The Sound Guy

Looks like Post 4 is a toss up. I myself have no clue yet which way I'm going to go. Looked at the web sites for all, but they are pretty vague. Keep having conflicts with the meet and greets, hopefully I'll be able to make one. This election is too important to guess.

Have a wedding to go to in Brunswick, Ga, so we're spending the week before on Jekyll Island.

There is a reason they say "Call before you dig" I saw a gas main cut many years ago in Norcross. We were across the street and danged lucky the backhoe operator recognized what he had done and killed the engine before it exploded.

I hope all recover OK. HGCR is dangerous in so many ways. I especially get concerned when the bicycle groups are on it, there are few places you can safely pass even slow moving groups/people on that road. The curves invite people to cross the yellow line, especially if going faster than the speed limit. I shudder to think about next fall when NPHS has it's first Senior Class and many of them start driving HGCR every day.

You know what gets *my* goat? Those people who actually try to STOP at a 4-way stop!! Dang, people, don't you know those are YIELD signs in disguise? California Roll, baby, California Roll..

Had a co-worker get rear ended while traveling for work. No damage to the rental, but it messed up the other guys car. My buddy wanted to call the police since it was a rental, but the other guy started freaking out and said it was no problem, only damage to his, and then left. Since it was a rental, my buddy called and filed a report anyway. Don't think he remembered to get a tag number, but he described the car. About a month later, he gets a call from the police department that a hit and run had been reported involving his rental car during his rental period, that he had backed into

Could not have asked for better weather. Congrats to all the graduates!

I know 'I' really appreciate it!! I'm going to try to find them a like minded person for Post 4!

We will be there as well, our son is graduating!! We're praying for no lightning, we're blessed enough to have all four grandparents still alive, we want them to be able to see it. If the move it indoors they won't be able to.

Ah, thank you. Interesting. I wonder if they gave the county a discount for naming rights.

My dad had an infestation one year like that. Turned out they were breeding in the area under the front porch. If it's a wood porch, zap the area under it well.

It may, esp for all of the school bonds, but that's beyond the control of the Board and as long as it's revenue neutral, not really a tax increase. Now if the School system has sold the second half of the already approved $125 million in bonds, that *WILL* be an increase and a sizable one. The county bonds went up from 0.5 mil in 2008 to 1.6 mil in 2009, I think that was the Courthouse bonds and the Greenspace/wildlife bonds. The only parts of the bill that can be controlled are: State Tax - Obviously the state controls this and I doubt it will ever go down. Fire Tax - Not sure who

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Depends on the company. My company has "Spot" awards that any employee can nominate another that they felt went beyond the norm for a particular project. Sales compensation could also be thought of this way. You see "Salesman of the year" and Store "Top seller" awards all over. If you are the best in many jobs you get recognized.

I just looked at my 2009 Tax Bill (Due Nov, 2009) and it used the new value that I got in June. If it's not changed this year, it will be used again for the 2010 taxes.

Agreed. However, would you agree that the term "marriage" as used by the state is nothing more than a civil union contract between two people? Whether it's called "marriage" or a "civil union" makes no difference?

Marriage existed as a religious covenant before God long before the government decided to give it a legal status. The fact that our government adopted a religious term to legally represent a civil contract under the law is the source of most of our problem. Had the government had kept legal civil unions separate from the religious marriage, we'd have no issues.

That's right. I forgot he did have a small rate increase in that budget. Still he cut the total budget by quite a bit as I recall, no small feat. You are correct on the latter statement also. Anyone not getting a decrease in their assessment will not see a decrease in taxes. However, someone must be getting assessment decreases or there would not be a digest drop. I also have had my total property taxes increase in years past where there was a rate decrease because my value was raised more than the rate decrease. Individuals may have increases or decreases, but on a county wide le

All I want to know is where on the Marriage License is the *expiration date*? I've looked and looked and can't find it!!! In all seriousness: This brings up an interesting question. If you want the government to register and recognize your marriage for legal purposes, then yes, you need a 'license' to register that marriage with the state. However, for those who believe that Marriage is a religious covenant, could you not be married before God without having the state recognize it? Is it legal for a minister to perform a marriage ceremony without the license from the

I'm sure you are aware that property tax calculations use two factors, the tax base and the millage rate. David states in the summary: If the sum total of the property values within the county goes down, but the millage rate stays the same, then the total taxes paid by the owners of the county goes down, thus, a tax reduction. My house was devalued last year and since the millage was the same, my county taxes went down. (The increase in STATE taxes through the removal of the state property tax credit pretty much canceled out the reduction, but that's another subject.) It's

I agree 100% with you there. I remember reading in the BOE minutes about them approving another couple of hundred thousand $$$ to TFG on South Paulding High when the contract they signed was a "Absolute Maximum Cost" or something like that. Even a BOE member was complaining of why they were paying more with a signed contract. But they did it anyway. Lack of competitive bidding always worries me. Of course, even *with* a bidding process, the bid can be rigged big time, my old company did bids all the the time where the specs were written where only one company's equipment would meet

Well, Dang. Not much to complain about is there? Mr. Austin is acting like a real conservative. I couldn't have blamed him for raising the millage rate this year enough to at least keep the budget revenue neutral. It really wouldn't have been a tax increase since we wouldn't be paying any more in $$$ than we are now. Instead, he gives us another property tax cut. Yikes! Am I dreaming? I can only hope that he will continue in this way as long as possible, and that the voters that are electing new commissioners will give him someone he can work with. WTG D

Dad told me that Kennesaw was getting plastered about 4:00.

I would add that they ran out of money without building a SINGLE school classroom that had been promised in the campaign during the original SPLOST vote. While a new BOE building was needed (the old one was a dump), my complaint was that they seemed to have put a high priority on the BOE building and the showplace completion gyms and theaters ("like Cobb County has") rather than on the new schools and classrooms they promised during the SPLOST campaign. The classrooms would have been qualified for matching funds from the state, which then could have been used for the gyms and theaters.

Oh, HECK no!!