Tallapoosa accepted defeated LOST funds proposal

According to Tallapoosa Mayor Brett Jones, the meeting’s purpose was to discuss LOST distributions because the city is in the middle of the last negotiations between the other cities in Haralson County.

According to Jones, the city of Bremen holds the most population which means by law they can negotiate on behalf of the city of Tallapoosa for what percentage of the LOST funds are distributed.

“We’ve all turned in, in the past few meetings, what we would like and they’ve all been turned down. The city of Bremen is pretty much pushing what they’re calling option A where they’ll get 29.96%, Buchanan gets 3.95%, Tallapoosa will end up with 3.57%, Waco 2.25%, Temple we’ll get .27%,” Jones said.

The city has to give their decision to the county by August 5 or they will go into non-binding litigation.

“Which will cause all the cities in the county money from attorneys to sit there and give us opinion at the end but it’s still non-binding,” Jones said.

The Tallapoosa City Council unanimously agreed to go with option A, but it was not accepted in the Thursday morning negotiation discussion with all municipalities present meaning the county and all its municipalities are still in LOST fund distribution negotiation.

Haralson County Commissioners met Thursday morning with other municipalities where Plan A was rejected.