Much like last week, I found another article this week concerning the crazy politics right here in Johns Creek. As residents of Johns Creek, many of us remember how only five short years ago we became a city. Most of the people our age, sixteen or seventeen, were too young to really remember why we became a city though. At the time, our whole "corner of metro Atlanta" was throwing a fit of sorts to make Fulton County give us the fair treatment that many residents did not feel they were recieving. Johns Creek, Milton, and Sandy Springs all became their own cities in order to get Futon County to be more fair which did not happen.
The three cities have even threatened to seperate from Fulton County, taking Alphreatta, Roswell, and MountainPark as well, and becoming their own "Milton County". This is not a new idea ,but it does seem that over the years, the cities tempers have come to a slow boil. The northern cities in Fulton are being charged double what cities in the south are being taxed and the money is being souly spent on the southside of the county. Much of the money collected in areas such as Johns Creek is going towards "poll worker training, printing and office supplies" and the roads systems as well. The real problem is that the two areas of the county are very different. The north end is mostly white, suburban, and republican while the southside is the exact opposite. It is mostly democratic and most people our age who live in our area refer to it as "sketchy". Politivians in the south who need the funds coming from Northern Fulton say that pulling off into our county would be like "smacks of racism" but politicians here say thats simply not true. After the creation of north Fulton's three newest cities, our relations with Fulton County have only become worse. While many county officials want nothing more than to be a untited county, it seems unrealistic and unfair to many of the people in our area who feel robbed and cheated out of what is theirs.
AJC Article: No love lost between Fulton cities
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/no-love-lost-between-fulton-cities/nQcwf/
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