County expected to pick SPLOST committee members
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
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County commissioners will connect names with the movement to get a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax passed by voters in November.

The board is set to appoint seven residents to the 2013 Citizen SPLOST Committee at its regular meeting tonight.

Caucus will be at 4:30 p.m. while the meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m. in the County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. Both meetings are open to the public.

At least a dozen applications from people wishing to be on the committee were turned in to the Floyd County Commission by last week.

The County Commission will select six to represent the county plus one to represent the city of Cave Spring.

These representatives, along with four others appointed by the Rome City Commission, will hear proposals and make recommendations on public projects and capital purchases that could be funded through a possible SPLOST.

City and county officials have the final say on the package, which is set to be finalized in September and put to a vote in the Nov. 5 general election. The 2009 SPLOST collection will end June 30.

Also on the agenda for tonight’s meeting is a discussion on the management of the parking lot that serves the Floyd County Courthouse and the Floyd County Courthouse next to The Forum.

Interim Floyd County Manager Gary Burkhalter said the county manages the lot while it has a contract with the Downtown Development Authority to oversee other downtown parking and parking decks the county owns.

The County Commission is set to discuss the possibility of turning the courthouse lot over to the group as well. Burkhalter said he is not sure if any action will be taken on the matter tonight.
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NoIdea
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February 26, 2013
Google floyd county georgia budget. The first non-advertisement link that comes up is to the budget. RN-t deletes links when they don't like them. Total revenues for all Floyd county government - @$45 million.

According to Floyd county schools website, total revenues annually are @$86 million.
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wish2010
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February 26, 2013
If those voting have any intelligence they will vote no to every SPLOST referendum.
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drdewrag
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February 26, 2013
D. O. A.
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LimitGovernment
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February 26, 2013
Can we build one more Parking Deck on the River while we are at it. Lord knows we need one less Commercial Property on the Tax Roll.....
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gigitygigity
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February 26, 2013
You might just get your wish cause it sounds to me like they don't know what they want the money for. Looks like before you start wanting to tax people more you would at least tell them the plan for the money. It don't matter to me because until they get responsible with money I will continue to vote NO.
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LimitGovernment
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February 26, 2013
Responsible Government GIGS???

I think the responsible thing to do is force the Floyd County Government to start writing a check to the Floyd County Board of Education to cover state gaps in funding if they do not want this town to turn into Albany or worse....

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FormerRomanJr.
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February 26, 2013
Funny, The county I live in mailed out a Tax Report today..Tells what % of your tax dollars goes where..I would suggest Floyd Countians demand the same facts..In our case 56% goes to support the government and 44% to schools..

I wonder what the ratio is in Floyd.

Demand it!
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NoIdea
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February 26, 2013
Floyd County board of education has four high schools and feeder schools and can't operate off over double the money that the entire Floyd county government operates off of. All they have to do is teach kids. Floyd coutny government has to pave all the roads, house/feed/medicate 800 adult prisoners at the jail 24/7, run a prison, run a work release center, secure the courthouse, serve papers, clean ditches, policing the entire county, collecting taxes, assessing taxes, keeping up with all revenues and expenditures, and running all the other little things that they do.

Throwing more money in that education/indoctrination sinkhole is the last thing we need to do.
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LimitGovernment
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February 27, 2013
NoIdea is an appropriate name for you poster. Considering that the FCBOE budget includes feeding of 60% of its children that qualify for low income meals. If the qualifying poverty of the children in this county is that and possibly higher, the teachers are doing a remarkable job considering the circumstances.

Your SPLOST committee of years past, which included Tea Party Mike "No Tax" Morton, just strapped you with no less of a million dollars per year in more local taxpayer expenses with out $27million dollar 800mgzyzyzhz trunking radio system.... I'm gonna stop right there for now. I'll save more nuggets for FormerRoman.

When all of you So Called Conservative 30k Millionaires wake up, your gonna realize you cut your social security checks with the Tea Party, yet you passed tons of Subsidized baseball stadiums, parking decks on rivers, $4million on a HUGE emergency management facility that should also house a few homeless Romans since Tent City may soon elect a mayor and the Private shelters are full. What else am I missing? 15 Courthouse renovations along the way? SPLOST!!!!!!!!
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