The Auburn City Council will hold a special called meeting Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the City Hall Conference Room to discuss a potential resolution on a Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) consent order — a multi-million dollar lawsuit between Gwinnett County and 15 municipalities relating to the duplication of public services.
According to an agenda announcing the special Feb. 7 meeting, the council is set to discuss joint resolutions, Intergovernmental Agreements, to authorize and attest documents, and to join the City of Auburn Police Department’s election to not join the Service District.
A Superior Court judgment ruled in favor of the 15 cities involved in the two-year legal battle with Gwinnett County over its SDS Act in September 2011.
SDS is a state law that requires cities and counties to determine the local government that will provide certain public services and how those services are funded.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
Basically, Gwinnett county charges each city for police, fire/emt, roads, lights etc services. But Auburn already has its own PD so why pay Gwinnett for a service that it does not provide ?
SO Auburn needs to not pay for GC Police and roads it has to maintain, Fire is what it is, isn't that funded thru property taxes to you own county?
In Gwinnett, the laser/radar issue is not the challenges Gwinnett needs to FOCUS on anyway, they have and are going to have bigger problems they need to worry about before it becomes Dekalb or Fulton in Crime Stats.
I want the police I pay for to patrol my neighborhood, be proactive, be visible, solve crimes, prevent crime...not run radar for 8-10 hours a day.
I want criminals to avoid Barrow County because they see too many cops.
I want Police that are visible as a crime deterrent, not a department that is trying to hide from its own citizens (not Gwinnett, it is fully marked, unified fleet except special operations) but here in Barrow it seems that the new Sheriff wants to hide from those who pay them, in black on black cars and just write tickets in Countyline...
For the record though I too would like to see the cops cracking more heads.
Georgia Code at least they have become more present in doing police work then sitting on bypass hiding in the edges, when on 129 now notice they are visible light on and in clear view, now Braselton is still hiding in median behind gully near 127 mile marker waiting while not in plain view, since Barrow county Sheriff should be advising them they are in violation of Ga Code doing this the sheriffs office seems quiet on enforcing the legal use of speed detection device commonly referred to as RaDAR.
They made the marked sheriff cars barely marked hard to define as law enforcement marked cars.
Jack, You MISSED THE POINT.
I can see right form wrong, waste of taxpayer funds and sneaky unrespectable tactics by our Sheriffs Dept without having gotten a ticket myself. I can see, I am not blind.
Maybe you are blind because I am critical of your favorite elected officer? Are you the GOB who can see the forest due to the trees?
I call it like I see it. I don’t trust an agency that "HIDES FROM IT'S OWN CITIZENS", they Do Not Need to hide, there are plenty of lawbreakers to pick from, easy pickings, This Sneakiness is Not Necessary....
But it says more about the agency than the public, I say it sends a message, THE WRONG MESSAGE.
"Its Simple" doesn’t get it either, IF they are marked and patrol our streets more, they WILL BE SEEN. When elected every car was Gold on black, since Jud Smith was elected, now every new unit since is now a less visible Medium Gray on Black, and now some are Black on Black.
It's Simple, You Simply miss the point entirely too.
1. As I already stated, I have NOT been ticketed for speeding or anything else in the Countyline area. I have not been stopped either.
2. The speed limit is 55 MPH from Anita Drive area in Winder to .5 miles before and after Countyline where it is 45, then 55 MPH again until the Subway restaurant at GA124 intersection. I know this road.
Countyline 55 MPH back when it was a much more unsafe intersection, then the DOT corrected the grading (lowered the roadway) and improved the sightline to the intersection, but left the speed limit at 45 mph, BUT they increase the 45 Zone out either direction for 1 Mile SO it would qualify for RADAR to be a Speed Trap. This is fact. There is not reason for the speed to drop that far out from the intersection except to create a speed zone for revenue generation.
Note: Again, there is not even an active school on Hwy211 NW anymore either.
I must be behind you everyday too, because I find a tremendous amount of drivers’ pudding along at 40-45 all the time.
Yes there is the occasional speeder that needs stopped, but that is all over any county, not one place specifically set-up as speed trap.
I am neither old nor young, my reflexes I will put up with best of them. I have driven GA211 everyday for over 2 decades to & from work and home. Family still owns land on 211.
