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Pitts warns cuts to county
revenues will be ‘devastating’
BK DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
District 2 At-Large Fulton County
Commissioner Robb Pitts says a propos
al to increase the county’s homestead tax
exemption would be “devastating.”
Pitts attended the Buckhead Coun
cil of Neighborhoods meeting on Feb.
7 and addressed several pieces of legisla
tion being introduced in the state Gen
eral Assembly this year.
The proposals target different aspects
of county government. One moves the
county to an employment system that
would make it easier to fire workers. An
other changes the makeup of the coun
ty’s library board.
Pitts said he was most worried about
the homestead tax exemption bill, which
would increase the exemption from
$30,000 to $60,000. Estimates vary on
the impact, but Pitts said it would cut
$50 million out of the county’s budget.
“What would I cut out, if the county
had $50 million less?” Pitts asked. “The
lawyers will complain now about the
court system, not enough employees,
not enough this. Do you cut the district
attorney’s office? Do you cut the jail,
which is heavy [with] personnel? What
do you cut?
“You close libraries? You shorten the
hours? You take another $5 million or so
from Grady Hospital? That’s going to be
devastating for Grady. What happens if
Grady can’t accommodate all of the peo
ple that they now accommodate? Where
will those people go? I can tell you where
they’re going. They’re going to Piedmont
and Northside (hospitals), because they
can’t turn them away.”
Pitts said Milton County is on the
“What do you cut?”
- ROBB PITTS
DISTRICT 2 AT-LARGE
FULTON COUNTY COMMISSIONER
“back burner,” but the north Fulton
state legislative delegation has intro
duced bills that would re-establish Mil-
ton, which was absorbed into Fulton
during the Depression.
On Feb. 11, Rep. Jan Jones, R-Mil-
ton, speaker pro tem of the House, re
introduced legislation to create Mil-
ton County, an idea that so far hasn’t
appeared likely to pass numerous legal
hurdles. Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy
Springs, and other representatives also
introduced similar bills.
Milton County would be comprised
of cities in north Fulton County, leaving
Fulton with Atlanta and communities in
the southern part of the county.
“We are committed to a more ac
countable county government that sat
isfactorily performs only the services
that are necessary and no more,” Jones
said in a press release. “I believe signifi
cant reform of Fulton County this year
and a continued push to recreate Milton
County will deliver it.”
As a constitutional amendment, the
resolution needs a two-thirds majority
vote in the state House and Senate be
fore it could be placed on the ballot for
a statewide vote, the press release says.
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