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COPYRIGHT 2005 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By Michael Pearson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 28--Every day, hundreds of seniors crowd the Harriett G. Darnell Senior Center in southwest Atlanta looking for companionship, maybe a dip in the therapeutic pool, even a nice lunch.
"It's like Piccadilly," Lithangia Robinson boasts, a mix of pride and amazement in her voice as she describes the crowd at the center's cafeteria, where the $3 lunch is all the rage.
But Robinson worries what might happen to the center and its aging clients if Sandy Springs becomes its own city and takes with it about $50 million in sales and property tax revenues the county currently collects. Legislation authorizing a vote on incorporation is expected to go to the full governmental affairs committee this week.
Because so much of the outcome hinges on evolving legislation and complex negotiations among the county's various governments, it's impossible to predict the financial outcomes precisely until the city's creation already has been approved.
But some Fulton County officials are warning they...
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