The Black on Black car I saw recent could NOT BE READ AT ALL from several angles. I have pictures of this car, IT IS Truly SNEAKY. It gives a bad impression to the community.
Since you are in the GOB Party I read about, You will accept anything one of your cronies does not matter what impression it gives.
I want to like this Sheriff, I am not sure his actions are developing trust in the community. Too bad, He had potential. I hope a good candidate doesn't run against him, I voted for him last time, but his impression looks bad now.
You might want to bring this to his attention since he is your boy.
To be a good & respectable Sheriff you don't need to do stuff like that to do your job.
Crime keeps rising in Barrow County, being Shady has not slowed it down any.
When will these Cops and Sheriffs ever learn that if they lose the public perception, public support that they are just another gang of thugs out there like the shady bad guys.
You dont work despite the public, you should work with the public, FOR the public. Barrow image is dropping everyday, heck I probably couldn't even sell to get out, the way it's going now, read this paper crime, crime on the rise. Cops too busy making money to protect us.
"I can see right form wrong, waste of taxpayer funds and sneaky unrespectable tactics by our Sheriffs Dept without having gotten a ticket myself." Then you make this statement in your next post "As I already stated, I have NOT been ticketed for speeding or anything else in the Countyline area. I have not been stopped either." I dont know bobby, maybe you got your DUI somewhere besides the countyline area.
Lets move on to examine the rest of your tirade.
"Countyline 55 MPH back when it was a much more unsafe intersection, then the DOT corrected the grading (lowered the roadway) and improved the sightline to the intersection, but left the speed limit at 45 mph, BUT they increase the 45 Zone out either direction for 1 Mile SO it would qualify for RADAR to be a Speed Trap. This is fact. There is not reason for the speed to drop that far out from the intersection except to create a speed zone for revenue generation."
This is the part where you show your true idiocy and lunacy. The reason the speed limit is 45 there has NOTHING to do with making a speed trap and everything to do with that being one of the most dangerous intersections in the county. True the lowering of the grade made for better sight lines but it also opened the way for speed demons to put the hammer down when people are trying to get out onto 211 from either Mulberry rd. or County line Auburn rd.I have sat here and counted over 50 cars going by all strung out at perfect intervals towhere you cant get out unless you pull in front of someone on a daily baisi for 46 years.Although it has only been bad for the last 20.I hope you are behind my 45 mph backside because thats as fast as anyone needs to go on that road.
As for your idiotic take on the color of cop cars.
We all go over the speed limit from time to time , the difference between somebody like me and a speed demon like you is this: Im driving along and notice a well marked police car and it causes me as a natural reflex to check my speed. I see Im doing 5 to 10 miles over the limit and say"whos there jacky boy you better slow this thing down" and I do and drive under the limit the rest of the way down to the dairy queen for my biscuit.You on the other hand blow by an unmarked car at 30 to 40 miles over the limiet and think you are being wronged when you get pulled over and given a ticket( i know you said you never got one) but many like you get them every day.That unmarked car is to stop the wreckless idiots of the world who think they own the road and are out of control.It also is good for sneakingup on a lowlife drug pusher and being able tosee a drug sale happen and thus able to prosecute the evil perpetraors, wheras a well marked car will give away its presence and the cock roaches will dissappear.
Now do you understand why you are an iodiot? I swear bobby why do the smart people always have to draw a picture for dumbasses like you?
You can’t make or debate a valid point without attacking the other author OR without ADDING YOUR NEW Imagined information.
Your personal opinion the law of the land, and everyone who disagrees, you make up stuff.
I think you are probably too old to be driving on Hwy 211 or any other road based on what you say. You apparently have some experiences with DUI since you brought it up.
I have no convictions, arrests, tickets OF ANY KIND in Countyline or the United States since you can’t read and everyone must make it very very clear because your brain is as slow as your driving it would seem.
The State and Federal government has determined the 55 MPH is a safe speed for highway travel, sorry you disagree. But at 40 mph don’t complain about car piling up on your butt since all you have to do is go to Dairy Queen and back each day (and comment on every article this paper writes & attack others points of view).
