Monday, March 9, 2009
This just in...
Well, actually it came in a litle earlier while I was asleep.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bert Guy
To: Bert Guy
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 10:34 PM
Subject: Tax Assessment Meeting
Tomorrow, Monday March 9, 2009 there will be a work session at St. Marys City Hall at 4:30 P.M. and the regular council meeting at 6:00 P.M. the issue of tax assessments will be discussed at both meetings and they are both open to the public. Please attend if your schedule permits. There will also be a Board of Assessors meeting tomorrow night at 6:00 P.M. in the Assessor’s office in the back of the historic courthouse in Woodbine. If you attend the meeting at the Board of Assessors Office you will need to enter from the back door of the assessors’ office because the main entrance of the building will be closed at that time.
After the end of the City Council meeting we will have a meeting at J’s Restaurant and Pub. We have a consultant from Atlanta who has traveled to be here to help us with our efforts to combat the outrageous assessments. Please join is at J’s too.
Thanks,
Bert Guy
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2 comments:
jay if i may ask why fight this way of raising taxes but yet on other hand stand for esplost. this makes no sense.
Of course it does, Sandy. ESPLOST is a known quantity - a 1% sales tax of a known duration or amount of revenue, whichever comes first, to fund a known and verifiable CURRENT need. It's no differnet from the last ESPOLST in Camden which voters approved. A 7% total sales tax is no more onerous now than it was when we paid it a short time ago. This time around, it will be ESPLOST rather than SPLOST.
The "tax revolt" is another whole kettle of fish. It has to do with an UNKNOWN reassessment, but one which all indicators are would have been - and may yet be - outrageously high. The windfall to the politicians if both the reassessments go way up and they don't roll back the millage would likely be an irresistable temptation to buy future votes with runaway wasteful spending.
Taxpayers have every reason to be on high alert over this reassessment business. I am too. With the exception of the usual crazies on TOPIX, I don't sense all that much genuine concern over ESPLOST, with the exception of the attempted feeding at the trough by the DMA where the St. Marys Elementary "park" was concerned.
I predict that the ESPLSOT will past. I'm going down to Kinglsand tomorrow to vote for it.
By the way, if you are going to try to be incognito, you really need to learn how to make capital letters on your keyboard. In the bottom left corner, you will find a key labeled "shift." Depress that key then, while holding it down, hit the letter you want to capitalize. I know you're an older old dog than I, but if I can be half-way computer literate, I know you can to.
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