MM: South DeKalb City Taking Shape, Crossing Guard Appreciation Week, and Eating Well at the Gas Station
Decatur Metro | November 19, 2014 | 10:00 am
- Plans for South DeKalb city taking shape [Decaturish]
- It’s Crossing Guard Appreciation Week! [Be Active Decatur]
- Druid Hills releases annexation survey results [Druid Hills Civic Assoc]
- Brookhaven and LaVista Hills spar over Children’s Healthcare annexation [Reporter]
- Second Self releasing new beer at Makan on Thursday [Eater]
- Norovirus confirmed at Emory [ABC]
- Along the Mississippi Delta, gas stations serve up great Southern cooking [Bitter Southerner]
RE the South DeKalb city article: so if all of DeKalb eventually incorporates, and new cities aren’t required to support legacy pension costs, just who is going to pay for those county pensions?
You read my mind
Has anyone put a map together that would show the end state of Dekalb if all of these cities are created and existing cities enlarged? What’s left that is unincorporated?
Also, I didn’t realize that new cities get to shed the county’s existing pension obligations. There are going to be fewer and fewer people to support those payments. I can’t imagine that will be a pretty picture down the road.
My wish has been granted.
http://www.decaturish.com/2014/11/new-map-combines-annexation-cityhood-proposals/
Thanks Andrew Feury!
Another question: is it only NEW cities that don’t have to support legacy costs, or any city (Decatur, Chamblee, Doraville, etc.)?
The established cities never have. They have their own pension funds and don’t support the County’s.
Can anyone explain the possible ramifications for those of us who live in the little unincorporated islands? I’m in Midway Woods, and if things turn out according to Mr. Feury’s (very cool!) map, we’ll be in a very small and fairly isolated little patch of unincorporated Dekalb.
Screwed.