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VOLUME 21 NUMBER 1 “Not just what happened - but what matters”
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Lucy Beck
Rapha Clinic
names new
executive director
Page 7
AAA: Cheapest
holiday gas
prices in 6 years
Prices broke previous
lows set in 2009
Page 4
Restaurant
Inspections
4 area restaurants earn
100 score
Page 28
County reserves shrinking
Jan. 2013: $17.4M; Jan. 2014: $14.4M; Nov. 2014 $13.1M
by Prissi Sullivan
by Prissi Sullivan
On January 1, 2013, the cash
reserves for the Carroll County gov
ernment totaled $17.4 million. One
year later, January 1, 2014, the
reserves total amounted to $14.4 mil
lion. As of November 30, 2014,
county reserves amounted to $13.1
million.
Municipal reserves are funds kept
separate from budgeted income from
property, taxes, fines, fees, permits,
etc. SPLOST funds are also kept
separate and may only be spent on
“bricks and mortar” projects, not
daily or monthly expenditures such
as payroll, fuel, electricity, etc.
The Georgia Municipal
Association, a voluntary, not for
profit organization that provides leg
islative advocacy, educational,
employee benefit and technical con
sulting services to its members, rec
ommends that government entities
retain a cash reserve that is 25% of
the annual budget.
See SHRIHIUHG RESERVES page 28
187,654
Georgians
buy health
insurance
through
Obamacare
89% of those to get
financial assistance
to help pay for
monthly cost
from press release
According to a report
released by the Department
of Health and Human
Services, 187,654 people in
See 0RAMACARE page 20
Villa Rica
hires interim
city manager
Pat Crook is gone;
Larry Wood is back
by Prissi Sullivan
Villa Rica City Manager
Pat Crook tendered her res
ignation to Mayor J. Collins
and the city council on
December 11, 2014, effec
tive December 31, 2014.
She had been hired by the
prior administration to
See WOODS REPEAT page 8
Shown above center is College and Career Academy senior
Furichous John Jones with his robotics and engineering instructor,
Dave Green and director Cindy Clanton. Photo by Prissi Sullivan
New CEO for
Carroll EMC
from press release
Tim Martin, Vice President of
Engineering and Operations for
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative,
Virginia, has been appointed as
President/CEO of Carroll Electric
Membership Cooperative beginning
Jan. 12, 2015, according to the Carroll
EMC board of directors Friday.
Martin, a native of Carrollton, GA, is
Tim Martin See NEW CEO FOR CARR0I1 EMC page 26
College and Career Academy
senior Furichous John Jones
earns 4 year ride to Vanderbilt
by Prissi Sullivan
College and Career Academy student Furichous John
Jones has earned a full, four-year scholarship totaling
$253,504 to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
See $253,504 SCHOLARSHIP page 20
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