UPDATE: It’s fate!  City Manager Peggy Merriss responds to a DM inquiry on the Dunwoody HOST ruling…

I’m actually in HOST hearing right now. [City Attorney] Bryan Downs has mentioned it so hopefully it helps.

From a GA Supreme Court Press Release…

Note: This isn’t the HOST lawsuit that Decatur and three other DeKalb cities brought against DeKalb.  However, I’m currently trying to determine how this ruling might affect HOST distribution to DeKalb’s other cities, who have been fighting for 10 years for their fair share of Homestead Option Sales and Use Tax.

DEKALB COUNTY V. PERDUE ET AL. (S09A2016)

The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional a 2007 amendment to the Homestead Option and Sales Use Tax Act (HOST). The amendment opened the door for the newly created City of Dunwoody to start receiving HOST money, sparking a lawsuit by DeKalb County against Gov. Sonny Perdue and the state Revenue Commissioner, challenging the amendment as unconstitutional.

But in today’s unanimous opinion, Chief Justice Carol Hunstein writes that the amendment “is not unconstitutional or illegal for any of the reasons set forth by appellant.”

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