That intersection is 90x safer now, but it IS STILL hard to pull out there, I agree, because more people live here now. I don’t know about "most dangerous". So it SHOULD be 45 mph there, Just NOT for 1 MILE, it is lowered so far out from the intersection people begin to forget the speed limit even dropped.
"I see Im doing 5 to 10 miles over the limit" is what you say but you earlier say 45 is too fast, SO which is it?? (Are you bi-polar?) Seems you might be faster than us. I just said I can’t get up to 55 often due you and your biscuit & ice cream runs apparently.
Your sneaky police arguments don’t hold any merit either. The law requires fully marked patrol cars be marked and identified for Traffic Enforcement, the law states how large the letters are required, number of time on the car, etc. Our Sneaky Sheriff wants to skirt and bend those rules and deceive the public with his sneaky cars, just like the sneaky defense attorney tactics to get criminals off, black on black, technically they are marked, you just can see that, again the public perception is reality. (give Jud a hug & kiss for us).
Next, to bust drug dealers you don’t need a marked police car, so that is no valid argument, most drug sale buys and surveillance is done in undercover non-police cars, (whose the idiot again?) but you need to be clearly Identifiable when you show up in a dangerous scene so the public and police are both kept safe, everyone knows the police have arrived (so the good guys don’t get shot at). And lastly studies have shown a clearly marked patrol presence does deter crime, and I do want the cockroaches to scatter, scatter right on out of Barrow County, I know you would be sad, you couldn’t keep commenting.
You assume that because we the public might be critical of some actions by one leader, that it applies to all (like not only do I support law enforcement, I have them in my family), I am in favor of any tools the Sheriff needs to stop Barrow's rise in crime. But at the same time you want to garner the faith, cooperation, support of the citizens, and appearing sneaky does the opposite. Two different things. Jud needs to consider what it looks like from the public perspective that’s all. It is not necessary, any benefit doesn’t out weight the perception.
I don't need a pass from you, but I will let mine know to check for slow moving old guys in pickups for DUI on Hwy211. And the car will be clearly marked blue & silver with orange letters.
You see, just because someone criticizes certain tactics, does not mean they are a law breaker except in your small presumptive and closed mind.
You sometimes can make very good points on some articles and feedback but on others like above, you miss the points entirely, apparently can’t comprehend it.
(per You: Everyone is an idiot that You don't agree with, or has their own opinion)
Lastly, anyone reading top to bottom, well, nice try on calling others here an idiot, again check your mirror
Dont know what rock you are hiding under, we need better and we need to get a handle on it now, crime doesnt "stay the same', at your acceptable level, it either increases or decreases, and so far it is far far from going the good direction.
Yes, they report the arrests, often those are traffic & domestics, but they are arrests. I am asking you to confirm your statement “I think we seem to be doing just fine around here." --I think the BJ and others all have provided lots on contradictory information, one prior article in this paper said Barrow's Crime was higher that most of our neighbors...
I think I have seen crime rise, the impression is that we have more crime; I think we are positioning ourselves as an area ripe for criminals to move in to. I want to see visible cruisers in our neighborhood, streets and business centers. I want to BE Seen as a deterrent not hide in unreadable cars (what is this point of those??)
I want people to slow down, Yes, but that is a minor part of the role that our departments need to play, I want my children, neighborhood and home safe, I want a safe reputation for my community. You ask why many potential citizens don't relocate to Barrow, bring their businesses, families and tax dollars for our benefit? Why we can’t attract higher end housing to pay larger portions towards our tax base? ---They get a safer better deal elsewhere, places that have agencies with the Appearance of trust, --and frankly no-one wants to live in an area where the officers use you as a revenue tool, revenue source and that is what most of your RADAR running is all about. It is Revenue Generation, this is about the money, and the majority does not contribute to a safer community.
I applaud all the cities in Gwinnett for seeing this thru.
Chairman Bannister was clueless, thank goodness Chairman Nash understands that taxpayers should not have to fund a service that they do not recieve from Gwinnett county.
Property taxes are too high and no one should have to pay double for any service!
they did not even mention since not running radar was it less safe?
so for the year these depts were banned from revenue making did accidents increase or decrease??? hmmm??
Running radar is about $, and making cops feel big with their little toys.