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Fayette County Issues Tea Party. MonthlyMeeting Feb 4 , 2014. Finding Our Way In Regional Government Fayette County Steve Brown Board of Commissioners. Sex and Age Fayette County. Sex and Age Mature: ages 35-69 Fayette County. Sex and Age Atlanta Region 20 Counties. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Fayette County Issues Tea Party
MonthlyMeetingFeb 4, 2014
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Finding Our WayIn Regional Government
Fayette County
Steve BrownBoard of Commissioners
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Sex and Age
Fayette County
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Sex and Age
Mature: ages 35-69Fayette County
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Sex and Age
Atlanta Region20 Counties
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Race and Hispanic Origin
Fayette County
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Race and Hispanic Origin
Atlanta Region20 Counties--------------------50% Minority
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Single Households
Fayette County--------------------Single Parent14%
Married Households
Fayette County--------------------Married Parent66%2010 Census
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Single Households
Atlanta Region20 Counties--------------------Single Parent20%
Married Households
Atlanta Region20 Counties--------------------Married Parent49%2010 Census
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Close in size by land mass:
DeKalbPopulation: 691,893(2553 people per square mile)
FayettePopulation: 106,567(535 people per square mile)
2010 Census
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Counties With Highest Percentage of Population Living in Cities
1. Fulton County 90.3%
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Counties With Highest Percentage of Population Living in Cities
1. Fulton County 90.3%2. Fayette County 53.8%3. Henry County 29.3%4. Douglas County 28.1%…7. Cobb County 26.0%8. Gwinnett County 24.5%
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How do you classify “region”?
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According to the Federal Government, our “Metropolitan Statistical Area” is made of 28 counties.
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The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the 10-county Atlanta area, including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties(20 counties for air quality issues)
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Urban Core Counties
COBB GWINNETT
FULTON
DEKALB
CLAYTON
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10-County Atlanta Regional Commission
CHEROKEECOBB GWINNETT
FULTON
DOUGLAS ROCKDALEDEKALB
FAYETTE HENRYCLAYTON
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Big $$$ Problems There is no funding to maintain the dysfunctional
growth of the Core Urban Counties.
There is no funding to make the needed road improvements for the Emerging Growth Counties.
Mass transit has low ridership and is not cost efficient.
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The First Look at Regional Taxation and Governance
Transportation Investment Act (a.k.a. “TSPLOST”)
63% Opposed(A horrible project list – little attention to traffic congestion)
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TSPLOST: A Moving Target
First: “Untie the traffic knot” (relieve traffic congestion)
Next: “Save the development industry”
Last ditch appeal: “It’s about creating jobs”
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HB 195A Flexible Solution
(Heading in the right direction)
Rep. Ed Setzler
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Reminder: There is nothing wrong with regional cooperation.
Fayette has been a key collaborative partner in the region.
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“A man’s got to know his limitations.” - Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan,
Magnum Force (1973)
Where do we draw the line on regionalism?
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The Pitfalls of Regional Governance and Taxation Serious lack of accountability to the citizen taxpayers
Disparity among various counties
Parochial interests create a conflicting regional vision
Influence of outside special development interests
Lack of a decent regional planning mechanism
Gwinnett vs. Fayette
Atlanta Beltline and light rail trains
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Atlanta Regional Commission
16 of the 39 Board Members are NOT elected by the citizens of any jurisdiction.
The past and current ARC Chairmen are non-elected officials in real estate development who are with Community
Improvement Districts, competing for transportation dollars within the region.
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Georgia Regional Transportation Authority GRTA
All 15 Members on the Board of Directors are appointed by the Governor.
Only 3 are elected officials and nearly all the others are related to the real estate development industry.
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“With the [Federal] Highway Trust Fund forecast to go bankrupt next year [2015] and the current two-year transportation bill set to expire Oct. 1, Congress faces a struggle to find funds for a new long-term transportation bill.” - Congress to face dilemma in funding long-term transportation bill, 1/15/2014 - Washington Post
Congress is stealing funds from the general fund to prop-up the Highway Trust Fund.
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We need to stop funding transit from the [Federal] Highway Trust Fund.
Motor fuel taxes pay for the fund and it should be used to pay for improvements to roads and bridges.
Transit is a huge financial black hole and will never come close to paying for itself. Yet regional leaders urge the continued construction of expensive transit projects, further eroding the Fed Trust Fund.
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“ [Metro Atlanta should] spend 50% of our transportation funds on transit rail.”- Christopher Leinberger, Atlanta Regional Commission’s State of the Region Breakfast, November 1, 2013 (Created the Atlanta Walk-UP study)
Road maintenance?
Low ridership?Reality check?
Ultra expensive?
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Instead of giving State Powerbrokers, Appointed Officials and Real Estate Developers the keys to our local governments, it might be better to change the locks. Paraphrase of a quote from Doug Larson
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Accomplishments
Moved transportation focus to “sub-regional”
Leveling the playing field between Urban Core and Emerging counties
Incorporating opposing points of view
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Where to Focus Create accountability to the citizen taxpayers Demand protection of “home rule” Get out of “one-size-fits-all” solutions Do not allow forced mandatory regional taxation Develop rational metrics for transit projects Insist attention be given to Southern Crescent
counties (transportation and economic development)
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The New Federal View of Regionalism“Obamaregionomics”
(Go look at the Board of Directors for Building One America)
https://buildingoneamerica.org
The unraveling of America’s suburbs.
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Young Professor Obamaon
Race and Regionalism
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The Agenda of Building One America
• Force new development in cities and prohibit growth in suburbs and beyond. Build a transit-oriented society.
• Impose economic integration, income housing quotas, loss of local control of zoning and land use.
• Tax sharing to reduce “fiscal disparities” among local governments. One county paying for another’s needs (Think Metro Atlanta T-SPLOST).
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Myron Orfield
Described as "the most influential social demographer in America's burgeoning regional movement," wrote Neal Peirce in his nationally distributed column in spring 2002.
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Orfield Believes …
“Local approaches to growth and economic development create competition that ultimately hurts all parts of the region. Instead, localities should work together to advocate new regional, state and federal policies such as: greater fiscal equity to equalize resources among local governments, smarter growth management to support more sustainable development practices, and accountable metropolitan governance to improve regional transportation and land-use planning.”http://citistates.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/assocspeakers/m_orfield.html
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Megaregions
Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM)
Jacksonville to Nashville, Raleigh to Birmingham
34 million people
12% of total U.S. population
Gross Regional Product: $1.1 trillion
http://www.cqgrd.gatech.edu/research/megaregions/piedmont-atlantic-megaregion
“Develop a conceptual framework that incorporates the megaregion concept into existing policy and governance processes.”
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Thank You
Steve Brown, ChairmanFayette County Board of Comm.(404) 798-0587