City Council Passes Short Term Rentals Ordinances
Community March 15, 2022
CLEVELAND, Ga.- The Cleveland City Council passed two ordinances for short-term rentals during their meeting on March 14.
Police Chief Jeff Shoemaker promoted Major Wilden. The council also discussed an amendment for alcohol curbside pickup, and they continued discussions on the pawnbroker amendment ordinances.
The council began discussing short-term rentals at the meeting on Feb. 14. This was a continuation of an original discussion that the prior council began last year. To review what was discussed during that meeting about the ordinances please visit https://white.fetchyournews.com/2022/02/15/council-discusses-short-term-rental-ordinance/.
The ordinances that were passed were the 2022-02 zoning amendment and the 2022-03 short-term rental ordinance and application. 2022-02 the zoning amendment is to change zoning districts R1, R2, and R3 to allow short-term rentals into those districts. The short-term rental ordinance and application were approved after many discussions by the council.
Police Chief Shoemaker while promoting Major Wilden to Deputy Chief.
Shoemaker promoted Major Wilden to Deputy Chief at the meeting. Shoemaker stated that this promotion is due to all the support Wilden has provided since Shoemaker came to the job last year. After the promotion Shoemaker delivered the monthly department report to the council. To learn more about the police department visit https://www.cityofclevelandga.org/departments/police_department.php.
The council began the first consideration of the ordinance amendment to allow alcohol to be part of curbside pickups. There were adjustments made after the work session. The locations that provide the service have to show the city proof of their rules for carding, have a specific location for the pickup, and have cameras around that area, as well as follow all other city regulations. Currently, there are only two stores that are applying for curbside pickup.
The discussions on the pawnbroker amendments continued at the meeting as well. This week they reviewed the application fees for both the employer and employees of the company. That included defining which employees would be handling merchandise. They also reviewed the fee adoption schedule. This was the first consideration for both these items, there will be another consideration before the council votes.
GBI announces promotion of Dustin Hamby
News, Press Release August 9, 2020
Dustin Hamby
DECATUR, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announces the promotion of Dustin Hamby to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO) in Cleveland, GA. ASAC Hamby will be responsible for the supervision of the Special Agents and Task Force Agents assigned to this work unit. ARDEO conducts high level drug investigations in the North Georgia area.
ASAC Hamby has been employed with the GBI for over 18 years. He began his GBI career as a Narcotics eAgent at the Oconee Drug Task Force (ODTF) and the Macon Regional Drug Office. In 2005, he was assigned as a Special Agent to the Region 1 Office in Calhoun. He transferred to the Region 8 Office in Cleveland in 2006, where he was appointed as a Child Abuse Specialist, and served there until his promotion to ASAC. ASAC.
He has also served as a Certified Law Enforcement Instructor for several years and has been one of the GBI agents responsible for teaching death investigations and interviews and interrogations to new GBI agents during that time.
He began his law enforcement career in 2000 with the ODTF in Cochran, GA as a Task Force Agent. ASAC Hamby served at the ODTF until 2002, when he accepted a position as a Narcotics Agent with the GBI. During his time with the ODTF, he worked drug investigations in the Oconee Judicial Circuit.
He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Georgia in August of 2000.
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