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DEL.ICIO.USAu contraire, Mr. Mayor, Dacula is not neglected
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
County Commissioner Mike Beaudreau took umbrage at a resolution by the Dacula City Council and Dacula Mayor Jimmy Wilbanks that complains the commission had neglected the city in funding road improvements.
In the March 1 resolution, Wilbanks and the council called on the county commissioners to “commence immediately to provide for the creation of adequate traffic infrastructure with their areas of authority.”
That’s a rather polite and wordy way of saying, “Repave! Build roads! Improve traffic … dangit!”
Last week, Beaudreau fired back, politely, at Wilbanks and the City Council with a letter refuting their claim that the Dacula area is getting shortchanged in transportation funding.
Beaudreau cited more than $10 million in county funding for road improvements directly affecting Dacula, and an additional $12 million for current and upcoming projects.
“This does not take into account the hundreds of millions of dollars from local and federal funds on the Sugarloaf Parkway extension,” Beaudreau wrote. “All together, Gwinnett has committed $39,789,131 to Dacula and the immediately surrounding area. I trust that you will agree the information shows the county’s substantial investment in this area.”
It’s worth noting that Beaudreau and Wilbanks haven’t been the best of buds of late. Beaudreau is furious at Wilbanks and the council for what he believes is their indiscriminate use of annexation to grow the city’s tax base.
Wilbanks, in turn, is mad at Beaudreau for his campaign to get the state Legislature to clamp down on annexations by cities.
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