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2009 Budget Passes—Property Taxes increases to follow
Mar 4th
I would like to suggest you go out to the county website and watch the meeting from yesterday that was taped. The budget was not passed with ease and the 4-1 vote was very interesting. We have been critical of Commissioner Beaudreau but yesterday he at least tried to stand up and say the budget wasn’t right.
“It would have kept us solvent, and we would have had a balanced budget,” Beaudreau said. “It’s regrettable that politics got in the way.”
We just wish he had been able to come up with alternatives before the meeting so that MAYBE some of the other members the BOC would have listened. However that did not happen and Chairman Bannister distanced himself from Commissioner Beaudreau on the budget just like he had done already with the Trash Committee.
Commissioners did approve a call by Bannister to move capital projects, including the opening of a Grayson police precinct, into future years. Beaudreau said the moves seemed politically motivated since three of the five projects were in his southern Gwinnett district.
Great Article on TalkGwinnett.com by Bob Griggs on the pending higher taxes
Feb 26th
We would encourage everyone to read the article on talkgwinnett.com that Bob Griggs wrote. Please look at the cuts our BOC is doing and then what expenditures they have in the budget.
Are-you-ready-for-higher-taxes
The best one is that the BOC wants to clean up the trash in the county by supporting the now defunct trash plan yet they are eliminating the street/intersection sweeping program that will remove the liter thrown out car windows. You can’t have it both ways folks.
The other issue is that we want to build more parks and improve on the ones we have yet they want to eliminate weekend janitorial staff. I ask when do most people use the parks? Would it not make more sense to change the Parks staff work week from Monday to Friday to Weds till Sunday? Or better yet for the parks that have more than one person working in them ( most ) split the schedule so there is seven day per week coverage by at least one person.
We applaud Bob in his coverage of this he has done a great job!
Potential New Property Tax Bills
Jan 28th
Something to keep your eye on in the coming days. This is not trash related but potentially something else that could take money out of our pockets.
WSB Article: New Property Tax Bills
A group that represents county commissioners in Georgia says property owners will be facing new tax bills this spring if lawmakers don’t find money to fund the Georgia Homeowner Tax Relief Grants.
Clint Mueller with the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish that local governments have already sent out and collected on property taxes for 2008 and without that $428 million in tax relief grants, they’re legally obligated to collect the difference.
“The taxes become delinquent and they have to collect from the homeowner because it violates… the constitution if we don’t collect,” says Mueller.
That could mean new bills of $200 to $300 as well as the possibility of penalties and interest in addition.
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