Disclosures
Read reported contributions, the related city records and each recipient’s recorded position.
Explore disclosures ↓What the records show
No reviewed business or employer connection was found for 196 of 215 transcribed entries among the city decisions available here.
A missing match does not establish whether a connection exists. A reviewed match does not establish influence or wrongdoing.
Whose campaign?
All officialsMatching transcribed entries, counted once per entry. These are not total funds raised. Unitemized gifts, loans and carried-forward balances remain separate.
| Contributor / disclosed employer | Recipient campaign | Dates | Amount by kind | Entries / sources |
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| Jeff WansleyEmployer: Georgia Aggregate Construction Assn. | Derek Norton | Sep 21, 2023 | $200Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesMatching reported name and disclosed employer. This is a display grouping, not independent proof of identity.
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| John IsaksonEmployer: Upland Ventures | Derek Norton | Sep 18, 2023 | $3,300Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesMatching reported name and disclosed employer. This is a display grouping, not independent proof of identity.
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| Happy ShroffEmployer: Self | Derek Norton | Sep 18, 2023 | $1,000Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Joseph BondEmployer: Duluxe Athletics | Derek Norton | Sep 18, 2023 | $500Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesMatching reported name and disclosed employer. This is a display grouping, not independent proof of identity.
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| Josh PitreEmployer: Self | Derek Norton | Sep 14, 2023 | $500Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Bill Strickland | Derek Norton | Sep 14, 2023 | $100Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Jeff KendrickEmployer: Commercial Signs | Derek Norton | Sep 11, 2023 | $3,300Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesMatching reported name and disclosed employer. This is a display grouping, not independent proof of identity.
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| Charles A. WelchEmployer: GMC | Charles “Corkey” Welch | Sep 4, 2023–Sep 11, 20231 entry without a date | $2,600Self3 entries | Read 3 entries and sourcesSame candidate identity recorded in the filing.
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| Idella Moore | Charles “Corkey” Welch | Sep 10, 2023 | $100Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Doc Gross | Derek Norton | Sep 7, 2023 | $1,000Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Kathryn Burrow | Derek Norton | Sep 6, 2023 | $3,000Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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| Committee to Elect Travis Lindley | Derek Norton | Sep 6, 2023 | $2,000Cash1 entry | Read 1 entry and sourcesSeparate entry: insufficient identity context for grouping.
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About these disclosures
79 filing listings, 78 documents and 781 scanned pages, retrieved September 5, 2026. All eight current officials are represented in the available filings. Filing listings cover 2022–2026; city decisions cover 2025–2026.
Identity caution: The Mike Jones disclosures list different employers: Edison Engineering (CEO) and WK Dickson (Engineer). They are kept separate; neither establishes an identity match to City Administrator Mike L. Jones.
Source issues: Welch’s October 2023 summary lists $2,250 without donor entries. The July 2026 file listed under Hines contains Pickens’s report. Gould’s listed September amendment is an April amendment on its cover. Norton’s April 2023 rows and summary differ by $5; Gould’s October in-kind row and summary differ by $75.
How totals and connections are checked
- Scope: the Smyrna office entries in Georgia’s 2022–2025 archive and 2026 PeachFile index, retrieved September 5, 2026, for the current mayor and seven council members. Older filings and records absent from these indexes are not included.
- OCR locates schedules; published entries were transcribed and visually checked. Unclear handwriting, missing dates, blank schedules and summary discrepancies remain visible.
- Itemized cash, self contributions, in-kind amounts and other receipts are distinct. Unitemized totals, interest, loans and carried-forward balances are never attributed to invented donors or added to the itemized totals.
- Business connections use explicitly disclosed names and corroborating context. Common personal names, joint donors, differing companies and committees are not automatically merged. Affiliation at the time of a gift does not prove affiliation at the time of an action.
- The action search covers the indexed 2025–2026 meeting item text and excerpts, with selected reviewed matches. It is not an exhaustive review of every contract attachment, beneficial owner, relative, vendor alias or historic transaction. A missing match does not establish whether a connection exists. A match does not establish influence or wrongdoing.
- A contribution and a related action establish a documentary connection, not influence or causation. Inspect dates, roles, votes and both sources. Mayor authorization is not proof of a personal vote or signed execution.
Residential addresses, phone numbers and signatures are omitted from the interface. Filing links open the published original on Georgia’s official portal; those originals can contain personal details. GovernSmyrna does not serve a copy of those PDFs.