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Lakeside YES and City of Briarcliff Initiative Present Joint Statement to DeKalb County Operations Task Force

Good news for community.

Briarcliff realizes that they are toast.  Overheard at Briarcliff meeting Monday night at local restaurant- "Briarcliff is losing public support in the community".

Tucker gets smacked down by Rep. Mike Jacobs.  Tells Tucker's Frank Aumen - referring to announced collaboration something like: - "Mary Kay (Lakeside) and Allen (Briarcliff) are "dating"- that's progress.  You are starting over and ignoring the negotiated Lakeside/Tucker map. That doesn't sound like progress".  

Atlanta, GA, July 3, 2014 -- Two DeKalb County cityhood groups, LakesideYES and the The City of Briarcliff Initiative delivered a joint statement to the DeKalb County Operational Task Force (OTF) on Tuesday, July 2, at the Maloof Auditorium, Decatur, GA..

 Lakeside Yes Chairperson Mary Kay Woodworth:  Lakeside YES and The City of Briarcliff Initiative appreciate the invitation to present maps to the Operations Task Force.  You have received our individual working maps, but we respectfully present this joint statement in lieu of focusing on a specific map. 

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 Both of our groups presented maps during the 2014 session of the Georgia General Assembly.  However, because our current maps overlap, Lakeside and Briarcliff have agreed to collaborate with the goal of creating a unified map free of overlapping areas and respecting existing city borders and future annexation plans.  We respect the compromise map between Tucker and Lakeside as the starting point of this collaboration, and we respect the inclusive approach of the Briarcliff map.  We will continue to work with Lakeside cityhood sponsors, Representative Jacobs and Senator Millar, residents and business owners in our community to achieve the goal of local control and governance for this community. We invite the advocates of the city of Tucker to join with us so that we can present two cities with a clear path to cityhood prior to the 2015 session of the General Assembly. 

 

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City of Briarcliff Initative President Allen Venet:   We are committed to working together because we agree on almost every issue except boundaries, and boundaries can be solved.  As we refine our map, we are soliciting neighborhood input, and we will work with state, county and local elected representatives of both major parties and with the existing cities of DeKalb County.  

 We seek to unite, rather than divide, to improve government operations not just in our region of DeKalb but in the entire county.  The residents of unincorporated DeKalb deserve, and with respect we demand, the opportunity to form new cities that will become destinations where business and families can flourish.  The time has come for us all to cooperate, north and south, inside the perimeter and outside, city advocates and county officials.  We all share DeKalb County, and we all know the challenges we face.  Cities are an important part of the solution.

 

About Lakeside YES - http://www.lakeside-yes.com

 LakesideYES is a group of local citizens working to form a new city in North/Central DeKalb County, Georgia.  The new City of Lakeside will build a stronger community for today and for the next generation, with safe streets, strong ethics, efficient governmental operations, disciplined financial stewardship, a tradition of diversity and a community that fosters a love of lifelong learning 

 

About City of Briarcliff Initiative -  https://www.facebook.com/briarcliffga

 The City of Briarcliff Initiative, Inc. is a non-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of Georgia. The group seeks to enable residents to form a new city government in central DeKalb County that would serve all people within the community and promote the health, welfare, and safety of the general public.



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