Georgia State Representative Amy Carter, Chair of the House Government Affairs Committee which will consider all cityhood proposals, stated on Monday that she does not want these proposals to take up a significant amount of the Committee's time in the upcoming session. She informed the Committee of her plan to allow each of the proposals (Briarcliff, Tucker, Lakeside and Stonecrest) a limited time to make a presentation in the first week of the legislative session, after which the committee will decide what to present to the full House.
She said that she intends that the Committee will give fair consideration to each proposal, but added her preference that two or more of the competing groups get together with a joint proposal, to simplify the decisions faced by the committee. Another member of the committee then added that if one of the groups does not want to talk to the others, or to work out a reasonable arrangement, that will tell the Committee something about the competing proposals.