Do you remember when Mark Hennessey funded the Stockbridge Amphitheater, as it was named in 2022? It was the Jon Pardi show, at least. I’ve never done open records on the subject. The conflict arises when you notice Hennessey was a false elector given immunity by Fulton County DA office where the Ethics Board Chair is, or was employed. This isn’t that small of a world.
That’s it. That’s the whole post.
They just made this up yesterday. “inaugural” as of May, probably, when all this started coming out.
My fingers are chapped. I don’t think I’m covering the ethics board anymore. There’s no point and I’m not into wasting my time. No offense to the people that follow it or file complaints. I’ve just seen these type of bogus awards and roadside attractions before.
I do have a comic coming out on the 24th though. It’s called Barnè the Duck, Attorney at Bird. It’s gonna be about a water fowl in the lost city of Atlantis. Before it was underwater, so like, now. Her compatriot is a chicken named Fanny Twillis. The theme is fighting for fowl to migrate because the evil Cajuns have built a wall.
A big wall. Right down there on the Southside.
Reach out your hands. Better make a friend if you can. Oui, se bon…
On Nextdoor, before I exited so gracefully. El-Mahdi Holly bragged that his co-sponsorship for the redevelopment powers bill referendum for Henry County thus enabled building of the VyStar at the Bridge Amphitheater here in Stockbridge, GA.
No one had to pass a bill to build the amphitheater. The bill he co-sponsored, enabling the redevelopment powers act by referendum HB1249, takes my home away. I won’t go long on the redev powers law except to say that by comparison to the amphitheater improvements, my house can be considered “dangerous blight.”
Why? Like everyone, the amphitheater is an electioneering machine for Holly and the Henry Prog. Dems. They stump on your tax dollars. During job fairs you’re paying for, they put up a sign and give some stupid speech. They ain’t at the job fair hiring lawyers, clerks or pages. He loves the amphitheater so much for this simple reason. I just heard LaKeisha Gantt giving a speech in my backyard this morning at the book bag giveaway.
When you understand your tax dollars do all the heavy lifting for their elections. You’ll understand why it’s a no-brainer for them, that my house, and moreover my livelihood are worthless to Atlanta space invaders.
Imagine bragging about co-sponsoring a local bill. Let alone braggadocio over taking people’s homes.
Side note; the $70,000,000+ we landed on finally with the ~$33,000,000 2024 budget amendment is much larger than the April “un-audited” amounts.
As it concerns April 12, 2025 Stockbridge council meeting agenda items. That PDF file is named 2c73f7cb-59da-4fb1-a6e6-863f3d898c5b.pdf and matches the image of the metadata you’ll find in the PDF. This was to be presented (can’t remember if it was) by Mr. Milazi. This PDF was found on the city server at https://stockbridgega.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3380/files/attachment/9085
Inspect the PDF in the operating system properties or EXIF tool of your choice. Then don’t look at me for answers, because they don’t like to explain things. So, who made that document, Mr. Milazi, Stockbridge Staff or Nina Robinson? Did I just find old Wolf Creek adjacent documents in our pile down here?
Another EXIF related mystery surrounding the erasure of two people’s comments. They won’t explain who edited the May 12 video? I can name them.
Why is taking my property and injuring my neighborhood with your nuisance your only goal in life, Stockbridge City?
It’s Hunter Thompson’s birthday today. Truly I have the Fear & Loathing today as well.
City of Stockbridge uses this for their next idea. I’m joking, sorry.
Speaking of abuses of things, setting aside $32,900,000 dollars & other people’s hair. Here’s a letter I just sent to the city attorney, Washington Legal Group today explaining issues surrounding the May 12 meeting video being edited. Pretty damn good rough draft for nothing, that’ll go nowhere. But persistence is key as the 90’s motivational posters used to inform me. Maybe we should rehang those at city hall? or take them down? Nor sure. Behold:
Ms. Mcullough, The Quizzoner, at al.,
The issue at hand now is the May 12 video found at https://stockbridgega.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3394/media
As to whom. Quinton, the PIO & IT staff potentially. Witnesses can swear affidavit they saw Thornton & Washington speaking just before the error. Though I allege the error was induced and believe I can prove so.
