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ANDERSON — For some 1,000 residents in Anderson County, the Good Sense for Anderson Capital Sales Tax Campaign means more than roads, it means unlimited access to water.
In November, Anderson County voters will decide on whether or not to pass a seven-year penny sales tax to fund more than $148 million in capital projects.
Though the projects mainly focus on roads and bridges, more than $19 million is allocated for water-sewer line repairs and expansion, building projects and streetscaping. Opponents to the tax have criticized those projects as “pork barrel” spending.
But organizers of the sales tax say the water lines are the capital investment residents in that area most wanted.
“We went to the communities, and these are the projects that they determined were important,” said Lee Luff, one of the Good Sense campaign board members.
More than $800 million in projects were suggested to the committee members over the course of six months of town hall meetings and other information gathering sessions.
Those projects were whittled down to 120 that were most important to the communities, said Holt Hopkins, Anderson County Director of Transportation.
Included were water line expansion projects in the Starr-Iva Water District, the Broadway Water District and Belton. Also included was the water and sewer line rehabilitation in Iva, and a sewer system for the Northview Subdivision in Belton.
Randy Pettigrew, with the Starr-Iva Water District, said the sales tax would mean water for residents who are watching their wells go dry.
“We just have people who are so far out in the county, that they do not have access to water,” he said. “That’s the reason that … we put this on the sales tax to benefit these areas.”
The passage of the tax would provide between 600 and 700 people in the Starr-Iva area with water, he said.
Without the tax, the water district will not be able to help some of the residents.
“We’re in the process now of getting a loan to help some people, but we can’t help all of them,” Pettigrew said. “Some of them have got a low income loan. There’s so many others that just can’t afford it. … The people that live down here, we don’t have the income and industry down here to pay for things like that.”
The Starr-Iva Water District Expansion is expected to cost more than $4 million and would encompass about 30 to 40 miles of water lines, Pettigrew said.
And the need is evident in that area, he said.
“We get calls practically every day, every week, asking for water… your bored wells are just not holding up… with Lake Hartwell as low as it is, you can only imagine what the wells are doing,” he said. “Water is fixing to be a commodity. … where we’ve always taken for granted that you can turn on your spigot and water comes out. Those days are going to be over real soon.”
Dan Harvell, chairman of the Anderson County Taxpayer’s Association, could not be reached for comment. Previously, Harvell said his group was against the tax. He would first like to see an audit of the county’s finances to show where county tax money is currently being spent.
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Amazing how even Liz Carey is now falling for the hype. Liz why don't you write a complete story about these Good Sense promoters of this penny tax. Who they are, what their personal interest is in the east-west connector, what their holdings are that would be affected by building it...that would make an interesting story.
THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THIS ENTIRE PENNY TAX ISSUE IS...
Even if it is passed, they won't get any water for a very long time. The promoters of this penny tax are all rich people wanting to promote the penny tax because of how it will enrich them through the building of the east-west connector. Do you people not read? They said, "each project will be carried through to it's completion before the next project is begun." FIRST PROJECT...the east-west connector. Do you have any idea how much time and money the east-west connector is going to consume? When, ever in the history of the world, did a road building project come in under budget and on time? Road building and it's associated goings on are one of the most corrupt business enterprises there are. The Thrift Brothers scandal was just a peak under the covers of what goes on in that world. These "Good Sense" people will spend every dime of the money collected for the seven years they say this tax will run and then renew it because they need more money. They don't even know for sure how much money the penny tax will produce. If they could do that, they can foretell the future and the economy and more than any person I know can tell me.
In my opinion, they are full of it and greed over the east-west connector and the money they will make from it is driving their insistence on this penny tax. Why do I believe that...because they do not tell people the down side of their grandeous promises of water and all the other things they are promising to get this penny tax passed. YOU WILL NOT SEE ONE SINGLE THING THEY ARE PROMISING YOU UNTIL THEY HAVE SPENT ALL THEY WANT ON THEIR OWN PROJECT...the east-west connector. Wake up people!
Joey Preston is already refusing to explain how our money is being spent and I sure am not going to give him any more. I think his resignation letter is a bluff, so the penny tax will pass with people thinking he won't be administering the purse strings.
VOTE NO!!!!! TO THE PENNY TAX (until we have a county administrator looking out for our best interest and a county council representing the needs of the people and a set of books you can read tea leaves through.)
