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LOCAL
The Champion, Thursday, June 11 - 17, 2015
District 5
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Ministry
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What political offices
have you held in the past?
I am president of District
5 Community Council,
president of Homeowners
United, President of Hunt
ers’ Run II Homeowners
Association, I serve on the
board of directors for Arabia
Mountain Heritage Area,
I volunteer in State Senate
district 43. In 2008 I ran a
respectable campaign for
the Georgia House of Repre
sentatives, but I have never
been elected to a political
office.
Have you ever been con
victed of a crime? No
Why are you seeking
this office? I am a volunteer
servant of the community. I
have always been involved
in community matters.
Since retiring over 12 years
ago, I became thoroughly
involved in community af
fairs. I like helping others
by solving quality of life is
sues for in community. Here
is a chance to get involved
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What do you under
stand the duties of this of
fice to be? The duties of this
office is to set policy in ref
erence to county operation.
That also includes levying
taxes to fund the necessary
services provided by the
county. To approve a budget,
to provide for public safety,
Healthcare
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ion, which opened in 1952
to serve children in the
Black community, is now
part of the Children’s sys
tem. Among its initial ma
jor donors was Gone With
the Wind author Margaret
Mitchell.
Noteworthy milestones
during Children’s 100-year
history include:
• Early in its history, Chil
dren’s became one of the
first hospitals to directly
involve parents in their
child’s care, beginning
with a policy of allowing
parents to spend the night
at the hospital.
• In 1933, M. Hines Rob
erts, M.D., Egleston’s first
medical director, helped
establish the American
Board of Pediatrics to ad
vance the science, study
and practice of pediatrics.
• In 1939, Scottish Rite
Medical Director Dr. Hi
ram Kite achieved inter
national recognition for
his non-surgical treatment
of patients with clubfoot.
• In 1958, Asa G. Yancey
Sr., M.D., the first Black
physician on staff, devel
oped the first accredited
surgical training program
for Black physicians in
Georgia. Yancey, the first
medical director of the
Hughes Spalding Pavilion,
was Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr’s physician.
• In 1983 Egleston joined
the Children’s Miracle Net
work, which raises funds
nationally for 170 pediatric
hospitals.
• The hospital’s first liver
transplant was performed
in 1987. Children’s Health
care of Atlanta Liver
Transplant Program has
become one of the largest
pediatric liver transplant
programs in the country.
Business
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I give it away?,” she asked.
“I had to explain that
you have to take money out
of your pocket and give it to
them because you have to
pay for the slushy. If you’re
giving it to them, you might
as well give them a dollar.
We settled on half price,
which is sort of a break even
type scenario,” Slappey said.
Ashley said she likes the
business because she gets to
eat slushies, and it’s also fun
to operate the machine.
“I want to be a business
woman when I grow up so
this is really good for me to
learn about business,” she
said.
Slappey said he chose
to have his girls run a snow
cone business because it was
a relatively low-cost and no
risk investment. He plans to
continue to help them oper
ate the business until they’re
no longer interested.
“I just want them to un
derstand broadly how busi
nesses work. If they have to
pay for some piece of equip
ment to produce some item,
they need to understand that
when they sell whatever it is
that they’re producing, they
have to be able to pay for
that equipment and pay for
the cost of items to build it,”
Slappey said.
sanitation, water and sewage
treatment as well as local in
frastructure and utilities.
What expertise do you
have that will help you
fulfill the duties of this of
fice? I have experience in
developing procedures of
operation, I have experience
in developing and managing
a large budget. I have expe
rience managing projects
and reviewing contracts for
compliance, and chairing
committees to hash out de
tails of scheduled projects.
I have experience leading
various taskforces to solve
problems of transit opera
tion ....(truncated)
Since 1987, Children’s
has performed more than
1,000 pediatric transplants.
• In 1989, the U.S. govern
ment named Egleston the
home base of the nation’s
first pediatric disaster
medical assistance team.
Today, Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta cares
for more than half a mil
lion patients each year and
its three metro Atlanta
hospitals specialize in car
ing just for children and
teens.“Children are not just
small adults,” Stevens said.
“They require special equip
ment, special knowledge
and special skills. We’re
proud that Children’s has
been able to provide that for
100 years.”
had that community room
so they all came into the
room and started talking,”
Burrus said. “It’s just a nice
way to get people to meet
each other.”
The ministry started
off serving just cookies and
punch, Burrus said. Then
she thought, “I’m a foodie.
We need more than that.
Let’s do soup and sandwich
es. That’s basically what we
did. And then it evolved.
“For them it’s a full meal
because everyone doesn’t
have access to shopping or
someone to come in and
cook,” Burrus said. “They
just don’t have the means
to do it. In the summer, we
have a lot of pasta salads
and garden salads and sand
wiches. In the winter, I do
heavy, hearty soups—some
thing that will stick to their
ribs.”
Burrus said, “Some
do come to church, but it
doesn’t matter, as long as we
take the church to them.”
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District 5
Election Dai]
TUESDAY. JUI1E 16
Notice of Public Hearing for
Clarkston Millage Rate
Notice is hereby given that prior to setting the tax
millage rate for 2014, the Clarkston Mayor and
Council will hold a Public Hearing at City Hall,
3921 Church Street, Clarkston Georgia, on
Tuesday, June 30,2015 at 7:00pm on the
proposed millage rate. The City Council is
proposing to adopt a millage rate for 2015 that
exceed the rollback rate by 53.80 percent. All
concerned citizens are invited to attend.
NOTICE
The Stone Mountain City Council does hereby announce that the millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held at the
City Hall, 875 Main Street, Stone Mountain, GA on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. and pursuant to the requirements of
O.C.G.A. Section 48-5-32 does hereby publish the following presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy, along with the
history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.
CURRENT 2015 TAX DIGEST AND 5 YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY
COUNTY WIDE
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Real & Personal
97,052,662
68,582,587
67,583,220
56,816,226
67,083,820
79,826,349
Motor Vehicles
5,667,510
5,558,380
5,831,000
5,971,380
4,758,250
3,187,670
Mobile Homes
600
600
4,000
Timber -100%
Heavy Duty Equipment
0
0
0
0
0
0
Gross Digest
102,720,172
74,140,967
73,414,220
62,788,206
71,842,670
83,018,019
Less M& O Exemptions
2,060,566
1,578,133
1,813,313
1,652,449
2,074,380
2,289,744
Net M & O Digest
100,659,606
72,562,834
71,600,907
61,135,757
69,768,290
80,728,275
state horest Lana Assistance
Grant Value
0
0
0
0
0
0
Adjusted Net M&O Digest
100,659,606
72,562,834
71,600,907
61,135,757
69,768,290
80,728,275
Gross M&O Millage
10.000
14.300
18.800
28.030
22.000
22.000
Less Rollbacks
Net M&O Millage
10.000
14.300
18.800
28.030
22.000
22.000
Total City Taxes Levied
$1,006,596
$1,037,649
$1,346,097
$1,713,635
$1,534,902
$1,776,022
Net Taxes $ Increase
-$68,842
$31,052
$308,449
$367,538
-$178,733
$241,120
Net Taxes % Increase
-6.40%
3.08%
29.73%
27.30%
-10.43%
15.71%