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I had the pleasure knowing Rod. A true Gentleman and a scholar.
The accounting business he bought had done my books since the late 80s and Melissa worked their as well when Ian owned.
And I was in the Paulding County Rotary Club with Rod. We had some good times.
I knew he had been ill but I've been unable to get around much here lately.
Rest in peace Rod. You were well respected by all who had the pleasure of your ccompany.
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If the paying membership of years past was there, Pcom could pay. Reporter to post newsworthy items.
Even volunteers who would be willing to post an arrest sheet as per above.
Of course it would be great if our BoC would hand out press releases of general county news and even better with specifics of what's happening with the reservoir, airport , SPLOST spending, schools and events. But the again, tongue in cheek , that would require the POWERS THAT BE to actually want to share information with the citizens in an open and transparent manner. We all know at least with the lame duck group we have for 4+ more months. That ain't. Gonna happen.
As with them , its so much easier to just come on here and criticize.
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Fist one sounds like an interesting read if you can get more details.
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Can you provide any reason for even mentioning "the Gun Club"'min the title of your thread about indictments against Glock officials for improper gun sales in Kansas????
Weren't you the Sam Clark critic as well?
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and Boyd kept saying that the IBA needed more funding. I guess they will pushing mils on the taxpayers for the IBA. 2 more mils heading our way---- but, if you property values are going down, its not really an increase... lol, they think we are stupid.
Sure they do. Instead putting up spec industrial buildings on county land in the Commerce Park, they are paying out $4,000,000 to put the top cost of asphalt in the subdivisions abandoned by so many of the RBMDs.
And take note that some of those same RBMDs are building more homes in those same subdivisions under a different company name but the same players. And THE FIRM is closing the sales. These same RBMDs were campaign donors to Austin and other local politicos.
Manufacturing and warehousing business's will not move here until there is an inventory of available space move in ready.
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Inquiring minds who don't do much Facebook are wondering how the special meeting went.
Any news?
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Well this is a day late and dollar short for this week!
God forbid that I should have my grocery shoppers have to go to more than one place to buy our food.
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You would think the Airport would want to avoid any further questions about transparency and ensure a proper study would be done that would not call any results into question.
I understand "familiarity" but sometimes a new set of eyes can see things we've overlooked time and time again.
Residents ask FAA to remove contractor doing environmental assessment of Paulding airport
Tundra, we are on the same page again. We posted this almost at the exact same time.
Here is a link to my post, and it has a link to the actual letter from the Paulding Resident's legal team.
Would a moderator consider merging these 2 threads please ?
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All the more reason to show the good side of gun ownership.
With the demographics of p.com, the Gun Club Forum should be a no-brainer. We have a lot of avid shooters, hunters, and others, and I would think it would be a popular topic discussion to help promote their business.
We all like to see local businesses do well, thrive, and prosper and irregardless of individual politics, this would be a popular topic to follow.
Pubby owns P.com, but I think most of us who are daily posters/members also consider ourselves to be the owners and operators of the site. You do have to admit, like it or not, we have a lot of lee way in our posts and topics, many contrary to Pubby's views and opinions. It is still a great site for all to participate in, but it does have to make enough money to pay the server/computer time bills.
I for one would sorely miss this board if it were gone. And I will do what I can to promote it in the interim.
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I also used to have an automatic that would bite your thumb and make you bleed.
And a scope on a Sako .222 that would give you a black eye.
Nice to find out on a range, instead of in the field.
This being a kind of RED conservative county, with a sizeable gun toting population demographic, I would think a gun forum would be a natural.
I have tried to talk to the Gun Club Marketing Folks, but have not gotten much past 1st base.
I don't think they understand the way Paulding.com works, or the audience.
Their in-house marketing lady's name is Shakielya if there are any Club Members who see this and care to mention it to her.
I really think they would get a lot of benefit from a commercial membership on p.com, and to run some banner ads and put up gun related topics.
