SGA senators present on Turner Field sale

NEWS – The Signal The Student Government Association (SGA) kicked off their March 2 meeting with a presentation on the purchase of Turner Field, and the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) that students and Turner Field residents have been vouching for.
Sen. Maxwell Turner who spearheaded the conversation was at the Turner Field Forum held by residents and students on March 1, which answered questions on both the sale of the former-Braves field and the CBA through a panel of speakers.
The panelists were Turner Field Community Benefits Coalition (TFCBC) member Sherise Brown, student and United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) member Patricio Rojas, ECO-Action executive director Dr. Yomi Noibi, Peoplestown resident Alison Johnson and resident Columbus Ward.
“What USAS and the TFCBC are pushing [for] is that Georgia State sign a CBA, but responsibilities in CBA are not solely Georgia State’s,” he said, citing a stormwater requirement and saying, “there are many other programs we don’t have a responsibility to act on.”
Turner said it’s a “great misconception” that Panther Holdings LLC has “some sort of connection to Georgia State.”
“Outside of this sales agreement these organizations do not work together. Section 16 of the sales agreement separates these two entities [Georgia State and Carter Development]. We [Georgia State] are not distancing ourselves from Carter, but we’re granting them assigned properties.”
Georgia State, Turner said, is only assigning different sections to the Panther Holdings LLC’s different entities, which are “Georgia State University, Board of Regents, and Carter Real Estate.”
SGA Sen. Markessa Walker added that even though USAS claimed that Panther Holdings LLC sited their address in Centennial Hall, in President Mark Becker’s office, that claim is false she said, as the address is Dale Palmer’s, the assistant treasurer and chief financial officer of the Georgia State University Foundation and assistant VP for development at Georgia State.
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