The budget that the County Commission is poised to approve on Tuesday is not the same budget about which the county held public hearings last year. It also appears that Chairman Charles Bannister plans to exact a little political payback on a fellow Commissioner, but it will be the residents of Commission District 3 who [...]
Last week, the Atlanta Regional Commission broke with tradition to reject Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charles Bannister’s bid to become the ARC Chairman. Now, we know what the elected leaders of metro Atlanta think of our top elected official.
Even though the ARC also includes citizen members and city mayors, the Chairmen of the 10 metro counties [...]
Joseph Henchman of the Tax Foundation is criticizing a report on the money woes of ten states by the Pew Center. His assessment of California’s problems could apply, in principle, to Gwinnett’s situation:
A big cause of California’s budget crisis was spending commitments derived from overreliance on volatile revenue sources, particularly taxes on high-income earners, [...]
Gwinnett Buzz takes on the City of Lawrenceville, expressing very legitimate complaints about the city’s monopoly natural gas service. I, too, have wondered why the city charges a $3 “convenience” fee for online payments when the service arguably saves the government money:
Aside from the fact that government has a spotty track record for customer-friendly [...]
Gwinnett Daily Post reporter Camie Young touches briefly on an alarming revelation: the County Commission may not spend revenue from the recently-passed tax increase on police officers, fire stations and libraries after all. Instead, the county may apply the funds to the county’s growing accrued liabilities:
The $59 million Gwinnett County will collect next spring during [...]
Last month, I described how the foundation for Gwinnett’s current financial woes was laid years ago through a series of bad decisions and flawed financial strategies. One series of actions by the County Commission is, in my opinion, most relevant to the current state of affairs.
For the past four years, the County Commission has not raised [...]
