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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Friday, January 30,2004
Deaths
E.K. Kelly
E. K. (Ken) Kelly of
Cumming died Jan. 27, 2004.
Ken was born in Harrisville,
Miss., in 1920. In World War
II he served in the African,
the Southern
' , France cam-
paigns with
I VKT«RAM General
Patton's Third Army. In Korea,
•he again served as a Master
and earned two
Bronze Stars. Ken was
employed by Southern Bell for
,41-1/2 years. He started as a
•line technician in the field and
‘retired in the engineering
• department at BellSouth head
quarters. His next career was
in real estate with Northside
Realty where he was a suc
cessful member of the Million
Dollar Club.
Survivors include his wife
of 56 years, Luna Kelly; son
and daughter-in-law, Steve Sr.
and Jane Kelly of Alpharetta;
daughters and sons-in-law, Jan
and Rick Henderson of
Bethlehem, Barbara and Dan
Palermo of Roswell; grand
sons, Steve Kelly Jr., Michael
Remick, Tyler Kelly, Aaron
Palermo.
Funeral services will be
Friday, Jan. 30, at 11 a.m. in
the sanctuary of Cumming
Baptist Church.
McDonald and Son Funeral
Home and Crematory in
Cumming is in charge of the
arrangements.
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January 30, 2004
Janet Templeman
Mrs. Janet Templeman. 96,
of Cumming died Wednesday,
Jan. 28, 2004. Mrs.
Templeman, a member of
Cumming First United
Methodist Church had resided
in Cumming for 39 years.
Survivors include her sons,
Wayne G. Templeman of
Marietta, Merrill Templeman
of Smyrna, Terry Templeman
of Atlanta; grandchildren. Dr.
Todd A. Templeman. Caroline
R. Templeman.
Funeral services will be
Friday, Jan. 30, at 11 a.m. at
the Ingram Funeral Home with
the Rev. Ron Preuss officiat
ing. Interment will follow in
the Arlington Memorial Park.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
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KASICA from 1A
ed the local PTA/PTO
Legislative Coalition where she
s’erVes as chairperson and as the
representative for Vickery
Creek Elementary. Kasica also
represents Vickery Creek in the
Local School Council and PTA
Council.
Kasica recently completed a
two-year term as the president
of the Republican Women of
Forsyth County. As president,
Kasica initiated the Kids Count
Forums for public education on
children in crisis, education and
community safety. The forums
won the national “Caring For
America Award” at the National
Republican Women’s
Convention in Salt Lake City,
Utah, in September 2003.
“Obviously politics is a big
interest of mine, and education
is my passion more than any
thing else because I have chil
dren in the school system,”
SPLOST from 1A
for the general education fund.
By using SPLOST as a funding
source for the general fund,
school systems would not be
forced to raise their millage
rates in the face of state budget
cuts.
“A lot of counties through
out the state are getting close to
the cap on the education mill
age rate. This would allow them
to supplant property taxes with
sales taxes,” Cagle said.
For counties with a high
millage rate or slow growth, this
amendment is good news.
However, the amendment
would have no effect on Forsyth
County Schools’ low millage
rate and exploding population.
“This wouldn’t have an
impact on us because we need
every bit of [SPLOST] to keep
BANKER from 1A
she definitely plans to run for
re-election. Cole won the 2000
race her first —by taking 53
percent of the vote in the
Republican runoff election in
August 2000.
The first test in this year's
race for chief magistrate will be
the Republican Party's primary
election on July 20.
If elected, Banker said she
believes her experience working
as a lawyer will give her an
advantage. She is the only
announced candidate who is a
member of the State Bar of
Georgia.
"The citizens of Forsyth
County should know that when
they are in Magistrate Court,
they are presenting their cases
to a judge who is an attorney
with a demonstrated ability to
understand and interpret the
law," Banker said. "As a mem
ber of the Bar, I am subject to
the ethical standards and rules
of the State Bar of Georgia."
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Kasica said.
Kasica and her husband,
Ken Kasica, have two children,
Walt, 6, and Nicole, 9.
Kasica’s campaign tagged
“Kids First” has three main
components: the education
budget, rapid growth of the
school system and the connec
tion between a board member
and his or her district.
Top priorities on Kasica’s
budget would be funding for
textbooks, classroom supplies
and instructional materials;
lower teacher/student ratios;
competitive teacher pay and
incentives; teacher promotion
based on advanced education
and performance; and mini
mization of administrative
duties that detract from the time
teachers spend on direct instruc
tion.
