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PAGE 2A -FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUNDAY, JUNE 10, IWO lSpl •Commercial •Residential •Farm •Gas Appliances Milk Fuel Service, Inc. Hwy. 9,8 Miles North of Cumming 887-5235 265-3394^ FRIENDS Friends would like to share your good news. For your conven ience, use these coupons when sending us information or photos. How to announce your achievement Friends would like to congratulate you. Use the coupon below to tell us about your accomplishment and we’ll publish it, along with a photo when possible, in Cheers. Sorry, photographs cannot be returned. NAME; AGE; CITY Described your achievement | Submitted by | Day phone I I Friends would like to congratulate you on a job well done. [ Use the coupon below to tell us about your occupation and j we ll contact you for more information and a photo. 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The Polo Fields area also contains farmland, explained Sherwood Cana da, director of the re-assessment for the Ferriss Co. “All along we have invited you folks to come in and watch us,” said Canada. The assessors need to examine the company’s approach to fair market values based on ratios to sales in each area, said Greenway. ( PEARLEI V vision center J NOBODY CARES FOR EYES MORE THAN PEARLE. Take a good look at the most reasonable price on contact lenses in North Georgia! ■■BgSm m WE HONOR ALL COMPETITION COUPONS* *No other discounts apply. Diagnosis & Treatment of eye diseases by Dr. Howard Oifer soooo* COMPLETE EYE EXAM - Evening & Saturday Appointments Available-Walk-ins Welcome C PEARLE \ V vision center J St'niiiii You Y You r Fumil u in Forsyth County for 7 \ cut’s Cumming 889-2014 I Ron 1*? 1 Hudspeth , making it illegal for Georgians to cross state lines to gamble ... Your door bell could ring and it will be someone selling you a water purifier ... 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(If you have a news tip, a funny sto ry or simply a clever bumper sticker, call THE HUD LINE at 255-3220.) The Ferriss Co. will leave a crew to help the tax assessors handle assess ment hearings requested by property owners disputing their assessments. The assessors predicted they would meet later next week to approve or disapprove the new figures. “We’ve been accused of trying to stall the 1989 digest That’s not what we’re doing. You can bet if we dis agree with Bill Ferriss’ figures we are going to reject them,” said Billy Ev ans, chairman of the Board of Tax Assessors. TAXI on.inued from page 1 tax attorney Conley Ingram of Atlanta for $15,000 to represent them before the Supreme Court in Atlanta. Add to those figures $2,210 for court reporters during 1989 and 1990. The cost to the county was always taken into consideration, said Au brey Greenway, one of the three members of the Board of Tax Assessors. “In every case we have always dis cussed the matter with the county ad ministrator and commissioners if they thought we were in line to go ahead with the appeals and they sup ported us,” he said. The county authorized the ex penses in every case, said County Ad -ministrator Donald Major. The cost of litigation is taken out of the professional services portion of the tax assessors budget It was bud geted for $25,000 in 1989 and $20,000 in 1990. Although more than SIO,OOO has been spent from that portion of the budget in 1990, legal costs did not ex ceed the budget in 1989. Other items which could be paid for out of professional services are mapping, professional appraisers’ fees and other services, said James Payne, chief appraiser. The tax assessors' office was under budget $53,000 in 1989 according to the recent county audit, and is run ning under budget for the first five months in 1990. The final Supreme Court ruling is the last chapter in the issue which began in 1986 when the BOE ordered the tax assessors to complete an in house re-assessment to equalize gMdkfi MUD IMQmIL • GIFT WRAP • FAST SHIPPING SERVICE • SHIPPING SUPPLIES i-SHIP I MAIL I kNTS SQUARE ■ )0 MON.-FRI. values. When that was completed hun dreds of hearings were requested be cause of the new assessments. Through petitions, 600 people began a suit against the board. When they found they were not covered in case of litigation they resigned and with drew the new digest When the new assessors came into office, they submitted the old 1987 di gest which had had no major changes since 1982. The BOE filed a suit and Mills or dered a county-wide reappraisal be fore the 1989 tax digest was filed. The tax assessors went ahead and filed the old digest as the 1989 digest in order to bring in taxes for the coun ty, because the re-assessment was not finished. “We have not deliberately fought this thing at all. We just knew the re assessment was going to take this long,” Greenway said. When the 1989 bills were mailed the BOE filed another case and Mills ruled Dec. 29.1989, the bills would be considered temporary and new bills would be mailed based on the county wide re-assessment The assessors appealed this deci sion to the Supreme Court who re turned an unanimous ruling in May upholding Mills’ decision. Tax assessors then filed for a re hearing, hoping to change the court's mind, but the rehearing was denied Friday. “That was sort of an automatic thing they did it without us having a lot of discussion about it” said Greenway. 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