{"id":177,"date":"2013-01-23T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/special-assessment-ordinance-or-policy-lcc-2011-01-10.html"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:57:45","slug":"special-assessment-ordinance-or-policy-lcc-2011-01-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/special-assessment-ordinance-or-policy-lcc-2011-01-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Special assessment: ordinance or policy? @ LCC 2011-01-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n
\n<\/a>
\nOrdinance or policy?
\nIn the
\n
\nWork Session Minutes of 10 January 2011<\/a>
\nthe special assessment rate is set “in accordance with Lowndes County’s
\nfinancial policies”:\n<\/p>\n

\n

Special Assessment Rate for 2011,<\/h4>\n

Finance Director, Stephanie Black, presented the proposed special
\nassessment rate at 5.25% (two percent above prime), in accordance
\nwith Lowndes County’s financial policies. Commissioner Raines asked
\nif the rate would fluctuate through the year in the event the prime
\nrate adjusted. Ms. Black answered that the county is required to set
\nthe rate annually so the actual prime rate would not be considered
\nagain until the beginning of next year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYet
\n
\nyesterday she said<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt’s just always been set at 2% above prime.
\nI believe it’s in your ordinance.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWhich is it, a policy or an ordinance?
\nMaybe it’s a policy set in an ordinance.
\nIf so, which ordinance?
\nIs it one of the
\n
\ndozen on the county’s website<\/a>
\nor is it one of the many more that are not?\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

\nPS: Owed to Jane Osborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,70,8,2,20,88,3],"tags":[810,811,8720,8728,8701,8699,10,8702,8710,91,12,7,8734,812,813,814,8700,6,90],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-enforcement","category-ethics","category-georgia","category-government","category-law","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-10-january-2011","tag-assessment","tag-code-enforcement","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-ordinance","tag-policy","tag-stephanie-black","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}