AJC OPINION By Fulton County’s mayors What we’re offering the county in negotiations is far better than the status quo. As the leaders of the 15 cities that lie wholly or in part in Fulton County, we are uniting in an important effort to protect vital services that our governments provide to our residents. We … Read more
Reporter Newspapers — Fulton County Commission Chairman Rob Pitts shared a letter he sent to the county’s 15 mayors stating the county wished to return to mediation over distribution of local option sales tax (LOST) revenue. The county and city negotiators last attended a mediation session on Oct. 7, but no agreement on how the sales … Read more
CW69 Atlanta — Fifteen Fulton County mayors are saying property taxes could go up or residents could lose some emergency services over the county’s plan to increase its share of sales tax — or LOST — revenue. Watch the news clip >>
Appen Newspapers — Mayors from 12 Fulton County cities gathered in Atlanta Monday to share growing concerns over negotiations with the county to reach an agreement on the distribution of countywide sales tax revenue. Speaking before a backdrop of firetrucks from Atlanta, South Fulton and Sandy Springs, the mayors said hopes of a resolution continue … Read more
Reporter Newspapers — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens called the Fulton County Commissioners’ negotiating position with its cities on the division of sales tax “irresponsible and reckless” during a Tuesday press conference. Dickens said the county’s demand for a larger portion of local options sales tax (LOST) funds could force the cities to cut public safety … Read more
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and fellow mayors representing 15 cities in Fulton County remain at odds with county officials over how to divide local option sales tax revenue. Dickens, leading a press conference outside the Atlanta Civic Center on Monday, said he believes Fulton has been insincere in mediation negotiations on … Read more
WSB-ATL (ABC) — They’re joining together to reject the Fulton County Commissioners plan to take a 163% increase in their share of local sales tax revenue away from the cities. That adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars that would come out of the city’s budgets. Watch the news clip >>
WABE — On this edition of “Closer Look,” Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul and East Point Mayor Deana Holiday Ingraham discuss the collective grievances of Fulton County mayors in terms of how shares of the county’s local option sales tax (LOST) revenues will be divvied up. “What the county is asking us to give up … Read more
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — A rise in property taxes, a reduction in emergency services and layoffs could take place if 15 cities in negotiations with Fulton County cannot keep their respective local option sales tax revenue, city officials said at a Wednesday town hall. “This is not going well,” Bianca Motley Broom, mayor of College … Read more
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — A panel of eight mayors took part in a Roswell town hall Wednesday to inform the public on what’s at stake if 15 cities and the Fulton Board of Commissioners do not reach an agreement on the renegotiation of Local Option Sales Tax revenue. The LOST is a one-penny sales tax … Read more