Former Commissioner Lee beat challenger Larry Savage in the July 20 primary election, garnering 41,715 votes, or 61 percent of the ballots cast.
At Tuesday night's meeting:
- There will be a second public hearing regarding proposed code amendments defining pain clinics and zoning allowances for them. The first public hearing for Commissioner Bob Ott's proposed two-term limit to members of the Ethics Board will be conducted also.
- The county millage rate will be set and is proposed to stay at 6.82 mills for the General Fund, 2.56 mills for the Fire District and 0.22 mills for Debt Service, totaling to 9.6 mills. County finance director Jim Pehrson said this would be the fifth year the millage rate stays at 9.6 mills, and that the county has one of the lowest millage rates in the metro area.
According to the Cobb County Tax Commissioner's website, "The millage rate is a determining factor in the calculation of your taxes. A mill is 1/10 of 1 cent, or $1 per $1,000 of assessed value. The millage rate multiplied by the assessed value determines the amount of taxes you owe. All property taxes - for home, auto and personal property - are calculated in the same way."
- The board is expected to approve an increase in the county parking deck fee for visitors who do not work for Cobb government from $3 to $5. The increase will take effect on Aug. 1, and will also be enforced at the new $7.5 million parking deck that is being built in conjunction with the new $63 million Superior Courthouse off the Marietta Square. At the board's Tuesday afternoon work session, commissioners will get an update on the new Courthouse and parking deck.
- The county is also expected to approve a new sublease agreement with the Marietta Museum of History for the purpose of constructing and operating an aviation museum on 15.5 acres located on Atlanta Road. The county had previously entered into a 50-year agreement with the Marietta Aeronautical Museum and Education Center, Inc. for an aviation museum to be built on the property, but when the MAMEC was unable to match the $500,000 required by the county to receive $500,000 from the county, the museum was handed over to the Marietta Museum of History.
Some of the terms of the new sublease include: ends on September 22, 2055; MMH is required to pay "rent" in the form of protection and maintenance of the leased property for the duration of the sublease; provisions for termination of the sublease for failure to cure faults; that the MMH provide utilities and insurance; construction must begin by September 23, 2012 and completed by September 23, 2015.
- Route 40 of the Cobb Community Transit will also be changed from a stop at the intersection of Fairground Street and South Marietta Parkway to the intersection of Cherokee Street and North Marietta Parkway in Marietta.
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If HOAs would ever learn to mind their own business, instead of everybody else's, then they might be seen as something other than petty.
The ongoing recession may result in further cuts in services and furloughs. Neighborhoods and civic groups will be asked to pick up more of the slack for service provision.
There are a handful of powerful folks in Cobb who see HOAs and Neighborhood groups as petty and irrelevant. These groups and the people who participate are the foundation of our community. Their participation in neighborhood and civic organizations will be increasingly important as Cobb tries to maintain a good quality of life. Any member of the BOC who fails to understand this basic fact is himself, irrelevant.