SPLOST V A Clear Attack on the Poor and Working Class

While listening to those of the elite class speak about the need for a SPLOST continuation, it has come to many that this program of continued taxation for those who have an agenda are clearly working to put the poor and working-class people out of the county.  They are already working behind the scenes with a blight ordinance to get rid of people who live in what they deem as a blighted area.  Many poor and hard-working people live in homes that are considered beneath the upper crust of people.  Many old residents live in them on social security and barely get by and cannot afford to fix those homes that were their dream in their prime of life.  Those in the elite class do not care and would rather see those residents put away in a home for the elderly away from them.   They want to see those homes bulldozed and making a way for new businesses, apartments, and one half million dollar homes.   They want more tax money because these elderly, retired and disabled citizens don’t pay as much property tax money as those in the business and elitist homes pay.  That is why most of those you see in the public promoting SPLOST V are from this group of elite Henry 
Countians.  Vote NO to SPLOST V  to send a message to that elite class that those elderly and disabled people deserve a home of their own just like them.


The Staff

Stockbridge Still Dysfunctional

Stockbridge Still Dysfunctional

This past Saturday, May 12, 2018,  Stockbridge yet again demonstrated just how dysfunctional and bias they truly are in the large scheme of things. They held a cemetery clean-up day at Memorial Cemetery. They have done this for the past few years at the same cemetery. Yet there are 13 cemeteries in the City limits and four just outside that could be included. But Stockbridge has consistently left all of them out of the picture and just keep up Memorial Cemetery. All of those buried there are black and were good citizens of the city. But the 13 other cemeteries are a mix of black and white. They all also were good citizens of the city. I have said this before to the city that companies look at how you take care of the cemeteries before they decide to locate to your city or town. Stockbridge has had a lot of bad press over the years and some are calling for the charter to be pulled. 

The bad press got going good just a few years ago when a person was elected to the Council that claims  Atlanta South on everything he speaks like a two dollar whore having a 2 for 1 special. He has cost the city money with lawsuits on top of lawsuits. Just recently he admitted to being the one that lead the charge that would not even let me ask to speak to the Council about Confederate History Month. Yes, he violated my First Amendment right to free speech that he himself claims. I am not the only one he has wronged. He has done more to the point he is in court because of his inept actions as a human. A friend asked me one time what I thought about Mr. Atlanta South. I looked at them and said he would make a great poster child for the use of condoms. But all's not lost with the upcoming vote about the Eagles Landing becoming a City. If the voters pass it he would be out of a job on the Council because he would be in the new City. And I don’t think the new City would elect him to the Council they have seen how he has drug down Stockbridge. I laugh about that all the time how’s that for karma Mr. Atlanta South LOL!!!

I hope the City of Stockbridge will be better but only time will tell. Here is a list of the cemeteries in the City and the others that are so close. Let’s let the City know we are watching them by contacting them and asking why they are not cleaning up the other cemeteries. If they still don’t do what’s right well I guess karma will take over like it did for Atlanta South LOL. 

List of Stockbridge City Cemeteries

1. City of Stockbridge Cemetery on North Henry Blvd.

2. Burke's Cemetery  on North Henry Blvd.

3. Old Floyd Chapel Church Cemetery  on East Atlanta Rd back of mosque

4. Old Trinity Methodist Cemetery on East Atlanta Rd. back of mosque

5. Berry-Grant-Jackson on North Henry Blvd.

6. Carroll Slave Cemetery on Rock Quarry Rd.

7. Morris-Tuggle Cemetery on Hwy 42 S at Parkland Drive.

8. Claude Wood-Dale Palmer Cemetery on Eagles Landing Pkwy.

9. Red Oak UMC Cemetery on Walt Stephens Rd.

10. David James Cemetery on Hwy 138 at Hanover Pkwy.

11. Glass- Morris-Hightower Cemetery on Hwy 42 S at Brannan Rd.

12. Memorial Cemetery on Memorial Park Rd old cemetery street.

13. James Austin Cemetery on East Atlanta Rd. back of mosque

*Concord Cemetery in Old Stockbridge on Stagecoach Rd just outside of city limits today.

*Branan-Skelton Cemetery at corner of Old Stage Coach and Valley Hill Rd just across the street from the City Limits.

*Mt. Olive Church Cemetery on Mt. Olive Rd next to Jodeco Mall Property

*Flippen UMC Cemetery on Jodeco Rd just across from city limits.

Alfred Britt

Blog Owner.

Stockbridge VS City Of Eagles Landing

As we begin to write the following information we want to let everyone know that we are neither for or against Stockbridge or the idea of a new city of Eagles Landing.  This is an informative post.  For some time now there has been a lot of back and forth about the idea of a new city of Eagles Landing being created and Stockbridge is fighting it's creation saying they will be taking part of their city to do so.  Let's go back in history and talk a few facts:

1. The idea of a city being where Eagles Landing is today is nothing new.  It was proposed back in the late 1960's as a city to be called Henry City.  

