City incorporation has always had the same promoters and critics, but it usually revolves around those in an area feeling underrepresented and/or neglected by their county.  The other side of the coin: as more cities flee the governance of the county, those most often in the poorest areas are usually left in the lurch, with even fewer tax dollars to deal with the numerous problems that effect them.

But DeKalb continues to make it really difficult to justify anyone stay under county control.  To go along with the recently reported overpayment of contractors, fellow blogger John at Dunwoody North has been doing some excellent digging into the safety of county parks and passed along an email thread regarding neighboring Medlock Park, which he received by filing an open records request.

John informs us that the county claims to inspect all playgrounds on a weekly basis.  As the situation at Medlock Park shows (after the jump), that doesn’t seem to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »

I informed no one in particular in a previous post that I would keep everyone up to date about Dunwoody’s incorporation, not only because our mayor has stated that he expects DeKalb County property taxes to rise as a result, but also because they are all part of our fair county.

Apparently reports on the Dunwoody city bill’s death had been greatly exaggerated earlier this year, because it is now through both the House and Senate and hanging out on the Governor’s desk. And even though Sonny has his issues with city incorporation, he says to the AJC,

“I issued a warning a couple of years ago about all the creation of cities,” Perdue said Wednesday. “I think the cows are out of the barn on that. I think Dunwoody needs to be treated like all the others that are there. Frankly, if the … Legislature sees fit to pass that, then I will see fit to bless that as well.”

At least Sonny had better composure than Representative Jill Chambers.

Yikes.

Anywho….it looks like DeKalb citizens within the proposed boundaries of a city of Dunwoody will vote yay! or nay! on July 15th.