Today: Last Chance to Testify to Stop Bartow County School Tax hike. Monday, 8/14 11 am and 5:30 pm.
Come 30 minutes ahead to sign up or email ahead
The Bartow County School Board will be working hard to raise your taxes today. They continue to pass the blame and say it is “not their fault” that you will see a higher tax bill. How is it not your fault? Well, you had the poor taste to allow your home value to “go up” on paper and therefore you have more “value” in your home and must pay higher taxes because of it! You see, they say, it is not them raising taxes when they don’t lower the millage rate to keep your tax bill the same. It is just a pure coincidence that you will send more taxes to them because you happen to be much richer this year than last year.
Are you buying that? Obviously not.
Public Meeting: 65 Gilreath Road Cartersville, Georgia 30121
Monday August 14th at 11 am and 5:30 p.m.
How to sign up to speak (they will not let you speak if not signed up at least 30 minutes ahead of time) more bureaucratic interference to hearing the voice of the citizens.
Show up by 11 am or by 5 pm and sign up to speak.
Call the school board and leave a message for Lynn Huskins at 770-606-5800, extension 3838. Be aware that if she does NOT call to confirm, this will not work.
Email lynn.huskins@bartow.k12.ga.us and request to speak. If no email response back, assume you will need to show up by no later than 5:45 to sign up.
Go to the School Board to testify today to let them know you expect them to cut spending and ask them to roll back the millage rate to the roll back rate so your Bartow County School Property taxes won’t go up.
Budget update
The blog has obtained budget information for the proposed 2023-2024 budget, but the data on how it compares to the prior budget is being slow rolled and not available at press time for comparison. It would have been very easy for the school board Chair to ask for the full budget data to be released, but the bureaucracy is in charge and the reps of the voters are just hiding behind the bureaucrats.
Bartow County Schools
(proposed) PERCENT TAX HIKE: 15.4%
MORE DETAILS 1)these 2)recent 3)posts.
Public Meeting: 65 Gilreath Road Cartersville, Georgia 30121
August 14th at 11 am and 5:30 p.m.
The politicians who offer you lame excuses and happy talk and then vote to raise your taxes need to be replaced. Especially if they ran as “small government conservatives”. Primary season is here. Will you step up and run? The City of Cartersville registration to run for City council is here and is between 8/21-8/24. https://www.cityofcartersville.org/city-clerk/page/municipal-elections
I'll be there. Getting there early to speak.