Fulton Chairman John Eaves: Failed Cityhood ‘Disappointing’
A bill to authorize a referendum on incorporation for South Fulton County residents failed for the second year in a row in the Georgia legislature. House Bill 514 would have authorized a vote on the issue. It passed in the House, but stalled in the Senate.
“It was disappointing,” Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves told Rose Scott and Denis O’Hayer on “A Closer Look.”
The Board of Commissioners’ position was that residents in unincorporated Fulton County should have had the chance to vote on whether to become a city, Eaves said.
“It’s an issue that citizens in South Fulton about 90,000 people plus are concerned about and I wanted to provide them with an opportunity to have a choice by way of a referendum this year.”
Eaves accused state senators from outside the area of “sabotaging” the process, than backtracked on that statement.
Eaves’ also discussed the current status of DeKalb’s county jail consent decree and more on the program.
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