The city of Atlanta has terminated its contract with the former municipal clerk hired in 2023 to help with the name verification process for the public safety training center referendum — an effort that never began, but paid former clerk Foris Webb III $910,000 anyway.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this week the city has paid Webb $35,000 in each of 26 monthly installments since September 2023. The city hired Webb to help with verifying the signatures on the referendum petitions as matching those of registered city voters.
In an email to Atlanta City Council members sent Thursday, newly appointed City Attorney Marquetta J. Bryan said she became aware of Webb’s contract after the AJC requested records of payments made for legal and consultant services related to the public safety training center.
Roughly one-third of the $2.8 million total spent on the issue went to Webb. Bryan told council members in the email that she terminated Webb’s contract Feb. 2…