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We love it!! We went to shoot a couple of weeks ago and when I shot the gun the first time (first time on this day), somehow the slide on top of the gun, got me and I bled forever, it seemed like. We'll have to find me a hammerless revolver, so this don't happen again.
They always have something going on, some kind of classes, games or something and it's worth it to chek it out and see what ALL they have to offer.
The Club is doing fine, what maks you think otherwise?? just curious...................... there pretty bus every time we go by/go in there.
I was hoping to see positive responses and was just wondering if they were doing well. I have been hoping they would take an active role on Paulding.com and come here to post about their various activities and such.
We miss going out to shoot as we have done in the front yard for years and years, but its just too risky now with all the neighbors even if we are more than 300 feet from the road.
For any p.comers who are members of the Governor's Gun Club, please invite them to check into a commercial membership and start a firearm forum so to speak. Tips on cleaning, reloading, etc. would be great.
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Just wondering how the Governor's Gun Club firing range is fairing.
We used to just shoot of the front porch. Pistols, rifles, etc.
Skeet shooting as well.
Now with all my nieghbors it is a challenge, although I am technically far enough away to not be breaking any laws, but its not near as much fun when you have to be so cautious as to where your "end of travel" area is.
Are many p.comers members ?
How is it price wise ?
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I heard they would only pave the streets that actually had houses on them. Under normal circumstances, when a subdivision has been completed, the roads become the responsibility of the county. This is no different than usual except the builders didn't finish what they were supposed to. Most of them are not out of business but merely operating under a different cloak of protection.
I will reiterate, bonds are not worth the paper they are written on. Beware if you do business with a company that claims it's "bonded". If they have two projects going on simultaneously, there probably aren't enough assets to cover costs. Now think about 3 or 4 a month over the course of a year.
What gets me is we had to sign a personal guarantee to get the bonds. In other words if there weren't enough business assets they'd be free to take our personal property, including our home. Sorry, but I'm not willing to give up my first born child for a shady builder or general contractor. We do not bond our jobs any longer.
We had to post a performance bond for every job we did for Tyson, Perdue, Pilgrims Pride, etc., that was over $100,000 and some were down right stupid on taking care of the last housecleaning duties to get our final payments.....but we had no choice. Do it, or else.
One time I had to send a crew back down to Oglethorpe, Ga., to clean pencil lines and chalk lines off the FRP panels we had installed in the exhaust pleunum systems. Panels that once operational in scope, were going to be high pressure hosed down and scrubbed with brushes, soap and water twice a week after the hatches were pulled.
But in order to get paid and NOT have my performance bond jeopordized, I had to put 2 guys in a truck with buckets and scrub brushes for a 15 hour day to go down there and take care of it.
My issues from what King Jerry gave his homilies about how great PRDs were over R2 septic zoning was the FACT we would have these performance bonds mandating the developers and then the builders do all the work to complete the jobs 100% at no cost to the tax payers. That was the "Concession" to allow them the high density housing so they could make such obscene profits.
Yet here we are 5, 6 7 years later, and we the tax payers are going to have to pay to finish the job, whilst they had, supposedly, valid performance bonds in place to make certain they did indeed complete the work which they did not.
And we PAID Talley, Richardson, and Cable, as provider of the county attorneys, ....Lani Skipper and since then Jason Phillips, to make certain those performance bonds were valid and enforceable.
Now as we all know, Talley, Richardson and Cable were also the Registered Agents for, and legal representatives for many of those same developers and builders who have stuck the tax payers with the costs to finish their job.
And I call them out on the fact that they were paid by the BoC to do a job, which since these bonds are now "uncollectible", they obviously did not do well.
So my question is:
"Why then do we the taxpayers have to pay to bail out the developer/builders, clients also of Talley, Richardson and Cable, and not even attempt to go after THE FIRM for them to have their malpractice insurance make good on the bonds ?"
And, in the interim, pull the building permit rights, zoning application rights, and any other means legal to road block these same developers and builders from doing any more work in Paulding county what so ever at all until such time they have made good on all their previous committments under now defunct, dead and bankrupt companies which the county is going to pay the cost to finish the work for ?
