As of Wednesday, July 11, 2012
© Copyright 2013
Albany Herald
As a property owner in Dougherty County, I would like to comment on a couple of statements made in The Herald.
1: Mr. Sinyard, increasing property taxes is not so tough. You just raise your hand and cast your vote without having to look anyone in the face and say this will happen again. Probably next year. A tough thing to do would be to tell the DCP chief not to worry about the $78,000 moving fee because that can be taken care of. But you tell the chief that come 01/01/2013 he will no longer be employed as chief. You then call the sheriff of Dougherty County and tell him that as of 01/01/2013 he will be running both departments. You also tell the sheriff that by 12/01/2012 you will need to see in writing how he is going to do this and cut 15 percent of his staff. Now that would be tough but the right thing for the property owners of Dougherty County.
2: Mr. Hudgins, it's not the $200 per month increase that bothers me. It's the $360 per month that you already get, plus all you will get in the future. There seems to be no end to property taxes and no way to stop you leaders from spending. Revenue is not coming back to Dougherty County. With less revenue you have to make big cuts and we all know that labor is the largest expense in any company or government.
JOSEPH DAVIS
Albany
More like this story
- Property owner concerned with officials ( June 29, 2012 )
- Public hearing set for millage tax increase ( July 7, 2012 )
- County commission votes to raise unincorporated area taxes ( July 16, 2012 )
- Dougherty Commission OKs FY 2013 budget (with video) ( June 25, 2012 )
- Larger budget transfer expected from county coffers (video added) ( May 30, 2012 )
Comments
Use the comment form below to begin a discussion about this content.
Sign in to comment
Or login with:
OpenID