Reed: General Assembly looking at TAD rules and Beltline funding
February 12, 2008 at 4:58 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsJust got off the phone with state Sen. Kasim Reed, who himself just walked out of a meeting about yesterday’s state Supreme Court ruling and its impact on the Beltline. He said the Office of Legislative Counsel is poring over Monday’s ruling and is at work “in real time” examining how the General Assembly could return funding to the Beltline and other projects that would stand to be affected in the future. While it’s early in the process and he couldn’t offer more specific details, Reed said citizens should expect to see “something substantive” in the next 72 hours.
The two options would be either a state constitutional amendment or a bill. The former is the strongest of the two because it could not be invalidated by the Supreme Court, Reed said. If the General Assembly passed it, Georgia voters would ultimately decide the issue in November.
Reed said he would discuss the issue tomorrow in Democratic caucus as well.
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February 13th, 2008 at 12:57 am
I hope Kasim and his collegues will find a way to fix what the Ga. Supreme Court has done to us. They have royally screwed Atlanta and the State of Georgia out of one of our best ways to compete for economic growth. I have read the Constitution language and the ruling is a stretch.
Go Kasim!
February 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am
While I can’t match Robert’s enthusiasm for Sen. Reed, I am very hopeful the General Assembly can get their collective sh*t together and pass something quickly. And let’s hope this mini-movement can make it out of the Democartic caucus…if it’s not bipartisan, it won’t make it.