Lt. Brandon Gurley and Sgt. Mike Goode have been sworn in as Brookhaven police officers. The AJC reports that Gurley, formerly with Sandy Springs Police as well as the Paulding County Sheriff's Office, is the police department’s public information officer, and Goode, who had a longtime career with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Department, is a commander. Gurley will also head up community outreach. There will be more hirings in the department later in the year, according to the AJC article.

The Brookhaven Zoning Board of Appeals is set to consider an apartment rezoning request on Peachtree Road during its Wednesday, March 20 meeting. The DeKalb County planning board rejected the application, which would allow for the construction of an apartment complex near Club Drive. The development would straddle the line between Brookhaven and Atlanta, according to Reporter Newspapers. DeKalb’s administrative staff decided that the proposal was not compliant with the corridor’s overlay zoning. The addresses of the subject properties are 3770 and 3804 Peachtree Road. The Brookhaven Post …

About 30,000 people are registered to vote on the issue of Brookhaven incorporation on Tuesday, July 31. According to the Reporter Newspapers, the DeKalb County Voter Registration & Elections Division says about 4,000 of those are classified as inactive voters. A total of 12 precincts will have the city of Brookhaven issue on their respective ballots. According to county figures, the Montgomery Elementary precinct has the most voters, with 3,593 registered. The Silver Lake precinct is second, with 3,527 voters, and the Brookhaven precinct is third largest, with 2,803. The Skyland precinct has…

July 2 marks 28 days until Brookhaven decides whether or not to incorporate, and cityhood proponents and opponents both engaged in major mass mailings over the weekend. Many Brookhaven residents were greeted with fliers over the week both advocating and opposing municipalization. Your editor received one anti-cityhood mailer, and two pro-city fliers this past Saturday. Patch wants to know: did you receive these mailers over the weekend? If so, did they sway your opinion, one way or the other? ***** In the meantime, the Reporter Newspapers published an article on Sunday regarding an item Patch…

BrookhavenYES announced late Thursday afternoon that it will be holding a major town hall meeting next week featuring officials from four nearby municipalities. The meeting will be held Thursday, June 28, from 7-9 pm at Cross Keys High School. The organization said officials from the cities of Decatur, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Johns Creek will be in attendance to answer any questions from the audience about cityhood. Officials from neighboring municipalities have been in attendance at several neighborhood pro-cityhood meetings in recent weeks, including Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan.

11Alive is reporting that DeKalb County has released new figures indicating a city of Brookhaven would begin operations more than $300,000 in the red. The figures, released late Tuesday afternoon, show that, based on the latest property tax information, the new city would start off with a deficit of $360,554. On Wednesday morning, WSB Radio reported that, since the 2010 Carl Vinson Institute Study, property tax revenues have dropped more than 6.8 percent, according to the new DeKalb Tax Assessor's study. DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis requested the Vinson Institute update its estimates based on …

A few items of note from our good friends at the Dunwoody Crier and the Reporter Newspapers: First, The Crier is reporting that Bruce Bowers, son of former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers, is on DeKalb County's payroll as a registered lobbyist. The report also said that Bowers actively lobbied the Georgia General Assembly against the Brookhaven cityhood bill. Bowers, who lives in East Cobb, also said he has helped the NoCityBrookhaven organization as a private citizen. DeKalb Commission Elaine Boyer said that Bowers has exceeded the stipulations outlined in his contract with the county …

For the past few weeks, Patch has received some e-mails and correpondence about pro- and anti-cityhood yard signs being stolen from residents' property. One resident, who requested to remain anonymous, said a recent theft was the second time his anti-cityhood sign had been stolen. He also told Patch that most of the "No City" signs were stolen along his road as well. Patch contacted the public information officer for the DeKalb County Police Department, who sent us this response: "We cannot confirm any incidents. No reports have been filed, but the precinct is aware of the claims and officers…