Mobile City Council members on Monday lobbed pointed questions at consultants hired to review the administration’s annexation numbers, but doubt remain over expanding the city borders west.
. about a week later. The most ambitious would bring in 25,806 people living west of Cody Road, north of Zeigler Boulevard and north of Bear Fork Road. That would boost the overall population beyond the 200,000 mark – a key, Stimpson has argued, to getting federal grants targeted for bigger cities.
“When you take the worst-case scenario – so revenues not being as much as you thought they would be; expenditures being higher than you thought they would be – city of Mobile comes out ahead by, on average, $10 million a year over the first 10 years after annexation,” he told FOX10 News. Carroll expressed disappointment that PFM got its tax revenue data from the city’s Finance Department.Stimpson said the city is the only entity that has those figures.Carroll long has expressed worry that black voting power could be diluted by annexation, and he told FOX10 News after the presentation said his concerns extend beyond the fiscal impact.Carroll said the council is not likely to move on annexation before getting more citizen input.
Simons suggested the city address the root causes of population decline before expanding its territory.
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