While the meetings are streaming they always come from https://cpcdn.azureedge.net/STOCKBRIDGEGALIVE1/STOCKBRIDGEGALIVE1/chunklist.m3u8 primarily. Secondarily is the city’s (https://stockbridgega.portal.civicclerk.com). The city portion is simply a front end to the .m3u8 stream during live meetings, and archived meetings thereafter. The portal page is just a fancy list and video player.
All archived meetings are named, e.g. (4b4629e90f.mp4). Every two places in that filename is a base64 number. This is how youtube addresses are generated as well. It’s simply a way to auto-generate, but not collide filenames. 5^64 is a very large number. This is an example of an un-tampered, archived meeting stream. All archived streams usually follow this format.
The edited May 12 2025 video has the filename (ffb36e25-548d-4080-9a99-957c87738bec.mp4). This number is called a UUID (or similar). We, Sunny Randazzo & Coren Randazzo, are in the minutes here (https://library.municode.com/ga/stockbridge/munidocs/munidocs?nodeId=8285a0248fb95). We are not in the May 12 video comments. We spoke before Mr. Paul Turner. However, at 34:35 the video jumps over the Mayor’s usual directions, over me and my mom, and clips into Paul. I managed to record my mom’s comment.
Silencing the Mayor for 1 minute sent a strong message. I was polite enough to concede the final 2. So I must blame someone that this violates my first amendment rights. You don’t go through Randazzo vs. Fisher then Clowdus to give up here. I’m a citation against qualified immunity. Yes, it’s gone right to my head.
The narrative is as simple as the city wants to redevelop a neighborhood and causes a nuisance therein. I’m very familiar with Provident Mu. Life vs. Atlanta. Thus; The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment obligates a state, through its officials, to treat similarly situated persons in a similar manner. It forbids the application of a legitimate, fair policy in an uneven manner. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 373, 6 S.Ct. 1064, 1072, 30 L.Ed. 220 (1886); Chatterton v. Dutton, 223 Ga. 243, 245, 154 S.E.2d 213, cert. denied, 389 U.S. 914, 88 S.Ct. 247, 19 L.Ed.2d 266 (1967).
Those citations would apply to many matters here. The noise, edit, et al. I liken the noise, coupled with the redev plan to represent a psychological operation. Much like Panama 1989. 6th paragraph & citations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package#Encircling_the_Apostolic_Nunciature_of_the_Holy_See
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Which is all to say. We can prove the edit with the metadata. And perhaps rationalize the redevelopment plan out of existence. Truly the character of the neighborhood isn’t as KB Advisory wrote. Fmr. Econ. Dir. Touchton said, and alluded to a study that said, there is no blight in 2019.
These attached are the outputs from jEXIFTool, files named respective of Stockbridge meeting dates. Please note, 5_12_25.png stands out markedly. There will be other records and a request has been sent to Ms. Vanessa more than a month ago. (https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/).
I won’t lecture you on evidence rules. But, I wouldn’t type all that if my Momma wasn’t involved. Forgive me for calling him… The Quizzoner. He’s hilarious, I can’t help it. Sorry, Quinton, man, just shut up? Jeez. I’m probably your peer whether you like it or not. Game Theory? Read some game theory. It’s a forced coalition. I’ll spare the Shakespeare this time.
Any attention to these admittedly odd matters is appreciated. We (the family) are always willing to negotiate. The blog is not for sale.
Not for nothin’, I’m the best journalist in Henry County. If you don’t like the peaches, don’t shake the tree no more? https://stockbridgeamphitheater.com/a-response-to-whether-any-or-all-of-32900000-was-stolen/
Merci, bonsoir,
Coren Randazzo
What is clipchamp.com, Shana Thornton? Who’s up there at city hall chopping up videos for narrative purposes?
It seems to me. Immediately after executive session. Gantt, Alexander & Ford go right back to talking about holding events, being on the stage, etc. The next day, July 16 we were sent the following contracts by a source. It seems the only thing truly worrying Mayor & Council is preserving their access to that stage. I assume the purpose is electioneering. What did they fire Harold for? The answer to firing Harold for breach of contract is to investigate whether these instruments were negotiated in bad faith.
