In the Nov. 22 edition of The Citizen, Steve Allen accuses council members Fleisch, Imker, and Learnard of flipping their positions when they voted to disband DAPC.
Mr. Allen is the council candidate who was defeated in the recent election and whose hallmark has been making baseless accusations that are later empirically proven wrong or offering motherhood and apple pie election promises without offering a clue as to how to fulfill those promises.
As regards DAPC, I was part of a group that made an open records review of DAPC and encouraged council to dissolve it as an “Authority.”
Why was that our position? An authority has special powers under state law to issue bonds or buy land. The last time these powers were used by DAPC the taxpayer got stuck with hundreds of thousands of dollars of unpaid DAPC liabilities.
Yes, we agree it was a different group of DAPC people involved in the last fiasco, but the risk is still there. And the fact is that in our review we did not see any DAPC plan for activity that would require those powers that ultimately create risk for the Peachtree City taxpayer.
The majority of the council wisely considered the pros and cons and voted to remove the DAPC risk to the taxpayer while putting plans into place that will create economic development. The council is protecting the taxpayer.
Who are you protecting, Mr. Allen? Is there a reason you would want the taxpayer exposed to unwarranted risk?
Randy Boyett
Peachtree City, Ga.
