YOU WILL NOT GET MORE REPRESENTATION!
⇒ Follow the money – commercial real estate developers are funding the effort to separate us from Cobb County – that’s where the decisions will be made! And the 2022 version of the effort hides its donors behind 501-c non-profit status. Their money will control future zoning decisions.
⇒ The Mayor and 3 Council members constitute a quorum. This means 1 council member could propose an action and 2 could vote no. The 3 missing votes are abstentions, which count as yes votes. One council member has decided an issue.
⇒ You do not vote for your own district representative!
- The entire city votes for all six council members.
- Your council member is responsible to the entire voting population, not your district within the city.
⇒ Your county commissioner already represents you well
- 24 April AJC article analyzes zoning votes (see the article)
- Over the past 15 months, more than 90% of zoning votes were unanimous among the commissioners
- In the 17 cases that weren’t unanimous, the local commissioner has always won