If you are planning to e-mail or call our county commissioners about the proposal to roll back DeKalb’s pouring hours from 3:55 to 2:00 a.m., now is the time to do it. The DeKalb County Commission will vote on this proposal, or a possible compromise proposal, at their meeting on Tuesday, November 13.
If you plan to attend the commission meeting, Commissioners Elaine Boyer and Jeff Rader recommend arriving between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. They anticipate a filled-to-capacity crowd. The meeting will be held at the Manuel Maloof Government Center, 1300 Commerce Drive, in Downtown Decatur.
CEO Vernon Jones has vowed to veto the rollback, which means that five of the seven commissioners must support the proposal in order to override the CEO’s veto.
On a related note, I am working on two reform proposals for the 2008 legislative session to put neighborhoods and citizens back in the driver’s seat of local government in DeKalb County. I will discuss these proposals in detail in upcoming e-mail newsletters next week and the following week. In addition, these reform proposals will be the focus of a town hall meeting to be held Thursday, November 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the Talmage Room of the Oglethorpe University student center.
I hope to see you there.
