I want to be a new voice on the council.
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