Pulaski County Mo. Missouri

Landowners Association invites commissioners to discuss road repairs

July 26, 2010, 08:57:23 AM by darrellmaurina

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 22, 2010) — Longstanding problems with county roads led Glenn Clark of the Pulaski County Landowners Association to come to Thursday’s Pulaski County Commission meeting and invite county commissioners to an upcoming Landowners Association meeting to discuss what can be done to improve conditions. Eastern District Commissioner Bill Farnham and Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch both said they’d try to attend the upcoming meeting on Aug. 16. “There’s been a lot in the media about the condition of the roads, and as president of the Pulaski County Landowners Association I’d like to invite at least the eastern and western district commissioners to attend our meeting,” Clark said. “Sometimes it’s just nice to get questions out there. Of course, some will try to beat on you but I’ll try to keep it to a low roll.” McCulloch said he’s be open to a special assessment in Cullen Township, which runs from Buckhorn to Devil’s Elbow and includes the unincorporated parts of Pulaski County near St. Robert and Waynesville which have seen extensive residential development in recent years, but asked Clark to have his organization’s members bring their tax statements so he can show how little of their taxes actually go to the county compared to schools and other items. “They’ll be surprised how little they pay,” McCulloch said. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By Darrell Todd Maurina

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Summer Collector’s Report

July 22, 2010, 08:43:40 AM by darrellmaurina

County Collector Terri Mitchell

Summer Collector’s Report
Greetings from the collector’s office! I hope everyone is staying cool during these hot summer days. We are staying cool but gearing up for the 2010 land tax sale in August and preparing to add the city taxes for Waynesville and St. Robert to our 2010 county collections. The addition of the 2009 Crocker city taxes to the 2009 Pulaski County statements went smoothly, and we are looking forward to the addition of St. Robert and Waynesville city collections to this year’s tax season. The beginning of summer always brings inquiries about the annual land tax sale. The annual sale is held the fourth Monday of August in every county in the state, as mandated by Missouri state statutes; the fourth Monday this year falls on Aug. 23 and the sale will be held at 10 a.m. in the lobby of the courthouse. Delinquent real estate accounts for which taxes have not been paid for three years (2007, 2008, and 2009) are mandated by Missouri state statutes to be sold for the tax amount due plus fees. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By County Collector Terri Mitchell

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Commissioners seek sewer board candidate, name library board member

July 21, 2010, 09:02:09 AM by darrellmaurina

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 20, 2010) — Members of the Pulaski County Commission found a replacement for a person on the county library board who no longer wants to serve and may have found a replacement for former Pulaski County Sewer Board chairman Mark Cortesini. On Monday, Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch asked Jim Lord, a Waynesville real estate agent working with Miller Realty, if he’s willing to serve on the sewer board. Lord told McCulloch that whether he’s a user of the sewer district services depends on how “user” is defined. “I do own property but I don’t pay the bill,” Lord said. Local banker Keith Pritchard, who was attending the county commission meeting in his capacity as a member of the Board of Equalization, said he was surprised at Lord’s interest in a difficult assignment to the sewer board. “You don’t have enough drama in your life?” Pritchard asked. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By Darrell Todd Maurina

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Pulaski property assessed value increases 4.4 percent to $398 million

July 21, 2010, 08:29:24 AM by darrellmaurina

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 20, 2010) — County Assessor Roger Harrison reported Monday that Pulaski County’s assessed valuation has grown significantly, which should result in growth rather than decline in the county’s property tax revenues this fall. Speaking before the County Board of Equalization, which includes not only the commissioners but also three additional representatives, local banker Keith Pritchard, local real estate agent Jim Lord, and County Surveyor John Mackey, Harrison said the county has a total assessed land value of $398,400,225, not counting railroads and utilities. That reflects a 4.4 percent total increase in assessed value, of which 2.5 percent is personal property and 4.9 percent is real estate value. While housing starts nationally are facing a steep decline, that’s not the case in Pulaski County where 354 new homes were added to the assessment rolls compared to 255 the previous year. “We built quite a few homes last year also,” Harrison said. “We’ve got a lot of construction going on but it’s not causing inflated prices.” Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By Darrell Todd Maurina

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Sewer board chair's resignation raises county concerns due to lawyer wife

July 20, 2010, 09:18:19 PM by darrellmaurina

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 15, 2010) — Faced with a former sewer board chairman who says he’s resigned but hasn’t submitted a written letter of resignation, Pulaski County commissioners said Thursday they were hesitant to fill the vacancy. A complicating factor is that the wife of former sewer board chairman Mark Cortesini is a lawyer. Ronda Cortesini runs the Waynesville office of the Allan and Rector law firm. “I think to cover ourselves, if we could get a letter from (sewer district attorney Bill) Hickle, that would be good,” said Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch. “With his wife being an attorney, he could just be waiting.” Western District Commissioner Ricky Zweerink concurred. “You’d better dot them and cross them,” Zweerink said. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
By Darrell Todd Maurina

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County fears for future of its finances

July 20, 2010, 09:51:11 AM by darrellmaurina

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (July 12, 2010) — Unlike many jurisdictions in Missouri, Pulaski County sales tax revenues have remained stable, but county commissioners warned at their Monday morning meeting that state cutbacks could cause serious problems for Pulaski County. Eastern District Commissioner Bill Farnham warned that one of the county’s biggest problems could be a reduced state reimbursement for prisoner room and board bills. Pulaski County currently pays $35 per day per inmate to send more than half and sometimes up to two-thirds of its prisoners to other counties or to the Dixon City Jail because the Pulaski County Jail is too small to handle the county’s inmates. “What I’m really concerned about it what’s going to happen with our jail reimbursement. They cut it back to $19.58 and that’s one of the first places they may cut again,” Farnham warned. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By Darrell Todd Maurina

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