Ordinance or policy?
In the

Work Session Minutes of 10 January 2011
the special assessment rate is set “in accordance with Lowndes County’s
financial policies”:

Special Assessment Rate for 2011,

Finance Director, Stephanie Black, presented the proposed special
assessment rate at 5.25% (two percent above prime), in accordance
with Lowndes County’s financial policies. Commissioner Raines asked
if the rate would fluctuate through the year in the event the prime
rate adjusted. Ms. Black answered that the county is required to set
the rate annually so the actual prime rate would not be considered
again until the beginning of next year.

Yet

yesterday she said:

“It’s just always been set at 2% above prime.
I believe it’s in your ordinance.”

Which is it, a policy or an ordinance?
Maybe it’s a policy set in an ordinance.
If so, which ordinance?
Is it one of the

dozen on the county’s website
or is it one of the many more that are not?

-jsq

PS: Owed to Jane Osborn.