2.  Later a developer came and created the community of Eagles Landing which was far removed from the City of Stockbridge.  The city limits at the time only went to the rock quarry.

3.  The former mayor the late Rudy Kelley lived in Stockbridge.  They wanted a home in the Windsong Plantation which they got, but in order for him to remain mayor, they had to annex part of that subdivision along with a strip of land down Rock Quarry Rd to it.  Then, they decided to move into the gated part of Eagles Landing and again had a certain area annexed so he could remain mayor.  It was all politics.

4.  It has been mentioned that the people of Stockbridge have never paid property taxes for the city.  That is not true.  The people the city paid city taxes until the State dismantled their police department and the fire department was turned over to the county.  They stopped city property taxes at that time.

5.  The city began talking about having a police department once again, but the only way to have said department will mean they will have to have a property tax to maintain it.  That is a logistical fact.

6.  Stockbridge over the years has allowed developers to come to them to have subdivisions built around the area and thus they would do creative annexations to let them in the city under less than adequate means of construction and smaller lots.  The recent annexation of the property on the west side of I-75 and south of Jodeco Road has been a questionable annexation.

7.  According to the bills before the General Assembly, if there is a City of Eagles Landing formed they will allow Stockbridge to annex other properties and add more people to their city.  There has been made mention that if they form a city of Eagles Landing that it would take over 50% of Stockbridge away and this is simply not true.

8.  The people in the Eagles Landing area are the more affluent and well to do citizens who have the means to take care of themselves.  Similar scenario of the small towns created north of Atlanta by the more affluent which has worked well since their creation.

9.  It has been said that Stockbridge cannot stand on it's own without Eagles Landing, but that shouldn't be the case.  They should not depend on one community to sustain their city.  Stockbridge was a city for a very long time before Eagles Landing was ever built.  They can do just fine if they do the right things in the city.

10.  According to the statistics,  if there is a new city of Eagles Landing created it will be populated with mostly minorities just like the city of Stockbridge.  So, the issue of race should be a moot point.  But of course like everything else this day and time it has raced it's ugly head in this matter as well.

11. Henry County continues to grow and is becoming a hot bed for many different things and another city being added will not make much difference.  There are infrastructure issues that Stockbridge and Henry County need to face and do something about now.  The problem is that when most of the infrastructure projects are due to be built or completed they are obsolete.  Henry County has been a county growing so rapidly, yet are playing catch-up on all the infrastructure issues.  And currently they are failing.  And putting buses on two lane roads are not going to help matters.

12. If they do create a city of Eagles Landing, hopefully the two cities can learn to be friendly to one another.  They don't need to be bitter rivalries because we have already seen too much of that.

In conclusion, there have been a lot of mistakes made along the way in this process that need to be fixed.  There has been a lot bad press and a lot of misinformation flowing about the whole matter.  But when people want to be deannexed and move into another town that means they should have that right with a vote of those involved in that section.  And real politicians learn to compromise to do what is best for the citizens and not what they want for themselves.

The Staff 

Stockbridge Backtracking again

It looks like the City of Stockbridge is doing some backtracking because they see the chance that the Jodeco Project would be cut off from the city if Eagles Landing gets to be a city.  The area would have to be de-annexed from the city.  The Jodeco Project would not be part of the new city of Eagles Landing and would lie back in unincorporated Henry County. The revised deal with RCP Investments who is wanting to build the project is to cover Stockbridge from it's money invested in the project. The following is from the Henry Daily Herald.

"After a three-hour executive session Tuesday, the Stockbridge City Council approved an updated development agreement for the planned Jodeco Road residential and retail development dubbed Jodeco Atlanta South. Because the city is at risk of losing the development should the city of Eagle’s Landing proposal be approved, the revised agreement provides a provision in the case of de-annexation. An original agreement was approved in December 2016 after the city annexed the 158-acre property, located in the southwest quadrant of Jodeco Road and Interstate 75 at 2153 Jodeco Road, into the Stockbridge city limits. The Eagle’s Landing proposal seeks to include properties north of the Jodeco Road development up to the Eagle’s Landing Parkway/ Hudson Bridge Road area. The proposal, if approved, would leave the prospective development separated from remaining city of Stockbridge properties. In the agreement, the city has committed $3 million in SPLOST IV funds to install public roads to provide access to and within the development that are required by the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority. “The Parties acknowledge that should the property be de-annexed from the City or otherwise declared not part of the corporate city limits of the City, for whatever, the City shall be relieved from its commitment to install the public improvements and pledge the city’s financial participation for overall development,” states the updated agreement. The agreement also requires the developer to put a covenant in place stating that if the property is de-annexed for any reason within 20 years from the completion of the public improvements, the property owners shall cause the city to be reimbursed for the full amount of the city’s financial situation within 60 days of the city’s written demand of such reimbursement."

The Staff