I would be suspicious of anything being promoted on the strength of what the individual towns are going to get out of it. The first project is the connector and no one is trying to convince me of how much we need it. Instead they are telling us to vote for the penny tax because of all the other things it is going to get us (after they get theirs of course.) Didn't Preston say he was going to wrap all these other little wants around the main thing he wants in order to placate the "hypocritical politicians," I think he called them. Surely we aren't that big a sukker falling for this cry for water story. We would be better off just funding the water project. Put the connector last on the list (and don't start it until ALL the other projects are completed) then we might have a starting point to this issue.
I've been seeing anti-penny tax banners on lawns...anyone know who to call to get one?
If the supporters of this tax-and-spend project wanted it to pass, they should have kept the earmarks out of it.
And timed it better. Good cents wants higher taxes. Meadors wants higher taxes. Obama wants higher taxes. The county is taxing our homes higher to recoup the 2 million spent by Crenshaws irresponsible spending spree.
Liz is just passing on Good Cents talking points, just like her liberal counterparts do in the MSM for Barack "Spread the Wealth" Obama.
raising taxes for any reason right now is uncalled for. our home taxes were just raised. and now you want this. i will vote no for any tax increase.
When they learn how to manage the 5 pennies they are getting now, then maybe I'll think about giving them another one.
Also, the county's tax assessment on my house just went up 10% this year, even tho property values are going down nationwide, so they can take that penny they want and put it where the sun don't shine.
eb
"Dan Harvell, chairman of the Anderson County Taxpayer’s Association" I thought Ed Jean legally holds this name and Dan can no longer use it? Come on Liz!
I hate to burst your bubble, but the land for the E-W connector was purchased years ago by the state for the project. The engineering is also complete. The state ran out of money and has not funded the project. That is the reason the E-W connector was chosen to be the first project. If you folks are going to be against the tax, at least get your facts right and do not tell lies like the WRIX crowd.
Each project has a maximum amount named in the referendum, it can not be exceeded.
Educate yourself to the truth instead of believing the Dan Harvell/Charles Crowe lies.
wwbrown
To Cindy Roper,
Each project has to to be started, STARTED! Not completed, before the next is started. Several can be going on at the same time.
Please take time to actually learn the truth.
wwbrown
in response to wwbrown
Your response does not take into account those who have been buying up the property around the east-west connector over these years. Not just the property to construct the road. Can you not think beyond the end of your nose. The ramifications and collateral investment is way more than the road itself. The planning by individuals has been going on for years to enrich themselves when this connector is finally built. The rich folks who have been preparing for this are now positioned properly and are ready for it to be built. Your myopic view of things tells me you are the one needing some truth laid in your lap. You are one of these people who think every person who speaks out against you and your friends ideas and projects are related to WRIX. You better wake up as there are a whole lot more people than that seeing the corruption written all over this one.
I'm against it.
I don't care who owns property around the east-west connector.
I'm just appalled at all of the "projects" included in order to make this "tax" palatable to everyone in the county.
We don't have the money.
Vote No on Nov. 4th.
in response to wwbrown
The article that reported that each of the projects would have to be completed before the next would begin was written back in September. I am not in the habit of making things up and my memory is pretty good. The previous article was written by Liz Carey as well and now seems to have been altered.
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2...
As it seems to be the practice of this rag to alter stories after the fact. I guess we will never know. I think the practice of altering stories they have printed online, without noting what has been changed is merely an attempt to discredit people's comments and change the spin on stories if it doesn't come out the way they would like.
What honest journalist changes articles after the fact without any note as to what is changed. You don't change the original article, you make a notation at the top or bottom as to what changes you want to make. Changing the words of the original text is dishonest. The original text should be inviolable.
I never cease to be amazed. Another article that doesn't indicate the "one penny tax" represents a 16.7% increase in the sales tax. Anyone who would vote for a 16.7% increase in their taxes must either have far more money than they need or is masochistic. Finally, to give more money to folks that have shown, time and time again, their inability to use money effectively is simply stupid.
in response to wwbrown
The value of land on both sides of the east-west connector will grow by multiples. After the expected rezoning of these properties, land that was bought for $1000's an acre will be worth $10's, $100's of thousands an acre. In some strategic intersections it will sell for millions an acre. No, the connector is about a whole lot more than just the physical roadway. Who is going to get rich off our tax dollars this time? Are you, or someone in your family, one of these property owners or have an interest in some subdivision it will make possible or going to get contracts related to any of this? I have yet to have someone explain the importance of the connector to the other 98% of Anderson County citizens (especially for it to be FIRST on the list). As hard as it is being pushed by such a limited number of people makes me wonder their agenda and who it is going to enrich behind the scenes.
in response to oracle
God bless you for see the truth in this "connector." Why this isn't obvious to everyone is beyond me.
