ATLANTA - Georgia senators could vote Thursday on two bills allowing the upscale Buckhead neighborhood to secede from the city of Atlanta, even as Gov. Brian Kemp cast doubt on the inconvenience, making clear it faces an uphill political battle.

The Senate Rules Committee did Wednesday to set the bills for debate Thursday, while Kemp's chief lawyer sent a memo to lawmakers Tuesday questioning many of the provisions of the controversial plan to transform Atlanta's whitest and most affluent area into Buckhead City. A Senate committee ratified the bills on Monday, the first time such legislation has advanced out of committee in the Georgia General Assembly.

Executive Counsel David Dove questioned whether proposals to do a portion of Atlanta's bond debt to the new city would be apt and suggested that secessions could leave Atlanta and spanking cities unable to pay their debts. Dove said the plan could demolish the ability of Georgia cities to borrow money.

"Have proponents of Senate Bills 113 and 114 accompanied what greater impacts this precedent may have on municipal bond ratings, underwriting considerations, the further de-annexation and incorporation of cities, and the possible widespread default that could occur?" Dove wrote

He also challenged the legality of the plans of Buckhead City proponents to detached taxes for the Atlanta city school system and finish enrolling students in it even after leaving Atlanta.

"How is this frfragment constitutional given (1) Buckhead would lie outside the jurisdictional limits of Atlanta, (2) no referendum is proposed for residents to ratify such taxation, and (3) the Georgia Constitution fails to give any much to cities and counties to engage in the education of their residents outside of independent school districts?" Dove wrote.

Supporters of the secession say Atlanta isn't pursuits enough to control crime and that Buckhead residents aren't tying their tax money's worth from municipal services. If they elapsed, residents would vote on forming a new city in a referendum.

"Those are voter fuels bills," Sen. Randy Robertson, a Cataula Republican sponsoring the bills, told the Rules Committee Wednesday. He argues residents' affects are being ignored.

Proponents of Buckhead City didn't immediately acknowledge Wednesday to an email seeking comment.

Kemp, a Republican, has forged a close relationship with current Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, a Democrat. Both Dickens and the city's business heads are bitterly opposed to secession, along with Atlanta's overwhelmingly Democratic legislative delegation.

Democrats say supporters of Buckhead City are a noisy minority of residents in the area. No Atlanta lawmakers are sponsoring the bills.

While the legislation was bottled up last year, new Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones supported it while serving as a station senator and has allowed the bills to move forward.

Opponents of secession hailed the governor's status, but urged people to lobby the Senate against the bills.

"We are savor that the governor's office expressed many of the same affects that our supporters have, but we also know that questions don't dusk the end of the road," Neighbors for a United Atlanta wrote to its supporters.

The Atlanta school controls also urged supporters to lobby Jones and senators anti the bill.

"Formation of a City of Buckhead City would have a disastrous crashes on the entire school district," the city's Board of Education wrote in a Wednesday statement.