In 2008, the state’s highest court ruled in favor of a group trying to stop school tax dollars from being used in Atlanta for the City’s “tax allocation” districts including the BeltLine.
Later the same year, the Georgia legislature passed a constitutional amendment saying, as long as school districts approved, it municipalities could use school revenue for non-school redevelopment projects. And the voters ratified that amendment.
The latest suit, filed by John Sherman of the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation, contended the amendment is irrelevant. But the court said the Georgia Constitution is the “supreme state law” and that it is also permissible for the constitution to, in essence, overrule the court itself.
via SCOGA Tax Ruling an Atlanta BeltLine Victory | WABE 90.1 FM.
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