Cobb County amends agreements with newly incorporated Mapleton; stormwater responsibility kept with Mapleton properties

Cobb County’s Board of Commissioners on June 2 amended previously approved intergovernmental agreements with the newly incorporated City of Mapleton to adopt a revised service delivery strategy effective June 1 and to keep stormwater facility responsibility on properties within Mapleton.

Bill, County Attorney, told the commission that "the City Of Mapleton is now a full fledged city as of June 1, yesterday," and that the county needed to "revisit our service delivery strategy" with the seven cities required to participate under the statutory service-delivery process referenced in the meeting. He said the purpose of the special-called meeting and a prior executive session was to harmonize language after Mapleton returned changed documents that the county had presented earlier in the week.

The nut graph: The board moved to align county documents with Mapleton’s changes so the county’s amended service delivery strategy complies with the statutory process. The…