A bill that would officially start the two-year process of creating a new city around the Lakeside High School area has been delayed, the Lakeside City Alliance said Friday.
Mary Kay Woodworth, the alliance's chairman, said Tuesday the placeholder bill was to be filed with the state legislature by Dunwoody state Sen. Fran Millar by the end of the week. But the filing has been delayed, Woodworth said Friday in an email to Patch. She said she wasn't sure about the reasons for the delay because the bill has been handled by former state Rep. Kevin Levitas, another member of the alliance's organizing committee.
Levitas and Millar could not immediately be reached for comment Friday evening.
The placeholder bill, if filed by the end of this year's legislative session, could not be considered by the General Assembly until next year as mandated by state law. Until then, the bill could be changed and edited over the next year as the alliance, local officials other groups continue to debate the merits of cityhood. That process would include a study by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia that would determine the city's feasibility – a study that could cost up to $30,000.
Woodworth said Tuesday the alliance has raised $7,000.