The 2022 legislative session is just getting started, but already some key pieces of legislation are making major strides through the Capitol. HB 841, which seeks to give Cobb voters the choice to split off into the new city of East Cobb, passed out of the House Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday with bipartisan support. That will send it to the full House (and then Senate) for a vote, and if passed there could be on the ballot as soon as November. East Cobb would become the third largest city in the county, granting residents greater local control. For proponents of the movement, and those of other cityhood proposals awaiting their own committee hearings, positive and easy steps forward have them RISING…
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
