The Marietta Daily Journal – Around Town With economy reviving Lee says Cobb is ‘ready to go ’

BEING county commission chairman — or serving in just about any elective capacity — hasn’t been much fun for the past half-decade, thanks to an economy that went off the cliff, gutting tax digests and revenues, and hammering government budgets and services in the process.

That was surely the case for Tim Lee’s first years as Cobb Commission chairman, as he had to choose between further cuts in services or raising property taxes — and chose the latter.

But for the first time in his tenure, Lee is finally starting to get a taste of being chair when the economy clearly is on the upswing.

That was obvious Tuesday when he gave a spirited mid-year progress report to an invited audience of 75 Cobb leaders at Vinings Bank — and told them that if they couldn’t see that things in Cobb have turned around, they need to move. Lee almost seemed to be paraphrasing Barack Obama’s old campaign slogan about being “Fired Up,” telling listeners that growth has returned and the county is “ready to go!”

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Around Town With economy reviving Lee says Cobb is ‘ready to go ’.