The city of Atlanta's legislative agenda for the current session of the state legislature includes a variety of measures to raise money, including allowing local governments to increase the E-911 fee and allowing municipal courts to add a 10 percent surcharge to any criminal or traffic fine. That money would be used to fund court programs.
Atlanta also would like the freedom to invest pension funds in "alternative financial instruments" and to increase the wholesale alcohol tax.
It also wants state law amended to address the limitations on law enforcement regarding secondary metals recycling. It also wants local governments to be allowed to "remedy blight" and then transfer the property to a private entity, according to a document approved by the Atlanta City Council this month.
The city also wants to exempt citizen review boards from the requirement to release documents under open records requests until all entities have finished their respective investigations.
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