Video: Withdrawing from Jefferson Co.?

Some Jefferson County residents say they’ve had enough financial crises and management fiascos.

Now they now want to make their own county.

Some people who live in Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook and Hoover want to break away from Jefferson County and instead form Cahaba County.

“People have gotten the fact that Jefferson County is very dysfunctional in the way we’ve been managed and the way we’re being managed - that is not a big secret,“ says Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Carns.

It’s not an easy process.

The new county would need to be 600 square miles with a population of at least 43,000.

More importantly,  the Alabama Legislature would have to approve the idea.

Plus Jefferson County would likely fight letting any of those areas withdraw - let alone all of them.

“Any one of them - especially Hoover - would be devastating. That’s one of our biggest tax bases. Jefferson County can’t allow that to happen,“ says Commissioner Bobby Humphryes.
Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos recently floated the idea of a Cahaba County at a luncheon.