Tuesday, October 13, 2009
St. Marys votes to roll back millage rate.
I have it from a reliable source that St. Marys City Council voted last night to roll back the millage rate from .0056 to .005351. Or, if you prefer, from 5.6 mils to 5.351 mils. The result is no net revenue increase over last year.
Kingsland, by contrast, left their's at 8 mils, representing a 3.13% increase over last year's revenues.
Oh, yes, there's this: Jeff Stanford asked the mayor and council if, in their opinion, Greg Bird, wearing his "council hat," had any authority to trespass onto his leasehold property and to interrogate him about the contents of the celebrated mysterious box.
The mayor turned that toughie over to the city attorney to render an opinion by their next meeting. Thank goodness we have an attorney on salary.
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I thought the day would never come when I would say the following:
Based on the information you have provided St. Marys City Council is the more astute champion of the taxpayers. Whats the deal with County and School Board?
Take a look at how many incumbents in Kingsland and Woodbine are facing challengers in November versus the number who are in St. Marys.
it was said at the meeting last night that if kingsland leave their rate unchanged it is a increase of 3.13%. also worh noting was blount mentioned wanting to roll the rate back. we shall see...
Let me go back and try to figure out where I saw that figure of
.88%. I'm thinking a newspaper article in the last few days.
Found it. It was in the T&G of Oct. 7th, but talking about the county.
"The county intends to increase property taxes by .88 percent over the rollback millage rate for county residents and 4.65 percent over the rollback rate for Woodbine tax district residents."
Thanks for the catch. I'll correct it.
How much more of the city's time and money are Jeff Stanford and Greg Bird going to waste with their silly, juvenile feud? It would be simpler and cheaper if they would just go out in the woodshed and duke it out.
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