“Your comments are appreciated in terms of developing a process that protects the health, safety, and welfare of Elbert County citizens.” (from Cover Letter)
The Recommended Financial Plan is all about collecting taxes by and for government. Nothing in here protects the health, safety and welfare of Elbert County citizens.
The Draft Special District Regulation will determine that “The creation of the proposed special district will be in the best interests of the area proposed to be served.” How will a group of government third party non-stakeholders know what is in the best interests of private citizens, let alone what will protect their health, safety and welfare?
The Draft Special District Information Requirements contains a process with no foreseeable end for encumbering applicants, perhaps subjects is a better word, to the whim of county regulators. No standards, no absolutes, nothing in here might commit a bureaucrat to stamp an application approved.
The Staff Report posits that the county shall be the arbiter of economic, financial, and market viability, of proposed special use districts. Government bureaucrats who have never actually made a profit lack qualifications to make such assessments.
In sum, this process is a bundle of socialist clap trap commissioned by Rowland and Ross. It is a make-work recipe for government bureaucrats and their contractors that is intended to stop the private sector in Elbert County from making any changes. It protects the health, safety and welfare of Elbert County planners whom we apparently exist to serve.
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