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_The Summerville News, October 9, 1986
6-A
10-Mill Tax
from front page
that are now fiaid for out of
local funds, with special ed fun
dinglfrom the state.”
ayes expressed a ‘‘wait
and see’’ attitude as he work
ed to finalize the budget
Wednesday afternoon.
“We can live with it,"" he
said of the difference between
the local budget and expected
local revenues. “The board
feels that there will be a lot of
back taxes collected this f'ear.
With the sale of the school pro
erty, and sales tax money, we
would still be in the ball park.
There is also the mid-term ad
justment, when the state
reevaluates our needs for fun
din%."
he tax rate for bonded in
debtedness was approved at a
half mill.
The 10-mill progerty tax
rate was arrived at after a 10.5
millage rate proposed by
William Mitche% was disap-
R;oved. Leon King sup%orted
itchell’s proiosal. oard
members Cook, Leroy Massey
and Joyce Johnson voted no.
“I would like to set a
millage rate where we don't
have to borrow money,"” King
said.
MUST BORROW
“There is no way when we
operate on a fiscal year,"” Cook
replied. ‘“We have to operate
from July until tax time each
year with almost no funds com
ing in. It's always the first of
the year before we get any tax
money."’
Cook, saying he was sure
back taxes wou%d be collected
this year, gave a second to a
motion by Mrs. Johnson for a
10-mill tax rate. Board
members Cook, Johnson and
Massey voted in favor while
King and Mitchell opposed.
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NEW SITE?
The board learned that it
would have to reconsider the
site for the new board of educa
tion office. Sewer connections
run from the back of the pro
perty and are not near the en
trance where the board
originally planned to construct
the building. Running sewer
lines to the site would%e cost
ly and would require tearing up
part of the recent(l{v comgleted
paving at the middle school.
Before the meeting adjourn
ed, the board traveled to the
new middle school where
members discussed an alter
native office site at the side of
the school.
Chairman Cook said that
the board would have time to
request bids on the new office
building since the Hurley fami
ly had agreed to give it five
months rent free in their pre
sent offices. The family pur
chased the old superinten
dent's office at auction
recently.
OFFICES
The board also discussed
plans for the new offices, which
Cook said would be streamlin
ed. “*We're going to cut back,”
Cook said. “We don't want to
spend all our money on new of
fices. Money from the sale of
the property will go to finish
out the new middle school and
buy the bleachers and t.hin§s
we have obligated for. I would
like some part of it to go on
lowering the millage rate.”
The board agreed to ap
¥rove final plans E)rr the new of
ice at its regular meeting next
Monday night.
The board unanimously ag)-
%roved the hiring of Linda
amilton as an aide at Lyerly
School.
FROM ATLANTA DEALER
County Buys Two
Vehicles Without
Asking For Bids
Chattooga Count{ Commis
sioner Harry Powell may not
have complied with Geor%ia
law on Sept. 30 when he
bought two new patrol cars for
the sheriff's office for a total of
$23,000 without advertising
for bids.
Powell bought the vehicles
from Hub Motor Co., Atlanta,
for $11,500 each. The county
has not advertised in The News
for sealed bids on the two
vehicles and spokesmen for
Jimmy Black Bhevrolet Co.
and Brimp Warren Ford Inc.,
Summervrle. said those firms
had not been contacted by the
commissioner to seek big’s.
A state law applicable to
Chattooga County says ‘‘all
purchases, except emergencies
and/or used equifiment. in ex
cess of SI,OOO, shall be made
ug‘on sealed competitive bid."
That same law requires the
county to advertise for bids “'in
the oéicial organ of the coun
ty.”
CRITICIZED
Powell had criticized Sheriff
Gary McConnell several weeks
ago for purchasing three used,
surplus vehicles from the state
of georgia at a total cost of
$4,500, saying that bids were
required before such purchases
were made.
The exception in the law to
“used equipment’’ would seem
to cover McConnell's action
last May. Powell paid for the
three vehicles in mid-
September. State officials had
said that they had written
authorization from Powell on
file allowing McConnell and
several other county employees
or officials to buy surplus pro
perty when the sheriff bought
the cars last May. Powell has
since changed tl);e authoriza
tion to delete McConnell from
the authorization card.
Hub Motor Co., until June
12, was the state’s contracted
supplier of cars for the Georgia
State Patrol. However, that
contract expired and the state
has not entered into a new con
tract with Hub or another vehi
cle dealer, according to Tom
Bostick, director of the State
Purchasing Department.
Although Hub supplied the
state with vehicles prior to the
June 12 contract expiration, if
the state now needs a vehicle
before a new contract dealer is
obtained, the state must obtain
several bids rather than simp
ly buying a car from Hub
Motor Co., Bostick said.
