Connie Engel, Chairwoman of the Authority’s Personnel Committee, said, “I struggle adequately finding the right words, but we at the Authority (and moreover those of us in Cobb County) are extremely grateful to Michele for the dedication and heart she has put into everything she has done...
However at Junk King Cobb County, not only will Van Buren and his crew take those items and more, they’ll take everything from electronics to entire structures from a property. Consider their stance on yard debris:“If you go out and cut some limbs off your trees, or you get a pile...
Court rulings rejected the “home rule” maps, since the Georgia Constitution requires that county redistricting be approved by the legislature. District 3 Commissioner JoAnn Birrell, a Republican, said last month that “it’s time to put an end to ignoring the Constitution and the laws of th...
The contested divorce process officially begins when one spouse files a petition for divorce with the superior court in the county where they or the other spouse lives. The petition must state their grounds for divorce. The most common of the grounds given is “irreconcilable differences,” but ...
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The State of the County is an annual tradition for the chairman. Boyce, an East Cobb resident, begins his third year in office after commissioners voted narrowly last yearto approve a property tax increase. Boyce has defended this as a “restoration budget” to add services that had been red...
The cityhood effort in East Cobb comes after the Cobb Board of Commissioners approved a property tax hike for the first time since the recession. There has been some grumbling that East Cobb provides 40 percent of county tax revenue but some citizens don’t feel they’re getting their money’...
Cobb County Tax Commissioner Carl Jackson said Monday all tag offices in the county will be reopening next Monday, June 8, at their usual Monday-Friday times from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. That includes the location at the East Cobb Government Service Center (above) at 4400 Lower Roswell Road....
The current millage rate for the general fund is 8.46 mills, but because of 5.5 percent growth in the Cobb tax digest, the county has had to advertise and hold hearings for a tax increase. That’s required by state law when there isn’t a corresponding millage rate rollback. ...
The tax hike didn’t sit well in some GOP circles, including the Cobb County Republican Party, which spoke out against it. He’s been called a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by some, but Boyce said in looking out for the interests of citizens countywide, “you have to be based in ...