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Eric Imker
9 hrs ·
To all my Friends - A favor please.
Since many of us are at home and using Facebook, please take a minute and write to your own timeline asking your friends that live in Peachtree City, GA (or neighboring cities) to "Friend" me,
Eric Imker .
This in light of my decision to run for Mayor next year.
I'm mostly interested in Peachtree City, Georgia residents of course however those in other nearby cities may have friends or relatives that live in PTC. (Always thinking!)
No time like the present to get to work building a following for the election.
Why would they be interested in my candidacy you ask?
Imker Positions ...
- Will NEVER support TDK extension to Coweta County
//My plan as Mayor is what blocks TDK from being built without consent of Peachtree City, Fayette County, Coweta County, the property owner and the state of Georgia.
- Return to responsible financial management
- Add headcount to Police and Fire/EMS departments
//He opposed as a councilman.
- Pay competitive wages for all our city employees (Compare to ~10 mile radius from PTC; not to high priced Atlanta area cities)
//Using his approach he opposed every past increase while we lost good employees to higher-paying places.
- Rein in the Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) part of our water bill
WASA is not a city department. It is an authority whose charter should be rewritten and should be placed back under a nongovernment control per state law.
- Return to once a year Stormwater billings
//Imker voted to split the bill into two annual payments as a Councilmember.
- Work with GDOT, Fayette and Newnan Counties for traffic solutions.
//GDOT Follows ARC planning and policy. Fayette and Coweta County have nothing to do with city roads. Coweta has never worked for the benefit of anything in Fayette County.
- Work with GDOT to stop the no-value added $9M expenditure on the intersection of GA54/74 and retarget that money to better improve GA54 East & West bound
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- Work with GDOT to remove specified traffic lights West of the infamous GA54/74 intersection to better improve GA54 East & West bound
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- Initiate dialog with county for future Lake Peachtree maintenance
//Under what reasoning with they be interested?
- Support renewing SPLOST in order to lower our property tax
(same amount taxed gains $3 for every $1 using SPLOST)
//SPLOST Cannot be used for normal city expenses.
- Stop rezoning Industrial to Residential
//We need DAPAC back, which he pushed to have dissolved.
People ask about who is doing economic development efforts for the county. The FCDA. But when you look at who they post prominently,What role did they play in getting them here? Since it is a county authority where has the commission been? As Mayor I worked with Calpas, SANY and others who...
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- Return Public Gardens back to former location
//Which costs money.
- Enforce planned larger acreage for home developments further from city center
- Consider annexations to our East (i.e. Ebenezer Road) only if it makes sense
- No to City mandated garbage pickup. Yes to individual neighborhoods unifying on one provider they choose with city assistance as required.
//First proposed when I was a councilman and I opposed it.
- Improve McDuff Parkway by having only needed stop signs and eliminating specific speed bumps
//Cannot be done without GDOT permission. We discussed it back in 2008 on Council. GDOT stayed firm.
- Fix service road parallel to GA54 coming out of Walmart. Remove several unnecessary speed bumps.
//Safety issue.
- Fix the bridge to Spyglass (Snake) Island
