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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, May 15,2024 County events highlight furry friends, building safety By Julia Hansen juliahansen@dawsonnews.com Locals will soon have a chance to help furry friends and the wider community alike through two free Dawson County events next weekend. The first “Racing to the Rescue” car show will be held at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 18 to promote the Dawson County Marshal’s Office. The car show will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to an event flyer. The racing hall is at 415 Hwy. 53 in Dawsonville, next to Food Lion. Attendees will be able to learn more about the marshal’s office and catch a glimpse inside the department’s animal control truck and other first responder vehicles. People will also have the chance to meet adoptable ani mals from the Dawson County Humane Society. Dry or canned pet food dona tions will be accepted on site. For humans, hot dog lunches will be sold for $5 each. Proceeds will go to the humane society. This event is a collaboration between the marshal’s office, humane society, the Feral Cat Program of Georgia, Dawson fire and emergency services (DCFES) and the sheriff’s office, DetailedLife car detailing and Premier Speed Solutions. Building safety event Closer to Ga. 400, another event will be held on May 18 as part of Building Safety Month. Dawson County Planning and Development and the fire pre vention division of DCFES are sponsoring a community safety day in front of the hardware store from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. that Saturday. Attendees can take a picture with a fire truck and learn about building safety, according to an event flyer. True Value is located at 16 Moonshiners Way, just off Highway 53 in Dawson County. DCN file photo The first “Racing to the Rescue” car show will be held at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 18 to promote the Dawson County Marshal’s Office. Ossoff continues to pressure postal service to fix delays By Dave Williams Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., is turning up the heat on the United States Postal Service (USPS) concerning delays in delivering mail processed at a new regional distribution center in Palmetto that opened early this year. In a letter dated Thursday, Ossoff asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to update on-time mail delivery in metro Atlanta within a week. Ossoff grilled DeJoy more than three weeks ago during a hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. At the time, the senator revealed that only 36% of inbound mail handled by the Atlanta Regional Processing and Distribution Center was being delivered on time as of the end of February. DeJoy assured Ossoff that the problems would be fixed within about 60 days. “It is urgent that the performance of USPS delivery in Georgia improve imme diately,” Ossoff wrote. “Postal workers working diligently every day to deliver the mail on time deserve the infrastructure and the management competence to enable them to do so.” DeJoy attributed the delays to problems starting up a USPS restructuring plan aimed at making the postal service finan cially self-sufficient and better able to compete with private shippers including Federal Express and the United Parcel Service. The plan calls for consolidating local mail distribution offices into huge regional centers. The Atlanta-area consolidation involved moving nearly 10,000 employees from 10 locations to the new Palmetto dis tribution center. DeJoy said plans to expand the new sys tem nationwide have been put on hold while the postal service resolves the issues encountered at the Palmetto distribution center and a second regional center in Richmond, Va. Capitol Beat News Service U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., is turning up the heat on the United States Postal Service (USPS) concerning delays in delivering mail processed at a new regional distribution center in Palmetto that opened early this year. State tax revenues fall again By Dave Williams Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA - Georgia tax collections continued their downward spiral last month, falling 5.4% from April of last year, the state Department of Revenue reported Friday. The broader picture for the first 10 months of fiscal 2024 was similar. While net tax revenue was down only 1.2% between last July and the end of April, that doesn’t reflect the reality that the state was not collecting sales taxes on gasoline and other motor fuels during the first half of the last fiscal year. Not counting the fuel taxes the state has brought in thus far in fiscal 2024, tax receipts for the first 10 months of the fiscal year declined by 4.6%. Individual income taxes fell in April by 8% compared to the same month a year ago, as tax refunds increased by 31.4% while payments were down 11.5%. Net sales tax receipts also declined by 3%. Usually volatile corporate income tax collections remained nearly flat last month, increasing by 0.5%. With tax receipts down $341.3 million for fiscal 2024 and just two months left in the fiscal year, it appears likely the state will show revenues down when the year ends on June 30. Gov. Brian Kemp warned this week after signing a robust $36.1 billion fiscal 2025 budget that times might be leaner when he and the General Assembly put together next year’s spending plan. Georgia tax collec tions continued their downward spiral last month, falling 5.4% from April of last year, the state Department of Revenue reported Friday. 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