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According to the BOC meeting minutes, the various department heads were all polled and asked to produce new budgets showing what they had to have. I have wondered for quite some time now why we had the same staff in the Community Development office for 25 houses a month which we had when we were building 300 houses a month. I do have to assume the houses build in the past 18 months have been thoroughly inspected, re-inspected and inspected again. It only makes common sense if the demand for the inspectors, water personnel, etc. to take care of the pitifully low number of new houses

My kudos to Subby as well. My old Craftsman tractor, and 18hp HOGG, I did not want to load up to take somewhere is now running great after Subby finished rebuilding the carb. And my non-adjustable Ryobi which the Depot told me to trash is running well also. Hopefully I will finish tilling the garden beds tomorrow. Thanks Subby!!!

AGG You are a nice respite from Patton, but I still miss Taylor.

I happened to run into a representative of the Facility Group at the Poultry Show this last week and he did inform me that Mr Moultrie had indeed started his "vacation" at a Federal Facility. The rest I guess we will have to just wait and see how the chips fall!

Sorry D-Dawg, You can sing their praises all you want, but the past administration did nothing to actually try to bring business and industry to Paulding and even went out of their way to stop some projects. Of this I know 1st hand. Yes, I supported the airport and know it can be a big plus on some lists of what certain businesses want to see when looking for space. Some nice A+ industrial business and office parks will be required before we see high paying jobs moving here. What I saw over and over again were numerous blind zoning of prime industrial land to PRDs, now for the most part

If we have survived the past 8 years of a really questionable administration, coupled with an absolute lack of understand of bringing industry and JOBS to Paulding, Austin can only go up from where we were. I look forward to seeing what CAN happen if all the powers that be pull in the same direction.

Do you have any Green Tea mugs ? No handle.

The Gold Kist acquisition was actually planned from early on. GK went public with a stock offering back in 2002/2003 specifically so they could be bought out [prior to then they operated as a "Co-Op" which is next to impossible to sell per se]. After waiting the prescribed time period sind the initial stock offering Pilgrims began negotiating with GK management, offering $20 for stock which was trading at $13-$14. After several weeks of dickering the end of 2006, they settled on $22 per share, which in all reality was WAY over priced. But, Pilgrim's had acquired ConAgra several year

The main demographics which will be hit are the farmers with the 15,000+ grow out houses scattered throughout the state who have payments to make on their farms/chicken houses. The killing/processing plant employees are just the tip of the iceberg.

Amazing.....one of Georgia's largest employers, more that 50,000 workers affected, and not even 1 comment ?

This one hits home for us, even though we have been expecting it. Pilgrim's Pride, based out of Pittsburg, Texas filed for Chapter XI bankruptcy Monday December 1st. Pilgrim's Pride is the largest poultry producer in the world. Citing unheralded feed costs over the past year, coupled with transportation cost increases and a reduced demand for poultry products Pilgrim's was unable to meet its end of year financial committments. Pilgrim's has posted projected losses for 2008 of close to $1Billion Dollars. Georgia is the number 1 poultry producing state, to the tune of more than $20 BIL

With a name like that are the tea pots in the shape of a baking hen ? [industry inside joke here....Tip Top Poultry in Marietta and Rockmart processes baking hens].

We received an email from the Admiral's daughter Anne this morning that her dad passed away yesterday from congestive heart failure and pneumonia after entering the hospital when he fell and broke his pelvis. Admiral Steve and my dad were both only sons born a year apart, and they spent every summer with each other. They grew up more like brothers than cousins, and remained close all of their lives. I remember staying at their house in DC when I was a little kid. And them coming to stay with us in Atlanta when they would be visiting from Hawaii or Guam where he spend most of his career.

First, Commercial Retail, and Office/Industrial are 2 completely different things. We have an Industrial Building Authority, with millions of dollars sitting in the bank who many time over could have partnered with industrial developers to build some "A" Grade Industrial Parks to bring high paying jobs to Paulding. But there has never been an effort by our IBA or BOC to do so. Instead, the IBA has been sitting on those funds for several years now waiting to spend the money at the airport. And in the meantime the businesses wishing to locate to Paulding really have very few choices, if an

AND, if our standing BOC had put some time, energy, and effort into having industrial/business parks built, instead of just houses, we would have local high paying jobs as well as an ongoing effort to bring more and more long term high paying jobs to Paulding. Instead, our BOC put all of the eggs into the housing basket, and when the bottom fell out.......