Is this racketeering by any code section? Is Harold Young getting kickbacks from these contracts? We plebs seem to be the only people concerned with that part of the amphitheater calculus.
Why would I speculate on the faith & conditions these contracts were negotiated under. Well, we have Harold, while amphitheater manager. Also paying his own corporation, Macon it Better, LLC an extra $15,000.
When I say stolen. I mean exactly that. Somewhere in that $32,000,000 could be many code section violations, state & federal. An OCGA violation I’ll name as most likely right now. Public works construction contracts subject to Chapter 91-36 of the Official Code of Georgia valued at $100K or more. Given the “proposal” and $400K price tag from HJ Russell for the sound booth at the amphitheater. The city, under no circumstances, should have a price sent to the city council outside of the bid process of the City of Stockbridge & 91-36.
Now, what amounts lead to these sort of criminal cases. Just ask Dean Alford who made some fake invoices to his own company. These invoices were to be billed to his employer from his own corporation outside his contractual terms. Dean is doing 12-14 years, I don’t quite remember.
One amount I remember “missing” from Atlanta “effected” by Mitzi Bickers was $700,000 and she’s doing 12-14 years, I don’t quite remember. She lived over on Spivey Lake, worked for Vic Hill and was lauded by Bruce Holmes in Henry Herald. He said she was going to bring, “biomedical cybersecurity” whatever the fuck that means. Vic did prison time for a slew of torture chair and false imprisonment convictions.
Elton Alexander attempted to extort Arick Whitson thus costing the city $1.7 million just in the settlement.
In South Fulton a guy was just arrested for $30,000 improperly routed dollars. That one didn’t even touch taxpayers funds. It was a developer tree fund. Straight to jail. Pending trial, allegedly of course.
In Troup County. Allegedly, a payroll clerk was paying into one of 3 external accounts from one of ~40 others belonging to Troup County retirees. She routed a direct deposit from a retired Sheriff’s Deputy’s account. The Deputy noticed the activity. The injury to the taxpayer in total was listed as $500,000 by the GBI in their press release.
Guess what? Jail.
So why would I speculate and call for a forensic audit to look for many, many possible code section violations? It’s not like racketeering code sections haven’t been applied to the music business before. No, no. That would be completely novel, and we shouldn’t speculate. Stop wondering everyone.
The single source of truth, Elton Alexander, has spoken. Our unquestionable moral authority, Lakeisha Gantt, has spoken.
Why do you have to have hearings for to set a $~41 million budget. But you don’t have to have hearings to vote to increase it $32,000,000 in the middle of a late night after months of gaslighting citizens? And how dare any one on that dais, or in this town to say “we couldn’t have known, the numbers presented to us are wrong.” You attend the shows. You hold secret “retreat” meetings far outside the posted retreat schedule, outside the council chambers to discuss spending $390,000+ on a sound booth.
You eat lamb chops on our dime. Brag about it. Then call us irrational and insubordinate. Well, the purpose of a system is revealed in it’s results. Proof is in the pudding, as it were.
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Doc sent me a tip. Merci, beb. Atlanta Media’s contribution to our endeavor July 16, 2025 is pure PIO bullshit. Was this made by the same jokers that made Christie Ethridge Diez’s hit piece on me in the Eagle’s Landing days? I’ll have to find out if it’s her, an 11Alive reporter’s husband’s media firm. Georgia Strategy Group.
While we wait on me to write the long piece on Atlanta New’s PR Machine. Let’s listen to Jonathan Martin’s producer’s PIO/PR product. Listen to them ignore 33,000,000 and lie, as if they don’t know the amphitheater is destroying 300 people’s lives.
Fuck you, Jonathan. You look like you on juice. You look moist, bro.
Please note. The first effect of publishing “news” like this is all the google searches lead to me. And also, this story begins with Elton Alexander and the Mayor. And it ends with vanity shots of Elton’s Crown PIzza Bar he’s advertising downtown and the Mayor, Anthony Ford in a fluff piece of propaganda about literally nothing. Newcomers may be shocked to find the realtor councilperson Elton Alexander has an advertising “business.” But that’s just the sort of skullduggery you find here in ye olde Stockbridge.
