Letters to the Editor

Haddix: PTC needs an annexation plan

I believe the citizens deserve more information on the Future Land Use Plan than has been given in The Citizen as of April 20. This is an extremely important matter that is not going away.

Since this was my agenda item and proposal, here is my presentation as read on the dais:

Our lack of a Future Land Use Plan for property surrounding Peachtree City has been a concern to me for years. It is one component of our needed but nonexistent Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Peachtree City. Read More»

Besides SPLOST, what are other options?

The two-year 1 percent Special Local Option Sales Tax being considered by Fayette County and the cities of Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Tyrone, Brooks, and Woolsey may not be THE perfect solution to cover the costs of repairing and maintaining our aging countywide road systems, but what are the alternatives?

We simply cannot ignore the problem and hope it will go away. We have to maintain our roads and aging infrastructure. Read More»

Dienhart: As mayor, will lower taxes, prevent Hwy. 54 light

[Editor’s note: The following is Peachtree City Councilman George Dienhart’s announcement of his campaign for mayor, scheduled to be delivered to the Fayette County Issues Tea Party Tuesday night.]

Hi, and thanks for having me here tonight. First off, I’d like to thank Harold Bost and Bob Ross for this chance to address everyone. I know we have a full slate tonight, and I’ll try to keep this brief.

Tonight, I’d like to talk to you a bit about Peachtree City. I know many of you are saying to yourself that you don’t live in Peachtree City. That doesn’t matter. Let me tell you why. Read More»

Bloom announces candidacy for Post 4

I moved to Peachtree City from Portland, Ore., in February 2009 and this has got to be one of the best communities I have lived in. However, there are several things the city has got to address. Two big ones are aesthetics and traffic around the intersection of Ga. highways 54 and 74.

Since we bought our house in 2009, I have seen our city’s aesthetics deteriorate. If you ask people who have lived here 10 years or more, they all say things are looking much worse than before. Read More»

Haddix: SPLOST is double taxation

Fayette County has been trying to resolve how to pay for their stormwater needs. When it was confined to a county issue, Peachtree City stayed out of it. But now that the county is thinking about a SPLOST, we have been pulled in.

A county-wide SPLOST to pay for their stormwater is an attempt to circumvent using a county-only utility fee, which Peachtree City property owners do not pay. It is double taxation no matter how you try to explain it. Read More»

Sales tax has no link to stormwater issue

A general officer once criticized a briefing I gave him by saying, “Major Lentz, you’ve been drinking your own bath water.”

In that picturesque tradition, I suggest that the Fayette County Commissioners have been drinking their own stormwater.

The proposal for a stormwater special purpose local option sales tax (S-SPLOST) is about the most incomprehensible and wrong thing to have come out of that body in a long time. Read More»

Brown: ‘Morally right and good economics’

At the first meeting of your new 2013 Fayette County Board of Commissioners, we passed a resolution entitled, “Resolution of the Fayette County Commissioners pledge to citizens and the county staff on core values and beliefs.”

The resolution acknowledges we were placed in office by the citizens and that the board is responsible and accountable to those same citizens.

The resolution also pledged transparency, openness, fiscal responsibility, as well as professional and courteous behavior with staff and constituents. Read More»

3 teens do right thing and return lost wallet

While out driving around Peachtree City [April 7] on my golf cart, my purse fell off without my knowing it. It contained my wallet with credit cards and my cell phone.

After I returned home and realized that I had lost my purse, I started to retrace my steps.

As I was pulling out of my driveway, three teenagers on a golf cart stopped.

They had found my purse, checked my ID inside my wallet, and drove out of their way to return it to me.

I failed to get their names, but I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for their honesty and integrity. Read More»

Brown: We should not trust gov’t.

Conflict avoidance is something we should not be teaching our children. Trusting government is also something we should warn our children not to do.

We are at a point where we are forced to engage the public conscience to argue for what we believe in lest we lose it all.

By conflict I do not mean physical struggles or war. Rather, I am referring to ideological argument and public deliberation over how to preserve our liberty and independence as individuals and as a community. Read More»

‘Stop to save 3¢ on Kroger gas cost me $900, or $81 a gallon’

This happened to me recently but it could’ve just as easily happened to you or someone you know. I’m out approximately $900 for 11 gallons of gas (or $81 a gallon) purchased at Kroger.

On Friday afternoon I filled my car up at the Kroger gas station at Crosstown. Within minutes my car ran extremely rough despite no prior issues. My car had 29,000 miles on it, was in excellent condition, garaged and till then never had a problem. Read More»