Why indeed are the continuing to get a free ride on the back of the tax payers ?
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Tell us more about the Fireman's Appreciation Fish Fry Sunday March 30th at 11:00am please !
This sounds like a wonderful event that is not getting much publicity. I think many readers may not have the Business News Forum coming up on their recent topics page. Not sure how to go about fixing that.
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Any and all firemen and emts, please come and enjoy a free lunch just because we really do appreciate what you do.
P.comers, please come and buy your lunch at Rodney's Sunday March 30, 2014 in support of our first responders at the Fire Departments!!!
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Now this is worthy of public support and participation
We will be there
I understand Frederick Clements a survivor of the crash will be there with Cluff David's who has been posting essays about flight 242.
Hope to see you there next Sunday the 30th
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OK Pubby,
How many specific examples of PRD subdivisions will you want to see, showing THE FIRM as the closing attorneys, or registered agents for the developers, or both, for the various unfinished PRDs the taxpayers are now going to pave ?
I have them in my data base, and will tie them into the BoC report of which PRDs the taxpayers have to pay to finish now as soon as I can obtain a copy.
Will 2 or 3 be enough to show the conflict of interest between THE FIRM as the developers legal agent, while at the same time ascertaining their perfromance bonds were good and valid ? Not to mention those they were also the closing attorneys on for the sale of the property in the first place, which was ALWAYS contingent upon the zoning approvals ?
I will prepare them in an excel spread sheet, just let me know how many I have to waste the time on to dig out from 2004, 2005, 2006.
I assume the 2 on either side of your office don't count since they were annexed into the city of Dallas in order to forego the developer having to pay the $500 per house "Donation" to the school board as required after March of 2005 by the county. Are those streets finished ?
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Todd gets no free ride here. Yes, he and Graham surveyed the unfinished subdivisions needing pavement and came up with the costs.
Last I heard, Todd was not well versed in the legalities of writing, enforcing, or collecting performance bonds, nor was the board of commissioners, at the time the bonds were issued, or any attempt to colect them.
I have not taken the time to search the p.com archives, and am not certain they go back to 2004 when King Jerry was spouting off at the mouth how PRDs were the greatest thing for the county since sliced bread. But I do recall in depth discussions with the old Chairdude about with PRDs the county could get all these concessions from the RBMDs, amenities, freebies to the county, facilities for the citizens, AND preformance on completeing the jobs.
In trade for this, the county let them have the high denisity of 3 to 4 times as many houses per acre of land.
We all know King Jerry received plenty from the developers and their minions in return. And THE FIRM got one hell of a lot of business, including financial enumeration for making certain all was on the up and up with the paperwork, including the performance bonds.
So why is THE FIRM getting a free pass on this issue and the tax payers getting stuck with a $3Million to $4million cost owed by developers and builders who are still developing and building here today ?
Black list any developer or builder who has stuck the county and refuse to issue them building permits. It does not take a rocket scientist to check to see what companies left us holding the worthless bonds, and who the priniciples were, and what companies those same principles are representing today. Put liens on THEIR land, lots, houses, etc., and freeze any additional permits to perform any work of any kind in the county until they have fufilled their obligations.
First step though would be getting our own county attorney's office, and telling THE FIRM to take a hike. That would save us a million or so a year right off the bat.
And we all know good and well that will never happen now, .......will it ?!?!
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Oh get real.
You mean to say our county legal advisors, commissioners, community development director, et al, were ALL so inept and deficient in their duties that virtually every performance bond issued was no good ?
These bonds were purchased by the ROBBER BARON MEGA DEVELOPERS to guarantee they finished their jobs. Yet the bonds are deficient ?
Now these are the exact same RBMDs who donated tens of thousands of dollars to the various politicians, previous and sitting.
Many of them are STILL doing work in the county, under a different company name of course. Go bankrupt, change the name, buy the property back in a new LLC name, and keep on screwing the taxpayers of Paulding while the Powers that Be smile and chuckle on the way to the bank to deposit the campaign donations ?!?!
