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

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