Atlanta Public Schools fights TAD legislation
Jim Walls at Atlanta Unfiltered:
Atlanta Public Schools are fighting changes to a bill that would let local boards earmark school tax money for Tax Allocation Districts to pay for non-school improvements.
A Senate committee last week amended the bill to say a board’s approval in years past would be sufficient. No new vote would be needed.
But school board chair LaChandra Butler Burks, in a letter to Sen. Horacena Tate, says the change would cost APS $18 million. The letter did not explain how that estimate was calculated.
The APS letter asked Tate to fight to remove the retroactive language, and to vote against the bill if the language could not be deleted.
Walls has Burks’ letter as well. No telling if this has hit the Senate floor yet.