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Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp<\/a> delivered a blow this week to the wealthy suburban Buckhead neighborhood\u2019s effort to secede from the city of Atlanta over violent crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The issue is tentatively scheduled for a vote before the state legislature Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Kemp\u2019s executive counsel David Dove outlined in a two-page memo with at least a dozen questions regarding Senate Bills 113 and 114, which passed in a Senate committee on Monday, marking the first time the secession legislation advanced out of committee in the Georgia General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Dole demanded the governor\u2019s Senate floor leaders, Bo Hatchett and Mike Hodges, evaluate the proposal, citing “constitutional and statutory challenges” which could “retailor the cloth of governance for Georgia\u2019s municipalities in ways that will ripple into a future of unforeseen outcomes.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

ATLANTA HOMELESS MAN INDICTED IN DEADLY STABBING OF GRANDMA IN BUCKHEAD SUBURB PUSHING TO SECEDE OVER CRIME\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supporters of the secession, including Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, say Atlanta is not doing enough to control crime and that Buckhead residents are not getting<\/a> their tax money\u2019s worth from municipal services. If they succeed, residents would vote on forming a new city in a referendum.<\/p>\n

Dove questioned whether proposals to assign a portion of Atlanta\u2019s bond debt to the new city would be legal and suggested that secessions could leave Atlanta and other cities unable to pay their debts. Dove said the plan could wreck the ability of Georgia cities to borrow money.<\/p>\n

He also challenged the legality of the plans of Buckhead City proponents to collect taxes for the Atlanta city school system<\/a> and continue enrolling students in it even after leaving Atlanta.<\/p>\n

“How is this action constitutional given (1) Buckhead would lie outside the jurisdictional limits of Atlanta, (2) no referendum is proposed for residents to ratify such taxation, and (3) the Georgia Constitution fails to give any power to cities and counties to engage in the education of their residents outside of independent school districts?” Dove wrote. “If students are not able to remain in the Atlanta Independent School System, are Fulton County schools able and equipped to manage the influx of students that would then be added to their rolls?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

GEORGIA OFFICIALS CONFRONTED WITH KEY QUESTIONS AS WEALTHY ATLANTA SUBURB PUSHES TO SECEDE\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

State Sen. Jason Esteves, a Democrat who represents parts of Atlanta, applauded the memo from Kemp\u2019s office, saying the legislation to allow the Atlanta suburb to break away represents “at best half-baked plans that would endanger the livelihoods of all Georgians, especially my Buckhead constituents.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, supporters of the breakaway say Buckhead residents have become targets for violent crime, and the proposal comes on the heels of the recent indictment of a homeless man with a long rap sheet for the murder of a Buckhead grandmother<\/a> killed in her garage by the suspect allegedly trying to steal her Lexus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I remain committed to fighting for a united Atlanta,” Esteves told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “and I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will take the Kemp administration\u2019s concerns to heart and put a stop to the dangerous \u2018Buckhead City\u2019 legislation.”<\/p>\n

Kemp has forged a close relationship with current Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, a Democrat. Both Dickens and the city\u2019s business leaders are bitterly opposed to secession, along with Atlanta\u2019s overwhelmingly Democratic legislative delegation.<\/a> Democrats say supporters of Buckhead City are a noisy minority of residents in the area. No Atlanta lawmakers are sponsoring the bills.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta school system also urged supporters to lobby Jones and senators against the bill.<\/p>\n

“Formation of a City of Buckhead City would have a disastrous impact on the entire school district,” the city\u2019s Board of Education wrote in a Wednesday statement.<\/p>\n

Buckhead City Committee reportedly says Atlanta Public Schools would still be required to serve Buckhead students if the suburb breaks away or be liable for $300 million a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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