To manage county growth,
Kasica plans to present to the
up with the growth,” Gault said.
As Atlanta residents over
flow into Forsyth County, the
student body grows by about
2,000 students every year.
Board of Education Chairman
Jeffrey Stephens said he likes to
visualize the impact as one high
school or two elementary
schools per year. The school
system plans to open two high
schools, four middle schools
and six elementary schools by
2009.
Though the amendment
would not help Forsyth County
now, Cagle said it would be
beneficial in the future.
“Eventually, hopefully,
we’re going to get to a position
where we do not need all the
sales tax dollars utilized for
school construction,” Cagle
Banker went on to say,
“Magistrate Court is the court
in which citizens of our county
are most likely to appear with
out legal representation. These
individuals need to be assured
that their rights are going to be
preserved and that they will be
treated with dignity, honor and
impartiality and that decisions
rendered will be just under the
laws of the state of Georgia."
Away from the courtroom.
Banker is a member of First
Baptist Church of Cumming
where she serves as a member
of the Celebration Choir and
the musical praise team,
Shades of Grace.
She is a trustee for Big
Brothers Big Sisters - Forsyth
County and an attorney-coach
for the Forsyth Central High
School Mock Trial Team,
which competes with other
high schools in fostering
careers in the legal profession.
Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners a model for
planning collaboration between
the county government and the
school board. The model is
based on those used by other
fast-growing counties in the
nation, she said.
“If we have a proactive plan
we can prevent some of the
problems these fast growing
counties have experienced,”
Kasica said.
Kasica favors using impact
fees to build new schools and
asking developers for land
donations. She said developers
should be willing to help with
school funding because a strong
school system attracts home
owners.
“Nobody is going to buy a
$500,000 house in a neighbor
hood with overcrowded
schools,” Kasica said.
As a board of education
said.
Like SR 580, Cagle’s SR
581 could spell tax relief for
property owners. Cagle pro
posed that the growth of the
millage rate and taxable value
of property be limited to the
inflation rate.
Currently, property valua
tion for Forsyth County ad val
orem taxation is frozen upon
property purchase until a sale or
capital improvement occurs.
The freeze does not affect the
Forsyth County Schools portion
of the millage rate, according to
Dan Jones, school system
finance director. This amend
ment would limit the amount of
increase in property assess-
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member, Kasica said she would
spend more time physically in
the schools.
“I plan to actually be in the
schools because I think the par
ents need to know their district
representative. I would make
sure the district representatives
are a present face in the
schools,” Kasica said.
Instead of forming focus
groups and task forces to study
issues such as fund raising,
Kasica said the school board
should attend PTA meetings to
get parents involved.
“I’m coming at it from a
parent’s perspective,” she said.
Kasica is a Greensboro,
N.C., native and the daughter
of a Baptist minister. She
graduated from the University
of North Carolina in 1987
with degrees in psychology
and biology.
She worked in pharmaceuti-
ments for education tax purpos
es. It would restrict growth of
the tax digest, the value of all
taxable property in the county.
Because the tax digest
increased by 5.4 percent last
year, the cunent millage rate of
15.5 earns more revenue than
last year.
“That’s how we’re able to
keep the millage rate low,
because of an increase in the
digest,” Jones said.
While SR 580 would
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cal sales for Squibb
Pharmaceuticals in Princeton,
N.J., until 1993 when she
moved back to Greensboro.
There she worked as an account
executive for Interim and
Coram Healthcare negotiating
managed care and hospital sys
tem contracts. Kasica left her
career to become a fulltime
homemaker when she relocated
to Forsyth County with her hus
band and two small children in
1998.
Kasica’s opponent,
Stephens, was appointed by
the Board of Education to fill
the seat left vacant by the late
Don Hendricks. In November
2002, he won a special elec
tion to fijl the remainder of
the term.
“This is not really a cam
paign against Jeff [Stephens].
This a campaign about parents
for the kids,” Kasica said.
increase local flexibility in
spending tax revenue, SR
581 would limit local flexi
bility in collecting tax rev
enue.
“I think it’s taking authority
from the local board of educa
tion and the local govern
ment,” Gault said.
Cagle said he does not
intend to move the resolution
further in the Senate because
similar legislation is under
review.
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