Monday, February 25, 2008
News TAD bills in General Assembly irk Stand Up DeKalb
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Stand Up DeKalb, a community advocacy group that most recently fought the controversial Sembler project at Briarcliff and North Druid Hills roads, is calling out its members to voice their opinion about the tax allocation district legislation that is quickly weaving its way through the General Assembly. Both the state House and Senate are working on bills that'll address the issue. Critics of TADs say the financing method robs schools of funding. After the jump, Stand Up DeKalb's release.
February 24, 2008
Stop the TAD Law Changes
A Message from Stand Up DeKalb
Those developers are at it again.They want to use our tax dollars to fund their multi-million dollar projects that line their pockets at the expense of our neighborhoods and neighborhood schools. Both the Georgia House and Senate are proposing Constitutional amendments to reverse a unanimous ruling by the State Supreme Court to divert local education funds to be used to help support redevelopment projects. This tax financing scheme is known as TADS or Tax Allocation Districts. Since money knows no party affiliation, these bills have the support of both Democrats and Republicans. Please contact your Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House and local House and Senate members to OPPOSE passage of this Constitutional amendment. It will require a 2/3 vote of the House and Senate. If adopted before the General Assembly adjourns this winter, then voters will have a chance to reject it at the polls in November. But expect big-monied developers and cities eager to grab our tax dollars for their own benefit to launch a major advertising campaign to win voter approval. The time to stop it in its tracks is now. Don't let our school systems gamble with the funding for our schools. Make developers pay for their own infrastructure costs. Of all of the TADs enacted and generating funds in Georgia to date, most if not all of the funds were used to pay for developer infrastructure. Stop the developer welfare. Politicians only respond when they hear from you. Georgia League of Women Voters has contact info for all of the DeKalb delegation at:http://www.lwvdk.org/citizenguide2007.pdf
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