The October 5 meeting opened with proclamations and fire-safety ceremonies but quickly turned into a case study in governance by autopilot: a $1.3 million piggyback contract for the Bill Evans ball field passed unanimously before the Mayor forced City Attorney Winston Denmark to admit, on the record, that he had never actually reviewed whether it complied with Georgia bidding law. Public comment produced explosive allegations — a resident accused Councilwoman Jamelle McKenzie of running fake social media accounts to attack critics and of filing a protective order later dismissed by a judge, while another resident pressed for answers on $500,000+ in disputed Keller Williams real estate commissions tied to BIDA's foreclosed Chelsea Gardens deal that still haven't been recovered. A 90-minute public hearing on a recovery home for eight unrelated adults ended in a 2-2 council deadlock, passed only because two members abstained. And in his closing report, Councilman Roderick Gay dropped two bombshells almost in passing: BIDA's debt to the city has apparently grown to '20 to 30 million' dollars, and '$620,000 is missing' from the golf course — a figure he corrected twice in real time — while 'nobody up here on this dais is trying to get it back.'