City’s Gold Dome wishlist includes gambling, assault weapon ban
‘Dear General Assembly, please listen to Atlantans for once in your lives’
On Jan. 11, state lawmakers will return to the Gold Dome for 40 days of bloviatin’, horse-tradin’ and budget-cuttin’.
Across the street in City Hall, the Atlanta mayor and City Council will cross their fingers and pray to God the state House and Senate will do no harm — and maybe pass one or two bills that’ll help beef up the city’s bottom line and (arguably) make life a little easier.
Those proposals can be found in the City Council’s “2010 General Assembly legislative package,” a 26-page wishlist of requested changes to laws and ordinances that can only be enacted on the state level. Council unanimously approved the to-do list on Nov. 16.
CL got its filthy little hands on the public document and gave it a look. (You can read the whole thing for yourself in all its PDF splendor here.) In addition to clearing up some laws’ language and tacking on fees and fines for traffic scofflaws, City Hall bigwigs are asking for some interesting items. Some are old, some are new. After the jump, we run ‘em down.