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  2. Austin Chapman

    in Paulding County NEWS

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    My son showed me this on his FB page: :(

     

     

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    Chelsee Millerposted toAustin Roll Tide Chapman

    Friday via mobileFor those of you who don't know me, I am Austin's oldest cousin, Chelsee. I am on here by request from the rest of our family to ask people to stop talking about and spreading rumors on how we lost Austin. The family doesn't know any answers yet, therefore no one else does. Please, out of respect for Austin and his family, stop with the rumors. It is only making it harder for us. Thank you. -Chelsee.

     

     

    oh, I didn't know there was any controversy I wondered if he was in an car accident.

  16. 14.3% property tax increase

    in Paulding County NEWS

    Posted · Edited by PUBBY

    I could not get the chart to copy and paste, but I didn't know we were raising property taxes...

     

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    August 7, 2010

    By Tom Milanese

    In a few short days, this Tuesday at 2pm to be exact, our Board of Commissioners will be voting to raise the M & O property tax mill-rate by 14.3%. Let’s take a look at this increase and it’s impact on our Fiscal Year 2011 Budget (dollar amounts are in millions):

     

    The Good: We don’t need to raise the mill-rate! You can see from the chart that even though expenses for FY 2011 will exceed revenues, we still end up with a 31% reserve. This equates to an extra 3.2 million above and beyond the required 25% (12.8 million) reserve. This is accomplished by using the current 2011 FY Budget proposed by Chairman Austin. Not one additional cut would have to be made.

    The Bad: The proposed mill-rate increase would raise taxes on every residential property that decreased in value by less than 12.5%. Now I know that this would not effect the majority of citizens in Paulding, however, how many would be impacted? Out of the approximately 60,000 residential properties in Paulding, around 15,000 of them would incur a tax increase on this portion of their tax-bill. That is about 1 in every 4 residential properties having their taxes raised unnecessarily in one of the worst economic years in recent decades.

    The Ugly: Why would Chairman David Austin propose raising the mill-rate for FY 2011 even though it is not needed to meet the expenses of FY 2011? Here are a few theories:

    1. Raising the mill-rate this year would inflate the excess reserve which could be used to alleviate any need to raise the mill-rate in future years. Meaning, why raise the mill-rate close to the 2012 Commissioner Chair election when you can do it now and get it over with.

    2. Raising the mill-rate this year would inflate the excess reserve, put the blame on the two exiting commissioners (Powell and Kirby), and allow Chairman Austin’s two hopeful replacements (Pownall and Barnett) to get a pass on having to raise the mill-rate during their first couple of years.

    3. Raising the mill-rate this year would allow Todd Pownall (if elected) to keep his campaign promise of “I am not in favor of a tax increase or millage rate increase. This means as a county we will have to look for creative solutions to accomplish goals, complete tasks, and provide county services.“ By the way, Todd Pownall has already backed away from this promise when given the opportunity on camera to speak against this mill-rate increase. Fast forward to the 25:55 minute mark and you’ll see what I’m talking about. David Barnett also took a pass on opposing this mill-rate increase in the video.

    Bottom line folks is that we need to call all 4 of our post commissioners over the next 48 hours and tell them to vote no on this unnecessary tax increase. Also, please come out and support me in speaking out against this tax increase at the Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 10 at 10:00 a.m.

    Keep Pressing On!

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  20. Schools may be prohibited from getting early August start

    in Paulding County NEWS

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    They had three options for parents, students and staff to vote (for which calendar they wanted) posted on the BOE website. I will say that it gets very hot on the buses when we start back in August. Luckly most students are only on the bus an average of 20 minutes. Where as the driver is on the bus an average of 3 hours in the afternoon heat. I do not agree with the short summers. I remember getting out the Friday before Memeorial Day and going back after Labor Day. However this must be the vote of the County, because this is what they went with.

     

    I was told that they let us vote but they already knew what calander they were going with. I guess we have to feel like we have some say even though we really don't.Some teachers said that we were now considered year round starting so early in aug. and having lots of breaks. They also said that there are some regulations that the school system does not have to follow if we are year round. I have no idea if that is a good or a bad thing. Anyone know what these regulations that we won't have to follow are?

  24. Schools may be prohibited from getting early August start

    in Paulding County NEWS

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    I completely agree with this. Starting the first week of August is absurd. Many kids have summer jobs to help pay their way into college, this prevents them from earning three weeks pay. We always started the Day after Labor Day and finished the first week in June. We just didn't have a week off in September, November, and February. Elimate those weeks and you have a reasonable school calendar. :)

     

    The only parents that like all these weeks off is elem. school parents. They will hate it when their kids become teens. They can't get a job unless they promise not to take a vacation because the summer is so short.

  25. Schools may be prohibited from getting early August start

    in Paulding County NEWS

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    I totally agree. we could live w/o a week off in sept. & shave off a day or two her or there and still get out by memorial day. When I had my first child in school 12 years ago we started around the middle of August and we were out by Memorial day. We also didn't take the entire week of thanksgiving then.

     

    Be that as it may ... do you really want the state taking power away from local government?

     

    Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do when local goverment is not capable of making wise decisions.

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