You may remember that the DeKalb County Development Authority and the DeKalb County Government chose to disregard your right to vote on a bond transaction to cover $4.3 million in cost overruns for an expensive new “performing arts and community center” elsewhere in the county. I authored the 2007 law that gives you the right to vote on the specific type of bond transaction that the county and the Development Authority were seeking to effectuate.
I challenged the proposed bond transaction in DeKalb County Superior Court for failure to conduct a referendum. The Superior Court upheld the referendum requirement and declined to approve the bond transaction. Click here for an article I wrote after the Superior Court issued its ruling.
The county and the Development Authority appealed that ruling to the Georgia Supreme Court. If you’re interested, please click here to read the legal brief I submitted to the Supreme Court last week arguing in support of the Superior Court’s ruling. This brief is saved as a PDF file, and Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
The brief took a full week to prepare, but was necessary in order to preserve your right to vote on how public debt is incurred and how your tax dollars are spent.
