Thursday, February 14, 2013
A new sidewalk will be built on Old Roswell Road and a wireless monopine will be constructed on Swaybranch Drive.
Roswell city leaders approved a contract with a company to build a sidewalk along Old Roswell Road during its meeting on Monday. The City Council approved awarding a bid and signing a construction contract with PE Structures and Associates, LLC for $105,481.01. The company was the lowest bidder for the project. The city received 15 bids ranging between $88,357.55 to $217,824.80 and four were either rejected or disqualified. The project will build a sidewalk to close a cap at a culvert on the west side of Old Roswell Road, about 500 feet north of Commerce Parkway. The Council also:
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Local leaders are asking everyone who agrees to sign a petition.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
It started with the simple idea to write a letter of support to Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) for his steadfast position on fiscal restraint and holding the line on tax increases. It turned into a call to fellow Republicans across the country to stand by its convictions as the fiscally prudent Party. By an overwhelming majority, the Fulton County Republican Party (FultonGOP) voted to approve a petition that was written by FultonGOP members and approved by its Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is comprised of the FultonGOP leadership who are all elected to their positions. It calls on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and all Republicans to abide by the Party’s own stated principles of lower taxes and smaller government. "For the …
Monday, October 1, 2012
The Board of Commissioners will hold required public input budget hearings across the county, including Roswell
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Mark your calendars for the start of the more than two months of Fulton County budget wrangling, starting with public hearings held by the Board of Commissioners here in Roswell, as well as Sandy Springs, Atlanta and College Park. The Board of Commissioners wants – and is required to request – input and suggestions on the 2013 General Fund and South Fulton Tax District Fund budgets. The public hearings will provide Fulton County citizens an opportunity to obtain information about the budget process and to lend their voice to decision making, according to a news release from the county. The Board of Commissioners welcomes and encourages all residents to participate in the hearings that are scheduled as follows: The county "freed up" $17 …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Fulton County residents are invited to attend a public hearing on July 11 on a proposed increase in millage rates, used to set property taxes.
Fulton County is considering raising property taxes. Have something to say about it? The county is inviting residents to a public hearing on the 2012 General Fund Millage Rate on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 10 a.m. The board will consider a revenue neutral millage rate of 10.791 mills. This reflects a 0.51 mill adjustment compared to the 2011 rate of 10.281 mills in order to offset the average decline in property values. If approved, the 0.51 mill adjustment would net approximately $17 million in revenue for the General Fund. The public hearing will take place in Assembly Hall of the Fulton County Government Center, 141 Pryor Street SW, Atlanta. The meeting will be video-conferenced, allowing residents to participate from the South Fulton …
Saturday, June 9, 2012
A meeting next week will go over the county's tax assessment process and how an appeal can be made.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Fulton County District 3 Commissioner Liz Hausmann will host a community meeting next Tuesday to give homeowners a chance to learn about the tax assessment process. Members of the Fulton County Board of Assessors will be on hand to answer questions about how tax assessments are determined and how to appeal an assessment. The Fulton County Assessors’ Office recently had to mail approximately 945 corrected assessment notices to owners affected by a coding problem in the appraisal system. The notices are for parcels that should have had the values frozen by appeals to the Board of Equalization, according to Chief Appraiser David Fitzgibbon. Fitzgibbon said a small group of parcels failed to roll over the code in the system that maintains the …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The event takes place at Roswell City Hall, Monday, May 21.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The impending TSPLOST vote has conjured up both champions and opponents, so in an effort to hear each side, Roswell City Hall will host a transportation education and advocacy forum on Monday. The goal of the event is to assist voters in deciding how to vote on the TSPLOST (Transportation-Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) referendum later this summer, during the Georgia primary election on July 31. A 10 year one percent sales tax would be collected in each of the 12 regions of the state where it passes. Roswell is part of Region 3 or the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). “We have serious transportation woes in our area,” says Roswell Councilmember Dr. Betty Price, who serves as the Roswell City Council liaison to the Roswell …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Launches TrafficTruth.net website to inform voters about TIA / T-SPLOST vote on July ballot.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Transportation Leadership Coalition (TLC), LLC recently launched a grassroots campaign to inform voters of what it says is the truth about the proposed regional transportation sales tax (T-SPLOST). Approximately 75 grassroots activists representing several organizations, along with elected officials who opposed the one percent transportation sales tax, gathered at Adventure Outdoors in Marietta to discuss the proposed one percent sales tax statewide referendum. “We put out the invitation to various grassroots organizers to meet under one roof and learn more about this tax. We were very pleased with the response from across the state as far south as Valdosta,” said Jack Staver, chairman of Transportation Leadership Coalition in a news …
Monday, December 5, 2011
Matthew Fowler says Georgia invests less per capita in transportation than any state but Tennessee. But opponents say too much funding is dedicated to light rail and not enough to road improvements.
Matthew Fowler was the keynote speaker at the Fall 2011 Economic Development Luncheon at the Lanier Technical College Forsyth Conference Center Thursday. The Georgia Department of Transportation's Assistant Planning Administrator was in Cumming to pitch the T-SPLOST that supporters say will generate $18.7 billion for projects aimed at solving metro Atlanta's traffic woes. Under House Bill 277, voters in each of Georgia’s 12-planning regions must decide whether to impose a 1-percent sales tax to fund regional projects developed by local elected officials. Proponents have about eight months to convince voters to impose another tax on themselves. The referendum is set for next July. Fowler said, Georgia invests less per capita in …
Philip Beck
1:15 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Apparently it is rocket science for the spineless. But first, before anyone poo-poos giving in to liberal think, you should make a list of the benefits that negotiating with progressives will bring to the conservative cause: 1: Well, that reason isn’t a bennie. 2: That one’s worse than #1. 3. That’s the least beneficial of them all. 4: All in favor of poo-poo, say yea. more ›