Legislative Committee to Study Fulton Governance
Posted July 10, 2007
The ongoing dissatisfaction and disgust of citizens with Fulton County's
politicians and the county's inept bureaucrats have resulted in the recent
creation of four new cities that will assume several major responsibilities
formerly controlled by the county.
The state legislature is also getting into the act beyond authorizing the
referendums for the new cities and forcing the county to spend tax revenues
in the section of the county those revenues are collected from.
As reported by AFPLWATCH this past March, legislators also formed a 16-member committee to make recommendations about
Fulton's governance; Georgia's lawmakers could enact into law as early as
next year some or all of its committee's recommendations.
Details from yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The recommendations of committees created by governments, especially
when re-distributions of political power are at stake, are often completely
ignored. The careful sidestepping of fundamental changes in county
governance recommended by various "study committees" previously created
by Fulton County Commissioners themselves is a good example of that
tendency.
The fact that the local newspaper claims it will be monitoring and
reporting on the work of the Legislature's committee could prevent this
particular committee's recommendations from getting hastily buried and
quickly forgotten.
We hope so: there's a lot in what passes for "business as usual" in Fulton
County government that needs changing, and the needed changes can only be
positive, progressive ones for the users of the county's libraries.
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