What a terrible world that you folks live it. I am glad my life is not filled with the hate and jealousy that most of you exhibit.
wwbrown
This penny sales tax will fund more than just roads, bridges and water lines. It is also proposed to fund the need for a new fire station in the Townville area. That is something that is desperately needed. Normally, I'm not for raising taxes, but sometimes you have to to get things done that are needed.
Jones (of the Good Sense Commission) said voters needed to understand three things.
1. "The first is that once the sales tax reached the $148 million dollar principal and $15 million in interest, or seven years passed, whichever came first, the tax would go away.
Say we are able to raise that $165 million in five years, instead of seven,” Jones said. “Well, then the tax goes away. And if we’ve only raised $150 million in seven years, it will still go away.”
Q: What if all the proposed projects are not finished when the money or seven year target is reached? Previously Jones stated, "The voters at that time will have a choice to extend the tax." Which is a far cry from what is stated now. What if all the proposed projects do not come in under budget, will the rest be done away with? The referendum ballot says if enough money is not raised through the tax the responsibility would fall back on the taxpayers. Who is going to leave projects unfinished or undone? It will go on and on.
2. “Once the ballot initiative is passed, no one, not even the president of the United States, can change what those projects are or the order in which they are started,” he said.
According to the ballot initiative, once enough money was raised, the first project on the list - the East-West Connector Parkway connecting Civic Center Boulevard to S.C. 81 - would begin. Until work began on that project, work could not begin on any other project, and the only other project that could begin after construction on the East-West Connector was started would be project No. 2 - Three Bridges Road and Mt. Airy Church Road reconstruction.
Q: That is a direct contradiction of Joey Preston's contract. Once the camel has it's nose in the tent, it will just be a matter of time and lawsuit after lawsuit trying to figure out who is in control of the money.
3. The money raised would stay in the county. Not only would the money create jobs, but it would also trickle through the economy.
And the money would not go to the County Council coffers, Jones said.
“None of the money will ever be touched by the county administration or council,”
Q: Again another contradiction to Preston's contract. Besides how would we ever know. The way money is moved around from account to account and then we are denied seeing the books, except for very limited snapshots in the format of Joey Preston's choosing. Maybe a little of the agenda is revealed here. If the money is being kept in the county I guess that means local contractors will get preferential treatment rather than the lowest bid doing the job.
i don't this is about hate and jealousy wwbrown. if these people rooting for the penny tax really cared about the residents, the water projects would have been first on the list. we need the roads and bridges that are already in disrepair fixed before we can even think about building the east-west. why is it that anyone who disagrees with this tax a hater?
in response to palmsstang
Listen, lots of people in this county need alot of things. People in Iva need water, you need a fire station and there are many worthy projects here near and dear to the people who need them. Are you willing to indebt the entire county for ALL this buildout to get what you want? If so, you have predictably fallen for Joey Preston's plan. Remember he said,
"like every true star, Mr. Preston has gritted his teeth, stepped up and put on a budgetary performance so skilled that even his haters must privately give him credit.
The council would be insane to bow to pressure to run him out of town. Only his kind of fancy fiscal maneuvering allows public officials to have it all, even in election years like this.
His masterwork has a unique signature.
First, craft a spending plan that invests in the basic services and infrastructure that few people can disagree with and add enough projects spread across the county to keep hypocritical elected officials and their constituents happy.
Then front- or backload those expenses for reassessment years when the value of taxable property rises enough that you reap higher tax revenues and you can borrow more money, or for when you’ve just finished paying down previous debt."
Your weak spot, for this penny tax referendum, is what you see in it you need for yourself. What about the other $168 million? How far down the list is your fire station?
"Just a penny," ha! They are trying to make it sound like you will hardly miss it. What you don't get is this one percent tax is not per week, or per year, it is every time money changes hands. In theory, If the same money changes hands every day for a year is has an APY of 365%. This is not an annual tax on property or earnings. This is a tax on cash and every time it changes hands. The more times it changes hands the greater the impact on the liquid wealth in this county.
What I want to know is what happened to all the money originally slated for roads that was moved to other accounts by Joey Preston and spent for other things?
It's truly amazing to watch a bunch of conservatives who support McCain and his platform of COUNTRY FIRST utterly FAIL to make that connection when it comes to the county, specifically Anderson County.
From what I am reading here, the naysayers in general would rather no one have anything if they can't get what they want - or - get what they want FIRST.
Are you folks 5 or 45? GROW UP, PLEASE.
First the facts:
1.) CPST started a LONG time ago with a LOT of direct input from you ... the public. Everything that is on this list of projects and improvements is because of what YOU, the public, asked for. If you didn't participate in the process, well, it's just like voting: Don't Complain.
2.) What is one mans pork is another mans need. District One felt that the East-West Connector was their chief need and sought to put all their eggs in one basket with it. Other areas asked for sidewalks, water pipes, etc. Just because you live in District 6 or District 7 and perceive that water and sewer in District 5 is "pork" or the East-West Connector in District 1 is wasteful remember this: It's a part of a whole - a whole that will benefit ALL of us.
3.) For once would this community PLEASE come together and do what is right for the whole of the community and not bicker, nitpick, or otherwise attempt to derail a process that is beneficial to EVERYONE? COUNTY FIRST, INDIVIDUAL SECOND. This is how it must be if we are to grow and improved. Heck, it has to be this way to just improve.
4.) It's a penny. No, you will not miss it.
Remember: This is what WE asked for as a COMMUNITY. Do not allow a handful of naysayers at the 11th hour who opted not to participate in the process to derail it.
Vote YES for CPST. It's that simple.
- SSHM
PS - For those that don't understand government and governmental budgeting (*cough* CindyRoper *cough*), I strongly suggest you take a day class from Tri-County and learn that providing balance to a governmental ledger is far different from your checkbook.
in response to StupidShouldHurtMore
Having served on road commissions and other government bodies, I know how the system works - and I do NOT trust this one at all. They ignored what the people need and put in what the politicians want. The article fails to mention the "Public Safety Building" for Pendleton, which no longer has a police department and the fire department is county operated and they still have the former city hall, police department and fire department. Also, a million dollars for a recreation building in Belton that it cannot afford to heat and cool, much less maintain. City budget is already $50,000 short with the property tax increases.
Anderson City has received millions of dollars in ANATS and "C" Funds, as well as SCDOT and federal funds over the years, but has never seen fit to build the cross town connector with THEIR money.
What about the $10 million Mr. Preston just borrowed which includes pork such as $250,000 to "renovate" the Belton City Hall. What other pork is lurking in it.
NO TAX until the county appoints a truly representative commission that has the interest of the taxpayer first.
Stan, er, ElCid:
Did you ask what the renovation was for? Did you at least try to use Google before posting? Here's what I discovered:
Honea-Path Mayor Tries To Calrify Watkins Center Funds
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2...
According to the article (it's a few months old now, but):
1.) Watkins Center = Belton City Hall (which you reference in your post).
2.) The mayor demonstrated how FRUGAL they have been and the hardships they have endured to finish (read the article and see).
3.) Based on the existing stewardship demonstrated by the Mayor, what harm is there in aiding to finish a project with borrowed funds?
4.) It really does not look like pork to me.
Remember: We couldn't borrow money if it were not for our excellent bond rating (we are literally second only to Greenville County, who has the highest bond rating in the state).
Oink-Oink.
... stupid ...
- SSHM
Just as all your posts have been in the past, you represent yourself to have some superior knowledge to the rest of us by first mistating the previous posts and then going off on some tangent to "prove" your point. I haven't complained one bit about any of the projects these municipalities or any other part of what people think they need. I have a problem with Joey and a bunch of wealthy people trying to push us into something that will benefit them personally far more than an east-west connector will benefit 98% of this county. I'm just repeatedly reminding people that this was the tactic promised by Preston...to find pet projects the local municipalities want, add them to this east-west connector he wants so bad so that people will have the argument you are putting forward now. The word pork, or anything resembling it, has not left my fingertips. No my point is District One has put themselves first. The wealthy developers, contractors, land owners, and other east-west connector proponents have had Joey Preston pushing for this penny tax primarily for one reason. All the rest of it was secondary addons in order to get the penny tax passed so they could fund the east-west connector. Just as was said, the e-w connector has been in the works for 20 years...how long has the ideas and needs for local communities been floated? Months? It was an after thought. A ruse. A ploy to get the referendum passed. Anything Preston does at this point is suspect. From the creation of his contract to give us a skrewing when he left, to all the self serving lawsuits and money he has wasted under the guise of protecting the county's interests, all the high living and jetting around to $1600 a night hotels, the wasteful spending of our tax dollars to live it up, to all the double talk and disrepect he has shown our elected council (that are not in his pocket) he has shown me he cares nothing about the big majority of us.
So, for him and this group of secretly funded millionaires that want so bad for this east-west connector to be built (first I might add) I have serious reservations. Preston has lied, stonewalled and double talked us into now doubting everything he says or proposes.
Wanting our leadership to be more transparent and accountable has nothing to do with what you stated. I understand government and government budgeting quite well. Most of my questions related to Joey's practices are rhetorical to try and establish some admission of practices for a starting point to a discussion. I am no more an expert than you are. However, I do know when I have been lied to or told one thing one time and another the next. It is when government lies, covers up, stonewalls and treats me like I am an idiot that I wonder who and what they are taking their lessons from (and I don't need to cough to say it.)
in response to StupidShouldHurtMore
For someone who uses the word stupid so much, you epitomize the word. What does the Mayor of Honea Path have to do with Belton. YOU don't even know what you are talking about. The entire controversy in Honea Path was the fact that money given to the "renovation of Watkins Elementary School into Watkins Community Center and Honea Path Town Hall," had not shown much for the $300,000 given for it to be done.
"Meyers said one room was set aside after talking to Anderson County Administrator Joey Preston about putting a county satellite office there to allow residents to pay taxes and get building permits without driving to Anderson"
One room was set aside for county use, for which Joey Preston wants to use $250,000 to set up a one room county office.
It had nothing to do with Belton.
...stupid...
in response to CindyRoper
Oh jeez ... where to begin ...
First and foremost, I represent common sense. I don't dwell in the realm of rumor, innuendo, or anything less than factual discourse. By your own admission, you know the answers to the question you ask. You ask not to seek knowledge, but to trip people up and say "A HA! I knew it!."
. . . and you say I have superiority issues . . .
To the topic at hand: CPST.
Have a few questions - questions for which I do not have answers for:
Would it make a difference if the East-West Connector was last rather than first for construction?
Why does it matter so much the batting order of construction?
By building the E-W Connector first, do we not have potentially the earliest and largest ROI based upon growth and opportunity along that E-W corridor (e.g., grow the tax base)?
Now for a few facts: More people live in and around the City of Anderson than anywhere else in the county. It stands to reason, by inherent argument, that significantly more than 2% of the county will benefit from an E-W connector (as your assessment was that 98% would not benefit at all).
Further, we can see from how your tone and the wandering nature of your post that this is clearly NOT about CPST but more about JRP and what can be done to derail/stop/hurt/maim/ruin/etc. I've never met a group of individuals so utterly hellbent on ruining an individual, especially one that has helped to grow Anderson County.
So, shall we stick with the topic of CPST, or would you like to continue in your whining about JRP?
Now that we know the truth and motivation behind your posting, I doubt we will return to the topic of CPST in earnest.
. . . stupid . . .
- SSHM
in response to CindyRoper
Oh Miss Roper,
I think you missed the logical flow of discussion. Let me break out the crayons so that we may both color inside the lines and have a better understand, m'kay?
1.) ElCid, several replies up, said the following:
"What about the $10 million Mr. Preston just borrowed which includes pork such as $250,000 to "renovate" the Belton City Hall. What other pork is lurking in it."
2.) A very basic Google search turned up the follow about Belton City Hall:
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2...
In that article, you will see the following (quoting from the article):
"The Watkins Center is the Belton City Hall, but renovation on some of the building is not complete."
3.) So long as what AIM is reporting to be so, and based on the logic that ElCid is correct, my assessment that $250,000 to finish a project that has taken every measure to avoid excessive spending should be rewarded.
So, LRN2READ and LRN2COMPREHEND maybe?
... stupid ...
- SSHM
The "connector" is a waste of taxpayer money. If a devloper were to want to develop the land along that road wouldn't that developer put the road in himself? I guess he would unless he could get someone else to pay for it. Why not take the profits from the sale of the land along the "connector," that will only be realized if the road is built, to be used to pay for the road. I'm sure there would be more than enough, otherwise some people wouldn't be pushing so hard to get the "connector" built.
That is just what they need, More of our money to waste and spend on their projects. They should be giving some of our money back instead they want more. Well you AIN'T GETTING IT!!!!!!!!!
Water Projects? What Water? First thing they would do is give themselves a raise.
Who paid for all the billboards and the printing and posting of all the new metal signs supporting the penny tax hike (not to mention the labor of installing the signs)?
in response to StupidShouldHurtMore
I was mistaken when I thought you were repeatedly calling other people stupid. Now I realize that is your signature when you sign off. Clearly you know nothing about Honea Path to be speaking so deliberatively about their affairs. The Watkins Center is NOT in Belton. Here let me take you to the real newspaper article you need to be reading. For your edification
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2...
maybe you could use a little refresher course in reading and comprehension. If you knew anything about the areas you are running your mouth about, you would have known that was an error on the reporter's part. But you wouldn't know that because you know nothing about the things or the people you speak of, you just want to play word games and strut your stuff. Me thinks you are an instigator and a shill.
in response to CindyRoper
First: I see somebody pays her to back them up.
Second: I hope they are not paying much, look at the last line(Me thinks) SMART!!
in response to StupidShouldHurtMore
SSHM, the Watkins center is not located in Belton. I think possibly a reporter who was unfamiliar with the district made the error. Belton Elementary is on Watkins St. That may have caused the confusion.
Watkins School is on South Main Street in Honea Path. It housed the pre-k program, kindergarten, first, and second grades,as well as a special ed program, library and other services.
Watkins School was no longer used when District 2 consolidated Watkins & Gantt schools into one larger, renovated Honea Path Elementary. The district donated the facility to the town.
Watkins School is now the Honea Path Town Hall.
I worked there for many years so trust me - I know Watkins School is NOT in Belton. It was simply a mistake by a report in the paper that obviously must not have been adequately corrected.
Simply put...... NO!!!!!
I read all of these letters and opinions and are amazed that many of you pro tax people want to ignore the simple facts.
We can all see that there are things that need to be done in the county. We just don't want to keep giving our money to a government that has not shown they can resposibly manage the funds they have allready.
It's no different than telling a child they can't have dessert until they have finished eating dinner first...simple, plain common sense.
When and if we ever get a proven reliable county government in place we will be more open to this type of project...but you don't give the keys to the store to a dishonest employee and hope for the best!
If anyone would like to know the real reason this “Good Cents” group want this penny tax so bad. Let’s do a review of their property holdings of the Anderson County Capital Project Sales Tax Commission & Staff their family and friends at the Anderson County public access site http://acpass.andersoncountysc.org/de...
Richard A. and Trudy K. Bales
At the above link, type Bales into the Name blank. You will note the number of properties owned by BALES PROPERTIES I LLC, BALES PROPERTIES II LLC, Richard A. Bales and Trudy K. Bales. As of March 3, 2008, Richard Bales holds Trudy Bales General Durable Power of Attorney http://acpass.andersoncountysc.org/pg...
Bob Burriss
Go to the acpass link again and type in Burriss. Between
BURRIS, BOBBY
BURRISS, BOBBIE
BURRISS, BOBBY B
BURRISS, BOBBY E
BURRISS, GENE E
BURRISS, MICHAEL
BURRIS, CAROL E
BURRISS, CAROLE G
BURRISS, GENE E
BURRISS, A
Check the results.
Vance Clinkscales
Again at the acpass site type in Clinkscales. Between
CLINKSCALES, VANCE
CLINKSCALES, VANCE C
CLINKSCALES, VANCE JR
CLINKSCALES, JR VANCE
CLINKSCALES, MEYA C
CLINKSCALES, HARRIET CMRS
CLINKSCALES, FLORENCE W
Check the results
Kirk Oglesby
Again at the acpass site link above type in Oglesby. Between
OGLESBY, D K
OGLESBY, D K JR
OGLESBY, D KIRK
OGLESBY, JR DK
OGLESBY, BOBBIE O
OGLESBY, BETTIE
Check the results
David B. Jones
Again at the acpass site link above type in Jones. Between
JONES, DP
JONES, DAVID B
JONES, DEBORAH B
JONES, DEBORAH P
JONES, DEBORH T
JONES, LAURA
JONES, LINDA H
MCGONIGLE, LAURA J
JONES, DEBBY P
JONES, TONYA L
JONES, CANDACE
Check the results
After careful analysis of the property holdings of these people and their family, friends and associates, is there any doubt about why they are so gung ho for these road projects to be completed?
I notice that Long Road is on the map for improvements. Isn't this where Cindy's family has land? -- the land they didn't want the sewer line to go through - and wasted our taxpayers' money fighting the losing battle against it - for year after year?!
So the Oglesbys, Clinkscales, Joneses and Burrisses have a lot of land - and they want their county roads improved. GOOD FOR THEM!
I have considerable less land, and, I too want better roads. The penny tax is an easy and convenient way to help pay for them.
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