Wheeler High School will be the venue for a Nov. 11 town hall meeting held by the Committee for Cityhood in East Cobb.
Group spokesman Rob Eble told East Cobb News the event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the B.B. Williams Auditorium at Wheeler (375 Holt Road).
It’s the second town hall the pro-cityhood organization has conducted, following a similar event at Walton High School (above) in May.
Cityhood leaders also spoke at Cobb commissioner Bob Ott’s town hall meeting in March, and at a Powers Ferry Corridor Alliance meeting in May.
The day after the Wheeler town hall, the East Cobb Business Association is having a forum with representatives of groups supporting and opposing cityhood.
The Wheeler town hall comes a couple of months after an independent financial review of the East Cobb cityhood feasibility study concluded such a city is financially viable without raising property taxes above current levels.
A group that opposes cityhood, the East Cobb Alliance, says a new city would add an extra layer of government and disputes the financial analysis of the feasibility study.
State Rep. Matt Dollar of East Cobb has sponsored a cityhood bill that, if passed next year, would call for a cityhood referendum later in 2020.
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We will see how open these pro city crowd is. So far the one meeting they had was about 25 minutes at the end of Otts dog and pony show where they claimed they were out of time. This time we want answers to what the new boundaries they are considering is going to be. And what about the no mans land between Marietta and this new city along piedmont. We also want to know why a member of the new financial committee quit suggesting it was a fraud. And how about committee member David Womack who supports the apartment high rise in East Cobb. And why do we even need a new city? Lots of questions and we are looking for answers this time. No excuses like running out of time are acceptable.