Decatur residents will pay more in school taxes and the school system will spend more money than it takes in if the city does not annex more properties. That’s one of the more significant conclusions of ...
This story has been updated. Decatur commissioners made their case for annexation to an empty room Monday evening. Most of the crowd, full of petitioners who want to be annexed into the city, petitioners who ...
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In the fall, time speeds up as you fall back into familiar routines. The start of the school year. Football. Trick-or-treating. Elections. Traffic. Meetings. More meetings. Switch goes on. Switch goes off. Tick. Tock. Winter ...
Decatur City Manager Peggy Merris and City Schools of Decatur Superintendent Phyllis Edwards on Saturday released a joint statement about the city’s annexation plans. The plans provide an updated timeline, suggesting an annexation referendum could ...
State Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, left no room for doubt on Wednesday in her remarks to residents of the Katie Kerr neighborhood. Drenner, speaking in the chapel of Columbia Presbyterian, said that while Katie Kerr was ...
In 2013, Chamblee and Brookhaven both annexed the same area, the 100 acres of Century Center property located off I-85 at Clairmont Road. The question of which city’s annexation would be legally enforceable has percolated in the ...
This story has been updated. The Avondale Estates City Commission on Monday, Oct. 27, moved an annexation petition from nearby Stratford Green forward, and discussed new information about other potential annexations. Commissioners adopted a resolution ...
This story has been updated. Avondale’s leadership apparently changed their minds prior to an Oct. 27 special called meeting. At their Oct. 15 work session, commissioners said they would postpone voting on a resolution asking state Rep. ...
If Decatur annexes more residential property into the city limits, it will cause student enrollment at Renfroe Middle to increase by 137 percent by 2018, adding approximately 1,300 more students to the middle school’s campus. ...