I need a Writ of Shenanigans. Your Honor, I need to psyche that from the record.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976: This material is used for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. And besides federal law, I’m pretty sure Stockbridge Taxpayers payed to produce and run this. If I can get it by OCGA 50-18-70 I can publish it. If we paid for it, (it won’t be) but it should be retrievable by OCGA 50-18-70. I digress.
“Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.” – Merchant of Venice
In simplest possible terms. You’re waiting on the Clerk’s Office to landscape the cemetery.
Of course, they don’t admit that or fulfill the records. They just sort of say words at your general direction without fulfilling anything. There’s always another test you have to pass. They only ever present another lock to pick, with the only directions being their uncivilized lies.
The goal of all this is demoralization. The playbook is very simple and much older than you might think. It’s called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. If you read the following, in understanding the games they play with your life, it may free you somewhat from the power they think they hold over you. You’ll learn to barrel through it, thus. I’m a pretty good saboteur myself.
She thinks she’s not attaching what I want to an e-mail. But since the clerk’s office does business with landscapers by e-mail. And where no-bid contract landscapers have no more rights than me. I’ll sue them after tomorrow if they don’t fulfill after some ~35 days.
Georgia Open Records laws say to fulfill open records by the same methods as you do other business. JustFOIA is a choice a citizen can make. “JustFOIA or paper” is not a stipulation that Vanessa Holiday’s mismanaged Clerk’s office can foist upon anyone. It’s just more bullshit to aggravate people with. Read pages 18 & 19, if you please. This will inform your experience with city workers.
Now, seeing a screenshot from ACCG’s own open records manual. Let’s think about what the most economical way to copy a PDF is? It’s not a copy machine. And it’s not JustFOIA. And it’s not the mailbox or going to city hall. It’s e-mail just like they use all day everyday. 50-18-70(b)(1)(B) is why you too can use e-mail. Because they can’t force you into paying for copies that don’t have to be made.
First, let’s hear a joke from the Clerk’s office.
“Please note that the city is consistent with its use of software for Finance” – Cassandra Lester. 5 days after we found out $33 million dollars in grand larceny just happened. Notice, with this grand excuse generated by GPT, there is no JustFOIA code & there was no document attached. Let’s quit trying to yank my chain, folks. All you’ll achieve is outing yourself as a fool to the whole wide world. Every holiday you pay for amphitheater show advertisement will bring thousands of people to the front page here. Thereupon they’ll read of your many failings. Then, eventually when you get sued by me or your co-workers, you gotta go look for a job. Then they come find all this shit you did.
This is what Ronald Reagan called, “a Mexican standoff.”
What follows is the only thing they’ve consistently done. Deflection from fulfillment. Over and over and over. It doesn’t matter I sued HCPD. Doesn’t matter their own co-workers can’t stand them. Nope. It’s always the same tired old games from Vanessa Holiday’s Clerk’s office (at Eagle’s Landing City Hall).
This is what they signed, which lists the $32,936,517.98 discrepancy and $76,679,404.28 total 2024 budget amendment.
And this is what we were presented with. Which does not contain the $32,936,517.98 discrepancy or $76,679,404.28 total.
Nowhere does the Henry Herald mention the amount $32,936,517.98. They characterize this Grand Larceny as “budget troubles” & “Stockbridge Amphitheater […] exceeded its expense budget, ending the year about $4 million in the red.” with $4,000,000 being the highest number they were brave enough to print. Hannah goes on to say, “The amphitheater did bring in $500,534 more than was expected over the year” which is a logical fallacy. You can’t be $4,000,000 under and $500K over.
We are bayou deep in the mudhole we stomped. As always, I think this is the beginning of the story. While the PR machine thinks they’ve put the issue to bed. Until we know which companies were payed what money by which city employee, we know nothing. I do know where to start asking though…
Just next month in August there will be city tax millage rate hearings. Set aside the $32,936,517.98 Budget Amendment for a moment. They need another $392,000 for a sound booth. That’s right, $32,936,517.98 on top of the $30,000,000 original amphitheater complex cost didn’t buy the soundbooth. And, no I don’t care to argue the amphitheater bond was only $7,000,000. Nor do I care to hear reiterated the payoff date on that bond. That cost isn’t the “amphitheater complex” cost.
