Soccer story missed the shot

County

jail decision puts cart before horse

Anyone attending the

Feb. 24 Fayette County Commission meeting heard the

board's justification for voting to approve the public

facilities authority (no taxpayer approval required)

method of financing the courthouse and jail project.

Unfortunately,

the full ramifications of establishing this type of

authority has never been fully explained to the

tax-paying public, no matter how many charts and graphs

they present. Commissioner Dunn's statement was, "If

put to a vote the board could not be assured of

taxpayers' approval of a SPLOST or bond referendum and

the board could not afford to fail."

That

statement certainly says it all and validates the

opposition's position that the board's stubborn attitude

to go ahead without getting taxpayer approval was indeed

putting the cart before the horse.

No matter how pretty they

try to paint this picture, in the final analysis, it

reveals just how unsure the board is of their position.

Gerald Stoner

Fayetteville