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“The items are selling the most this
year are the Nintendo power glove
and other Nintendo items. Mr. Coffee
has a new tea maker, which is really
doing well,” said Barnett.
“The usual Christmas decorations
are selling well, and so are the trees
we have. We are light on trees,
though. Also popular are the more ex
pensive models of the battery operat
ed cars, the remote control cars are
doing good. The wireless, personal
stereos, modular stereos, we sell lots
of those,” Barnett said.
“This year the nicer specialty items
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incomes.
“Some people do all their shopping
at one time, and I don’t blame them.
Some shoppers spread it out, it varies.
On the whole, very few shoppers do
their shopping all at one time,” said
Graves.
“The customers are smarter be
cause they shop earlier. People are
also in better financial shape than
they were in years past because they
put items on lay-a-way and so can pay
a little bit at a time and therefore they
buy more,” said Barnett.
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sell individually and officially as
members of the Board of
Equalization.
It charges the Board of Tax Asses
sors “engaged in a token effort” at re
evaluation of county property, and
ahouM be held in contempt of court.
Their plan of action has not complied
with this court’s order.
The court order mentioned in the
motion came Dec. 29,1988 when Mills
ordered the county to complete a re
evaluation of all county property by
the end of 1989.
The field evaluations project is
nearly 80 percent finished.
Out of 22,00 parcels about 18,000 par
cels have been surveyed and re
viewed, said Sherwood Canada, su
pervisor of the project. That
information is giving to data entry
workers who key the information into
computers.
Next each parcel will have to be ap
praised and all the information will be
combined and “fine tuned,” Can-da
said. The information and property
will be reviewed again before the re
evaluation is finalized.
Canada could not estimate a com
pletion date saying it depended on the
weather and other variables.
“We don’t really know we’re just
going along as well as we can trying to
do it right,” said Canada. “We’re a
long ways toward the goal but there’s
still quite a bit remaining.
Since he did not have the contract
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placement,” Mason said.
“Tiie public notice I received said
we can’t ask them direct questions but
they can ask us questions. I hope they
ask me a lot of questions,” Mason
said.
“I think our group w'll follow our
attorney’s advice and meet after the
public meeting to decide what route to
take,” Mason said.
“I hope that the public hearing will
give the residents who live near the
proposed sewer treatment site an op
portunity to get some answers to the
questions they have,” said County
Commission Chairman Michael
Bennett.
Bennett will be unable to attend the
hearing because he will be at the an
nual Farm Bureau Board Meeting.
“No one has sat down with these
people to discuss the plans for the
area they live in,” he said.
“Hopefully, these people will be
able to express their feelings to some
one who will listen and take in consid
eration what they are concerned
about,” Bennett said.
The proposed plant site is slated to
be constructed on the Seven Branches
Farm, said City Administrator Ger
ald Blackburn.
“Hopefully, we can get everything
resolved with this meeting,” Mayor
Ford Gravitt said.
Department head Jack Curry, of
the Cumming Water and Sewer De
partment said he would be there.
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before him he would not say whether
the Oct. 311989, completion date men
tioned in the motion was correct or
incorrect. A hearing to review the
charges in the motion is scheduled
Dec. 14 in Superior Court.
If the judge grants the motion then
the digest, which has already been re
jected by the state Department of
Revenue, will be voided and taxes
would be collected based on the as
sessments listed in the 1988 ’igest.
The 1989 digest was rejected by the
state because property assessments
listed were not uniform and several
property owners were not paying
their fair share of taxes, said Larry
Griggers, director of the property tax
division of the Georgia Department of
Revenue.
The 1989 digest is basically the
same digest as the 1988 digest with im
provements added and the 1988 digest
is the same digest as the 1987 digest
with improvements added.
When the re-evaluation is finished
the county would be able to collect the
remainder of the taxes due or refund
taxes to property owners under state
code 48-5-310, said Jordan.
The law allows the county commis
sion to appeal to the Superior Court to
collect taxes on an interim basis
based upon last year’s digest. The col
lection would be followed by a second
billing or tax credit after the updated
digest is submitted.
The double-billing would cost the
“The city requested the hearing. It
is ar opportunity for everyone to have
input. This is another step to try and
provide a platform for interested par
ties,” said Curry.
The public meeting and the hearing
will be confined to water quality is
sues, Blackburn said.
City Engineer Butch Johnson will
answer any construction or develop
mental questions about the permit
and plant.
“We will present to those at the
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are operating in Hall, Stevens, and
Hart counties, Giddens said.
As in those counties the question
most asked is “do the residents pose
any danger to people that live around
here?” said Bob Herrin, chief Devel
opment Services with North Georgia.
The clients aren’t violent, Herrin
said.
“These are people who can’t do any
thing about the way they are born but
the make the best of what they have,”
said Herrin.
“They are a little different then
some people but they are more alike
than they are unlike you and I,” he
said.
Another concern is that the exis
tence of the home will reduce the val-
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county a “fortune,” said Gilbert. It is
a lot of double work and double every
thing else, he said.
The double collection would also de
lay tax revenue coming in because
people will wait until the end of the
year to pay, Gilbert said.
The double billing would not cost
any more money than the cost of post
age for each bill, said Jordan. If the
county bills from last year’s digest the
information is already in the
computer.
When it comes time to re-bill the in
formation will also already be in the
computer because the new data being
typed in to the system with re-evalua
tion, said Jordan.
“The only expense is the cost of
postage to mail the new bills or re
funds,” said Jordan.
It is hoped the Dec. 14 hearing and
the re-evaluation will put an end to the
three-year dispute over property tax
es in die countv.
It began in 1986 when the BOE or
dered tax assessors to complete a
county-wide re-evaluation.
The process was completed in 1988
but the new assessment were dis
carded when more than 600 property
owners filed a lawsuit against the tax
assessors regarding the new digest
and the board subsequently resigned.
The BOE filed a second lawsuit
when the new Board of Tax Assessors
decided to use the 1987 digest with im
provements added as the 1988 digest.
hearing what the facts are as to what
the city is doing in this project. We
have complied with everything the
EPD has asked us to comply with,”
said Johnson.
“I will be telling people at the hear
ing, the need we have for the project,
the alternatives we have studied, and
the alternatives we have selected. We
will also discuss the project’s environ
mental impacts, the archeological
impacts and any threats to endan
gered species,” said Johnson.
ue of adjoining properties.
“I don’t feel like the concerns are
valid concerns,” said Hillgartner.
“They are nice people, well super
vised, 24 hours a day.”
In addition there are periodic in
spections by state and local agencies,
said Hillgartner.
Hillgartner along with Commission
er Michael McGaughey recently
toured the homes to review the
situation.
As a supporter of deinstitutionaliza
tion, Hillgartner said he feels the cli
ents have just as much right to live in
private homes and anybody else.
“They’re going to be good neigh
bors,” said Hillgartner who lives in
Deerwood subdivision.
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