Cathy writes in and lets us know that the First Christian Church of Decatur’s Frazier Fir Christmas trees are now on sale!  Click here for prices and details.

My wife saw the trees being arranged on the lawn yesterday (fresh from North Carolina according to Cathy), but I wasn’t quite sure when they officially went “on sale”.

So if your looking for a live tree this year, stop by First Christian!  Or just go online and order…they offer free delivery within a 5 mile radius.

Just a reminder that tonight is the city commission’s public hearing on annexation – 7:30p at City Hall.

In addition to the online Open Forum, this is the time and place for the public to be heard by the commission on the annexation issue.

In lieu of the hearing, MyATL Tv chimes in with a poorly formatted article on the issue.  Also they provide confusing quotes from the mayor and follow up with little context.  Enjoy!

A lot has changed in the past year since the city first started going through the public process of looking at annexation.  Back then I stated that communication with the school board seemed to be crucial to the success or failure of this initiative.  Now the data provided by Rosser through the school board to the commission seems to have problems because no one caught that Rosser’s projections hadn’t been expanded with the annexation map.

I get that the city commission is trying to stay ahead of imminiant tax hikes due to rising costs, (around 2/3 of respondents to my unofficial survey said taxes were a concern to them), but with this latest hiccup in the form of inaccurate student projections, perhaps we need to take a step back and reevaluate before going forward with this idea.  If I was a commission member, I’d be really hesitant to support any sort of annexation plan where projections that affect 60% of my expendatures were still uncertain.