The 2010 tax bills, with the exception of those issued by the city of Acworth, were sent out Aug. 13 and Aug. 16, said Bethany Martin of the Cobb County Tax Commissioner's office.
Martin said 255,900 bills were sent out and property holders have until Oct. 15 to make payments online (www.cobbtax.org/Main/Home.aspx), by phone (866-729-2622), by mail (P.O. Box 100127, Marietta, GA 30061), or in person at the Cobb County Tax Commissioner's main office, 736 Whitlock Ave. Suite 100, Marietta; East Cobb Government Service Center, 4400 Lower Roswell Road, Marietta; or South Cobb Government Service Center, 4700 Austell St., Austell. Martin said taxpayers could also drop off their payments at the Credit Union branch at 100 Cherokee Street near the Marietta Square.
For office hours or more information regarding property tax bills, call (770) 528-8600. Copies of property tax bills can also be found at the Tax Commissioner's website.
"A difference this year is that we are no longer collecting for the city of Acworth," Martin said.
Assistant Acworth City Manager Brandon Douglas said the city decided to handle its own property tax billing and collections this year as a cost-savings initiative.
"The rationale was the cost-savings that we were realizing from making this move," Douglas said. "We will save somewhere in the $60,000-plus range by doing it ourselves. We were paying the county tax commissioners office to do it, but sending out our own, we're doing it without adding staff. There was some cost for software in the first year, but we'll certainly be realizing some savings now and in the future."
Beverly Burns, the city's accountant, said Acworth will send out a little more than 8,300 property tax bills today. She said although the city was supposed to mail the bills out on Aug. 16, the city was delayed in sending them as staff wanted to make sure everything was correct in its first year of independent billing. Burns said the due date would be Oct. 20, as opposed to the Oct. 16 date that was advertised.
Burns said to mail or deliver the bills in-person at 4415 Senator Russell Ave. in Acworth between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Burns said online payments can be made soon from the city's home page at http://www.acworth.org/, once the city activates the website. Those paying online, however, will have to pay a small handling fee. For further information regarding Acworth property tax bills, call (770) 917-8903.
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What makes Georgia rank at the bottom are the rural schools. . ."
I did not mention Cobb Schools, my comment was that Ga ranked 2nd from the bottom educationally and that we had only the 2nd stupidest kids. I stand by my statement. If the state ranks 49th educationally then the kids are not rocket scientists.
Clearly you have something against RURAL Ga and think that the kids in Cobb are some sort of Mensa candidates.
I thought it was that some states encourage students that are not college bound to NOT take the SAT.
And while I am posting I would like to add that property taxes are the most unfair taxes of them all. They are not based on how much you earn or how much you spend. CCSB needs to find a better way to fund education.
As I recall from some chart of a few months ago Ga was 2nd from the bottom in rating schools, don't recall which other state 'beat' us. At least our kids are only the 2nd stupidest in the country.