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Atlanta City Council meeting Monday, Nov. 19, 2026 live thread.

Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A25... Agenda: atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

City Council President Marci Collier Overstreet is traveling this week, President pro tem Andrea Boone will preside over the meeting.

There are just two proclamations on today's agenda.

The big ticket item today is the resolution that would authorize the city's sale of the Atlanta City Detention Center to Fulton County for $68 million. The resolution made it out of the Finance/Executive Committee Wednesday with just two yes votes. Three committee members abstained from voting.

As of early this afternoon, it wasn't clear if the mayor has the votes required to adopt the ACDC sale resolution today. We can expect some council members to offer amendments to the resolution when it is brought forth, which should happen at the toward the end of the meeting.

If there are not enough votes to adopt the jail sale resolution, the city council could either hold it for two weeks or send it back through a committee or the two original committees for additional review and amendments. They could also vote to kill the resolution, but that is unlikely.

Outside of the jail sale resolution, the Council will also consider a resolution of support for Starbucks workers seeking to unionize and a resolution that would grant Delta two of the gates previously dedicated to Spirit Airlines at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

The City Council will also consider a resolution that would require quarterly reporting for departmental spending from certain special-use funds, such as the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that ACPC reported on earlier this year. atlpresscollective.com/2026/06/09/a...

One resolution that will likely not move forward today is Council member Kelsea Bond's resolution that would move up the timetable by which the mayor's office and the Department of Finance must present the annual budget to the city council.

The Finance/Executive Committee voted to file Bond's budget resolution last week. Committee members said that they had not heard from Bond regarding the legislation.

CFO Mohamed Balla said Bond's budget resolution would be burdensome for his department, which is required to present a balanced budget. Balla explained that they need time to gather income projections for the next year before presenting that years budget.

The first proclamation has concluded. It clocked in at almost double the allowable length.

Michael Collins, executive director of Play Fair ATL, says Fulton County has not demonstrated an actual need for ACDC's jail beds. Collins adds that Fulton County's own plans call for greater investment into diversion services and expedited processing, not more jail beds.

Steven Dingle says the city is moving "way too fast" on the sale of ACDC to Fulton County. "There's just so much going on that I can't even form an opinion for myself as a constituent," Dingle says, adding that information remains in flux.

Danielle Stolton, a unionized Starbucks worker, says the company is violating labor laws and her fellow employees are struggling to make ends meet while the company refuses to come to the negotiating table.

"They consider us replaceable, and they have shown this by closing over 750 stores with less than two days notice," Stolton says.