Not to mention fishing, golfing, gambling and hunting junkets.
But they can't force these SAME RBMDs to make good on their bonds ?
How about hiring a county legal staff to collect on these deficient bonds ?
You don't think part of the collection problem process might just be because the same THE FIRM who represents the county in this matter, also represents many of the developers, are their registered agents, and actually did the closings for the private developers, while getting paid by the county to represent OUR interests ?????
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The AJC ran an article on this maybe six months ago. It discussed several counties, Paulding chief among them, where this had happened. They ultimately faulted the counties who were caught holding the bill for unfinished subdivision road paving, for not knowing enough about this type of bond process, and not requiring more secure resources from developers. The article blamed counties that had little experience in managing the financial repercussions of instant growth--a growing up lesson for small town administrators, as I recall.
But a performance bond is a prepaid guarranteed insurance policy.
You pay your insurer for your car for collision insurance. The car is totaled out. The insurance company pays the value of the car as per the terms of the policy. They cannot come back and argue the point.
And we paid THE FIRM, to make certain all was proper, i's dotted, t's crossed. If the bonds are NOT collectible, then I would think since we are paying an outside law firm to ascertain they were good, for that out side law firm to let their liability insurance pick up the paving costs. We did pay them for providing those services instead of using some smarts and hiring our own in-house county attorney and staff to do the same work for what, ....?....half or a third of the cost ?
But then that would stymie the campaign donations flowing from THE FIRM to the local candidates of their choices.
Follow the money.....
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Not really. I should have known better than to post anything on here, or even read the
stuff on this site. You can have it all to yourselves. I'm done, already.
Say what ? Did I miss something?
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This one REALLY bugs me.
Why is the IBA, via the taxpayers of the county, paying to put the finished top coat of pavement on the streets in unfinished subdivisions ? To the tune of $3.5 to $4.0 MILLION Dollars no less?
While King Jerry and his court of minions were approving all these PRDs around the county, they were telling us how great the PRDs were compared to R2 open zoning, and some of the reasons was the FACT they developers and builders had to enter into contracts with the county agreeing to pay for things like entrance/exit turn lanes, sidewalks, street lights, etc., AND they had to post Performance Bonds to complete and PAY for all those amenities.
Now that many to most of these unfinished PRDs have been abandoned, we are told the county will have to pick up the tab because the performance bonds were "FLIMSY".
But that does not fly. That dog can't hunt. It is pure BS!
A performance bond is a prepaid insurance policy. It is cut and dried, and if properly issued it is collectible.
So why are they not cashing in the performance bonds and letting that money pay to finish the work ?
Every one of those zoning meetings approving these PRDs, the BoC would go into executive sessions with the developers/builders, the Community Development Director [ben Skipper at that time] and the county attorney [Lani Skipper, and yes she is Ben's wife] as provided to the BoC and invoiced to the county by THE FIRM of Talley, Richardson and Cable.
What were they doing in those executive sessions ?
When they finished, they would come out, rubber stamp approvals and vote to approve the project, and go on their merry way.
Some of those builders who abandoned their PRDs to the county, are still here, building under a different company name now. Why isn't the BoC and the County Attorneys going after them to recover the costs to finish their work ?
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In the Strip Mall behind Westside Bank at the corner of Business 6 and 278, diagonally across the street from The Ark Animal Clinic
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So what is the final list of qualified candidates running for out local commissioner seats, BoE, and legislature ?
DAVID AUSTIN AND CENSORSHIP OF COUNTY MEETINGS
in Paulding County NEWS
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A Ringer for sure. But hey, it takes some nads to go on camera, spewing such niceities and BS about Blake, Tidmore, soon to leave the AA board, and David Austin no less. The preface insinuating how morally outstanding, religous, and tolerant they all are was an insult to the voters and citizens of Paulding county.
Could this be our very own Concerned Paulding Resident ?