The judge hearing the service delivery strategy dispute with the County and the 15 municipalities has ruled that sanctions will not be applied during the settlement dispute. This is a good thing for the residents of Cities and Gwinnett County. The sanctions provision in the Service Delivery law are designed to force parties to the table and get to a service delivery agreement sooner than later. So I guess the question that citizens ought to be asking is, "Why would the County want to enter into an agreement when there is no penalty for not doing so?"
In the meantime, Gwinnett County will continue to extract from every county resident living in Dacula $18.51 per year for services not delivered to those residents. In Lawrenceville, the County receives $84.57 per person for undelivered services. And so it goes for every City resident throughout Gwinnett County. The amounts are different, but the principle is the same. Gwinnett County collects tax money for services it does not provide. Extra money in the County's pocket, unconstitutional taking from your pocket.
Over a yearly period, this means that Dacula residents pay Gwinnett County an extra $85,000 per year, and Lawrenceville residents pay an extra $2,250,000 per year for nothing except saying we live in Gwinnett County. The Service Delivery law was designed to keep these duplicative costs from occurring by requiring a Service Delivery agreement between Cities and County governments.
It should be made clear that the Cities of Gwinnett County will not benefit by an agreement that outlaws such double dipping by Gwinnett County. Rather any savings will go directly into the taxpayers' pockets.
I leave it to you, the taxpaying citizens of the municipalities of Gwinnett County, to determine what is fair, moral, legal and constitutional.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment