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YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THERE WAS A REASSESSMENT LAST YEAR AND PROPERTY TAXES WENT TO A NEW HIGH.
One would think that with Wal-Mart and Lowes, Millers Grill and all the new hotels and housing areas in the county, even with reassessment, county tax revenues should have gone higher. A TIF deal is not going to show on the books until it expires, only those who make them know what they are. I don't think any thing illegal went on if there are any. Ethically if anything they should be revealed to the tax payer so they know why the revenues are down, and why the sheriff has to scrape for any pittance of money he can get. I wonder if they have any in place, Just my thoughts.
I hear they are going to build another school. They can't be doing too bad.
Look at how Waynesville HS got built. Do I need to say more. It sure was not voted for.
I'm really glad to hear that I'm not the only one that has a bad taste for the new HS
Does the 3 second rule apply here?
But they can't afford books for all the students.
For example, when I was a commissioner someone would say: why don't you take Road and Bridge money, or the Courthouse Building money and suplement the sheriff's budget? To have done so would have been an illegal act. This is how our government is established.
The schools also get federal impact funds for every child associated with the military. I wonder how much impact aid the Waynesville district gets. Add up the other school districts impact aid and we are talking some big bucks. I still think that Pulaski County should receive impact aid for the lack of property tax funds from the land on Fort Leonard Wood, to be used as a discretionary fund for the county, the sheriff dept. for example. Counties in Maryland, Nevada, Colorado and California have all asked their congressional representatives to support an endeavor like that. Long term fix, I know. I am not Fort Leonard Wood, veteran or soldier bashing either, so don't start down that trail. Just throwing out an opinion as I have done some research on impact aid sought by counties in other states. Do I think Ike will be for it, probably not. But other congressional representatives are.
Please understand that I am not talking about the good folks that live on post paying property tax here, many of them pay property tax in the state where they call their real home because they own real estate there. I do understand that the good people that live on post are not land owners and I have no problem with them only paying sales tax when they come off post to buy things. I have been a renter most of my life and I have not paid a dime in real property tax to the county, personal property tax, YES a bunch. I feel that as the land owner, the federal government should pay impact funds to county governments that dont receive money for the thousands of acres out there. Just an opinion of a life long county resident, and again I am not bashing the military men and women on or off post who dont pay real estate tax. I guess I better clarify that I am also not federal government bashing either. I know that without the post or the people on it we would all be somewhere else, writing on a county blog.
What I don't get is why isn't everyone isn't outraged that their assesed value went up at a time when we all know our property values have dropped?
What happened to the be nice rule on here, maybe the site administrator should practice what is preached.