ATLANTA — Cities and counties around the state risk are at of losing millions of critical sales tax dollars if they can’t cut deals by Thursday night.
The Atlanta City Council met at City Hall in emergency session with Mayor Kasim Reed Wednesday night to figure out their next move. Tens of millions of dollars are on the line, and time is running out.
“We need the money. I have never been as stressed about anything in my life,” East Point Mayor Earnestine Pittman told Channel 2 investigative reporter Aaron Diamant.
Pittman is among many worried a recent bombshell opinion by the Georgia Supreme Court will sink her city.
“We are talking about turning out the lights,” said Myron Cook with the East Point City Council
The high court ruled the negotiating process written into state law to help reach new deals on how to carve up the cash collected from each county’s local option sales tax, or LOST, is unconstitutional.
Dozens of city and county governments have used that arbitration process over the last couple years.
“When the pie is this big it’s got to be sliced up in so many different ways, yeah, it gets contentious,” said Amy Henderson with the Georgia Municipal Association.
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