MM: City and CSD Meet on Annexation, DBB Bash Tix, and the Mystery of Blue Pigment
Decatur Metro | November 13, 2014 | 10:35 am
- City and CSD discuss annexation [Decaturish]
- Tickets for DBB Bash to raise money for student athletes now on sale [Next Stop]
- Walking Dead tourism grows in Georgia [ABC]
- Supershuttle coming to Atlanta [AJC]
- Is North-End Perimeter ripe for a skyscraper boom? [Curbed]
- How animals hacked the rainbow and got stumped on blue [NPR]
NPR link doesn’t seem to work.
After listening to the COD/CSD meeting last night, I believe Decatur must annex to fund the schools and build new needed schools.
You were there or it was taped?
Sorry all. Blue pigment link is fixed!
Listened to the streaming video.
This question (and a follow up) has been nagging at me for a while:
Is it true that commercial properties do not pay school taxes?
If that is true, how do people expect annexing more commercial will help with our shortage of funding for schools under the current exploding enrollment scenario?
I’ve assumed commercial properties do. Otherwise the only advantage for CSD of annexing commercial property is so COD can buy and/or condemn some commercial land that could be used for building schools.
It sounds like last night’s discussion was quite convincing–how can we listen to it or get a transcript?
Just for you AHID :0)
http://decaturga.swagit.com/play/11122014-714
Commercial properties do pay taxes in Dekalb County. exemptions are listed here: http://taxcommissioner.dekalbcountyga.gov/PropertyAppraisal/exemptions.html
No, that’s not true. Commercial properties pay school taxes.
With in two years of annexation there will be more kids. Those who can afford to live in the city will stay. Those who can not will move. Even with annexation the taxes in City of Decatur still will have to go up to cover more kids. Without annexation the City of Decatur will have to raise taxes to handle the growing influence of kids moving in as people continue to move out. This called a Catch22. The numbers only cover until 2020. What happens after 2020? Does it double for kids? Does the taxes get a new sales tax added onto the City of Decatur to cover the Schools?
“Does the taxes get a new sales tax added onto the City of Decatur to cover the Schools?”
Decatur already gets money from the existing E-SPLOST for schools.