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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Weekend Edition-August 26-27,2022 FORSYTHNEWS.COM $2.00
Man charged with murder, assault of wife
Victim found dead at scene in Johns Creek
By Kelly Whitmire
kwh itm i r e@f o rsythnews.com
A suspect has been charged in con
nection with a fatal shooting in Johns
Creek on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
According to a news release from the
Johns Creek Police Department, JC
Rayo-Mancilla, 33, was charged with
one count of murder and two counts of
aggravated assault under the Georgia
Family Violence Act after his wife,
Tania Rivera, 29, was found dead at the
scene of the shooting. The release
said Rayo-Mancilla was found on the
scene with a gunshot wound to the head.
Rayo-Mancilla is being treated for his
injuries and has not been booked into
the Fulton County Jail.
Police responded to a call home inside
the Hunters Forest neighborhood, locat
ed off Jones Bridge Road, at about 7:30
a.m. on Tuesday.
The release said officers responded
after receiving a 911 call from a female
inside the residence but did not confirm
whether that person was Rivera.
“Details of the call are still being
investigated, but, based off information
related to dispatchers, the call was dis
patched as a trouble unknown,” the
See MURDER 12A
GOVERNMENT
County adopts
2023 budget at
$186.1 million
A portion includes salary
increases for first responders
Longtime water supply
Ashlyn Yule Forsyth County News
Barry Lucas, Forsyth County's director of water and sewer department, uses a bottle of raw
sewage and a bottle of treated water to show how the water is treated before it's returned
to Lake Lanier.
Forsyth County will start intaking water
from Lake Lanier. Find out how
By Ashlyn Yule
ayule@forsythnews.com
For more than three decades, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida have been at odds over the use of
shared river basins and drinking water.
According to the Atlanta Regional Commission,
litigation began when Alabama sued the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to “prevent it from pro
viding additional water to metro Atlanta from
Lake Lanier.”
The Tri-State Water Wars saw multiple lawsuits
and rulings in the years that followed.
In 2021, Forsyth and Gwinnett counties won
the right to use Lake Lanier for drinking water.
By Ashlyn Yule
ayule@forsythnews.com
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners
adopted on Thursday, Aug. 18, a general fund budget
for 2023 that includes an increase to boost salaries of
first responders.
County Manager Kevin Tanner presented the
$186.1 million budget, which is about a 13.4%
increase from 2022 ’s budget.
He said the Fiscal Year 2023 budget contemplates
a 4% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, and fund
ing for 25 new full-time employees.
The budget assumes an unchanged millage rate, a
net tax digest growth of 13.45% and forecasted real
and personal property tax revenue increase of 19.7%
with a 97% property tax collection rate.
Tanner spoke about employee raises, focusing on
first responders such as firefighters, sheriff’s depu
ties and 911 dispatchers.
He said that “all of our neighbors, those that we
compete with” have increased their first responders’
pay, so the 2023 budget proposed a 16% increase to
keep in line with surrounding municipalities and to
“keep the highest quality staff ... keeping our com
munity safe.”
The fire fund is separate and is proposed at
$38,796,369 for 2023, which is a 19.64% increase
from the 2022 adopted fire fund of $32,426,794.
Other revenues for the fire fund and capital/contin
gency expenditures are proposed to increase over
See BUDGET15A
See WATER 15A
Tributes pour in for former Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal
By Jeff Gill
FCN regional staff
Always pleasant and cordial, former
First Lady Sandra Deal wouldn’t just wave
goodbye and hit the exit right after attend
ing an event.
“We never could stay on schedule
because she wanted to help whomever
hosted the event to clean up,” said Chris
Riley, who served as chief of staff for
Deal’s husband, Gov. Nathan Deal,
throughout his 2011-19 term.
“She was one of the most loving ladies
you would ever know,” said Riley, who has
known the couple for 30 years. “She only
saw the best in anyone.”
His tribute was one of many that have
See DEAL 13A
Georgia First Lady
Sandra Deal reads
'Behind the Little Red
Door' to a class at
Akers Academy in 2018,
during Georgia Pre-K
Week.
File photo by Brian Paglia
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Forecast! 2A
Georgia's 6th Congressional
District candidates discuss
issues ahead of election. 4A
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