DISCOUNT
He said Ford Motor Co.
gives dealers who sell patrol
cars with pursuit packages a
special discount so that they
can sell the vehicles at lower
than normal prices.
Jack Pierce of Hub said
that since the pursuit packages
are listed as ‘‘gas guzzlers,”
dealers planning to order the
vehicles from Ford Motor Co.
must obtain a special number
from the Internaf Revenue Ser
vice (IRS). If a dealer seeks to
order the special vehicles from
Ford without that IRS
number, the manufacturer will
not sell them at a discount to
the dealers, Pierce said.
Bostick said purpose of the
system is to prevent dealers
from obtaining manufacturer's
discounts on the vehicles and
then selling them to the public
at lower than normal prices.
Dealers must also demonstrate
that they have a purchase
order from a city or county to
obtain the discount, he
indicated.
IRS NUMBER
Dealers with the special
IRS number may continue to
order the pursuit packages
after their contract with the
state expires but they do not
receive tge manufacturer’s dis
count, Bostick indicated.
Those dealers, such as Hub,
keep a number of the pursuit
patrol cars in stock year-round
to meet the needs of cities or
counties, Bostick said.
Pierce, who said he didn't
know what Hub's discount
price was on the vehicles
bought by Powell, indicated
that the commissioner had con
tacted another IRS-certified
dealer in Augusta but the firm
had already sold the patrol cars
it had in stock. Pierce said he
also thought Brimp Warren
Ford Inc. had been contacted.
Pierce also said he couldn't
remember when Hub's con
tract with the state expired.
Bostick said Hub's dis
count l:price on the Crown Vic
toria Fords before June 12 was
$10,658 for blue and gra
units. If the cars were soliv;f](;oit
or, he said, another S9O should
be deducted. That would have
lowered the price to $10,568
per unit — or $932 less than
the price paid by Chattooga
County. Total savings to tfie
county if the vehicles had been
bought prior to June 12 would
have been $1,864, according to
the figures provided by
Bostick.
BEHIND
The state official said the
state is runnin% behind this
year on seeking bids for a new
contract to suplply the state
with vehicles. If a contract
were to be awarded by around
Dec. 1 of this year, he said, it
would be around the end of
February or first of March,
1987, before the new 1987
models would be delivered.
Sheriff McConnell said this
week he had sought to obtain
the vehicles through Brimp
Warren Ford Inc. after the
commissioner had made a deci
sion to buy the vehicles from
Hub Motor Co. McConnell said
he had hoped that Brimp War
ren could obtain brown-colored
cars through Hub rather than
the white vehicles that Hub
had listed, in an effort to save
the county money in repainting
costs. The sherié’ s oft‘i)ce uses
brown-colored vehicles as
patrol cars.
Wesson's Body Shop was
reflainting the two white
vehicles brown this week.
LETTER
McConnell had written
Powell a letter Sept. 11 askin
for five new patrorcars. Powefi
responded on Se'pt. 17 by say
ing the sheriff ‘‘might go
blind"’ waiting for five vehicles.
The commissioner did say
Sept. 16 that he would ‘‘think
about’ advertising for bids on
a maximum of two patrol cars.
In early September when
Powell criticize(f McConnell for
buying three surplus cars from
the state, the commissioner
said, ‘*Any property we buy is
supposed to be bid and it was
net bid . ..~
McConnell's 1986 budget
was submitted to Powell in the
summer of 1985 and listed
$34,760 for purchase of patrol
cars.
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Won’t Pay
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Car Bill,
Says Powell
Chattooga County Commis
sioner Harry Powell said in an
interview with WGTA radio
Wednesday that he didn't
know what a second repair bill
from Wesson Body Shop was
for and wouldn’t pay the
$804.50.
Powell had refused to pay
the bill earlier this fall, saying
it was for work on a sheriff's
patrol car that the county
didn't own.
Sheriff Gary McConnell
had obtained the patrol car,
along with two more used,
surplus cars from the state last
May.
After saying repeatedly
that the county didn't own the
vehicles, Powell wrote the state
a check for $4,500 — total cost
of all three cars — on Sept. 15.
Powell also sent Wesson a
check for $943.03 on Sept. 15
for body work to one of the
vehicles as the result of an ac
cident. Wesson had billed the
county Aug. 8 for work he had
done at his Teloga body shop.
However, Wesson had also
sent Powell a bill July 11 for
$804.50 for body work on that
same car, as tKe result of a
June 24 accident. It is that bill
that Powell has not paid.
Wesson said Wednesday he
is still insisting that his at
torney, Carlton Vines, Sum
merville, file suit against the
county for the July 11 bill.
Vines has said several times
that he was doing research on
the issue.
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