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Riverside Military Academy ^Larv., credits seniors’ commitment -Vjyf for playoff success, sporis, 1 b THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018 | $1.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com Jingle Mingle: It’s the best time of the year, get out, 6a Honestly Local Oakwood wary about slice of tax pie City officials worried that slow residential growth could result in less SPLOST funding BY JEFF GILL jgill@gainesvilletimes.com As Hall County begins looking at a future round of potential SPLOST projects, Oakwood is concerned its lack of residential growth in recent years might hurt the South Hall city financially. “I’ve learned that the city is ... the smallest growth city in Hall County, as far as residential (num bers are) concerned,” Mayor Lamar Scroggs said to Oakwood City Council on Monday, Nov. 12. He made the comment during the council’s discus sion of a proposed 107-unit townhome complex off McEver and Flat Creek roads. The council ended up voting down the proj ect, with Councilman Ste phen Hendrix saying the complex “doesn’t meet our (com prehensive land-use) plan.” The voter-approved special purpose local option sales tax program, com monly known as SPLOST, helps fund public proj ects around the county, with each government getting funding based on population. The current SPLOST VII was approved in 2015 for five years. “We are in the process of orga nizing a meeting with elected officials from the county and its municipalities regarding SPLOST VIII, and (we) hope to schedule that meeting by the end of this year,” Hall spokeswoman Katie Crumley said. She said the 2017 census “is the source we will be using to prepare for this upcoming meeting.” Oakwood had 3,970 resi dents in the 2010 census and a pop ulation estimate of 4,148 in 2017, or less than a 5 percent increase, according to census data. By comparison, Flow ery Branch in South Hall had 5,679 residents in the 2010 census and a popula tion estimate of 7,477 in 2017, a nearly 32 percent increase. “We know if our popu lation grows at a slower rate than the other cities in the county, then we are likely to ■ Please see SPLOST, 8A Scroggs Brown ‘A caregiver at heart’ SCOn ROGERS I The Times Anslee Wilson, founder of A Helping Hand Home Care, is one of the 2018 recipients awarded at Brenau’s Masters of Innovation ceremony on Wednesday. Woman 1 of 7 to receive Masters of Business accolade New records system gives court headache BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com The implementation of the Hall County Sheriff’s Office’s new records management system last week has created some issues for employees at the county courthouse. The department’s 30-year-old records management system was recently replaced along with a jail management system from Superion at a cost of more than $3 million. The courthouse uses the Hall County Comprehensive Jus tice Information System, which involves input from sheriff’s office staff. The two systems are having trouble exchanging information. Court Administrator Reggie Forrester said there will be a meeting on Nov. 28 with officials from the sheriff’s office on “how we can get these two systems to communicate or how we can work out getting information.” “The concerns are that this is a brand-new system from the jail side, and the courts depend a lot on that information to run daily,” Forrester said. Multiple courthouse employees have expressed concern ■ Please see RECORDS, 8A HALL BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Townhomes, road closing on agenda ‘I had no idea that it (Masters of Business) existed ... I was honored to be selected with that group of people.’ Anslee Wilson Award recipient and founder of A Helping Hand Home Care BY JOSHUA SILAVENT jsilavent@ gainesvilletimes.com Anslee Wilson admits that she was surprised to be sitting alongside some of Gainesville’s most prominent business lead ers and philanthropists on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The panel of guests at the Entrepreneurs: Mas ters of Innovation awards held by the Featherbone Communiversity inside the Business Incubator at Brenau University was indeed distinguished. It included Jim Wal ters, founder of Walters Management Co., who received the 2018 Life time Achievement Award; Mike McGraw of Ranger Manufacturing; Bill Hall of Murray Plastics; Norma Hernandez of Accounting & Business Services; Bob Swoszowski, co-founder of Northeast Georgia Inc. who is a McDonald’s fran chisee with more than 20 locations; and Carlos Dominguez of Domin guez & Jones Wealth Management. “I had no idea that it existed,” Wilson, 47, said afterward. “I was honored to be selected with that group of people.” Her surprise is notable because of her own suc cess as an entrepreneur. Wilson started an in-home caregiving business in Gainesville in 2011. For more than a decade the Gainesville High and University of Georgia graduate had worked in real estate, but when the housing bubble burst about 10 years ago, Wilson began taking stock. “The whole feel of real estate was changing,” she said. Wilson began thinking ■ Please see AWARD, 8A BY MEGAN REED mreed@gainesvilletimes.com On Thursday, the Hall County Board of Commissioners will vote on townhomes on Spout Springs Road and a road closure near Healan’s Head’s Mill in North Hall. While several other items had been scheduled for a vote on Thursday, they are expected to be tabled until a later time. Spout Springs Road townhomes Hall County Board of Commissioners When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 Where: Hall County Government Center, 2875 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville New townhomes may be going in at a previously approved subdivision on Spout Springs Road, pending commis sioners’ approval Thursday The 138-acre subdivision near Spout Springs Elemen tary School would have 187 single-family homes and 144 I Please see VOTE, 8A INSIDE WEATHER 2A DEATHS 9A 0 40901 06835 Advice 4B Bridge 4B Business 3B Calendar 2A Classified 6B 8 Comics 5B Get Out 6A Lottery 2A Opinion 4A Our Region 8A Sports 1B TV/puzzles 4B High Low ^0/44 32 Lake Lanier level: 1,071.23 feet Full pool 1,071. Up 0.51 feet in 24 hours Mary Bales Benefield, 73 Alice Jean Anderson Butler, 87 Louise Maude Cruse, 82 Melanie Bertrand Farmer, 37 Richard M. 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