Atlanta floats public safety surcharge on ballgame, concert tickets

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Metropolis Council is contemplating imposing a public security payment on each ticket to each ballgame, each concern, and each main ticketed occasion.

Backers of the measure says state approval may even deliver Braves video games at Truist Park in Cobb County below the plan.

Most individuals who need to attend large occasions within the metropolis already know the worth tag that’s connected. However these hefty ticket costs could possibly be fattened much more if town of Atlanta will get its approach.

However would attendees be keen to pay a surcharge on these tickets in the event that they knew it will assist fund public security, police departments, corrections, and hearth departments?

“This is able to be very vital for our firefighters. I’m simply doing a little background on our hearth vans. Twenty years in the past, it was round $14 million to interchange our fleet, in in the present day’s cash that’s $46 million,” Atlanta Fireplace Union president Nate Bailey instructed the Atlanta Metropolis Public Security and Authorized Administration Committee on Feb. 13.

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Bailey together with public security chair Dustin Hillis has prepped metropolis laws to reflect a statewide effort into account on the capitol.

The measure may pull in an additional $10 million a yr by some estimates.

Nate Bailey and Dustin Hillis

So, in Cobb County, native officers may get in on the motion with their very own baseball ticket public security invoice.

So, which venues could possibly be in and which of them can be exempted. The minimal seating capability is 9,500.

Bailey defined how it will work through the assembly:

Metropolis Council member Antonio Lewis: “So, if a neighborhood has an occasion at Lakewood Amphitheater, that neighborhood affiliation need to be part of this tax as effectively?

Bailey: “It will solely be for the tickets bought for the venue. So, if somebody buys a ticket for a live performance at Lakewood, if it’s a $100, they might now pay $103, and people $3 would go right into a fund.”

Every municipality would set its personal payment if every part goes via on the state degree.