The legislature will be working all the way up until midnight, so it's not too late to email them with your issues over the City of Tucker bill! Here are the Concerns from Save Tucker! 1.) The Tucker Bill for Incorporation does not list any millage cap . It also does not give any suggestion of a process where citizens can have an active role *aka a vote to approve or deny* in the process by which city taxes can be raised or lowered. As we are only reading the charter document for the city of Tucker for the very first time this week, a few comments and concerns have been brought to our attention via our public and closed Facebook Discussion Group Pages. 2.) The districts for City Council Seats are set up in an odd manner that is not consistent with the other recently formed cities in DeKalb County. We cannot even find any other local city council in the U.S. that is set up in this manner where you have identical areas represented by tw...
This is a blog about the small town of Tucker, Georgia, which is located just outside the major metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. On March 13, 2013, the residents of Tucker learned that a small group of politically motivated individuals who lived nearby wanted to incorporate using Tucker's commercial areas and leaving many of the long-time residents on the outskirts of the new city. This is the story of how the residents have fought back to preserve history and their own community.