So, on top of 60-70 million dollars, thousands of new residents annexed in, and a tax immediately forced on them. I hate to warn you they’ll be after much more very soon. Do not miss the Millage Rate Public Hearing on August 04, 2025 & the two after. https://stockbridgega.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3557/files
Brian Strickland’s legislative record, including his support for the ill-fated Eagle’s Landing cityhood bill, demonstrates a willingness to endorse policies that would fracture communities, exacerbate inequality, and undermine democratic processes. When combined with the alarming attempt by his legislative colleague, and firm partner, former State House Rep. Andrew Welch to control the press through a state-mandated ethics board – an initiative that directly threatens the First Amendment and government accountability – a clear pattern emerges.
The role of Attorney General demands a steadfast commitment to justice, the rule of law, and the protection of all Georgians. A candidate who has actively supported measures that would inflict such significant damage to civil society, disenfranchise citizens, and stifle a free and independent press raises serious questions about their fitness for this crucial office. Georgians deserve an Attorney General who will unify, not divide, and who will champion, not suppress, the democratic institutions that ensure transparency and accountability.
For all of you, the Eagle’s Landing Cityhood, SB263 ended the day the cityhood vote failed. For me & Brian it would mean 2 more years in Federal and State court. The best synopsis of this period of my life is Greenamyre’s SLAPP Brief in Opposition.
Strickland, on behalf of SC&A, denied allegations that Clowdus fabricated evidence to the police. He stated that Ms. Clowdus simply reported the receipt of harassing phone calls to the police and never referenced the plaintiff in her initial report. Strickland also emphasized that Clowdus did not initiate contact with the police and only made a statement after the police reached out to her, and she never asked for charges to be brought.
However, the truth was a starkly different picture. We proved in court Clowdus “lied about receiving threatening phone calls in order to further her business and political interests”. We proved Clowdus received only a single, non-threatening call, directly contradicting Clowdus’s affidavit, which swore she received three calls, two of which were explicitly threatening. This assertion is proven with the phone records (Exhibit D, Randazzo Phone Records), which show only one 28-second call. Furthermore, Clowdus’s initial written statement to law enforcement reportedly shows no threat in this first (and only) call (Exhibit F, Clowdus Written Statement).
Clowdus “repeatedly provided false facts to law enforcement in order to force a criminal prosecution”. Clowdus falsely told Detective Isaac Fisher (her fellow member in Eagle’s Landing Country Club & neighbor) all three calls came from the plaintiff’s number and that each call came from the same person with the same voice. In Clowdus’s statements about her fear, claiming she told Officer Fisher she was “scared to death” and added security, despite allegedly having previously told law enforcement she was “not very concerned”. Strickland’s defense, by denying these fabrications, implicitly supports Clowdus’s version of events against evidence.
In essence, the man who wrote the cityhood bill then defended one of it’s backers by defending her sacrosanct right to lie to the police. The e-mail between Ireland and Clowdus where she admitted to having no concerns was available to everyone by open records. Including the Atlanta media establishment, of which you can read in their e-mails from 2019, never asked for a single document. That’s Brian’s & 11Alive’s attitude toward truth and law in a nutshell.
I can’t know, but perhaps Mr. Strickland was contractually obligated in this defense by some prearranged obligation. It’d be hard for me to believe that’s a likely scenario, but no matter. The proper (in my opinion of the spirit of law), the proper way forward was to negotiate, not to misapply SLAPP as ultimately ineffective lawfare. Had he negotiated in good faith & sworn off these cityhood’s that are nothing more than ploys to destabilize existing communities, I may have been endorsing him for AG right now. However I think this long record he’s left speaks for itself and this candidacy cannot come to fruition.
“We gotta nip it in the bud, Andy” like old Barney said.
That entire news blitz to discredit me was mere theater. I really need the public to notice that an 11Alive reporter’s husband owns a political PR firm. I need you to know Monica Kaufman-Pearson’s husband John did once, and perhaps now works for Sheriff Scandrett. Notice Hannah Yahne’s curriculum vitae says in plain English that she’s a trained PIO.
