Gwinnett BoC Approves Tax Increase
Share this post by emailThe Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved a 21 percent, 2.28 millage rate increase by a 4-to-1 vote. Mike Beaudreau was the only commissioner to vote against the measure.
More than 400 citizens filled the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center auditorium with approximately two dozen making comment in the public hearing that preceded the vote.
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December 1st, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Always worth mentioning:
- Gwinnett stadium deal (part 1) $40 million. - Negotiation in complete secrecy. No public hearings, no public input.
- Gwinnett stadium deal (part 2) $24 million. - Cost overruns. Didn’t think it through the first time. There was however a public hearing,…. no public input allowed, but it was public. What’s the point?…
- Two lawsuits pending ($40 million each) regarding the Gwinnett BoC and Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and government sanctioned garbage pickup. In reality this means we’re going to be spending double what we were spending before for garbage.
- Overpayment for land acquisitions with questionable circumstances. These deals are currently being investigated by a special grand jury.
I’m not opposed to paying taxes as long as the money is spent wisely and ethically. Someone convince me that our BoC is going to spend any new money better than they spent the old.
Gwinnett County is on record - as reported by the GDP - as saying that the stadium would pay for itself “from day one”. Not so much, huh.
There is a lot of gray area open for arguing which services should be cut to make up for the poor decisions of our BoC, but there is no arguing why we’re currently in the economic situation we’re in.
BTW - I see that others are commenting on the reduction of their property assessments. My property assessments went up 3 times in roughly 10 years and has not gone down. My “real” property value is approximately 60 - 70% of what it is curently assessed by Gwinnett County and from what I gather from the Gwinnett County website I can’t even begin the process of rectifying the issue before January 1st of next year.
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 AM
GWINNETT COUNTY PROPERTY ASSESSMENT x MILLAGE RATE = TAX BILL.
There is no way that the county can raise your property value assessments right now so they hop to the other side of the mathematical and political equation and raise the millage rate.
There is always a way for county government to raise your property taxes and the ONLY way to keep the process in check is to vote better people into office and/or boot the bad ones out of office.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Sorry I don’t have a lot of factual data to provide, but this just stinks. We’re made to suffer because the Board of Crooks isn’t responsible with our tax dollars.