Looks like history may repeat itself like last decade,
now that LOST negotiations between the cities and the county have failed.
Except this time apparently the law has changed so they can’t sue each
other directly.


Instead next it goes to

Superior Court “baseball arbitration”.
However, I bet that still involves lawyers at taxpayer expense,
not to mention the Court’s time.

Greg Gullberg reported for WCTV yesterday,

Tax Negotiations Hit Another Dead End In Lowndes County,
and asked Gretchen down at the County Extension, who said,

It’s sort of sad because it is a waste, if you will, of taxpayer dollars.
That the elected officials can’t get together and come to some agreement
to say that they all understand how the money has to be divided up
Yeah, it’s sad that more money has to go to lawyers
insted of being spent on services.

I continue to think the local governments could spend their time together
better

trying to increase the size of the pie instead of squabbling over slices of it.

-jsq