Better Savannah Episode 40: Kesha Gibson-Carter Impacts Change

<p>Support Better Savannah at www.bettersavannah.org</p><p>Follow Better Savannah on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BetterSavannahForAll</p><p>In this episode we sit down with Alderwoman At-Large Kesha Gibson-Carter from Savannah City Council. </p><p>While the first 18 months of the term have been dominated by COVID 19 and council divisions, Alderwoman Kesha Gibson Carter continues to push for and achieve needed changes for Savannah. <br>Kesha Gibson-Carter promised in her campaign to bring Impact Fees on new construction to the floor. She has worked hard to bring this into council’s discussions despite being told by the former interim manager that there’s very little new construction going on. This was an outright lie by Pat Monahan.</p><p>The truth is that the city permits for new construction on average are over $550,000,000 a year. The truth is that over 70 cities and counties have adopted Impact Fee ordinances - so that current residents don’t have to pay for the costs of growth.</p><p>Last week during the City of Savannah's workshop meeting on May 27th, the City Council and staff finally had a substantive though preliminary discussion about impact fees. It's clear that the continued advocacy of the At-Large Alderwoman is directly responsible for this discussion and goal of an adopted plan by year's end. </p><p>In the last segment of the interview, John, Chuck and Alderwoman Gibson-Carter discuss the Weeping Time after ATR's special event with Dr. Anne Bailey last evening, Chuck invokes Kanye West circa 2005, and Kesha and Chuck describe how her path to service is the epitome of Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas book) </p><p>Please Share</p><p>Source videos from @City of Savannah FB Page : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqblFNM1NWb3ROMGVWSklWZGpidGhpTzZhQmFJQXxBQ3Jtc0ttR2YwSEdvU3B0Q3Q2aUVHUlJJWkp4TEFsVVprLW1KR3hKYTVpdzE5QUROczQweExKekRybFVmS2VvVGluLXU5ODJZdkMyWkIwMUx0aFNGNFh3Z0VrQlp6OW1DTDh6Q2V0WWFrZldOZEUwY1NJeEF6QQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2