Thanks Feelip. We volunteered the use of our house for a Meet & Greet to Joey Seabolt so anyone who wished to speak with him in a casual and informal setting could do so. And we did this with no strings attached as to who could or could not attend. All were welcome. We have held many fund raising events for HeartWalk, Relay for Life, and other such events for many years and there has never been anyone prohibitied. In the past King Jerry even attended and assisted. Glenn Richardson has been at our place before for some of these events as well. Of course those events took place before

Our tax digest is at, or above, 80%+ residential. A reasonable diversified tax bases is 50%, or less, residential. Industrial pays the most tax versus services rendered by the local government. Schools, Water, Sewer, Police, Parks, etc. are paid for by industrial taxes, but they really don't use them at all, or at leat they do not put a strain on them. And they pay advalorum taxes on their machinery, equipment, and inventory in addition to the property tax they pay to the landlord. So if you have 50% or more industrial and business, with some commercial mixed in, and 40% or so residential

Forget the ones for sale. They will only lease, as with most businesses. What have you got for lease ? PM if you have one.

OK, Sir, I have a group I work with looking for 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, 2 or more loading docks which can handle a 53' trailer, and a rail siding. 3 private offices, and an area for the clerical staff, bathrooms, and a kitchen area for lunch breaks. They will employ 20 to 25 people from $15 and hour up to $30 an hour, plus an accountant [$45,000 per year] and an office staff of 4 making $12 to $20 an hour. Got a place in Paulding? Right now they are looking at North Alabama between Huntsville and Fort Payne. They want to be somewhat convient to an international airport,

So far I am amazed, shocked, and really surprised the voters are not as up in arms to remove Ragsdale as they were to remove Shearin from office [thank you very much]! He has been an 8 year Rubber Stamp for Shearin and his cronies. And he certainly cannot run on his record, or lack there of. Post 1 Voters: Please educate yourself and find out what Larry Ragsdale has done for you for the past 8 years. And speak with Joey Seabolt about what he wants to do for the citizens of Post 1 and the county in general. Take back your voice in government and vote for Joey Seabolt for Post 1 Comm

Oh yes, I can attest to your statement.... I have learned, first hand, if you want justice from verbal promises made to you by the Chairman himself of the BOC, you had best have in in writing. I have leared thier promises are worth the paper they are written on. And when those promises are called in the are worth nonthing, zero, nada, nil. We made the mistake of believing those promises. And then we found out they were worth what they were written on......which meant nothing. Go figure?

None at all, except Ragsdale did mention he was not going to accept [major] donations from special interest groups. I call $1000 a major donation, and even more so for a post commission seat.

And I believe CB Fair headed up the first group organized to push through the sneaky School Bond Referendum. And I think Tom Cable is on that list of donors as well. Talk to your friends and neighbors and ask them to please support Joey Seabolt for Post 1 Commissioner.

And if the same voters choose to get involved with the Ragsdale-Seabolt race, as they did with the Shearin-Austin race, we can replace another on of the Good Ol Boys. But they have to get involved and step up to the plate. There is a Meet & Greet / Fundraiser at our house for Joey Seabolt Saturday the 18th from 6:00pm to 9:00. There will be plenty to eat, and if you feel like you want to make a donation to Joey, Great! But it is not mandatory, come on by to meet and speak with Joey. Everyone is welcome.

I am somewhat disappointed in the lack of support for Joey Seabolt! Even if you are not in Post 1, you should realize that commissioner will speak, and vote, for all of us, not just those in the post which elects him. Anyone and everyone who got out and helped to Vote King Jerry Shearin out of office should be just as concerned with this Post 1 Race. Let's get the p.com family to rise to the occaision again and send Larry Ragsdale, another of the Good Ol Boys packing. Come out to our place on Saturday evening and support Joey Seabolt for Commission Post 1. Or be prepared fo