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Residents press board on proposed stormwater fee and proposed trash-service code changes
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment Oct. 28 to oppose a proposed stormwater fee (commonly called the "rain tax" by speakers) and to criticize proposed trash-service code changes that would mandate certain collection practices. Speakers described affordability concerns, accountability questions and broader distrust of incremental changes.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the Oct. 28 Cobb County Board of Commissioners meeting to oppose a proposed stormwater fee and to criticize proposed changes to trash-service regulations.
Speakers described the proposed stormwater fee as a recurring charge that would shift maintenance costs to residents, sometimes calling it a "rain tax." Hill Wright told the board the stormwater function was moved out of the general fund in 1985 and said, "We don't want Chair Cupid's…
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