Taxes & Budgets

Paulding County Commissioner Tommie Graham Mocks and Insults the Taxpayers

June 29, 2011
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The second half of this video speaks for itself. It was recorded on Monday, June 27th 2011 with mostly county employees present. The public hearing on the pending budget was scheduled for the following day. Mr. Graham (POST III COMMISSIONER) was obviously upset that he couldn’t find anyone to push for a mill-rate increase....
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Someone Broke The Law

August 25, 2010
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Here are the facts: 1. The 2011 County M&O Budget is scheduled to be voted on September 16, 2010, at the 2pm Board of Commissioners meeting. 2. The “CODE OF PAULDING COUNTY, GEORGIA” states: ARTICLE I. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS* *Editor’s note: Printed in this article is 1975 Ga. Laws, page 2916, as amended, as adopted...
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Petition to Reverse Paulding County’s Property Tax/Mill-Rate Increase

August 19, 2010
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Petition to Reverse Paulding County’s Property Tax/Mill-Rate Increase

PLEASE SHARE WITH AS MANY FELLOW PAULDING COUNTY RESIDENTS AS POSSIBLE!!! ALSO, SHOW UP TO THE PUBLIC HEARING THIS COMING TUESDAY, AUGUST 24TH, AT 10AM. KEEP PRESSING ON! We, the undersigned, call on the Paulding County Board of Commissioners to roll the County M&O Mill-rate back to 6.65 mills. We believe that a 31%...
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Paulding’s Mill-Rate Increase: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

August 7, 2010
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Paulding’s Mill-Rate Increase: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

In a few short days, this Tuesday at 2pm to be exact, our Board of Commissioners will be voting to raise the M & O property tax mill-rate by 14.3%. Let’s take a look at this increase and it’s impact on our Fiscal Year 2011 Budget (dollar amounts are in millions): The Good: We...
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Upon Further Review – 2010 Budget

October 8, 2009
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Upon Further Review – 2010 Budget

Well a month has gone by and not much clarity has been provided concerning the final 2010 budget.  I received an email from Pat Tibbets on 9/16 which contained the same Aug 7th 1-page budget summary that was provided by the county finance director.  Here is a summary of the differences between the July 15th...
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Has Anyone Seen the 2010 Budget?

September 12, 2009
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Folks, I’m having a tough time locating the 2010 budget that was passed by the BOC on August 11th. As you see below, the 2010 budget was proposed on June 1st, revised on Jul 17th, and revised again on August 7th. The curious thing is that the Aug 7th budget only had a one-page...
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