After another daylong mediation, the city of Dalton, Georgia, Whitfield County and three other municipalities still do not have an agreement to announce on the county’s service delivery strategy.
Bruce Frazier, communications director with the city of Dalton, said the group got out of mediation just before 6:45 p.m. Tuesday without an agreement.
Elected officials in Whitfield County met Tuesday to discuss the shared services in the county after more than a year of disagreements among government entities.
Representatives of the city of Dalton, the Whitfield County Commission and the other municipalities met in a closed-door meeting for eight hours with Senior Judge Adele Grubbs of Cobb County to negotiate the service delivery strategy.
The strategy is a state-mandated agreement that lays out how local governments pay for shared services such as public health, sewer, fire, public housing, law enforcement, road work and dozens more.