The state Senate is scheduled to vote today on legislation that could lead to the creation of the cities of LaVista Hills and Tucker.
These bills already passed the state House earlier this month, but a Senate committee changed their shared borders, shifting about 2,000 residents from Tucker to LaVista Hills.
These bills already passed the state House earlier this month, but a Senate committee changed their shared borders, shifting about 2,000 residents from Tucker to LaVista Hills.
That move could jeopardize both potential cities’ chances of becoming a reality because the House could disagree to new boundaries, forcing the dispute to be worked out in a conference committee with an uncertain outcome.
If LaVista Hills and Tucker are approved by the Georgia General Assembly, residents would vote on incorporation in a November referendum.
A city of LaVista Hills, as envisioned in House Bill 520, would stretch from an area outside Emory University to the eastern perimeter of I-285 and include roughly 67,000 residents.
A city of Tucker, created under House Bill 515, would be home to about 33,000 residents, mostly located to the east of the interstate.
If LaVista Hills and Tucker are approved by the Georgia General Assembly, residents would vote on incorporation in a November referendum.
A city of LaVista Hills, as envisioned in House Bill 520, would stretch from an area outside Emory University to the eastern perimeter of I-285 and include roughly 67,000 residents.
A city of Tucker, created under House Bill 515, would be home to about 33,000 residents, mostly located to the east of the interstate.
16 comments:
So do the citizens get a vote?
When do the layoffs begin?
Tucker is getting screwed by LaVista Hills and the idiots who think they run Tucker are bigger idiots than those at DC gov't which is why Tucker will have next to nothing in the form of a city.
Because of the idiots who are backing Tucker, they deserve this
What really needs to happen is the the north end of the county needs to split from the south end of the county. Not cities being made.
But nobody will even consider this....
All of this because the Dekalb County government can not run a government. This is the result of total incompetence and corruption on the part of those elected and those who elected them. Thanks politicians for another "victory of failure" for you, at our expense!
What was the outcome???
I have not heard!
do officers still work for dekalb? why on earth would anyone want to be employed by that dump agency. the demise of dkpd is eminent.
Is it true DKPD officers havent had a raise in 8 years?
We got 3% last June like everyone else in the county....and our health benefits deductions stayed the same...(while the out of pocket has gone up in a big way).
Boy are we blessed.
True, no raises in 8 years. We got a 3% bump last year, but that doesn't even cover half of the additional amount taken out of our pay for our pension contribution. No, no raise in 8 years, plus we're all paying at least $150 more per check towards our pension. 3% pay bump gave us back about $20 per paycheck. That's why people are leaving in droves. And that's why it's not unusual to have 20 or 30 calls pending at any given time. How safe do you feel,citizens, knowing that your 911 call has 20 others waiting to be answered ahead of yours? All because you elect crooked commissioners who care more about themselves than paying police enough to keep us here.
Hey Anonymous 3/26/2015 - 8:52AM....The north end of Fulton County has been trying to just that since the beginning of time, but the big crooks down in Atlanta and the State of Georgia Boys refuse to even consider that.
If the they won't consider separation from Fulton, what makes DeKalb so special?
Cityhood is a good idea providing that the right intelligent people will run the city and not have be a copy of the present.
Cross your fingers, hope & pray
Yes its very true on the raises. The county has suspended all merit pay raises. The last year that anyone received a merit raise was 2007....all officer hired in the last 8 yrs will never see the top scale of merit pay....NEVER!!!
Yep, raises have been suspended but there is always enough money for the bureaucrats and commissioners to steal isn't there. Where are the millions missing from recorders court. I'd like Mr. Bowers to get to the bottom of that one.
Someone should write a book..."How to ruin the best county in the south in 20 short years"
The rules should be applied equally and fairly. Special Investigation
I was against all the cityhood bills, however I do believe in fairness and the rules are the rules once the game starts. All the other cityhood efforts had to have their feasibility studies completed before consideration.
The LaVista Hills and Tucker bills were passed; I am not sure how Tucker was allowed to move forward with an out of date feasibility studiy, and LaVista Hills was allowed to combine the Lakeside and Briarcliff studies, particularly since the boundaries had changed. Some proponents argued that it was not a significant change so the proponents of LaVista Hill just substituted some numbers. Tucker feasibility study was done in 2013 and its boundaries were different, and its seems that Lakeside and Briarcliff feasibility studies were used as a substitute for LaVista Hills. It is my understanding that the study is currently being done and has not been completed. I hope the residents of those two townships residents will vote down the referendums in November.
The following is stated in one of the feasibility studies: "The House of Representatives Governmental Affairs Committee of the Georgia General Assembly has required by committee rule that bills proposing incorporation be introduced in the first year of a biennial session, and that a feasibility study be conducted before they can be considered in the second year...."
Here are my questions:
What are the rules in regards to changing committee rules? Who can change or waive these rules? Is there any records of when the rules were changed in regards to the requirement for the feasibility study? Does the parameters of the feasibility have to reflect the city and boundaries of the said city under consideration.?
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You can find the proposed city charters for Tucker and LaVista Hills on the website bellow.
The cityhood feasibility studies that were done also can be find at this website:
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To citizens against cityhood in Dekalb, thank you Lee May for your opinion!
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