For now, we’ll set aside Strickland is & was part of the business end of the amphitheater’s construction in 2019 as being registered agent for the excavation contractor. We’ve all seen how that business endeavor has progressed in 2025 with the recent revelation of $6,100,000 illegal amphitheater budget fund #353 transfers & the resulting termination of the amphitheater head manager.
https://gpbnews.org/post/eagles-landing-and-stockbridge-tale-one-community-two-identities
https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/ethics-journalism-act-georgia-welch.php
https://reason.com/2019/04/03/georgia-bill-would-mandate-journalism-et
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20192020/187241
The recent Stockbridge Planning Commission meeting on June 26, 2025, highlighted a persistent tension between ambitious urban planning and the practical realities of development, particularly concerning pedestrian infrastructure and on-site amenities. As new residential projects come before the commission, a pattern of demanding extensive, costly features emerges, raising questions about who truly benefits and at what expense.
A prime example surfaced with the proposed “Hanover Park” development on Flippen Road. The plans explicitly include a 10-foot-wide concrete sidewalk along the entire frontage of the road.
This isn’t an isolated requirement. During the Zoning Modification Case for “Gadson’s Crossing” on Highway 42 North, the applicant’s agent, Brian Marshburn, voiced frustration over a similar demand. His initial proposal for a more modest 4-foot sidewalk with a 24-inch landscape strip along public streets was ultimately overridden by the staff’s, and commission’s, insistence on a 10-foot-wide sidewalk along the Highway 42 frontage. Marshburn bluntly described this as a “10 foot sidewalk to nowhere,” lamenting the lack of connectivity and questioning the practicality, a sentiment echoed by Commissioner Anthony Mitten, who jokingly asked if these “sidewalks to nowhere programs” were influenced by a “concrete lobbyist”.
This raises a fundamental question: if the city’s “trailway master plan” mandates such expansive infrastructure in anticipation of future, undefined connections, why should the entire financial burden fall squarely on the developer and, by extension, the future homeowners? In essence, Stockbridge is compelling private entities to construct public infrastructure that serves no immediate, connected purpose, citing a theoretical long-term vision. This approach, where developers are forced to “pour” city-desired sidewalks for aspirational “trailways”, translates directly into higher costs for housing, making homeownership less accessible in a community that ostensibly aims to “provide additional housing options”.
Beyond sidewalks, the insistence on elaborate “resort-style amenities” further exacerbates the issue of housing affordability. For Hanover Park, the plan boasts a pool with a clubhouse, golf putting green, tot lot, tennis/pickleball courts, and a community sports field. While admirable on paper, the applicant himself admitted the “investment alone in the amenity by this development group is going to be quite excessive”, and Vice-Chair Trameka Walker rightly pointed out that these costs would “fall on the backs of the single family”. Imagine pickling your balls at the height of a scorching Georgia June with a 116-degree heat index today. How much use will those outdoor putting greens or pickleball courts truly get?
Such amenities, regardless of their theoretical longevity or “normal” HOA fees, become an additional, often largely unused, financial burden, unnecessarily inflating the cost of entry into these new communities. This top-down imposition of specific, high-cost features aligns with a “live, work, play” model that, when rigidly enforced, can feel more like a communist utopian ideal than a flexible, market-driven approach to community building. The city’s mission to “enhance the quality of life for citizens” and provide “a mixture of housing options” is noble. However, when every new development is required to conform to a singular, amenity-rich, wide-sidewalk vision, regardless of the direct utility or the target demographic’s actual needs, it dictates not just where people live, but how they live, and at what forced cost.
Ultimately, the Stockbridge Planning Commission’s decisions reflect a desire for a particular type of growth and aesthetic. Yet, this vision, while grand, must be critically evaluated for its practical implications. If extensive, currently unconnected sidewalks and lavish amenities are deemed essential to the city’s future, the question of who truly benefits, and more importantly, who should financially bear the burden for these arguably underutilized “enhancements,” needs to be openly and transparently addressed. Rather than subtly passed on to every new homeowner in the name of a collective, sometimes detached, ideal.
https://stockbridgega.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3484/files/attachment/9746