Per the AJC,

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that DeKalb County doesn’t owe its cities more than $10 million from a decade-long battle over its penny-on-the-dollar homestead sales tax, or HOST.

But nine cities in the county are entitled to a direct share of the tax proceeds from here on out – creating a whole new source of income for the cities to renovate buildings or take on other capital projects.

Our collective fantasies of how to spend a couple million around the city have been squashed, but the City of Decatur is in line for a nice income stream for capital projects moving forward. Steve puts the annual number at around $600,000, though that was just an estimate.